…proposes production of domestic electricity Evolve Trading and Investment, a welsh company, has set their sight on investment opportunities here in Guyana, with the aim of providing Low Sulphur Marine Oil to the marine industry. This resource, the company said in a release, will be supplied in keeping with the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as they seek to forge international relationships in the trade industry. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, they are “identifying a niche market by using their unique cutting-edge technology to…
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Guyanese need to ‘generalise’ skill set – Energy Director
With Guyana’s budding petroleum industry, scores of persons are rushing to get themselves qualified within the oil and gas field; however, Director of the Department of Energy, Dr Mark Bynoe, is cautioning against being specialised in a single discipline. During an interview on the sidelines of the recently-concluded 2nd annual Guyana International Petroleum Summit and Exhibition (GIPEX), Dr Bynoe was speaking about capacity-building to fill the gaps within the oil and gas industry. But he pointed out that persons need to be conscious of the fact that the majority of…
Read MoreGuyanese giving thanks in America
By Vishnu Bisram Guyanese and persons from other nationalities now living in the United States of America – their adopted homeland, are celebrating the traditional Thanksgiving weekend with family and close friends. Indeed Guyanese have good reasons to give thanks to America which has been welcoming them for over fifty years. Since their arrival in the US, many Guyanese have been successful at almost every aspect of life – acquiring their own homes, vehicles, attaining higher education etc. They are also known to be very generous as many of them…
Read MoreFather of newborn baby dies after crashing into bridge
A four-month-old baby is now fatherless as his mother grieves the loss of her husband following an accident along the East Coast Demerara (ECD) roadway. Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited employee, 31-year-old David Matthew Headly was killed around 05:00h on Sunday when the car he was driving slammed into a bridge rail at Felicity, ECD. Headly, who hailed from Lot 370 Powise Close, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown, was reportedly one of the key officers in the technological overhaul of the bank. Reports are that the now dead man’s motor vehicle (PRR…
Read MoreRevised list of electors to be ready by early January, says GECOM PRO
By Jarryl Bryan With the completion of Claims and Objections, it is possible that the Revised List of Electors (RLE) that will largely determine who can vote in the upcoming General and Regional Elections could be ready by next month or early in January. This is according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward, who was asked if an RLE could be completed before January considering GECOM’s processes. “It’s possible. I would say by late December, very early January (2020), it should be completed,” Ward said,…
Read MoreWorld Children’s Day – For every child, every right
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare. November 20th is an important date as it is the date in 1959 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since 1990, World Children’s Day also marks the anniversary…
Read MoreBlunders…
…in local content Your Eyewitness has seen the future…and it ain’t nice. For us Guyanese, that is. Last week, he forgot that the GIPEX oil and gas event organised by Raphael Trotman’s daughter was going on, so he ambled over to the Marriott to grab a quick bite for lunch. And as he entered – or TRIED to enter – the restaurant, for the first time in his life, he felt he was a stranger in a strange land. The place was overrun with foreigners…all speaking in tongues, but with…
Read More“I don’t regret giving up so much to be a foster mother” – Shenny Bastoo
By Lakhram Bhagirat When one takes the decision to become a foster parent, they are committing to going all in. They are making an investment in the lives of the children who may come under their care. They are promising to love those children as they would their own and they are committing to providing the best possible quality of life. Children in the system are more often broken and they need fixing. They need to be told that they are worthy of being cared for and worthy of all…
Read MoreHarris Paints employee remanded on G$7.7M robbery on store
A Harris Paints employee accused of robbing his colleagues of G$7.7 million belonging to the company was on Monday remanded to prison. Tarquinn Atkins, of B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts slapped with a robbery under arms charge. The 22-year-old man denied that on November 16, 2019, at Lot 3-5 Water Street, Georgetown, while being in the company of others and armed with guns, he robbed Ginell Williams of G$7.7 million, property of Harris Paints Limited. According to the prosecutor’s case,…
Read MoreTeen finds decomposed remains of friend at Hague home
A teenager received the shock of his life when he decided to visit his friend’s Hague, West Coast Demerara (WCD) residence early Tuesday morning after not hearing from him for a while, only to discover his decomposed remains inside the bottom flat of the two-storeyed house. Dead is 54-year-old Eric Ghansham, called “Cook Soup”, who is said to have been the only occupant of the home. This newspaper was told that the dead man repaired bicycles. When contacted, Police Commander of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), Assistant Police Commissioner, Simon…
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