President Irfaan Ali on Friday said Brazil has invited Guyana to make a presentation at the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit later this year on how to make money from forests, “We have agreed that at the G-20, Guyana will be invited in the person of the Vice President (Bharrat Jagdeo) to make a presentation on Guyana’s models,” he said ...

The High Court on Friday sent a 25-day strike by teachers to mediation in the hope of getting the educators back to the classroom almost immediately. Justice Sandil Kissoon said Senior Counsel Edward Luckoo and Robin Stoby agreed to serve as mediators. They would start work by meeting representatives of the government and the Guyana Teachers’ Union at 9:30 am ...

President Irfaan Ali announced that he and his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio ‘Lula’ Da Silva on Thursday agreed to establish a working group to search for money to build transportation links between their two South American countries. “We want to put together a technical working group that will commence working immediately to develop a mechanism through which we can have ...

Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ended their three-day summit in Guyana expressing concern over the decision by the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to send that financial institution’s President, Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon on leave to make way for an investigation. “On first blush, I think that the whole process is somewhat flawed and I’m ...

Guyana’s President, Irfaan Ali and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on Wednesday agreed that the regional bloc would lead a team alongside international partners to Haiti to determine what that strife-wracked country needs to prepare for elections no later than August, 2025. The Bahamas’ Prime Minister, Phillip Davis said the gap assessment team, which would include CARICOM and United Nations ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo was Wednesday selected to chair a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) working group to search for more money for the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) to cushion impacts on member nations and promote growth, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said. She told a news conference to wrap up the three-day summit of CARICOM leaders in Georgetown that Mr Jagdeo ...

A small group of Haitians living in Guyana on Tuesday picketed outside the Marriott Hotel, venue of the summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, calling for Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign and pave the way for elections. The group said that Haitians had been promised elections three months after President Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7, 2021 at ...

by GHK Lall The times really don’t change, and now it is history straining at the collar to repeat itself.  I feel like this is a journey back in time.  Today it is Exxon and Chevron.  Way back in the 80s, it was Pennzoil and Texaco.  Just like today, it is about who could do what, and who shouldn’t have ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The global political economy has historically been dogged by North-South conflicts whereby the G-North states have used their structural economic power to shape and even determine the rules of the game. Global South leaders have consistently called for institutional reforms that would ensure fairness in global governance. Change has been slow and shallow. Nowhere ...

Businesses in Guyana would now be able to access a maximum of GB£2.1 billion through UK Export Finance (UKEF), the United Kingdom’s credit agency, than those available from local commercial banks but none of the money can be used in the oil sector, the UK’s Minister for the Americas, David Rutley announced on Tuesday. Chairman of Guyana’s Private Sector Commission ...