Guyana Times

A young local businessman is the first Guyanese to participate in the United States Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI). Entrepreneur Triston Thompson recently met with US Ambassador Perry Holloway after returning from his participation in the YLAI in the US. During his visit, Thompson got the opportunity to meet with Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary for...

...and the Panama Papers There are several “Golden Rules”. The one your Eyewitness’s talking about says: “He who has the gold makes the rules”. And this truism was brought to his mind by the “revelations” coming out fast and furious in the so-called “Panama Papers”. Surely you haven’t missed that, have you, Dear Reader? But just in case, let’s...

Three Linden women were granted ,000 bail by Magistrate Clive Nurse on Wednesday on charges of unlawful wounding and assault, allegedly committed against each other. The charge against the number one accused 19-year-old Tilisa Wilson of Block 22, Wismar, Linden, is that she assaulted Telisha Cornette at Bayroc Ground, Wismar on March 28. A similar charge was read against...

A Lindener was jailed for three years when he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Linden Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday following the conclusion of his trial on a trafficking in narcotics charge. Wade Mentore, of Lot 4 Rainbow City, Mackenzie, Linden, was charged after he was nabbed with 460 grams of cannabis on September 18, 2014 at Mabura...

– to do community service An East Ruimveldt man got lucky on Wednesday after he was ordered to serve 10 hours of community service instead of jail time after he pleaded guilty to a drug possession charge. Matthew Burrowe, 19, a construction worker, pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared before Magistrate...

A handful of students, with placards in hand, assembled outside of the Ministry of the Presidency on Wednesday with much vigour to begin their calls for the Government to afford them a meeting to listen to their concerns. However, the demonstration was immediately called off after the Ministry of the Presidency heeded their request and announced that a meeting will...

Businesses persons who were scheduled to travel at midday from Parika, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) to Supenaam, in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) on Monday and Wednesday were inconvenienced due to engine failure on the MV Kanawan. The crew discovered a problem with the vessel on Monday morning when it docked at Parika around 07:00h. The malfunction was fixed on Monday...

Dear Editor, Last July, a lady by the name of Suzanna Nichols, who is a Canadian national and who came to Guyana upon the invitation of the Social Protection Ministry to develop a social empowerment programme for girls and women, was aggressively assaulted by four female officers of the Georgetown City Constabulary, when she took her son to...

Dear Editor, It must be thrilling for Eric Phillips and his colleagues to discover evidence of their negroid ancestors even in Brazil. Phillips should not be deterred by arguments about the skeletal remains of Luzia being Australoid or south-east Asian since there is archaeological evidence that his negroid ancestors left Africa some 12,000 years ago and moved to every corner...

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper to highlight an urgent matter which is of utmost importance to the residents of Georgetown. As a newly-elected Councillor, I am publicly calling on all Councillors, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor to begin discussions on conducting a forensic audit of the Municipality of Georgetown at our first statutory meeting on April...