Specifications for almost all government projects/ contracts are a state secret. WHY?
…US$295 is an estimated cost – Minister Webster
- no specification or tender as yet The government is still to tender for the computers for the one laptop per family (OLPF) programme. The government has already voted $1.8 billion for this year. Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Jennifer Webster, said that the government will be importing and distributing 27,000 computers this year. [...]
GuySuCo gets another $1B from govt.
The sugar industry, struggling to regain its footing after last year recording one of its worst performances in two decades, is to receive a $1B cash injection from government. During an early morning visit yesterday to the Enmore Estate, East Coast Demerara, geared to bolster confidence in workers, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, and a [...]
Where are Sheema Mangar’s samples?
Mystery seemingly surrounds the whereabouts of the forensic samples that detectives took more than three months ago in an effort to track down the killers of bank employee Sheema Mangar. The police top brass have stated that the forensic evidence, including a strand of hair and a piece of fabric, were sent to a Barbados [...]
Fleeing bandits leave shotgun behind
Fearful of a beating by angry residents, fleeing bandits left a shotgun behind as they made a hasty retreat from the home of an intended victim in the Kamarang area last Tuesday. Police in a press statement said that they have recovered a 16 gauge shotgun and one matching cartridge which were found in a [...]
Dem boys seh…Guyana really coming back
Guyana coming back. That is wha Dave Martins sing and people start fuh clap. De radio station start fuh play this song steady and Bharrat decide that he gun mek it de national anthem till dem boys tell he that de song really telling people that Guyana going backwards. Was a time when Guyana use [...]
Bandits strike three Canje households
Armed bandits in Berbice went on a robbery spree, attacking the occupants of three Canje households in a brazen assault in the wee hours of yesterday. The men who were masked and carried handguns, smashed their way into the home of 20-year-old Sahadeo Wengagloun, approximately an hour after they had raided his neighbour Suresh Sooknanand’s [...]
Cop loses firearm while on patrol duty
Several teams from the Police Tactical Services Unit (TSU) swooped down on communities in the city yesterday, in search of a firearm that was dropped by one of their colleagues sometime between Wednesday night and yesterday morning. But up to late last night, the weapon, a .38 revolver with six rounds, was not recovered. Senior [...]
2011 Budget approved by National Assembly
The $161B Current and Capital Expenditure for 2011 was yesterday given the approval of the National Assembly for spending in the various sectors when the Appropriation Bill was passed in the House. The expenditures scrutinised yesterday included those for the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Fire and Prison Service as [...]
Moore and Allen sign with prestigious promotion Group in USA
Local bantamweight and multiple champion of several prestigious championship belts, Leon Moore is the latest Guyanese to join the Boxing 360 promotional group in the USA, emulating his countryman, Lennox Allen. A report posted on fightnews.com stated that the North American promotions group has managed to clinch the services of the Guyanese pugilist to add [...]
Families ‘to hear’ from company in April
Families of the victims of the trawler explosion which occurred last June, now have to wait until April this year to hear if the fishing company will pay them any compensation. The preliminary report into the explosion slammed the seafood company, Pritipaul Singh Investments Inc., for its lax safety methods, further indicating that the fire [...]
Table Tennis coaching clinic set for Berbice tomorrow
Samuel Whyte With its renewed drive to spread the game of Table Tennis countrywide and make Guyana once more a force to be reckoned with in the Caribbean, the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) under the renewed leadership of Commissioner of Police Henry Green is forging ahead with its expansion and development programme. A one [...]
Commander Vyphuis rushed to hospital
Divisional Commander of the police ‘A’ Division, Assistant Commissioner George Vyphuis was admitted to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital after collapsing during a senior management meeting of the Force yesterday. This newspaper understands that Vyphuis was rushed to the hospital minutes after complaining of feeling unwell during the meeting which was being held in the [...]
McDonald calls for the preservation of Bourda
Among the many subjects of his lucid presentation at the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Awards and Appreciation Evening last Saturday, Dr. Ian McDonald called for the preservation of the historic Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda. “As that club’s oldest member, can I make a special plea that Bourda not be forgotten as one of [...]
Stop the profound madness and put cricket first – BCB PRO Foster
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Berbice Cricket Board and 2009 National Sports Personality Hilbert Foster has made a passionate plea to cricket administrators in Guyana to stop the infighting that is gradually destroying the image of the game. The long serving cricket administrator who is also the Secretary/CEO of Guyana’s leading Youth & Sports [...]
Guyana, Brazil announce bid to establish duty-free zone
Guyana has signed a historic agreement with Brazil’s businesses to trade goods and even tap into 200-plus tourists who transit through the border states of the neighbouring country daily. Already work has started between the two countries to identify the items, with measures being explored to ensure that these meet Brazil’s health and phytosanitary standards. [...]
World food prices hit record high in January
World food prices rose to an all-time high in January, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The FAO’s Food Price Index measures the cost of a basket of basic food supplies — sugar, cereals, dairy, oils and fats and meat — across the globe. The index rose by 3.4% in January — [...]
Schools battle for honours in National inter-Secondary Schools’ Futsal tourney
Several schools will continue their quest for dominance when the National Inter-Secondary Schools’ 2011 Futsal Football tournament continues at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue this afternoon. The competition continues tomorrow with several more exciting duels at the same venue. In this afternoon’s matches St Winifred takes on Imperial College; Queen’s College opposes St Roses; Community [...]
Yet another scandal erupts about “Medical University”
No stranger to the news is Nanda Kissoon, (just one of the many aliases) who has been embroiled in a nursing school scandal many times before. Kissoon was on Wednesday, last, again escorted to the Brickdam Police Station for questioning following allegations that she had defrauded a number of her students. Kissoon, also known as [...]
Bartica miners join call for GGMC overhaul
- say “cease work orders” being abused By Leonard Gildarie Amidst Government concerns over “corruption” at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), at least one mining body agrees that changes have to be made to further protect operators. President of the Bartica Community and Mining Development Association (BCMDA), Fred McWilfred, also claimed that the [...]
GECOM, ERC meet to promote non-violent elections
In preparing for the upcoming elections, Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and Bishop Juan Edghill, Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) met on Wednesday at the Office of the GECOM Chairman, to consider areas in which the two organisations could work together towards the maintenance of an electoral environment that [...]
Religious bodies host successful ‘Harmony Walk’
As observances for World Interfaith Harmony Week continue, individuals from the various religious groups came out in their numbers yesterday for the ‘Harmony Walk’. The walk started at the Cenotaph and ended at the Promenade Gardens, where there was a religious programme and cultural show. Present were leaders from the Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Baha’i and [...]
One of Guyana’s oldest dies at 104
Yesterday, four weeks before her 105th birthday, centenarian Cecilia Goddard Hughes called Gertrude, drew her last breath. She passed away at her residence, 2950 North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Ms. Hughes was born on March 4, 1906, at Versailles on the West Bank Demerara. She was one of four children for her parents, who were among the [...]
It is a problem of democracy and ignorance, not fear
Dear Editor, As general elections in Guyana draw close, all kinds of fears and anxieties grip the population, the kind of fears and anxieties accompanied by violence that have characterized our nation at election times for the past half century. Only a few impractical idealists would deny that there exists in Guyana a state of [...]
A street vendor led to the Tunisian Velvet Revolution
In Guyana, over three hundred street vendors were forcibly removed from their selling base one evening. No one in the Government of Guyana gave them warning or notice. The bulldozers came and demolished their livelihood. There were screams and tears. Single mothers lost their means of living, but no one created a Velvet Revolution out [...]
