Guyana

  • February 22, 2013
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    T&T looking at rice research and agro-processing in Guyana

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agro-processing and rice production and research are among the options Trinidad and Tobago is pursuing under its mega-farm initiative in Guyana. This is according to Trinidad and Tobago’s minister within the Ministry of Food Production Jairam Seemungal who on Thursday hosted a media briefing with Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy in Georgetown. Seemungal is here for a…

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  • February 21, 2013
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    Dr. Naresh Singh’s CARICOM contract to be scrapped

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Wednesday announced that has rescinded the appointment of Guyanese development specialist, Dr. Naresh Singh as Deputy Secretary General. But Singh maintained that he has done nothing wrong that warranted such a move and he would leave the region to judge whether his failure to obtain clearances for two or three consultancies…

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  • February 19, 2013
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    CARIFORUM pays tribute to former head of regional negotiating machinery

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Ivan Ogando Lora, has paid tribute to the former director-general of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Ambassador Henry S. Gill, who died after a prolong illness in Trinidad and Tobago. “It is fair to say that the CARIFORUM-EU EPA will loom…

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  • February 19, 2013
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    CARICOM maintains independence in external negotiations

    GEORGETOWN—The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be funding all future negotiations itself, according to Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. She recently informed the 65-seat National Assembly, current negotiations between CARICOM and Canada for a Trade and Development Agreement are being funded by the region. Rodrigues-Birkett’s statement came in the form of a written response to a series of questions by…

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  • February 18, 2013
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    President denies Delta pull out due to baggage search of former president

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has dismissed suggestions that the US-based airline, Delta Airlines was forced out of the country because former president Bharrat Jagdeo was subjected to baggage checks by the airline. President Donald Ramotar said that no time did his administration move to have Delta out of Guyana, but rather would like the airline to continue…

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  • February 15, 2013
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    Fly Jamaica asked to meet certain conditions

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana’s Aviation Minister Robeson Benn has called on the management of Fly Jamaica Airline to meet certain conditions before it begins flights out of the country. Benn has asked for the submission of corporate financial information as well as a bond from the airline. “The government of Guyana, like any responsible government and particularly for airlines…

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  • February 15, 2013
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    In pursuit of intellectual respectability

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – An excessive deference to figures in authority and an unhealthy obsession with titles, especially academic ones, are traits not necessarily confined to the Caribbean. German education minister Annette Schavan resigned last week, after Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University found her guilty of plagiarism and stripped her of her doctorate. Ms Schavan maintains that she did no…

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  • February 15, 2013
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    Caribbean countries upset with EU policy

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) parliamentarians have been told they must adopt a strong position at the 9th Regional meeting of the African Caribbean and Pacific –European Union (ACP-EU) Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) against the EU’s approach to differentiation. The meeting, which ends on Saturday, is taking place in the Dominican Republic, A statement from the Economic Partnership…

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  • February 13, 2013
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    CGX announced that it has begun drilling for oil in the Eagle-1 Well in its 100% owned and operated Corentyne Petroleum Prospecting Licence – the same spot it was evicted from by Surinamese gunboats 12 years ago.

    CGX  announced that it has begun drilling for oil in the Eagle-1 Well in its 100% owned and operated Corentyne Petroleum Prospecting Licence – the same spot it was evicted from by Surinamese gunboats 12 years ago. CGX’s rig is the second to be drilling for oil simultaneously offshore Guyana, a first for this country. CGX also has a 25%…

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  • February 13, 2013
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    Oil exploration in Guyana shifts to higher gear: CGX starts drilling Eagle-1 well

    CGX starts drilling Eagle-1 well -same spot it was evicted from in June 2000 By STABROEK NEWS , MONDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2012 CGX  announced that it has begun drilling for oil in the Eagle-1 Well in its 100% owned and operated Corentyne Petroleum Prospecting Licence – the same spot it was evicted from by Surinamese gunboats 12 years ago. CGX’s…

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