Month: September 2013

BY UMADEVI BUX When the mother of 17-year-old Alex Vimal Kahdhai decided to place him and his siblings in an orphanage because she could no longer take care of them, he had little hope of becoming someone with a bright future. But he challenged his circumstances amid children like himself at the Prabhu Sharan Orphanage located at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara and defied all the odds to secure 15 subjects at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. A student of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) School, the…

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A section of L’Aventure Secondary School, at Canal Number One Polder, West Bank Demerara, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The morning blaze, suspected to have been electrical in origin on the third day of the new term, displaced 699 students. Headmistress Althea Stewart, speaking with Guyana Times International said she was at the Ministry of Education office in Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara when she was informed, by telephone, of the occurrence. The distressed woman said she hurried there and observed that the building was engulfed and the lone female…

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The Guyana Prize for Literature Committee has announced its shortlist of winners for the prestigious awards billed for September 15 at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown. In a statement, the committee said the shortlists and winners were decided by a jury made up of distinguished judges, selected by the Guyana Prize Management Committee because of their outstanding credentials in the field of literature as literary critics, academics, literary editors, authors and creative writers. Shortlist For the Best Book of Fiction, Ruel Johnson’s Collected Fictions, a semi-autobiographical collection of short fiction that…

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Preparations are moving apace for the opening of Guyana’s leading trade fair and exposition on October 3 at the Sophia Exhibition Complex. The four-day event promises 85 international exhibitors as compared to 36 last year, and more booths, as over 440 are to be erected. Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) Director Indranauth Haralsingh said, “We are ready to host one of the most successful GuyExpos.” Several of the foreign exhibitors are first timers at the event. Exhibitors are expected from China, India, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Grenada, St Lucia, French Guiana, and…

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Guyana is expected to take firm steps to comply fully with its obligations under the Montreal Protocol of the Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer, which will soon result in the banning and phasing out of substances which can deplete the ozone. The need to ban and phase out these harmful substances and gases has been backed-up by research done internationally by scientists and environmentalists who argue that they are destroying the ozone layer, resulting in ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Research has also shown that these…

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– Dr Ramsammy says search on for suitable site BY SVETLANA MARSHALL Government has denied reports that ANSA McAL has suspended altogether its proposed multimillion-dollar bio-fuel project in Guyana, insisting that while the Trinidadian conglomerate has turned its back on the 40,000 hectares of land in the Canje Basin, the administration was still searching for suitable alternatives. ANSA McAL’s Chief Executive Officer Anthony Sabga III, during a recent interview in another section of the media, said a feasibility study conducted in the Canje Basin indicated that the soil was unsuitable…

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