Portugal’s Ambassador to Guyana, Jaoa Cateano da Silva and Nigerian High Commissioner Musa John Jen Tuesday presented their credentials to President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President, New Garden Street. The new Ambassador of Portugal told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that his priority would be to foster business relations with Guyana and his country will soon appoint an Honorary Consul to this country. Read the full story

A group of private investors from the Ogle Airport Inc. yesterday met with President Bharrat Jagdeo at his office to discuss the commencement of the second phase of the Ogle Airport development. Read the full story

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday met with French Ambassador Richard Barbeyron and team at the Office of the President. The Ambassador who represents his country in both Suriname and Guyana told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that at his meeting with the President it was decided that there is a need to broaden relations between Guyana and French Guiana… Read the full story

Cuban Charge d’Affaires Pedro D. Arteaga Cardenas, met with President Jagdeo at his office yesterday where the parties discussed the new Ophthalmology Centre at Port Mourant which is in its final stage of completion. Read the full story

Guyana recently participated in the World Travel Market (WTM) travel and trade show held in London where a high level of interest was expressed in Guyana by an increasing number of tour operators and travel writers, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has said in a release. Read the full story

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  With President Jagdeo’s consistency, before the initial signing of the Agreement, the EU included the two clauses for which President Jagdeo lobbied. Economic Partnership Agreements are a scheme to create a ‘free trade area’ (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Read the full story

A sensitisation and training session on a National Drug Information Network commenced Tuesday with the aim of assisting authorities in countries like Guyana to garner timely information on illegal drugs. St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Haiti and Guyana are the territories under consideration for the improvement of the information base to combat drug trafficking and abuse. Read the full story

One hundred and twenty-eight new souls have dedicated their lives to Service for Guyana when the Guyana Defence Force Basic Recruit Course 2008/02 (BRC 2008-02) concluded on at the Colonel John Clarke Military School, at Tacama on the Berbice River, last Friday. Read the full story

The 17^{th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) opened Monday with a strong consensus that education, the driver of national and regional development is the most critical response to the social and economic global challenges now confronting the Region. Read the full story}

Guyana has taken on a renewed focus on agriculture in face of rising world food prices,  and in keeping with its goal of ensuring food security the Ministry of Agriculture has undertaken to rehabilitate abandoned drainage canals and structures to guarantee that drainage and irrigation is addressed. Monday, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud commissioned the Anna Regina pump, Region Two which will significantly aid agriculture in that part of the region. Read the full story