Guyana
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Reciprocity
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became the first head of state ever to postpone a state visit to the United States of America. Given that state visits are the highest form of diplomatic contact between two nations and Washington usually reserves them for its closest strategic partners, Ms Rousseff’s decision could only be interpreted as a…
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Guyana looking to Asia to boost gold sales
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is seeking to export gold to markets in India and China as the country recorded an estimated 353,000 ounces of the commodity so far this year. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud said that the gold produced so far this year, compares favourably with the 313,000 ounces produced for the same period last year.…
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Guyana warns of failure in achieving Millennium Development Goals
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Guyana on Thursday joined Antigua and Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago in warning that several countries, including some in the Caribbean, are likely to fail in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addressing the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly Debate, President Donald R. Ramotar said while a review has revealed that…
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Guyanese attorney declines post of DPP citing internet attack on integrity
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Guyanese-born attorney Kurt De Freitas, who was due to take up the post of Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) here next month, is no longer accepting the post, Attorney General Levi Peter announced Wednesday. Peter told a news conference that he had received a letter from De Freitas citing unsubstantiated statements about him on the internet…
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Orange day
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, UNiTE, the UN Secretary General’s campaign to end violence against women proclaimed that the twenty-fifth day of every month would be dubbed Orange Day and it would be used to bring attention to preventing and ending what has been dubbed ‘the Global scourge’ ‒ violence against women and girls. The UNiTE campaign…
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Westgate Mall
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – It is the attack by al-Shabab militants on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which has been dominating the foreign news reports since Saturday. At the time of writing, President Uhuru Kenyatta had just announced that the siege was over and the security forces were ‘mopping-up.’ The full body count is still not known, because three floors…
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Guyana condemns attack terrorist attack in Kenya
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has condemned the terrorist attack on Narobi's Westgate Shopping Mall over the last weekend that left more than 60 people dead including a Trinidad and Tobago national. “The Government of Guyana unequivocally condemns this atrocious terrorist act and will continue to support the initiatives of the international community to combat terrorism in all its forms…
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EU use of per capita income in determining eligibility for aid is misguided-LaRocque
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – SECRETARY General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Mr. Irwin LaRocque feels that new European Union (EU) external aid policies of using per capita income to determine ACP countries eligibility for development assistance is misguided. Even as he expressed CARIFORUM”s deep appreciation for the support of the…
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Statement by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the occasion of Caribbean Wellness Day, 14 September 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Six years after the historic signing by Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) of the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration ‘Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs’, the people of the Region are once again invited to join the Wellness Revolution as we observe Caribbean Wellness Day 2013. The Declaration is the outcome of…
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Kenya votes to quit global court, days before deputy president’s trial
AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s parliament voted yesterday to quit the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but the Hague-based tribunal said it would press ahead anyway with the trials of the country’s president and his deputy. Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are accused of orchestrating violence after elections in 2007. About 1,200 people were killed in ethnic blood-letting that plunged…
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