Month: February 2020

PPP/C confident of sweeping polls

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General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Bharrat Jagdeo has told supporters that his party is very confident about sweeping the upcoming polls and once elected, would work very hard to ensure that Guyana is put back on the path of development after almost five years of “APNU/AFC stagnation”. Jagdeo said that based on the party’s track record, when compared to the APNU/AFC, he is certain that the PPP/C will perform extremely well as all members and supporters are mobilized to ensure victory is achieved. He said that one…

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Mash Costume and Float Parade: Explosion of Colour and creativity

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Our culture, our language, our history, and our values are vital to uniting us as a nation, as a people, and as the melting pot that we are. Nothing unites us more than a celebration of everything that is in that pot and one such celebration is Mashramani. Mashramani translates as “celebration after hard work” and it is a time where we as Guyanese take the time to go out into the streets and celebrate everything that truly makes us unique as a people. It is a time when we…

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Sri Lankans fined for entering Guyana illegally

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Four Sri Lankans were placed before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer the charge of illegally entering Guyana. They appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. Anthony Jeyaraj, Thambirasa Jan, Siriran Senthusaan and Sebamlall Dias all pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that between January 18, 2020, and February 22, 2020, at Springlands, they entered Guyana by sea and disembarked without presenting themselves to the nearest Immigration Office. The Sri Lankan nationals claimed they are tourists who came to Guyana on a Surinamese boat. According to the facts…

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Fatal flaw…

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…of Granger David Granger, now vying for a second term as President, is first and foremost a military creature. But most pertinently, he imbibed his view of the role of the military from Forbes Burnham, who plucked this policeman from the Queen’s College Cadet Corps, sent him to military school in England, and then pushed him to play a leading role in the Disciplined Forces formed by the dictator. Granger has been honest in insisting that his role model is Burnham, whose legacy it is his mission to complete. Even…

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Granger’s five years in power has revealed a man of poor judgment, weak leadership and low achievement

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Dear Editor, That I supported David Granger and the APNU/AFC coalition in the 2015 elections is a matter of public knowledge. Neither conscience nor logic nor reason allows me to do so again. As a leader with a nought point one three per cent, and a one-seat majority in a hugely bifurcated society, instead of fostering national healing and reconciliation, Granger has been more divisive than disappointing. Instead of policies and strategies to bring the communities closer, he, his Government and several high-level appointees have shown, at best, an insensitivity…

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ECD man found guilty of murdering fisherman in 2014

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Following a lengthy deliberation by a 12-member High Court jury on Tuesday, it ruled that a Blossom Scheme, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) man is guilty of murdering Chetram Bharrat while wounding his reputed wife, Lomattie Ramdat, and stealing some G$370,000 from their home in 2014. The accused, Errol Khan, was slapped with two separate indictments when he made his first High Court appearance before Justice Brassington Reynolds. Khan, who was represented by Attorney Ravindra Mohabir, denied the indictments which detailed that on May 2, 2014, he hacked Bharrat, a…

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Army ranks injured in Coast Guard explosion recuperating

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The soldiers attached to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Artillery Unit who were injured in last Saturday’s fiery explosion at the Coast Guard Wharf are showing signs of improvement. According to Regional Commander, Sub-Division A, Edgar Thomas, Staff Sergeant Otto Row and Corporal Isaiah Gordon are no longer in the Burns Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital. “…today another one was released from the Burns Unit or special care. That is all the information that I have. In terms of the investigations, that is a special aid investigation, after that…

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Political parties share views on sex education, bullying in schools

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Political parties vying for a chance to govern the country for the next five years recently shared their positions on a number of issues relating to rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer+ (LGBTQ+) community. Among the issues that took centre stage on Monday were legislative reforms and faults in the education system. The town hall-style meeting was organised by Guyana’s premier gay rights organisation – the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) — and the Guyana Press Association (GPA) and saw the participation of almost all the political…

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Guyana steps up Coronavirus surveillance

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The Ministry of Public Health in Guyana has increased its surveillance for the Novel Coronavirus at ports of entries, following the recent report of a case in São Paulo, Brazil, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has reported. Giving an update to media personnel on Wednesday, Minister of Public, Health Volda Lawrence noted that systems are in place to deal with anyone who enters Guyana with coronavirus. “We have identified sites for the housing of patients should we need to do that. Just this morning we had another review of…

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