Caribbean rum producing nations have so far failed to take the United States (US) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its subsidies to Puerto Rican and United States Virgin Islands rum producing companies that end up unfairly competing against their counterparts in Caricom. A well-respected trade expert told Demerara Waves Online News that all the studies have been done ...

Investigators are searching for two prime suspects in the shooting death of a Wakenaam businessman in Georgetown earlier this week. A senior police investigator would only say that one person has since been held in connection with the gunning down of 26-year old Mahendra Persaud. Persaud was killed after he resisted bandits who were trying to take away a bag ...

Guyana and India have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a US$1 million Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence in Guyana. Signing the document were Minister of State, Joseph Harmon and India’s High Commissioner in Guyana, Mr. Venkatachalam Mahalingam. This Centre will provide training for public sector ICT professionals to ensure the availability of a highly ...

With the support of Canada, a research trial on several varieties of Irish potatoes to determine their suitability for local conditions is underway, the Canadian High Commission said Tuesday. Thirteen ¼ acre Irish potatoes pilot plots are currently being supported through the $20 million Canada-funded Caribbean regional Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) project. “This ...

The almost one-year old coalition-led government says a recent trip to China for a US$5 million debt supposedly owed by a telecoms company for Guyana’s shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has turned up more questions than cash. Government spokesman, Raphael Trotman told a post-cabinet news conference that Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s recent visit to China ...

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman on Wednesday acknowledged that the provision of an aircraft to Minister of State Joseph Harmon by existing and prospective Chinese investors in Guyana’s forestry sector for domestic travels to their locations in China could conflict with the proposed ministerial code of conduct and was sure it would not happen again. “It could lead to a conflict ...

Incoming Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Communications  Network (NCN), Lennox Cornette says the questioning of his integrity and competence clearly indicates that someone else was hand-picked for the job. “From the leaked emails from the NCN Board discussion to what is being said in media reports, it seems obvious that someone was pre-selected outside of the Board, for ...

Deputy Director of the Guyana Prison Service, Gladwin Samuels on Tuesday bluntly denied claims by several prisoners that he had instructed that a door at the Georgetown Prison be locked and allowed  a number of inmates to burn. “I would not have, Sir, more so in a prison environment” he said when asked by Lawyer for the Guyana Prison Service, Selwyn ...

A woman was Tuesday night killed in a road accident and her common-law husband seriously injured after they left hurriedly on a CBR motorbike in search of their son. Dead is Shauna Rice and injured is Steve Fiedtkou. Eyewitnesses said a car slammed into the couple on Mandela Avenue, West Ruimveldt. They left looking for their son, Jaheim, who they ...

The body of a woman, who was last seen leaving her home to uplift a package, was Tuesday morning discovered in a canal at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Investigators believe that the body is that of Simone Hackett who went missing days ago. The 25-year old Hackett left her ‘C’ Field, Sophia home at about 8:30 PM on Saturday, ...