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CARICOM set to establish single ICT space

(CARICOM)    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will focus over the next two years on unveiling the Single Information Communication Technology ICT Space as the digital layer of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government, Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, […]

GECOM picks Keith Lowenfield as new CEO

The Guyana Elections Commission has chosen its Deputy Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to take over the position of Chief Elections Officer. GECOM’s decision came on Wednesday afternoon, just one day after the Commission wrapped up interviews with the final four candidates. The Opposition coalition group A Partnership for National Unity was the first political […]

GRA goes plastic with new driver’s license

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has launched the pilot of its on-line tax payment system and its Automated Driver’s Licence Card at a press conference held at its headquarters, Camp Street, Georgetown. Officials of the GRA explained that the technological move is with the intention to avoid the upcoming congestion which is expected with the […]

CARICOM defends Guyanese Law students in admittance row

There appears to be a resolution towards the issue of accommodating Guyanese law students at the Hugh Wooding Law Faculty for the upcoming academic year, Legal Affairs Minister and Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall said today. The AG was part of the Guyana delegation participating in the 25th Inter-Sessional CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St […]

Guyanese man busted in Jamaica with cocaine

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on February 27 and March 3. Forty-eight-year-old Gilbert Cousins of Hamstead in St Catherine was arrested on February 27 after he attempted to leave the Norman Manley International […]

Guyanese granny goes missing in Queens, NY

Relatives of a 62-year-old Guyanese woman are keeping their fingers crossed and are praying for her safe return after the woman went missing last Wednesday, March 5th in Queens, New York. Her name is Shirley Caesar and she was last seen leaving her Brooklyn apartment to visit a bank in the Queens area to transact […]

16-year-old killed in West Bank accident

The Guyana Police Force announced on Tuesday morning that it had launched an investigation into a fatal accident that occurred at about 4 o’ clock on Tuesday morning  on the Goed Fortuin Public Road, West Bank Demerara. 16-year-old Jomal Archer of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara was killed in the accident and at least three other […]

Three Air traffic controllers sent on leave pending CJIA investigation

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority has indicated that three persons attached to the Air Traffic Control department at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport have been sent on leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the Saturday morning incident at the airport when an air traffic controller left the post unmanned even as a Caribbean […]

Security is key to CARICOM’s development -T&T PM

(CARICOM)   Immediate Past Chair of the Caribbean Community, the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday underscored the critical importance of deepened integration and security to the sustainable development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In her address to the opening session of the 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, underway in […]