Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett Thursday night said that the formalizing of the ‘back-track’ unofficial port at Skeldon, depended on moves by Suriname to do so at Nickerie on the eastern bank of the Corentyne River that borders the two countries. Addressing the formal opening of a Guyana-Suriname Trade Mission at the Princess Hotel, Providence, East Bank Demerara, she said ...

Even as representatives of the Guyana and Suriname governments prepare to hold talks in the coming days over that former Dutch colony’s new rules governing Guyanese minibuses, Georgetown already finds the new systems as humbugs to free movement The Foreign Ministry in Georgetown already said on Thursday that one of the new rules- the need for Guyanese buses to be ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is slated to take the witness stand when the International Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the death of Walter Rodney reconvenes on January 26th, Attorney-at-Law Joseph Harmon says. During an interview with Caribbean News Desk today Harmon said thatCommission recently circulated notices advising the date for the next hearing and the names of three witnesses ...

A Guyanese man late Wednesday afternoon allegedly drowned after he fell off a fishing vessel he was working on in neighbouring Suriname, relatives said. He has been identified as 28-year old Rawle Henry.  His body has not been recovered. A relative said that the incident occurred shortly after 5 PM, a few moments after he had spoken with his grandmother ...

The Organisation of American States (OAS) on Wednesday approved a Declaration for the swift holding of elections in Haiti, days after last ditch negotiations for a new electoral law collapsed and prompted the dissolution of Parliament. President Michel Martelly is now ruling by decree. Approval of the Caribbean Community (Caricom)-sponsored Declaration by the Permanent Council followed an update on the ...

Differences have emerged between the Guyana government and the University of Guyana (UG) over whether discontinuing the collaborative agreement on the law programme  between that local tertiary institution and the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus will result in the quality of that degree being diluted. Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall says if ...

As a group of Surinamese private sector and government officials prepare to participate in a three-day trade mission in Guyana from Thursday, the Private Sector Commission of Guyana is concerned about smuggling. Chairman for Trade and Investment at the Private Sector Commission, Ramesh Dookhoo says products produced in Guyana and other Caricom member states are facing unfair competition from goods ...

Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the University of Guyana’s (UG) top 25 law degree graduates being granted automatic entry to the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), with student representatives not entirely assured by Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s cautious optimism that they should benefit from an ad hoc agreement which saw last year’s top graduates accepted. Nandlall, who is also ...

The Bahamas plans to put the issue of the terrorist attacks in Nigeria by the group, Boko Haram, on the agenda of the next summit of Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders. “The Bahamas intends to place this issue on the next CARICOM meeting agenda as a show of solidarity among countries that respect peace and the dignity of human life,” said Prime ...

A woman, who was accused by her husband of plotting to kill him one year ago, was gunned down Monday night at Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara. She has been identified as Patricia Sanasie.  Hospital sources said she received at least four gunshots about her body. Eyewitnesses said that the woman and her daughter had just returned from church.  Sanasie ...