Guyana Times

LBI operations shutdown – operations to close by May The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) plans on completely shutting down the La Bonne Intention (LBI) Sugar Estate and merging its existing operations with the Enmore Estate by May 31, 2016. This is according to a brief from the Sugar Corporation to Agriculture Minister Noel Holder on the integration of the East Demerara Estates. Some...

US media censorship observation BY EDWARD LAYNE Just one day after Guyana Times reported that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo was criticised by the United States’ Department of State over his 2015 attempt to suppress Freedom of the Press, particularly in the state media, the government in a strongly worded statement rejected those claims. US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and...

0M fertiliser deal ... while other company offered cheaper price One of the biggest criticisms facing the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Government is its lack of transparency as it pertains to the administration of State affairs. Against this backdrop, information has surfaced which suggests Cabinet disregarded the accountable process of tendering in awarding a $420 million fertiliser...

– National Trust launches Linden Heritage Trail publication In keeping with the observance of International Day of Monuments and Sites, the National Trust of Guyana (NTG) in collaboration with the Education Ministry’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport on Monday launched the Linden Heritage Trail publication - featuring 48 pages of monuments and sites across the Linden community. A ceremony was...

By Rennella Bourne Vendors of the Kitty Market, which is currently under renovation, have expressed frustration at the slow pace at which the work is being carried out, since it is affecting their businesses. Rehabilitation works on the dilapidated market got underway some two months ago, after many years of neglect. Vendors had been relocated nearby to facilitate the process. However, according...

Given the recent discussions in the letter columns of the dailies on reparation, I thought my review of the above book might be useful. Over the past three decades or so, there have been a number of organisations, associations, countries, regions, and conferences on reparations for African slavery in the Americas. However, the call for reparations was uncoordinated and...

The A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) has been criticised by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee for its abysmal failure to implement a clear-cut economic plan and social model to improve the livelihood of the Guyanese working class. “The APNU+AFC coalition administration has been knocking from pillar to post in an aimless attempt to find...

A Kuru Kururu man on Monday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts after he was allegedly busted by Police with cannabis. Twenty-seven-year-old Andell Solomon of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on April 14 at Kuru Kururu, he had in his possession 1000 grams of cannabis for...

A City Constable and his accomplice on Monday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Magistrate Alex Moore charged for breaking and entering and larceny. Seon Isaacs, 22, a City Constable, and Delmar Booker were both charged for the offence which stated that between April 13 and April 14 at Stabroek Market, they broke and entered an electronics store...

Former Guyana Under-19 middle-order batsman Khemraj Mahadeo walked away with close to 0,000 worth of prizes after he was named Cricketer-of-the-Year 2015 by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC). Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation hosted a gala and highly impressive 26th annual awards ceremony at the St Francis Community Developers where over $1 million worth...