March 2018 – Page 4 – Guyana Times International

Just a matter of time before paid parking is reintroduced in Georgetown – Clarke

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

It is just a matter of formality before the metered parking system is reintroduced in the City of Georgetown, as City Hall is all set to vote to adopt the amended by-laws proposed by the Re-negotiation Committee. At Monday’s Statutory Meeting, Councillor Ivelaw Henry moved that the Standing Orders be suspended to deal with the urgent issue of voting and accepting amended by-laws, and it was after a highly emotional debate that the vote was deferred to April 4. Team Legacy’s Councillor Malcolm Ferreira, said he received his copy of…

Italian company awaiting approval to commence exploration activities offshore Guyana

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

An Italian oil and gas exploration company could be the “new kid on the block”, if the Government of Guyana gives its go-ahead, for it to carry out exploration offshore Guyana. ENI is a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Rome. It is considered one of the world’s largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors. It operates in 79 countries and is currently the world’s 11th largest industrial company with a market capitalisation of 68 billion euros. Earlier on Monday, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman met…

Guyana acquires new state-of-the-art G$19.4M machine to improve blood transfusion service

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

With the aim of boosting the service capacity at the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) Centre, the Public Health Ministry on Tuesday commissioned a Trima Accel-Automated Blood Collection System, known as Apheresis Machine. This is a device which receives blood removed from a patient or donor’s body and separates it into its various components: plasma, platelets, white blood cells and red blood cells. The Apheresis Machine, which is the first of its kind in Guyana, is expected to improve the efficiency of emergency blood transfusions by providing specific components. It…

PNC dismisses concerns raised by WPA

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

People’s National Congress (PNC) General Secretary Amna Ally has dismissed concerns from the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about her party, noting that the PNC still remains a strong and viable option. In a brief interview with this publication on Sunday, Ally was insistent that the party remained unmoved by the statements being expressed by Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Dr. David Hinds. Amidst growing concerns that the PNC continues to show disregard and disdain for the spirit and letter of agreements it signed with key coalition partners, Political Scientist Dr…

Cheddi Jagan: through official American eyes

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

By Ravi Dev The following excerpts are taken from interviews of US diplomatic personnel done by the State Department to familiarise new personnel posted to Guyana on their experience in Guyana. ALLEN C HANSEN (1957-1959) Branch Public Affairs Officer, USIS (Interviewed 1988) At the time of my assignment to Georgetown, President Kennedy was in the White House. There was great concern that British Guiana, which would soon get its independence, would very possibly become a second Cuba (as mentioned earlier) inasmuch as the Prime Minister at the time was Cheddi…

Placing oil funds under political control unacceptable

March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 TIMES INT'L

The creation of a Department of Energy in the Ministry of the Presidency (MotP) with sole control over the purse strings of all oil revenues coming into Government is a dangerous development that must be vehemently opposed on all fronts. This is according to Economic Advisor to the Political Opposition, Peter Ramsaroop, who said the Department, and not the Ministry “with its control over the deposit account – called Wealth or Natural Resources Fund – is the creation of a slush fund with no parliamentary oversight over the spending of…

Jagdeo slams Gov’t over “repressive, anti-poor decisions”

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 administrator

…says biggest fear is whether 2020 polls would be free and fair General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo believes that some of the repressive and anti-people decisions taken by the coalition Government since its assumption to office, which have had a severe effect on the lives on many Guyanese, were well orchestrated to dismantle the pro-poor policies set by the party’s founder, Dr Cheddi Jagan. Addressing an audience which comprised veteran politicians and members of the diplomatic corps on Tuesday evening at Red House, Jagdeo said…

NY importers feeling the squeeze since fish ban took effect

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 administrator

Urging Government to accept responsibility, a Guyanese born Queens, New York businessman, whose business enterprises include fish imports, has called on the coalition Administration to do whatever it takes – even if it means bringing in a consultant – to fix the issues that led to the ban on catfish import into the United States from Guyana. In an interview with this publication, concerns were expressed by Dave Narine, owner of Dave’s Guyana Fish Market situated on Liberty Ave, New York. The businessman stressed that since fish exports from Guyana…

Govt working to ensure Guyana satisfies US requirements for fish export – Holder

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 administrator

In wake of the United States (US) ban on the import of catfish species, Government is seeking to assure it is taking measures after the fact to address the ban; something likely to have a ripple effect on a number of fishermen. In a brief interview with this publication, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder declared that Government is trying to satisfy the requirements it had been warned it would be in default of. “We’re putting things in place to satisfy the requirements. The requirements are stringent and it’s difficult to meet…

‘I didn’t conduct autopsies on burnt remains’

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 administrator

…says Govt Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh on Thursday testified at the ongoing Lindo Creek Commission of Inquiry (COI) that he never conducted post mortem examinations on the eight (8) miners who were killed. Sometime between June 12, 2008 and June 24, 2008, miners Cecil Arokium, Dax Arokium, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres were shot and killed, and their bodies burnt at the Upper Berbice River mining camp, which was being operated by Leonard Arokium. Sigh told the…