GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Donald Ramotar on Sunday appealed for an end to partisan politics surrounding the Amaila Falls Hydropower project. In a release on Sunday, the President said although the United States based investor, Sithe Global has pulled out of the project, there is stil...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has defended its position regarding the multi-million dollar Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) even after president Donald Ramotar appealed for an end to partisan politics in the wake of the decision by the major United Sta...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian - Additional routes are likely to be on the cards for regional airline LIAT. Speaking recently at the signing of the loan agreements between LIAT, the Caribbean Development Bank and the stakeholder governments of LIAT, Chairman of the Shareholder Governments and Prime ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - A US aviation lobby group is urging the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to reject an application by majority state-owned Caribbean Airlines to fly directly between Georgetown, Guyana and New York. A report on the Caribbean News Now Web site on Friday indi...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC-Two years after Heads of Government of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), declared that people of the regional grouping can move freely, Chairman of the OECS Authority Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer says the free movement of nationals ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has accused the government of reneging on a promise to pay outstanding gratuities to nurses, who on Wednesday began strike action in support of their demands. Chairman of the GPSU branch at the Linden Hospital Complex, Winston Lu...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Finance Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reviewed a range of economic and financial issues at the Fifteenth Meeting of CARICOM’s Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Change Facilitation Team based at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has expressed satisfaction at the response by participants at the Guyana national consultations on a Five-year Strategic Plan for th...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Construction of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s prized $1.5 billion Couva Children’s Hospital is in jeopardy as seismic and structural experts have called for all work there to be aborted. This is because the hospital and multi-training facilit...

(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said yesterday. If the government moves for a postponement this would be a complete reversal of the Prime Minister’s earlier pledges of her People’s Partnership...