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Monthly Archives: August 2018

David Hinds engaged in “reckless pronouncements” on African Guyanese- Granger; Hinds labels Granger’s position “utter nonsense”

Last Updated on Monday, 27 August 2018, 9:01 by Denis Chabrol Five months after Political Science Professor, David Hinds’ column was dropped from the state-owned and government controlled Guyana Chronicle newspaper, President David Granger made known his displeasure with one of the columns that was written two years ago. Hinds has since maintained that his positions are rooted in historical ...

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Guyana Goldfields lays off almost 100 workers to cut costs

Guyana Goldfields is laying off  more than 80 workers at its Aurora Gold Mines operations in western Guyana, after the company decided to focus on existing gold bearing properties instead of searching for new deposits, a senior company official said Sunday. Country Manager for Guyana Goldfields, Violet Smith said those being laid off include all the mainly foreign geologists and ...

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Technical-vocational education- a tool to tackle youth unemployment ; stop denying there are problems- Pres. Granger

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 August 2018, 13:46 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Sunday said his administration was seeking to tackle youth unemployment by pushing mainly technical-vocational education, even as he called on non-governmental organisations to gather solid information on socioeconomic problems with the aim of finding concrete solutions. “It is for this reason that a lot of ...

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Junior Finance Minister wants to advise on corruption charges; calls for appeal of Jennifer Westford’s GY$600 million larceny charge

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 August 2018, 6:00 by Denis Chabrol Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma has criticised police investigators and legal experts for instituting the wrong charge against former Public Service Minister, Dr. Jennifer Westford and her Administrative Officer, Margaret Cummings who were freed of a GY$600 million charge of larceny by public officer. Speaking on Saturday’s edition of ...

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Mother arrested for stabbing death of 3-year old son

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 August 2018, 18:13 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese police on Saturday arrested a 26-year old woman for allegedly stabbing her three-year old son to death. Dead is Ramdeo Ferreira of  585 15th Street,Foulis, Easr Coast Demerara. Sources said the woman’s name is Pat Brenda Ferreira. Investigators said at about 09:45 AM the suspect was seen chasing after ...

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Pressure mounts on govt to give direct cash transfer of oil revenues to poor; ACDA says stop granting more oil concessions to foreign companies

Last Updated on Friday, 24 August 2018, 21:08 by Denis Chabrol Pressure on Friday intensified on the David Granger-led administration to give conditional direct cash transfers of some oil earn revenues to very poor Guyanese, against the background of him already dismissing the idea because there is no evidence. The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA), widely believed to be ...

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‘Guyana Airways Corp. Inc.’ plans to take legal action over use of name

Last Updated on Friday, 24 August 2018, 17:32 by Denis Chabrol Legal action is likely to be taken against government for removing the privately-owned Guyana Airways Corporation Inc. (GAC) from the Companies Register two years after the entity was duly registered because the name is identical to two previous companies. “Every entity had an opportunity to object to the name, ...

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BREAKING: Jennifer Westford, Margaret Cummings freed of stealing GY$600 million

Last Updated on Sunday, 26 August 2018, 5:58 by Denis Chabrol Former Minister of Public Service, Jennifer Westford and her Administrative Assistant Margaret Cummings were Friday afternoon freed from a charge of larceny of GY$639,420,000 by a public officer. Principal Magistrate, Judy Latchman said the charge of 24 counts of larceny by a public officer was “bad in law” because, ...

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Guyana will not nationalise American companies: US- Guyana relations of “high geo-strategic value”- Raphael Trotman

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 August 2018, 19:26 by Denis Chabrol Guyana will not take over American companies, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has told several United States (US) Congressmen who wrapped up a one-day visit here on Thursday. In clear reference to criticisms from some quarters about Guyana’s  granting of a huge offshore concession to ExxonMobil and a ...

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PNCR used youths as “props” but very few elected to Central Executive – Jagdeo

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 August 2018, 16:58 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday accused the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) of again using youths as tokens at their just concluded Biennial Delegates Congress because the majority of the executive has been stacked with old people. Jagdeo also observed that Volda Lawrence was elected Chairperson of her ...

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