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Guyana to Continue Laptop Distribution
May 22, 2013 | 9:13 am | 0 Comment
Above: Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana will be continuing its programme to distribute laptops to families in the country. The programme, which has thus far distributed 28,000 laptops, will begin what the government called a "massive distribution exercise" in the Demerara/Mahaica region. Over the next few weeks, that will mean roughly 6,000 laptops more...
Guyana to Open Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration
May 1, 2013 | 9:11 am | 0 Comment
Above: the centre By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana will open the Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration on Friday, a facility that will provide refuge for some of the country's homeless population. The project, located on a 7.3-acre site at Onverwagt in West Coast Berbice was funded by $2 million from the government of Venezuela. The more...
Guyana, Jamaica Lead CTO/TravelMole Sustainable Tourism Awards
April 18, 2013 | 3:53 pm | 0 Comment
Above: the Tryall Club and Villas in Jamaica By Alexander Britell PORT OF SPAIN — Tourism organizations and hotels from Guyana and Jamaica dominated the list of winners at this year's CTO TravelMole Sustainable Tourism awards in Trinidad. The awards were announced during the 14th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development. Guyanese hotels more...
IMF: Haiti GDP Projected to Grow By 6.5 Percent in 2013
April 16, 2013 | 2:58 pm | 0 Comment
Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti's economy is projected to grow by 6.5 percent in 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook. That number is in line with a projection made by the IMF in late 2012. Haiti's economy grew 2.8 percent last year, although it had been projected to grow at a more...
Guyana, US Sign Open Skies Agreement
March 27, 2013 | 11:48 pm | 0 Comment
Above: the Umana Yana in Georgetown By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States and Guyana have signed an Open Skies air services agreement, the State Department Announced this week. The agreement was signed March 25 by US Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hardt and Guyana Public Works Minister Robeson Benn. The deal formalizes what the State Department called more...
Op-Ed: Chavez and the Caribbean
March 6, 2013 | 10:03 am | 0 Comment
By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor What be will the impact of Hugo Chavez’s death upon the Caribbean and the Hemisphere at large? It’s likely that, eventually, the bilateral relationship between Venezuela and Cuba, which was predicated on the personal relationship between Chavez and the Castro brothers, will recede. Without Cuba and Venezuela acting as a more...
Guyana Receives $5 Million IDB Grant for Low-Carbon Economy
March 1, 2013 | 3:33 pm | 0 Comment
Above: Guyana's Kaietur Falls By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana will receive a $5 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank to support the country's low-carbon development path. The programme will help create incentives for investment in Guyana's low-carbon sectors. The first portion of the programme will help provide credit for small and more...
Rum Journal: Guyana’s El Dorado 15
February 27, 2013 | 11:26 pm | 0 Comment
GUYANA IS the southernmost country in the Caribbean Community, and just one of two CARICOM Member States that are not actually islands. But its Demerara region long produced the best sugar in the Caribbean, and Guyana has one of the region's oldest rum traditions. While Guyana has far fewer distilleries than it did during its heyday in the colonial period (according more...
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Delta Airlines Ending Service to Guyana, Citing “Poor Demand”
February 19, 2013 | 4:25 pm | 0 Comment
Above: a Delta flight By Alexander Britell Delta Airlines will be ending its service to Guyana, the company confirmed to Caribbean Journal. Delta spokesman Anthony Black said the company "will end or suspend indefinitely service beginning May 6." "It's basically poor demand, a lack of demand," Black said. In a statement Monday, Guyana Tourism Minister more...
Brazil, Guyana Hold Discussions on Potential Coast Guard Partnership
February 6, 2013 | 12:20 pm | 0 Comment
Above: President Donald Ramotar meets Brazilian Vice Admiral Ademir Sobrinho, joined by Brazilian Ambassador to Guyana Luiz Seixas De Andrade (left) By the Caribbean Journal staff Brazilian Vice Admiral Ademir Sobrinho recently made his first visit to neighbouring Guyana, holding discussions with Guyana President Donald Ramotar on areas of more...
