US red-flagging containers shipped from Guyana
- local rice miller said he was forced to stop US ports are reportedly red-flagging Guyanese containers and at least one businessman from Guyana says that he was forced to stop shipping directly to Miami, Florida, after unwanted delays sent up his costs. Speaking with Kaieteur News earlier this week, Chief Executive Officer of Ruimzeight [...]
Jagdeo orders compliance, delinquents’ names will be published
… $201M unaccounted advances Head of State, President Bharrat Jagdeo, has ordered that delinquent officials who have received conference advances and have not cleared these with the Finance Ministry are to comply within a month or their names will be published. The President made the disclosure yesterday during a press briefing at the Office of [...]
More Joint Services raids target hot spots
Yesterday, ranks of the Joint Services swooped down on the Stabroek Market area where they conducted a massive cordon and search exercise. The entire area was cordoned off by ranks from the Guyana Police Force as well as ranks from the Guyana Defence Force as searches were conducted on some vendors and their stalls. The [...]
US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project
U.S. company Synergy Holdings has been awarded a US$15 million project to build roads and bridges necessary for the start-up of the Amalia Falls Hydro project, Head of the Privatisation Unit, Winston Brassington, confirmed last evening. President Bharrat Jagdeo announced the award of the contract at his office yesterday, noting that efforts are being made [...]
400 Diamond cane cutters request severance pay
- refuse to work on East Coast Some 400 workers of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are asking to be let loose after talks failed over the proposed shifting of the Diamond workforce to the East Coast Demerara. Two sugar workers unions, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), and the National Association of [...]
Nightclub owner charged with human trafficking
Owner of popular nightspot, ‘Hollywood Bollywood’, Irene Gooding, 60, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty to trafficking in persons, when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. The allegation was that between February 1 and February 18, Gooding trafficked a 13-year-old female. The charge further stated that she harboured [...]
Dem Boys Seh… Robert learning tricks in Israel
Is confusion at de Government Quarters. People now thiefing current like dem head ain’t good, because dem claim how somebody set de precedent. That is why Henry Rodney move in after some mad lady bun down he house. Life suh good that he now don’t have to pay fuh water or lights. But while some [...]
Jagdeo insists his travel expenditure is minimal
…says he worries for Guyana if AFC gains power Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo is insisting that the annual cost of the travelling for the entire Government is on average $200M. He said that it is not accounted for at the Office of the President but rather with the Accountant General at the Ministry of [...]
Jagdeo says Caribbean headed for ‘bankruptcy’
President Bharrat Jagdeo says the regional trade and integration bloc CARICOM is heading for “bankruptcy” with many islands in the 15-nation group unable to pay debts and meet recurrent costs. “The region is heading toward bankruptcy if countries could be declared bankrupt,” Jagdeo told a press conference at his office in Georgetown yesterday. Jagdeo heads [...]
Overhauled Brickdam lockups commissioned
- regarded as one of the best in the Caribbean A Commission of Inquiry some years ago had regarded it as a ‘dungeon horrible’. A visiting British jurist proclaimed that it should be locked up. A Herculean effort has transformed it into a stupendous holding area for those who are criminally inclined. It has cost [...]
Former Attorney General threatens to sue Clico (Trinidad)
- over insurance claim Former Attorney General, Doodnauth Singh, is threatening to sue CLICO Trinidad unless proceeds from an insurance policy worth TT$500,000 is paid within two weeks. Singh, who has been troubled with medical problems recently, needed the money urgently to facilitate overseas medical help, a letter to CLICO Trinidad that was sent yesterday [...]
Local Govt. Elections in April impossible
… concerned over GECOM’s procurement methods -Jagdeo Whilst conceding that he did not want to get into a tit for tat with the opposition on the issue of the Local Government Administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo is willing to give an opportunity to find consensus on the reforms needed before all parties agree to the holding [...]
Takutu Bridge spurs major growth in Lethem – RCCI
The Rupununi Chamber of Commerce of Industry (RCCI) says that the opening of the Takutu Bridge linking Brazil and Guyana has spurred major growth in the area, especially at Lethem. Prior to the start of Rodeo 2010 and, after the opening of the bridge, Lethem has been changing at a rapid pace, RCCI said in [...]
