Images of change in Jamaica and Barbados

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - JAMAICANS may perhaps be too focused with ongoing internal political problems afflicting both the governing Peoples National Party (PNP) and the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to reflect on the significant strides being achieved in moving their country out of the long per...
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Reciprocity

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became the first head of state ever to postpone a state visit to the United States of America. Given that state visits are the highest form of diplomatic contact between two nations and Washington usually reserves them for its closes...
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Guyana looking to Asia to boost gold sales

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is seeking to export gold to markets in India and China as the country recorded an estimated 353,000 ounces of the commodity so far this year. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud said that the gold produced so far this year, compares favo...
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Guyana warns of failure in achieving Millennium Development Goals

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Guyana on Thursday joined Antigua and Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago in warning that several countries, including some in the Caribbean, are likely to fail in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addressing the 68th Session of the ...
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Orange day

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, UNiTE, the UN Secretary General’s campaign to end violence against women proclaimed that the twenty-fifth day of every month would be dubbed Orange Day and it would be used to bring attention to preventing and ending what has been dubbed &lsquo...
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Westgate Mall

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - It is the attack by al-Shabab militants on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which has been dominating the foreign news reports since Saturday. At the time of writing, President Uhuru Kenyatta had just announced that the siege was over and the security forces were ‘mopp...
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Guyana condemns attack terrorist attack in Kenya

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has condemned the terrorist attack on Narobi's Westgate Shopping Mall over the last weekend that left more than 60 people dead including a Trinidad and Tobago national. “The Government of Guyana unequivocally condemns this atrocious terrorist act and...
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