By Samuel Sukhnandan In an effort to boost local capacity in the oil and gas sector, the Governments of Guyana and Canada’s Newfoundland will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) this month. Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Lillian Chatterjee in an exclusive interview with Guyana Times International said the Natural Resources Minister from the Canadian Province of Newfoundland will be visiting Guyana on October 15 to ink the agreement. “What we’re hoping to be able to do in our relationship with Guyana is to share our expertise to help you…
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Guyanese Prison Officers being offered financial incentives to expose rogue colleagues
As the Guyana Prison Service continues its quest to stamp out corruption, the route to success has been spiced up with prison officers now being rewarded with incentives valuing as much as G$25,000 to expose criminal activities. This was announced on Monday by Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, via a statement to the media. “The Ministry of Public Security and the Guyana Prison Service would like to see officers speak out on corruption at all levels. As such, Officers are encouraged to help in this fight. For all those officers…
Read MoreLGE 2018: AFC contesting 38 Local Authority Areas
The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday announced plans to contest only 38 Local Authority Areas (LAA) at the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) set for November 12. This announcement follows previous statements made by the party, where they had initially said the AFC had planned to contest the elections in more than 50 areas. AFC member Michael Lenard told a media conference that his party is now contesting in less Local Government Areas than it had intended earlier in the year. The minority party in the coalition Government blamed…
Read MoreThe tales of sorrow of the dismissed sugar workers in Guyana
Dear Editor, When I read this headline, “Sometimes my children wake up hungry and all I can do is cry”, I could not believe what this Coalition Government has done to the lives of the hardworking sugar workers of this country. How can our President and his plethora of hardly-working ministers digest their 50 per cent salary increases? How can they still regurgitate the worthless ‘good life’ mantra, which now represents an insult to anyone with an iota of intelligence or reasoning? In 2015, both the President and the Prime…
Read MoreGuyana has below average capacity to tackle crime – IDB report
– lagging behind Jamaica, other countries in effective investigations The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) recently released report — ‘Smart Spending on Citizen Security, Beyond Crime and Punishment’ — is warning that the latest statistics on Guyana’s crime fighting show that the Guyana Police Force has a below-average capacity to speedily tackle crime. Last year, a state-of-the-art 911 emergency system was commissioned as part of the reform of the security sector This IDB report compares the various security capacities of different countries in the region. In statistics that detail countries’ capacity…
Read MoreWorking towards credible elections
The spate of reforms that begun in the early 1990s were intended to drastically transform the manner in which elections are administered in Guyana at the local, regional and national levels. Those reforms were also specifically designed to ensure that Guyanese could have confidence that their will was being protected and reflected in the outcome of elections which should at all times be transparent, free and fair. This is exactly the reason behind a decision to put enough measures in place to ensure that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is…
Read MoreYoung mother raped during robbery in Berbice
A teenage girl was raped shortly after returning home from an outing in Berbice. Her family was also robbed of cash and jewellery by the two bandits, who fired shots in the direction of a four-month-old baby, to have the family comply with their demands. The 18-year-old mother of two and her 52-year-old mother arrived home on Monday evening about 22:00h from the Berbice Expo, and saw two men under the house, but could not escape. The house is situated close to the Corentyne Highway. The unemployed mother said both…
Read MoreGuyana’s Education Minister says teachers’ increase in salaries “a work in progress”
Stemming from a more than two-hour long meeting between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the Education Ministry on Wednesday afternoon, teachers are being assured that they can now sleep well, as “fruitful” discussions were harnessed, where a “matrix of figures” for teachers is now being promised to be presented by Friday. As smiling representatives walked out of the meeting held at the Ministry’s 26 Brickdam, Georgetown office, tight-lipped officials would only say that “new information was provided that was not discussed nor considered prior to the offers made earlier.”…
Read MoreLGE 2018: Youths urged to get involved in decision-making process
With over 50 per cent of young people making up the general population of Guyana, youths have an important role to play in the decision making process of the country, to shape a brighter future for generations of Guyanese to come. This is the message of People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) candidate for Constituency Three (Stewartville/Cornelia Ida) Amelia Ali who told Guyana Times International in an interview on Tuesday that is the reason she chose to contest. Ali, who sits on the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West…
Read MoreUnfit and imprappa…
…AFC Dead Meat The AFC are running on their own in the LGE, after they were rebuffed by the APNU…or more specifically, the PNC. They’d demanded the same 40 per cent of offices they’d demanded in Cabinet appointments before the 2015 General Elections, when they promised to bring their 11 per cent support into the APNU/AFC coalition platform. The PNC said, “No way Jose!!”, or more pointedly, “Go show us what you have, losers!!” Point of the matter is, the AFC never did bring in their promised 11 per cent…
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