Year: 2012

Sugar workers get five per cent wage increase

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By Samuel Sukhnandan GAWU President Komal Chand Sugar workers will receive a five per cent across-the-board increase on their salaries, after the Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) sealed a wage increase deal. GAWU President Komal Chand told Guyana Times International on Tuesday that the union is pleased with the increase given to sugar workers. Several bilateral meetings were held during the course of the year, before the decision on a suitable increase was made. Chand said piece-rated workers will receive a five…

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Education without disciple and decency is worthless

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– Swami Aksharananda tells graduating students The Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Secondary School, Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, on Sunday held its eighth annual graduation programme to honour 34 students who excelled at the 2012 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.  Thirty-one of the 34 students wrote 11 subjects and secured passes in all.  The best graduating student, Bibi Ameena Nazaralie, who was placed seventh in the country’s Top 10, obtained five grade ones and eight distinctions. The annual ceremony held on the lawn of the school’s compound was attended…

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Opposition must see beyond narrow self-interest – Ali

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By Michael Younge Housing Minister Irfaan Ali Senior Cabinet Minister Irfaan Ali has flayed the joint opposition political parties for continuously undermining principles such as trust, mutual respect and good faith in its dealings with the Donald Ramotar administration. He has also accused the opposition of supporting organised violence and seeking to create instability and mayhem in the country through a series of opposition sponsored events. Ali, who is also acting as tourism minister, explained that the much touted “new dispensation” in the National Assembly cannot deliver on the expectations…

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More small businesses to be established in New Amsterdam

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Over the next year, the Berbice Chamber of Commerce will continually work towards creating opportunities for establishing small businesses in New Amsterdam, Region 6. This was according to Berbice Chambers of Commerce Representative, Imran Sacoor at the closing of the New Amsterdam Town week on Saturday which was celebrated under the theme “Collaboration and Unity for the Restoration of New Amsterdam”. New Amsterdam is one of the most economically balanced towns in Berbice, that is driven by private and public sector organisations. Sacoor stated that the town has many opportunities…

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Guyana, TT officials discuss broadcast legislation at public forum

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A team of top officials of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) on Monday evening met local stakeholders at a well-attended forum organised by the National Frequency Management Unit, a GINA release stated. Delivering a brief presentation at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, TATT’s Vice Chairman, Kwesi Prescod, noted that media and rules governing media operatives have, and will have to evolve, to adapt to the changing times, citing the Internet as an area that holds challenges as well as opportunities. “With great power comes great responsibility,” he…

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Large field of golfers for Guyana Open

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– Foreigners to invade Lusignan Golf Course By Avenash Ramzan Approximately 80 local and foreign golfers will compete in the prestigious Guyana Open golf tournament, billed to tee off this weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara. The premier tournament on the local golf calendar has once again attracted corporate support from beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited, who will exclusively sponsor this year’s event under its XM brand of aged rums. Speaking at the launch of the competition yesterday morning at the company’s location at Thirst Park, Secretary…

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‘Red Jags’ off to Tobago

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Competing under the name, ‘Red Jags’, Guyana will vie for supremacy at the Bago Sports International Beach Soccer tournament, set to start tomorrow and end on Monday at the Turtle Beach, Black Rock Heritage Park, Tobago. Ahead of what is anticipated to be a very competitive tournament featuring selected teams from Jamaica, United States of America, Switzerland and Brazil, the acting president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Franklin Wilson, met with the team on Tuesday at the Bayroc ground in Linden. Wilson congratulated the team and management for the…

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Atwell, Corbin lift CABOFE titles

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By Avenash Ramzan Clive Atwell and Sean Corbin were crowned World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) champions last Saturday evening when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control staged its ‘Redemption’ boxing card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. A supremely fit Atwell completely outboxed Trinidad and Tobago’s Prince Lee Isidore to lift the Junior Welterweight title, while Corbin proved too good for former world champion, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, earning a unanimous decision to become the new Cruiserweight champion. In the other fights of the night, Dexter Marques…

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Shuffler to meet FIVB president

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President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF), Lennie Shuffler, has been invited to meet with new president of the world governing body for volleyball, the FIVB, Dr. Ary Graca, and executives of the South American Volleyball Federation (CSV) in Rio, Brazil, on November 12-13. This is a follow-up to Shuffler’s continued request for Brazil to become ‘Big Brother’ to the GVF and that a South American Volleyball Association be formed, comprising the federations of Amapa (Brazil), Cayenne, Suriname, Guyana and Roraima (Brazil). Shuffler feels this will be the first instance…

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Kashif & Shanghai launches 23rd football tournament

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By Avenash Ramzan The 23rd annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament was launched yesterday, two days after the Georgetown Football Association announced plans for the second Banks Beer Knockout Cup, which will run concurrently. Like the Banks Beer Cup, the Kashif and Shanghai competition will run from December 16, 2012, to January 1, 2013, with the Most Valuable Player receiving a motor car. One of the co-directors of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, Kashif Muhammad, speaking at the launch at the Princess Hotel boardroom, said the tournament has once again…

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