Guyana: LATEST NEWS – 06 August 2016 – Kaieteur News… (see other News sources at the end of this entry)
- Kato School was never certified by supervising firm
- UK teachers train 136 local tutors
- State Attorney to prosecute Jennifer Westford’s multi-million-dollar fraud case
- Board reinstates Michael Khan as GPHC’s CEO
- Rohee Claims AFC being sidelined by APNU
- CANU CoI Report unlikely to be made public – Harmon
- $29 million fraud at GPL …Finance Officer tells court Duncan signed off on cheques payable to himself
- Banning student borrowers not supported by the law—President Granger
- Walter Rodney COI Report riddled with unverifiable evidence, fictitious conclusions –Harmon
- Guyanese soldier tops Physical Instructors’ Course in TT
- Politicking, poor design destroys Hope Canal Bridge
- AG meets with reporting entities ahead of FATF/ICRG visit
- Brazil military to build eight wells in Rupununi
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Guyana Government News Brief – August 4, 2016
Cuba – A momentary darkness? – By David Jessop
David Jessop
As has been widely reported, Cuba has entered a new period of austerity.
On July 8, President Castro told the Cuban National Assembly that Cuban economic growth had slowed to 1 percent in the first half of 2016 compared with 4.7 percent over the same period in 2015.The country must, he said, rapidly cut its spending and energy use in order to address a lack of liquidity as a result of lower than projected income from exports of services and goods, and reduced oil imports from Venezuela.
In doing so he acknowledged “rumours and forecasts of an imminent collapse of our economy” but sought to reassure Cubans that there was no danger of a return to the severe austerity of the 1990s following the collapse of the former Socialist bloc. Continue reading →
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