Author: TIMES INT'L

Private sector body says takeover of Berbice Bridge sends wrong signal to potential investors

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Underscoring the importance of investments in Guyana, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar has criticised Government’s recent takeover of the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BCCI). Speaking at the GCCI’s 129th Awards Presentation and Gala Dinner on Wednesday evening at the Marriott Hotel, the GCCI President noted that Government should ensure that the appropriate environment is created to facilitate investments in Guyana. “Investments are also driven by the environment which it is executed in and the recent Government takeover of the Berbice Bridge doesn’t augur…

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Degutting…

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…Parliamentary Democracy Parliamentary democracies function as “democracies” only if those in power observe the rules and conventions of the game. And it IS game, isn’t it? Think about the game of cricket we all love so much. Suppose the fella who’s batting refuses to come off when his stumps are sent flying – and he’s backed by the umpire who insists the game must continue? What then? Take this fella Nagamootoo, who was made Prime Minister when the APNU/AFC coalition took office. Because President is ill and had to fly…

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Court should decide if PM ‘squatting’ in National Assembly

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…while acting as President – political analyst While there have been many views shared on whether Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo should or should not be allowed to be present in the National Assembly while acting as President, Political analyst Dr Henry Jeffery feels that the matter should be sanctioned by the court of law. Jeffery, a former Government minister for nearly two decades, said that only a court could decide on the best way forward because both the Government and the Opposition may never come to a compromise in resolving…

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Kuru Kururu couple found dead in home

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The bloody bodies of a woman and her reputed husband were on Tuesday found lying on their bed in their Lot 522 Kuru Kururu, Linden-Soesdyke Highway home. Dead are 36-year-old Naco Malika Hale and 48-year-old Alwin Bleacher. The dead couple were found by their 14-year-old son after he went into their bedroom to check on his mother, since she did not wake them up to prepare for school as was routine. As he entered the bedroom, he saw his mother lying in a pool of blood with several stab wounds…

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Shrinking foreign reserves spell trouble for Guyana – audit firm

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Over the past year, reports from the Bank of Guyana and even the Finance Ministry itself have painted a worrying picture about Guyana’s rapidly depleting foreign reserves. According to audit firm Ram and McRae, this problem is still not being addressed by the Government. In its annual publication Budget Focus, the audit firm referenced Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s announcement in his budget speech that Guyana’s international reserves will go from US$581 million to a forecasted US$477 million. According to the firm, which was founded by noted anti-corruption activist and Accountant…

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Budget loose ends?

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Satiricus breathed a sigh of relief as he sauntered into the Back Street bar. The Budget was done and he wouldn’t have to put up with all the nonsense that went on under the cover of “debate”. There would be the last day, when there would be voting on the individual “line items”. But since usually the Speaker didn’t even bother to look up after asking, “Those in favour say, ‘Aye’,” Satiricus didn’t plan on showing up. “But Sato, dat might be de day wid de bigges’ action!” exclaimed Cappo,…

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The traditional Guyanese Christmas

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Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and it is a time we use to reflect on the year we have had, along with focusing on family and giving to charity. It is a season that brings together people across boundaries as they all part take in the festivities. It is also a time where children are at their happiest and filled with anticipation as they wait to see what presents they find under the tree on Christmas morning. Every part of the world has…

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Vendor granted G$50,000 bail over alleged possession of ecstasy

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A vendor was on Wednesday taken before the Court of Law after she was found in possession of a small quantity of ecstasy last week. Twenty two-year-old, Tamara Akra of Mocha Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD) stood before Magistrate Fabayo Azore and denied the allegation put to her. It is being alleged that she, on December 8 2018 at Croal Street, Georgetown had in her possession 10 ecstasy pills weighing 5 grams. Akra who was represented by Attorney at Law Paul Fung-a-Fat was granted bail in the sum of…

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The CSME

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The issue regarding the slow pace of implementation of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Single Market and Economy (CSME) again took prominence during the 18th Special Meeting last week at Caricom Heads of Government meeting held in Trinidad and Tobago. During the special meeting held to review the CSME, heads were challenged yet again to take the necessary steps to ensure its implementation is fast-tracked so that citizens all over the Region would begin to experience the benefits of the CSME. The CSME, conceived in 1989 and given various priority areas…

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“Shoe Lace” gets life imprisonment for businessman’s death

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After a jury found him guilty of killing a man for which he was paid G$60,000, Phillip “Shoe Lace” Paul was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment at the Georgetown High Court. It was during his trial that it was revealed that he was paid by an accomplice called “Tall Man” for the December 2012 murder of Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman Kamal Ramsahoye who met his demise when the killers stumbled upon him as they were about to rob his home. Only “Shoe Lace” was on trial for…

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