Month: April 2013

Depression

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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”  – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is full of ups and downs. Everyone has those times where they feel completely and absolutely miserable. But for some people, those downs last much longer. For people suffering from depression, those downs, those feelings interfere with their everyday life. Interfere with their relationships, interfere with the way they treat the people around them, prevent them from enjoying things they normally…

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Granger hails Speaker’s budget cuts ruling as landmark

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With the ruling of the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman that the budget can be amended, Opposition Leader David Granger said he hopes that the abuse and name calling of the joint opposition comes to an end. Granger said for a period of 15 months or more, the opposition had to put up with all sorts of remarks and battering from some sections of society.  He expressed positive sentiments at the Speaker’s ruling, noting that it has brought much satisfaction to the joint opposition in the House. “Opposition…

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Tackling racism

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No one can contest the truth that during the period of Indian indentureship and its immediate aftermath, it was the policy of the colonial government to keep the Indians on the sugar plantations – more specifically, as stated by one planter in front of a Royal Commission, if not in the fields, then either in goal or in the hospital. The colonial government turned a blind eye to the open violation of the law of the land that all children should attend school and acquiesced in their exploitation in the…

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Govt mulls fresh legal challenge over budget cuts

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By Michael Younge – Government has not ruled out instituting fresh legal proceedings against a decision taken by House Speaker Raphael Trotman to uphold a motion tabled by the opposition to axe the 2013 national budget, as it vehemently protested what it called a misinterpretation of the country’s Constitution, which has led to uncertainty and parliamentary conflict between the executive and the legislature. The court has already made a temporary ruling on the issue, “but that, of course, does not mean that I cannot bring challenge afresh. The option will…

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Guyana welcomes foreign help in fight against money laundering

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United States Ambassador D Brent Hardt has saluted Guyana’s efforts and willingness to work with its Caribbean neighbours to investigate and prosecute corruption, support anti-bribery laws, and fight money laundering. Hardt was speaking at the launch of a Financial Crimes Stakeholder Conference and applauded the administration’s commitment to denying criminals safe haven. “We stand ready to support Guyana’s effort to strip criminals of their illicit wealth and sever their access to global financial systems,” Hardt stated. He pointed out that the U. S. efforts are geared at contributing to the…

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Guyana’s E-governance project 90 percent complete

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By Danielle Campbell-Lowe – Administrator of the E-governance Unit, Alexei Ramotar said the installation of the towers and other hardware infrastructure has pushed the project to 90 percent completion. Ramotar told Guyana Times International on Monday that the selection of the tower sites is based on population density and proximity to government services in order to minimise costs. “That phase has just started and we’re just about 10 percent completed. The sites are chosen… to avoid having to be charged to rent space on people’s land and so on.” The…

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Venezuela: Tense victory

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Because of the different trajectories the Anglophone Caribbean (now grouped in Caricom) and Latin America were forced into because of their competing imperialistic forbears, the former rarely took great interest in the domestic affairs of the latter. But that was certainly not the case with the presidential election in Venezuela held last Sunday – at least among the political classes. There were definitely sighs of relief in many Caribbean capitals, especially in Guyana and Jamaica, when on Monday morning, Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked successor of Hugo Chávez, was declared by…

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Opposition slash Gy$1.25B budgeted for Specialty Hospital

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– motion moved by AFC’s Ramjattan who is the lawyer of Fedders Lloyd, one of the companies which failed to win the bid to construct the hospital By Sabatini Daniels – The combined opposition Wednesday evening reduced the Gy$ 1.25 billion allocation for the Specialty Hospital to $ 0 in the first of a series of budgetary cuts it has proposed for this year’s national budget. The opposition had given warning of this since last week, but had cautioned that if sufficient answers were provided by the subject minister, then…

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Brooklyn murder-suicide: NYPD cop killed her baby to relieve ‘burden’, police source says

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– Officer Rosette Samuel’s boyfriend had planned to return to Guyana the day he was killed According to the New York Daily News, An NYPD cop on a murderous rampage killed her baby so he wouldn’t “be a burden on him,” a police source said. A ripped-up suicide note investigators retrieved from a toilet in Officer Rosette Samuel’s Brooklyn apartment offers that bizarre reason for the year-old boy’s slaying. NY Daily News had reported that before blowing Dylan Samuel Peters away with a shot to his little chest, the 43-year-old…

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