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GUYANA WORKING WITH U.S. TO PREPARE FOR RELEASE AND DEPORTATION OF CONVICTED DRUG LORD ROGER KHAN
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 18, 2019 (CMC) – The governments of Guyana and the United States are working together to prepared for the release and deportation of convicted Guyanese drug lord, Shaheed Roger Khan.
Khan, who is scheduled to be released from a US prison in July, has been serving a 10-year jail sentence for narco-trafficking and conspiracy.
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April 19, 2019
The vllage of Orealla in the Courantyne River in the easternmost part of Berbice is now online. Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes, and head of the National Data Management Authority, Floyd Levi, on April 19, 2019 officially commissioned six Internet Hotspots spread across the community.
These hotspots are located in the Community Benab, the Community ICT hub, the Police Station, the Health Centre and the school building.
Now the residents of Orealla have free, unimpeded access to the Worldwide Web via the government donated laptop computers and any other computerized device. The benefits for every single residents are many, Minister Hughes said, as she urged the residents to make full use of their connectivity. Continue reading
The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.
Guyana wants the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to go ahead with oral hearings into the border controversy with Venezuela because Caracas has refused to submit counter arguments, the Foreign Ministry here said.
“In consequence, Guyana has decided to ask the Court to proceed directly to the holding of oral hearings, at the earliest possible date, to determine its jurisdiction over the case,” the ministry said. Continue reading
The Noble Madden Drillship
A recent discovery of high quality sandstone reservoir has taken Guyana’s estimated number of recoverable barrels of crude oil well over 5.5 billion. The discovery, in the Yellowtail-1 well, is the fifth and largest discovery in the Turbot area of the block.
Mike Cousins, senior vice president of ExxonMobil Exploration and New Ventures, said that the shared value of the Turbot area has grown, as successive discoveries in the area have been made. Exxon expects Turbot to become a major development hub. Continue reading
The crisis of public education in Guyana
– By Diana Abraham
Diana Abraham is a member of the Guyanese diaspora with publications in fields relating to transnational migration, identity and belonging
Research included 22 teachers, 2 Head Teachers, 2 Chairs of the Boards of Governors of Sixth Form secondary schools; 2 Directors of a private school, 2 civil society participants, one former minister of education (2001–2006) and the then chief planning officer of Guyana’s ministry of education (attempts to interview the Chief Education Officer and the Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union were futile). Continue reading
Jagdeo at Babu John 2019
The police indicated they are investigating a report that, on March 10 — at the Cheddi Jagan commemorative ceremony at Babu Jaan, Port Mourant — the Opposition Leader had said that “after the 21st of March, the government would be illegal and that if the President, David Granger, (Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo), if they come here, to chase them…because they are illegal”. Continue reading
April 16, 2019 – Letter from the Mayor of Georgetown. Guyana.
City Hall – Georgetown
Dear Editor,
IT IS with great surprise that I read an article published by I News, via social media, on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, captioned: “Mayor’s attack on city businesses that owe taxes “displeasing”
I wish to avoid the tedium of a verbose response except to say briefly, the following: As the Chief Citizen, I did not attack anyone. I simply made an appeal at a press conference for businesses to honour their civic obligations to the Council. No organisation that is committed to providing critical services can do so without the 3 Ms, money, manpower and machinery. It is the synergetic interactions of the 3Ms that translates into the provision of services to the citizenry.
Our records at Council reveal that both residential and commercial rate payers owe the Council rates in excess of $8B. This has affected the timely provision of services to the citizens of Georgetown. Continue reading
Apr 16, 2019 News
Effective April 1, CJIA has been collecting an extra $4,000 from every passenger for using the renovated airport.
Effective April 1st, 2019, passengers using the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA)- Timehri, were expected to pay an additional $4,000 in fees, thanks to the US$150M renovations.
The fees include an airport security fee for $4,300, up $1,800 from $2,500 and the passenger facility charge which moved from $1,100 to $3,300, an increase of $2,200.
The airlines operating have reportedly informed travel agents and other stakeholders.
The taxes are being collected from the point of sale and are shown on passengers’ tickets separately.
Guyana learnt of the increases via a circular dated January 25, 2019 by the CJIA to airlines. Continue reading
Belize: Put the National Interest First
Sir Ronald Sanders | Caribbean 360
BELMOPAN, Belize – Narrow party-political ambitions frequently thwart the wider national interest in practically every country.
The world is watching this play-out now as a public spectacle in Britain where the Brexit question continues to be deeply immersed in both personal political purposes and a struggle for the supremacy of one political party over another. At the end of it, Britain will be a much-diminished nation economically. It will also have little clout in the international community.
But it is not in Britain alone that this tragedy of political ambition over wider national interest is being displayed. On April 3, seven days before a referendum is scheduled to be held in Belize to determine if the country should take its border dispute with Guatemala for final arbitration to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the opposition political party, the Peoples’ Unity Party (PUP), obtained an injunction from the Chief Justice, Kenneth Benjamin, to stay it. Continue reading
Visa refusal and American intelligence on Guyana – By Freddie Kissoon
Visa refusal and American intelligence on Guyana
Apr 17, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Even if you factor in applications from Cubans, Haitians and Chinese living in Guyana, the large percentage (almost 70 percent) of refusal for visitor’s visa for last year takes Guyana back to the 1980’s where there was a mere trickle of visa issuance.
If the US Embassy refused 70 percent of applicants for 2018 for non-immigrant stamps, it means that they are in possession of intelligence that guide the Embassy into the acceptance that Guyanese are fleeing and would renege on returning after their visit.
Very few countries see a 70 percent rejection. When that happens, the US concludes that recipients are going to stay illegally. Continue reading →
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