Sithe Global never completed a Hydroelectric Project in the world
…Ugandan civil society in uproar as project cost moves from US$500M to US$800M As investigations continue into the development of the Hydro Electric Project in Guyana it has become clear that the company which is slated as the “project sponsor” and “equity partner” has never completed a Hydro Electric Project anywhere in the world. This [...]
British University renames centre after Guyanese Icon, Dr Yesu Persaud
“One of the greatest living Guyanese today” – Bishop George A number of well wishers gathered at Le Meridien Friday evening to join Dr. Yesu Persaud in celebrating the renaming of the University of Warwick’s Centre for Caribbean Studies in his honour. Professor of Literature at the University, David Dabydeen, told the story of the [...]
Lysons moves to block NICIL from transferring property to National Hardware
A former clothing giant in Guyana is in court battling National Hardware (Guyana) Company Limited and the government-controlled National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) over a valuable piece of property at the Ruimveldt Industrial Estate. National Hardware has located its main operations there. Lysons Knitwear Industries Limited, Lysons Dieknit Inc. and L. Yasin and [...]
Literary icon Professor David Dabydeen is a ‘Special Person’
“Being an academic allows you the space and the resources to publish. The primary aim of any academic is to research and to publish. If you don’t do that you are stealing the tax payers’ money. By Sharmain Cornette He is considered one of the most outstanding literary icons to have emerged from these shores. [...]
Supenaam stelling was taken over with faults – Minister Benn
-$18M more spent on modification By Leonard Gildarie The Ministry of Public Works says that using the traditional timber planks would not have worked for the new stelling at Good Hope/ Supenaam. This stelling developed problems last week, four days after it was opened to traffic. During a press conference at his Kingston office, yesterday, [...]
Dem boys seh….De Big Boss getting old before he time
Bharrat adopt a warring mode. De other day he tell a big forum that is only some old people trying fuh mek life hard fuh he. He seh is five of dem.Right away dem boys start fuh identify de five old people. Dem come up wid Uncle Adam, Chris Ram, Uncle Freddie, Clive Thomas and [...]
Fired managers sue NBS for $1B
Two managers of the New Building Society (NBS) who claimed that they were wrongfully dismissed during a fraud investigation, have sued the entity for a total of $1B in punitive damages and loss of benefits. Additionally, former Directory/Secretary, Maurice Arjoon, and Kissoon Baldeo, Assistant Mortgage Manager, also demanded in their separates writs, to be reinstated [...]
CLICO (Bahamas) liquidator rejects Guyana’s claim
CLICO Bahamas’ liquidator has “rejected” almost US$50 million worth of claims made against the insolvent insurer by its affiliates in Guyana and Suriname, and pledged to “call on” the US$58 million guarantee its Trinidadian parent made to it to cover any shortfall in sums due to policyholders and creditors. In his third report to the [...]
US-based Enterprise residents continue support of countrymen
Thanks to his countrymen who make up the US- based Enterprise Support Group (ESG), Anrood Ramrattan now has a prostethic leg, which will certainly enable to continue his life in some sort of comfort. Ramrattan who heads a family of three, including an adopted daughter, had one of his legs amputated a few years ago [...]
Guyana joins in on International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
Guyana will join the rest of the world this evening to commemorate the 2010 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. The Memorial will be held from 17:00 hrs in front of the St. George’s Cathedral in Georgetown. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is a programme of the Global Health Council and was the first public event for [...]
Summit with Latin America, Caribbean a golden opportunity – EU Presidency says
The Spanish EU Presidency views the Latin America and Caribbean summit in Madrid next week as a “golden opportunity” to better relations between the two regions at a global level. The official website of the Spanish EU Presidency considers Tuesday’s summit “one of the central points on the Spanish Presidency’s agenda,” given that Madrid has [...]
Guyanese fraudsters charged in US
Several Guyanese including two Queens attorneys have been charged with defrauding legitimate homeowners and various lending institutions out of more than $3M in equity that had been stripped from 26 refinanced residential properties valued at $13M. Many of the loans subsequently went into default, leaving lending institutions with insufficient collateral and substantial losses, or into [...]
