GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana says it will export an estimated 400,000 tonnes of rice by the end of October, the highest ever in the country’s history. Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, said, after many troubling years, Guyana now has ...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, has distanced himself from any allegations linking the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, to a sexual abuse scandal here. “I wish to, absolutely and categorically, deny any involvement in, or ...
Read More »Guyana And China Sign MOU To Train Local Doctors
GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Government of Guyana and the People’s Republic of China, last Saturday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the ‘China/Guyana House of Medical Science’ that will train local doctors by members of the Chinese medical ...
Read More »Bloody Weekend In Trinidad
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – One person was decapitated and two others shot, as Trinidad and Tobago recorded yet another bloody weekend in its history. Police said that the head of an unidentified man was found by a passer-by ...
Read More »Chikungunya Causes Postponement Of Court Cases In Jamaica
Photo above is of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn. KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, says, the outbreak of Chikungunya has led to the postponement of court cases due to the absence ...
Read More »Militarising The Ebola Crisis
Above photo: First shipment of the ramped-up U.S. military response to Ebola arriving in Liberia. Photo credit: US Army Africa/CC-BY-2.0. Analysis by Joeva Rock WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – Six months into West Africa’s Ebola crisis, the international community is finally ...
Read More »Boosting The Natural Disaster Immunity Of Caribbean Hospitals
Photo above: Seismologists say a new children’s hospital being planned for Couva, in Trinidad, is located near a fault line. According to one report, 67 percent of hospitals in the Caribbean and Latin America are located in areas at high risk ...
Read More »Guyana National Assembly Speaker Gets Court Injunction; Continues To Deny Sexual Molestation Accusation
Photo above is of Raphael Trotman. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, has been granted an ex-parte injunction preventing a 22-year-old man from publishing any material relating to allegations that he was molested by the ...
Read More »Gunmen In St. Kitts Force Hospital Staff To Scamper
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts CMC – Police were searching for two gunmen, who fired several shots at a man in the main hospital, forcing several staff workers to flee for their lives on Monday night. Police have confirmed that the gunmen ...
Read More »Caribbean Adopting New Technologies In Cassava Production
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Representatives from 11 Caribbean countries have received training in the implementation of new technologies for cassava production, with the aim of improving competitiveness, promoting technological innovations and value added in cassava products. The Inter-American Institute for ...
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