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Guyanese employee at JFK airport nabbed for stealing US troops' items

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STORY AND PHOTO

A  sticky-fingered airport employee with a stone-cold heart was collared for snatching pricey items from packages meant for U.S. troops overseas, officials said.

Guyana, UNDP partnering on youth leadership programme

Local Gov't Minister Ganga Persaud and UNDP Resident Rep. Khadija Musa sign the project documents for the Guyana Youth Empowerment, Inclusion and Reconciliation Project.

The Guyana government and the UNDP have launched a two-year, US$150,000 project which will see some 30 potential youth leaders being trained to boost youth involvement in governance and community development.

The agreement was signed on Friday by Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud and UNDP Resident Representative Khadija Musa at the ministry’s boardroom. That ministry will be the implementing agency of the project.

University of Guyana students participating in global leadership programme

This past month One World Youth Project (OWYP), an international education non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., is training university students in Georgetown and in the U.S., Turkey, Kosovo, and Pakistan to facilitate global education and local leadership in secondary school classrooms, the organisation said in a statement.