Maybe she saw the best in him – “he promised her he’d change”, Donne Dojoy’s grieving sister recounted Saturday. But Dojoy’s husband was so filled with senseless rage, he assaulted her weeks after they wed in July, and took her life Friday night by stabbing her over and over in his Queens apartment. “I guess she wanted to give him another chance,” said Dojoy’s sister, Fannita Barakat, who flew in from Texas to join horrified relatives as they mourned a woman Barakat remembers as “great, hardworking and funny, and just…
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GECOM desperately needs oversight in its data processing department
Dear Editor, It remains a serious concern that Claudette Singh, the GECOM Chairperson plans to integrate the highly flawed and incomplete House-to-House (H-t-H) Registration dataset with the existing voters’ list. This move will never yield fair and credible elections. The H-t-H exercise lacked integrity on many fronts. The Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was never even invited to scrutinise such an important exercise, even though it was a requirement. The H-t-H Registration exercise was monitored exclusively by the PNC (APNU). How can this ever be fair? On this basis alone,…
Read MoreGECOM must get the voters’ list right
The Chair of GECOM, Retired Justice Claudette Singh, held her first press conference and focused on the state of readiness of the voters’ list for the general elections which are due on March 2, 2020 –less than four months away. For a country with only ¾ of a million citizens, the comments exposed severe weaknesses in the registration system in which a process of “continuous registration” was initiated since 2001 and supplemented in 2005. This was supposed to produce an Official List of Electors (OLE) such that general elections could…
Read More144 persons trafficked already in 2019 – Guyana’s Top Cop
With 21 cases of trafficking in persons recorded for the year so far, traffic ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were on Thursday trained to identify and respond to suspected incidents. During the opening ceremony of the training exercise, Police Commissioner Leslie James revealed that from the 21 cases, there were 144 victims. Of the 144 victims, a whopping 142 were sexually exploited. One person was exploited for labour purposes. “…made to work under slave-like conditions,” the Police Commissioner explained. And, of the victims, 12 were Guyanese, four were…
Read MoreOuster…
…by the people Evo Morales has been ousted as Bolivia’s President and has fled to Mexico where he’s been given asylum. An ignominious ending for a regime that moved its country from being the sick man of South America to its fastest-growing economy for the last decade. One where 1 million persons were lifted out of poverty since 2005 when Morales took over and cut the poverty rate – admittedly still high – by 25%. A regime which was the first to be run by Indigenous peoples and directed developmental…
Read MoreEnergy Dept boss says steps being taken to verify Exxon’s oil production
Even as the details of the crude lifting agreement between Guyana and ExxonMobil is being finalised, the Department of Energy intends to push for a third-party representing Guyana’s interest to be on board to verify how much crude oil Exxon extracts. This is according to Department of Energy Head Dr Mark Bynoe, who hosted a press conference recently and explained that verification is an important part of the whole crude lifting process. “So in the event there is any issue when the fuel is shipped, whether quality or quantity wide,…
Read MoreOver 500 persons search for employment at El Dorado Offshore career fair
The skyrocketing unemployment rate in Guyana has been the centre of discussion in recent time, as many youths are completing their studies without much opportunity to acquire a lucrative job. As such, hundreds of persons flocked the El Dorado Offshore career fair on Thursday at Parc Rayne, Rahaman’s Park, which was geared at lowering these statistics and providing human resources to the budding oil sector. The company would have partnered with other stakeholders in the oil industry to engage Guyanese on the fields that are available, as well as training…
Read MoreLogos Hope returns to Guyana in December
The world’s largest floating book fair, Logos Hope, is set to make a return to Guyana in just two weeks after a successful run back in 2017, which captured the attention of many. From December 2 to 8, the ship will be docked at the La Penitence Wharf, giving Guyanese a chance to hop on board and experience over 5000 titles from children’s classics, cooking, biographies, adventure, mystery, travel, science, history, anthologies, poetry, encyclopaedias and much more. They are also known for a vast selection of Christian literature. With this,…
Read MoreGuyana asks Eastern Airlines to post US$450,000 bond before commencing operations
Eastern Airline LLC, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2018 from Dynamic International Airways who previously owned the rights to the name and logo, will once again be serving the Guyanese populace in December with scheduled flights, but before doing so, it has to post a US$450,000 bond. Director General of the Ministry of Presidency, Joseph Harmon, said that the Cabinet has finally given its approval for that airline to provide scheduled services between New York, USA and Georgetown, Guyana once again but not before it pays a hefty bond to…
Read MoreGuyana Govt approves salary hike for public servants
In the coming year 2020, public servants will get a salary increase, as Government has approved an across-the-board salary hike, including retroactive payouts. President David Granger made the announcement that the increases would be tax free and retroactive from January 2019. This was after a meeting was facilitated on Tuesday between the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and senior Government officials. The Union had called out the coalition Administration on its arbitrary increases after it failed to deliver its promise of a consensual approach. The President’s announcement comes mere days…
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