By Iana Seales | Sunday, April 19, 2009 | 32 Comments
-follow up talks for later this year
US President Barack Obama will meet Caribbean leaders later this year to follow up on bi-lateral discussions at the …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | 39 Comments
Jagdeo to lead Caricom discussions
US President Barack Obama yesterday said he is seeking a new chapter of engagement with hemispheric leaders at the Fifth Summit …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
Saying that human rights abuses and issues such as domestic and sexual violence are among escalating concerns in countries meeting at the Fifth Summit of …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Of the endless string of Jamaican music imports landing here every other month for local entertainment, the presence of Freddie McGregor and Tarrus Riley was …
By Iana Seales | Friday, April 17, 2009 | 22 Comments
-Trinis ask
The Fifth Summit of the Americas opens in Trinidad and Tobago today against a backdrop of increasing hemispheric concerns, and criticisms at the domestic …
By Iana Seales | Friday, April 17, 2009 | 3 Comments
Some incivility at civil society forum
Several Latin American countries walked out of the Civil Society Forum in Trinidad yesterday, signalling a thorny start to the …
By Iana Seales | Monday, April 13, 2009 | 22 Comments
-auditor general
Acting Auditor General, Deodat Sharma says the forensic audit into the assets of employees at the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) is well underway, …
By Iana Seales | Monday, April 6, 2009 | 5 Comments
-case of five boys highlights weaknesses
Stamp It Out, which aims at strengthening protection against and reforming the laws on sexual offences has lost critical momentum, …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, April 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
How does an eco-friendly wedding sound in these challenging financial times? Think about it, a shoe-string budget, value for the environment and not much fuss.
The …
By Iana Seales | Thursday, April 2, 2009 | 27 Comments
– judge rules right to fair trial breached
Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire yesterday quashed criminal charges against a former employee of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) who …
By Iana Seales | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
-four completed over weekend
An ambitious undertaking by the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) and the public hospital to increase the frequency of bypass surgeries here is …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Colwyn King said teachers with solid insurance plans in Clico (Guyana) are suffering the blow of being stripped …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, February 28, 2009 | 16 Comments
Former long-serving Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur last night said he found it disturbing that regional heads have failed to move in the direction of …
By Iana Seales | Friday, February 27, 2009 | 32 Comments
– judicial manager to point way forward
Assets of CLICO (Guyana) that escaped the ravages of the collapse of its sister company in the Bahamas …
By Iana Seales | Thursday, February 26, 2009 | 16 Comments
-EU-ACP Assembly opens
President Bharrat Jagdeo says that protectionist measures emerging in developed countries following the global financial crisis are of “major concern” to ACP countries …
By Iana Seales | Monday, February 23, 2009 | 7 Comments
-MP Kissoon tells budget debate
Lindeners rarely see the effect of big budgets and are instead left every year wondering about jobs, access to good healthcare …
By Iana Seales | Monday, February 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
On a night when local calypso was mostly lacklustre, the Professor’s gripping, witty lecture on politics, crime and living conditions in Guyana stood out and …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 5 Comments
Manic dancer, Travis Bowen
Travis Bowen
Travis Bowen is one of the few Classique dancers who can boast of being young and particularly good, as well as …
By Iana Seales | Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
–in polar beer probe
Attorneys for several of the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) employees named in the Polar beer fraud involving Fidelity Investments are calling …
By Iana Seales | Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
Guyanese Ramon Dummett is growing into a mini-institution on the island of Barbados, but it is the kind of fame he takes no credit for, …