Dear Editor, Guyana’s oil discoveries have set insider trading alarm bells ringing at all the major stock exchanges in the past week. On September 8, a report by online magazine Petroleum Economist attributed new discoveries to Government of Guyana official, Owen Verwey. “There have been some big discoveries and by next Friday, we will be announcing another one… We are one of the hottest destinations for the oil and gas industry right now and that is set to continue,” this statement was made during an address at the Society of…
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Survey finds substance abuse prevalent among Guyana’s youths
The National Anti-Narcotics Agency (NANA) conducted a National Drug Prevalence Survey among secondary school students in Guyana, which concluded that 40 per cent of teenagers are unaware of the risks associated with drug use. Although the survey was conducted six years ago, NANA said in a statement to the media on Monday that substance abuse is on the increase, especially with the sale of ecstasy in schools across the various administrative regions. “In addition to the use of ecstasy, it was discovered that the use of alcohol among young children…
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…and the constitution Every Sunday, the man who so much craves to be Prime Minister again – even though he complained bitterly he was gypped by Granger of his promised powers and his party has selected Ramjattan – gets a chance to brownnose his way into the PNC’s good graces. There’s his weekly Chronic column he has to justify the outrage de jour of the PNC!! This Sunday, it was the constitutional crisis that’ll be precipitated on Sept 18 since the PNC-led government will become illegal since elections should’ve been…
Read MoreFrom Best Nursery School teacher to Education Officer – Linden’s La Shanna Anderson tells her story
With 22 years in the education profession, 40-year-old Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) Educator, La Shanna Anderson has had an exciting and fulfilling career. Anderson who now serves as Education Officer (1) with responsibility for Sub- Region 2 (areas along the Berbice River) currently supervises 19 schools in the Sub Region. The Sunday Times Magazine recently caught up with the Educator at the Department of Education in her hometown of Linden, where she shared her experience in the profession spanning over 20 years. Anderson recalled that she commenced her exciting journey…
Read More‘Happy to be home’
…Guyanese family returns from hurricane-ravaged Bahamas A Guyanese family on Sunday evening returned home from the devastated Bahamas, following the category five hurricane, Dorian. The five-member family arrived on Sunday evening at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) about 21:30h and was received by Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Karen Cummings; Minister of State, Dawn Hastings-Williams and Director of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig. Thirty-five-year-old Orin Grimmond and his wife, 35-year-old Sholme Grimmond, arrived with their three children seven-year-old Seraphine, two-year-old Angeline and two-month-old Kemuel. The family…
Read MoreAutopsy finds US-based Guyanese chef was strangled
An autopsy has confirmed that the US-based Guyanese man who was discovered dead in his Kitty, Georgetown apartment on Sunday morning was strangled. This newspaper understands that the autopsy was performed yesterday on Andre Gordon’s body by Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh who gave his cause of death as strangulation. The nude body of Gordon, 52, was discovered on the kitchen floor of his Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown apartment. Based on reports received, the man, who was scheduled to return to the United States on Monday, was last seen alive…
Read MoreUG bomb threats: Trial to commence on Oct. 8
Sheneza Jafferally, called Diane, of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, who was charged for causing chaos at the University of Guyana after making several bomb threats, is expected to appear at the Sparendam Magistrate’s Court on October 8 for the commencement of her trial. Jafferally, a student at the University of Guyana (UG), was charged in February, for allegedly making bomb threats that interrupted classes on the campus. Particulars of the charge alleged that on February 5, 2019 at Cummings Lodge, Jafferally sent, by means of a public telecommunication device…
Read MoreSuspected bandit shot dead in confrontation with Cops
Chaos erupted in Leopold Street, Georgetown on Wednesday after a suspected bandit was shot and killed by Police in the wee hours of the morning while hunting for two robbery suspects. Dead is 35-year-old Orin Odinga Williams, a father of one of Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust. He was killed about 01:45h on Wednesday in Norton Street, Wortmanville by ranks of the Stabroek Police Outpost, who had responded to a report of an alleged robbery in the area. According to a statement from the Police, four persons were held at gunpoint at…
Read MoreGuyana’s oil discoveries
Dear Editor, Guyana’s oil discoveries have set insider trading alarm bells ringing at all the major stock exchanges in the past week. On September 8, a report by online magazine Petroleum Economist attributed new discoveries to Government of Guyana official, Owen Verwey. “There have been some big discoveries and by next Friday, we will be announcing another one… We are one of the hottest destinations for the oil and gas industry right now and that is set to continue,” this statement was made during an address at the Society of…
Read MoreJagdeo lashes out at Coalition Gov’t for ‘gross incompetence’ in looming oil and gas sector
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is of the belief that Guyana has become a laughing stock on the international stage owing to the gross incompetence the coalition Government and top officials continue to portray. He was at the time speaking about statements made by Head of the Department of Energy, Dr Mark Bynoe, during an interview with the New York-based Bloomberg. The August 13, 2019 article titled “The World’s Newest Petrostate Isn’t Ready for a Tsunami of Cash” states: “When Mark Bynoe, the director of Guyana’s Department of Energy, was a…
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