Guyanese authorities, in collaboration with their counterparts in Suriname, have seized an estimated 120 kilogrammes of cocaine from a Cyprus-registered cargo ship that came here to collect a consignment of bauxite, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kurshid Sattaur said Tuesday. Officials estimate the street value of the narcotic at about US$10 million. The GRA boss said the ...

Latin America and the Caribbean growth expected to pick up slightly in 2015 IDB loans totaled more than $13 billion in 2014, the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) said Monday. Latin America and the Caribbean’s economic growth might recover modestly to 2.2 percent in 2015, up from 1.3 percent in 2014, its lowest rate since last decade’s global financial crisis. Despite ...

Classes in Barbados secondary schools are set for disruption Tuesday as teachers are scheduled to pull out of classrooms in the morning and attend a meeting of their union to decide on a possible strike. The organisation that speaks for most of the islands secondary teachers, the Barbados Union of Teachers, has been demanding the removal of the principals of ...

Miami, Jan 5 (EFE).- Gay marriage will be legal starting this midnight in Florida as it becomes the 36th state to permit unions of same-sex couples and to recognize gay marriages contracted in other states.It has been a long struggle for the gay community against the state law, which, backed by voters in 2008, defined marriage as a union between ...

San Juan, Jan 5 (EFE).- The newly installed chairman of the Caribbean Community, Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie, will represent the region at the Jan. 8 summit in Beijing of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, known as CELAC.Christie, who assumed the CARICOM chairmanship on Jan. 1, will deliver a statement on behalf of the organization ...

A mission that is searching for a plane that went missing one week ago, on Sunday began using high-tech equipment to detect the location of the aircraft in very thick jungle over where it was last spotted, according to well-placed sources. The Britten Norman Islander plane , bearing registration number 8R-GHE, cannot be located real-time by the Passive Radiation Detector ...

A man, charged several times for robbery under arms, was Sunday night shot dead by a plain clothes policeman who he and two accomplices robbed of gold jewellery at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara. Dead is Ryan Couchman, 34, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara. The beaten policeman was treated at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. The two other perpetrators fled the scene, ...

When Guyanese journalist and actor, John Philips looks back at 2014, he certainly feels a sense of accomplishment that he is climbing the performing arts ladder relatively quickly in Canada. Using his training, experience and exposure in his homeland, this proud Buxtonian has not only taken his craft to Guyanese and wider Caribbean audiences in Toronto  on stage but he ...

Guyana government aviation officials have said that Dynamic Airways’ recent flight delays and a cancellation during the Christmas peak season were due to technical problems with one of its planes. “They had a similar problem, as they had prior to this one with the navigational computer being burnt again so because of that they are going to re-position another aircraft ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday disclosed that it has handed A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) an agreement for the two organisations to hold secret talks on a proposed pro-democracy alliance but Opposition Leader, David Granger maintained that his coalition could not sign the accord without knowing the basis for the proposal. “On the last meeting of the ...