Guyana

  • 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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  • February 13, 2013
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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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  • February 12, 2013
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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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  • February 8, 2013
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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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  • February 7, 2013
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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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  • February 7, 2013
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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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  • February 4, 2013
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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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