GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - It was labelled a “John Doe” summons and it sought information about American taxpayers with offshore accounts at CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB) and across the rest of the Caribbean. And when it was served on FCIB in Barbados, banker...

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, APRIL 10TH 2014 (CUOPM) – Former President and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, A.N.R. Robinson was not only committed and determined but also possessed great personal courage. St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas in payi...

International Day of Girls in ICT is observed to help inspire girls to consider a future in technology. Guyana’s observance of Girls in ICT Day 2013 was centred around a symposium and mini job fair which was hosted at the Guyana International Conference Centre on Thursday. Over 300 female seco...

– as NFMU hosts Tech Day Camp                                   International Girls in ICT Day is an initiative backed by In...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) – Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa for months in one of the most challenging outbreaks of the disease the international community has ever faced, health experts said yesterday. Dr Keiji Fukuda of the World Health Organisation said that while other outbreak...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The social network set up as a form of Twitter in Cuba was not designed to foment dissent against Havana’s communist government, the head of the US agency behind it said yesterday. Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the US Agency for Inter-national Development (U...

WASHINGTON/LUHANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces yesterday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action as it had in Crimea. Armed pro-Moscow protesters were ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - In the midst of the shaking of the continent of Europe as Russia invaded Crimea, and tore it off from Ukraine as peremptorily as Nikita Krushchev had previously attached it to that country; and even as Britain has played a substantial role in marshalling the Europ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has announced the establishment of a National Security Special Operations Group to deal with criminal activities in the country. But National Security Minister Gary Griffith made it clear that the new unit comprising, highly t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Port workers have downed tools as management and trade union officials were meeting on Tuesday in an effort to end the industrial action that has affected operations at the Port of Port of Spain. The workers, some of whom have stayed away from the port, have er...