Year: 2013

The Guyana Relief Council, in collaboration with ‘New Thriving Restaurant’, hosted its annual Chinese Food Festival on Sunday, raising funds to boost the council’s operations. The luncheon was held at the New Thriving Restaurant on Main Street, Georgetown, with approximately 200 persons attending the feast. This luncheon is the GRC’s biggest fundraising activity and was sponsored exclusively by New Thriving. According to GRC’s chairperson Yvonne Hinds, the agency has been hosting the event for more than 10 years, and over the past few years it has raised Gy$1 million annually.…

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Guyana is examining a proposal by Venezuela to set up a Petrocaribe Economic Zone (PEZ) which was tabled at the recently concluded ministerial meeting of Petrocaribe and the Summit of Heads of Government. Speaking to the Government Information Agency (GINA) after attending the summit in Venezuela, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said, “The PEZ is intended to deepen the progress made by the organisation, with a view to developing the production sectors of member states, based on the linkage of production chains which would generate economic surplus and would make cooperation…

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With effect from May 27, for a period of one-month, Caribbean Airlines will fly an additional flight that is expected to add 900 seats to the country’s airlift capacity, acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali disclosed last Friday, while speaking to Guyanese media. Additionally, as the ministry continues to look at having more airlines ply the Guyana route, from June 27 to the end of September, there will be an increase in daily flights. “You will have daily flights to the US… in addition to that, once the…

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Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities Public Relations Officer Ganesh Singh said the local paralympics committee is preparing to pull off the 2013 national paralympics games. During an exclusive interview with Guyana Times International on Friday, Singh said the games will be staged while the committee continues to work to finalise its draft constitution in order to be recognised locally, which has been developed from consultations in all 10 administrative regions. Last year, the committee conducted consultations and the feedback was dispatched to the Labour Ministry’s Co-op Division…

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Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul on Monday disclosed that more than 31,000 persons in Guyana will benefit from the Gy$35,000 minimum wage standard slated to take effect from July 1. He told Guyana Times International that the minimum wage standard caters for fulltime employees working for 40 hours per week or more. “All will benefit across the board, from security guards to janitors to domestic workers, all will benefit,” he said. Boasting about the progress made thus far, Minister Gopaul said for the first time in the history of Guyana,…

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A technical team from Guyana and Suriname is expected to continue talks shortly concerning the monitoring and regularisation of the Nikerie ‘backtracking’ route. When contacted on Monday for an update, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said the matter has been under discussion since the last meeting between the two sides in August last year. She noted that a decision has been taken that both Guyana and Suriname must be integrally involved in any attempt at addressing the way forward. “Those discussions are on the agenda for the next encounter… when…

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Local air carrier, Roraima Airways last week honoured former pilot Miles Williams, who also served in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), at a special ceremony held at Duke Lodge, Kingston. In brief remarks at the ceremony which coincided with Williams’ birthday, Roraima Airways’ Managing Director Gerry Gouveia said many times people live their lives, and do extraordinary things and then they fade away. He said life’s challenges and family obligations consume and direct what “we do and where we go”. He described Williams, a former Special Forces officer, who was…

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