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City residents to benefit from energy saving initiative

 

GINA May 17, 2006

Residents of Georgetown are scheduled to benefit from government’s energy saving initiative within a week, following its successful completion in several other areas around the country.

The project which began in March, facilitates the free exchange of high-energy consuming incandescent bulbs for low-energy compact-fluorescent lamps and is currently being executed by a team of Cuban technicians in collaboration with the local executing agency Guyana Power & Light (GPL).

It has been successfully completed in Linden, Ituni, Kwakwani, and Mapletown, Region Ten; Bartica, Region Seven and several coastal areas and islands in Region Three.

The project is being rapidly …


Plastic driver’s licence being mulled - National Road Safety Council relaunched

Stabroek News-May 14th 2006

A plastic driver’s licence and a test for provisional drivers were among the measures mentioned yesterday to improve road safety, as the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) was re-established.



Traffic Chief, Roland Alleyne (right) and Minister of Home Affairs, Gail Teixeira, before the launch to re-establish the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) yesterday. (Photo by Ken Moore)
A 21-member interim executive committee was constituted yesterday at a ceremony at the Umana Yana amidst concern about traffic management. It was noted that someone walking on the road was just as likely to be killed …


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