Author: TrakkerNews

Edward B. Beharry won the first place trophy in the commercial float category and the Mon Repos Mandir took away the first place in the large float category last night at the Diwali motorcade.
President Bharrat Jagdeo did make it to the LBI ground last night after returning from Barbados.

The darkest night in the Hindu calendar, Deepavali is celebrated throughout Guyana today with lights, and lighted diyas  bringing the Goddess Mother Laxmi into their homes.
Lighting a lamp or diya symbolizes the destruction through knowledge of all negative forces, wickedness, violence etc.
Happy Deepavali to our readers.
 

The 20th anniversary UNDP report finds long-term progress in health, education not determined by income; introduces new indices for gender, poverty, inequality . This was part of the recent launching of the yearly report which measures development across the globe. Developing nations made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report.