…galore It used to be said that Guyana – unlike its West Indian neighbours – didn’t suffer from natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes. God figured the “unnatural” disaster called “Burnham” was enough of an infliction on us!! But of recent, even though Granger’s vowed to continue Burnham’s legacy, it looks like he can’t measure up to his mentor, since there’s been a number of seismic events in the land recently. We can start with the tremor felt across the land with the outcome of the PNC Biennial Congress. Here…
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Will the Coalition Government ever make GuySuCo viable?
Dear Editor, The greatest enigma Guyanese have experienced is the way forward for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) – to close the estates, to diversify, to make all viable and then sell some, and to downsize and to ‘upsize’. Even the sugar workers who were dismissed are being fed with euphemistic epithets to give them some mental reprieve. We were told in February this year that G$10-15 billion is needed to open the closed estates and then sell them to fetch a ‘good’ price and then a week later we…
Read MoreGuyana’s Natural Resources Minister and team meet with high-level US delegation
Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman headed a delegation of Natural Resources officials during a meeting with Congressmen and military officials of the United States. The meeting was held on Wednesday, August 22, at the Ministry of Natural Resources office on Duke Street, Kingston, Georgetown. According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) release, the 25-member US delegation is in Guyana on a familiarisation visit. The media was not invited to any planned events for the visit. The team includes nine Congressmen, including Chairman Bob Goodlatte, military and other officials.…
Read MoreMan dies in WBD motorcycle crash
Fifty-four-year-old Oswald Dey of Good Intent, West Bank Demerara (WBD), who was employed as a United Nations (UN) Operations Officer in Guyana, died on Tuesday evening after his motorcycle collided with a pedestrian at Bellvue, Village. Dey was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after he collided with 35-year old Stanleytown WBD resident. According to reports, Dey was heading North in the direction of Vreed-en-Hoop when he collided with the pedestrian. Police on Wednesday disclosed that the pedestrian was struck from behind and reportedly fell…
Read MoreGuySuCo gets G$2B for operational expenses
The Special Purpose Unit (SPU) of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has announced that almost G$2 billion has been disbursed to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for operational expenses of its three estates (Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt). The SPU has said the release of these funds is in keeping with the plans of the coalition Government to make the industry viable and to safeguard the future of the more than 11,000 workers. The SPU’s statement comes after GuySuCo’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Harold Davis, Jr, told sections…
Read MoreOpposition awaiting President’s choice for Top Cop
Opposition Leader, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday stated that he is awaiting the President’s choice of the nominee for the position of Commissioner of Police (COP) before he raises any questions in relation to the selection process. Jagdeo explained to media operatives during his weekly press conference on Thursday that he intends to inquire from the Head of State, David Granger, what assessment was undertaken to ensure that the candidate he [President] selected is “unbribable” and holds all the qualities that the President outlined he wanted in the new COP.…
Read More‘We need justice’
…relatives of murdered Sisters Village pensioner seek answers after only 1 of 2 identified attackers arraigned Almost two months after a Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD) pensioner was beaten and later died, his relatives are crying out for justice, questioning why Police only instituted a murder charge against one man, when at least two attackers were identified. Seventy-one-year-old pensioner, Jerry Rambeer, was found lying in an unconscious state on July 1, 2018 at Back Street, Good Intent, WBD, but took his last breath on July 3 while receiving medical…
Read MoreNaipaul and being West Indian
This is excerpted from my response to a black WI intellectual, Abu Bakr, in 2001, soon after VS Naipaul accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. “In his letter captioned “Naipaul has become the stubborn incarnation of the worst of a past generation”, Bakr fulminates about Naipaul’s “maledictions” and sneers that the latter’s Nobel was greeted with “disgust”; that he is “intellectually inadequate” and a “good minor talent” to whom the Caribbean had just wished “good riddance”. Mr Bakr opined that, coming “after Garvey, or CLR James or Jean Price Mars…
Read MoreWomen coming out from the shadows
Women play an integral role in the development of the world. They are fluid beings who manage to ascribe unto themselves all sorts of non-traditional roles that sharply conflict with conservative, conventional and traditional descriptions of what it means to be ‘female’ and a ‘woman’. As a matter of fact, women, over the past four decades, have sought to remove the barriers set by society, and in some cases religion, about the types of jobs and roles that they must play in order to maintain what some refer to a…
Read MoreAt 26, Dr Ian Japan is Guyana’s Youngest Endodonist
The Jagan Dental Centre proudly welcomes back to its team, Dr Ian Jagan, after completing his masters degree in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics from the Dr D.Y.Patil School of Dentistry in Navi Mumbai, India. At twenty-six Dr Ian Jagan is currently the only certified, registered and permanently residing endodontist in Guyana and is the youngest dental specialist in Guyana’s history. This field of dentistry specialises in the saving teeth through treatment and procedures relating to the internal structures of the tooth that is root canal therapy and other such procedures.…
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