Guyanese Online
By Caribbean News Now contributor – June 12, 2019
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – The latest in a series of startling similar fatalities in the Dominican Republic, a sixth American tourist was reported Monday to have died from a strange illness at a resort in the island.
Most of the deaths, and several other serious illnesses, include healthy, middle-aged adults who consumed a drink from their hotel room minibar before abruptly becoming severely ill. Continue reading
Guyanese Online Entries at June 10, 2019
— GUYANA GOVERNMENT/ POLITICS/ COMMENTARIES
Robert Persaud fails to explain why industry unknowns were granted oil blocks
Guyana likely forfeited US$100 million to a Billion in signing bonuses – Dr. Mangal
Price fixing racket at GuySuCo… Internal audit report recommended Bhim sacked
USA: Brooklyn Borough Prez thanks Guyanese for their contribution to NYC
Environment: Stop Polluting our Rivers! – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
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Mayor Ubraj Narine
Canada-Guyana Outreach Mission (CanGO)
CHILDREN FROM REGIONS 1, 2 AND 4 RECEIVE TREATMENT AT THE GEORGETOWN PUBLIC HOSPITAL
While on the annual Canada-Guyana Outreach Mission (CanGO) to Guyana in 2018, the following patients were diagnosed by Dr. Clare Mitchell (Developmental Paediatrician and Medical Director of CanGO) and referred to Georgetown. When possible, children were treated by local (Guyanese) surgeons. The outcome of this collaboration was:
– says US Charge d’ Affaires Karen Williams in cable dated July 31, 2009
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Ramsammy has strongly denied accusations of ties to Khan or having been instrumental in the importation of spying equipment that Khan used to go after criminals.
“We’ve been fighting cancer for nine years. It was caused by Roundup. We can’t do the things we used to do and we really resent Monsanto for that.”
A California jury ruled Monday that Monsanto must pay a record $2 billion in damages to a couple that was diagnosed with cancer after using the company’s weedkiller Roundup.
“We were finally allowed to show a jury the mountain of evidence showing Monsanto’s manipulation of science, the media, and regulatory agencies to forward their own agenda despite Roundup’s severe harm to the animal kingdom and humankind,” said Michael Miller, an attorney for Alva and Alberta Pilliod. Continue reading
Guyana Medical Relief
GMR for Walk A Thon around the Rose Bowl – May 4th 2019
Dear Friends;
I will be walking around the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to raise funds for Guyana Medical Relief’s programs in Guyana. The walk is on Saturday, May 4th, 2019. It begins at 8AM sharp. Warmups begin at 7:30AM. Free Breakfast of Saltfish and Bake. READ MORE : Guyana Medical Relief Walk-A-Thon Letter
Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help. Learn how we can make a greater impact — and boost our own happiness along the way — if we make one key shift in how we help others.
“Let’s stop thinking about giving as just this moral obligation and start thinking of it as a source of pleasure,” Dunn says.
Containers of Roundup on a store shelf in San Francisco. (Photo: Haven Daley/AP)