The sheer volume of Guyana’s multi-billion-barrel Stabroek Block discoveries has presented it with a golden opportunity for fundamental societal transformation. But to make this happen, the South American oil producer has to overcome the dreaded “resource curse” says Dr. Terrence Richard Blackman, an Associate Professor of Mathematics and a founding member of the Undergraduate Programme […]
Interested in sustainable tourism but don’t know where to start? Well, we have your next destination in line for you. Guyana was recently crowned “Best in Sustainable Tourism” by the Latin American Travel Association as well as “Best in Ecotourism” by the ITB global travel trade fair in Germany. While countries like Guyana, French Guiana, […]
Some US $534 million is the current balance in Guyana’s Natural Resources Fund (NRF) or the oil money fund, according to ministry of finance’s October 2021 report of NRF. The statement shows that the net balance as of October 31, 2021, stood at US$111,342,541 with no outflows from the fund into the Consolidated Fund. Notably, […]
The Sustainable Guyana Program, a unique strategic partnership aimed at training Guyana’s future leaders in sustainable development, is welcoming its first cohort of students to Canada and to Trent University. “The Sustainable Guyana Program builds on Trent’s longstanding relationship with the Guyanese nation and we are delighted to welcome the first five graduate students to […]
Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese Canadian author and a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia. Her novels include Dragons Cry, Vital Signs and Higher Ed. Shame on Me, her first work of nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Prize for nonfiction. Her latest is The Snow Line, a […]
A Toronto teacher was found not guilty of drowning a 15-year-old student on a school canoe trip, after a judge ruled last Wednesday that his actions did not constitute a “marked and substantial deviation” against the due diligence standard. Nicholas Mills had been charged with criminal negligence causing the death of Jeremiah Perry by drowning. […]
Arnold Harrichand Itwaru has died at the age of 79. He was a big light for so many people and will be remembered and celebrated for time to come. In the trajectory of his life he has touched thousands with his teaching, with his writing, his painting creations and with his presence. He leaves behind […]
In the coming weeks and months, there will be high-level visits from Kenya, Colombia, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Latin America, the Caribbean, EU and Asia, revealed president Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana on the heels of UN General Assembly (UNGA76). Prior to New York, president Ali was in Mexico for the Community of Latin American […]
There is a call for the preservation of local and indigenous languages across the region. This call was sounded when some 25 Guyanese were recognised by the Guyanese Languages Unit of the University of Guyana for successfully translating emergency and COVID-19 related messages in several languages. These 25 persons would have translated public health […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon A 46-year-old divorcee from Guyana was recently granted refugee protection status in Canada as she was able to establish that there is a serious possibility of persecution on a Convention Ground. Her claim was accepted by the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration Refugee Board (IRB). I represented Sumee (not her […]
