Guyana News

An appeal to the Caricom Heads of Government to "rekindle hope" among Guyanese citizens was made yesterday via a full-page advertisement in the local newspapers placed by four political parties and a trade union body.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: Guyana's President, Bharrat Jagdeo, in his address to the 30th Meeting of Caricom Heads of Government, which began in Guyana yesterday, appealed for the human rights of Guyanese to be respected by Barbadian Immigration authorities.

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Friday, 3 July 2009, 4:45 pm Press Release: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the collaboration between the United Nations and the countries of the Caribbean in tackling the various crises impacting the region and the world at large, including the global financial turmoil and climate change.

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Once I get the tape and study it, I shall write something about what, from excerpts in the media, appears to have been a most remarkable address by the Political Leader of the PNM to a Special Convention of his party on June 21.

Regular Journalism.co.uk contributor John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University and the inventor of the Coventry Conversations , now on iTunes U . He was born in Guyana and returns there regularly to observe and advise the local media.

And he estimated that between eight and ten percent of the national health care budget is spent on accident victims and treating injuries caused by persons who are hooked on some form of substance.

The treatment of Guyanese immigrants in other countries continues to be of great concern to President Bharrat Jagdeo and he is urging that they be treated with a oerespecta and a oedignitya wherever they go.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- In order for Guyana to participate effectively in the international trade arena, the World Customs Organisation has required that the country become an active participant in two international instruments, the Revised Kyoto Convention and the Safe Framework of Standards .

Mr. Eton Chester, Managing Director of Citizens Bank Guyana announced that his bank has taken the important step of becoming a SWIFT member to establish its own international wire transfer operation.

A significant change from the traditional format on the first day of a regular annual Heads of Government Conference of the Caribbean Community is expected for the 30th such event in Georgetown, Guyana, on July 2. GONSALVES... warned against hostile acts that could tear apart the regional integration movement According to Caricom Secretariat ...

Tyrone Talbot and another suspect in the New Amsterdam double murder had their names cleared on Wednesday after police received results from blood samples they had sent for testing in Georgetown.

Guyana is still waiting for the large investment dollars in agriculture, as it takes steps to become a key producer in the regiona s multi-billion dollar food industry.

Even as reports increase about Guyanese being sent home from Barbados as part of that islanda s efforts to clamp down on undocumented Caricom nationals, there has been no report of a oeearth shatteringa numbers returning home.

Chief Justice Ian Chang has set July 28 for hearing in the Alliance For Change election petition case even as the Guyana Elections Commission stands unrepresented in the matter.

The Guyanese man who was asleep when Barbadian immigration authorities knocked on his door on Friday last is back in Guyana and says he has "no regrets", and he is already working on a business investment.

Two of the three men implicated in the murders of Romeo De Agrella and his son Clint De Agrella yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Court.

Despite acknowledgement by the authorities that drug lords and gangs operate in Guyana, there has never been a single local arrest and prosecution of a major figure in drug trafficking here, though there have been three guilty pleas to this crime in the US and six convictions in Barbados recently.

Although that might evoke quite a nice laugh, it is neither as laughable, as farfetched or as unlikely as it sounds.A Although the curtains descended on the grand event in Guyana at Providence on August 31, 2008, Carifesta has not gone away.A If not so much in the news, the subject is certainly very much back in live circulation and is certainly ...