Human Services and Social Security Minister Jenifer Webster said Caribbean governments must create an enabling environment that ensures resources are optimally and efficiently utilised, pollution minimised and livelihood opportunities created to accelerate progress across all sectors. The minister made these remarks at the eighth International Labour Organisation (ILO) meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The sessions opened on Tuesday under the theme, “The Caribbean and Labour 2013 and Beyond – Strengthening Decent Work for Development”. Webster told her Caribbean counterparts that Guyana has made significant strides…
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The Guyana experience is a lesson for Caribbean countries – CDB president
There are some interesting lessons for the rest of the Caribbean region to learn from the road Guyana has travelled, having moved from a deep abyss to a position of enjoying seven years of uninterrupted growth up to 2012, at a rate of 4.5 per cent per annum. This is the view of Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr William Warren Smith, who noted that Guyana’s growth did not start seven years ago, but that those who have been around for a while would be familiar with the challenges that…
Read MoreMercosur and trading blocs
With the inability of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to bring the 2001 Doha (Development) Round of negotiations to a conclusion, there has been a bewildering number of bilateral and multilateral trading platforms launched in the interim. Trading blocs formed earlier have also become more energetic. The recent announcement that Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett will be attending the July11 meeting of Mercosur (Common Market of the South) and, along with Suriname, Guyana will be given “associate” status, suggests we examine the dynamics behind the move. Mercosur has been around since…
Read More50 more students graduate from Hinterland Scholarship Programme
Awarded scholarships to study at the secondary, technical and tertiary levels under the Hinterland Scholarship Programme, a batch of 50 students, hailing from different hinterland regions graduated on Wednesday at a ceremony held fittingly at the Amerindian Village, Sophia Exhibition Complex. Speaking at the annual graduation ceremony Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds, performing the duties of President, emphasised that Government is committed to improving access to quality education for young people across the country. “You would have heard about the tremendous improvements in greatly increased numbers of secondary schools in the…
Read MoreFBI probing visa racket at US Embassy in Georgetown
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has launched a probe into reports of a multi-million dollar U.S visa racket at the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. Reports indicate that over the past few months FBI agents have been interviewing various persons attached to the Georgetown embassy. It is alleged that a former Consul Officer who was based at the embassy was behind a visa racket scheme that also involved a number of Guyanese. The former Consul Officer is back in the United States as the investigation continues.…
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