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(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY).-A man who police described as key to the investigation into the assassination of State Prosecutor Dana Seetahal SC is now being closely monitored by police and other authorities in Guyana. The man who is in his early thirties, left for Guyana last week stating on his travel document that he was going on vacation.  Newsday understands immigration authorities ...

A 50 year old Boiler Operator employed with the John and Jason Tulshi Rice Mill located at Number 49 Village Corentyne perished after the boiler he was attending to exploded. Phillip Gangaprashad of Number 47 Village succumbed while on his way to the Skeldon Hospital   The cause of the explosion is currently unknown and According to Supervisor of the ...

Inaugural Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Ali Mazrui died early Monday morning in the United States (US) after a period of illness. He was 81 years old. The renowned Kenyan academic was appointed to the position at UG in honour of Rodney, an internationally respected Guyanese historian and politician, who died on June 13, 1980. Activists and ...

A Rupununi farmer, who was allegedly beaten by several men almost two weeks ago, died on Sunday, police said. He has been identified as 52-year old Clifton Clement of Hiawa Village, Central Rupununi. Investigators said Clement was imbibing and was beaten by several men on October 1 in the vicinity of the Takatu Bridge, Lethem. He had been admitted to ...

Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the dreaded Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr. Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Consultant. Speaking at a Continued Medical Education (CME) session this morning at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, Dr. Cole noted that the Ministry of Health has taken on ...

Wary of fruitless negotiations, staff and pensioners of the cash-strapped Caribbean Agricultural Research Institute (CARDI) have complained bitterly about a  12-year old “wage freeze”, late payment of salaries and pensions, and increased workloads. The formal complaint was lodged to the just concluded Board of Governors meeting in Suriname that coincided with the holding of the  13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture ...

The World Bank has agreed to provide US$21 million to help Guyana  increase secondary school enrolment and improve mathematics teaching as well as well as reduce flooding on the East Coast Demerara, the Finance Ministry said Saturday. The agreement signed in Washington this week by Minister Singh with Sophie Sirtaine, Director of the Caribbean Country Management Unit of the World ...

Jamaica’s Agriculture Minister, Derrick Kellier on Friday believed that privatization is the key to a successful sugar industry, drawing on the lessons of his country that has sold out the fields and factories to Chinese investors. Kellier, who was in Suriname for the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) and the Agriculture Ministerial meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) Council ...

 The new boss of the cash-strapped Caribbean Agricultural Research Development Institute (CARDI) is Barbadian, Barton Clarke. Outgoing Executive Director, Dr. Arlington Chesney made the announcement on the sidelines of the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA 2014) that wrapped up in Suriname on Friday. Clarke’s appointment was ratified by the Board of Governors of CARDI that also met in this ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Caribbean Coordinator, Dr. John “Deep” Forde has urged international organizations to coordinate their assistance to Haiti whose agricultural sector is showing good prospects. His call was issued at a symposium-“Haiti’s Agri food systems and Building Regional Synergies”– at the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA 2014) that wrapped up in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday. ...