Child removed from home, placed in protective custody
… Angoy’s Avenue buggery, carnal knowledge case The seven-year-old child that was sexually abused by her stepfather with assistance from her mother has been removed from the home and placed in a Children’s home. This is the latest information coming from the Probation and Social Service Department of the Ministry of Human Services and Social [...]
YCG embraces gender sensitivity drive
- urges retired teachers to join volunteer teachers prog. In an attempt to embrace a paradigm shift which incorporates gender sensitivity in the work place, Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) has engaged an initiative that now sees closer attention being paid to how persons interact in the work environment. According to National Volunteer Teachers Programme Co-ordinator, [...]
Juveniles described as devils sent to NOC
Two teens who were described as devils will be the guest of the state for the next two years after they were committed to the New Opportunity Corps juvenile correction facility at Onderneeming, Essequibo. Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, sitting in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, committed the two youths after listening to a damning report by [...]
Corbin sees nothing wrong with call to abolish death penalty
The last execution in Guyana was actually a double-hanging in August 1997, when Mike Archer and Peter Adams were hanged for a fatal robbery attempt. There are now 36 prisoners on Death Row, including two females. Several countries called for Guyana to abolish the death penalty during the United Nations Periodic Review this week. On [...]
Lightning strikes Lima Sands School
Lightning struck Lima Sands Primary School recently and damaged several electrical appliances. The newly built school is located four miles inland and west of Anna Regina. According to teachers attached to that school, the lightning struck at a time when the school was in recess. The teachers also claimed that the school’s computer was affected [...]
OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 3)
By Clarence O. Perry What we want our nation to be we must first put in our schools. If certain inhumane tendencies (for example, immunity to the suffering of others, or, hard self-interest) do not start in our primary schools, then it is clear that they are deepened and authenticated there,- hence Ian Lye’s letter [...]
Racist politics has muzzled the East Indians
- says Freddie Kissoon “Where are the East Indians now when they were everywhere criticising the government during the Presidency of Forbes Burnham. They were out in the streets demonstrating against matters that today, 25 years later, are Boy Scout mistakes.” That was the crux of the lecture presented by Political Science Lecturer, Frederick Kissoon, [...]
Technician refurbishes Linmine relic
The recent Linden Town Week celebrations will forever remain etched in the memories of lots of children in the mining town, and their parents too. These children (and their parents) were taken back in time to the days when trains, tram or gang cars, and bauxite cars and locomotives were an integral part of this [...]
In Tribute to the late Sir Ian Valz – Part 2
- by Petamber Persaud (Excerpt of an interview with Ian Valz, Georgetown, Guyana, November 2007. Valz made his mark on local theatre before migrating to St. Maarten in 1983 where he died recently. Valz is better known for his play,‘House of Pressure’.) PP: And theatre should be easy; it is grounded in oral tradition of [...]
TIMID LEADERSHIP SETTING BACK CARIBBEAN IN THE WORLD
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The Writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean Diplomat) Several commentators have lamented in recent years the seeming timidity of Caribbean leaders in not more aggressively defending and advancing the economic interests of Caribbean countries in the global community. This apparent timidity has been evident in a number of areas including [...]
THE AFC IS LISTENING TO THE YOUTHS OF GUYANA
By Raphael Trotman, AFC Leader There is a special joy that comes from associating with young people which energizes the old and excites the aging. Working closely with the members of the AFC’s youth arm over the past month, has filled me with a deep sense of pride that long after I am gone from [...]
The truth hurts badly
By Adam Harris I was at a press conference hosted by President Bharrat Jagdeo not so long ago when I heard him say that reporters in Guyana are lazy. Being a reporter myself, I rationalized. I told myself that perhaps the president was generalizing, that he was not including me in the equation. The President [...]
The President laments: “What if it was your child?
President Jagdeo was in Wakenaam last week to seek support for his airstrip project on the island. President Jagdeo’s logics never fail to amaze. In justifying an airport in Wakenaam to the people who gathered in a school to listen to him, the President pointed to the possibility of an emergency, where a citizen on [...]
