Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana News

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The newly accredited ambassador of Sweden to the Caribbean Community , Claes Hammar, has described the formalisation of his country's ties with the Community as an historic and significant step.

By Avinash Pulchan, MFM, FQF According to World Bank data, Guyana's external debt has risen over 117%, US$850,393,000 in 2008 to US$1,845,561,000 in 2012.

As the Chinese Philosopher Lao-tzu taught "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" and so a year ago, I made the first step in my commitment to explore this country; its cultures and people, places and things in what I deem would be my ultimate adventure, spiritual even as I try to be in touch with Guyana.

THE Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday expressed 'deep concern' over an incident in which a Guyanese national was refused emergency medical attention at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope and later died while en route to another medical institution.

The Linden-Lethem trail is to be transformed into an all-weather road with Brazilian help if the plans of the Ministry of Public Works are realized.

SILVER CITY >> Local artist and art instructor Diana Ingalls Leyba has been chosen by the Grant County Art Guild to judge the 2014 members-only show, according to a news release.

Trade union activist and pioneer, mother, friend. Born on May 19, 1933, in Georgetown, Guyana; died on Nov. 12, 2013, in Toronto, after a long illness, aged 80. She arrived in Canada from Guyana in 1963 with two young children, and eventually found work as a nursing attendant at Kipling Acres, one of Toronto's municipally run "homes for the aged."

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Hla Cheikhrouhou, executive director of the Green Climate Fund, will be the keynote speaker of the 15th William G. Demas Memorial Lecture in Georgetown Guyana on May 27, 2014.

SILVER CITY, N.M. >> The Grant County Art Guild is pleased to announce that the chosen judge for the 2014 Members Only Show is local artist and art instructor, Diana Ingalls Leyba.

Hela Cheikhrouhou , Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund, is the keynote speaker of the 15th William G. Demas Memorial Lecture at the Pegasus Hotel, in Georgetown Guyana on May 27, 2014.

Welcoming the measures in the 2014 budget, the Private Sector Commission yesterday said it believed that continued growth will be stimulated.

Sumintra was born in Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, Guyana on August 15, 1928.

A Guyana Police Force officer is in a critical state at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after his vehicle crashed into a donkey on the West Coast Berbice public road yesterday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Diplomatic relations between the Caribbean Community and Cuba were further strengthened on Tuesday with the accreditation of Julio Csar Gonzlez Marchante, at the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.

Mr. Crawford brings almost 20 years of international mineral exploration experience to SG, having held a number of corporate and field-based positions including Manager, Investor Relations for Peregrine Diamonds; Field Manager, Kennecott Canada Exploration's Western Canadian Coal Project; and Senior Mineralogist, Golden Star Resources in their ... (more)

Government yesterday unveiled a $220 billion budget with a whopping $6.9 billion in power subsidies, $6 billion for the troubled sugar corporation, $500 million to clean up Georgetown, bumped up concessions for the elderly and parents but no new income tax relief.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The procedure to apply for a temporary resident visa at the High Commission of Canada in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, has changed.

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