Year: 2012

Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud on Monday tore into City Mayor Hamilton Green and his councillors for stymieing moves by the town clerk to send Public Relations Officer Royston King on leave and to remove street vendors from Regent Street. Persaud was at the time speaking at a news conference at his Kingstown office. He said despite efforts by Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba to root out corruption and iron out the age-old issues affecting the municipality, Green and his clique of councillors continue to resist. He alluded to recent…

Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud said legal actions will be taken against Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon if he moves to establish a council at Kwakwani thus overthrowing the recently-installed Interim Management Committee (IMC) there. “I am happy that critics of IMC seem to have embraced the concept of IMC. It is sad, however, that whoever is seeking to establish the IMC, in particular, Mr Solomon, has no authority to do so; and so anything, any action taken by Mr Solomon with regards to establishing of any IMC is illegal,…

Guyanese, Sherry Ann Dixon has been admitted to The Black 100+ Hall of Fame. The Black100+ Project is an exhibition of the top 100 black achievers in Britain. Dixon, a journalist, radio presenter, university lecturer and a member of the National Black Women’s Network (NBWN), will be featured in a historic photographic record of black achievement, designed to inspire young people to excel and create a legacy for future generations, by highlighting her success and her valuable contributions to society. Dixon joins some of the top UK black celebrities who…

The Donald Ramotar administration has defended its abstention on a vote on one of the UN General Assembly resolutions regarding the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement on Friday said that as some local reporting has illustrated, the situation is evidently complex with multiple interests being prosecuted by various actors, both internal and external. The United Nations General Assembly on August 3, voted overwhelmingly in support of the resolution. Gravely concerned by the escalating violence in Syria, the UN General Assembly on July…

The continued implementation of government’s developmental thrust has laid a foundation for the economy to experience continued positive growth, as it has accomplished since 2006. Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Saturday indicated that this pattern is continuing as the country’s economy showed its resilience, recording a 2.8 per cent growth in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to mid-year. Minister Singh, at a press conference held at the National Communications Network (NCN) on Home Stretch Avenue on the mid-year financial report for 2012, stated that the comprehensive assessment of…

Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall recently said that based on the evidence available, there is obviously a patent misunderstanding and misconception of the role of the opposition, by the opposition themselves and, they have created a wrong expectation by their supporters. Minister Nandlall explained that the parliamentary opposition sees their role as one to fashion policies for the executive to execute as they believe they have some kind of power to instruct that they be carried out, however that is not the role of the opposition and…