Category: News

Joining ranks with the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Brigadier Mark Phillips delivered his maiden political address on Sunday afternoon during the party’s 2020 elections campaign launch, where he urged Guyanese to use their vote wisely. “I will be the next Prime Minister of Guyana,” he declared to the hundreds of supporters who gathered at the Kitty Market Square. “I will be a Prime Minister for all Guyanese, regardless of race, religion or political persuasions!” A former Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Phillips will be running…

Read More

An autopsy conducted on the bodies of 23-year-old Kevin Singh and his girlfriend, 25-year-old Subrina Nandram who were found in a bathtub at Aracari Resort has revealed that the woman was murdered and Singh committed suicide. The post-mortem examination was conducted by Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh on Wednesday. Dr Singh gave Nandram’s cause of death as asphyxiation (suffocation) owing to manual strangulation compounded by blunt trauma to the head. The autopsy results for the young woman’s boyfriend showed that he died from asphyxiation caused by drowning, compounded by ingestion…

Read More

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has been lambasted by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) in regards to its 2019 sugar production and its plans for 2020. The Union related that the statement issued by GuySuCo has confirmed the initial position that production would not surpass the 100,000 tonnes. “The proof is now in the pudding and sugar production that the industry’s two largest and most efficient units have fallen drastically since 2015. The GuySuCo may well argue that the un-harvested canes could have resulted in higher production.…

Read More

The sexual allegations brought against Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, Andre Kellman, were dropped on Tuesday after the victim refused to present evidence in the matter. The matter was called before Principal Magistrate Faith McGusty but the ex-worker at CJIA informed the court that she does not wish to proceed with the matter and as such, would not offer evidence against the defendant. Kellman, 54, who is in charge of operations at the airport, was charged last August and appeared before Senior…

Read More

After almost five years in Government, the Public Infrastructure Ministry has only been able to install solar panels and energy-efficient lights, while a number of major projects that Government had announced would lead to renewable energy remain unfinished, even as elections and the end of a term in office draws closer. The Public Infrastructure Ministry held a press conference on Wednesday, where an account was given for the Ministry’s performance for last year. When it comes to energy, Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson announced that they installed 81 solar panels…

Read More

Minister of State, Mrs. Dawn Hastings-Williams, on Wednesday, received a courtesy call from the United States (US) Ambassador to Guyana, Mrs. Sarah-Ann Lynch at her office at the Ministry of the Presidency. According to the Ministry of the Presidency, during the meeting, Ambassador Lynch informed the State Minister that her visit was primarily to brief her on the United States’ work with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) particularly in the area of voter and civic education, which was highlighted by the Commission as an area for assistance as well as…

Read More

Former parliamentarian Harry Gill, along with other members of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), was on Monday attacked while erecting elections campaign flags at Number 10 Village, West Coast Berbice. The incident, which was captured on camera, shows persons verbally abusing and physically blocking the team as they attempted to place the flags on the utility poles. Gill, in an invited comment to Guyana Times International, stated that a formal Police report will be filed and that the international community will be informed of the incident. This was only one…

Read More

– despite IMF warning Govt to settle balance General and Regional Elections are creeping closer and closer and the central bank’s overdraft of public funds keeps increasing in size— with the latest figures from the Bank of Guyana showing an overdraft of over G$75 billion. According to the Bank of Guyana’s statement of Assets and Liabilities, the bank had a negative balance of G$76.8 billion as of November 12, 2019. This is a situation that can lead to revenues, in particular, the oil revenues, being diverted. The International Monetary Fund…

Read More

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has announced that it has become the first country in the Caribbean to join the transformational travel movement through a pioneering partnership with the Transformational Travel Council (TTC). The TTC unveiled its first 80 ally partners and these include tour operators, media organisations and travel suppliers from around the world. This new partnership means Guyana will be joining a community of like-minded organisations around the planet that believe in transformation and are interested in networking, sharing, learning and collaborating with one another on how to…

Read More

A male passenger, a citizen of the British Virgin Islands, on Sunday morning collapsed and died while boarding an outgoing American Airlines flight to Miami at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Dead is Kodzo Ekpe. Guyana Times International understands that Ekpe, who was a professor at the St Croix Educational Complex, and former Principal of Montserrat SDA School, was on vacation in Guyana with his wife to celebrate his mother-in-law’s 80th birthday and their family’s reunion. This newspaper was told that attempts were made to revive him and he…

Read More