LETTER: Govt should urgently organise a stakeholders’ focus group to tackle domestic violence crisis
Dear Editor,
In response to the domestic violence crisis, The Caribbean Voice beseeches and implores the Government to urgently organise a stakeholders’ focus group to...
4-month-old girl among 7 more Covid deaths recorded
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that as of January 18, 2022, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)...
APNU/AFC more than complicit in Parking Meter corruption- Ramsammy
Below in an opinion piece by veteran politician and former government Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy on the controversial parking meter contract:
The Parking Meter contract...
Osama Bin Laden: Mother Alia Ghanem remembers ‘good child’
(BBC) The mother of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has spoken publicly about her son for the first time, seven years on from his...
Heartbreak for Tallawahs as Bravo brothers take Trinbago home
Trinbago Knight Riders 184 for 6 (Munro 67, Darren Bravo 50, Imad 2-17) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 182 for 5 (Phillips 80, Miller 72*, Pierre...
4 homeless after fire ravages Soesdyke house
A fire at Ayube Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Saturday morning completely destroyed a two-storey house, leaving at least four persons homeless.
Reports...
Environmental safeguards will be implemented for new DHB – EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in defending its decision to waive the requirements for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the new Demerara River...
Free press, active civil society critical in fight against corruption in oil sector
...says DC lawyer at symposium
The most important thing to acknowledge about corruption is that you can have all the laws and regulation in place...
Consensual Constitutional Reform Commission Bill to be tabled in National Assembly
At the next sitting of the National Assembly, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall, SC, will be tabling the Constitutional Reform Commission...
Local content raked in US$700M in businesses in 2022
Guyana's local content stipulations have raked in some US$700 million in businesses, which essentially translated into many job opportunities and a major spill-off effect...
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See full statement from the Environmental Protection Agency:
The Environmental Protection Agency hereby issues an advisory on a forecasted Saharan Dust plume projected to be...
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Speaking to...
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See full statement from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD):
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