Every year, the Audit Office of Guyana audits public financial records, unearths corruption and makes recommendations so the Government can tighten up the system. As of last year, however, the Office is complaining that many of its recommendations are being ignored. This is according to its 2018 report, which was presented to Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland back in October 2019. According to Auditor General Deodat Sharma, a mere 24 per cent of the 454 recommendations made in 2017 were implemented by the Government. “Each year, my…
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Patterson promises completion of East Coast-East Bank Bypass by 2022
Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has asserted that if the APNU/AFC government is re-elected, the East Coast Demerara-East Bank Demerara bypass road will be completed by 2022. According to the Department of Public Information, at the Ministry’s annual year in review press conference on Wednesday, the Minister stated that the project is still making headway towards a successful completion by 2022. “Fortunately, all the main ingredients have been completed. We’ve completed studies for the East Coast bypass [and] we have the final design. We are now reviewing,” he indicated.…
Read MoreTractor driven by ‘drunk’ teen crushes man to death
A Lindener is now dead after being crushed to death by a tractor after he and his friends ended their drinking-spree. Dead is Rondell Jacobs of Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). Reports are the incident occurred at about 22:00h on Saturday at the 72 Miles Kaburee Main Access trail. According to reports, at about 14:30h, a 30-year-old man employed to operate the tractor along with his teenage co-worker left their location at 58 Miles Potaro to head to 72 Miles. Along the journey, the duo allegedly began consuming alcohol and…
Read MoreJagdeo blasts APNU/AFC for having “no vision, no plans for the future”
Boisterous crowds greeted People’s Progressive Party (PPP) leaders as they took the podium at Sunday’s campaign launch, but one of the loudest welcomes was reserved for General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo, who immediately made his case for his party’s election on March 2. In his address, Jagdeo warned that with the current Government seemingly fixated on holding on to power while running down the economy, his party must be returned to power to right the wrongs. Jagdeo referenced comments made by President David Granger on Friday, that constitutional reform would be…
Read More19-yr-old charged with murder of homeless man
The teen accused of killing a homeless man in Corriverton Market, Berbice was on Wednesday slapped with a murder charge and hauled before Magistrate Alex Moore. Dave Jacobs, 19, is accused of killing Richard Persaud Kamaldeo, called “Tyie”, on January 3, 2020. Reports are 43-year-old Kamaldeo had been living on the streets for a number of years, often sleeping at the Corriverton Market. On the day in question, Jacob and Kamaldeo had an argument, during which the teen allegedly armed himself with a sharp object and stabbed the homeless man.…
Read MoreMurder convicts appeal life sentences
Murder convicts Alvin Kissoon and Calvin King after being sentenced to life in prison for the 2013 murder of security guard John Friday in December have now moved to the country’s appeal court to challenge the convictions. In separate court documents, the convicts have put forward several grounds on which they have filed the appeal through their Attorney-at-Law, Lyndon Amsterdam. In Kissoon’s case, defence counsel is arguing that trial judge Justice Sandil Kissoon during the summing up of the evidence posited several rhetorical questions to the jury which had the…
Read MoreGranger unfit and unsuitable to lead Guyana ever again
Dear Editor, There is certainly a buzz around the phrase, “decade of development”. What is a “decade of development” from a Guyanese perspective and who can best launch it? To answer these questions, one has to look at the concept of what it does to free a nation from the shackle of racial, ethnic and religious oppression using an attitude of mind that sets a specific tone. How about a Guyana that uses its natural resources and wealth to lift all boats (in this case our people) economically, socially and…
Read MorePresident Granger urges fair, accurate reporting during elections
The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has been promised an annual subvention by President David Granger, who made the announcement at the Annual Media Brunch held at the Baridi Benab, State House, Georgetown, on Sunday. During his brief remarks, the President noted that the Finance Minister is yet to introduce a budget for 2020 but vowed to keep the promise. The President urged the GPA to continue to work to keep the association alive and wished the media a successful decade of work. As the GPA observes its 75th anniversary, the…
Read MoreHistories for healing, not fighting
Last week, I started to look back at events that occurred at the end of the second decade of the 20th century, when there were initiatives to launch a “Colonisation Scheme” to bring additional labour to Br Guiana in light of the ending of indentureship in 1917 and a “labour shortage” in the sugar industry. Before continuing, I would like to offer a perspective which I have expressed before on my histological perspective in doing so. Histories, after all, are always written within a particular “space of experience” – the…
Read MoreYoung professionals endorse PPP/C; lament broken promises by APNU/AFC
At the launch of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) 2020 elections campaign on Sunday, several young professionals eagerly endorsed the Party’s “Plan for Prosperity”. The PPP/C had among its list of speakers a number of young professionals. One issue that stood out in all their speeches was the fact that they lamented the broken promises of the APNU/AFC coalition to create opportunities and a better life for young people in Guyana. Thus, they urged the crowd, especially youths, to vote for the PPP/C, which is the only party that they…
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