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Access to reproductive healthcare 18–16–12
Now Grenada
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July 23, 2025
We wish to commend the Government for its courageous bill, the Age of Civil Legal Responsibility (Amendment) Act, intended to allow 16-year-olds access to reproductive care without the burden of parental consent. We also applaud the further...
U.S. forensic experts back Guyana lab’s push for global accreditation
News Room
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July 23, 2025
See below the full statement issued: The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), hosted a team of forensic science experts from the U.S.-based Strategic...
Global Biodiversity Summit opens in Guyana
News Source Guyana
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July 23, 2025
The inaugural Global Biodiversity Alliance Summit opened today at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre with President Irfaan Ali warning that globally, biodiversity is in crisis. The President underscored the need for strengthening the international...
CARPHA Convenes Landmark Workshop t...
SKNVibes
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Guyana News By: CARPHA, Press Release Georgetown, Guyana. July 29, 2025 -- The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) took a milestone step in its mission to strengthen health security and coordination in the region with the successful hosting of...
Infrastructural transformation have allowed us to adjust how we interact with each other
Stabroek News
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August 1, 2025
Dear Editor, While we celebrate Emancipation Day, should we not also celebrate the PPP/C’s leadership for taking us closer to economic and psychological emancipation? Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a political party can be? Do I...
Public Assistance remains lifeline for vulnerable Guyanese
Guyana Chronicle
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July 22, 2025
THE Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Public Assistance programme remains a lifeline for thousands of Guyanese, providing temporary relief to persons with disabilities and those experiencing severe financial hardship. In a recent...
Guyana President Launches Re-election Bid
Our News Bahamas
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July 17, 2025
GUYANA – Guyana’s President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali is promising “transformative development” on a scale never seen before if re-elected for a second term in 2025. At a massive rally in Georgetown Sunday, Ali vowed more jobs, homes, and...
Guyana to get its first Occupational Safety and Health Centre in New Amsterdam
Stabroek News
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July 17, 2025
Turning of the sod for the Occupational Safety and Health Centre of Excellence by project stakeholders. From left to right are Alistair Routledge, President of ExxonMobil Guyana; Patrick Chinedu, Director of CTVET; Dr. Ashni Singh, Senior...
Barton Community College announces spring 2025 graduates
Great Bend Tribune - Kansas
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Albert: Kolton Maneth, A.S., Tavish Tracy, Welding Technology Certificate; Andover: Cooper Tabor, A.S.; Augusta: Aaralynn Chavana, A.S.; Belpre: Emmanuel Duran Saenz, A.A., Sean Kenyon, A.A.S., Brenda Visoso, A.S.; Bucklin: Shakota Housman,...
Medical Delivery Drones Take Flight in Latin America
Flying Magazine
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July 17, 2025
A new entrant in the medical drone delivery industry is lifting off in Latin America. California-based 19Labs, which has partnered with the government of Guyana to deploy remote telemedicine services across the country, on Wednesday announced it...
PAHO Director and CARICOM Secretary-General sign 2025-2029 Joint Subregional cooperation strategy to advance health and equity in the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization
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July 22, 2025
Georgetown, Guyana, 22 July 2025 (PAHO) – The Joint Subregional Cooperation Strategy that will provide a coordinated framework for technical cooperation to address common public health challenges in the Caribbean was signed today by the Director...
Stride592’s SOCA Heart project set to energize Guyana with national fitness campaign
Stabroek News
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July 22, 2025
Stride caption: Guyana’s fight against heart disease is stepping up with purpose as the SOCA Heart Project, spearheaded by Stride592, gets set to launch a months-long national campaign aimed at promoting cardiovascular health and active living....
PAHO Director and CARICOM Secretary-General sign 2025-2029 Subregional cooperation strategy to advance health and equity in the Caribbean
Pan American Health Organization
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July 22, 2025
Georgetown, Guyana, 22 July 2025 (PAHO) – The Subregional Strategy that will provide a coordinated framework for technical cooperation to address common public health challenges in the Caribbean was signed today by the Director of the Pan American...
Guyana to reduce borrowing for infrastructure projects- Jagdeo
Demerara Waves
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July 17, 2025
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 22:57 by Writer Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday said Guyana would be borrowing less and spending more of its oil revenues to build major social and physical infrastructural projects as part of a...
As elections approach, Guyana activists demand decriminalization of homosexuality
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 22, 2025
SASOD issues 10 demands for LGBTQ rights and health Guyana Pride march in 2018. (Photo courtesy of Demerara Waves) LGBTQ rights activists in Guyana are calling for decriminalization of sodomy, LGBT anti-discrimination laws, DEI initiatives in...
Chevron won the Guyana marathon, but the next race is about to begin
Upstream
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The oil industry is no stranger to playing the long game, but Chevron won a marathon last Friday when the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) handed it a victory in its arbitration case with ExxonMobil and CNOOC International. The prize for...
Investigation underway after Vietnamese national in ICE custody died in the hospital
NBC News
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July 22, 2025
An investigation is underway after a Vietnamese national died in the hospital on Saturday while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to an email seen by NBC News. Tien Xuan Phan, 55, had been in custody at the ICE Processing...
22-Y-O who died at Diamond Hospital was in critical condition – MOH
I News Guyana
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July 21, 2025
See full statement from the Ministry of Health: The Ministry of Health extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Ms. Ronicia Niles, a 22-year-old woman with a known history of asthma, who tragically passed away following a...
PM Phillips meets with PAHO Director to strengthen health collaboration
Guyana Chronicle
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July 22, 2025
PRIME Minister (PM) Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips on Monday welcomed Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva for a courtesy visit at his Camp Street Office, where they discussed deepening health-sector...
President Ali: ‘Our goal is to make Guyana the greatest place on Earth’
Guyana Chronicle
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July 22, 2025
PRESIDENT Dr. Irfaan Ali has noted that his government’s focus is not just on making Guyana great, but on making it the greatest place on earth. The Head of State was at the time addressing a crowd in Region Seven at a People’s Progressive...