by Cofona Admin | Nov 26, 2012 | Education, News
By Leon Suseran The New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) graduates of 2012 were told on Friday how valuable their technical skills are to the development of Guyana and that those skills are the foundation on which the development of Guyana rests. The message came...
by Cofona Admin | Nov 11, 2012 | Featured Profiles
“In a captain’s work you have to know a little bit of everything.” By Leon Suseran Sixty-seven year-old Maheshwar Soogrim has spent much of his life on the waterways of the world and right here at home too. His love for the rivers, oceans and seas, piloting the...
by Cofona Admin | Nov 11, 2012 | Condolences
Senior Counsel Clarence Albert Fitzgerald Hughes, who turned 77 last Saturday, died on Friday at his Subryanville, Greater Georgetown home following a short period of illness. The late Hughes was head of the chambers at the legal firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby. He was...
by Cofona Admin | Nov 8, 2012 | General, News
Despite a trend of poor collection of taxes from property owners in New Amsterdam, the municipality has no definitive plan to improve the annual rate of tax collection, Deputy Mayor Harold Dabydeen said. The disclosure was made in response to a question from a...
by Cofona Admin | Nov 7, 2012 | General, News
Paula Jones-Nicholson was recently admitted to the local bar after her petition was presented by Senior Counsel Richard Fields, before Justice William Ramlal in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Demerara. Ms. Jones-Nicholson hails from the ancient...
by Cofona Admin | Nov 5, 2012 | General, News
Eleven overseas-based doctors are lending their services to the New Amsterdam Regional Hospital as part of a medical programme the group carries out each year. The doctors are from the Organization for Social and Health Advancement for Guyana and the Caribbean...
