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Bert Wilkinson February 05, 2021 - 9:40 AM GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Under pressure from mainland China, Guyana’s government has cancelled permission for Taiwan to open a trade and investment office in the South American country. The cancellation came Thursday after Foreign Minister Hugh Todd met with the ambassador of China, which insists that Taiwan is legally a part of its territory and not an independent nation. The government issued a statement clarifying “...

January 30, 2021 Share Brazil’s neighbors are starting to restrict international travel amid concern about the spread of a new coronavirus variant that experts say may be more contagious and driving a second wave of infections. Guyana’s government closed its border with South America’s largest country on Friday, two days after Colombia halted passenger flights to and from Brazil; both nations cited the new variant as their reason. Argentina’s government decided to cut in half th...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s neighbours are starting to restrict international travel amid concern about the spread of a new coronavirus variant that experts say may be more contagious and driving a second wave of infections. Guyana’s government closed its border with South America’s largest country on Friday, two days after Colombia halted passenger flights […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s neighbors are starting to restrict international travel amid concern about the spread of a new coronavirus variant that experts say may be more contagious

Social Share Journalists across the Caribbean are mourning the death of colleague George Alleyne who died suddenly at his home on Friday. Alleyne, 61, who is Guyanese by birth, spent almost 40 years in the profession. The following tribute was paid by the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, with input from Bert Wilkinson and Julius Gittens. Ian George Alleyne started his journalistic career at the Government Information Service in the early 1980s. He then transferred to the state-owned G...