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Opposition Member of Parliament Africo Selman has urged the coalition Government to build more airstrips in the hinterland region, so as to create a wider market for international visitors interested in experiencing Guyana’s rich fauna and flora, and advance the eco-tourism drive. Selman told the National Assembly recently that despite little attention being paid to tourism by the current Government, this sector has the potential to boost the Guyana economy. “This Administration robbed Guyana of its opportunity to become a top tourism destination by scrapping the Tourism Ministry. What we…

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge is the latest to discredit claims that there was secrecy and illegality surrounding the signing bonus the government received from ExxonMobil. According to DPI, in the National Assembly on Thursday, Minister Greenidge, echoed President David Granger’s statement that the non-disclosure of the signing bonus was a matter of national security. “Those who would challenge us in the court would have been very pleased with the airing of this controversy by Guyanese,” Minister Greenridge said, addressing the “sensational headlines” over the signing bonus in…

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Thirty-seven-year-old Kuru Kururu, Linden-Soesdyke Highway miner David Gaskin was taken into Police custody on Monday over allegations that he murdered Owen John, a boat captain of San Martin, Venezuela following an altercation between the two at Eteringbang Landing. Guyana Times International understands that the men were imbibing at Maria Da Silva’s shop when the two started arguing over money. Police disclosed that from preliminary investigations, Gaskin asked John to borrow money, but the boat captain refused. Reports suggested that after John refused, Gaskin dealt him one punch to his nose…

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In attempting to make sense out of the situation that involved Government trying to keep secret a signing bonus received from United States (U.S.) oil giant ExxonMobil, columnist and political analyst Ralph Ramkarran strongly feels that the Government has foolishly tarnished its credentials. In his weekly column, the Conversation Tree, the former Speaker of the National Assembly said he also feels that the APNU/AFC Government should have come clean on this bonus, in order to save itself from the humiliation of having to explain the reason why it kept this…

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The Indian Action Committee (IAC) has come out in strong condemnation of the mass termination of sugar workers, without any relief plan, saying this is “disastrous”. The Committee recalled that in a press statement issued in March 2017, it expressed the organisation’s extreme concerns regarding the distressed state of the sugar industry in Guyana, especially in light of the anxieties oppressing the minds of thousands of sugar workers whose livelihoods were seen to be in jeopardy as rumours of the closure of a number of sugar estates permeated the society.…

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By Samuel Sukhnandan The return of Local Government Elections to Guyana and initiatives being undertaken to strengthen the system have been touted as major achievements of the coalition Government. Delivering his contribution to Budget 2018 debate, Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan said that the Government was moving to return to local organs the right to manage their own affairs. Bulkan accused the previous Government of stifling the local Government system and depriving it of resources, asserting that this would not be allowed to continue. “Local Government will no longer be stifled…

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– Minister Hughes Public Telecommunications Minister Cathy Hughes said the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector would be realised by the first quarter of 2018 while adding that the Government is seeking to introduce a number of legislations to advance the ICT sector. In her 2018 Budget debate presentation, Minister Hughes said negotiations for the liberalisation of the sector are currently ongoing with ATT and GTT, adding that they are yet to sign the agreement. She said her Ministry is in the process of establishing a telecommunications agency in keeping with…

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Ranks of a joint patrol on Thursday last stumbled upon a landmark in Region One (Barima-Waini) which confirms the boundaries of the border existing between Guyana and Venezuela. This discovery was made by a group of officers attached to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) during regular rounds in the Amakura River in Region One. The patrol, which was led by Sergeant Herschel Gilead, who, along with ranks of the coastal battalion and the GPF, was at the time deployed to establish a Joint Services…

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…to act as Deputy Commander of ‘A’ Division Substantive Crime Chief, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum, has been removed from his post, and will now act as Deputy Commander of “A” Division. While Blanhum was on leave, Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Williams was functioning as interim crime chief, and will continue to function in that capacity, according to acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine. Ramnarine has said that Blanhum’s being reposted to second in command of ‘A’ Division was not done without precedent. He said this was done to facilitate the Force’s…

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