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CDB funds projects to improve public services’ access

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The seventh cycle of the Guyana leg of the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) was launched today to enable projects in vulnerable communities geared towards improving access to basic public services, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
The BNTF programme is a direct targeted poverty reduction programme of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) with Guyana and nine other Caricom countries. With US$6.1M funding from the bank and the Guyana Government’s US$1M contribution, the total programme size of the project is US$7.1M.

Democracy and ‘the voice of the streets’

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been mindful not to go down the same road as others – that of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent – that have opted for bullish, often brutal responses to popular protest.

US diplomat says CBSI having an impact on security in the region

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – United States Ambassador Brent Hardt says the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), now into its third year, is beginning to have an impact as a result of the many programmes implemented to fight crimes in the region.
Hardt along with Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee Monday met with local and foreign senior security officials to discuss matters pertaining to the CBSI.

Guyanese named President of US University

ATLANTA, Georgia, CMC – The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has voted unanimously in appointing a Guyanese academic as the ninth president of Fort Valley State University.
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and senior vice president at York College of the City University of New York, will assume his new post on July 22, 2013.
University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby said the Board of Regents has made “an outstanding selection” for the next president of Fort Valley State University.

Guyana benefits from EU sugar grant

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is receiving more than Euro 23 million (One Euro = US$1.29 cents) from the European Union under an initiative that has so far provided nearly Euro 100 million as sector policy budget support.
Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and the EU’s Ambassador here, Robert Kopecky signed the financing agreement for the Guyana Annual Action Programme 2012 on Accompanying Measures on sugar.

Former Guyana President to lead Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance

LONDON, CMC-Bharrat Jagdeo , the former President of Guyana has been invited to lead a high level team of experts to identify solutions for unlocking resources to enable climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries to combat climate change. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma on Thursday announced that Jagdeo will be joined by eight others to press the international community to help identify practical solutions for those countries most vulnerable to climate change.

Poverty and the minimum wage

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timetable of the Millennium Development Goals, submitted its report to that body.

CAL’s unfriendly skies

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The news that our Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali is engaging his Trinidadian counterpart about the unilateral, dramatic increase of airfares by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) from Guyana is welcome. Even more welcome would be news that the talks have resulted in the reduction of those fares to more tolerable levels as has prevailed earlier this year. In several cases, for instance to New York and Trinidad, the fares have almost doubled.

Events in Syria increase global turmoil

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Increasingly intense diplomacy among the Nato powers about the turmoil in Syria has been a feature of the last few weeks leading to this week’s G8 meeting hosted by Britain in Northern Ireland, once a similar scene of political-religious and military turmoil. The European powers have been pressing an apparently reluctant President Obama to join them in supplying military assistance to what are called the rebels in Syria.

Kudos for Guyana from UN systems

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The United Nations system in Guyana Tuesday congratulated Guyana on being among 38 countries that have met internationally-established targets in the fight against hunger ahead of the 2015 deadline.
Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among 20 countries which have satisfied the primary target of the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halve the proportion of hungry people.

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