-approved gas station for brother-in-law -placed $$millions in employee’s credit card
Badrie Persaud
The forensic audit report on the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) is out and it speaks of deep, dirty rackets that were being run at the entity.
Its former chief, Badrie Persaud agave out contracts and benefits without any control to family and friends.
The audit, ordered last year by the David Granger administration, has been released by the Ministry of Finance. It tells of multi-million-dollar contracts by Persaud, and inappropriate transfers to an employee’s credit card to make overseas payments on behalf of that state-owned entity.
The GuyOil chief was sacked a few weeks ago for taking unauthorized decisions during his tenure.
He was sent on administrative leave mid-last year, shortly after the new government took office. Continue reading →
Granger upbeat about new towns …says LGEs have unshackled their economic potential
March 25, 2016- Guyana Chronicle
PRESIDENT David Granger has told the that the recently concluded Local Government Elections have unshackled the business and economic potential of towns across the 10 administrative regions and the government, as well as the private sector must ensure that efforts of development are not concentrated solely in the capital city, but spread throughout the country. The President was at the time addressing shareholders and stakeholders at the GCCI’s 126th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was held Thursday afternoon at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown. He noted that the democratisation of local government is necessary for the planned economic take-off of Guyana’s towns and regions. [Read more]
It’s easy to forget how shocking the Stones were in 1965. The previously unreleased documentary Charlie Is My Darling is a riveting reminder of when they were a generational lightning rod
Jon Savage -Monday 5 November 2012 16.09 GMTLast modified on Friday 29 January 201613.54 GMT
On 3 September 1965, the Rolling Stones flew out for a brief Irish tour. Accompanying them and their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, was film-maker Peter Whitehead, who had just shot the infamous International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall – a founding countercultural event later known, after his film title, as Wholly Communion.
Click below to see 1965 video of the singing “Satisfaction”….. and arrival in Cuba.Continue reading →
