Author: TIMES INT'L

The Prablu Sharan orphanage Providing a safe space for Vulnerable Children

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It was the great humanitarian Mother Theresa, who famously said: “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love”, and it is on that premise that the Prabhu Sharan Orphanage was founded. The idea of doing small things to improve the lives of those in gloom, particularly children, has always been at the fore of Pandit Prem Gangadin and when he moved to Canada, the Orphanage materialised. The doors of the Prabhu Sharan Orphanage were opened on August 21, 2005 in the…

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Shaking up…

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…the political tree With the demise of the AFC, another third foot is about to be dropped in the political arena. The outspoken ex- Vice Chairman of the National Toshaos Council, Lenox Shuman, has finally given a date for the launch of the second Indigenous political party. Let us not forget that, try as it might to shake its original name – the Guyana Amerindian Party – by changing it to “Guyana Action Party”, it remained to the end an Indigenous Peoples’ party in the eyes of Guyanese. And it’s…

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Earthquakes…

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…galore It used to be said that Guyana – unlike its West Indian neighbours – didn’t suffer from natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes. God figured the “unnatural” disaster called “Burnham” was enough of an infliction on us!! But of recent, even though Granger’s vowed to continue Burnham’s legacy, it looks like he can’t measure up to his mentor, since there’s been a number of seismic events in the land recently. We can start with the tremor felt across the land with the outcome of the PNC Biennial Congress. Here…

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Will the Coalition Government ever make GuySuCo viable?

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Dear Editor, The greatest enigma Guyanese have experienced is the way forward for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) – to close the estates, to diversify, to make all viable and then sell some, and to downsize and to ‘upsize’. Even the sugar workers who were dismissed are being fed with euphemistic epithets to give them some mental reprieve. We were told in February this year that G$10-15 billion is needed to open the closed estates and then sell them to fetch a ‘good’ price and then a week later we…

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Guyana’s Natural Resources Minister and team meet with high-level US delegation

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Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman headed a delegation of Natural Resources officials during a meeting with Congressmen and military officials of the United States. The meeting was held on Wednesday, August 22, at the Ministry of Natural Resources office on Duke Street, Kingston, Georgetown. According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) release, the 25-member US delegation is in Guyana on a familiarisation visit. The media was not invited to any planned events for the visit. The team includes nine Congressmen, including Chairman Bob Goodlatte, military and other officials.…

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Man dies in WBD motorcycle crash

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Fifty-four-year-old Oswald Dey of Good Intent, West Bank Demerara (WBD), who was employed as a United Nations (UN) Operations Officer in Guyana, died on Tuesday evening after his motorcycle collided with a pedestrian at Bellvue, Village. Dey was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after he collided with 35-year old Stanleytown WBD resident. According to reports, Dey was heading North in the direction of Vreed-en-Hoop when he collided with the pedestrian. Police on Wednesday disclosed that the pedestrian was struck from behind and reportedly fell…

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GuySuCo gets G$2B for operational expenses

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The Special Purpose Unit (SPU) of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has announced that almost G$2 billion has been disbursed to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for operational expenses of its three estates (Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt). The SPU has said the release of these funds is in keeping with the plans of the coalition Government to make the industry viable and to safeguard the future of the more than 11,000 workers. The SPU’s statement comes after GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Harold Davis, Jr, told sections…

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Opposition awaiting President’s choice for Top Cop

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Opposition Leader, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday stated that he is awaiting the President’s choice of the nominee for the position of Commissioner of Police (COP) before he raises any questions in relation to the selection process. Jagdeo explained to media operatives during his weekly press conference on Thursday that he intends to inquire from the Head of State, David Granger, what assessment was undertaken to ensure that the candidate he [President] selected is “unbribable” and holds all the qualities that the President outlined he wanted in the new COP.…

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‘We need justice’

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…relatives of murdered Sisters Village pensioner seek answers after only 1 of 2 identified attackers arraigned Almost two months after a Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD) pensioner was beaten and later died, his relatives are crying out for justice, questioning why Police only instituted a murder charge against one man, when at least two attackers were identified. Seventy-one-year-old pensioner, Jerry Rambeer, was found lying in an unconscious state on July 1, 2018 at Back Street, Good Intent, WBD, but took his last breath on July 3 while receiving medical…

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Naipaul and being West Indian

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This is excerpted from my response to a black WI intellectual, Abu Bakr, in 2001, soon after VS Naipaul accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. “In his letter captioned “Naipaul has become the stubborn incarnation of the worst of a past generation”, Bakr fulminates about Naipaul’s “maledictions” and sneers that the latter’s Nobel was greeted with “disgust”; that he is “intellectually inadequate” and a “good minor talent” to whom the Caribbean had just wished “good riddance”. Mr Bakr opined that, coming “after Garvey, or CLR James or Jean Price Mars…

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