2014 – Page 18 – Guyana Times International

It’s an adventure in Mashabo

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

The Mashabo Amerindian community, located several miles aback Huist T’Dieren village on the Essequibo Coast, is a small village rich in agriculture. Villagers clear once forested land to plant the area with bitter cassava. The village has become self-sufficient in the production of cassava bread and cassareep. The village is also involved in chicken-rearing. Visitors can get a firsthand experience on how the residents survive on what Mother Nature provides and learn about their rich indigenous traditions. Notably, the watery trails add to the adventure at Mashabo. It is a…

Heritage Home of Cheddi, Janet Jagan

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

Memories of indomitable freedom fighters are preserved in what was once their humble abode Managed by the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre, the home of the late Jagans was declared open to the public by their daughter, Nadira, on 30 April 2009, after Mrs Jagan died in March of the same year. The house was built in 1966, the year of Guyana’s independence, and designed by Dr Jagan. This was the family’s first owned home, as up to late 1966 they had been living in rented houses since returning to British…

A hub for bio-diversity research and reading

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

In honour of British Botanist George Samuel Jenman’s work to the Botanical Gardens, the Jenman Education Centre was officially launched in 2004 to raise environmental awareness, conduct environmental research and promote environmental activities. George Samuel Jenman was born in 1945 in South of England, but was taken as a child by his parents to the south of Ireland where he spent his boyhood. He started life as a young gardener and obtained employment at the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1871. On 6 September 1873 he left that establishment to take…

‘Racing With The Rain’

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

By Petamber Persaud Part One ‘Racing With The Rain’ by Ken Puddicombe, MiddleRoad Publishers, 2012. Reviewed by Frank Birbalsingh. Professor Emeritus Birbalsingh is an anthologist and the author of many scholarly publications including From Pillar to Post: The Indo Caribbean Diaspora, Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature, The Rise of West Indian Cricket: From Colony to Nation, and two anthologies of Indo-Caribbean writing Jahaji and Jahaji Bhai. His latest book on cricket, Indian-Caribbean Test Cricketers and the Quest for Identity is now available. Birbalsingh is an acknowledged book…

Historic Cummingsburg

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

During 1759, Jaques Salignac applied for a grant of 500 acres of land for cotton and coffee cultivation. He was granted permission by the Court of Policy. Salignac named this tract of land La Bourgade. In 1807 Thomas Cumming, a Scotsman, became the owner of the estate and renamed Plantation La Bourgade Cummingsburg, after his family, it was a town two miles in circumference and most regularly arranged. A special feature of Cummingsburg was the provision of fresh water reservoirs. These were filled with small fish and were later planted…

Harper very impressed with team’s preparation

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

By Rajiv Bisnauth The star-studded Guyana Amazon Warriors departed Guyana on Tuesday for Grenada for their first of nine preliminary games in the second edition of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 tournament. The Warriors, who lost to the Jamaica Tallawahs in the finals of the inaugural tournament last year, is captained by Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies test skipper Denesh Ramdin and boasts the likes of Pakistan’s Mohammed Hafeez, Trinidad’s Sunil Narine, Lendl Simmons and Navin Stewart, New Zealand’s Martin Guptill and James Neesham, Jamaica’s Krishmar Santokie,…

Warriors ready for battle

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

By Rajiv Bisnauth With just hours more before the start of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2014, Guyana Times International Sport chatted with four local members of the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad prior to their departure from the Grand Coastal hotel on Tuesday for Grenada. The local franchise will play the Antigua Hawksbills on Friday at 14:00h, their first of nine preliminary games before returning home for three games. Opener Trevon Griffith, who played one game in the first edition of the tournament last year, said he feels very…

1,227kg of cannabis unearthed at Diamond

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) during an operation in Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara unearthed 1,227 kilograms of Jamaican marijuana in a canter truck. The street value of the find is estimated at Gy$216 million. Based on reports received, CANU, acting upon information, conducted a search on the house in the vicinity of the third bridge where several bags of dried marijuana were found in a vehicle covered with black plastic. Initially, the ranks thought it was garden mold used for farming purposes, but upon checking, the…

Accused baby abductor gets Gy$300,000 bail

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

Forty-seven-year-old Baitoon Hussain, who is accused of kidnapping Yuvesh Bistonauth called “Baby Avi” was granted bail in the sum of Gy$300,000 by Justice Brassington Reynolds after her Attorney Rodwell Jagmohan made an application for bail through the Berbice High Court. Attorney Jagmohan, in his bail application, stated that the offence is a bailable one and that his client is not a flight risk. However, Prosecutor Renita Singh noted that the offence is a serious one. The infant was nine days old at the time he was kidnapped. Singh added that…

Commercial buildings increased significantly over the past decade in Guyana

July 11, 2014 TIMES INT'L

BY SVETLANA MARSHALL The number of buildings within the commercial sector has grown tremendously over a 10-year period. According to the Guyana Population and Housing Census 2012 Preliminary Report, the number of commercial buildings has increased by 26.4 per cent, moving 14,560 in 2002 to 18,537 in 2012. According to the Bureau of Statistics, the distribution patterns remain the same when compared to 2002, pointing out that the number of business places had outstripped the level of growth of the building stocks when compared regionally. Using Region Seven as an…