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The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) has received a grant of Gy$43.4 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Guyana), for monitoring this year’s general and regional elections in Guyana. The grant agreement was signed on August 9 by USAID Mission Director Carol Horning and Chairman of EAB Father Malcolm Rodrigues in the Woodbine Room at Cara Lodge. Horning, in brief remarks, stated that the funds will be used to recruit, train and place more than 2000 local observers at polling and tally stations; establish a real-time regional communication…

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A team of consultants from Good Earthy Development met President Bharrat Jagdeo on August 9 to facilitate discussions for coalition among Guyanese engineers and financiers to connect a railway between Boa Vista in Brazil and Guyana’s capital Georgetown. The Good Earth Development officials included Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Chatarpal, Gregory Shaw and other clients who held talks with the Guyanese Head of State at the Office of the President. The company is soon to have a Guyana office. Chatarpal told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the rapid growth…

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– recounts traumatic experience BY MICHAEL ITWARU A passenger who was onboard the ill-fated Caribbean Airlines’ jetliner that overshot the runway at Timehri on July 30 wants a refund of her ticket money. Savitri Harris is also very critical of the service offered by the carrier. The woman, who took her three children to Guyana for the second time, told this publication that she is very disappointed with the efforts of Caribbean Airlines to restore public confidence and help the traumatised passengers. Harris was at a physician’s office in New…

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BY BHISHAM MOHAMED A midst talks that the country’s emergency response plan was not immediately activated following Saturday morning’s plane crash, President Bharrat Jagdeo told media operatives at a press conference at State House on July 31, that he is convinced Guyana has an excellent response programme to deal with disasters, and needs no assistance from sister Caricom state Trinidad and Tobago. This announcement was made at the news briefing immediately following a meeting the president had with a high-level team from Trinidad and Tobago, which included that country’s Prime…

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The first privately-owned hospital to be built in Berbice, the Anamayah Memorial Hospital at Belvedere, Albion, Corentyne, was commissioned on Saturday, July 30. Funded through a family effort and a loan from Republic Bank, this facility is dedicated to the memory of the late attorney-at-law Joseph Anamayah, and his father Anamaiah Madray, by their siblings and extended family members. The facility was constructed at an approximate cost of Gy$400 million. Speaking at the commissioning of the facility, Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy noted that the hospital is the seventh such…

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Caribbean Airlines’ place crash BY ARIANA GORDON Distressed to see the crashed Caribbean Airlines’ Boeing 737 aircraft, Flight 523 from the United States through Piarco International Airport to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, Trinidad’s Prime Minister Kamala Persad-Bissessar said Saturday’s incident represented a “miracle.” “As a government and people, we are deeply saddened by what has happened here in Guyana. We know that the passengers (and) crew here must be traumatised by what has occurred…. At the same time, I think we can view this as nothing short of…

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“Stabroek News and Rupert Roopnaraine have both gone way too far. I can handle their personal attacks, but I will not stand idly by and allow them to attack Islam, Muslims of this country and the world, and the credibility of my ministry.” Those were the sentiments expressed by Housing Minister Irfaan Ali as he announced his intention, and that of the local Muslim community, to sue Stabroek News and APNU member Dr Rupert Roopnaraine for statements made and published in the July 30 edition of that newspaper. He deemed…

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Guyana has made significant progress in improving key social and economic indicators over the past 10 years, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said at the national public consultation on the country’s Draft Poverty Reduction Strategy for 2011- 2015, held at the Guyana International Conference Centre on Saturday, July 23. Minister Singh attributed the progress achieved to a policy framework that is designed to promote economic growth, protect macroeconomic stability, and reduce poverty. In his address, Minister Singh highlighted significant achievements in the social and infrastructure sectors, as well as the…

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BY JANELLE PERSAUD President Bharrat Jagdeo says his administration will not stand idly by and allow any organisation to stymie the development of Guyana and its people. He was making reference to the delayed release of the forest funds Guyana has qualified for through its Low Carbon Development Strategy. The president was addressing scores gathered at the Guyana International Conference Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara for the official opening of the fifth annual National Toshaos Council meeting. “We haven’t received the money from Norway; it was paid by Norway…

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Government, on July 21, tabled the highly-anticipated broadcast legislation, paving the way for the establishment of a Broadcast Authority which will regulate radio and television stations and issue licences. The Broadcasting Bill was presented and read for the first time in the National Assembly by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who previously held the portfolio of minister of information before President Bharrat Jagdeo took over. It is the third draft of a broadcast bill; the previous two documents were condemned by several groups before they were withdrawn. The legislation has been…

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