Guyana Times

The Mayor and City Council will be moving to prosecute non-compliant taxpayers as it strives to recover the more than $2 billion it is owed. In a telephone interview with Guyana Times on Tuesday, Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase Green said that indeed the Town Clerk, Royston King would be taking legal action against the defaulters. It was revealed earlier this year...

Monk Acharya Siddeshvaranana from the Ananda Marga Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is visiting Guyana after five years to establish a centre for the Ananda Marga Yoga Society Guyana branch. Siddeshvaranana disclosed he was happy about the construction of a facility to accommodate members instead of having them use various locations to host their meetings. The NGO is focused mainly on yoga,...

Occupational Health and Safety Month The Ministry of the Presidency in collaboration with a number of agencies hosted a mini-health fair for employees, as part of observances for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Month. From mid-afternoon over the last two Fridays, inter-departmental sessions were held at the Training Division of the Department of Public Service and in the Ministry’s compound where...

Dear Editor, I read with interest over the years the debates over the sustainability and viability of the Guyana sugar industry. Firstly, it is clear, on a stand-alone basis, sugar is not a straight-line profitable industry. How could it be with costs running at US0/tonne and being sold for US0/tonne? Clearly, each tonne of sugar contributes negative US0 to...

Dear Editor, I said it in a letter about a year ago and I will say it again. The Ministry of Public Security, perhaps, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection, needs to have someone or a team, go into the Guyana prisons and find out from the inmates why they are becoming so violent. Those who have...

As Police reopen the investigation into the 2008 murder of East Bank Essequibo (EBE) businessman Habiboodean, four persons have been arrested while law enforcement continues the search for a fifth suspect, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed. Superintendent Blanhum said that investigators were now seeking the late businessman’s daughter who was a person of interest in the probe. He said despite...

Twenty-year-old Shawn Spellen, of Lot 143 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, was in the wee hours of Monday killed after the vehicle in which he was travelling suffered a puncture and turned turtle. According to information received, the accident occurred about 03:30h at Bushy Park Public Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE). The now dead man was heading home when one of the...

…attacked family during party A well-known bandit was on Sunday evening shot dead, while one man was injured following a home invasion at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Dead is Raphael Armstrong, 32, also called “Scar”, formerly of Friendship, East Bank Demerara and of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The injured man is Adrian Mohar, 24, of Yarrowkabra. He has been admitted to the Georgetown...

Censorship of State media – baffled by stance of the GPA to write President Granger BY EDWARD LAYNE As confusion continues to rage over allegations Government ministers and other officials, including Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Director of Public Information (DPI) Imran Khan constant meddling in the works of the state media entities, the Office of the Prime Minister on Monday came...

Public Health Minister, Dr George Norton has expressed his disappointment over the work ethic of doctors and nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) maternity ward after learning of a mother’s tragedy at the facility. The mother who is still a patient at the maternity ward, along with her newborn, disclosed that the nurses had taken a blood sample...