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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Tuesday, December 1, 2020) — Prime Minister, Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips, this morning, underscored the importance of utilising Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the education sector, noting that the government is committed to its development. His comments ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Tuesday, December 1, 2020) — President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has claimed the government is committed to ensuring that local businesses optimise their participation and opportunities, to benefit from the emerging petroleum sector. The President was, at the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Tuesday, December 1, 2020) — The Port Authority of Jamaica has welcomed Jamaica being named the World’s Leading Cruise Destination by the World Travel Awards (WTA), as a major achievement, particularly at a time when the global cruise ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Tuesday, December 1, 2020) –– Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, is calling on countries, which traditionally provide aid to other countries, especially Small Island Developing States (SIDS), not to cut back on their international aid budget. The Prime Minister’s ...

The Editor: Like me, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world, must have been shocked on hearing the news, two weeks ago, that the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad and Tobago, would train 20,000 Guyanese, over ...

By Dr. Kumar Mahabir Contributing Columnist This article is part of a series that is intended to profile and celebrate hidden heroes of the Caribbean. Even in countries in the Caribbean, in which (East) Indians are the majority ethnic group, ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Even though life as you knew it, before the coronavirus pandemic, will never be what you would like it to be, there is still no need to adopt a feeling of hopelessness. This is a time ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist When the new COVID-19 vaccines go into use in December, regulatory authorities are poised for a cataclysm of people reporting side effects. A group of doctors met with the US Centre for Disease Control and ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Conversations about police reform always follow each police murder of a Black male, and continues for weeks, and even months. The demand for change in policing is vociferous, and the promises of police reform and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Thursday, November 19, 2020) — Caribbean Community Education Ministers were reminded of Education’s critical role in the post COVID-19 economic recovery, as the 25th Special Meeting of CARICOM’s Council for Human and Social and Development (COHSOD) opened Tuesday. ...