Month: June 2017

Several sections of the commercial zone in Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) on Wednesday close their businesses as the Private Sector joined sugar workers from the Skeldon Estate and others in a rally against Government’s decision to privatise that estate. As sugar workers continue to voice concerns over Government’s announcement that the Skeldon Sugar Factory will be sold, hundreds of them and officials of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) were joined by the municipality, taxi drivers,…

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Guyana, through local agricultural initiatives, has the potential to feed the entire Caribbean, President David Granger said at the commissioning of a Self Sufficient Agricultural Economic Project at the Hugo Chávez Centre in Onverwagt on the West Coast of Berbice. The project was launched as a means to reduce the cost of daily services offered by the Social Protection Ministry, by implementing a self-sustained agricultural project at the Berbice-based rehabilitation centre. It was at this event that the President proclaimed that with further efforts, Guyana can cash in on being…

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A fatal accident involving several motor vehicles and a motorcycle in Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) on Sunday evening has resulted in the death of 28-year-old Wilbert Sydney, an ambulance driver attached to the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC). The incident occurred about 21:30h on the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, in the vicinity of Rawlins shortcut and Lover’s Lane, Mackenzie. Police reports indicated that at the time of the accident, Sydney, of Lot 70 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, was proceeding east along the northern side of the roadway on his motorcycle,…

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20-year-old Wesley Morvin Patoir, also called ‘Bucky,’ a mechanic of Kwakwani Park in Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice), was reportedly crushed by a truck in vicinity of the Kurubuku Mines, situated between Aroaima and Kwakwani, on Monday at approximately 15 hours. While details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, reports reaching this newspaper indicate that Patoir was working with a contractor, and the truck in which he was travelling developed mechanical problems and was stationary at the side of the road. Patoir was attempting to have the problem fixed, and was…

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By Samuel Sukhnandan Although it was recently announced that Guyana will now receive a two per cent royalty on gross earnings and 50 per cent of the profits of the oil proceeds when production starts in 2020, Chartered Accountant and Attorney Christopher Ram says that this percentage is relatively low when compared to royalties received by oil-producing countries in the world. However, Ram stressed that one needed to bear in mind that some countries do not receive any royalty at all. “Royalties in other countries do seem much higher, but…

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The coalition Government will have a stern test ahead of them when the consideration of the 2015 Auditor General’s (AG) report has been completed and they will have to submit, in writing, a commitment to either adopt or reject the AG’s many findings and recommendations. It will be the first time that the coalition Government will have to account for financial anarchy found by the Auditor General to have occurred since it took office in 2015 and documented in his report. These fiscal infractions include abuse of Guyana’s Contingency Fund…

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