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Consciousness raising & collective organizing
Inherent in this is a refusal to examine power and our relationship with
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Kupanda Sisters, World Literacy Foundation partner to supply tablets to Sophia Primary students
Kupanda Sisters Inc., a united States-based non-profit organisation founded by a Guyanese, has partnered with the World Literacy Foundation to launch a pilot programme to boost literacy through the provision of tablets to 20 students of Sophia Primary
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Granger says ‘outside’ verdicts on polls ‘reckless’ before end of recount process
While suggesting that comments by regional leaders on Guyana’s elections process have been “premature” and “reckless,” caretaker president David Granger last night urged that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) be allowed to do its work and once again pledged to abide by whatever declaration it
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Hundreds continue to flout COVID-19 restrictions
Hundreds of Guyanese continue to flout the national COVID-19 restrictions on social gatherings despite a rise in the number of local cases being
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MYO extends benevolence during COVID19 crisis
The Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) which participates in Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) organized cricket competitions is the latest entity to extend acts of kindness during the current COVID – 19
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Statue of Queen Victoria should also come down
In light of the Black Lives Matter protests happening across the world, and the reevaluation, revision, and removal, of statues and other monuments that celebrate and pay homage to political figures who were notorious for advocating for, advancing, and establishing colonialism and all of its
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Guyanese and global community pinning their hope on Chair to act decisively in rejecting the Lowenfield report
Caricom and Gecom Chair Claudette Singh are applauded for standing by the people of Guyana in their struggle for consolidation of electoral democratic gains that were first made in 1992 after the long struggle to win the right to vote in free and fair
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Eighty-four thousand
One would do well to recall at this point that before Mr Mingo’s sleight of hand failed miserably, the voting process had been declared smooth by at least one team of international observers and free and fair by Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Justice Claudette Singh as well as
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Joyce Sinclair was my light through the tunnel
Elegant, poised and an amazing presence, my first sighting of Joyce Sinclair caused me to make a solemn promise to myself that I was going to excel at
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Nurses: Our health ‘warriors’ - Stabroek News
Not nearly enough recognition or respect is afforded the nursing profession in Guyana. The article Nurses: Our health ‘warriors’ appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Mr Hinds Africans do want their half of the ‘corn’ or no deal
I write in response to the former Prime Minister Mr Samuel A.A. Hinds’s missive published in the 5th June 2020 edition of the Stabroek News: captioned, `I favour inclusive government rather than a shared PPP/C and PNCR
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Shortlist of firms to market oil to be ready by June 25 – DoE
The Department of Energy (DoE) yesterday notified  the Applicants who submitted Expressions of Interest on April 26, 2020, for the “Provision of Marketing Services for Guyana’s Oil Entitlement from the Lisa Destiny FPSO Vessel”, that the preparation of the Shortlist of Firms to be invited to submit
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Guyana’s Infant Oil & Gas Sector: Doomsday options - tariffs on oil, NOPEC Bill and invoking the nuclear option after a US/Saudi oil war!
The incisive, intense, and increasingly incendiary geo-political, economic, and strategic debate concerning the Saudi Arabia/ US struggle for crude oil market share is basically unacknowledged in the local print and social
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Dr Alexis must withdraw his remarks about this case before the CCJ
Yesterday’s Sunday Edition of the Guyana Chronicle’s, lead headline loudly screams, `Dr. Francis Alexis, QC says PPP/C appeal to the CCJ has no real prospect of
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Appeal Court to rule tomorrow on GECOM declaration challenge
Guyana’s Court of Appeal is set to rule tomorrow on the challenge that has been mounted to prevent the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from using the results of the recount from the March 2nd elections to make a final
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Pompeo says has instructed his Department to hold accountable all those who undermine Guyana's democracy
Pompeo says has instructed his Department to hold accountable all those who undermine Guyana’s democracy
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These decisions by the ministry on exams are reckless given our realities
In some of the wealthiest industrialised countries (Germany, China, and Taiwan) the reopening of schools has been followed by an increased number of COVID-19 cases among the
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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm , née Shirley Anita St. Hill (born November 30, 1924, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 1, 2005, Ormond Beach, Florida), American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the
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Guyana’s political tragedy
This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the
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The appeal to the CCJ against the Court of Appeal ruling - Stabroek News
We must ask – on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Elections Officer determine that he should invalidate 1 vote, far less over 115 000 votes when the votes were already certified as valid by officers of the Guyana Elections Commission in the presence of the political
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City-based Santa Rosa residents funneling support to COVID-19 ravaged village
Even when the community they are residing in wasn’t considered a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hotspot in Guyana, residents of Santa Rosa had made known their struggles with the restrictions that were implemented to keep the Indigenous village
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Key state agencies are prisoners of political crowding
By making public the fact that it has now moved the country’s agriculture sector to the top of its agenda (ahead of tourism) in terms of targeting foreign investment for the country, the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), the country’s national investment and export promotion agency, has
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COVID tapers oil-driven economic growth
Due to the COVID-19 impact globally, especially on the oil market, Guyana’s projected 2020 growth rate has been revised from 87% to 57%, Governor of the Bank of Guyana Dr Gobind Ganga said on Friday, while also confirming that the non-oil sector is headed to negative
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WPA recommits to quest for equity on Rodney’s 40th death anniversary
Ahead of today’s 40th anniversary of the death of co-founder Walter Rodney, who it maintains was assassinated by the then governing PNC, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday recommitted itself to the quest for a Guyana that is based on ethno-racial, social and gender
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Robbery suspect nabbed after attempted attack
Police believe they have captured one of the suspects in a recent violent robbery committed on an Albouystown motorcyclist in
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Re-orient youth from crime by giving them land
About five years ago, some of us started a group called ‘Christians Affected by Crime’ (CABC) where our focus was on providing support for families of perpetrators of
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CARICOM support not interference - Secretary General - Stabroek News
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday stressed that each action taken by the Community to help resolve Guyana’s elections crisis was “by invitation” and in an attempt to maintain regional grouping’s reputation as a bastion of
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Venezuela’s ‘new normality’ - gasoline at ‘international prices’
In one of the more telling indicators yet that Guyana’s western neighbour, Venezuela, has fallen on seriously hard times, the country’s President, Nicholas Maduro, announced on Sunday that beginning last Monday, the country officially credited with possessing the single largest reserves of oil
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Education ministry not backing down from plans to hold exams
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is not backing down from its request to have teachers return to schools while the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) insists that returning to schools at this time can pose a threat to students and teachers
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Parker, Maurice S. (1949- )
Ambassador Maurice S. Parker is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Department of State.  On April 30, 2007 Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Swaziland.  After U.S. Senate confirmation, Parker
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