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CARICOM countries will be using the upcoming Guyana Agri- Investment Forum as a springboard to help stimulate the high food prices in the region as well as to seek out investment, according to Agriculture Ministrer, Zulfikar Mustapha. CARICOM members are seeking to reduce the region’s US$5 Billion food import bill by 25% by 2025. At […]
On the heels of a decision by the United Nations (UN) Security Council to send a Kenyan-led multinational security force to Haiti to restore peace and order, the Haiti Support Group here in Guyana mounted a protest outside of the CARICOM Headquarters, calling on the regional body not to support an international security force moving […]
The Executive Director of the Regional Security System (RSS), Commodore Errington Shurland of Barbados believes that while amendments to Guyana’s Anti-Money Laundering Laws are crucial, enforcement is equally important as the country undergoes its Fourth Round of Mutual Evaluation by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). Speaking virtually during the opening ceremony of a […]
The Government of Guyana today observed the 124th anniversary of the 1899 Arbitral Award which settled the border dispute between Venezuela and the then British Guiana. The Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said while Guyana still accepts and celebrates the Arbitral Award as stipulated by the Treaty, Venezuela, just after Guyana’s independence, […]
Guyana has been leading the ambitious CARICOM programme to reduce the region’s food import bill by 25% by the year 2025. According to Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, significant progress has already been made in reaching the regional goal. CARICOM’s annual food import bill stands at around US$5 Billion. In a statement to mark […]
Former Executive Member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Dr. Richard Van West Charles is to be appointed as Guyana’s new Ambassador to Venezuela, according to senior Government officials. Dr. Van West Charles, who is married to the daughter of late Guyanese President Forbes Burnham, was offered the job directly by President Irfaan Ali and […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is supporting the Guyana Rice Development Board’s efforts to advance technology in the rice industry. A new project using drones to assist small farmers with their rice farming and monitoring has been launched. The project forms part of China South-South Cooperation Programme. The project commenced with […]
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon, President Irfaan Ali zeroed in on the latest threats and territorial claims from neigbouring Venezuela. He said the Bolivarian Republic must desist from threatening Guyana. The President said though the threats have persisted for several decades, they have intensified in recent times. President Ali […]
Hours after Venezuela raised an objection to Guyana’s auctioning of new oil blocks on Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Luis Almargo, decried what he described as the “intimidatory tactics” by Venezuela, and said Guyana must preserve its territorial integrity. “We vehemently decry imtimidatory tactics that seek to undermine the […]
The Government of Guyana has informed the international community of Venezuela’s latest statement claiming Guyana’s territory, describing the statements as a threat not only to Guyana, but also to regional and international peace and security. Venezuela has rejected Guyana’s move to auction off additional oil blocks which are located in Guyana’s own exclusive economic zone. […]
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