Month: August 2017

… private radio, TV broadcasters claim otherwise A number of private television, cable and radio broadcasters have claimed that the Guyana National Broadcasting Agency (GNBA) has refused payments for 2017, but GNBA Chairman, Leslie Sobers, has debunked those claims, stating that there seems to be some “mix up” about the issue. He confirmed that the new Board welcomes all broadcasters to fix their applications and to settle their arrears. Guyana Times International spoke with several of these broadcasters, who all claimed that the fees were rejected. The owner of the…

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Chairman of the Abary Cattle Ranch Company Limited (ACRCL), Hemraj Kissoon, told the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into ancestral land ownership that the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agriculture Development Association (MMA) illegally took possession of some 2000 acres of land that belonged to the company without any reason or explanation. He added that the decision should be revoked and the land should be transported and returned to the company. Providing a background of the ACRCL, Kissoon said the company is a limited liability company which has been in existence since 1909 with…

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…following tragic death of 12-year-old “girlfriend” Following the tragic death of 12-year-old Amber Richards, who was crushed to death by a fallen house at La Bonne Intention on Friday last, her reported “boyfriend” took his own life upon receiving the news. Dead is Ricardo Niranjan of Lot 410 Block 12, Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara. The duo reportedly met through a cousin of the 12-year-old more than six months ago and started a relationship. However, information reaching this newspaper revealed that the young man’s mother and two sisters travelled to…

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…UK envoy says in response to calls for reparation Despite repeated calls by several Caribbean territories to be paid reparations by European nations for their involvement and benefit from slavery, the United Kingdom (UK) believes that such calls are not the way forward. The calls are for financial compensation to be paid to descendants of enslaved peoples but the UK, Guyana’s former colonial ruler, indicated that countries should look to the future rather than the past. This was the expressed view of British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn who…

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…SOCU Head tells Lands CoI The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into land ownership heard that several discrepancies were unearthed by a forensic audit into the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s (CH&PA’s) operations relative to the allocation of land to private developers; and although those developers reportedly owe that housing authority more than $G1 billion, no system exists that would enforce agreements existing between the CH&PA and those developers. Head of the Special Organised Crimes Unit (SOCU), Assistant Police Commissioner Sydney James, read excerpts from the reported findings of the forensic…

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… crime continues to dampen struggling economic growth – Chairman After-tax profit made by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) and its subsidiaries between January and June 2017 stands at G$603 million, down from the G$961 million recorded for the same period in 2016. The GBTI Mid-Year (Interim) Financial Report has detailed that the company earned just over G$902 million net profit after tax from its operations conducted during the first half (Jan/June) of 2016; but has recorded G$599 million net profit after tax for the comparative…

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