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-replete with untruths MEMBERS of the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), comprising Ministers Clement Rohee, Priya Manickchand, and Pauline Sukhai, yesterday responded to the recently published 2011 United States (US) State Department report on TIP at a press conference at the Home Affairs Ministry’s boardroom, Brickdam. Minister Manickchand said that while this year’s report […]

The Childcare and Develop-ment Services Bill 2009 was passed by the National Assembly last Friday after it was discussed in a Special Select Committee for just under a year. The bill is the final one of five pieces of legislation dealing with children, Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, said. The bill […]

In observation of Father’s Day tomorrow the Minister of Human Services and Services in collaboration with the Men’s Affair Bureau held an event captioned “Magnificent Man” at the Theater Guild, Parade Street, Kingston last evening. Many fathers attended the evening that saw the raw reasoning of a father’s role in a Guyanese society. The play […]

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana has now celebrated 45 years of independence, a celebration for all patriotic Guyanese, as the accomplishments and developments are applauded and visions and plans for the future, so vividly outlined in the President’s address to the nation, are embraced by those with lifelong dreams and optimism of a new and better tomorrow. […]

Women with Power (WWP) organization was one of the many that benefited from the recently concluded Feminition exhibition. Lauding the initiative was Ediclia Bastardo de Persaud, Principal of the Venezuela Institute of Culture and Cooperation (IVCC) at 106 New Garden Street, Georgetown, where the organization is based. She said in an interview with the Guyana […]

Feminition, the women’s exposition, sought to recognise, highlight and promote the skills and capabilities of Guyanese women, Human Services and Social Security Minister Priya Manickchand said during the opening of the event on Friday last. The event was held at the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. “The beauty, the creativity, the capacity, the capability […]

…as government considers many requests from exhibitors, patrons THE possibility of making ‘Feminition’ an annual event is being considered by government, following ‘hundreds of requests’ from exhibitors and patrons. Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said so Tuesday in an invited comment to the Guyana Chronicle. She deemed the event very successful. ‘Feminition’ […]

Feminition, the women’s exposition, sought to recognise, highlight and promote the skills and capabilities of Guyanese women, Human Services and Social Security Minister Priya Manickchand said during the opening of the event on Friday last. The event was held at the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. “The beauty, the creativity, the capacity, the capability […]

…as government considers many requests from exhibitors, patrons THE possibility of making ‘Feminition’ an annual event is being considered by government, following ‘hundreds of requests’ from exhibitors and patrons. Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand said so Tuesday in an invited comment to the Guyana Chronicle. She deemed the event very successful. ‘Feminition’ […]

Dear editor, I wish to give my personal thoughts on Feminition as printed in STABROEK NEWS, Saturday, May 21, 2011. I would like to define a true woman as one who carries that hearing and acts on her own most of the times.  Acts of KINDESS AND DEEDS through her life are hallmarks. The feminine […]