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Guyana has backed calls for Europe to compensate Caribbean states for the inhumanity of slavery, saying the injustice had left a deep wound and the desire to right this wrong was a component of the anti-colonial struggle. “Guyana agrees that we must look at this dark history in order to understand and move forward in the present. But apart from the duty to remember, we have the duty to ensure that just and appropriate measures are adopted to compensate for those wrongs,” Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony told a regional…

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy during a recent visit to Venezuela succeeded in getting manufacturers to agree to supply Guyana with 5000 tonnes of fertiliser. During the recent visit of President Nicolas Maduro to Guyana, a decision was made to extend that previous agreement to two shipments. As per the new arrangement, the first shipment will see the supply of 5000 tonnes, and another shipment in March next year. Ramsammy said the government has been negotiating with ship owners since the plant itself has an established shipping time. “Whatever ship…

Freshly minted Guyanese doctors, numbering over 200, who were trained in Cuba will over the next few days, in groups of 60, be put through several training sessions that would prepare them for their first postings. At the orientation for the doctors on Monday at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, they were told of the demands of the health system, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Scope of training Their training will incorporate, among others, legal and administrative components of the health system, regional and clinical health services, maternal…

Professor Clement Sankat, principal of the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St Augustine campus, says the decision not to renew environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh’s part-time contract was not politically motivated. “The system was challenged, and it had nothing to do with politics,” Sankat reportedly told TT media last Friday. He added that Kublalsingh was never on the permanent staff, and there were hundreds of part-time lecturers with similar contracts at the university. Last year, Kublalsingh missed several classes when he was involved in a 21-day hunger strike over the…

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) declared all-out war against human trafficking in Guyana during its thanksgiving service on Tuesday. In the presence of the U. S. Ambassador D Brent Hardt; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Deputy Resident Representative Chisa Mikami; and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) representatives, GWMO President Simona Broomes vowed never to end the fight against human trafficking. GWMO members have pooled their resources to finance trips to interior locations to rescue trafficking victims, in particular young girls and women. Rescue With the organisation less than two…

The People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/ C) has condemned what it called the continued harassment of the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs by Opposition Leader, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Chairman David Granger and other elements of the opposition. The PPP/ C said the latest attack on the clerk is yet another manifestation of “their dictatorial tendency”. “It is clear by now that they will use all means possible to forge ahead with their agenda of illegalities.” Strange The party said it also found it strange that…

The National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) on Tuesday commenced a two-day national conference for Persons Living with HIV (PLHIVs), with speakers urging infected persons to take ownership of their own lives. The conference, which targeted approximately 50 peer support group leaders from Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and 10, was held at the Regency Suites, Georgetown. The aim is to deliberate on the quality of social support services provided through the national HIV care and treatment programme, to identify the gaps, and to make recommendations on how to improve…

The Sun Sentinel is reporting that a Broward jury on Tuesday convicted a Pembroke Pines man of the murder of his adoptive mother, rejecting a defense claim that he had consensual sex with the victim and then passed out while someone else killed her. Gerard Lopes Belmonte, 23, was found guilty of second-degree murder after jurors deliberated for five hours Tuesday. He faces a maximum of life in prison when he’s sentenced on October 10. The verdict ended a one-week trial that devastated the victim’s family. Lopes was Natalie Belmonte’s…

The 21st-century policing initiative instituted by former Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs has merit and some of its components will be incorporated into the Police Service, according to TT’s National Security Minister Gary Griffith. Griffith told TT media that he intended to meet with acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams as soon as possible to discuss the measure. The initiative met with much criticism from the Police Service and Social Welfare Association, which complained that owing to the shift system, its members were being made to work beyond the stipulated 40…