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Saturday, July 05, 2008
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SUMMIT OF 'HOPE AND FRUSTRATION'
THE 29th Caribbean Community was dragging to a close last evening with a mix of hope and frustration on arrangements to achieve a single economy as well as over contentious issues like a new economic partnership with the European Union (EU).
After intense, and at times tension-filled deliberations, the CARICOM leaders were preparing to release last evening two 'Declarations'--one of which deals with the impending signing by member states of the Community (along with the Dominican Republic) and the EU of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) initialled last December in Barbados.
The other promised 'declaration' pertaining to the way forward for CARICOM would be consistent with a signal given at the start of the four-day summit by host Prime Minister and current Community chairman, Baldwin Spencer. ....read more
Panic on Delta aircraft as passenger opens emergency exit
The Delta aircraft at the CJIA
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PANIC erupted when a passenger, the son of a popular gas station owner who died recently, on a Delta incoming flight, popped the slide of the emergency door shortly after. ...read more
Home Affairs Ministry makes contingency arrangements for forensic team to come here
The Ministry of Home Affairs has received an official response from the US authorities saying that due to logistical and resource limitations, they are unable to fulfill the Government of Guyana’s request at this time, to dispatch a forensic/pathology team to assist with the investigations into the death of the eight miners at. ...read more
Rebuke for Antigua's PM on awards for Castro, Patterson
PRIME Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda has been strongly criticised by the parliamentary opposition here for publicly advocating that Cuba's Fidel Castro and Jamaica's Percival Patterson be awarded the Order of the Caribbean. ...read more
GT&T introduces ‘Bird’ brand cellular phones
GUYANA Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday introduced the ‘Bird’ brand of cellular phones to the local market.
The introduction, with much fanfare, was done at Roraima Inn, Lot R 8 Eping Avenue, Bel Air Park, Georgetown. ....read more
MMA/ADA regularising lands distributed since 1905
FARMERS at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, are to benefit from the regularisation of their occupancy of 1,753 acres of State lands distributed more than 100 years ago. ...read more
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Burglar at Agriculture Ministry caught on camera
The Ministry of Agriculture reported that a burglar who broke into its head office on Regent & Vlissengen Roads, Georgetown, yesterday has been captured on a surveillance system installed in the building following a similar incident on May 31. ...read more
Need for probe into these schools
IT has been brought to my attention that many teachers across secondary schools in New Amsterdam, and particularly one, are not marking students’ examination papers. ...read more
They must serve the nation with pride
The good news is that schools around the country will be further strengthened by an additional 525 trained teachers. This will augur well for our education system which in the past years, has been growing from strength to strength. It also comes. ...read more
Different magistrate also refuses Hinckson bail
EX-GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) Lieutenant Oliver Hinckson, who is charged with sedition and conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, was taken to a different Court yesterday but Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle also rejected his plea for bail. ...read more
Windies choke in nail-biter to hand Aussies victory
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – West Indies choked under the pressure of a tight run-chase to hand Australia a one-run victory in the fourth Digicel One-Day International at. ...read more
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