President David Granger: Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips; Finance Secretary Dr. [Hector] Butts; Mr. Saul from the Ministry of Finance; Senior Officers and Commanders of the Guyana Defence Force; Officers; Soldiers:I am very happy to be here this morning to join the Chief of Staff in congratulating you on a successful Exercise Home Guard. …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Thank you Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Patrick Chesney, Assistant Resident Representative; Honourable Carl Greenidge; Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs; other Ministers of the Government; Members of the National Assembly; Mrs. Khadija Musa, United Nations Resident Coordinator; members of the Diplomatic Corps; special invitees; ladies and gentlemen: I’m happy this evening …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Mainly people are concerned with ensuring that all of the organs, all of the processes of CARICOM move ahead more quickly, this is what we are committed to [doing]. So I think the caucus will be committed this afternoon working out the legalities for ensuring that the [CARICOM Single Market and Economy] …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Ministers of the government; Dr. George Norton, Ms. Volda Lawrence, Dr. Karen Cummings, Ms. Valerie Garrido-Lowe, members of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. William Adu-Krow, PAHO representative; other distinguished invitees, ladies and gentlemen: I am happy to be here this morning to join you in this very important forum, and I do believe …
Read DetailsMedia representative: … In Guyana’s waters. Your reaction to that, sir? President David Granger: Well, obviously we are interested in developing our petroleum sector. Well, of course, it is non-existent we have had bauxite for a hundred years and gold and diamond mining. So, it is a very important advance and it will contribute to …
Read DetailsRemarks byChairman of the Caribbean Community, Prime Minister of Dominica, His Excellency Roosevelt SkerritPresident of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, His Excellency Brigadier David Granger and the Secretary-General of CARICOM, Ambassador Irwin La RoqueClosing press conference: 37th Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government held at the Pegasus Hotel6th July, 2016His Excellency …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Prime Minister, Honourable Moses Nagamootoo; Vice President Carl Greenidge, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Honourable Dominic Gaskin, Minister of Business and Mrs. Gaskin; Honourable Catherine Hughes, Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Chairman of DDL, Mr. Komal Samaroo; Dr. Yesu Persaud, Director of DDL; members of the private sector, distinguished invitees, ladies and gentlemen, …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Thank you, please be seated. Thank you Headmistress for your kind introduction and thank you students for coming out and giving me such a warm welcome when I entered the compound this afternoon. I know you’ve been here for a long time so I’ll try to be brief. Madam Chairperson, Ms. Sarah …
Read DetailsPresident David Granger: Members of the media, fellow Guyanese: I’m happy to be here, this is my third event in the East Berbice-Corentyne Region Six today. I started at sunrise at Fyrish and then I went up to Bara Cara and now I’m at Rose Hall and the day ain’t done yet. But what we’ve …
Read DetailsDirector of Communications Mr. Mark Archer: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the media. Welcome to the Cuyuni Room, which is the presidential press centre in the Ministry of the Presidency, welcome to our press conference. Today we have His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana; Minster of State, the …
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