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  • Jamaica and Guyana leaders to meet to resolve rice dispute 13 May 2008 11:32 GMT
    ... By Kevin Lindon Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent Email: GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo ... Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo and Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding are to meet shortly and ... rising cost of living requested by the government of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda ...

  • St Lucia joins regional efforts to protect Caribbean Sea from pollution 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... joining Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and the Government of France. The island is now in ... the 17th and 18th of April in Guyana where Ministers of Environment reaffirmed the importance of ... CARICOM to provide the highest level of political support to the ratification and implementation of ...

  • COMMENTARY: ACP and the EU should seek WTO waiver to complete EPAs 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... EU market. After some Caribbean heads of government met Peter Mandelson and Louis Michel, two ... Arthur of Barbados and Bharat Jagdeo of Guyana – indicated that there is contemplation of legal ... The ACP should convene a meeting at ministerial level to agree to urge the EU ...

  • COMMENTARY: Media Freedom and Political Action 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA) in Guyana is being threatened by organised political groups as a response to a four-month ... Undoubtedly, there is an overwhelming desire by Guyanese people of all walks of life for ...

  • COMMENTARY: Cuba's Medical Diplomacy: A Winner 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... all this was going on, the Cuban government provided assistance to other countries in Africa, ... at the Cheddie Jagan International Airport in Guyana. Knowing that there were no scheduled flights ... is consistent. Earlier this year, the US administration sent a ship with medical personnel and ...

  • Testing the Currents of Multipolarity 13 May 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... tendency toward a multipolar configuration of world politics, in which a number of regional power centers ... (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and Chile, Guyana and Surinam. The ultimate aim of the initiative ... entity with a single currency and a parliament modeled on the E.U., although that result ...

  • Venezuelan Steel Nationalisation Marks "New Revolution Within Revolution" 13 May 2008 00:19 GMT
    ... to nationalise the company. “This is a government that protects workers and will never take ... raised by the workers and people of Guyana (and won by the colossal struggle of the ... people from across the country) changes the political conjuncture following the defeat of Chavez’s proposed ...

  • The Commonwealth: A Glass More than Half Full' 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... democracy – electoral processes, the functioning of government, the level of political participation and culture, and the extent of ... had good elections in recent times in Guyana and Sierra Leone. Despite the huge disappointment in ...

  • Colin Bruce: World Bank Keen on Governance 13 May 2008 00:03 GMT
    ... on development opportunities and challenges with the government, a dialogue that is frank, factual (empirically ... in Kenya. But she is back in Guyana and deserves our continued attention. I must admit ... life including the Executive branch of Government, Parliament and the Judiciary, the private sector, professional ...

  • Governing parties say no to apology for slavery 12 May 2008 22:45 GMT
    ... a small South American country sandwiched between Guyana and French Guiana, is a former Dutch colony, ... that called for it. "If the Surinamese government announced, 'We can't carry on like this ... she will put forward the case in parliament for 1 July to become a public ...

  • Jonestown tragedy had liberal roots 12 May 2008 21:59 GMT
    ... the Soviet Union. Moving his group to Guyana was an escape from the suffocating capitalism he ... he became active there with liberal Democratic politicians. Mayor George Moscone appointed him to the ... the First Lady and recommended the U.S. government give Cuba medical supplies. He mentioned his ...

  • All Caribbean countries now included in US funding to fight HIV/AIDS 12 May 2008 21:37 GMT
    ... the Caribbean region, in particular Haiti and Guyana, remain in desperate need of assistance in battling ... life years, compromising the economic, social and political growth and stability of many Caribbean nations,” Congresswoman ... for her leadership in rallying Caribbean health ministers to support the Caribbean amendment, as far ...

  • Human development and health issues discussed at CARICOM Inter-Sessional 12 May 2008 20:33 GMT
    ... the just concluded 19th Inter-Sessional Heads of Government Meeting in The Bahamas. The Heads of ... among them, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, urged Member States and ... on Children to be held in Georgetown, Guyana, 17-19, March 2008 and to be prepared ...

  • Guyana opposition rejects allegations of misuse of government election funding 12 May 2008 19:52 GMT
    ... ...

  • Food crisis crosses globe 12 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... 100 million people deeper into poverty. Philippines: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. Dominican Republic: Sends 30 trucks ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. Guyana: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow ...

  • Responses to food crisis 12 May 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... have taken to prevent unrest. * PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. * DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. * GUYANA: President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that 600,000 packages ...

  • Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 11 May 2008 10:49 GMT
    ... have taken to prevent unrest. — PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue “rice access cards” ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. — DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. — GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow ...

  • COUNTRIES ACT TO PREVENT UNREST 11 May 2008 07:45 GMT
    ... governments have taken to prevent unrest. Philippines: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. Dominican Republic: Sends 30 trucks ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. Guyana: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow ...

  • Changes in Cuba? 11 May 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... of the 2015 World Food Summit: Cuba, Guyana and Peru. According to UNESCO, currently one out ... from the difficulties Cubans faced, the Cuban government decided to limit access of the population ... and without concessions. There is an undeniable political will among top leaders to promote debate. ...

  • Fixing Food 11 May 2008 06:55 GMT
    ... have taken to prevent unrest: • PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue "rice access cards" ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. -- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. -- GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow ...

  • Changes in Cuba> 11 May 2008 05:56 GMT
    ... of the 2015 World Food Summit: Cuba, Guyana and Peru. According to UNESCO, currently one out ... from the difficulties Cubans faced, the Cuban government decided to limit access of the population ... and without concessions. There is an undeniable political will among top leaders to promote debate. ...

  • A look at responses to food crisis 10 May 2008 18:55 GMT
    ... governments have taken to prevent unrest. PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue ''rice access cards'' ... least seven dead and force the prime minister from office. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Sends 30 trucks ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow ...

  • Soaring fuel costs threaten to shut down Suriname fisheries 10 May 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... By Ivan Cairo Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent Email: ... Kermechend Raghoebarsing, for some time now the government has been discussing the matter with state-owned ... for a crackdown on illegal fishing by Guyanese and Venezuelan ...

  • Oil reserves at 130 billion barrels 10 May 2008 07:14 GMT
    ... Ministers suggested the creation of a regional mechanism ... Caracas. Argentinean, Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Chilean, Ecuadorian, Guyanese, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Surinamese, Uruguayan, and Venezuelan Ministers ... pact. "There is a technical and a political time. There must be a balance between ...

  • Whither crime by 2009? 10 May 2008 06:46 GMT
    ... days last week and further south in Guyana, while no more massacres like what occurred earlier ... given the drug men certain clout in political circles so it will not be easy ... poverty. It is no surprise that the government in Jamaica stands accused of not doing ...


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