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Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, David Commissiong

COMMENTARY | CARICOM’S Great Fight Back

David Comissiong, Barbados' Ambassador to CARICOM - Monday, January 25th, 2021 - Our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) entered the new year of 2021 facing the greatest challenge in the organization’s 47 years of existence : namely, the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive economic and social dislocation that the pandemic has inflicted upon our region.
  • Published in CARICOM
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GUYANA | APNU+AFC takes aim at DPP Chambers

GUYANA | APNU+AFC takes aim at DPP Chambers

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 26, 2021 - Demerara Waves - The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has taken aim at the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Chambers,  strongly suggesting that the decisions are politically motivated.
  • Published in Justice
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Rep. McGovern Calls on Biden to Repair US-Cuba Relations

Rep. McGovern Calls on Biden to Repair US-Cuba Relations

Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee and a senior member of the House Agriculture Committee, has sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden asking him to restore and repair relations between the United States and Cuba. 
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PNP Minority Caucus leader, Councillor Andrew Swaby

JAMAICA | PNP Councillors condemn attack on the homeless

Kingston, Jamaica, January 25, 2021: The People’s National Party (PNP) Minority Caucus of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Council condemns the spate of violence and savagery that has befallen the homeless community within the Corporate Area.
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Shadow Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Ms Denise Daley.

JAMAICA | Swift action needed to protect homeless says Daley

KINGSTON, January 26, 2021 - The Opposition People’s National Party is again calling for the government to bring all necessary resources to bear for a swift investigation into the spate of seemingly coordinated attacks on six homeless men—four of whom have died—in the Corporate Area.
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Leader of the Haitian Pitit Dessalines party, Moise Jean-Charles

HAITI | Opponents call for general mobilization in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Haitian Pitit Dessalines party, Moise Jean-Charles, called on Monday for a general mobilization starting upcoming Sunday to force the head of State to respect the constitutional term.
  • Published in Politics
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Trial opens in France over herbicides used by US in Vietnam

Trial opens in France over herbicides used by US in Vietnam

Paris, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) The Evry court on Monday opened the trial of 19 companies from the United States that manufacture the so-called Agent Orange, a powerful herbicide used by the US Army during the Vietnam War (1964-1975).
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Venezuelan naval vessel Commandante Hugo Chavez GC 24

GUYANA | Venezuelan Navy seize Guyanese fishing vessels in Guyana Economic Zone

GEORGETOWN, January 24, 2021 - Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an investigation into the circumstances under which two Guyanese registered fishing vessels – the Lady Nayera and the Sea Wolf – operating off the coast of Waini Point within Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone, were intercepted by the Venezuelan military.
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General Secretary of the Alliance for Change, David Patterson

GUYANA | AFC Stoutly defends Patterson against spurious allegations by Edghill

GEORGETOWN,  Guyana, January 23, 2021 - The Alliance For Change (AFC) has stoutly backed its General Secretary, David Patterson, as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of parliament sending a strong signal that APNU/AFC will not relent from the rigourous scrutiny demanded of the Public Accounts Committee.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Banco Financiero International SA of having ties to the Cuban military and using its profits to fund ‘interference’ in Venezuela [File: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via AFP]

CHINA takes parting shot at ‘lying and cheating’ Pompeo

BEIJING (Reuters) – With hours left in Donald Trump’s presidency, China’s foreign ministry took aim at its chief U.S. antagonist, “lying and cheating” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and said it would seek cooperation with the incoming administration of Joe Biden.
  • Published in World News
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Chief Justice Roxanne George Wiltshire

GUYANA | High Court dismisses APNU/AFC election petition on a technicality

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 18, 2021- The Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) will not be able to prove that that there had been massive fraud by the then opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) due to certain omissions to reconcile the votes found in ballot boxes.
  • Published in Justice
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Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire

GUYANA | Court to hear Election Petition Preliminary arguments November 24

GUYANA, OCTOBER 22, 2020 – Despite the strategic decision by the Opposition APNU/AFC to file two separate election petitions seeking to overturn the March 2 General and Regional Elections, Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire told today’s case management that she intends to hear both cases together.
  • Published in Justice
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Justice Frank Seepersad ruled that a police rain on a Trinidad and Tobago media house is unconstitutional.

T&T | Trinidad Judge rules police raid on media house unconstitutional

PORT-OF-SPAIN- January 18, 2021 - The Trinidad and Tobago High Court ruled last Wednesday, that a police decision to carry out a raid on a media house in search of information to bolster their case in March last year, was irregular, unconstitutional and infringed the right of freedom of the press.
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Chair of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Dr. Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

CARICOM | Heads of government start busy week for CARICOM

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - Thursday, 14 January 2021  -  Heads of Government set the stage for an active start to 2021 for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) when on Tuesday they continued their discussions towards initiating the economic recovery of the Region which has been devastated by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Chief of Staff of the GDF, Brigadier Godfrey Bess and Commander of the U.S. South Command, Admiral Craig Faller as they sign the Acquisition and Cross-Service Agreement at the Baridi Benab.

GUYANA | Guyana Defence Force, US Dept.of Defense sign logistics agreement

GEORGETOWN, January 14, 2021 - The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday signed an Acquisition and Cross-Service Agreement with the United States Department of Defense. The Agreement will facilitate reciprocal logistical support between the two countries that caters for combined exercises, deployment, training and other cooperation efforts.
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Trump impeached for historic second time after Capitol insurrection

Trump impeached for historic second time after Capitol insurrection

WASHINGTON DC,  AP January 14, 2021 - Of the 45 presidencies in America's nearly 245-year history, only Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton suffered impeachment. You may now add Donald Trump who was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time, charged with "incitement of insurrection" over the deadly mob seige of the U.S. Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
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Vice President Bharat Jagdeo on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

GUYANA hires US lobby firm to focus on business, democracy, regional stability

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 13, 2021 - Eyebrows are being raised and questions asked, over a revelation by Demerara Waves that the Irfaan Ali administration has hired a US$25,000 dollars a month Washington DC based consulting firm, The Cormac Group LLC, to lobby the US Congress, other key US agencies, and international financial organisations, to impress upon them the importance of doing business with Guyana and preserving democracy.
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Guyana’s Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs Amanza Walton-Desir

GUYANA | APNU/AFC defends Guyana's territorial stance against Venezuela, but.....

GEORGETOWN, Jan. 13, 2021 – Guyana’s Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs Amanza Walton Desir has warned the Irfaan Ali administration, that despite the need for unity in support of Guyana’s territorial integrity, national unity is being eroded by suppression and de-humanisation of Afro-Guyanese and victimization of persons seen as supporters of the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC).
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CARICOM disappointed and concerned over Venezuela statement

CARICOM disappointed and concerned over Venezuela statement

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 12, 2021 - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  says it is deeply disappointed and concerned at the decree and subsequent statements by Venezuela with respect to that country’s border controversy with Guyana, including intimations of the creation of a strategic area of national development called “Territory for the Development of the Atlantic Façade.”
  • Published in CARICOM
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