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By Prime Minister Samuel Hinds – Over the last three years, I have been advised, on many occasions, that Guyana should start preparing for a find of lots and lots of oil, off our shores.  “Let’s not count our chickens before they are hatched,” I have cautioned, trying to resist the seduction in contemplating such good fortune.  Such caution notwithstanding, in January, I attended the Annual Energy Sustainability Week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and sought to learn, on the ground, as much as I could from the…

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By Michael Younge – Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is neither “scared” nor “surprised” at the continued talk amongst the opposition political parties about axing the 2013 National Budget, even if his sector may fall victim to what he described as the dirty politics and planned spiteful actions of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). Rohee, speaking during an exclusive interview on the Current Issues and Analysis programme aired on Television Guyana, Channel 28, announced that government was prepared to defend the provisions…

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The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Monday evening honoured long-serving aviators, pioneers/entrepreneurs, and those that have made significant contributions to aviation, but have passed on. Special awards of long service were given to Malcolm Chan-A-Sue; Colonel (retired) Egbert Field; Colonel (retired) Charles Hudson; George Loye; Godfrey Charles Archer; Margaret Chan-A-Sue; Jennifer Debarros; Major Patrick Nichols; Captain Lloyd Marshall – the longest-serving pilot; Fazal Khan; Ahmad Mazahar Ali; Bill Mohaboob; and Michael Charles – the only pilot in his group that remained in Guyana. Michael Correia; Mohamed Ali; Kayman Sankar; Ronald…

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Education Minister Priya Manickchand said that the level of school dropout from the education system has been significantly reduced since 2005.The minister made the announcement during her contribution to this year’s budget debate. She disclosed that back in 2005; the rate stood at 7.5 per cent, which represented some 19,040 students, as she compared that figure with the 2012 figure, which has seen a four per cent decline. The education minister acknowledged that the ministry, like others in the Caribbean and further afield, is facing a major challenge in the…

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The University of Guyana (UG) has outlined plans to attract foreign students and will be engaging governments of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) with a view to persuading them to send their nationals to Guyana to study. Vice Chancellor Dr Jacob Opadeyi revealed that the OECS countries are without any university in their territories and on completion of high school; parents are worried about their children’s academic future. “But we have a national institution and we must make it something that we are all proud of. There should…

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Pandemonium broke out within the walls of the Camp Street jail on Wednesday morning after alleged gang leader Colin Jones reportedly set a mattress on fire following an altercation with another inmate. The fire started about 11: 00h.According to information received, Jones set alight his mattress in front of his cell, but it was quickly extinguished by prison officials. The reason for the altercation is not known to officials, but after five minutes of chaos, normalcy returned to correctional institute. Prisons Director Dale Erskine told Guyana Times International that after…

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In a fiery, rousing presentation in the National Assembly on Wednesday evening, PPP/C Member of Parliament Dr. Vindhya Persaud hammered the Opposition for their dismissal of the national budget and called on the members of the National Assembly to put the country and people first. “Let us remove the taint of 2012 of being a Parliament which achieved more battles and walkouts, spent too much on food and sittings, where the outcomes were decided long before the debate, where hatchets and scissors were wielded willy nilly…Guyanese people expect more,” she…

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