Author: TIMES INT'L

…CCAC says Board to pass judgement For the second time, the embattled Fly Jamaica Airline has failed to refund owed passengers, although it promised to process those refunds by July 1. Consumer Affairs Officer Feyona Austin-Paul, who is attached to the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC), in an interview with this publication on Tuesday said the airline’s officials were contacted after fuming passengers turned up at the agency’s Sophia, Georgetown office on Tuesday morning to seek answers on their owed monies. “They have not processed the refunds. They didn’t…

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The second edition of the Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GUYTIE) was, on Wednesday, launched at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. With a primary focus on export and investment, the event will be held between February 13-15, 2020. Minister of Business Haimraj Rajkumar during the official ceremony said the government is seeking to improve standards in the business sector. “The locally produced goods will find themselves in the international markets. For this to be realised, we need more than a fair trade. It will take a concerted effort, from every…

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– acting Crime Chief Guyana’s law enforcement officials are awaiting feedback from their overseas counterparts in relation to a request for assistance in solving the shooting incident of Director and Principal of School of the Nations, Dr Brian O’Toole, which occurred over five months ago. This is according to Crime Chief (ag), Senior Superintendent Michael Kingston, who, in a telephone interview with Guyana Times International on Monday, said a lot of work has already been done by local Police, but there is need for foreign assistance in this matter. “Every…

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A 22-year-old unemployed man, who admitted to snatching a woman’s cellular phone, was jailed for two years when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Oswald Cumberbatch of Laing Avenue, Georgetown stood before Magistrate Faith McGusty and admitted to the charge which stated that on July 2, 2019 at Croal Street, Stabroek, Georgetown while using personal violence, he robbed Ansar Abdul of a cellular phone valued G$120,000 and a phone case valued G$2,000. In plea of mitigation the man told the court: “I use to work at the wharf but…

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Thirteen teacher’s selected from schools within Region Four (4) are now being trained in a collaboration between the Public Health and Education Ministries to tackle mental health issues among young people in schools. The academic professionals will be trained over a-2 day period at the Mental Health Unit, Quamina Street, Georgetown. In Guyana 13-15% of mental health issues are found among adolescents in Guyana As such, the Ministries’ aim in training the teachers is to help them to recognize children and adolescents with mental health issues such as self-harm, suicide…

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…if PPP regains power – Jagdeo Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is urging officials of the various Government agencies, who last week received a circular from the Finance Ministry to submit their 2020 Budget proposals, to ignore the document. However, he did recognise that these public servants were being pressured into going along with the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Government’s illegal acts. “It’s not the public servants we gotta go after because they are being pressured. We should go after the Director of the Office of Budget…

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