[caption id="attachment_19010" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr Jephthah Ford will be sentenced next Tuesday[/caption] A Jamaican doctor who claimed he had offered a bribe to a policeman to try to entrap him, was yesterday found guilty of corruption charges. Dr Jephthah Ford will know next Wednesday what punishment he...
Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque yesterday called for a new model for development finance saying that the existing gross domestic product (GDP) per capita should not be the principal measurement used in determining the development status of a country. “We will continue to advocate...
[caption id="attachment_15162" align="alignleft" width="300"] A United States Coast Guard cutter on patrol[/caption] The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued 151 Haitian migrants and handed them over to the Royal Baham Defence Force on Friday. “The transfer is a combination of two separate interdiction cases in...
It’s been a golden year so far for Guyana’s lucrative gold sector. Industry experts say production is booming and the country is well on track to meeting its targets for 2017. According to officials, just seven months into the year, more than 360,000 ounces of gold have...
Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders Tuesday held “varied and robust views” on the ongoing political situation in Venezuela during a three-hour meeting. No official statement has been issued by the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat or from the office of the Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell, who is...