Month: April 2018

While commissioning Guyana’s first boardwalk, on Sunday at the Golden Beach in Bartica, capital town of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region Seven, President David Granger charged the mayors and town councils across the country to follow the lead of the town of Bartica in its pursuit of initiatives which not only promote the ‘green’ agenda, but add to the aesthetics of the environment. Commissioning of the boardwalk — lighted by solar electricity and having a number of seating areas — drew the usual large crowd, there for the annual Bartica Easter Regatta,…

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On the heels of Guyana submitting its border case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the call by the Venezuela Government to return to the Good Offices Process, Government is adamant that the wheels are in motion. According to Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge in a statement on Tuesday, the application Guyana filed on March 29 is seeking a final and binding judgement on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award. “Coming from the principal judicial organ of the (United Nations) UN, such a judgement will once and…

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…says monies earmarked for Consolidated Fund In light of reports that the US$18 million signing bonus Guyana collected from US oil giant ExxonMobil that was placed in a private account at the Bank of Guyana (BoG) was removed, several senior Government Ministers have dismissed the claim. Earlier this week, local economist Ramon Gaskin said in a letter to the media that the Bank of Guyana’s financial statement was recently issued and there was no trace of the signing bonus, which became a matter of controversy last year after it was…

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As thousands of retrenched workers, who were put on the breadline following Government’s downsizing of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), continue to struggle to earn a livelihood, calls have been reiterated for these workers to be given sugar lands to sustain themselves and their families. The most recent call was from social activist Christopher Ram last week as he addressed the opening of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana’s Sixth Triennial Conference. Ram told the gathering that the Conference was being held against the backdrop of what he…

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Seventeen-year-old Shanelle Thomas of Sand Creek, South Rupununi, one of six beauties vying for the annual Miss Rodeo Queen title, has been crowned Miss Rupununi Rodeo 2018. An aspiring nurse, Thomas won the Rodeo pageant on Friday evening at the Takutu Hotel in Lethem, Region Nine, in front of hundreds of patrons who had gathered to witness the annual event which forms part of the Rupununi Ranchers’ Rodeo festivity. Miss Sand Creek won the hearts of the audience with her confidence and eloquence even from the introduction segment of the…

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John Caesar, a chef of Lot 227 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was on Wednesday charged and remanded to prison for the murder of 32-year-old Linden businessman, Romel Edison “Eddie” Gomes. Thirty-five-year-old Caesar made his first court appearance before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Linden Magistrate’s Court and was also charged for disorderly behaviour. The charge was instituted after he behaved in a disorderly manner in the said courtroom after the matter was called on Wednesday. Additionally, Caesar was also sentenced to two years in prison in absentia after he…

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…President says in response to Bar Association’s call for current Chancellor, CJ confirmation President David Granger last week dismissed calls made by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) for the confirmation of acting Chancellor, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and acting Chief Justice Roxane George. The Head of State was at the time fielding questions from media operatives about the appointment of a Chancellor, saying he went through the constitutional process and recommended the appointment of Justice Kenneth Benjamin as Chancellor but Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whose approval is needed for a substantive…

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