Year: 2019

Rice farmers in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) could lose more than half a billion dollars from the current autumn crop. This is according to President of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA) Leeka Rambrich. On August 16, General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nezam Hassan told Guyana Times International that the exercise of aerial spraying to combat the paddy bugs will commence in Region Six. This was after rice farmers had taken to the streets protesting and demanding that the GRDB conduct aerial spraying for the bugs…

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President of the Public Service Association (PSA), Watson Duke, is to face a charge of sedition, National Security Minister Stuart Young has said. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has made no announcement regarding the charge against Duke, who had been in their custody since Monday assisting in the investigations into statements he is alleged to have made some months ago. But Young, speaking at a news conference here, said that he had been informed that instructions have been given by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution to…

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A sparkling new dining hall which equates to a scriptural one was on Sunday commissioned on the Corentyne by President David Granger. The new dining hall features royalty as the cutlery is covered in gold, so too are most of the utensils, walls and most of the internal architecture. Just as the curtains – they were custom made and imported from Israel. The dining hall is located at Philipp Village at Solomon’s Temple and was opened as part of the church’s 12th anniversary. Pastor Egbert Baggot told Guyana Times International…

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Former Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall has approached the court to compel the David Granger-led coalition Cabinet to stop meeting and resign. The proceedings were filed on Monday. However, a date is yet to be fixed for hearing of the Fixed Date Application. In the court documents seen by Guyana Times International, Nandlall is asking for an order compelling the Cabinet, including the President, to resign consequent of the Government being defeated by the vote of a no-confidence on December 21, 2018— which is in accordance with Article 106 (6)…

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Another Jamaican restaurateur in the United States has died suddenly. Rohan Martin White, 49, owner and executive chef of Bull Bay Caribbean Cuisine in Wilmington, Delaware, is suspected to have committed suicide Monday morning at his residence. His body was discovered at 9:20 a.m. by his distraught nephew, Sage White, who was spending time in Delaware, assisting his uncle with the restaurant. Towards the end of 2017, prominent restaurant owner Lowell Hawthorne, owner of the Golden Krust chain, committed suicide in his New York office. White, also known as Mark…

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Guyanese music legend, Johnny Critchlow Braithwaite, M.S., also known as ‘Johnny Braff’ died on Wednesday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. Braff, who was a resident at Palms Geriatric Home on Brickdam, Georgetown, died at about 04:00h. Braff, who was known for the hit song “Stop the music…It Burns Inside”, celebrated his 82nd birthday in July and was feted by the Social Protection Ministry at a special concert held in his honour. In May, he was given the national award – Medal of Service – by President David Granger.…

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A Venezuelan woman was ordered to do community service after she was taken before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday for shoplifting. Twenty-seven-year-old Oliamith Gonsalves appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly and admitted to the charge which stated that on August 24, 2019, at Regent Street, Georgetown, she stole two deodorants, two razors, beef cuts, and chicken feet – totalling G$5490, from Bounty Supermarket. Police Prosecutor Sanj Singh told the court that On August 24, Gonsalves went to the Bounty Supermarket and was observed by a security guard acting in a…

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