United Nations

Guyana wants ICJ to settle Venezuela border claim

President David Granger on Tuesday widened his international call for the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy to be taken International Court of Justice (ICJ) when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

September 30, 2015
Published in Caribbean

President Raul Castro and Pope Francis during the pontiff's visit to the Caribbean island. They are both in New York now. | Photo: EFE

Cuban President Raul Castro Is in NY for Historic UN Summit.

Cuban President Raul Castro has arrived in New York late Thursday ahead of his historic participation at the United Nations General Assembly, the first by a head of state of the island nation since Fidel Castro in 2000, Prensa Latina reported.

September 25, 2015
Published in World News

Minister of State Joseph Harmon flanked by Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Brigadier Mark Phillips.

Venezuela's military exercises an "affront" to Guyana's sovereignty

The Guyana government on Wednesday sought to downplay the possibility of a military strike by Venezuela, while describing the presence of gunboats in the Cuyuni River as merely an act of aggression.

September 25, 2015
Published in Caribbean

UN team to explore settling Guyana-Venezuela border dispute

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 29, 2015 - Guyana's Foreign Ministry says a United Nations (UN) team arrived in Guyana on Friday night, to begin a mission to explore another way of settling the decades-old border controversy with Venezuela.

August 30, 2015
Published in Caribbean

UN to form mission to deal with Venezuela, Guyana dispute: Maduro

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – A UN mission will travel to Venezuela and Guyana to promote dialogue between them over a border dispute, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said this week.

July 30, 2015
Published in Caribbean

Verene Shepherd, a member of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent of the Human Rights Council.

UN wants end to Racism, Intolerance as world Commemorates anti-discrimination day

Almost 50 years after the proclamation of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN has been told that too many individuals, communities and societies continue to suffer from the injustices and stigma brought by racism.

March 28, 2015
Published in Lifestyle

Mr. Rodney Leon (second left), winner of the design competition, ‘The Ark of Return’, to be erected as a Permanent Memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, explains his concept to (from left), Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller; Antiguan Prime Minister, Hon. Baldwin Spencer and Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Courtenay Rattray, at on September 23 unveiling at the UN. (FILE)

Monument to Victims of Slavery to Open at UN Headquarters in March

The permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade is to be erected in March on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York.

February 13, 2015
Published in Diaspora

Sierra Leone has been hardest hit by the epidemic | Photo: Reuters

Ebola is spreading again, but the world isn't interested.

As international interest in Ebola wanes, the virus has again spiked in West Africa, according to figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday.

February 5, 2015
Published in Health

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