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(BBC) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he was “optimistic” as talks between the government and the opposition to resolve the country’s political crisis resumed on Monday. The two sides have been engaged in a bitter power struggle since January and preliminary talks held in May in Oslo petered out without an agreement. Mr Maduro said […]
It is not the departure that they might have been preparing for, but on the same day that the Fly Jamaica Chief Executive Officer issued a press statement, announcing that the airline hopes “to restart flight operations in a couple of months”, redundancy letters were issued to all of the airline’s staff members. The letters […]
BBC- Thousands of people have attended a wake for victims of a school shooting near the Brazilian city of São Paulo. Two former pupils, aged 17 and 25, killed eight people on Wednesday, in an attack police say was planned for more than a year. Family members and friends wept over the open coffins of […]
There are widespread protests in Venezuela against the Nicolas Maduro administration and the protesters might now be emboldened by the decision of the US President to announce that the US will not recognize Mr. Maduro as president. US President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s […]
Guyana is among 48 countries that have made improvements towards the realization of a full democracy, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) 2018 Democracy Index. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of The Economist Group and and considers itself the world leader in global business intelligence. The Index ranked […]
On the same day that Nicolas Maduro was sworn in to serve another as President of Venezuela, the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States adopted a resolution to not recognize the legitimacy of Nicolas Maduro’s new term which began yesterday. Guyana was among the 19 OAS members voting in favour of the resolution. […]
(GRENADA) Guyanese national, Darshan Ramdhani, who has served as an Acting Judge in the Caribbean region and is a former Solicitor General of Grenada, has been sworn in as Grenada’s New Attorney General. He is the third person to be appointed to the post since the ruling New National Party won the February 2013 general […]
Retired Guyanese Diplomat, Dr. Odeen Ishmael, CCH, passed away in the United States. He was 70-year-old. He last served as Guyana’s Ambassador to Kuwait, retiring a few years ago. Before becoming a career diplomat, Dr. Ismael served as a teacher and authored several books including the 1989 “Problems of the Transition of Education in the […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge today briefed the National Assembly on Venezuela’s recent incursion into Guyana’s waters to interfere with the work of an ExxonMobil contracted research vessel. In offering details on the interference by the Venezuelan Navy, the Minister explained that an attempt was even made by the Venezuelans to land a helicopter on […]
CARICOM’s Competition Commission has pledged to monitor the developments directly related to Scotiabank’s exit from Guyana and eight other Caribbean countries. The Bank’s headquarters in Toronto announced late last month that it will be selling out its banking operations, in the nine Caribbean countries, to Republic Holdings Limited, which owns Republic Bank. The countries where […]
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