GEORGETOWN, Guyana – SECRETARY General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Mr. Irwin LaRocque feels that new European Union (EU) external aid policies of using per capita income to determine ACP countries eligibility for development assistance is misguided.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Six years after the historic signing by Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) of the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration ‘Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs’, the people of the Region are once again invited to join the Wellness Revolution as we observe Caribbean Wellness Day 2013.
AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s parliament voted yesterday to quit the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but the Hague-based tribunal said it would press ahead anyway with the trials of the country’s president and his deputy.
Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are accused of orchestrating violence after elections in 2007. About 1,200 people were killed in ethnic blood-letting that plunged east Africa’s biggest economy into crisis.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana and Suriname will begin high level security talks on Friday.
The two-day meeting is being is being held under the Presidential Engagement Initiative, the brainchild of former Guyana president Bharrat Jagdeo and Surinamese Head of State, Desi Bouterse. The last meeting of this nature was held in 2011.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Students from the L’Aventure Secondary School in West Bank Demerara are being relocated following a fire on Wednesday morning.
At least 700 students have been displaced as a result of the blaze that destroyed the
Administrative and Home Economics as well as the auditorium.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Mr. Dereck Anthony Springer has been appointed Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP).
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress, including Republi-cans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Speaking after the United Nations said two million Syrians had fled a conflict that posed the greatest threat to world peace since the Vietnam war, Obama said the United States also has a broader plan to help rebels defeat Assad’s forces. In remarks that appeared to question the legality of U.S.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - CHARGE d'Affaires of the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Georgetown, Mr. Bryan Hunt has said Guyana has one of the better security regimes of the countries within CARICOM. He offered the opinion to reporters last Friday following a certification of several persons from the sector who underwent training. Hunt said the U.S. is very pleased with the level of implementation by Guyana of advice after personnel are trained.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says the country faces the possibility of being declared a “non-compliant jurisdiction” after it was forced to submit a report to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) without legislative support from the opposition.
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall said that the report, submitted on August 26, will be considered at the CFATF meeting in November.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ended a one-day visit to Guyana on Saturday in a move that strengthens the relationship between the two countries that have had a long standing border dispute.
The two countries have agreed to ask the Jamaica-born academic, Professor Norman Girvan to continue as the United Nations (UN) good officer as they seek to settle their border dispute.