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Guyana to get more money from WB before first oil

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– Bank to review draft SWF Act, provide technical support Earlier this year, the World Bank agreed to give Guyana US$35 million in Development Policy Credit to help prepare the country to manage its future oil wealth. It turns out that a second tranche of financing will be given before first oil. This is according to the Finance Ministry, which in a statement noted that it was presently hosting a Joint World Bank Mission comprising the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD); the International Development Association (IDA) and the…

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Librarians to be equipped with robot-making skills

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Gone are the days of going to the library just to read books as librarians across the country are now being equipped with the knowledge of building and programming robots to be able to share with young intrigued minds. Presently, over 30 persons from various parts of the country are being trained in an initiative, which seeks to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in libraries. At the kick-start of one of the training programmes on Wednesday, which was hosted at the Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown, Co-Founder…

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Indigenous residents receive licensed firearms

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Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Minister Sydney Allicock handed out another batch of licensed firearms to Indigenous residents from communities in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), the distribution was done over the weekend in the Indigenous community of Kamarang, Upper Mazaruni. “We’re very pleased to be able to deliver on our promise … I think good things come to those who wait, and today you have a good thing in your hand for your livelihood,” Minister Allicock told residents. Earlier this month, Minister Allicock and Ministers…

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Serious questions remain for GECOM on what took place on Nomination Day

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Dear Editor, In relation to matters of expenditure of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) — and in particular the queries regarding voters’ education activities, which are woefully inadequate — a proposal should have been submitted to GECOM for approval. Further, the CEO, Mr. Lowenfield, MUST be able to provide timely information in respect to the execution of tenders and who were the evaluators. He should also provide copies of the evaluation report, substantiate the position of the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) or Cabinet, and state whether mobilisation…

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New teachers’ strike looms in Guyana

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…as Govt refuses to budge over arbitration Chair The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Wednesday called on its members to be on standby as it gears for another round of strike action; this time on a larger scale, if the imposed chairman for the arbitra-tion panel – for the wages dispute between Government and the Union – is not withdrawn. The Chairman of the arbitration panel is Dr Leyland Lucas of the University of Guyana. He was named arbi-trator last week and according to the GTU, they did not agree…

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Following along with 2018 Young Leaders of the Americas

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After attending a two-day skill-building conference in Detroit, Michigan, the Guyana YLAIers and their 250 counterparts from all over South America and the Caribbean went to work with a fellowship host company in one of 20 cities across the United States. Chosen to represent Guyana this year are: Jaianan Hirai, co-founder of the A+ Computer Training Cen-ter, Evie Kanhai-Gurchuran, co-founder and CEO of Java Coffee Bar, an artisanal coffee shop in Georgetown and Nigel Anthony Peters, founder of Arcadia Agri, a cultivator of organic fruits and vege-tables in Guyana. The…

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Guyanese woman pleads guilty to illegally reentering US after deportation

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…faces up to 10 years jail A news release from the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of New York, has stated that a Guyanese woman, who was deported from the United States just over 20 years ago, is now facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the country. The Department of Justice has identified the woman as Indrawattie Sookram, 40, who returned to the United States in the very next year after she had been jailed and deported back to Guyana.…

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Four Guyanese facing drug trafficking charges in New York

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…after being busted with cocaine at JFK Several Guyanese are facing drug trafficking charges after they were separately busted at the John F Kennedy (JKF) Airport in New York, United States with cocaine over the past few days. This week, Guyanese business owner Luke Kendall, was nabbed with cocaine pellets in his stomach upon his arrival on September 20, 2018, in the United States. According to reports, Kendall arrived on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana and was subjected to a routine search by immigration agents at the airport. He was…

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D’ Urban Park: Edghill says no amount of investment can justify “corrupt transaction”

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Government has recently announced plans to develop the controversial D’Urban Park into a user-friendly facility that could be the venue for various types of sporting activities, but Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Juan Edghill has said he is totally against the idea, because, from day one, the project has been a corrupt deal. A former Junior Finance Minister, Edghill told Guyana Times International in an interview that the idea being proposed by Director of Sport, Christopher Jones, is aimed at trying to bring some semblance of justification to the existence…

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Ramjattan promises to lobby for salary increases for prison officers

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At a time where smuggling of contraband has peaked to its highest in recent days, Public Security Min-ister Khemraj Ramjattan has given his word to increase the salaries of prison officers, in an effort to stamp out corruption in the prisons. The Minister gave this applauded assurance at a recent ceremony at the heels of comments emanat-ing from the Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels. According to Samuels, prison officers are being dis-respected. “For too long the prison officers have not been given the respect they deserve, while the present re-muneration…

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