Month: January 2018

Self-confessed ‘Bishop’, Joseph Persaud who was late last year accused of raping one of his female church members was on Tuesday slapped with a rape charge and taken before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The 37-year-old man, of Lot 62 Avenue A, New Scheme, Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was arraigned for raping a 23-year-old woman when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. In court on Tuesday, he was granted G$350,000 bail. As a condition of bail, he was required to surrender his passport to the court and stay 50…

President David Granger, as leader of the Government of Guyana, is ultimately responsible for re-negotiating the contract with ExxonMobil – a contract which will see Guyana missing out on earning well in excess of US$10 billion more, or over GS$2 trillion Guyana dollars more in revenue. This article is the first in a series of articles which would seek to identify how Guyana lost out in the re-negotiated contract with ExxonMobil, and in so doing, argues that this is the consequence of the APNU-AFC government’s determination to “go it alone”…

The Guyana Government said on Wednesday that it was unaware that legal action had been filed by a private citizen in the country’s top court with the aim of compelling it to deposit the signing bonus it received from US oil giant ExxonMobil into the Consolidated Fund. The action was filed on behalf of Troy Thomas by Attorney-at-Law Christopher Ram in the High Court. Thomas is the current Head of the Transparency Institute of Guyana Incorporated (TIGI), Transparency International’s local arm. He wants the court to grant orders directing Finance…

Two men held in connection with the death of the Brazilian miner who was found murdered in February of 2016 at Fish Creek, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) was on Tuesday taken before the Bartica Magistrate’s Court slapped with a murder charge. Phillip and Fidel Williams were not required to plead to the capital charge which stated that on February 9, 2016, they murdered Naldinho DeCosta Souza. They were both remanded to prison and were scheduled to return to court on January 10. Reports are DeCosta Souza’s throat was slit…

The Centre of Excellence in Information Technology, an advanced Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training school is expected to be commissioned March 2018 at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen campus. The Centre will provide training that “bridges the gap between the Public and Private Sector,” Public Telecommunications Minister Cathy Hughes explained in a recent interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI). “We have several individuals in the Public Sector that need retraining and constant upgrading to skills, but also it provides training that the Private Sector needs.” According to…

…Gaskin says of Exxon contract As part of the new agreement signed with U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil, the Natural Resources Minister will have to file the company’s tax returns with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), something outspoken political analyst and economist Ramon Gaskin has described as “foolish!” According to Gaskin, this agreement which the Government signed on to makes the Government look silly in the eyes of many, and only puts the Minister (Raphael Trotman) in a bad situation, where he has now become the oil company’s “water boy”, who…