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Canadian Police probing suspected hit-and-run of Guyanese teen in Brampton

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Canadian Police are investigating the death of 16-year-old Dianna Manan, a Guyanese who was found on Queen Street, Brampton, Canada, on Sunday. The teen’s parents are said to be Guyanese who hail from Canal, West Bank Demerara, and Berbice. According to Canada’s CP 24 news, a passing motorist found the 16-year-old lying in the eastbound lanes of Queen Street, near Cherrycrest Drive in Brampton on January 5, 2020. Manan was rushed to hospital but succumbed to her injuries. Guyana Times International understands that the teenager had left her grandmother’s home…

Guyana’s political heavyweights get ready to hit the campaign trail

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Guyana’s political heavyweights are preparing to officially hit the campaign trail as the date for General and Regional Elections draws nearer. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has announced that it will be launching its 2020 elections campaign on Sunday at Kitty Market Square, Georgetown, at 15:00h. PPP/C General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo and Presidential Candidate, Dr Irfaan Ali will be key speakers at the event. Meanwhile, on the APNU Guyana’s Facebook page, campaign coordinator Christopher Jones has created an event for the “Official 2020 Elections Campaign launch of the APNU+AFC.” According…

A Guyanese welcome!

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Passengers being treated to Black Cake on arrival at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport during the holidays (DPI photo)

Guyana takes step backward on Global Anti-Corruption Index

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Transparency International has released its latest global rankings, showing that while Guyana is considered one of 20 countries who has made improvements, it has also taken a step backwards from last year. According to the index, Guyana fell by one spot to the 93rd position out of 180 countries. The index placed Guyana’s corruption perception score at 37 to tie with Gambia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mongolia and Panama. The highest ranked Caribbean country was the Bahamas at 29th place and a score of 65. It is followed by Barbados, which received…

Tullow announces oil find in third well offshore Guyana; but below estimates

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 TIMES INT'L

The UK‘s Tullow Oil plc on Thursday announced that the Carapa-1 exploration well, drilled on the Repsol-operated Kanuku licence offshore Guyana, has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on preliminary interpretation but that this is below pre-drill estimates. Preliminary results of drilling, wireline logging, pressure testing and sampling of reservoir fluid indicate the discovery of oil in Upper Cretaceous age sandstone reservoirs. Rig site testing has indicated that the oil is 27 degrees API with a sulphur content of less than 1%. A detailed laboratory analysis of…

APNU/AFC Coalition cannot manage Guyana’s oil wealth

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 TIMES INT'L

– Jagdeo tells Guyanese diaspora in NY With Guyana expecting to reap massive wealth from its oil-rich ocean floor, former President and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo believes that the governing A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition does not have the vision to manage the country through the economic transformation it is about to experience. In fact, he told the Guyanese diaspora in New York on Saturday that the Government’s economic philosophy is debilitating for Guyana and the country would not progress as long as it was in…

Masqueraders usher in the Christmas festivities in Downtown Georgetown

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 TIMES INT'L

NY legislator welcomes driver’s licences for undocumented Caribbean immigrants

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 TIMES INT'L

A New York State legislator of Jamaican heritage has welcomed the implementation of a law, giving undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licences, according to a CMC report. “This year the legislature passed the Green Light Bill which grants undocumented immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licences, and this week that bill went into effect,” Senator Zellnor Y Myrie, whose grandmother hailed from Jamaica, told constituents in an e-mail message. “This is a major victory for immigrant rights and will also improve street safety, lower insurance…

Guyana’s road carnage continues

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 TIMES INT'L

…5 dead in horrific smash-up at Mahaicony Five persons are now dead and four others seriously injured following a collision between a minibus and a lorry on the Fairfield Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Wednesday morning. Dead are minibus driver Seechan Chandilall, 48, of Lot 102 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; Keon Sealey, 33, of Farm, Mahaicony; Alana Vaughn, 31, of Farm, Mahaicony, Ewart Reynlods, 64, of Calcutta Mahaicony, and Maxwell Disreali Thom, 76. Meanwhile, several passengers who were also in the minibus, BRR 5478, were taken…

Granger downplays ‘firing’ of mission heads

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 TIMES INT'L

Six Guyanese diplomats who served in foreign states were fired by the David Granger-led Administration but the President downplayed the issue on Wednesday, saying that his Administration’s actions were “just a planned change”. This newspaper understands that those terminated are Hamley Case, who was posted in the United Kingdom; Bishwaishwar Ramsaroop, stationed in the twin-island republic Trinidad and Tobago; Clarissa Riehl, who was posted in Canada; Bayney Karran in China, Cheryl Miles in Venezuela, and JR Deep Ford in Switzerland. Riehl had taken the Government to task in 2016, when…