Month: September 2013

A 22-year-old student of the University of Guyana died Tuesday night following a horrific accident on Brickdam, Georgetown. Dead is Lindsford Gavin Deally of Lot 471 Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara. Deally met his demise at approximately 21: 30h when the Sophia bus he was conducting collided with a car in the vicinity of Louisa Row and Brickdam. While at the Georgetown Public Hospital, one of the survivors, Sheldon McKenzie, told media operatives that he had warned the driver to slow down, less than five minutes before the collision occurred. He…

For the fourth year in a row, Caribbean Airlines has been named the Caribbean’s Leading Airline at the annual World Travel Awards function held over the weekend at Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa. Accepting the award on behalf of the airline, Alicia Cabrera, Senior Manager Marketing at CAL said: “This fourth win really cements our position as the region’s premier carrier. That the category is judged based on travel industry professionals voting makes it even more prestigious as our customers and travel agent partners clearly recognise the tremendous effort…

By Svetlana Marshall “It is critical that a constant and sharp eye be placed on aviation and maritime development to provide faster access to forest and remote area protection, and hydrocarbon security,” Rear Admiral Gary Best said as he delivered his last speech as chief-of-staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday amid much pomp and ceremony at Camp Ayanganna. Best, who is the seventh chief-of-staff of Guyana’s army but the first to be elevated to the rank of Rear Admiral, said the country’s successful development depends significantly on…

Guyana has backed calls for Europe to compensate Caribbean states for the inhumanity of slavery, saying the injustice had left a deep wound and the desire to right this wrong was a component of the anti-colonial struggle. “Guyana agrees that we must look at this dark history in order to understand and move forward in the present. But apart from the duty to remember, we have the duty to ensure that just and appropriate measures are adopted to compensate for those wrongs,” Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony told a regional…

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy during a recent visit to Venezuela succeeded in getting manufacturers to agree to supply Guyana with 5000 tonnes of fertiliser. During the recent visit of President Nicolas Maduro to Guyana, a decision was made to extend that previous agreement to two shipments. As per the new arrangement, the first shipment will see the supply of 5000 tonnes, and another shipment in March next year. Ramsammy said the government has been negotiating with ship owners since the plant itself has an established shipping time. “Whatever ship…

Freshly minted Guyanese doctors, numbering over 200, who were trained in Cuba will over the next few days, in groups of 60, be put through several training sessions that would prepare them for their first postings. At the orientation for the doctors on Monday at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, they were told of the demands of the health system, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Scope of training Their training will incorporate, among others, legal and administrative components of the health system, regional and clinical health services, maternal…

Professor Clement Sankat, principal of the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) St Augustine campus, says the decision not to renew environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh’s part-time contract was not politically motivated. “The system was challenged, and it had nothing to do with politics,” Sankat reportedly told TT media last Friday. He added that Kublalsingh was never on the permanent staff, and there were hundreds of part-time lecturers with similar contracts at the university. Last year, Kublalsingh missed several classes when he was involved in a 21-day hunger strike over the…