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Former President Bharrat Jagdeo was lauded by the Forbes Magazine for embarking on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), and commended for the manner in which he was able to secure funding from the Norwegian government for the protection of rainforests in Guyana. In  “Standing up: Guyana and Norway partner to keep trees standing”, written by contributor Mindy Lubber and published online at www.forbes.com on April 26, the vastly different two countries’  partnership  on a project that will benefit thousands of Guyanese by providing them with cheaper, cleaner energy, was…

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Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner David Devine said that a great deal of preparation must get underway with a matter of urgency if Guyana is to develop its oil and gas sector and in the event that the country finds oil. Devine stated that although oil is yet to be found, there remains a huge potential for the discovery of the ‘black gold’. According to Devine, there is much of a gap to be filled; adding that once the preparation is undertaken, there will be multiple potential for a vast amount…

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Guyanese passengers who frequent the Georgetown to New York route will be delighted to learn that Caribbean Airlines (CAL) on Tuesday announced that it will add a fourth weekly non-stop flight to the John F Kennedy (JFK) Airport, New York, beginning May 5. This announcement comes less than three months after the decision by Delta Airlines to bring its service to an end in Guyana. Guyana Times International was told that the service will be operated by the company’s 767-300 ER and will also be joined on May 10 by…

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By Shan Razack – The JC Chandisingh Secondary School will be celebrating its 75th Diamond Jubilee Reunion on Saturday, June 29 2013 in the Great Ballroom at Leonard’s of Great Neck in Long Island, NY. “It would be a special night to meet with school-mates and teachers and reminisce about the happiest five years of our lives in Guyana and give thanks to the people and celebrate an institution which has done so much to shape our lives,” said the Reunion committee. The committee has chosen Leonard’s of Great Neck…

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– motion moved by AFC’s Ramjattan who is the lawyer of Fedders Lloyd, one of the companies which failed to win the bid to construct the hospital By Sabatini Daniels – The combined opposition Wednesday evening reduced the Gy$ 1.25 billion allocation for the Specialty Hospital to $ 0 in the first of a series of budgetary cuts it has proposed for this year’s national budget. The opposition had given warning of this since last week, but had cautioned that if sufficient answers were provided by the subject minister, then…

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– Officer Rosette Samuel’s boyfriend had planned to return to Guyana the day he was killed According to the New York Daily News, An NYPD cop on a murderous rampage killed her baby so he wouldn’t “be a burden on him,” a police source said. A ripped-up suicide note investigators retrieved from a toilet in Officer Rosette Samuel’s Brooklyn apartment offers that bizarre reason for the year-old boy’s slaying. NY Daily News had reported that before blowing Dylan Samuel Peters away with a shot to his little chest, the 43-year-old…

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By Bhisham Mohamed – After a twin-engine aircraft crashed at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) killing an American pilot and a Canadian surveyor, aviation officials on Sunday revealed the names of the men after informing the respective embassies and the men’s immediate relatives. The pilot was identified as the founder of ‘Angiel EnviroSafe Incorporated’, Pierre Angiel, 71, of Miami, Florida. The company is known for its aerial photography of properties, homes, shorelines, etc, in both digital and standard format. Angiel EnviroSafe Incorporated was contracted to carry out surveys of the…

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By Michael Younge – Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has dismissed the combined opposition’s allegations about the worrying state of law and order in Guyana, while arresting their propaganda that crime is out of control and on the increase under his stewardship of the security sector. The minister was at the time making his contribution to the 2013 national budget debate, which got underway in the presence of a packed gallery in the National Assembly on Monday. He said that never in Guyana’s history was the spate of reforms and…

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BY MICHAEL YOUNGE – Consideration of the budget estimates has been delayed after the opposition used its one-seat majority to vote down government’s proposal to start the examination process on Wednesday in the 65-seat National Assembly. The opposition also rearranged the order of how the agencies will be dealt with and set a seven-day time-table instead of six as was proposed by the government. The 26-seat A Partnership for National Unity and seven-seat Alliance For Change forced the Parliament to adjourn its business on Wednesday, delaying the work of the…

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