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JULY 2013
Inside this Month MoneyGram Cricket! - Page 31
Leading Light - Page 3
Ramadan - Page 4
Katie Price launches new fragrance - Page 13
Guyana gets FAO award for halving hunger
G
uyana was among 18 countries that received a global award for fighting hunger in keeping with international benchmarks set by United Nations (UN) organisations. Receiving the award in Rome, Italy was Prime Minister Samuel Hinds who attended a Special high level ceremony at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN. He was accompanied by Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. The award was for attaining the targets set by both Millennium Development Goal Number 1 and the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit of halving the absolute number of hungry people by 2015. The Achievement Award, presented to Prime Minister Hinds by the Director General of the FAO Dr Jose Graziano da Silva, states that “based on FAO estimates, the Republic of
Guyana achieved by year end 2012, three years in advance, the target set by the 1996 World Food Summit to reduce by 2015 at least half the number of people in the country suffering from undernourishment. Addressing the Special Award Event of the 38th Session of the FAO Conference, Prime Minister Hinds hailed the contributions of women in combating hunger and ensuring food security. “Of course, the women who are among our farming communities will immediately come to mind. Praise for their production and marketing of farm produce is well known, greatly admired and deserving of outstanding recognition. The women farmers of Guyana who produce vegetables, herbs and spices, root crops, whether on small plots, in kitchen gardens or as workers on estates are well known to be hard-working and very skilled,” he said.
Gospel Singing for a healthy heart
T
he British Heart Foundation is launching its first gospel choir in a bid to help people from African Caribbean communities reduce their risk of developing heart disease
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or having a stroke. The choir will use its performances to help people understand that simple lifestyle changes that can reduce their risk of heart disease, such as being more active and having a better diet.
African Caribbean men and women are twice as likely to have a stroke as people of European origin.
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