Guyana is among four sugar-producing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations that will be the focus of a regional study on the prospects of substituting imported refined sugar with plantation white, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said Tuesday. The Barbados-headquartered financial ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 2, 2019 (IPS) — In most cases of privatization, some outcomes benefit some, which serves to legitimize the change. Nevertheless, overall net welfare improvements are the exception, ...
Fire was Tuesday afternoon raging at the Region 7 bond/garage in Bartica, residents confirmed. Regional Chairman, Gordon Bradford, who was at the scene of the fire at First Avenue, said firefighters were trying desperately to save nearby buildings. A number ...
Opposition-nominated elections commissioner, Robeson Benn has threatened to take Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to court to block the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from conducting house-to-house registration. Through his Attorney-at-law, Anil Nandlall, Benn said house-to-house registration would introduce residency status ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By George Alleyne Caribbean and other African Diaspora people losing confidence in reparatory justice for over three centuries of slavery should take heart from the endurance of enslaved ancestors who persisted through the centuries without ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Tangerine Clarke Vibrant colors of powder decorated the faces and clothing of residents, who celebrated the beginning of spring, and triumph of good over evil, last Sunday, at the 31st Annual Hindu festival of ...
Georgetown, Guyana – (April 2, 2019) – Guyana’s President David Granger on Monday received and accepted the resignation of all coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) who are holders of dual citizenship. The MPs are Guyanese-American Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, ...
Even as six more sickened persons were flown from Guyana’s North West District to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for emergency treatment, the Public Health Ministry Monday night said two of the 13 who have fallen ill so far were ...
Cash-strapped Fly Jamaica, which has shut down operations, did not deposit a US$200,000 bond to refund passengers because it was a scheduled carrier, not a charter service, a top GCAA official said Monday. Director-General of the GCAA, Retired Lt. Col. ...
Cash-strapped Fly Jamaica, which has shut down operations, is yet to inform the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of its decision so that a US$200,000 bond can be used to refund hundreds of passengers for tickets they had purchased, a ...