CARICOM Secretariat wraps up pilot project ‘Regional Integration and the CSME’, conducted via online classes exchanges between High School teachers in Belize and Guyana

May 25, 2021 The CARICOM Secretariat’s pilot project with High School teachers in Belize and Guyana teaching each other’s classes online finished on Thursday. Mr. Albert Inshanally of Queen’s College…

Secretary-General accredits Guyana’s new Ambassador to CARICOM

April 23, 2021 Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Wednesday received Guyana’s new Ambassador to CARICOM H.E. George Talbot, in a ceremony which also highlighted the country’s lead role in the…

OAS and CARICOM “condemns” Venezuela’s detention of Guyanese fishing vessels

By: Staff Writer January 29, 2021 The Venezuelan capture of Guyanese fishing vessels in disputed territory sparks widespread condemnation The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) has…

Guyana president slams Venezuela’s Maduro over disputed oil territory

By: Staff Writer January 12, 2021 President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, Saturday responded sharply to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro who, on Thursday, escalated rhetoric that Essequibo, which comprises almost…

Caribbean jails are full of nonviolent offenders, but murder still high.

By: Staff writer December 18, 2020 “Incarceration does not appear to significantly reduce criminality,” as jails are filled with non-violent offenders in the Caribbean, a recent Inter-American Development Bank study…

Guyana to strengthen public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic with IDB support

Guyana will strengthen its public policy and fiscal management response to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis with a US$34m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The operation, the first of a…

IDB Invest gives $55m (US) in trade support to help battle COVID impact- Barbados, Suriname and Guyana are first up.

The Inter-American Development Bank, through its investment arm, IDB Invest has broadened their trade facilitation programme across the Caribbean with incorporating three subsidiaries of Republic Financial Holdings Limited in Barbados,…