President Bharrat Jagdeo told Toshaos (Head of Amerindian Villages) that 8 Million US Dollars out of the 30 Million received from the Low Carbon Development Strategy’s payments from Norway will be available to Amerindian Villages.
The President was at the time addressing the Amerindian leaders this morning at the opening of the National Toshaos Council Meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

The Leader, chairman, members of the Central Executive and the wider Party, of the People’s National Congress Reform, expressed condolence, to the wife, Mara, three children (Misha, Oya  and Osa), mother, Margaret Knight, the other members of  family, relatives, friends, members of the Cabinet, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), and all of the people of Barbados, on the sad passing, today, of the Prime Minister of Barbados, Hon. David John Howard Thompson, at the age of 48.