Month: March 2018

– father of dead Berbice bandit The father of one of the two bandits fatally shot by Police in Berbice last Friday morning said he warned his son about his criminal lifestyle and advised him to desist from wrongdoing. Mansaran Sham told Guyana Times International that he warned his son on several occasions, recalling the last time he saw his son was three months ago. During their last meeting, he advised his son to stay out of trouble. “Normally me and he does gaff and ah does tell him, ‘don’t…

The Government of Guyana is putting systems in place to beef up security in communities that are located close to the border with neighbouring Venezuela by forming more Community Policing Groups (CPGs). Based on reports of an increasing number of Venezuelan nationals crossing Guyana borders and given the potential threat Guyana faces due to major oil discovery, there are plans to have more heightened security in those areas. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said the first step to be taken is to assist law enforcement officials by forming new policing…

Given the recent controversy surrounding outgoing Police Chief Seelall Persaud issuing himself a gun licence, the Government is now actively reviewing the current regulations governing the issuance of these licences. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told the media at a press conference on Monday that serious consideration was being given to the matter, but said certain steps would have to be followed first. “We are giving that serious consideration as we speak. It has been a situational problematic that have caused of recent times.” Ramjattan said, “I had really thought…

One day after showing intense emotion after being found guilty, Troy Jackson was on Wednesday sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment by Sexual Offences Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall. A 12-member jury, by 10-2, determined that Jackson was indeed the perpetrator of an indecent assault that occurred on October 20, 2016 in the county of Demerara. The charge detailed that Jackson placed his penis against the seven-year-old female victim’s genitals. In an impact statement read out by ChildLink Counsellor Celeste Mullin, the young victim stated that she was upset over what the…

With an already strong defence cooperation programme with several bilateral partners, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is now set to benefit from the expertise of the Mexican Army in the area of disaster response and management. This was confirmed Wednesday when President David Granger met with Mexico’s Ambassador to Guyana, Ivan Robero Sierra Medel. The meeting was held at State House. The Ambassador said that the move to strengthen military-to-military relations between the two countries came out of discussions at the Caricom-Mexico Summit, which was held in Belize in October…

Students from Grades Six and Nine, from several schools in Region Four on Sunday afternoon, tested their knowledge of Mathematics as they competed in the inaugural Math Olympiad created by the Brain Central (BC), an online educational portal. According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), the two-day (February 3-4) collaborative initiative between BC and Scotiabank saw 45 students, going online and simultaneously take two (2) timed quizzes, consisting of 40 questions set to be completed within 50 minutes. Lance Hinds, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), BC, was quoted by DPI…

The need for information pertaining to the oil and gas industry was on Tuesday reinforced by the newly-established Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chambers (GOGEC), which met with a Canadian expert on oil and gas. GOGEC President Manniram Prashad, during his brief remarks at the consultation, touched on the goal of the Chambers as it related to the country’s future as an oil- and gas-producing nation. He noted that emphasis must be placed on the importance of disseminating knowledge pertaining to the industry, as the sector will have an impact…

The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is set to hear the Guyana Government’s appeal of the constitutional challenge to presidential term limits. According to information posted on the CCJ’s website, a hearing on the matter is scheduled to begin at 10:00h on March 12, and will be done via audio-visual recording. Former Speaker Raphael Trotman and Attorney General Basil Williams were the named respondents in the original constitutional challenge, which was filed by Georgetown resident Cedrick Richardson in the High Court. This court action, among other things, challenged the…