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  • CARICOM, UN to strengthen cooperation at New York meeting

    Cooperation between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Nations (UN) System will be further strengthened around several issues including climate change, security, human development, health and education at the Ninth CARICOM-United Nations General Meeting this week. The two-day meeting begins 20 July 2017 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It is happening against the backdrop of a…

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  • Further UG, UWI collaboration – students to mix programmes between two institutions

    University of Guyana (UG) students will benefit from a mixed programme through collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI). Vice Chancellor of UWI, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles said UWI is already collaborating with UG on programmes in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, medicine and law among others, but there needs to be full mobility where students can mix their programmes…

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  • Photo of U.G.  Vice-Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith Earns Impressive Report Card

    U.G.  Vice-Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith Earns Impressive Report Card

    By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine   The vision of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana is  simple: he wants to make the institution a dynamic, and nationally relevant world-class university. He also  wants to do so in a hurry. In June 2016 Pro- fessor Griffi th gave up lucrative offers in North America to re- turn to Guyana to serve…

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  • Photo of CARICOM shocked, saddened at passing of a ‘son of the Caribbean’

    CARICOM shocked, saddened at passing of a ‘son of the Caribbean’

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed shock and sadness at the sudden death of the Head the University of Guyana’s Law Department and former Head of the Coordinating Unit for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Jamaican Sheldon McDonald.  Mr. McDonald, 64, died on Wednesday from injuries received in a car crash in Guyana.  CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, in…

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  • Photo of Caribbean’s different gender gap: women rise, men stagnate

    Caribbean’s different gender gap: women rise, men stagnate

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When the young woman was preparing to open a business in Jamaica selling pipes, vaporizers and other smoking paraphernalia, some acquaintances suggested she would have difficulty succeeding in a niche trade dominated by men. Now, about a year-and-a-half after its launch at a hotel complex in Jamaica’s capital, Ravn Rae’s smoking supplies store is growing and…

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