Year: 2016

15-year-old missing since Monday

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An Enmore, East Coast Demerara family has been worried since Monday when 15-year-old Vilma Anant went missing. Guyana Times International understands that Anant, commonly known as “Kamini”, is a Fourth Form (Grade 10) student of Apex Academy. The teenager reportedly left for school on Monday morning but upon arriving at the gate, she turned around and left – and has not been seen or heard from since. Speaking with this newspaper, Anant’s uncle, Vijay Sukhdeo, explained that “Kamini” had been living with them since she was little. He said the…

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Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies say Excise Tax on alcohol too burdensome

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Local manufacturing companies involved in the production of pharmaceutical products are contending that the law does not require them to make an Excise Tax payment on the purchase of alcohol and are therefore demanding the removal of the burdensome tariff on their purchases. The tax should only be applied to alcohol that is consumed and is commonly known as a “sin tax”. Twins Manufacturing Chemists, which has been in existence for over 60 years, explained that the Excise Tax Act 2005 is only applicable to local manufacturers involved in the…

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Young Blood for CPL

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…Windies Under-19 players to feature BRIDGETOWN— Six stars from the West Indies Under-19 squad which won the World Cup earlier this year are to feature in the fourth edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which starts late June. The young West Indies cricketers, retained after the franchises completed their player rosters for the forthcoming campaign, are Shimron Hetmyer, Alzarri Joseph, Gidron Pope, Anderson Phillip, Shemar Springer and Oshane Thomas. All six players have been retained by their home teams—Hetmyer, Joseph and Pope will play for Guyana Amazon Warriors, St…

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GOA supports national junior Table Tennis team

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The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) supported the national junior Table Tennis team that will be participating in the 2016 Caribbean Junior and Cadet Championships in the Dominican Republic. Members of the GOA which included President, KA Juman Yassin, Secretary, General Hector Edwards and Honorary Treasurer, Garfiled Wiltshire, handed over a cheque for an undisclosed sum of money to the committee of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) on Monday at the National Gymnasium after the final training session for the squad was held. Yassin said he was happy to support…

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“Golden rewards” for Guyanese cricketing stars

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By Akeem Greene The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) hosted a Dinner to honour the victorious Guyana Jaguars players, West Indies U-19 world champs and female World T20 champs on Monday at the Savannah Suite of the Guyana Pegasus Hotel in which the players were given championship rings and chains made of gold. Speaking at the event, honorary secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie praised the work of all the players while noting that they should be proud of their achievements; he also alluded to the fact that…

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The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre

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Honouring the life of a Guyanese patriot The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre, which is privately run by Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s family and friends, was declared open March 22, 2000. The Centre, located at High Street, Kingston, aims to promote research and publish materials on the life, work and ideas of Jagan and his wife, Janet. Additionally, this will promote research on the history of Guyana’s struggle for independence and social justice, the history of Guyana as a whole from the early 1940s to 2009. The year was 1918, when, on…

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Power hungry…

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…AFC Old people do warn: “all smart fly does end up in cow backside”. And when these smart flies get entangled with the stuff in that orifice, it’s hell no hell to get out! Well it looks like the AFC and its “smart flies” are up to their neck in “entanglement” with what one of their fervent supporters described as “miasmic substances”. From the moment the spoils were divided up between APNU and AFC after the elections, this Eyewitness – and most AFC supporters – pointed out that notwithstanding what…

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The Hopetown Chinese settlement

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The Hopetown settlement at Kamuni Creek (a creek more well-known for the present-day Santa Mission and Santa Aratak villages) began in 1865 as an effort by colonial authorities to induce Chinese indentured labourers to remain in British Guiana after their contracts were up. With the meagre salaries of the sugar plantations and limited economic opportunities after their indentureship period came to an end, a large number of Chinese workers were thinking of leaving the colony. Many had heard of the Chinese in Trinidad accumulating wealth from engaging in rice cultivation…

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Carnival of Corruption amid preparation for 50 years of what?

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Lomarsh Roopnarine There is little doubt that a new government needs time to adjust to the realities of good governance. To this thought, I agree, especially in light of the fact that many government ministers do not have the much needed skills and experience to perform or to carry out their assigned responsibilities effectively and efficiently. Many of them were not expected to be at the helm but years of out-migration have left a vacuum that can be only filled by loyalists rather that by leading lights. We have therefore…

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Green Bartica; a town to be emulated

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On April 23, 2016, the budding community of Bartica will officially be declared a town, as the government fulfils a 179 year Ordinance made by the then British Government. The Ordinance was made on April 23, 1837, as such; this is set to be an immensely historic occasion. With its first Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Town Council, its highly anticipated status of township and unsurprisingly renewed political will, Bartica is set to be modelled as a town to be emulated by all others. Under the guidance of President Granger, the…

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