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GREEN GALA AWARDS PHOTOS

Honoring Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, US Senator from NY Kirsten Gillibrand & Dr. Frank Douglas, MD & CEO/President of Auesten BioInnovation INSTITUTE -http://gabpc.org/index.php

 

RACE for jobs at Aqueduct

GABPC ON NY 1 http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/ny1_living/employment/

 

June 24 2010 GREEN GALA- Marriott LGA Hotel, NY

3rd Annual Business Awards Dinner Gala held under a green them to promote climate change and global warming and honor 3 outstanding individuals.

 

IDB launches online climate change consultation forum

 

Consumer Confidence up in April From Year-Low

NEW YORK U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in April after hitting in March its lowest level in a year, boosted by stock market gains and modest job market improvement, a research group said on Tuesday.

 

Queens Borough President welcomes graduate students from Guyana

On Friday evening, March 12, Hon. Helen M. Marshall, Queens Borough President welcomed seven Guyanese graduate students at Borough Hall at a reception organized by (

 

New “Brain Gain” Master’s Program in Sustainable Development Targets Guyana

MARCH 12TH - Queens Borough President and GABPC to host students at community networking & reception event March 12 from 5:00-8:30pm at Queens Boro Hall. Call 347-612-6216 - Must RSVP to attend this event.

 

UN report on Haiti-Guyana emerged at top

Guyana emerged as the top country in terms of donations against its GDP, which is just over one billion dollars per year. About .088 percent of Guyana’s GDP has been donated to Haiti in the form of government aid and personal contributions by the Guyanese people, a U.N. graph tracking donations showed.

 

HEALTH PLUS implements paperless applications: uninsured New Yorkers access healthcare coverage faster

Managed care organization Health Plus announced the success of its implementation of FEEA™ – the Facilitated Enrollment Electronic Application process

 

Guyana Offers a Model to Save Rain Forest

Guyana Offers a Model to Save Rain Forest By ERICA GIES- NY Times Published: December 8, 2009 In Guyana, where pristine rain forest still covers 75 percent of the land, and barely 750,000 people live in a country roughly the size of Britain, a young economist-turned-

 

GABPC opens 2nd location on Jamaica Avenue

At a festive ribbon cutting ceremony, the evening before Halloween, the Guyanese and American Business and Professional Council (GABPC) and ENA’s Driving School teamed up to open new business services for the Queens and New York businesses and families.

 

Sarkozy hails US, Chinese climate proposals

MANAUS, Brazil — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging."

 

Norway offers Guyana up to $250mln to save forests

"We are committed to contributing 30 million dollars to support the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund in 2010. Provided that the expected results are achieved and that other elements of the partnership fall into place, our support for the years up to 2015 could add up to as much as USD 250 million," Solheim said.

 

GABPC executives teamed up with its members for cancer cure

The wet weather did not deter the members of the Guyanese and American Business and Professional Council (GABPC) team who joined more than a thousand marchers along Queens Boulevard in support of a cure for breast cancer.

 

Brazil and Guyana open border bridge, looking to boost trade between Caribbean, South America

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo officially inaugurated the Brazilian-financed $5 million Takutu River Bridge in the Brazilian town of Bon Fin.

 

Fostering Closer Ties

Guy-American group to foster closer ties here

 

GABPC’s launching impresses leading New York businesses.

Business relations between the Guyana and the New York fraternity have been given a shot in the arm with the launching of the Guyana- American Business & Professional Council . A host of movers and shakers within the New York business fraternity showed up at the Crown Plaza Hotel, La Guardia recently and were treated to an impressive dinner/awards function that was an education on Guyana for many leaders of business within the core of the immigrant communities in New York.

 

Now Open For Business

The Guyanese American Business & Professional Council

 

CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS

Forming Global Community Alliances — Guyanese-American Business and Professional Council Launched