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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Dear Editor, Today (07-12-09), over 90 world leaders, including President Bharrat Jagdeo, along with scores of delegates from various countries will descend on Copenhagen in Denmark to start 11 days of deliberations to arrive at a communiqué that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol, set to expire in 2012. But just as the Guyana Government keeps emphasising climate [...]
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
By: Brushell Blackman The University of Guyana, under threatening skies held its 43rd Convocation Ceremony at its Turkeyen Campus yesterday. The exercise saw the attendance of President Bharrat Jagdeo, who had not graced the convocation in many years. Addressing the graduating class of more than 1,000, valedictorian, Loria-Mae Angela Heywood, an International Relations Major and the [...]
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
When Guyana Power and Light, on Friday, commissioned the US$30M Kingston power plant, Government signaled its intentions to scale down its involvement in the sector. According to President Bharrat Jagdeo, while government will continue to play a role, it is the hope that this will be minimal since the private sector will have to become more [...]
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
By Brushell Blackman President Bharrat Jagdeo commissioned a new well at the New Diamond Housing Scheme to the tune of $65M yesterday. The facility will serve 4,000 residents and can accommodate a population increase of some 50 per cent of those who live in the area. The project was a joint partnership between the Basic Needs Trust Fund [...]
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
By Gary Eleazar More than three years after the National Assembly passed the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill and it was sent to President Bharrat Jagdeo for him to assent but the required time elapsed, the legislation made its way through the House successfully again yesterday. The Bill which is described as almost identical to its [...]
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
President Bharrat Jagdeo and his entourage narrowly avoided what could have been a major accident yesterday when their lead vehicle suffered a puncture, lost control ...
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Guyana has been building a coalition with other tropical forest countries as a crucial climate summit approaches next week in Copenhagen, Denmark. President Bharrat Jagdeo announced ...
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
President Bharrat Jagdeo was recently nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of climate change, this newspaper has confirmed. Stabroek News learnt ...
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The move by Government to increase the ceiling for Low Income Mortgage Loans has been endorsed and will be supported by the Guyana Association of Bankers. In a statement issued yesterday, the Association said that it welcomes the decision. It was at a meeting which saw the attendance of President Bharrat Jagdeo, Minister of Finance, Dr [...]
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo has defended Trinidad and Tobago’s level of carbon emissions and suggested that Caricom could further reduce environmental pollutants by one day buying timber from Guyana’s vast forests.
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Newsday (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
GUYANA President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told students of the University of the West Indies (UWI) that deforestation remains a global concern and will be placed high on the agenda at the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen later this month. Coming straight out of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this past weekend in Port-of-Spain, Jagdeo spoke to students...
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is seeking international support for a new economic model which Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo says is urgently needed.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
MANAUS, Brazil — Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments Thursday just before an Amazon summit in which...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Speaking ahead of Amazon summit, Lula calls on industrialised countries to provide financial help to halt deforestation Brazil's president said today that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich western countries have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rainforest....
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Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Despite President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent assurance to public servants that their salaries will be increased, the details are yet to be finalised. According to a source close to the Finance Ministry, the matter has been discussed on several occasions but nothing concrete has been finalised. President Bharrat Jagdeo made the announcement of a pay hike during a [...]