Month: June 2016

The long-awaited National Sports Policy is one step closer to completion now that consultations have been held with various sports associations across Guyana. Director of Sports, Christopher Jones, was quoted by GINA as saying that sports associations across Guyana were given a draft policy document which they would review and make their input. “We would have shared with them a draft sports policy document and with a view of the associations and the federations brining submissions to us to update that sports policy document,” Jones elaborated. According to Jones, once…

Read More

A customs broker attached to a well-known company, along with another person, was arrested following the discovery of 1276 pounds of marijuana in a container at the John Fernandes Limited wharf at Water Street, Georgetown on Tuesday. Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), James Singh told Guyana Times International on Wednesday that officials from the unit were in close contact with their counterparts in Jamaica since it was suspected that the compressed marijuana might have been loaded onto the vessel when it docked in that country. He, nevertheless, stated…

Read More

By Devina Samaroo The move by Government to assign separate flags for each administrative region has been met with strong objections from the parliamentary Opposition, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), which believes more time, energy and resources ought to be spent on better governance. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Party declared that the Golden Arrowhead is the constitutional flag of Guyana, adding that any other flag imposed will be contrary to the country’s Constitution. The decision to give each region its own flag was announced last year by…

Read More

The Guyana Government has expressed grave concerns about the Venezuelan Government’s staunch denial of the shooting incident which almost claimed the lives of four Guyanese. Approximately two weeks after the alleged shooting incident in the Cuyuni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), the Venezuelan Government has denied that the shooting occurred, maintaining that officers of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces did not open fire at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) officers as is being reported locally. Guyana Defence Force Chief of Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips officially announced on May 30,…

Read More

The Guyana Learning Channel (TGLC) is now broadcasting a number of Government Information Agency  (GINA) programmes, including activities of Cabinet Ministers, the President’s Diary, The President’s weekly telecast, “The Public Interest” among others, despite no public disclosure of this move to place such programmes on a television station established exclusively to broadcast educational materials, without having any political influence. After Guyana Times International learnt of the programmes being broadcasted, Coordinator of the TGLC, Dr Seeta Roath was contacted, but she dodged the question on whether or not the Channel is…

Read More

Former Housing and Water Minister and current PPP/C Member of Parliament, Mr. Irfaan Ali said he is “saddened by the news that Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Mrs Myrna Pitt has tendered her resignation with effect from July”. “While I served as the Minister of Housing and Water during the Peoples Progressive Party Civic’s tenure in office, Mrs Pitt proved to be a competent, ardent and committed public servant as well as professional,” Ali said in a statement on Thursday. “She executed her functions with…

Read More

President David Granger, on Wednesday evening, attended a reception to bid farewell to the 11th batch of the Chinese Medical Brigade and welcomed their replacement; a 16-member team of medical professionals, who arrived in Guyana two days ago. The reception was organised by the Chinese Embassy in Georgetown. First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon and Minister of Finance, Mr. Winston Jordan also attended the function. The Head of State, in brief remarks, said that the relationship between Guyana and China has…

Read More