Month: January 2015

… on Cypriot vessel in Demerara River A cargo ship which left Suriname destined for Europe was intercepted by local authorities early Monday morning in the Demerara River with approximately 192.42 kilograms of cocaine stashed away. The drug was found concealed under the wooden flooring of a flat rack that is used as a bed for containers. The cocaine, with an estimated street value of Gy$165.7 billion (US$800 million), was in several rectangular shaped packages that were wrapped with black plastic. According to reports, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) was…

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Guyana’s Ambassador to Brussels for the past nine years, Dr. Patrick Gomes, has been appointed the new Secretary-General of the 79-member African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. The decision was reportedly taken in early December 2014 in Brussels after much deliberation at the level of the ACP Council of Ministers. According to noted Caribbean journalist, Mr Rickey Singh, of the three shortlisted candidates from an original group of six, Dr Gomes was judged to have “the best understanding of the functions of the Secretary General…” The two other…

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Presidential Adviser on Governance, Gail Teixeira has underlined that condition such as press freedom is one of the basic principles of a democratic society, noting that an open and free press exists in Guyana. She noted that government has only one television station, one radio station and a single newspaper. In contrast there are a total of 20 television stations, 13 radio stations and four daily newspapers, hence the private sector is in control of the mass media, she said. Speaking on the issue of governance on the television programme,…

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Members of the local and international mining fraternity are to benefit from the provision of a wide range of technical expertise as renowned Guyanese-Canadian Mining Engineer, Dr Andrew Ramcharan formally commissions AAR Mining Consulting Firm in Guyana. AAR Mine Consulting Inc is a consulting company which offers a wide range of services to both open-pit and underground mining projects. Its services cater to clients in banking; Government; major mining companies; exploration and development firms; law firms; individual investors; international organisations (CIDA, and the United Nations etc); and private equity ventures.…

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People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary (GS) Clement Rohee on Tuesday disregarded talks that he and Junior Finance Minister, Bishop Juan Edghill are listed to become the party’s Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates respectively. Talks by analysts indicate that the party might be following the trend where its General Secretaries become the Presidential candidates. In their analysis, they cited former President, the late Janet Jagan and current Head of State President Donald Romotar who had both served in that capacity before taking up the leadership post of President. But Rohee,…

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By Vahnu Manikchand Years after adopting the landmark Disciplined Forces Commission Report, law enforcement agencies in Guyana have acknowledged that it has been difficult to achieve ethic balance in the forces despite the clear recommendation for this to be done. The issue of the ethnic imbalance in the security forces had come to the fore during the Constitutional Change hearings during 1999. One of the changes that were approved unanimously in 2000 Constitution was a clause that mandates the President to establish a Commission to investigate and recommend resolving the…

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People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary Clement Rohee said the recent Aishalton incident involving a resident and Presidential Guards might have very well been a plot by the political Opposition to turn residents against Government. At the Party’s weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Rohee said while the PPP/C was not upset by the move purportedly made by the Opposition to prolong the issue, it had a responsibility to protect the name and reputation of President Donald Ramotar , who is also an executive member of the PPP/C. Late last month,…

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Government has expressed its intention of taking legal action against the Guyana National Council on Public Policy (GNCPP) and its chairman, Dr Phillip Mozart Thomas so as to recover the over Gy$4 million owed for services provided. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon. He told reporters that Government has been keeping track of the organisation and Thomas. Last week, the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) reported that it was owed a total of Gy$4,208,360 for services provided to the organisation for its civil society…

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