GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A précis of PJ Patterson’s “cri de coeur for CARICOM,” his speech to the Rotary Club of Georgetown on Monday, would actually make an excellent editorial, without any need for additional comment. The speech is already resonating beyond the audience ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - n recent messages to Cuba marking 40 years of diplomatic relations, the Government of Guyana and many of its CARICOM counterparts spoke of a partnership based on principles of solidarity and strategic partnership.  Notably absent from these messages were references to Guyan...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it has held talks with Trinidad and Tobago on the future development of the country’s oil and gas sector. Natural Resources and the Environment Minister, Robert Persaud travelled to Port of Spain where he met with Trinidad and Tobago&...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development which supports the extension of the current quota provisions until 30 September 2020. Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has described the decision to extend th...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – For the better part of a half-century after the French ceded independence to most of their colonies in the 1960s, the relationship between the newly sovereign states and the ex-mother country was relatively benign and uneventful. President Charles de Gaulle’s rough ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC –The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) says the gun attack which left its general secretary Oscar Clarke hospitalised “is another example of the precarious crime situation which is facing Guyana at the moment”. Clarke, 74, was shot a...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Former Jamaica Prime Minister Percival Patterson Monday night urged an overhaul of CARICOM’s Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and he expressed grave concern about the real value of the CARICOM Passport. While he said CARICOM has made progress in a number of areas, the former ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Rescue teams have recovered four bodies in the aftermath of Tuesday’s incident which two boats collided along the Mazuruni River . In the latest report on the tragedy, the police said two bodies were found on Thursday and two others were recovered on Wednesday and Tue...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Rescue teams have recovered one body and are continuing their search for eight other people after two boats with at least 20 people on board collided in the Mazuruni River, Essequibo late on Tuesday. A government statement said that members of the Guyana Defence Force...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The next four years are being touted as the "grand legacy phase" for United States (US) President Barack Obama and some influential Jamaicans in the diaspora are suggesting that the signposts already erected by the country's 44th commander-in-chief augur well for their countr...