Daily Archives: Nov 19, 2018

President David Granger, who was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, returns to Guyana on Tuesday following his medical treatment in Cuba, according to an...

A new session of the Grenada Parliament began on Monday with the Keith Mitchell administration emphasising the need to build resilience in an era...

The pilot of the Air Jamaica flight that was forced to make an emergency landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) earlier this...

Guyana Monday called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to confirm as a final and binding judgment, the full legal validity of the...

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Monday held talks with the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, on development projects for...

The Cabinet briefing notes, for which we are very grateful and compliment the administration for their consistency, always deliver a gem or two.  In the most recent release, it was reported that the Cabinet invited an expert from the Ministry of the Environment to discuss the possibility of securing higher quality take-away biodegradable food and drink containers. That is good but as the report points out, the move is done “now that Styrofoam has been banned, and plastic utensils are also to be phased out.”  As we have asked many times before, why after and not before.

The government plans to remove the 50-year tax exemption issued in a number of areas to owners of any ship that secures and maintains registration in Antigua and Barbuda, but which is registered as an external company under the Companies Act.

The Fisheries Department and the Barbuda Council are still at loggerheads over the use of the Fisheries Complex on the sister island.

For the second time in recent weeks, stakeholders in the field of Agriculture will be coming together at one forum, to take a closer look at the growing sector and make recommendations for improvements where necessary. This comes as local officials push towards achieving the global goal of a hunger free society by the year 2030.

Legalising marijuana (cannabis) for medicinal, religious and sacramental purposes is on the agenda for discussion at tomorrow’s sitting of the House of Representatives, as the Cannabis Bill 2018 will be read for the second and third times.