Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has urged labour leaders not to “overreact” after they threatened to shut down the country over the government’s latest wage offer to public sector workers. Public sector trade unions Friday rejected a two per cent wage increase offered by the government...
[caption id="attachment_14166" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit[/caption] GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has called for the removal of “fictitious” imposition of barriers to intra-regional trade, especially within the agricultural sector, urging also that agricultural workers be allowed free movement within...
Antigua and Barbuda other CARICOM member states have been told that they will each have to vote separately for a candidate of their choice when Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda next month. This, as CARICOM appears to be divided over the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General The...
For the period April 28, 2020 to January 27, 2022, Guyana received US$81 million in royalty payments, scraped from the two percent deal it signed with US oil major, ExxonMobil, back in 2016. When converted to local currency, this amounted to just over $16 billion. This was...
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is receiving funding assistance from the Republic of Korea to strengthen laboratory systems and networks in the Caribbean Community (Caricom). CARPHA said that the US$656,743 grant will also assist in strengthening human resources capacities in health sectors to accurately...