Guyana receives new UNDP resident representative
Khadija Musa, United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative,
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Khadija Musa, United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative,
(Barbados Nation) The recent heavy rainfall has a veteran St Philip farmer reaping his fill of spuds.
(Barbados Nation) With the overall rate of joblessness said to be in the order of 12.5 per cent, Barbadians have been filing for unemployment claims by the hundreds.
(Trinidad Guardian) Soldiers have moved into state-owned Petrotrin and set up base two days ahead of an impending strike action.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has filed a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
(Trinidad Express) Ex-national coach Russell Latapy has sued the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) for over $5 million dollars which, he claims, represents salary owed to him and compensation for being wrongfully dismissed.
(Trinidad Express) Despite assurances from Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine, the National Petroleum Company (NP) and Petrotrin that there would be no shortage, panic-buying motorists purchased all the fuel at most service stations in South and Central Trinidad on Tuesday.
(Barbados Nation) REDjet has had a significant impact on Barbados’ visitor arrivals from the Caribbean and Tourism Minister Richard Sealy has affirmed government’s commitment to supporting the local carrier as a result.
REDjet today announced plans to begin service to St Maarten from Barbados.
(Barbados Nation) Contrary to rumours, Whitney Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown has not been banned from attending her funeral.
The AFC this afternoon called on President Donald Ramotar to apologise to the electorate and retract charges he made in a newspaper interview that the AFC and the APNU manipulated the election results at certain polling stations.
The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 0245h today where a suspected molotov cocktail was thrown at a building at Sheriff and Garnett Streets, Georgetown.
A man who travelled to the US from Guyana last Sunday was busted with 11 pounds of cocaine packed in the false sides of his bag at the J F Kennedy Airport in New York.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon today said that President Donald Ramotar’s recent accusations that APNU and AFC manipulated the results of the 2011 general elections are justifiable.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a wave of state-backed social programmes in the run-up to an October presidential election.
Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has resigned from the West Indies Cricket Board citing the controversy posed in relation to his role as Head of the Interim Management Committee to run local cricket.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras and killed more than 350 inmates , including many trapped inside their cells, officials said today.
(Jamaica Gleaner) For a second consecutive week, the Parliamentary Opposition has attempted to have Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller answer oral questions in the House of Representatives.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Fifty farmers from the District of Para will export pepper seeds next year as a result of the ‘Chili Pepper’ project.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is spending more than Bds$1/2 million to fix up Government House and meet expenses for an official state visit of the Earl and Countess of Wessex later this month.
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