Month: September 2017

In light of high-level meetings regarding the financial state of the sugar industry, workers were finally paid but only after information surfaced that several categories of employees had not been paid for their services for about two weeks. At Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) request for urgent monies was granted which paved the way for workers across the estates to receive their salaries. Guyana Times International was told that workers at Uitvlugt and at Wales received their weekly salaries by Wednesday afternoon. The disbursements for workers at…

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Several Guyanese living on some of the islands that have been ravaged by Hurricane Irma have expressed interest in returning home, while others prefer to remain and assist with the rebuilding efforts in their adopted homes, Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Director General, Colonel (retired) Chabilall Ramsarup, has said. Ramsarup told this publication on Monday that a team consisting of Citizenship Minister Winston Felix, two members of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, one from the CDC, and a public relations official from the Office of the Prime Minister visited Antigua, St Maarten…

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Despite intensified efforts by Police to curb drunk driving on the nation’s roadways, another person was killed as a result of the scourge. Sixty-six-year-old pedal cyclist, Basil Rambarran of Farm Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was on Tuesday afternoon killed at Herstelling, EBD after he was struck down by minibus BLL 4739 driven by a 44-year old Soesdyke, Back Road resident. The driver was subsequently arrested after he failed a breathalyser test where he was found to be over the legal limit of alcohol consumption. Police stated that the…

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ExxonMobil and the Guyana Government on Wednesday wrapped up another round of high-level technical talks aimed at looking at the feasibility of using natural gas transported from its wells in the Atlantic to shore, in order to be used to supplement the nation’s electricity demands. The first in what is being heralded as a series of continued discussions on commercial and power generation issues began on Tuesday last when officers of the Government of Guyana and technical members of ExxonMobil met in Georgetown. That meeting follows one held a day…

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…Granger tells world leaders at UN Guyana continues to be imperilled by the ever militaristic threats from Venezuela which has laid claim to more than two thirds of Guyana’s territories, a situation that threatens the very existence of peace in the Caribbean region once protracted. This was the clarion call of Head of State David Granger, who in his third appearance at the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York, appealed to world leaders dedicating a third of his presentation to the escalating conflict over Venezuela’s claim to the Essequibo.…

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It may talk the talk, but the Government has not been walking the walk of social cohesion. This is according to a former Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), who believes that the Government has no serious intentions of re-establishing the ERC. He noted in a recent interview that the Social Cohesion Ministry has done a substandard job at facilitating the type of community level engagements needed to bring about true social cohesion. In light of this, he called for the ERC to be re-established. “That is why they…

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