Month: January 2012

By Michael Younge Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali said the ministry will work towards the complete elimination of illegal squatter settlements across the country come 2012, as he rolled out a massive plan that details how his team will tackle the phenomenon. At the ministry’s year-end media briefing, Ali said that government will explore all of the available avenues in a bid to resolve the issue once and for all. He asserted that while significant gains have already been made in the areas of squatter settlement regularisation and relocation,…

Minister within the Local Government and Regional Development Ministry Norman Whittaker has disclosed that one of the priorities for the ministry in 2012 will be the re-evaluation of properties to facilitate Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) and Municipalities’ rates and taxes assessment. Whittaker made this disclosure while providing highlights of the ministry’s 2011 programme to the Government Information Agency (GINA). Whittaker said that the ministry has been harangued by a number of NDCs and municipalities with regards to the need to have a re-evaluation of properties for the purpose of rate…

Guyanese Professor Suresh Narine has been appointed to the board of directors of Canadian oil and gas exploration company CGX, the firm announced in a press release on Tuesday. Professor Narine, named in 2011 as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under-40 leaders, is originally from Guyana, the release stated, noting that Narine has an impressive academic career that includes numerous awards, including the prestigious ” Growing Alberta Leadership Award for Innovation” received in 2005 for pioneering the development of technology to produce polyurethanes from vegetable oils among many other accomplishments.…

The governments of Guyana and Germany have finalised another agreement to utilise five million euros in funds for the development of the Guyana Protected Areas System (GPAS). The funds are expected to be channelled through the German Development Bank, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, functioning as the implementing agency for the continuation of the project. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Robert Persaud said the funds will help to realise the Protected Areas Commission, a major component of the National Protected Areas Act.…

By North American Correspondent Now in their twentieth year as an organisation, the Kaieteur Lions Club celebrated the holiday season with a deserving group of children at the H.R. Lawson Residence. Treasurer of the Lions Club, Anand Rupnarain, a Guyanese, and his family have been sponsoring the event for the past five years. “My daughters, Amanda and Davina, organised the party on behalf of the family,” said Rupnarain. As a respite facility for children with intellectual disabilities, H.R. Lawson caters to children from two to 21 years old, by providing…