By Danielle Campbell Guyana has wonderful advantages, including its South American Location, and Caricom membership, and beautiful natural endowments in the areas of energy and minerals mining. This is according to Executive Director of the University of the West Indies’ Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Professor Miguel Carrillo. Carrillo advised that Guyana should not only focus on the exploration and exploitation of oil, but on the development of a related industry such as petro-chemicals or plastics. He also suggested the development of adventure tourism, and the manufacturing of…
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GDF uncovers grenade theft plot at training school
The Guyana Defence Force on Monday said that it had uncovered a plot to steal grenades from one of its facilities. This was revealed during investigations after several grenades went missing from the Colonel John Clarke Military School, Timehri. The GDF said in a release that on Friday last, several grenades were reported missing or unaccounted for at the school. An investigation was immediately launched. The grenades, totalling 40 in number, were found in two boxes aback of the accommodation housing the senior training staff, contrary to force regulations which…
Read MoreGT&T to launch BlackBerry service in November
The long awaited Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) BlackBerry service will be launched on November 11, 2011. This was announced by the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Yog Mahadeo, on Saturday at an event to launch its Christmas promotion. The announcement took place at the Pegasus Parking Lot, Georgetown. The disclosure comes at a time when thousands of GT& T customers had begun to lose hope that the company was unable to break Digicel’s grip on the coveted service. Earlier in the year, Mahadeo said that GT& T’s supporters…
Read More“We are going to create a new economy, a new Guyana” – Jagdeo
By Michael Younge President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that under a continued People’s Progressive Party/Civic government, citizens will witness the establishment of “a new modern economy and a new Guyana” that will see the lives of all Guyanese being transformed. Jagdeo made the announcement while addressing hundreds of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara residents who converged for one of a number of PPP/C’s community meetings on Tuesday evening. The outgoing head of state said that under the PPP/C’s new manifesto “more development and change” will grip Guyana. Citizens would witness the…
Read MoreAPNU lays out development plans at Linden rally
Deh pun you heights!” That was the overriding charge to the people of Linden as opposition coalition A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) outlined its plan for the country if it is to become the next government. The rally attended by just over 1200 supporters at the Burnham Drive in the vicinity of the old Palm Tree cinema, Wismar was delayed by rain and eventually got underway around 18:45h. Lindener and People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon chaired the proceedings and urged the people of Linden to vote…
Read MoreFire razes Subryanville house
An overseas-based Guyanese is now counting his losses as fire, believed to be electrical in origin, destroyed his Gy$30 million home at Lot 260B Fifth Avenue, Subryanville on Monday morning. Mervyn Butts, 68, told the media that he left his house at approximately 07: 20h to take a female friend and her daughter to work and school, and on his way back he received a call informing him that his house was on fire. “I wasn’t at home at the time this fire started. I got the message while I…
Read MoreUG launches youth friendly, civil education website
A new, exciting and interactive social media service targeting young Guyanese and providing information on a range of issues was launched in Georgetown last Friday. According to a release from the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana, Generation G is ground breaking as it is the first such initiative to be under taken in Guyana. The project, which has been in development for over a year, is managed by young people and addresses several important issues including health, community participation, environmental issues and entertainment. According to its…
Read MoreGuyana to benefit from IDB grant to boost hotel industry
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved the Caribbean Hotel Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Action – Advanced Programme (CHENACT- AP), a US$ 2 million grant to help the tourism sector in Barbados, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Guyana to become more energy efficient. The four-year project will finance energy audits for hotels in participating countries that want to cut their operational costs through greater energy efficiency, the bank said in a statement. Efficiency measures in areas such as lighting, water use and air…
Read MoreRohee calls for CBSI to deliver on gang violence, TIP
By Ariana Gordon Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee says the time has come for the U.S. – funded Caribbean Basin Security Initiative to roll out programmes to tackle the growing threat of gang violence in the region and trafficking in persons. He was addressing the opening ceremony at the second meeting of the CBSI being held at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC), Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Only recently Caricom convened a meeting in Guyana to discuss plans to roll out the first phase of the Caricom Social Development…
Read More1000 house lots to be allocated at Amelia’s Ward, Linden
One thousand house lots will soon be allocated to residents of Amelia’s Ward Linden when the Housing Ministry hosts another of its One Stop Shops in the community. This announcement was made by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon on Thursday at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing. Dr Luncheon stated that the distribution of house lots to residents of Linden would make a total of 6500 house lots allocated across the country so far. Preparatory investments have been made to the tune of Gy$500 million for roads and…
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