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Inaugural Parade will Include Peace Corps Community

We're Marching! RPCVs to Take Part in the Inaugural Parade Now is your chance to be a part of history! The Returned Peace Corps Community has ...

‘Forum for Men’ held in observation of “National Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women”

(via stabroeknews.com/news) Participants at a ‘Forum for Men’ last Thursday were urged to aggressively pursue initiatives that will stamp out gender-based violence in the Guyanese society. Permanent ...

5,000 Guyanese receiving free treatment for HIV and AIDS

(via bbc.co.uk) I first met Otisha, a tall Afro-Guyanese transvestite prostitute in 2003 when I reported on HIV and Aids in Guyana and Barbados. Otisha says Aids ...

December 1st is World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day (December 1st) is marked as a day in which people and organizations from around the world share information about and bring attention ...

First aid training should not be negelected

(via stabroeknews.com) Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday said the force is ensuring that traffic police, usually the first responders to road accidents, receive first aid ...

Certain spices found in curries have positive effects on mice with diabetes

(via boingboing.net) "It's too early to tell whether increasing dietary curcumin [through turmeric] intake in obese people with diabetes will show a similar benefit," Dr. Tortoriello ...

Peter Moore update

(via cnn.com) A video has been release asking for an exchange of the five Britons taken hostage back in May with Iraqi prisoners. "The PM has ...

Time’s Top 10 Scientific Discoveries

Suriname is on the list. (via time.com) #4  Among the hundreds of new life forms and animal species discovered this year, scientists have been able to identify 24 ...

81 year old Peace Corps volunteer finishes her 3rd tour

After leaving Peace Corps I thought that maybe I'd like to serve again, when I retire or when I'm at a transition point in my ...

You should have been at Coachella

I'd be a happy man if FROG had the resources and the time to attend each one of these events. Running down the list, ...