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Guyanese added to UK’s “deport now, appeal later” scheme
Demerara Waves
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August 12, 2025
Last Updated on Monday, 11 August 2025, 22:12 by Writer Reproduced from the BBC UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper More foreign criminals will be deported before their appeals against their removal are heard as the Home Office adds 15 new countries...
Nepali Forests as Global Carbon Banks
Nepal Economic Forum
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August 18, 2025
The World Bank estimates that forests contribute about 0.49% of Nepal’s GDP, mainly from the value of selling timber. In the fiscal year 2023/24 (2079/80 BS), agriculture, forestry, and fishing combined made up about 24.10% of GDP. However, this...
Jagdeo promises scholarships for everyone interested in Reg. 9
I News Guyana
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August 17, 2025
Vice-President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that scholarships will be available for anyone that requires it, in the next five years. Speaking to an electric crowd with roars that echoed Lethem, at the People’s Progressive Party Civic rally on...
Guyana records 18% increase in visitor arrivals in first seven months
News Room
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August 11, 2025
During the first seven months of 2025, Guyana recorded an 18 per cent increase in visitor arrivals when compared to the same period in 2024, according to a notice from the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. Between January and July 2025,...
Guyanese pugilists win as international Boxing returns to refurbished Sports Hall
Guyana Chronicle
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August 11, 2025
THE Guyanese pugilists won their fights against their overseas opponents when the curtains came down in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, as International Boxing returned to the refurbished Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The event was promoted...
Five Cuban-trained Guyanese doctors return to strengthen local health sector
Guyana Chronicle
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August 13, 2025
GUYANA’S growing demand for qualified medical personnel has received a welcome boost with the graduation of five more Guyanese doctors from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Cuba. The newly-minted physicians: Dr. Savanna Sumintra...
Mashabo, Tapakuma get boost in early childhood education
Guyana Chronicle
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August 13, 2025
–with commissioning of modern nursery schools RESIDENTS of Mashabo and Tapakuma Lake, on Tuesday, celebrated a major milestone with the commissioning of modern nursery schools in the villages. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, during the...
Sixteen children with heart conditions operated on at GPHC
Stabroek News
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August 13, 2025
One of the children operated on (GPHC photo) Sixten young patients suffering from congenital heart disease have benefitted from life saving cardiac procedures after the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in collaboration with Gift of...
Seminarian’s suicide troubles Haiti’s Catholic Church, exposes toll of overlapping crises
Haitian Times
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August 13, 2025
Overview: Rodny Boussicot, a 25-year-old seminarian in the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, died by suicide on Aug. 9 in Pétion-Ville after battling illness and depression. His death highlights Haiti’s deepening mental health crisis, fueled by gang...
The final stretch
Guyana Chronicle
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August 18, 2025
Dear Editor, IT’S only a matter of two weeks more to go until the curtain falls but not before the “Fat lady sings.” Come September 1st, who will be celebrating perhaps with “Tequila?” Music lovers of course would recall the enticing musical...
NGSA 2025: A closer look at Guyana’s best results ever
News Room
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August 13, 2025
By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy Almost 16,000 pupils wrote the 2025 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Guyana’s secondary school placement examination. This year, there were improvements in all four subject areas, and Education Minister...
From the Margins to the Courts: St Lucia Joins Caribbean Fight to Dismantle Anti-LGBTQI+ Colonial Laws
Inter Press Service
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August 13, 2025
Active Citizens, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Featured, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Violence, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, LGBTQ, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: Stella_E/Getty Images MONTEVIDEO,...
Guyana president announces largest police promotions in ‘Commonwealth history’ during election campaign
Barbados Today
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August 10, 2025
230 Guyana President Irfaan Ali has announced the mass promotion of police officers, reportedly the largest in the history of the Commonwealth. Addressing thousands of the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPP/C) supporters at a rally, the...
International team returns to Guyana for final 2025 Paediatric Cardiac Mission
Guyana Chronicle
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August 13, 2025
–GPHC, GOLI saving lives in collaboration THE Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), in partnership with Gift of Life International (GOLI), successfully concluded its second paediatric cardiac collaboration of the year, from August 4 to 8,...
‘We’re coming back to do even more’
Guyana Chronicle
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August 18, 2025
-Dr. Jagdeo promises transformative support for Region Nine in next PPP/C term SHOULD the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) be re-elected this September, families in Region Nine can expect even more support aimed at improving their lives...
The Cuban Journalist Trapped in America’s Immigration Blockade
Columbia Journalism Review
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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Almost six months after he fled Cuba, José Luis Tan Estrada arrived in Mexico in May with two pairs of shorts, two pullovers, and one and a half pairs of boxers. Most importantly, he says, he...
Two Caribbean institutions partner to expand higher education in the region
Demerara Waves
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August 12, 2025
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 19:26 by Writer DeVry University’s Vice President of Public Workforce Solutions, Scarlett Howery The Saint Lucia Hospitality & Tourism Association (SLHTA) and Dominica’s AcademiX School of Learning have...
From war zone to classroom: Pilot’s firsthand account of life in the cockpit
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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Former U.S. Air Force pilot Richard Hess’ memoir is titled “High Flight: A Pilot’s Journey Through Life.” (booktrib) (Tribune News Service) — Thanks to their miles-high vantage point, aviators develop an outsider’s perspective of life on the...
Gov’t advancing universal secondary education in Moruca, Region One
Guyana Chronicle
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August 12, 2025
THE Government of Guyana is moving closer to achieving universal secondary education in the Moruca sub-region of Region One, with several new schools under construction to eliminate long-standing barriers to learning for hinterland students....
UK adds Guyana to ‘deport now, appeal later’ list
Stabroek News
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August 12, 2025
In a move that will directly impact Guyanese nationals in the UK, the Home Office has added Guyana to its “deport now, appeal later” scheme. The policy, according to a BBC report, which has been expanded to a total of 23 countries, allows the UK...