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Gender Violence and the Young Mind
Stabroek News
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July 3, 2025
The crisis of gender-based violence in Guyana has always been a serious point of contention, especially how it interrelates with our young people. When public discourse turns to the problem, it focuses solely on punitive measures, reactive...
Oil & Gas is supporting Guyana’s STEM revolution through strategic partnerships
Guyana Chronicle
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July 6, 2025
SCIENCE, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education will play a crucial role in determining Guyana’s economic trajectory and future growth. A comparison of Guyana’s economy from just five years ago to today reveals marked progress,...
Guyanese man wrongfully convicted in NYC murder cleared after 36 years
I News Guyana
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July 2, 2025
For more than 30 years, Brian Kendall has insisted he and a few friends were simply playing video games inside a Flatbush game room after school when a man wearing a hoodie casually strolled in and fatally shot a clerk in the head. That was in...
Guyana to open more specialised secondary schools
Demerara Waves
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July 2, 2025
Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 21:56 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that Guyana would be opening more specialised secondary schools to complement existing institutions. “Specialised education is an idea whose time is...
THE DISCOURSE OF TALKING CULTURE MUST VISIT THE PRESENT HUMAN WORLD IN THE QUEST FOR ANSWERS, WITH THAT WHICH ENVELOPES US WITH SLEEPLESSNESS
Guyana Chronicle
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July 6, 2025
SINCE the 1980s, Guyana has been described as a transit point for cocaine specifically (see National Geographic 1985, which highlights our involvement). This quest for economic backup in a world that was already demonstrating income-earning...
Guyana Prize Literary Festival to showcase the pinnacle of Guyanese literature
Guyana Chronicle
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July 2, 2025
THE Secretariat of the Guyana Prize for Literature has announced the hosting of the Guyana Prize Literary Festival 2025 scheduled to take place from Thursday, July 3, 2025 to Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Georgetown. According to a press release, the...
Youth Development through sport essential to securing Region’s future, says CARICOM DSG
Win Media SKN
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July 2, 2025
“It is also important to explore how the Region’s policymakers and development specialists can partner to exploit the untapped opportunities for securing positive educational outcomes, strengthening community development and facilitating greater...
GECOM intensifies civic, voter education activities ahead of Sept. 1 Elections
I News Guyana
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July 5, 2025
See below for a statement from the Guyana Elections Commission: 4th July, 2025 GEORGETOWN – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has intensified the implementation of its civic and voter education strategy for General and Regional Elections...
T&T sweeps 10K CARICOM Road Race, nabbing both gender categories
Dominica News Online
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July 5, 2025
Dominica News Online - Saturday, July 5th, 2025 at 7:13 PM Dr The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister, Jamaica; CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett (second, right, standing), Senator The...
JES completes men’s health, sexual and gender-based violence workshop in Santa Rosa
Stabroek News
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July 5, 2025
Participants paying rapt attention to the presenter at the Moruca Men’s meeting (Pic by Medino Abraham) Approximately fifteen men participated in a two-hour Men’s Meeting on 30 June 2025, at the Kumaka Ball Field Community Centre, Moruca, Sub...
Guyana Basketball Federation & Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation endorse Pres. Ali
I News Guyana
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July 1, 2025
Joint press statement by the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) and the Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GYMMAF) Michael Singh, president of both the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) and the Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GYMMAF),...
Top writers honoured at 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature
Stabroek News
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July 5, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Phillips (fourth from left in front row) with winners and others at the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature awards ceremony By Telesha Ramnarine The winners of the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature were officially announced last...
GECOM steps up voter education programme for General, Regional Elections
Stabroek News
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July 5, 2025
Training at CPCE (GECOM photo) As part of its mandate to ensure that all stakeholders receive accurate information that will contribute to the making of important decisions regarding their participation in the democratic process, the Guyana...
CGID calls for investigation into multiple allegations of rape against a prominent Guyanese cricketer on the West Indies cricket team
The New Today Grenada
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July 5, 2025
I am very concerned about the myriad of rape allegations against a very prominent Guyanese cricketer. Very concerned. These allegations evince a disgusting and frightening pattern of predatory criminal sexual assault of multiple young women,...
Guyana Cuts The Ribbon On India-Backed Coastal Road Project
StratNews Global
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July 1, 2025
Home Don't Miss Guyana Cuts The Ribbon On India-Backed Coastal Road Project Small infrastructure projects that directly help local communities and businesses has been the hallmark of India backed projects in the Global South An important milestone...
Guyanese man cleared in Brooklyn killing wants to return to U.S. after deportation
Gothamist - New York
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July 1, 2025
A man wrongfully convicted of a fatal shooting in a Brooklyn video game room more than two decades ago and then deported to his native Guyana will work to return to the United States now that his name has been cleared, his attorney said Tuesday. A...
Education Ministry highlights significant improvement in access to libraries in primary schools
Guyana Chronicle
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July 1, 2025
MINISTER of Education Priya Manickchand recently spent four days in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region (Region Nine), where she engaged directly with educators, students and parents to assess and celebrate the strides being made in education,...
GECOM intensifies civic, voter-education activities for upcoming elections
Guyana Chronicle
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July 5, 2025
THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has intensified the implementation of its civic and voter education strategy for General and Regional Elections with several community engagements already underway countrywide, and a series of other planned...
Modern $940.7M Christ Church Secondary brings Guyana closer to universal education
Guyana Chronicle
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July 4, 2025
-President Ali says at commissioning ceremony -emphasises government’s commitment to uplifting young people, providing ‘bridges’ to opportunity, avenues for success NOW equipped with modern laboratories and a multipurpose indoor facility, the...
Jonestown, Guyana Opens As A Tourist Attraction – NY Times Reports
St. Kitts Gazette
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July 4, 2025
News Americas, GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Fri. July 4, 2025: Nearly five decades after the world was stunned by the mass murder-suicide of more than 900 Peoples Temple members, Jonestown, Guyana – the remote jungle settlement at the center of the tragedy...