Year: 2018

Do it for Science: UG Chemistry Club observers Mole Day

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Mole Day traces its origins to an article that appeared in The Science Teacher magazine in the early 1980s about a high school chemistry teacher’s reasons for celebrating the day. The idea for Mole Day took root and led to the formation of the National Mole Day Foundation, which was formed on May 15, 1991. A mole is the quantity of anything with the same number of atoms found in 12.000 grams of carbon-12, expressed as 6.02 x 1023, popularly known as Avogadro’s constant. The American Chemical Society plans National…

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Govt sensitising foreign businesses on Guyana’s labour laws

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A number of Chinese business owners were on Sunday sensitised on Guyana’s labour laws. The seminar focused on the Termination of Employment and Severance Pay Act, Leave with Pay Act, Minimum Wage Order, Occupational Safety and Health Act, decent work as a philosophy and practice, and terms and conditions of employment. The exercise, hosted at the Chinese Association, Brickdam, was led by Minister within the Social Protection Ministry, Keith Scott; Chief Labour Officer Charles Ogle and other labour officers from the Ministry. With the establishment of several large and small…

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Change…

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…in Brazil Most Guyanese probably don’t even realise that the giant on our southern border – Brazil – just had a change of government that’s gonna affect us significantly. Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is a former army captain who’s the exact opposite of that other army officer who became a South American president. Naah! Not David Granger, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. If Chavez was the fiery socialist who smelt a whiff of “sulphur” – an allusion to the Devil — in the presence of Republican US President George Bush,…

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12 bodyguards assigned to Mayor, fmr Mayor of Georgetown amid staff shortage

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…CoI Chairman says ‘this is ridiculous’ For many months, there has been an ongoing public decry that the City Constabulary is short-staffed and cannot effectively carryout its duties. However, this reflects differently from the fraction of staffers that are used as bodyguards for present and former employees. Currently, there are 191 officers employed by the City Constabulary with 67 auxiliary guards but according to Constable of the City Constabulary, Andrew Foo, the “requirement” is some 345 persons. “Our authorised strength should be 345. We currently have 191 in terms of…

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“We struggling here: things rough bad”

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By Lakhram Bhagirat If you met Royston Garnett a few years ago and told him that he would have been unemployed for 10- plus months and struggling to make ends meet, he would have certainly given you a few taps on your head to check to see if everything was in place, but today all he can do is worry about where the next dollar will come from, since he practically is as broke as a church mouse. I know a lot of you will say that ‘we all go…

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Nikita Edwards: Linden’s newest attorney-at-law

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By Kizzy Coleman In a simple but significant ceremony held at the High Court last week, Nikita Edwards was admitted to the Bar Association of Guyana. Her words after taking her oath before Chief Justice Roxanne George were, “Don’t let anybody tell you that you cannot do it, and do not let any situation tell you that you cannot do it. If you want it, fight for it.” And a fight it was for the 30-year-old Edwards, who hails from the mining town of Linden. Born as one of four…

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Guyana ready to show off ‘modern’ airport – Minister Patterson

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The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project is still on schedule to be completed by December 31, according to Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson. Work on the runway, which began in 2013, resumed in late 2016 after the loan was restructured under the coalition Government. In a recent interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI), Minister Patterson said the new Arrivals and Departure sections have been opened to passengers. He added that two of the boarding bridges were operational while two others would be operational next month. “There…

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PPP moving to CCJ over GECOM Chairman’s appointment

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Executive Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Zulfikar Mustapha, is making his final bid to rescind President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM), by challenging the Appellate Court’s decision at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). In documents seen by Guyana Times International on Wednesday, Attorney Anil Nandlall, who represents Mustapha, filed leave to appeal the October 19, 2018 decision of acting Chancellor Madam Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and fellow Appellate Court Justices Dawn Gregory and Justice Rishi Persaud…

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New York-based Guyanese donates over G$1M to dismissed sugar workers

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An overseas-based Guyanese has donated in excess of G$1 million in cash and other items to dismissed sugar workers in East Canje and Skeldon, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). Each of the worker received G$5000 along with lunch on Wednesday. Some of the former estate workers were also given school bags for their children. The donor, who asked for his name not to be published, left Guyana in 1982 at age 19. He told Guyana Times International that in New York where he currently lives, many Guyanese are disappointed with…

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