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–elections can be pushed backed further The Alliance For Change (AFC) intends to push through a no-confidence motion against government during any National Assembly sitting called for the presentation of the 2015 budget before the April 31st deadline and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is committed to lend its support. Such a move would guarantee government another three months ...

Caribbean Community (Caricom) and other nationals living in Antigua and Barbuda, who believe that they are being denied citizenship, should soon have a new mechanism to make their case. The government in St. John’s  on Thursday announced plans to set up an Immigration Appeals Tribunal while not implementing new taxes this financial year. The pronouncements were made in the Throne ...

(ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES.com) GANDHINAGAR: Guyana today pledged its support to India in its bid to become a permanent member of the powerful United Nations Security Council.  Announcing this at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) here, President of Guyana Donald R Ramotar said India has greater responsibility to support other developing countries and asked New Delhi to play a proactive role in fighting ...

(WEBINDIA123.com).-Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that India will set up its first Information Technology Centre of Excellence in South American in Guyana, also approving of a new Line of Credit to the Caribbean nation. A release from the Prime Minister’s Office shared the discussions that Prime Minister Modi held with visiting dignitaries on the sidelines of Pravasi Bharatiya ...

As Guyana and the rest of the world await Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar’s announcement of the dissolution of the Parliament and the naming of a date for general elections, the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday resumed pressure on the South American country for the suspension of the law-making body to be lifted. The UK’s Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood, called for ...

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua News Agency) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie pledged to boost cooperation between the two countries as they met on Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People. “China attaches great importance to ties with the Bahamas,” Xi told the visiting prime minister, who is in Beijing to attend the opening ...

At least 30 members of Guyana’s Special Forces are Thursday expected to inserted into “an area of interest” as part of their more than one-week old search for a small plane that went missing over the country’s dense jungle and rugged terrain. The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said the platoon of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers that travelled to ...

U.S. Sports Desk, Jan 7 (EFE).- Muhammad Ali has been released from an undisclosed hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, after receiving treatment for a mild case of pneumonia and a serious urinary tract infection, a family spokesman said Wednesday.The boxing legend, who was hospitalized last month, was discharged on Tuesday night, Bob Gunnell said.Ali will turn 73 on Jan. 17 and ...

–Roger Ver gave up US passport in favor of St. Kitts last year. (ARS TECHNICA).-A well-known entrepreneur, often dubbed “Bitcoin Jesus”—who famously renounced his American citizenship last year—was denied a visa on Tuesday to re-enter the United States to attend an upcoming Bitcoin conference in Miami. According to Roger Ver’s tweets, it was his third attempt to re-enter in eight ...

Two persons were Wednesday morning arrested shortly in connection with the armed robbery of a couple on the Corentyne Coast, Police said that about 0730h. today Wednesday January 07, 2015, vendor Hemraj Singh, 54 years, of Lusigan, ECD, and his wife were held up at the Black Bush Polder Access Road, Adventure, Corentyne, by two men armed with shotguns.  The ...