Month: May 2013

With effect from May 27, for a period of one-month, Caribbean Airlines will fly an additional flight that is expected to add 900 seats to the country’s airlift capacity, acting Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Irfaan Ali disclosed last Friday, while speaking to Guyanese media. Additionally, as the ministry continues to look at having more airlines ply the Guyana route, from June 27 to the end of September, there will be an increase in daily flights. “You will have daily flights to the US… in addition to that, once the…

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Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities Public Relations Officer Ganesh Singh said the local paralympics committee is preparing to pull off the 2013 national paralympics games. During an exclusive interview with Guyana Times International on Friday, Singh said the games will be staged while the committee continues to work to finalise its draft constitution in order to be recognised locally, which has been developed from consultations in all 10 administrative regions. Last year, the committee conducted consultations and the feedback was dispatched to the Labour Ministry’s Co-op Division…

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Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul on Monday disclosed that more than 31,000 persons in Guyana will benefit from the Gy$35,000 minimum wage standard slated to take effect from July 1. He told Guyana Times International that the minimum wage standard caters for fulltime employees working for 40 hours per week or more. “All will benefit across the board, from security guards to janitors to domestic workers, all will benefit,” he said. Boasting about the progress made thus far, Minister Gopaul said for the first time in the history of Guyana,…

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A technical team from Guyana and Suriname is expected to continue talks shortly concerning the monitoring and regularisation of the Nikerie ‘backtracking’ route. When contacted on Monday for an update, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said the matter has been under discussion since the last meeting between the two sides in August last year. She noted that a decision has been taken that both Guyana and Suriname must be integrally involved in any attempt at addressing the way forward. “Those discussions are on the agenda for the next encounter… when…

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Local air carrier, Roraima Airways last week honoured former pilot Miles Williams, who also served in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), at a special ceremony held at Duke Lodge, Kingston. In brief remarks at the ceremony which coincided with Williams’ birthday, Roraima Airways’ Managing Director Gerry Gouveia said many times people live their lives, and do extraordinary things and then they fade away. He said life’s challenges and family obligations consume and direct what “we do and where we go”. He described Williams, a former Special Forces officer, who was…

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As Guyana continues to face challenges in addressing many social issues, a new guidance and counselling services group dubbed ‘Social Life Issues’ was launched on Tuesday. The organisation is the brainchild of its coordinator and well-known counsellor, John Greaves, who worked for several years with the Salvation Army’s Drug Rehabilitation Programme. Greaves told media operatives on Tuesday that the organisation hopes to address a range of issues that plagues society to bring about changes in family life and to create a better society for all. “We intend to move into…

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