Guyana
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Guyanese named President of US University
ATLANTA, Georgia, CMC – The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has voted unanimously in appointing a Guyanese academic as the ninth president of Fort Valley State University. Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and senior vice president at York College of the City University of New York, will assume his new post on July 22, 2013. University…
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Former Guyana President to lead Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance
LONDON, CMC-Bharrat Jagdeo , the former President of Guyana has been invited to lead a high level team of experts to identify solutions for unlocking resources to enable climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries to combat climate change. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma on Thursday announced that Jagdeo will be joined by eight others to press the international community to help identify practical solutions…
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Guyana benefits from EU sugar grant
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is receiving more than Euro 23 million (One Euro = US$1.29 cents) from the European Union under an initiative that has so far provided nearly Euro 100 million as sector policy budget support. Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and the EU’s Ambassador here, Robert Kopecky signed the financing agreement for the Guyana Annual Action Programme…
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Poverty and the minimum wage
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timetable of the Millennium Development Goals, submitted its report to that body. The 27-member panel—14 women and 13 men—as internationally diverse as possible and jointly chaired…
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CAL’s unfriendly skies
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The news that our Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali is engaging his Trinidadian counterpart about the unilateral, dramatic increase of airfares by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) from Guyana is welcome. Even more welcome would be news that the talks have resulted in the reduction of those fares to more tolerable levels as has prevailed earlier this year.…
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Events in Syria increase global turmoil
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Increasingly intense diplomacy among the Nato powers about the turmoil in Syria has been a feature of the last few weeks leading to this week’s G8 meeting hosted by Britain in Northern Ireland, once a similar scene of political-religious and military turmoil. The European powers have been pressing an apparently reluctant President Obama to join them in…
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Kudos for Guyana from UN systems
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The United Nations system in Guyana Tuesday congratulated Guyana on being among 38 countries that have met internationally-established targets in the fight against hunger ahead of the 2015 deadline. Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among 20 countries which have satisfied the primary target of the UN…
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Pyongyang’s quixotic diplomacy
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided with the toning down of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level” nuclear talks with Washington. Still, the two states on the peninsula remain in a…
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Lessons from Turkey
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – What began on May 28 as a protest against the planned redevelopment of a park in Istanbul, to accommodate the construction of a replica Ottoman-era barracks and a mosque, has snowballed into a national political crisis for Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (known by its Turkish acronym, AKP). But,…
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Food security talks in Guyana
Georgetown—Around 80 participants from the Caribbean, including government, civil society, academia and private sector representatives, will meet in Georgetown June 19-21 to discuss and analyze implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. Participants will explore the potential for implementing the guidelines at the regional…
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