…of Ghana In addition to our similar-sounding name, we’ve got so many things in common with Ghana – whose President is visiting – you’d think we’re “doppelgangers” – you know, real-life doubles. As your Eyewitness mentioned yesterday, the resemblance goes as old and deep as our geological formation, 140 million years ago – including giving us oil today. During the colonial period, Ghana was known as the “Gold Coast” and we were the “Mosquito Coast” – but with El Dorado in our interior!! Starting with Cuffy/Kofi/Coffy, our 1763 revolutionary slave,…
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Let us strengthen our commitment to Get On With It
Dear Editor, As we unveil this Gallery of Photographs of Our Presidents, let us strengthen our commitment to Get On With It: Get on with us growing and developing ourselves and our country, aware of but not incarcerated in our history of the arrival of Europeans in the land, and subsequently the times of slavery and of indentureship. People from six different parts of the world thrown together here like press-ganged sailors of old on a ship setting out into the then not well known oceans, must survive together or…
Read MoreA lost step in the green direction
Hydropower has the ability to transform a country’s electricity spectrum with cleaner energy thus contributing to the reduction of global warming as well as saving the environment. Guyana, a country with vast rainforests and hundreds of waterfalls, took up the mantle and included the Amaila Falls Hydroelectricity Project (AFHP) as part of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) under the stewardship of then President Bharrat Jagdeo. Touted as the keystone of the LCDS, the AFHP was launched in 2009 but has been on hold since 2013 when the developer Sithe…
Read MoreCJIA records over 31,000 arrivals for May
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has released flight statistics for this year thus far, which show a whopping 6000 increase in arrivals for May when compared to last year’s figures. This increase primarily points to the recent Carnival events. According to these numbers, 31,653 persons arrived in the country in May, when compared to 25,447 for the same period last year. An overall analysis showed 130,784 arrivals for 2019 thus far, significantly more than the 123,447 recorded in 2018. For 2019, the figures have shown 256,178 departures and arrivals…
Read More“I am confident”
…Ramjattan says of race to win PM slot ahead of AFC conference The Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) – the minority party in the coalition Government – Khemraj Ramjattan is confident going into this weekend’s National Conference, where he will be contesting for the Prime Ministerial post. A confident Ramjattan, who had announced back in March that he would be challenging current Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo for the post, told reporters on Wednesday that he was…
Read MoreProbe into controversial D’Urban Park almost complete – Auditor General
After much delay owing to its difficulty accessing pertinent information, the Audit Office of Guyana (AOG) is in the process of finalising its report into the controversial, multi-million dollar D’Urban Park Project. In a brief interview with this publication, Auditor General Deodat Sharma confirmed that they are in the process of wrapping up the probe. He revealed that of late, the Public Infrastructure Ministry submitted some information to his office, which is being verified. “I think lately they did submit some information, which I’ve passed to my engineers to look…
Read MoreBusiness Minister challenges stakeholders to improve local tourism product
As Guyana continues with efforts at being promoted as an eco-tourism destination, newly appointed Business Minister Haimraj Rajkumar, who has responsibility for Tourism, has said he believes that in order for the country to be successfully marketed abroad, it first needs to be promoted locally. “I do believe that citizens of Guyana can act as ambassadors (of) our country and help sell our tourism product. But when (you) look carefully, you find that people spend (their) vacations in other countries rather than (in) Guyana, and many of those persons would…
Read MoreHealth authorities working to overcome challenges in dealing with maternal deaths – CMO
By Kristen Macklingam The task of addressing the maternal mortality rate in Guyana continues to pose great challenges for the relevant authorities, and despite progress made over the years, instances of mothers dying after childbirth are still too many. This is according to Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Shamdeo Persaud, who, during an exclusive interview with Guyana Times International last Friday, explained that there are a number of contributing factors which had led to maternal deaths, and the Public Health Ministry is aggressively trying to address them. “That’s a very…
Read More‘Blame yourselves’
… Jagdeo roasts APNU/AFC Govt for constant power woes …says Amaila project would have solved problem Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has laid the blame for the current power woes in Guyana squarely at the feet of the APNU/AFC Government, and President David Granger in particular, whom he said failed to heed the advice of experts to forge ahead with the Amaila Falls Hydro Power Project. He said that due to the fact that generating capacity has been neglected under this Administration, despite his warnings, trouble will occur as it relates…
Read MoreControversy swirls over PM’s directive to reinstate Duncan
…Trotman says dismissal was too harsh One day after it was revealed that sacked General Manager of the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper, Sherod Duncan was reinstated by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader Raphael Trotman supported the move, saying that the dismissal was too harsh a penalty in the first instance. Commenting on the issue, Trotman told Guyana Times International on Wednesday that while it was for the Prime Minister to justify or clarify his decision to rescind Duncan’s dismissal, he did not believe that the Chronicle General…
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