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The University of Guyana (UG) will be conferring honorary doctorates on four outstanding Guyanese from various fields, naming a female activist and a business tycoon among the recipients. Leading the list of nominees is business magnate Yesu Persaud; Indigenous rights activist and Governance and Rights Coordinator at Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) Laura George; acclaimed singer Eddy Grant and philanthropist Jay Sobhraj. UG Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith made the announcement on his Facebook page. “Yesterday (Monday) occurred another milestone in the journey along Renaissance Road, when the Academic Board approved…

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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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– 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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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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An unoccupied house located in Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD), went up in flames early Wednesday morning. The fire started about 05:00h at the Lot 34 Canal Dam, Ann’s Grove residence. According to reports, the house belonged to an 80-year-old pensioner, Elaine Pollard, who is currently in the United States of America (USA). Her two-storey wood and concrete home was left in the care of a fellow villager, Safraz Baksh. The 42-year-old vendor of Main Street, Ann’s Grove, said he was awakened about 05:30h, by a neigh-bour who in-formed…

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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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The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) through one of its constituency candidates in Berbice has filed legal proceedings against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and another individual to have the names fraudulently affixed to the backer’s lists for Local Government Elections (LGE) in the An-cient County removed. The court document seen by this publication names Shafraz Beekham as the applicant, along with the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield and Orlando Christopher Persaud as the respondents. The document outlines that the challenge is seeking to have the names of 49 other electors…

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The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) are unhappy with the lack of accountability at that entity; and this is especially since there are just 43 days to go before Local Government Elections are held. Those commissioners, in an interview with this publication, made it clear that there are times when requests for information get them nowhere. One problem identified by Commissioner Sase Gunraj is the manner in which meetings are held. “You’ve heard in the media us complaining and saying things recently about the…

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Another miner died in Guyana’s interior after the mining pit in which he was working collapsed at Is-sano Backdam, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). Dead is Lennox Douglas, 33, of Canvas City Wismar, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). Speaking with Guyana Times International on Tuesday, the miner’s younger brother, Jermaine Doug-las, said his brother recently started working at the location and was self-employed. He said the family received sketchy information about what transpired from the Police. According to the young man, the Police said they are questioning other persons who were also…

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