Year: 2018

50 years of friendship, cooperation between Brazil and Guyana

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– collaboration in defence, health and infrastructure This year will mark 50 years of friendship and strong bilateral ties between the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the Federative Republic of Brazil, during which there has been cooperation in the areas of defence, health and public infrastructure between the two South American neighbours. With the visit of Brazil’s Defence Minister Mr. Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto and a high-level delegation on February 9, this 50-year-old relationship is set for further strengthened cooperation and collaboration. In December 2017, during President David Granger’s State…

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Warden caught smuggling ganja into NA prison

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A 26-year-old warden of the New Amsterdam Prison is now in hot water after he was on Monday evening busted with 528 grams of cannabis and 20 packs of cigarettes inside the prison. This Stanleytown, New Amsterdam resident is now being investigated by the Police for smuggling contraband into the N/A prison. According to the Police, officers are in the process of preparing a case file which will be sent for legal advice. In a separate matter, Police in New Amsterdam are hunting for two suspects after 3.665 kilograms of…

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Govt should do more to ease the suffering of sugar workers

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Dear Editor Thousands of sugar workers of the Guyana Sugar Corporation from Skeldon, Rose Hall and East Demerara Estates will surely face the similarly harsh sufferings we are going through at Wales Estate. Our children can’t get enough and proper meals; clearly, they are being malnourished. Some of them are forced to become school drop-outs. We are noticing many of the boys are attracted to stealing, while we are not pleased with the behaviour of some of our young daughters. We did not expect, at the time of our redundancy,…

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President noticeably absent from oil & gas summit

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Dear Editor, I watched the news reports pertaining to the recently-held oil and gas summit at the Marriott Hotel last week and could not help but notice the absence of our Head of State, President David Granger. I read the ideas and concerns coming out of the discussions and searched to read what our President had to say about the event. I later learnt that President Granger never made the event. I thought this was strange that at our first-ever oil and gas summit dealing directly with this new wealthy,…

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Husband to face Court for brutally stabbing wife

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Housewife Shenella Marks of Westbury, Essequibo Coast, Region Two is now in serious condition at the Charity Hospital, after being stabbed multiple times about her body by her husband on Monday afternoon. Police Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan has said the incident reportedly occurred at about 16:00h on Monday, while the victim was in the vicinity of the Charity Water Front, Essequibo Coast. The 23-year-old Shenella Marks had reportedly moved out of her matrimonial home at Westbury about a month ago, because of domestic abuse allegedly being meted out to her by…

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‘Kidnapped’ child found with father’s relatives in Georgetown

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Eight-year-old Anellie Hoyte, who over a week ago was reportedly abducted from the Tuschen Primary School, East Bank Essequibo, has been found in the care of her father’s great-aunt at North East La Penitence, Georgetown, according to her mother, Alisha Marcus. Alisha Marcus said she found her daughter on Monday at the elderly woman’s home, and Anellie has since been taken into state custody. She explained that the elderly woman related she was unaware that it was reported that Annelie Hoyte had been kidnapped, and decided to take the child…

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2% royalty too low

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– President’s Petroleum Advisor … ‘He doesn’t speak for us’, says Gov’t A contract is an agreement between two parties and when one is dissatisfied then the terms of that agreement could be reviewed and amended, according to the Presidential Adviser on Petroleum, Dr Jan Mangal. Dr Mangal made the statement while speaking to reporters following a discussion on the Government’s vision for the oil and gas sector at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus on Wednesday. “A contract is an agreement between two people and both parties need to…

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President to request further consultations for appointment of Chancellor, CJ

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…after Opposition Leader rejects nominees President David Granger is expected to write Opposition Leader Dr Bharrat Jagdeo for another round of consultations before the appointment of a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice, Minister of State Joseph Harmon told sections of the media on Thursday. “The President took the decision that he is going to write the Leader of the Opposition… and that the work of the judiciary will not be held in abeyance or will not be stymied by any interventions whatsoever,” Harmon said. The development came in the wake…

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Cops torch huge ganja farm in Berbice

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A team of law enforcement officers commanded by a Superintendent on Wednesday conducted a fifteen hour long drug-eradication operation at Ebini, Upper Berbice River. According to information from the police, the operation saw an estimated 300,000 cannabis plants ranging between 6 inches to 5 feet in height, 150,000 kilograms of dried cannabis, a number of nurseries with about 100,000 seedlings and 4 camps being destroyed by fire. Moreover, a single barrel shotgun, three live cartridges, a water pump and a chain saw which were found during the operation, have been…

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CPL Player Draft set for March 1 in London

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Hero Caribbean Premier League has confirmed that the highly anticipated Player Draft will take place on Thursday March 1. This will be when the six franchises will select their lineups for the sixth edition of the tournament which will take place between August 8 and September 16 this year. As ever, the Hero CPL will have the best cricketers taking part in the tournament, from around the world as well as from across the Caribbean. The window for this year’s event means that there are no West Indies fixtures that…

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