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Guyana sees improvement in CSEC Maths
Guyana Chronicle
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August 15, 2025
–as a result of govt’s strategic interventions Guyana’s Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain on Friday reported that the country has recorded improvements in Mathematics at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)...
CXC 2025: Guyana records 91.9% pass rate at CAPE, 66.76% at CSEC
I News Guyana
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August 15, 2025
Guyana recorded a 91.9% pass rate at this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), a minimal decline when compared to 2024. In 2024, the pass rate was 92.57%. Guyana secured 100 passes in a number of subject areas including...
QC boys top CSEC, CAPE — aiming for careers in science & engineering
I News Guyana
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August 15, 2025
Queens College’s Arthur Roberts and Jayden Adrian have topped this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) respectively. Roberts secured nine Grade Ones and four Grade Twos at...
4,600 students already registered for Guyana’s Digital school
News Room
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August 15, 2025
President Dr Irfaan Ali has indicated that 4,600 students have already registered for Guyana’s new digital school, which will soon be accessible to learners across the entire Caribbean. “4, 600 have already registered. This school will be...
New team of SBM engineers complete intensive training
Stabroek News
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August 15, 2025
SBM Offshore Guyana’s Area Operations Manager, Ricardo Pinto, interacting with the current batch of Graduate Engineers. (SBM photo) A new cohort of Graduate Engineers from SBM Offshore Guyana has successfully completed an intensive training...
Lydford Mines invests in new technology
Radio Jamaica
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August 15, 2025
Jackie Millington, CEO of Lydford Mines, says the company is holding its share in the highly competitive U.S. construction and mining industry through constant innovation, investment in research, and new technologies to cut costs. Ms Millington,...
Decommissioned York Region ambulance bound for Guyana
The Auroran
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August 14, 2025
August 14, 2025 · 0 Comments An ambulance recently decommissioned by the Region of York is bound for Guyana to provide health services to patients in rural parts of the country. York Region Paramedic Services formally handed over the ambulance to...
Guyana Government Locks In An Innovative Energy Security Solution
Forbes
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Guyana President Irfaan Ali (l) talks with Curlew Midstream executives Perry Cowart (Director of International Business Development), Stacy Duke (Executive VP) and Jay Pryor (Board Member) about the announcement of the Curlew Project in February...
Guyana’s Muhammad Ibrahim meets Mexican Agriculture Minister in campaign for IICA’s Top Post
Guyana Chronicle
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August 14, 2025
THE Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) nominee for Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, met with Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture, Julio Berdegué, on Wednesday to discuss his...
Exxon Aims to Build on Guyana Success in Trinidad and Tobago
Rigzone
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August 14, 2025
Exxon Mobil Corp. signed a deal to explore for oil and gas off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, a decade after making the world’s largest discovery in a generation in nearby Guyana. The Texas oil giant was awarded a 7,165 square kilometer block...
Guyana crushed 1-9 by Mexico in Pan Am Women’s Hockey
Stabroek News
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August 14, 2025
A scene from the Guyana and Mexico group stage fixture. – Rodrigues, Lewis fail to medal in women’s 50M freestyle Guyana incurred their second consecutive loss in the Junior Pan American Games Women’s Hockey Championship, as they went down 1-9 to...
Govt finalising human capital strategy to tackle labour shortages – Pres. Ali
I News Guyana
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August 15, 2025
As the country undergoes unprecedented economic growth, the Guyana Government is in the process of finalising a comprehensive human capital strategy to tackle the ongoing labour shortage. This is according to President Dr Irfaan Ali who on Friday...
APNU pledges corporation tax break, small business financing opportunities
Demerara Waves
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August 15, 2025
Last Updated on Friday, 15 August 2025, 16:08 by Denis Chabrol PNCR-APNU Leader Aubrey Norton signs a Compact with other political parties that are under the APNU coalition umbrella The People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for...
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...
Second cohort completes SBM Offshore Guyana’s ‘graduate engineers programme’
Guyana Chronicle
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August 13, 2025
–third batch onboarded, company says A NEW cohort of graduate engineers from SBM Offshore Guyana has successfully completed the intensive training programme. According to a press release, the eight graduates were formally recognised during a...
Georgetown Women Classic Basketball Series…Ramlall sisters engineer Guyana’s clean sweep of Suriname
Guyana Chronicle
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August 13, 2025
GUYANA’S women’s basketball team completed a clean sweep of their two-match series with Suriname on Monday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The Guyanese won the contest, 65-57, after another overwhelming showing by the local women’s outfit. Asha...
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...
Guyana, Venezuela on homestretch for final, binding ICJ judgement on Essequibo
Demerara Waves
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August 11, 2025
Last Updated on Monday, 11 August 2025, 16:50 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela on Monday filed its final written pleadings to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Guyana’s case over the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal land boundary award...
Human Capital Strategy being finalised to address labour shortages
News Room
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August 15, 2025
President Dr. Irfaan Ali says Guyana is in the final stages of developing a comprehensive human capital strategy to tackle the country’s labour shortages, including the shortage of healthcare workers. The President was at the time speaking on a...
ExxonMobil to “replicate” Guyana experience in T&T ultra deep-water exploration
Demerara Waves
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August 12, 2025
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 19:37 by Writer Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and ExxonMobil Vice President Global Upstream Development John Ardill display their signed copies of the production sharing...