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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Former presidents, Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar, have filed lawsuits against the David Granger government, seeking to recover significant sums of monies following the capping of the benefits of former presidents. Attorney General and Minister of ...

Photo above: One of the houses built for Mahaica residents who relocated to Hope Estate. Photo credit: Samuel Maughn. By Neil Marks IPS Guest Writer GEORGETOWN, GUYANA (IPS) — Mrs. Doodnauth is being interviewed about the fact that the effects of ...

By Friday Phiri IPS Correspondent PARIS, France (IPS) — A famous saying goes: To whom much is given, much is expected. This is the message that the African Development Bank (AfDB) is carrying and delivering for, and on behalf of ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The police have detained a man who reportedly tried to revive his two-year-old stepdaughter with live electrical wires. The police report that the infant, Kristha Knutt, who lived with her mother was suffering from ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Governor of the the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Jwala Rambarran, Friday defended the “new” policy regulating the flow of foreign exchange here even as the government, business community and private citizens continue ...

NEW YORK, New York (CMC) – Guyanese officials here are warning heir nationals to be wary of unscrupulous actions to “exploit” the country’s gold jubilee independence celebrations. The Guyana New York Consulate General and Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary Celebration Committee ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Juliet Holness, wife of the leader of the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Holness, has been confirmed as the party’s representative in the constituency of East rural St. Andrew. Holness will face the ruling ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The government has turned down a request from chairman of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, for a further extension to the deadline for a report to be submitted to President David Granger. Attorney General, Basil ...

Photo above: The 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference is hosted in the outskirts of Paris with about 40.000 participants among country delegates, civil society and media. Photo credit: Diego Arguedas Ortiz/IPS. By Diego Arguedas Ortiz IPS Correspondent PARIS, France ...

Photo above: Minister of Public Infrastructure, Hon. David Patterson (right) with (left to right) Head of Task Force, Major General (Retired) Joe Singh; CEO of the NDIA, Fredrick Flatts; Ambassador Ernst Noorman; DRR member, Judith Klostermann; DRR Team Leader, Rob Steijn; and DRR ...