Guyana Times

GCB Inter-county U-17 championship…   By Akeem Greene   A spirited bowling performance by Demerara helped them pull off a stunning six-run victory against Berbice to win the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Under-17 Inter-county tournament on Sunday at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda. Berbice innings was lead by an eye-catching 95 by middle-order batsman Kevin Sinclair who had his team in sight of victory...

Sugar workers denied API By Shemuel Fanfair After reports of some five sugar workers at Wales Estate, West Bank Demerara, being denied payment of the Annual Production Incentive (API), this publication has been informed that the workers are expected to be paid this Friday. The non-payment was a result of the sugar workers supposedly failing to meet the requirements. Guyana Times was...

– additional spillage suspected; investigation launched By Utamu Belle Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI) has accepted responsibility for a recent oil spill in the Demerara River surrounding its operations in Linden. Following a meeting between the privately owned bauxite company and the Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Berbice) Democratic Council (RDC) on Monday, BMGGI community relations officer Vanessa Mitchell-Davis noted that the...

– students forced to fetch furniture from construction area As the new school term began on Monday, disgruntled parents turned up at the Goed Fortuin Primary School to protest the deplorable conditions under which their children have to endure. The parents who flocked the compound early Monday morning, are calling for the facility to be closed until the rehabilitation works...

Dear Editor, As an avid stakeholder of the forest sector, I am most disappointed in a section of the media which is continuously publishing inaccuracies about the management of the forest sector and the hounding of a foreign forest company despite numerous clarifications by the authorities.  A section of the media quoted the forensic audit report on the Guyana Forestry...

We are certain all West Indians are still basking in the afterglow of the amazing wins by the Men and Women’s teams in the ICC T-20 World Cup tournaments last Sunday. How sweet it is! The scintillating performances and the ultimate success our cricket teams remind us of the possibilities that lie within us as a people even...

Toevlugt/Patentia election controversy After reports of two People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Toevlugt-Patentia candidates being refused their Oath of Office surfaced, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is now undertaking to rectify the matter. This is according to PPP/C Executive Secretary Zulfikar Mustapha who told Guyana Times on Monday that the Party has been in contact with GECOM’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO),...

– plain robbery up by 27% Although the Guyana Police Force has recorded a 14 per cent decrease in serious crime, plain robbery has increased by a whopping 27 per cent. In a released issued by the Guyana Police Force for the period January 1 to March 31, 2016, it stated that 14 robberies were committed where the perpetrators...

The recently concluded Local Government Elections (LGE) provides an opportunity to analyse and assess how far we have come, what has happened and where we are going. That LGE was held for the first time since 1994 is commendable, although there still remains some serious shortcomings. The low turn-out of voters speaks to the lack of understanding and importance...

Given the reported number of missing persons in Guyana, the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) is suggesting government establish a missing persons database. The organisation, which has a special interest in domestic violence, particularly against women, said on Monday that too many families are still living with the uncertainty of not knowing what really happened to their loved ones. CADVA’s...