The Ministry of Education has been looking at ways to assist children with disabilities in order that they benefit from the same opportunities as others and to this end, 26 teachers are being trained in the art of sign language. “We have children who are deaf and because of it they will not be able to cope with mainstream understanding so we need to train specialists so that we can have classes within the regular school system to look after children with disability,” Minister in the Ministry of Education Dr. Desrey Fox said.
The Ministry in collaboration with the Guyana Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (GCBRP) is executing the “Train the Sign Language Trainer Initiative – Advancing Deaf Education.” It was launched last month at the St. Stanislaus College, Brickdam and is expected to last for 18 months.
The teachers are being trained in three key areas: sign language, methodology and skills implementation. The first phase, sign language has two modules, ‘Foundation’ and ‘Advanced’ each of which consists of 20 two-hour sessions are be held after school hours. Read the full story

India have included uncapped players Rohit Sharma and Pragyan Ojha in the 16-member squad for the three-Test series in Sri Lanka. Yuvraj Singh has been left out, while Gautam Gambhir wins the opener’s slot ahead of Wasim Jaffer. Zaheer Khan also returns to the team after injury niggles ruled him out of international action so far this year. With Mahendra Singh Dhoni opting out, the selectors have named two wicketkeepers Read the full story

After 19 consecutive fixtures against the lowly New Zealanders, the tempo is about to be cranked up several notches. England and South Africa are among the most consistently thrilling opponents in the modern Test arena - two elite nations that have scrapped themselves to a standstill over the course of six series since South Africa’s readmission in 1994. Invariably, the jousts in that time have centred around the pace bowlers on each side - from Devon Malcolm in 1994 to Allan Donald in 1998, Makhaya Ntini in 2003 and England’s Ashes-winning quartet 18 months later. That pattern seems set to continue this summer, as Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel join Ntini in a formidable South African line-up that is already inviting lofty comparisons with the West Indian attacks of the 1980s.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty had to do a lot of travelling lately and she discovered that it wasn’t that easy. Last week, Shilpa flew from Goa to London and back in 28 hours after being awarded Britain’s Global Cultural Diversity Award. “I’ve been shooting in Goa non-stop for ‘The Man’ with Sunny (Deol). The only reason I was given a day off was because the Global Cultural Diversity Award was really prestigious,” Shilpa told IANS. Read the full story

Q: How much of the good fats do I need each day?

A: That’s open to debate, but the Institute of Medicine says 1.1 grams (1,100 milligrams) a day is enough for women. You may need a combination of foods and supplements to reach that level. Studies indicate more is probably better. Read the full story

Ecuador’s government has seized two private TV stations in a long-running dispute over debts.

Backed by police, officials raided the TV channels in Quito and Guayaquil, and another 193 companies in the same business group were also seized. The dispute is linked to the collapse of banks in the late 1990s and the state’s efforts to recover money. The stations’ owners said the Read the full story

You know the drill: The breast self-exam (BSE) illustrations on those pamphlets usually show a woman with one arm up over her head, pushing the fingers of her other hand across her breast—in search of a lump or some other sort of change. Your ob-gyn may have talked to you about doing this every month at home, ideally at a time when your breasts don’t feel tender or swollen. Read the full story

My daughter, Veronica, is 6. She loves to dance, is a budding gymnast, and hates that she’s the tiniest girl in her class. She also has high cholesterol. A recent test found that her total cholesterol rivals that of a 50-year-old man’s—206 mg/dl. Apparently, she’s not alone. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is so concerned about high cholesterol in kids that they issued new guidelines on Monday—the first in more than a decade on kids and cholesterol. Read the full story

When someone comes to me wanting advice on how to lose weight, one of the first things I tell them is to write down everything they eat and drink for three consecutive weekdays and one day on the weekend. New research supports what I’ve seen hold true in client after client: Food journals can accelerate weight loss. Read the full story

More evidence is emerging that babies conceived in test tubes might be just as healthy as those conceived naturally, researchers said Tuesday. Two studies presented at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology found that in-vitro fertilization and the freezing of embryos did not significantly increase the babies’ chances of medical problems. Read the full story