Year: 2011

Anu Dev, a student of Queen’s College has reportedly topped this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) for Guyana, with 15 grade ones, a top source at the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has said. Another student of New Amsterdam Multilateral School also copped 15 subjects, the source added. Dev is the daughter of Ravi Dev the former leader of the now defunct Rise Organise and Rebuild (ROAR) party. Education officials in Guyana said the results will soon be released.. Guyana Times International understands also that QC might have come out…

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Guyana continues to shoulder the heaviest burden in the overpriced regional airline industry as the Caribbean retains the highest airfare structure in the world. This is according to Chief Executive Officer of REDjet, Ian Burns. He said this is so because Guyana is the most southerly destination in the Caribbean and travellers are left at the mercy of other regional carriers. The REDjet CEO, who was delivering the feature address at the business luncheon of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), said that the low cost carrier is…

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The Guyana/ Mississippi Chapter of Partners of the Americas recently met Farmer-to-Farmer Programme Deputy Director Meghan Olivier, who is here to assess the progress of that initiative and several other programmes. The Farmer-to-Farmer Programme has been in existence since 1991 in U.S., but Guyana started benefiting from this programme in 1996. According to a release from the organisation, volunteers from the U.S. (males and females) visit and assist farmers to solve some of their agricultural problems, such as pest control, soil cultivation, horticulture, apiculture, aquaculture, cattle and dairy production. The…

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The U.S-based Linden Fund said it will continue to improve the lives of children in the mining town through a wide range of educational programmes that will aid in their development. This announcement was made by Linden Fund USA Secretary Linda Felix-Johnson during the entity’s closing ceremony for its 7th Annual Summer Tutoring Programme, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 4. Fifty-four students from various primary schools in Linden – mainly Christianburg Primary, One Mile Primary, Wismar Hill Primary, and Mackenzie Primary – were awarded with certificates for participating in…

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Transport Minister Robeson Benn told the National Assembly on August 4th that the runway of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was declared to be in excellent condition by the International Civil Aviation Organisation after an audit done in January last. Benn made the comment in a statement to the House on the Caribbean Airlines’ plane crash on July 30. He said that the architectural design of the runway also provides for the rapid shedding of water. Accordingly, accumulation of water on the runway at the time the Caribbean Airlines’…

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Notorious Guyanese pirate Kevin ‘Long Hair’ Narine, aka Ram Sookdial, who was arrested in Suriname shortly after breaking out of the New Amsterdam Prisons, is still in police custody in that country, but is expected to be deported as soon as officials complete their investigations. In an invited comment on August 5, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud noted that Guyanese law enforcement officials are in constant contact with their Surinamese counterparts who are conducting those investigations, and as soon as those are completed, Narine will be deported to Guyana, where charges…

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Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has acknowledged the need for a treaty agreement between Guyana and Suriname in their battle to fight cross-border crime. He said that, as the relationship between the neighbouring countries develops, this issue will become more pressing. “I think certainly we’ve identified it as an issue, and in time we would have to work to get the treaties between our two countries, so that people who have done wrong in one country and run to the other would not find refuge there, but would be returned to…

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