US company awarded US$15 million Amalia Falls road project
U.S. company Synergy Holdings has been awarded a US$15 million project to build roads and bridges necessary for the start-up of the Amalia Falls Hydro project, Head of the Privatisation Unit, Winston Brassington, confirmed last evening. President Bharrat Jagdeo announced the award of the contract at his office yesterday, noting that efforts are being made [...]
GBTI sees $991M in profits for 2009
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Ltd. (GBTI) has enjoyed increased profits in 2009 over 2008, albeit significantly less than the $150M average increase in annual net profits that the bank has been recording since 2005. But for 2009, GBTI will top out just short of the billion dollar mark and that was with [...]
French Guiana puts on impressive show
- as IGG officially opens at Baduel Stadium By Edison Jefford in French Guiana In association with YK Investments and Fon-J Cycle Store The 2010 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) was officially opened yesterday in French Guiana with President of the General Council of the Colony, Alain Tien-Long stating that the event is the best way for [...]
Wounded man denies that he was stealing
- claims that he saved a woman “Meh worship how is it possible for me alone to carry away all these things, then get shoot four times and still able to jump over a fence?” asked Roger Bumbury yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. Bumbury is accused of stealing a quantity [...]
Suriname’s Walking Boys edge GDF 2-1, face ‘The Hammer’ tomorrow
By Franklin Wilson A brace of first half goals by the visiting Walking Boys of Suriname was all that they needed to take full points and pole position in Group ‘D’ of the Caribbean Football Union Champions League Qualifying which kicked off yesterday at the GCC Ground Bourda. The Surinamese controlled the run of play [...]
Zebulun de Counselor is coming home
The artiste Zebulun de Counselor might not be among the more popular names announced, following a selection on local radio but it certainly is a name getting recognition internationally in the reggae and culture music realm. In fact, he is a 2010 New Jersey Reggae Music Awards winner and has confirmed that he will be [...]
Flood lights cricket set for Lusignan on April 3
The Lusignan Sports Club present a grand BBQ and Flood lights cricket match on Saturday April 3 at the Lusignan Community centre and the winner of the 20-team cricket competition is set to take away $100,000. Sponsors are Trophy Stall, El Commediante, Metro Office Equipment, Jewanram Reality, Glacier Ice, Miracle Optical, Rockaway Auto Sales Budget [...]
Lack of information from education districts could lead to sanctions – Baksh
Insufficient flow of information from the various education districts to Central Ministry has been recognised as one of the major shortfalls within the education sector, a development that could result in regional officials being sanctioned. This disclosure was made yesterday by Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, when he addressed a gathering of Regional Officials during [...]
Spready’s Bakery Under-19 Berbice Cricket starts today
The Berbice Spready’s Bakery Under-19, 50-Over Cricket Competition gets started this weekend with the first and second rounds and all matches commence at 09:30hrs. A record forty four teams are registered to participate and in an effort to limit travelling expenses for the teams, the competition will be played in seven geographical zones in which [...]
CYP strategic plan launched
The Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) on Thursday evening presented the Strategic Plan for Youth Development 2008-2012 to the Government of Guyana. Present to hand over the plan was the Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mrs. Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba. Receiving the plan on behalf of the Government of Guyana was Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds and [...]
Survivor stable, claims to know attacker
Twenty-nine year-old Quacy John, who was shot in his head on Thursday evening last, is currently in a stable condition and resting at the Georgetown Public Hospital. John said that he has a fair idea who his attacker is. The man said that he was standing in his yard with a friend and his brother [...]
Guyanese doing well in T&T cricket
Several Guyanese continued to perform well in Trinidad’s domestic cricket over the weekend. In the Championship 2-day league former Guyana under-19 all-rounder Kellon Carmichael and First-Class player Deon Ferrier grabbed three wickets each in a losing cause for Arangues who lost first innings points to Queens Park in their drawn encounter at Arangues. Queen Park [...]
