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Jamaica government encouraged by latest offshore oil, gas surveys
BY BERT WILKINSON From Caribbean Life Jamaica’s government Friday said there were encouraging signs from recent three-dimension offshore surveys aimed at finding commercial quantities of oil and gas as the race to switch the country from an importer to a…
British Lord who offered $1.3 million Guyana dollars to kill Guyana-born businesswoman in the U.K, abandoned his appeal
By Andrea Fernandes From Guyana Guardian London, United Kingdom; – British Aristocrat Rodri Phillips, the 4th Viscount of St. Davids, who was convicted and sentenced for offering £5,000 ($1.3 million Guyana dollars) to anyone that is willing to kill Guyana-born…
Caribbean discoveries trigger big offshore contracts
By Selwyn Parker From osj A string of deep-water discoveries in the Caribbean has triggered a torrent of activity in the offshore supply industry, as one nation after another invites the exploration industry to drill for hydrocarbons in the hope…
ASTM International launches “Caribbean Roadshow” in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana
ASTM International, one of the world’s leading standards organizations, announced today that it will host several events in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana as part of the “Caribbean Roadshow,” June 4-8. The roadshow includes outreach, training, and education focused…
Pirates attack
BY BERT WILKINSON From Caribbean Life Guyana’s annual May 1 Labor Day holiday celebrations were marred by news that 16 fishermen, most of them believed to be Guyanese, were missing and feared dead following a horrendous high seas attack off…
350 victims rescued in Caribbean and Latin America
From DaVibes (BBC) Nearly 350 victims of human trafficking have been rescued by police in 13 Caribbean and Latin American countries. The Interpol-coordinated Operation Libertad saved men, women and children trafficked abroad and forced into work. Victims were found working…
Reggae Beach Party
Magmum Tonic Wine-Reggae Beach Party “Magnum Tonic Wine brings its Magnum Xplosion concert series to Barbados on Sunday April 22, 2018. The event, which takes the form of Reggae Beach Party, will feature Ding Dong, Shenseea, Aidonia and DJ Puffy…
Caribbean groups hail sexual rights ruling in T&T, call for leadership and legal services
By CariFLAGS (PRESS RELEASE VIA SNO) – CariFLAGS (Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities), the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) regional network celebrates with its member organisations and regional partners the Trinidad and Tobago…
Guyana “watching” situation in recolonised Dutch Caribbean islands
By: Denis Chabrol From Demera Waves Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge on Tuesday indicated that his country would be paying guarded attention to the political situation in the former Netherlands Antilles- Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba- where residents complain…
Guyana: 98 years jail for mother who killed children
From News Room Gy A 25-year-old woman was on Monday afternoon sentenced to 98 years imprisonment by Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court for killing her two children by instructing them to ingest a substance used to kill rats….
