‘NOT OVER YET’ ….President tells supporters elections matter back with GECOM

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams Sc does not believe that the Chairman of the Guyana Election ...

142 returned on first repatriation flight from Canada

by Staff Reporter

July 10, 2020

assure they will do all that is necessary to remain COVID-freeOne hundred and forty-two (142) Guyanese returned on Thursday via ...

Back sweat replaces saliva but England struggle v Windies

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) - England fast bowler Mark Wood said on Thursday that players were using 'back sweat' rather than ...

Abusers are really good at ‘gaslighting’ the witnesses of their abuse and the persons over whom they hold power

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

(TRIGGER WARNING: References to domestic abuse) Dear Editor, Gaslighting is a psychological weapon used by abusers to maintain power. The ...

Malawi’s new female cabinet ministers vow to push for jobs for women

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

By Charles Pensulo BLANTYRE, Malawi, July 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - M alawi's newly-elected President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed women ...

Farmer Jonathan Kituku Mung’ala shows some of the food crops that can grow with the help of the shade of Melia volkensii trees at his farm in Kibwezi, southern Kenya, on February 5, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi

The tree helping Kenyan farmers beat drought and poverty

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

By Kagondu Njagi KIBWEZI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Worried that a drought could wipe out his crops back in ...

Foreign students worry about being sent home after U.S. visa rule

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

By Kristina Cooke, Mimi Dwyer and Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) - When the phone rang Tuesday morning, Raul Romero had barely ...

HIV discrimination in Guyana on the decline

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

Discriminatory attitudes towards persons living with HIV have been consistently declining in Guyana, decreasing to as low as 29.4 percent ...

A food vendor selling tomatoes on the street, pushes along his cart, during a nationwide lockdown in India to slow the spread of COVID-19, in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Mumbai, India, April 7, 2020.

Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors’ income, health

by Staff Reporter

July 9, 2020

By Rina Chandran BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Street vendors in India are suffering from lower earnings and ill health ...