Customs officers strike in Suriname
…affect border crossings Industrial action by Customs officers in Suriname has effectively shut down the operations of the Moleson Creek Ferry and other legal crossings on its borders with Guyana and French Guiana. Up to yesterday the strike was still ongoing. A work-to-rule exercise started Thursday and the Surinamese have been working selectively since then. [...]
Greater cooperation needed between Guyana, other South American states – Min. Persaud
There is need for greater cooperation between Guyana and other South American states, particularly in the area of food and bio-diesel production, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, said during a recent visit to Brazil. In a presentation delivered at the Sixth course for South American diplomats at Palacio Itamaraty, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Minister Persaud [...]
Pompey competes on Penn’s World All–Star team
– ran fastest split on 4x400m anchor leg Guyana’s Aliann Pompey continued her fertile form when she sprinted to the fastest split time on the World All–Stars team at the 2009 Penn’s Relay Championships at the world renowned Madison Square Garden, New York City. Pompey told Kaieteur Sport via email that she was happy with [...]
Berbicians to make annual trek to Highbury for Indian Arrival
A spokesman for the Berbice Branch of the Indian Cultural Committee (ICC) has said it is making arrangements to accommodate a bigger crowd of visitors to its annual Indian Arrival Day programme at Highbury on May 5 next. An organiser, Mr Ramesh Maraj, of New Amsterdam said, “It has been 12 years now since we [...]
Annie’s Playmate among outstanding horses at Mahaicony Meet
Royal Champion, Tropical Passion also impressive In front of a packed house and in conditions made heavy due to overnight and early morning rain, a number of horses came good to score big wins on a day which was full of upsets as the Anjue and Hamlet Park Race club of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara [...]
TRIPS to generate new Compliance certificates
Come Monday all of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Compliance certificates will be computer generated using the Total Revenue Integrated Processing System (TRIPS). The Certificates will now take on the form of a standard certificate with only the text as it relates to the specifics being different. According to GRA staffers, the new system has been [...]
More questionable legislation tabled, says Opposition
Shadow Labour Minister of the People’s National Congress Reform, Basil Williams, who is also a Vice Chairman of the party, is outraged at one of the pieces of legislation tabled in the National Assembly. This Bill is the Public Utility Undertakings and Public Health Services Arbitration (Amendment) Bill, 2009, which is up for debate on [...]
GT&T lauds its administrative professionals
The role of administrative professionals employed at Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), has been lauded by management. The tribute came as part of activities to mark a week of observances. In what has become a tradition within the company, GT&T joined sister organisations worldwide in saluting the work of these professionals in observance of [...]
Guyana Model Search auditions continue countrywide
Well the auditions for the 2009 Guyana Model Search and Stylists Designers Portfolio has from all accounts sizzled at every location. Auditions were hosted on Friday and Saturday in Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam and Bartica. For the Georgetown auditions, more than 100 persons turned up at the Duke Lodge in Kingston (both aspiring models and [...]
PUC consumer outreach in full swing
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has been visiting various communities across the country in an effort to receive feedback on the quality of service provided by the various utilities, namely GPL, GWI, GT&T and DIGICEL, and to discuss with citizens how these public utilities can better their services to consumers. In the past the PUC [...]
The time has come for child victims to be heard before it’s too late
Dear Editor, A 17-year old girl has apparently been charged for murder. This is not the first, and sad to say, may very well not be the last of such an occurrence. Many of our youths are suffering various forms of abuse at the hands of adults, these include: physical, psychological, financial and sexual abuse. [...]
Enmore under a new threat
Dear Editor, Away from the CPGs in the area working with the police to battle the increasing number of drug users in Enmore, a new menace has surfaced. A number of young men with fancy vehicles and with boom boxes worth millions of dollars are competing to make the most noise. Almost nightly, but certainly [...]
Support works to prevent flooding in Mahaica
Dear Editor, I have been a resident of Mahaica for more than 40 years and have never witnessed the massive infrastructure work currently being undertaken by the MMA to secure vulnerable flood prone areas to safeguard farms and the livelihood of many residents. It was, however, appalling to read in the Kaieteur News edition of [...]
CLICO car drives wedge between mother, son
A Mitsubishi Lancer worth some $2.7M, which was won as the 2006 GuyExpo’s gate prize by Ravindranauth Puran, has landed both him and his mother, Savitri Puran, in the High Court. This court action has driven a wedge between the two. The car, which was won by the Ravindranauth, is now registered to his mother [...]
Ms. Mc Dougall’s report ignored the many advances the country has and is making
Dear Editor, Some years ago, when I was president of the Guyana Consumers Association, I was invited to a meeting at the UNDP in Brickdam where I met the head at that time, Mr. Richard Olver, other officials such as Mr. Gopaul Yadav, and the Caribbean head of the UNDP, a Japanese gentleman. Among the [...]
Will the communist motif survive?
With the passing of Mrs. Janet Jagan, the ideological founders of the PPP are now all gone. There is still Mr. Brindley Benn but he is not active inside the PPP. This brings up the question as to whether the present administrators of the PPP’s politics will retain their communist insignia or will we finally [...]
GREEN IS GOOD AND SO TOO IS UNIFORMITY
Georgetown is a dying city. There is little at this stage which can be done to restore it to its former health and glory, as one of the loveliest little wooden cities in the world. Under the PNC, Georgetown went into terminal decay. Almost all aspects of the city were neglected so much so that [...]
IMF: Reform or Recalcitrance
Even though the IMF mission is to assist countries in financial straits, its modus operandi is so draconian that its clients inevitably concluded that the “cure” was worse than the disease. We in Guyana should know this to our cost. In 1997, its draconian conditionalities made the East Asian economies swear never to repeat that [...]
Why do men behave the way they do?
Dear Editor, The ongoing national discourse on the subject of domestic violence seems to be side-stepping a very important part of that issue. Up until now there seems to be no serious effort to look at the problem from the point of view of the man. He is naturally assumed to be the culprit, a [...]
15 Customs Officers slapped with 202 charges
…from conspiracy to defraud to fraudulent conversion A whopping 202 charges have been leveled against 15 of the Customs Officers attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority for their alleged involvement in the imbroglio surrounding Polar Beer that was imported by Fidelity Investment/Kong Inc. Attorney at law Glenn Hanoman will be defending five of the 15 [...]
McLean, Ramlal charged with forgery, conspiracy
Registrar of the Supreme Court, Evelyn Sita Ramlal, and former Major General of the Guyana Defence Force, Norman Mc Lean, were yesterday slapped with a number of indictable counts of conspiring to commit a felony. Both Ramlal and Mc Lean were not required to plead to the indictable charges, which were read to them by [...]
Corbin medivaced to New York
After two days of medical attention at the Woodlands Hospital and at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) respectively, leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, was flown to the United States yesterday morning. Brother of the Opposition Leader, Charles Corbin, confirmed this development during a telephone interview with this newspaper, around 10:45 [...]
Takatu Bridge not open, says Foreign Affairs Minister
- vehicles blocked from entering, leaving Guyana Police at Lethem have erected barriers to block vehicular traffic from entering Guyana via the Takatu Bridge. This move comes in the wake of an unofficial opening of the bridge on Sunday last, during which it was announced that vehicular traffic would be allowed between 08:00 and 20:00 [...]
Guyanese woman dies after house explodes in Queens, NY
…family demands answers The family of a Guyanese mother killed last Friday in an explosion at a house in Queens, New York, is demanding answers from Con Edison, the company which supplies electricity to New York City. A gas leak was the likely cause of the house explosion in Floral Park, Queens, in which Guyanese [...]
