Guyana
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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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Hillary Clinton moves on
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – It is something of a truism of United States politics that a president makes his own foreign policy. Yet instances arise that project American secretaries of state into a position of obvious influence that induce the citizens of that country, as well as of other countries, to make a distinction between the thinking of the…
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CARIBBEAN-SLAVERY-UWI principal wants CARICOM to seek reparation for slavery
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles, wants Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to begin efforts aimed at seeking some form of reparation from Western countries for slavery. Speaking at the first of a series of lectures to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the 1763 Berbice Slave…
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A dysfunctional image
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – Obviously, when we focused, in last Friday’s editorial, on PJ Patterson’s cry from the heart and forthright warning about the perils of neglecting Caricom, we thought that his argument was well reasoned and very persuasive. We still do. He and we may, however, have missed a most important point. In identifying Caricom’s principal defects, viz,…
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Amazon forest more resilient to climate change than feared-study
OSLO, (Reuters) – The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertiliser, a study showed yesterday. The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects of…
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Jamaica gets the nod to train aviation professionals
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – Jamaica has been given the green light to train aviation professionals for the global markets, which will need 350,000 pilots and 480,000 mechanics by 2026. The country officially received its ‘Trainair Plus’ full membership from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) during a joint Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCCA) regional symposium at the Hilton Rose…
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Tourism on the move
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has reported a 12.6 % increase in its annual visitor arrivals over 2011, effectively placing the country ahead of other countries within the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO). This is heartening news, particularly in light of the difficult global financial situation. According to the Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, Mr. Indranauth…
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Barbados and Grenada govts battling to avoid one-term:—new problems for St Kitts PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – FINALLY, after keeping his political opponents and supporters guessing for at least the past three months, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, has announced February 21 as the date when Barbadians will trek to polling stations to elect a new government for the next five years. The long delay in announcing E-day had itself become…
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Guyana will not get involved in Cuba’s internal Affairs-Ms Rodrigues-Birkett
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – THE United States is calling on Caribbean countries to advise Cuba to address issues of democracy and human rights, but Guyana has opted to not get involved in the internal affairs of that country. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett told a press conference on Friday that there is an understanding in the diplomatic world…
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America’s invincible gun lobby
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – The hue and cry that has greeted President Obama’s proposals to impose commonsense limits on his country’s multi-billion dollar firearms industry is a reminder of how entrenched the gun lobby has become in American politics. To foreign eyes the President’s 23 executive actions − based on proposals from Vice-President Biden’s task force − barely scratch…
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