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Monthly Archives: May 2019

Guyana-Suriname ferry service suspended

Last Updated on Monday, 27 May 2019, 18:05 by Writer The Guyana-Suriname ferry service was Monday suspended until further notice due to technical problems with the MV Canawaima, government here said. No date has been fixed for the vessel to resume operations across the Corentyne River from Moleson Creek in Guyana to South Drain (Zuiddrain) in western Suriname. The Guyana ...

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West Demerara mine worker drowns in Puruni River

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 May 2019, 5:15 by Writer A 28-year old man lost his life in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) while he was working at a private gold mining operation on the Puruni River, his mother said. Dead is Yannick Cornelius Janniere of 95 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara. His partly decomposed body was recovered from the Puruni River on ...

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Bomb threat forces cancellation of UG exams until next week

Last Updated on Friday, 24 May 2019, 18:57 by Writer Police late Friday afternoon gave the University of Guyana (UG) the green light for staff and students to return to the Turkeyen Campus, after several hours of searching for bombs that someone said earlier in the day had been planted, a spokeswoman for the tertiary institution said. Public Relations Officer, ...

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UG Vice Chancellor sent on leave; to be paid GYD$1.1m for 12 days on the job

Last Updated on Friday, 24 May 2019, 18:32 by Writer The University of Guyana’s (UG) governing body, the UG Council has ordered Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith to proceed on his end-of-contract leave, against his wishes as he had preferred to remain on the job, sources disclosed. Griffith should have gone on leave from May 13, but had requested to ...

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Severe flooding in Mahdia; clean-up begins as water level drops

Last Updated on Friday, 24 May 2019, 14:31 by Writer Residents of the town of Mahdia, Potaro-Siparuni (Region 8) were Friday battling severe flooding caused by extremely heavy rainfall, resulting in the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) considering opening shelters for affected residents and rushing in relief supplies. Director-General of the CDC, Colonel Kester Craig said cleaning supplies were being rushed ...

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Amna Ally denies Jagdeo claims gov’t money purchased Buju Banton tickets to win youth votes

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2019, 17:50 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally on Thursday denied claims by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that government money has been used to buy tickets for the Buju Banton concert. “Not government’s money. It’s the PNC’s money,” she said, but could not remember how many ...

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GYD$3.4 billion parliamentary approval for electoral polls not connected to CCJ decisions – Finance Minister

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2019, 16:25 by Writer Guyana’s National Assembly on Thursday approved GYD$3.4 billion for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to conduct general elections, but Finance Minister Winston Jordan said that has nothing to do with decisions the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) might hand down concerning several election-related cases. “This provision, I want to say ...

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OPINION: Say it ain’t so, Mr. President

Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 18:54 by Writer By GHK Lall How could you, Mr. President? Say it ain’t so, Excellency… Except that it is. I am the short end of the stick here; it is a dirty, undesired one. Spiked too. For there I was repeatedly trashing those tardy public servants, who lapsed through negligence, or contempt, ...

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OPINION: Perfectionism, meritocracy, and Protestant work ethic under attack

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2019, 8:43 by Writer By GHK Lall “NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has made ‘whiteness’ toxic, Department of Education insiders claim” (NY Post May 18). Unfortunately, switch the color scheme to ‘brownness’ or ‘blackness’ and that claim would quickly find volume and mileage right here in political and bureaucratic Guyana. All one has to ...

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High Court cuts police inspector’s imprisonment to a few hours for allegedly insulting magistrate

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 21:48 by Writer The High Court on Wednesday slashed a seven-day prison term imposed on Detective Police Inspector Prem Narine to less than one day, saying the penalty for allegedly insulting a City Magistrate was “excessive”. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire reduced the jail term imposed by Magistrate Rondel Weever to less than one ...

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