March 8, 2013
FOR more than a decade, legal improvements have taken place to secure women’s rights, but have not been accompanied by sufficient determination to translate them into effective protection. Our
March 8, 2013
THIS year’s theme for International Women’s day ‘A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women’ must resonate in Guyana, given the numerous high profile
March 8, 2013
THE Women and Gender Equality Commission expresses warm and fraternal greetings to all Guyanese, especially women, on the occasion of international Women’s Day.The Commission has two events planned: on
March 8, 2013
GENEVA—ON this day, when we honour women, let me speak directly to the men. As husbands and partners, brothers and sons, we must be part of the solution to
March 8, 2013
THE United Nations has defined the theme for International Women’s Day 2013 as: ‘A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women’, and has so
March 8, 2013
AS with food, the storage of medical materials is crucial, particularly since medications have a direct impact on the state of one’s health. And so the government has invested
March 8, 2013
THE Parliament of Guyana yesterday hosted a programme at the Tower Hotel on Main Street, Georgetown, to honour women in commemorating International Women’s Day, which is being celebrated worldwide
March 8, 2013
A NATIONAL day of mourning will be observed today following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday, Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday. State
September 25, 2009
Steel rail and pieces. The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. has viewed with dismay the attempts by unknown individuals to disrupt the positive work environment which has been prevailing
September 25, 2009
Restraining them from insinuating plaintiff is a child molesterKWAME Mc Coy, Press Liaison to the President, is claiming $150M from three media houses, whom he has taken to Court
September 25, 2009
The Child Protection Awareness booth at the City Mall. The recently launched Child Care and Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Tuesday set
September 25, 2009
The large storage tank at the water treatment plant on the Essequibo Coast THE Regional Administration in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) has announced that 18,000 residents, living between Walton
September 25, 2009
Awardees with their prizes and trophies at the National Cultural Centre. GUYANA and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company (GTM), despite global economic challenges, wrote new business
September 24, 2009
DAYS after a resounding 6-1 beating at the hands of Australia, England arrived in South Africa for the Champions Trophy hoping not only to wipe the slate clean, but
September 24, 2009
DEON Davidson, 30, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday, on robbery under arms charge. It is alleged that, last June 17, being armed with a gun, he
September 24, 2009
TAXI driver Quacy Allen, 29, of Lot 1832 Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was remanded to prison yesterday on a drug trafficking charge. He appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate
September 24, 2009
JUSTICE Dawn Gregory-Barnes, has granted an ex-parte injunction to Guyana Realty Investments Limited (GRIL), restraining Claude Deygoo, also known as Edward Boyer, and Donna Deygoo, also known as Donna
September 24, 2009
A 53-year-old labourer and father of eight, had his right foot severed last Friday while using a brush cutter to clear a plot of land at Dakara Area, Timehri.