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Calls the Walk a “Smoke Screen” GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo Wednesday blanked an invitation from the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA) to participate in an anti-corruption awareness campaign. Instead, Jagdeo is calling on SARA to take action against serving members of the current David Granger government rather than his participation in the “Corruption is Everybody’s Business” campaign and...
Following High Court Ruling on Same Sex Laws PORT OF SPAIN, CMC – President Paula-Mae Weekes has warned Trinidad and Tobago nationals that they must be careful not to “damage the national psyche by inadvertently inciting victimisation, bigotry and violence” as the public debate continues following last week’s ruling by the High Court that the country’s buggery laws are “unconstitutional”. In...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana recorded a 2.1 per cent economic growth last year but Finance Minister Winston Jordan has expressed a slight disappointment in the figures. “The outturn had been a deficit in GDP (gross domestic product) that was slightly smaller than projected… in any scenario it is good news,” Jordan told reporters Friday. Guyana’s economy is nonetheless targeted to grow...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) says it will stop issuing one cent coins as legal tender here in July and hopes to save significant amount of money as a result of the move. The CBTT said that the cost of minting “is about 21 cents for each one cent coin”. “At present, the...
Rowley, Modi Meet at Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in London LONDON – The government of India has expressed an interest in partnering with Trinidad and Tobago in several areas such as medical training, air transportation and aviation. This was revealed during bilateral talks on Thursday between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. During the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Security officials are in the process of investigating reports that a Trinidadian woman has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. The report first surfaced on the news agency Arab News under the headline “Foreign women sentenced to life in prison for joining IS (Islamic State)”. The name of the woman has not been released. According media...
In Fit of Rage Over School Work PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Education Minister Anthony Garcia said that the necessary resources and experts from the Student Support Services Division of the Ministry of Education will be sent to a secondary school, after a student is reported to have severely injured his mother in a fit of rage over school work...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government has dismissed moves by the main opposition people’s Progressive Party (PPP) to file private criminal charges against two sitting members of Cabinet. The charges were filed against Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence and her predecessor, Dr. George Norton in relation to a GUY$605 million drug purchase and the rental of the Sussex Street Pharmaceutical...
On the Same Grounds That Singh and Brassington Were Recently Charged GUYANA (NEWS SOURCE, GUYANA) -- PPP Member of Parliament and former Attorney General Anil Nandlall, on Friday filed charges of misconduct in public office against Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence and Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton, who is also the former Minister of Public Health. The private...
WASHINGTON (CMC) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says Caribbean nationals will be among more than 70 million people who will be vaccinated against a variety of dangerous preventable diseases later this week. PAHO said that initiative will form part of the activities marking the 16th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas that will be celebrated from April 21-28...
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