Workshop on the formation of a domestic workers’ cooperative in Guyana
Port of Spain (ILO News) – The ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean and Red Thread’s group of domestic workers, will be conducting a three-day workshop designed to assist domestic workers to successfully form a workers’ cooperative….
Fisheries Ministers from CRFM Member States meet Friday in Guyana
Belize City, Thursday, 18 May 2017 (CRFM)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will host the 11th Meeting of its Ministerial Council—the highest ranking decision-making body of the regional fisheries organization—starting at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, May 19, at the Pegasus…
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Stark warning issued to Caribbean concerning climate change
From Jamaica Observer BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – A warning has been issued to governments across the Caribbean to do more to make countries resilient to climate change as there is a price to pay if nothing is done. According to…
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Guyana: 2017 ANSA Caribbean Awards in Georgetown
From St Lucia Times If it were not for the Caribbean Awards for Excellence, said Guyana vice-president Sidney Allicock, the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana, and the country itself might not be as well off as they are now. Speaking at…
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PICSA workshop underway – Guyana identified as pilot country for Caribbean
Over the next five days, the Hydromet Department will be facilitating a workshop Guyana’s ability to develop Participatory Integrated Climate Services of Agriculture (PICSA). The training, which is funded through the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Programme for…
US slams CARICOM as money launderers
By George Alleyne From Caribbean Life Similar stories BARBADOS: BARBADOS BUCKS CUSTOM CARIBBEAN: Ailing Barbados PM re-shuffles cabinet TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Caribbean Round-Up BARBADOS: Blacklisting annoys Barbados JAMAICA: Eight Jamaicans extradited to the US TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: $467 million laundered…
Caribbean Court orders Guyana to refund Trinidad beverage company millions in “unlawful” environmental tax
By Denis Chabrol From Demara Waves The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ordered Guyana to refund the Trinidad-based beverage company, SM Jaleel and its subsidiary in Guyana, a yet to be agreed large amount of Environmental Tax levied…
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Canada warns its citizens about travel to 8 Caribbean nations
By NAN Contributor From Times Caribbean News Americas, TORONTO, Canada, Weds. May 3, 2017:The scourge of crime in some Caribbean nations has led the Canadian government to update its travel warnings on Tuesday May 2nd on eight Caribbean nations. Canada’s…
Stranded Cubans start to leave Guyana
From Caribbean News Service GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr 26 2017 – Hundreds of Cuban nationals stranded here over the past few days were leaving Guyana on Tuesday after the authorities granted the Honduras-based Easy Sky Airline temporary permission to fly into…
Guyana studies draft petroleum legislation
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life A Guyanese bipartisan select parliamentary committee is set to pore over draft petroleum legislation that would include jail time and heavy fines for locals and industry players who take bribes from oil operators and…
