‘Shameer’ dumping household waste into the canal in Shieldstown, West Berbice. MINISTER within the Ministry of Education, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, in an interview last Tuesday, called for a multi-agency approach in responding to the needs of flooded communities and noted that the Environmental Health organ of the Ministry needed to take a more proactive approach.

Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, said focus will be placed on advancing the level of training for medical professionals in 2009 to detect students with eye complications. Speaking earlier this week with the Guyana Chronicle, Dr Ramsaran pointed out that previously medical professionals specialising in other areas were trained in basic

A GROUP of young women, some of them housewives, from Johanna Cecelia, Zorg and surrounding communities on Essequibo Coast, graduated last month after a six weeks course in pastry making. Coordinator of the Johanna Cecelia Community Development Group, Ms. Parbattie Singh, said the graduates were taught to make cheese straws, cheese rolls, various types of

THE current rice crop on Essequibo Coast is blooming despite recent heavy rainfall. Reports said the plants are in various stages of growth as all the fields were not sown at the same time. But 35, 000 acres are under cultivation and it is anticipated that production will surpass the projected target of one million

New Summary Courts Manager, Mr. Cecil Sullivan, on the way to his new office in Georgetown Magistrates’ Court compound yesterday. (Picture by Adrian Narine) FORMER Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan has been named to the new post of Summary Courts Manager. He will be responsible for, among other things, maintenance of the Magistrates’ Courts, matters