Month: January 2012

By North American Correspondent Toronto Guyanese students impress the audience at a year-end musical performance in Toronto. In a brightly lit room, fully decorated for the end-of -year holiday, songs from India wafted through the corridors of the Chris Gibson Recreation Centre at McLaughlin and Queen Street in Brampton, Toronto. The event was organised by the Saaz-O-Aawaaz organisation. Seven-year-old Vivek sat behind the tabla and could barely be seen because he is so small, yet the sounds he produced on the instrument while accompanying Arti Mahadeo singing “Hamko hame se…

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The Office of the President (OP) said it views with extreme distaste the resort of Kaieteur News to defame the character of Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali in an article that sought to link his acquisition of a property with corruption. “The recent Kaieteur News headlines that targeted Minister Irfaan Ali are the latest in the series of yellow journalistic activities,” OP said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Office of the President rejects such underhand tactics intended to demean and question the probity of the young minister. Minister…

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While there is still no word regarding the whereabouts of the three missing seamen who have, for almost two weeks, disappeared with the MV “Oliver L”, family members are being assured that every effort is being made to bring clarity to the issue. Following a meeting with Works and Transport Minister Robeson Benn yesterday, the wives of two of the seamen have expressed satisfaction at the efforts that are being made at all levels to give them answers. Speaking with this newspaper yesterday afternoon in an invited comment, Kamaldai Shuckoo…

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Canada’s largest full-service airline, Air Canada, could be servicing the Guyana route in the near future if discussions between Guyana’s private sector and Canadian officials are successful. Business Guyana quoted Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Ramesh Dookhoo on Tuesday as saying that air travel between Canada and Guyana is rapidly increasing, and as such, the PSC will be pursuing initiatives that could see the Canadian airline operating out of Guyana. “The private sector will be working with the Canadian High Commissioner to encourage Air Canada to come to Guyana as…

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The Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency (CRMA), a division of the Labour, Human Services and Social Security Ministry has found work for over 2500 job seekers in 2011, but the new Labour Minister, Dr Nanda Kishore Gopaul warned that too many persons were graduating in the social sciences when the country was in need of geologists, economists and engineers. Dr Gopaul told Guyana Times International in an interview on Tuesday that the CRMA had handled over 3000 vacancies from a variety of employers last year, but was only able to…

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