Witnesses with valuable information in important court cases would soon be granted protection including change of their identities. Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman announced Thursday that the government would soon be tabling Witness Protection legislation in the House. He said Guyana’s witness protection programme would see witnesses having access to safe houses and new identities wherever possible. Trotman told reporters ...

The Head of the University of Guyana’s Law Department, Sheldon Mc Donald died Wednesday night, several days after he was involved in a vehicular accident. The Jamaica-born Mc Donald was one of the early architects of what is now the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Although his condition was listed as serious, students and family members have been plunged into ...

The private sector is key to driving the development of agriculture businesses but at the same time there is a crucial role for other stakeholders should the market falter,  the Executive Director Director, ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Michaeil Hailu said Thursday. Addressing the opening of the 2nd Caribbean Agri-Business Forum at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford ...

Guyana’s Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) will consider introducing a quick-payment system to rice farmers but a top banker in Suriname is cautious about having such a system without the necessary safeguards. Chief Executive Officer of IPED, Ramesh Persaud said he learnt of the service known as factoring while participating in an agri-business financing session at the Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Business ...

The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Tuesday agreed to conduct research to help boost the quality of agricultural production and market foods. Guyana is a member of CARDI. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by CARDI’s Executive Director, Barton Clarke and CTA Director, Michael Hailu at the Barbados office ...

Several poor persons, who possess rich small-business ideas ,were Thursday given an opportunity to realize their dreams through a GUY$10 million grant. Provided through the ‘Enhancing the Economic Livelihood of Poor in Guyana’ programme, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed out GUY$1 million each to 10 micro-entrepreneurs who impressed the donors with their business proposals. The grant recipients were ...

Work on providing Caribbean peoples and businesses more nutritious foods and linking agriculture with tourism was Friday taken a step further with the inking of an agreement between the Technical Centre for Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Development (CTA) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA). Signed by IICA Director General, Dr. Victor Villalobos and CTA Director, Michael Hailu ...

Assistant Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) trade bloc Dr. Douglas Slater has lamented the unhealthy idiosyncrasies of Guyanese pedestrians as Guyana moved to focus on alleviating road deaths. Speaking at the launch of Road Safety Month in Guyana, Slater remarked that he has travelled to many Caribbean countries, but the pedestrians are not quite like Guyana’s. “Guyanese pedestrians ...

Guyana’s Public Security Minister, Khemrj Ramjattan Wednesday definitively ruled out the extension of the opening hours of bars and night clubs, less than one day after the Private Sector Commission (PSC) publicly appealed for him to do so. “It will not be done. It’s 2 O’clcok. I might very well bring it forward to 12 (midnight). Didn’t you hear today ...

Bars and night clubs, faced with the likelihood of shutting down because of the 2 AM closure, now hope that a lobby by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) will see government reversing its decision. The PSC is strongly recommending that consideration be given for bars and night clubs to be open until 4:00 am on Fridays, Saturdays and Public Holidays ...