Year: 2020

This International Women’s Day, Let’s focus on

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equity over equality By Marlee Silva for ABC News International Women’s Day was a rather foreign event on the calendar during my high school years of the early 2010s. In fact, the only time I’d hear it mentioned was when my pubescent, male peers would make sexist jokes about us females belonging in the kitchen, or whine in the playground about the lack of an international men’s day. I had a relatively progressive friend group at the time, but none of us ever seemed to think the annual event had…

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Guyanese woman killed in Brooklyn murder-suicide

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A Guyanese woman was reportedly shot multiple times by her husband who later committed suicide in a parked SUV Sport utility vehicle on Monday at Louisiana Ave and Twin Pines Drive East in Starrett City, Brooklyn, New York. The dead woman has been identified as 39-year-old Petula Myrtil while the suspect was Andre Myrtil, a Haitian national. Based on reports carried by NY Daily News, the shooting took place at about 09:15h. The woman was shot about the body while her husband has a single gunshot wound to his head.…

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UK Foreign Secretary, UN join growing calls for Granger to preserve sanctity of democratic elections in Guyana

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The United Kingdom is the latest foreign government to come out swinging at the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition in relation to the credibility of the March 2 General and Regional Elections. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called on President David Granger to preserve the sanctity of democratic elections. “We call upon the President to preserve the principle of free, fair and credible elections. Allegations of electoral fraud and premature declarations of victory prior to the completion of a credible process pose a grave threat to…

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The accusations of ‘Russian hacking’ is laughable and ludicrous

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The accusation by two senior members of the AFC that Russians hacked the March 2 elections in an effort to tamper with the results is laughable and ludicrous. The two officials in question are qualified professionals and held high offices in the coalition government. By that, one would assume they possess a profound sense of reasoning and rationality. In reality, assumptions are just what it is. Surely, they must have known that the voting and tabulation process in Guyana’s elections is manual; voters’ choice is indicated through the use of…

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Car plunges off Demerara Harbour Bridge

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The retractor span of the Demerara Harbor Bridge has been damaged after a car reportedly careened off the structure on Monday night. According to reports, the car was proceeding along the structure after which it made a plunge off the retractor span, resulting in damages. While the entire vehicle fell into the water, the driver was saved and taken into custody. A crew from the DHB management was deployed to assess the situation as these damages would prevent vessels from passing. When contacted for details surrounding the situation on Tuesday,…

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Chief Medical Officer urges immigration officers to be attentive when screening arriving passengers

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Noting that some arriving passengers fail to fill out certain parts of the form used to screen for suspected cases of coronavirus, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Shamdeo Persaud is urging immigration officers to pay more attention to this. Addressing a gathering of stakeholders during a coronavirus symposium held at the National Cultural Centre on Wednesday, Dr Persaud explained that persons arriving in Guyana are required to complete a form which requires them to indicate the countries they would have visited within the last six weeks. However, he noted, some…

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Power hungry

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On March 2, Guyanese thought they drew a proverbial line in the sand on the creeping subversion of the rule of law, which is a disturbing sign of a return to the dark days of the PNC’s dictatorial rule, especially between 1968 and 1985 under Forbes Burnham, that party’s “founder leader”. During the last five years, there were too many examples abounding of governmental institutions — led by President David Granger — stretching and acting outside their constitutional remit and taking unilateral political decisions that plunged the country further down…

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Hypocrisy…

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…redux on PNC Yesterday, your Eyewitness wrote about the commentators who insist they write with Platonic disinterestedness about Guyanese politics, studiously avoiding the blatant rigging of the PNC, but jumping on their soapboxes to call for peace and love in the streets. Today, we see their same wilful blindness about what or who has brought our country to this sad state, but now calling for “negotiation” between the PPP and the PNC!!! Yes…negotiation!! And what should they be “negotiating” about?? How to bring the PNC into government!! Isn’t this something…

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A Girl Inspiring the World: Giant Greta Thunberg Portrait Unveiled

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A giant portrait of Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has been unveiled in West Yorkshire to mark International Women’s Day. The 60m (196ft) long artwork, on a playing field at Hebden Royd Primary School, West Yorkshire, has taken four days to create. Pupils chose the 17-year-old as the woman who had most inspired them. They also helped the creators, art collective Sand In Your Eye, put the finishing touches to the portrait. Jamie Wardley, from the group, based in nearby Mytholmroyd, said: “Greta Thunberg has pioneered a global movement which…

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The big fake…

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…exposed If there’s anyone who’d been taken in by caretaker Granger’s milquetoast routine – you know…always in the “right” but “wrongfully” misunderstood and taken advantage of – the chicanery betrayed in his last “address” on the elections should’ve certainly made the scales fall from their eyes!! Like most con men, Granger’s fatal flaw is he didn’t know when to stop with the BS. This time, he laid it on so thick, you could HEAR it falling off and plopping on the floor. Your Eyewitness will hold up his latest excretions…

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