Year: 2012

‘I am Guyanese until I die’

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US-based Guyanese singer Jerry Elcock By Venessa Deosaran For more than 25 years, internationally renowned jazz and R&B artiste Jerry ‘Jhayee’ Elcock has been pursuing his passion for music, and promoting his beloved country of birth, Guyana. As a child growing up, Jhayee –his stage name – was destined for a career in the music world. Born in Vergenoegen, Jerry spent most of his earliest childhood on the West Bank. Raised in a musical family, his father, a guitar player and music teacher, the house was always full of musicians.…

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Scholarship for Advanced Guyanese Education

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For high achievers with limited means Scholarship for Advanced Guyanese Education (SAGE) was officially founded in 2007 by seven returned ‘WorldTeach Guyana’ volunteers.  SAGE identifies secondary students with high academic potential but limited financial means, and provides these students with scholarships to help fulfil their academic achievements. Each board member of SAGE, all US-based, has taught in secondary schools in Mabaruma, Port Kaituma, Kwakwani, Soesdyke, and further afield. The president of the organisation, Alicia Wilson, joined WorldTeach Guyana for the 2006-2007 academic year. She taught biology and integrated science at…

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Jagdeo breaks silence on budget cuts

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“The country’s vibrant economy might be crippled in the near future if the opposition continues to stymie Guyana’s development” By Svetlana Marshall Breaking his silence for the first time since demitting office last year, former President Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at the commissioning of the New Building Society’s new headquarters tore into the opposition last Friday, deeming their recent cuts to the national budget as a vindictive act, which will set the country several paces back. The combined opposition had chopped some Gy$20 billion from the budget, Gy$18 billion of which…

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NEW GPC requesting value-for-money audit by auditor general

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– slams phantom prices, distortions, and lies of Kaieteur News Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran The NEW GPC INC is calling on the Auditor General’s Office to carry out a value-for-money audit of the prequalification process that was conducted in 2010, beginning with the advertisement for expression of interest and including the evaluation and subsequent approval of submissions for prequalification to supply pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The company has also warned that it will be pursuing all legal avenues possible to put an end…

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“Glenn Lall willing to destroy Guyana out of envy”

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Guyana Times and its publisher Dr Bobby Ramroop are facing not just a baptism of fire but an unrelenting campaign of hate by the Kaieteur News (KN) and its owner Glenn Mohan Lall that is still in full swing. KN was in business when Dr Ramroop acquired the NEW GPC in 1999. Yet until 2008, when the newspaper was launched, there was not a single negative article about Dr Ramroop or the NEW GPC. But between 2008 and the present, there have been almost 1700 scurrilous attacks through articles, columns,…

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Congressional candidates jostle for votes in Tuesday’s Primary

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By North American Correspondent This Tuesday, June 26, is Primary Election day for those candidates seeking Congressional office.  Voting will be from 6:00am until 9:00pm in virtually all public schools and some libraries.  Observers are keenly watching the outcome of the 6th CD race that incorporates North Richmond Hill and parts of Jamaica where thousands of Guyanese are settled. Three candidates  – Rory Lancman (Jewish), Grace Meng (Chinese), and Elizabeth Crowley (Irish) – are vying for the open seat to replace retiring Congressman Gary Ackerman (Jewish). The candidates are jostling…

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APNU to table motion to reverse power hike in Linden

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The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said before the hike in electricity tariff in Linden becomes reality, an effective programme for improving the economic conditions of the people of Region 10 must be undertaken by the government. The pronouncement by the coalition comes in wake of plans to table a motion in Parliament to reverse the increase in tariff hike. APNU parliamentary representatives of Region 10 are now drafting a motion to counteract the impending hike, which is scheduled for July 1. According to APNU Parliamentarian Renis Morian, “Our…

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More than 1075 get house lots in “One Stop Shop” exercise

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Hundreds of Guyanese families were on Thursday counting their good fortune as they moved one step closer to realising the dream of owning their homes through the Housing and Water Ministry’s ‘One Stop Shop’ exercise at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence. In his address to the beneficiaries, Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali said the process of building a brighter and better future for themselves and future generations was taken one step further. “It is a process that leads to strengthening of personal fulfillment and demonstrates the single most…

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Time to act

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Throw the rascals out The good citizens of Georgetown deserve better. The citizens of all Guyana deserve better. After all, this is our capital city, isn’t it? We’ve all seen Georgetown gradually sink into the “caddy and mud” from which it had been laboriously carved out – 200 years ago. Let’s not even mention that it had once earned the sobriquet “Garden City” – visitors might end up with such stitches from laughing, they might collapse.  That we have had the same mayor at City Hall since 1994 – Hamilton…

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Linden to pay more for power from July 1 – Dr Luncheon

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The Donald Ramotar administration will go ahead with its plans to hike electricity tariffs in Linden from July 1, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced last Thursday. This latest announcement comes against the acrimonious fallout between the government and the combined opposition over several issues, some of which have landed them in court. The opposition had protested the increase when it was first announced back in March during the national budget and then there was a cooling-off period. It is unclear what moves the combined opposition will be making to…

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