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The tedious process of disembarking at Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Piarco International Airport, passing through security before boarding an aircraft to the United States will be something of the past – effective November 1, 2013, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport said Sunday. The United States of America Transport Security Administration (TSA) has approved the request for the alternate procedure to ...

Former Foreign Minister of Guyana, Rashleigh Jackson on Sunday hoped that the latest border spat with Venezuela would pave the way for urgent negotiations to delimit the maritime boundary between the two neighbouring South American nations. “We should do that as a matter of urgency and then you wouldn’t get a recurrence of this kind of incident and there wouldn’t ...

Two men were Saturday night shot dead and doctors were battling to save the life of a third man at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The incident occurred just outside the K&VC Hotel, South Road, Georgetown. The dead have been identified as 20-year old Jermaine “Chow” Canterbury and 20-year old Mark Anthony “Two Thousand” Joseph. Listed in a critical condition ...

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says Guyana is working with the regional institutions to open new avenues of financing for farmers. Agriculture financing was a common thread throughout the just-concluded Caribbean Week of Agriculture held here in Guyana. “We have been working assiduously in Guyana and outside Guyana because one of the problems farmers have in accessing loans like any ...

The foreign Ministers of Guyana and Venezuela are to meet next week in an effiort to resolve their latest territorial spat following the arrest of a seismic research vessel. “The Ministers agreed that dialogue was essential in an effort to find a peaceful solution to this matter as well as in preserving the relations which had developed between the two ...

Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Saturday signed a bilateral debt relief agreement to cancel just over US$2.9M of Guyana’s debt owed to Bulgaria. The agreement will be effective from December 31, 2012. A balance of approximately US$322,578 would be rescheduled and repaid over a three year period. “The funds saved under this agreement will be used to assist ...

GEORGETOWN – Suriname has offered to host the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) officials at the just concluded 12th edition of the event disclosed Friday evening at the end of the 45th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) here in Georgetown. “I have put forward that Suriname would be proud to host the next ...

Two men charged in connection with a huge marijuana seizure near a city hotel are expected to be return to court on Monday for a status hearing. They are dredge owner, Marlon King and mechanic, Carlton Fawsett who were arraigned on Friday on charges of being in possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking. Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) ...

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is working to avert a United States ban on a number of fish species that an American non-governmental organisation says is endangered due to overfishing, officials said at the weekend. Chairman of the just concluded agriculture ministerial meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development, Roland Bhola said the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) ...

Regional ministers say there has been no lag in the implementation of the Jagdeo Initiative on Agriculture conceptualised in 2003 even as they acknowledge that they should be further along with the plan. The remarks came at a news conference on Friday which marked the end of Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2013 in Georgetown, Guyana. The Jagdeo Initiative named ...