GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opened in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday against the backdrop of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Grand Anse Declaration, signed in July 1989, in Grand Anse, Grenada. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- One day before the official opening of the 30th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting, Caribbean leaders who are already in Guyana joined President Bharrat Jagdeo for the 20th meeting of the Prime Ministerial sub-committee on external trade negotiations. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s emerging aquaculture sector is receiving expert international technical assistance that will help increase international exports of farm-raised tilapia, like the 2,200 pounds that were recently shipped from Berbice. The National Aquaculture Association of Guyana... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrived in Guyana on Wednesday on a four-day official visit and is set to hold discussions with the government of Guyana, other senior officials and also attend the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The World Bank has approved readiness plans for Guyana and Panama at the third meeting of the Participants Committee (PC) of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) held in Montreaux, Switzerland from June 15 to 18, despite protests from civil society. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The ten Guyanese children, who underwent cardiac surgery at a private hospital in India, have been allowed to return home after the NGO KidsFirst Fund agreed to pay up over a six-month period. Early this month, the children were taken to the hospital, which specializes in cardiac surgery. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- At the United Nations (UN) Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development in New York recently, Guyana's  Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, urged changes to the global financial and economic infrastructure. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have joined in the global condemnation of the military coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office on Sunday. The Guyana government called for early reinstatement to office of the Honduran President. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo wants a clear cut decision on the controversies surrounding the free movement of skills in the region when the matter comes up for discussion Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Heads of Government Conference which opens here on Thursday. read more...

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Why are so many concerned about Barbados making the decision to expel some undesirables from Guyana? It's a dangerous thing now taking place in all the Caribbean countries as they are flooding each and every Island, and the majority are not looking at it. From Guyana comes those prejudiced Indians. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Cleveland Forde dominated the fifth edition of the Annual CARICOM 10K Road Race here on Sunday. Forde, who beat the reigning champion St Vincent and the Grenadine’s Pamenos Ballentyne into second place, finished the race in a time of 32. mins. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have a considerable repository of experience and expertise, even if they have thus far not been mobilized to give early warnings of weaknesses and help avoid systemic crises. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, the incoming chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed a strong desire that a unanimous position on the financial sector would result from the 30th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting to be held here from July 2-5. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday the financial crisis triggered by bad corporate governance in the United States is more than lesson enough for the corporate sector in Guyana to be put under closer examination. He disclosed that already the National Competitiveness Council... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Region’s Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) are devising a Port Health protocol for the Influenza A H1N1 virus which will be presented to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government at their Thirtieth Meeting scheduled for 2-5 July in Guyana. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry will continue to convey government’s reservations to Barbadian authorities on the reports of Guyanese being ill-treated by its authorities. The government of Guyana is urging Guyanese who have experienced this manner of treatment to make a report. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The government of Guyana is questioning the “exorbitant” airfares charged by regional carrier Caribbean Airlines for flights out of Guyana as against other CARICOM countries. Government’s spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon told reporters on Wednesday... read more...

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

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The capital of Georgetown will be a hive of activity as three major regional meetings are planned for Guyana over the next four weeks starting on June 25 with the 18th Meeting of the Council of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA). read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the second phase of a US$27.2 million Low Income Housing Settlement project (LISP). The IDB funded project, which was launched on Monday here, will see development of some 4, 900 low income house lots. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh has announced an increase in the ceiling on loans granted by approved mortgage finance companies for the purposes of low income housing in Guyana. Singh indicated on Sunday that the newly approved ceiling was $3 million, a 50 percent increase. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Some of the leading businesses in Guyana have thrown their full support behind the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Annual 10K Road Race set to take place in Guyana on 28 June 2009. First Caribbean International Bank (FCIB), has decided to be a major sponsor for this year’s run. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet is yet to be convinced by the recent report by the United States State Department on Trafficking in Persons which again places Guyana at tier 2. The report stated the government has not yet punished any trafficking offenders. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, has lashed out at the United States of America’s rating of Guyana for its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report by the US State Department which places Guyana on Tier 2 watch list. read more...

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NASSAU, Bahamas -- The Guyanese government is stepping aside to allow the sale of CLICO land assets in that country, what it sees as necessary to ensuring policyholders and investors get some of their money back regardless of what's recovered from the Bahamian liquidation. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- At a media interaction session at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, on June 12, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo stated there will be vigorous debates on any delays in the regional integration process, and any such delay must be warranted. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- At an interactive media session held at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen on June 12, President Bharrat Jagdeo stressed that he will not permit Guyanese to be unfairly treated anywhere. He was, at the time, responding to concerns raised about the treatment of Guyanese nationals. read more...

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The participation of Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) 36 Foreign Minister’s meeting in Damascus, Syria on May 25 did not make news in Guyana. The local media led by Guyana News Agency (GINA) decided that this was not worthy news. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guana -- Incoming chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo updating the local media on Friday regarding plans for the CARICOM heads of government conference to be held here from July 2 to 5 said the global economic crisis, climate change and... read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- The international community has shown keen interest in Guyana’s efforts to combat climate change which is encompassed in the draft Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). President Bharrat Jagdeo highlighted the international partners who have shown their support. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Subsequent to a commitment made by President Bharrat Jagdeo during CARIFESTA X last August, the first publishing house in the Caribbean is now being established in Guyana. The president has allocated US$100,000 annually towards the execution of the project. read more...

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Three countries of the Caribbean: Guyana, Haiti and St Vincent and the Grenadines share a common social thread of desperation that binds them together. Their citizens are leaving en masse to find better pastures abroad and their governments are blaming everybody and their fathers for this but themselves. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Ministry of Health is taking further protective measure to minimize the possibility of an outbreak of the influenza virus H1N1 here. Health minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said his ministry has for some time responded as if the country was in a Level 6 situation. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's Commissioner of Insurance, Maria van Beek, wants CLICO (Guyana) to be liquidated by the High Court. The Stabroek News reported that van Beek in her capacity as Judicial Manager of CLICO in an affidavit filed in the court requested a winding up order. read more...

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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles, 2008 Beijing Olympic champion and world record holder (12.87 sec), raced to victory at the Thessaloniki 2009 track meet on Wednesday. Robles, 22, is coming back from a thigh injury that kept him off of the tracks since last year. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The government of Guyana says the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) monopoly on the telecommunication sectors has stymied the contribution it can make to the national economy, breaking the almost two decades of domination GT&T has on the local sector. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana’s Health minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has broken his silence on calls for his resignation, noting that he was not involved in any criminal activity and he will resign only if asked to so do. Ramsammy said, “ I have largely remained silent on the campaign to besmirch my name." read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Ministry of Health here has intensified its surveillance for influenza-like cases in an effort to ensure early diagnosis of the H1N1 virus in Guyana. Health minister Leslie Ramsammy said the exercise has detected two cases, which were determined to be related to travel experiences. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Fifth Staging of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 10K Road Race was launched in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday, June 5, 2009. This event will be used as a platform to promote activities which could bolster health and wellness among CARICOM nationals. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- President Jagdeo said reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ( REDD) – the mechanism under which deforestation is treated with – is being dragged down by minutiae and the latest instance of this was at the climate change talks in Bonn Germany last week. read more...

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