Dear Editor, Allow me to express my disappointment with a few articles and videos on Guyana surfacing online, and especially on social media. These opinions from outside Guyana are juicy to the readers and viewers. The article in New York Times on Guyana’s oil stirred our guts, but few of us had the courage to rebut the arguments, although a few opinions are a matter of concern that we need to address. There are a few videos on Guyana’s oil being circulated on social media, and they are damaging the…
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El Dorado Offshore trains 40 Guyanese for oil and gas operation
Forty (40) Guyanese mariners are being trained in occupational safety for jobs in the offshore oil and gas industry by Edison Chouest Offshore in collaboration with El Dorado Offshore. Director of El Dorado Offshore, Natasha Jairam-Abai said the company is hoping to double the number of persons trained in the next six months to supply ExxonMobil’s third drillship that will be conducting exploration in the Stabroek Block later this year. The workers will also be placed on Edison Chouest vessels which supplies Exxon’s offshore operations. “These set here will accommodate…
Read MoreMiner slapped with murder charge
A 38-year-old miner was on Tuesday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts slapped with a murder charge. James Allen, of Two Friends Village, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was not required to plead to the indictable charge. The Court heard that between June 28, 2018, and July 8, 2018, at Thomas Island, Bartica, Allen murdered his ex-lover, Petal Hafez. According to facts presented, the woman’s skeletal remains were recently discovered along a trail in Bartica, Puruni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). He…
Read MoreMan dies after crashing into parked truck
A speeding East Bank Demerara (EBD) man died late Tuesday night after the car he was driving crashed into a parked truck on the Yarrowkabra Public Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Dead is 24-year-old Ryan Wilson of Lot 982-11th Avenue, Great Diamond, EBD. According to reports, the accident occurred at about 23:00h. Reports are Wilson was driving motorcar PWW 1114 and was proceeding east along the highway, allegedly at a fast rate of speed, when his vehicle collided with the right-side front of motor lorry GPP 2777 with trailer TTT 1610, which…
Read More2 jailed for 4 years each
Thirty-three-year-old Mark Gomes and 38-year-old Mohamed Kadir who were jointly charged for the possession of 2.25 kilogram of cocaine found hidden in a gas cylinder were on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. The men were charged, along with Ryan Fowler, who had pleaded guilty to the allegation and was jailed for four years. It was reported that two vehicles parked in the vicinity of Sheriff Street, Georgetown were being observed by ranks attached to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). At…
Read MoreBerbice man appears in Court for forging adoption papers
Ariskar Maniram of Lot 121, Number 73 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Monday appeared before Georgetown Magistrate Judy Latchman on a charge alleging that he had forged his own adoption papers. The charge specified that between July 17 and July 20, 2018, with intent to defraud, Maniram conspired with a person or persons in Georgetown to forge a Certificate of Adoption in favour of himself, purporting to show that it was issued by the General Registrar’s Office. Police Prosecutor Quinn Harris told the court that the 30-year-old resident of the United…
Read MoreNIS goes from surplus to deficit in 1 year
With the release of the Bank of Guyana (BoG) Quarterly Report and Statistical Bulletin, the National Insurance Scheme’s financial position raises several questions, as it has gone from a multimillion-dollar surplus to a multimillion deficit in just one year. According to the report, NIS’s overall balance reflected a surplus of G$152 million at the end of March 2017. This good fortune has dramatically turned around, however, because at the end of March 2018, the entity was in the throes of a G$296 million deficit. “This was reflective of increases in…
Read MoreRejecting…
…the water boy We live in interesting times. And your Eyewitness isn’t even thinking of all those interesting Haitians trying to blend in with the locals; their giveaway, however, is their being quite religious folks who just have to practise their “Voudou” — which we call “Voodoo”, and which some folks are VERY leery about, and have reported them to Khemraj Ramjattan, who’s supposed to be in charge of Public Security, but not Immigration, of which he was stripped! No, that’s grist for another mill. What your Eyewitness wants to…
Read MoreUndermining Democracy
In the three centuries of development of Liberal Democracy since the 18th century European Enlightenment, there has been a sustained debate about the relative importance of “outcome” versus “process” in that form of governance; which gradually became the most widespread, but which is now facing challenges. The outcome of democratic governance was described succinctly by US President Abraham Lincoln as “rule of the people; by the people and for the people”. It is now accepted as inextricably linked with the processes that undergird it, and which are mediated through various…
Read More‘We’re prepared to go all the way to CCJ’ – advocate
Despite local courts having not yet ruled on the Parking Meter Project’s legal challenge, advocate Jonathan Yearwood, during a recent interview with Guyana Times International, has said the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is willing to take the matter all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to ensure that they are not being exploited by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown. Yearwood informed that MAPM has halted its protest at this time, since the matter is presently in the hands of the Court, something he…
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