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2 burnt to death in horrific two-car collision at Bath

December 18, 2015December 22, 2015 TIMES INT'L

By Andrew Carmichael Two men are now dead and five other persons hospitalised after the cars in which they were travelling ended up in a head-on collision at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice (WCB) on Wednesday afternoon resulting in one bursting into flames. The dead persons have been identified as Nero Bankay, 24, of Bush Lot, WCB, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and Shiv Persaud-Hanoman, 48, of the same village. The injured are Rookmaine Trotman of Bennett Dam, Rosignol; Nigel Trotz, 34, of 126 Main Street, Cumberland, East Canje; Fiona Rossoul, 32,…

Blatant discrimination!

November 20, 2015 TIMES INT'L

– Jagdeo slams Govt for removing street lights at Bath BY DEVINA SAMAROO Bath Settlement, Region 5 residents continue to protest against what they deem the unreasonable removal of their streetlights simply because “Government cannot afford it” while the people of Linden continue to benefit tremendously from a whopping Gy$3 billion electricity subsidy. Government is claiming that it cannot afford to inject monies to pay the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) for streetlights installed in Bath Settlement, but they can afford to award themselves super-salaries after only four months in…

Teixeira fingers Fmr COP Winston Felix in ducking passport scams

November 20, 2015 TIMES INT'L

BY EDWARD LAYNE Home Affairs Minister under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic during 2005, Gail Teixeira, has said that then Police Commissioner and now Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix, failed to act on an investigation, which revealed that there was a massive scheme at the General Registrar’s Office, where birth certificates were being issued with information of persons who did not exist. Teixeira’s comments came in face of a “malicious” report in the State-owned daily newspaper, the Guyana Chronicle, with allegedly twisted facts about a conversation between US diplomats in Guyana…

Jonestown 37 years after

November 20, 2015 TIMES INT'L

In those days, most of the news came through the radio and some from the popular newspapers. The first reports were that hundreds were dead, but by the time the newspaper could get images of the massacre at Jonestown, the radio news had already confirmed that more than 900 had died. With no Internet or television available, Guyanese were glued to their radio sets at midday and in the evening to listen to the updates coming out of Jonestown. It was the second most newsworthy story in Guyana; the first…

GECOM still not addressing concerns of PPP, says Rohee

November 16, 2015 TIMES INT'L

BY EDWARD LAYNE The Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will end up being “its own worst enemy” if it continues to shy away from “comprehensively and objectively” addressing the reservations and concerns of the Party. A delegation led by PPP/Civic General Secretary Clement Rohee, met with a delegation from GECOM, which included Chairman, Dr Steve Surujbally and Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield early last week, where the Opposition Party outlined eight concerns it said it wants addressed before Local Government Elections (LGE) were…

Screaming child rescued from burning house

November 16, 2015 TIMES INT'L

BY DEVINA SAMAROO The piercing cries for help from a young girl trapped in the upper flat of a two-storey building alerted neighbours to the ravenous fire that was in the process of engulfing the house. Disaster struck for an extended family, after a fire of unknown origin erupted in their home at Lot 87 Pere Street, Kitty, Georgetown, on Wednesday. According to information received, the fire which started at about 14:00h, completely destroyed the upper-flat of the house while the bottom flat received very little fire damage. One of…

Guyanese foods and restaurants

November 16, 2015 TIMES INT'L

Last week, “Restaurant Week” – officially the “Guyana Restaurant Week” (GRW) – kicked off under the theme “Explore, Eat and Repeat”. With many gourmets and aspiring ones fearing foods “repeating” on them, maybe the theme was not the most felicitous, but the intent was to have domestic and foreign tourists – and hopefully food loving natives – sample our local “fine dining”. That is a worthwhile endeavour. As part of the ongoing “Tourism Awareness Month”, GRW is in its second incarnation and will continue to the 15th of the month.…

No new rice deal inked since PetroCaribe collapse

November 6, 2015 TIMES INT'L

By Devina Samaroo Since the collapse of the PetroCaribe deal with Venezuela in July, Guyana has not yet clinched a similar rice deal with any other country that would see local rice farmers exporting their rice at premium rates as they did with the “rice for oil deal” with the Spanish-speaking nation. The historic rice deal was sealed by the previous People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government of President Bharrat Jagdeo with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of President Hugo Chávez several years ago, which saw Guyana receiving oil in exchange…

PPP/C slams Government’s township proposal as a ‘sham’

October 30, 2015 TIMES INT'L

Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is asserting that Government’s move to transform Bartica, Region Seven; Mabaruma, Region One; Mahdia, Region Eight and Lethem, Region Nine into townships is just another attempt by the Government to gain control of the regions by replacing current PPP/C Regional Chairmen with pro-government Mayors and Town Clerks. On Monday, the Party said the “so called consultations” with residents on the issue of townships is a “sham and a mere window-dressing exercise.” Speaking at the Party’s weekly media conference, General Secretary Clement Rohee said the Government…

PPP reaches out to rice farmers in Region 2

October 30, 2015 TIMES INT'L

…promises to lobby on their behalf By Indrawattie Natram As the rice industry continues to deteriorate, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo during a special meeting with rice farmers in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) on Tuesday evening said that from all indications the David Granger-led Administration has nothing for them. He was at the time addressing the petrified farmers at the Rice Producers Association (RPA) Seed Paddy Complex, Anna Regina as part of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Region Two outreach programme. Jagdeo, accompanied by former Housing Minister Irfaan Ali and former Attorney…