Daily Archives: 05/22/2016

Guyana– Latest News from various sources – May 22, 2016

GUYANA – LATEST NEWS – 22 May 2016 – Kaieteur News

         (see other News sources at the end of this entry)

Documents: BaiShanLin enjoys duty free concessions galore

BaiShanLin enjoys duty free galore

MAY 22, 2016 | BY | FILED UNDER NEWS

officials-tOfficial documents, including agreements signed by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government, have come to light.
It is revealing how the previous administrations doled out duty free concessions to certain foreign companies.
One company, BaiShanLin specifically, was scandalously given almost unlimited permission to import vehicles and equipment, including in one case an extraordinary request for one billion tons of cement and two billion pails of paint.    Continue reading

Guyana -This Week with the President – May 21, 2016 – GINA video

GINA logoGuyana -This Week with the President – May 21, 2016 – GINA video

“COMING IN FROM THE COLD: The DIASPORA HAS LANDED”- by Francis Quamina Farrier

“COMING IN FROM THE COLD: The DIASPORA HAS LANDED”
by Francis Quamina Farrier

Francis Quamina Farrier

Francis Quamina Farrier

I have just returned to Guyana after a brief trip up to Region Number Eleven. While there, I was shocked at the May temperatures in Maryland and New York in this year of our Lord 2016! It was so cold for this time of the year. I was of the view that after the month of March, the weather would warm-up! No way was it warm earlier this month – May 2016. Who do not believe in Climate Change, is living under a rock at the Rocky Mountains either in the USA or Canada; or maybe under one of those massive boulders down in the Kaieteur gorge in Guyana.

767-Fly Jamaica

767-Fly Jamaica

Yes, I have to admit that the weather in the north/east of the USA was not too welcoming for me, so when I arrived at the JFK International Airport in New York last Wednesday, to join my Fly Jamaica Airlines flight back to Guyana, I was happy and relieved. Similar to those of the Diaspora, I was “Coming in from the Cold.” I just do not like the cold weather. It is just not my cup of tea, or my bowl of piwari.    Continue reading

Capitol TV News Videos – 20 May 2016

Capitol TV News Videos – 20 May 2016

Sleepin Hotel Officially opens with 100 percent occupancy

Posted: 20 May 2016 05:12 PM PDT

Opposition Leader receives an unwelcomed reception from relocated Stabroek Market vendors

Posted: 20 May 2016 05:00 PM PDT

 The MC&C denies knowledge of an order

Posted: 20 May 2016 04:50 PM PDT

Georgetown gets a new Independence Arch at Agricola

Posted: 20 May 2016 04:46 PM PDT