Daily Archives: May 18, 2018

ROSEAU, Dominica, May 18, CMC – A year after he stripped of the position of deputy leader of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP), attorney Joshua Francis, is on the comeback trail.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 18, CMC – The Guyana government Friday defended its decision to delay the release of oil blocks given to the US-based oil giant, ExxonMobil in its concession offshore Guyana, saying it did so in the interest of national security.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Europe’s energy chief will seek to reassure Iran’s top ministers on Saturday that the European Union wants to keep trade open despite the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday.

HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba’s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three survivors, officials and state media said on Friday.

Senator Damani Tabor says the government’s plan create a fourth investment option for the Citizenship by Investment Programme, at a cost of 150-thousand dollars...

Prime Minister Gaston Browne has defended Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Programmes as absolutely necessary to the development of small island economies.

The Opposition United Progressive Party says it would not seek to thwart the government’s planned referendum on the Caribbean Court of Justice as Antigua and Barbuda’s final appellate court.

Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Candidate, Gameal Joyce, has expressed concern about the vagueness of the proposed agricultural development project with the Chinese. Having an interest in agriculture, Joyce highlighted sections of the project draft which he found to be unclear. His concerns came to light in an interview on OBSERVER AM yesterday.

Okay, so we have a problem, and it primarily relates to our food security. More specifically, it relates to the protection of our local production from outside pests and diseases that can devastate our small gains in food production. According to the head of the Plant Protection Unit (PPU), Dr. Janil Gore-Francis, there is a serious lack of shipment inspectors at the unit. In fact, there is only one person from the PPU assigned to check shipments at Customs.