The NCC members embarked on a two-day retreat at the Aruwai Resort in the Mazaruni River, Region 7 to engage in team building and strategic planning initiatives. The NCC is a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who began working together in the 1990s to fill the gap in response to Guyana’s multiple social challenges.

Representatives of the National Coordinating Coalition Inc. (NCC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) signed a memorandum of understanding concerning improved tax facilities for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at 13:00hrs on Friday, 27th January 2017 at the GCCI office located at 156 Waterloo Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, Guyana. The signing of the MoU was done... Read More

Across the Caribbean, policymakers rely heavily on the availability of timely, accurate and reliable poverty data to support national and regional development initiatives. Despite making considerable progress on how they measure poverty, many countries in the Region do not frequently update or report on key poverty indicators, and are not able to assess the non-income... Read More

In 2000, when the world gathered in Durban for the first international AIDS conference in Africa, the disease was raging. For most, AIDS was a death sentence. Rich people could access the newly available treatment, which cost nearly US$10,000 a year; poor people couldn’t. So the poor died of AIDS, by the millions. That injustice... Read More