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…following layoff of hundreds of sugar workers With more than 400 persons scheduled to be out of a job come January 1, the county of Berbice is now bracing itself for additional economic hardships since there is a lack of opportunities for employment within the county. Although the Government indicated that it was holding off on closure of the Rose Hall Estate, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) still went ahead and issued over 400 redundancy letters to workers, leaving them to ponder their next move. In May 2017, the Government…

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Two sisters, a teacher and a United Nation’s employee, were in the wee hours of Thursday morning bound and held up at gunpoint by gunmen who then carted off with their valuables. The victims have been identified as Jacqueline Percival, 52, and Elizabeth Percival, 50, both of Lamaha Springs, Georgetown. According to reports received, the two sisters were asleep at around 02:00hrs when the incident occurred. The women who both reside in a flat concrete house were awakened by three men, two of whom were armed. Their hands were bound…

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I was in New York over the past two weeks during which one of the foundation stones of the New York Queens based Indian Guyanese community – Ramesh Kallicharran -passed away. I had arrived in the City back in 1972 and having attended Brooklyn College, at a time when that Flatbush neighbourhood was transitioning from Jewish to West Indian. I ended up in the suburbs of North Jersey in the late 70’s, which was a more convenient commute to mid-Manhattan where I worked. Around the same time, the Indian Guyanese…

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…as hundreds of workers given marching orders in Guyana Hundreds of workers attached to the East Demerara Estate (EDE) located in Enmore, East Coast Demerara, have been issued termination letters by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), as the plans announced by Government earlier this year to close the sugar estate starts to take effect. A senior official of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) confirmed this with Guyana Times International on Wednesday, stating that workers are devastated by the move, as they are now contemplating how they will…

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Less than a week after returning from the United States, the taxi driver who was implicated in the brutal murder of a Richard Ishmael school teacher was Wednesday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. Matthew Munroe, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to the capital offence in shackles. With a grave look on his face, the father of six stood before Chief Magistrate McLennan as the indictable charge was read to him. The charge stated that on November 7, 2017 in Georgetown,…

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Budget 2018 has been described as the worst financial paper ever produced by any Government; one that lacks hope, creativity, innovation, and thinking power; and that does not have the ability to create and advance opportunities for the people of Guyana. This was the firm view expressed by Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Irfaan Ali, who was the first to lead the charge in the 2018 budget debates which commenced on Monday in the National Assembly. Ali said the budget has failed to address employment and several other bread-and-butter issues.…

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By Dr. Vishnu Bisram The Guyanese diaspora in North America is mourning the death of Ramesh Kalicharran, formerly of Essequibo. Kali, as we fondly called him, was a high achiever who did very well in everything he was involved. And he was an inspiration to many. He was a legendary Guyanese figure known in England, greater Toronto, all of the US, as well as in Trinidad and Suriname especially by people of Indian descent. And he was also well known by nationals of India having served as a liaison between…

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The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) says several Caribbean nationals were among 55 immigrants detained in New York during a six-day operation conducted by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). ICE said that ERO officers “targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives during the operation,” which ended on November 20. ICE said that among those detained were five Jamaicans and a Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana national. It said that the other detainees were from Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Yemen, Bangladesh,…

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Despite lauding Government for removing several measures that were imposed on the Private Sector, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has raised several burning concerns that it believes were not addressed in Budget 2018, including job investments. In a detailed press statement issued on Wednesday the GCCI said it was hopeful that a clear plan would have been articulated on the way forward for job creating investments, or facilitation of job creating investments. The Chamber also noted that there was no elaboration on a strategy to absorb workers…

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