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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (DPI) – Hilton Todd, minister of foreign affairs and International Cooperation, today met with permanent representatives of the Group of Latin America and Caribbean States (GRULAC) at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The minister took the opportunity to present to the Group Guyana’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2024-2025 term and to outline Guyana’s vision and priorities once successful. Minister Todd also expressed Guyana’s appreciation to the permanent representatives […]

TAIPEI, (Taiwan Today) – President Tsai said April 12 that Taiwan is committed to safeguarding the values of freedom and democracy alongside like-minded partners while calling on Canada to support the country’s bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Tsai made the remarks while receiving a delegation from the country’s House of Commons at the Presidential Office in Taipei City. Led by John McKay, chair of the Standing Committee on National Defense, the group includes MPs Stephane […]

Australia’s northwest, home to the world’s biggest export hub for iron ore, could be hit by the strongest tropical cyclone in a decade. Ports were clearing ships out of the area, and people rushed to stock up on food and water. Cyclone Ilsa, which was in the Indian Ocean about 300 kilometres (186 miles) off the coast of Australia, was raised to a category four storm on Thursday morning, April 13. This is one step below the strongest category five. […]

UN News – Fully financing the HIV response in Africa will produce substantial health, social and economic gains for the continent, a new report backed by the UN agency devoted to ending AIDS (UNAIDS) revealed. The report based on research by the Economist Impact partnership across 13 African countries, A Triple Dividend: The health, social and economic gains from financing the HIV response in Africa, estimates that millions of lives will also be saved if funding is forthcoming. Not only would there be between […]

Release – Through an agreement signed November 8, 2022, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) became the recipient of financing to the tune of €149,976.00 from the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) for the implementation of the Global Programme Digital Transformation in the Caribbean Region. This was based on CARPHA’s proposal developed in April 2022 for capacity development for audio messaging as a tool for community outreach to improve health-seeking behaviours in the Caribbean.  The overall objective of the […]

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho & BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Office Automation (POA), the largest independent office equipment dealer in the U.S., has acquired Fenton’s Office Solutions (FOS), a Konica Minolta and Epson family dealer in Idaho Falls that serves Southeastern Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The transaction closed last week, and was announced to customers on April 10. This expands POA’s Konica Minolta footprint into three new markets for the company. Now part of the Pacific Office Automation family, FOS customers and the […]

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Analysis is complete and the results from DALBAR’s 25th annual study of investor account statements have been revealed! With its use of color to effectively draw attention to the most critical values on the statement, BNY Mellon | Pershing achieved the top position among brokerage statements, in addition to hitting an all-time high score. Landing in the top spot among defined contribution and total retirement statements, as well as holding the #2 spot among brokerage statements, saying Bank […]

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CrossMark–BAPCo®, a non-profit consortium of leading PC hardware manufacturers, add Linux and Chrome support to the CrossMark® v1.0.1.95 benchmark, a cross-architecture performance benchmark using common and relevant workloads. Supporting the most popular operating systems – including Windows, Android, Linux, ChromeOS, iOS, and macOS – CrossMark® is based on widely used open-source applications to assess system performance scores in the areas of Productivity, Creativity, and Responsiveness. What’s new in CrossMark: Enables performance comparison of Linux with other Operating Systems […]

USA  / INDIA – The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met April 12, and discussed debt sustainability and debt restructuring challenges and ways to address them. At the end of the meeting, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group president David Malpass and Indian minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman, co-chairs of the GSDR, released the following statement. Sovereign Debt Roundtable #GSDR meeting Washington DC, April 12, 2023 “The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met discussed […]