Cash payments to cut poverty in Indonesian villages help forests too

Police are investigating a hit-and-run fatal accident which occurred on Sunday evening, June 21, 2020 on Enmore Public Road, East ...

Two die in an horrific crash at Le Destin, East Bank Essequibo Sunday afternoon

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June 22, 2020

Cyclists killed in Le Destin smash-upTwo men were on Sunday afternoon killed in a horrific accident involving several bicycles and ...

Guyanese & Barbados youths claim victory at the “COVID Warz” coding challenge

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June 21, 2020

One hundred twenty youths from Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad signed up for the 2020 STEMGuyana "COVID Warz" Challenge. The 2020 ...

Low Income Guyanese Youth Deserve A Chance At A High-Tech Future

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June 21, 2020

“STEM is one way to give kids a vision of life beyond violence. We have to give kids exposure. We ...

Kainat Naz works from home in Karachi, Pakistan on April 25, 2020. Photo courtesy of Kainat Naz

Pakistan’s younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs

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June 21, 2020

By Zofeen T. Ebrahim KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ...

A member of a delegation team touches underripe wheat during a tour around a field of the agricultural scientific-research institute of Mikhailovsk town in Stavropol region, southern Russia, June 2, 2015. Wheat markets have also been monitoring frost damage in Canada and dryness in Russia, but losses to Canadian crops appeared to have centred on oilseed canola while some parched wheat belts in southern Russia received rain over the weekend. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

Winds of hunger: Simultaneous heatwaves to batter European food(grain)-growing countries; opportunity for Guyana…

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June 21, 2020

By Thin Lei Win ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change could spur stronger crop-wilting heatwaves that hit several of ...

A French farmer holds a sugar beet from his dry field, as extreme drought hits France, in Blecourt, France, September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol - RC1740E18D00

U.N. urges action as finds farmers losing up to a fifth of produce

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June 21, 2020

By Thin Lei Win ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers around the world are losing up to 20% of the food they ...

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH; WE SQUANDER IT TO OUR PERIL…

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June 21, 2020

Companies that hire from culturally diverse talent pools, benefit by recruiting employees with a broad range of skills that are often ...

Police search finds an unlicensed custom-made shotgun and three live cartridges; arrests made

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June 21, 2020

Georgetown, Guyana: June 21st, 2020: Police ranks patrolling the East Coast Demerara corridor acting on information received intercepted a motor ...