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A furore over telephone bills incurred by members of Jamaica’s cabinet has erupted with the country’s  Parliamentary Opposition demanding an explanation from the Simpson-Miller administration.  This follows an investigation done by a local media house (RJR Group) which revealed that the government has spent more than  US$35-thousand dollars on cellular phones charges in eleven Ministries between July 2013 to June ...

Veteran Guyanese politician, Navin Chandarpal died early Tuesday morning at his home, ending a long battle with  stomach cancer, according to well-placed sources. He was in his 60s. The former Minister of Agriculture was Presidential Advisor on Sustainable Development up to the time of his death. Regarded highly by the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for his statistical skills, Chandarpal ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall’s voice has surfaced, heard purportedly saying that he is aware of a plot by an armed person to invade the newspaper’s offices in retaliation to a number of articles that are being published against certain persons. The Guyana Government late Monday night, nevertheless, stood by the Attorney General in the face ...

Vatican City, Oct 27 (EFE).- Pope Francis believes the “Big Bang” theory as a model for the origin of the Universe “does not rule out the intervention of a divine Creator, but rather demands it,” and that “the origin of the world is not a product of chaos, but is derived directly from the supreme power that created love.”The Pope ...

Guyana’s House Speaker, Raphael Trotman has intervened in a bid to break an impasse between government and the opposition over the convening of the National Assembly for the first time in more than two months. In letters to the Prime Minister, Opposition Leader and the Leader of the Alliance For Change; Mr Trotman says he has instructed the Clerk to ...

China is the latest of several countries that Guyana is receiving help from to map its gold, diamond and other geological resources to avoid “blind” exploration, a top official said Sunday. Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud said his country clinched a deal with China Geological Survey at the just concluded 2014 China Mining Conference and ...

San Juan, Oct 24 (EFE).- Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture, Labor and Social Security on Friday asked sugarcane farmers to increase production as a way to make the industry more competitive internationally. In a press release on Friday, Minister Luther Buchanan said the Cane Expansion Fund will increase the amount of loans available to growers. “Let me remind you that the sugarcane ...

The Programme Director- Statistics at the Caricom Headquarters has called on statisticians from across the Caribbean to ensure the independence and confidentiality of data. Addressing the opening of the 39th meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians, Dr. Philomena Harrison stressed that statistics should not be tinkered with… Dr. Harrison also called on government to provide adequate investments in ...

By Eduardo DavisBrasilia, Oct 27 (EFE).- Brazilians gave President Dilma Rousseff a second four-year term, but female officeholders remain a small minority in a country where women are 52 percent of the electorate.Rousseff, who took office in January 2011, defeated Sen. Aecio Neves by 51.6 percent to 48.3 percent in Sunday’s presidential runoff.The incumbent and Neves emerged from the Oct. ...

Havana, Oct 27 (EFE).- One of the Cuban volunteers who went to Guinea as part of the medical brigade sent to that African country to fight the Ebola epidemic died on Sunday of “malaria with cerebral complications,” officials in Havana said Monday.He was Jorge Juan Guerra Rodriguez, 60, a graduate in economics who arrived in Guinea last Oct. 6, a ...