It was anticipated that among the outcomes of a visit last year by Surinamese President Chandrikapersd Santokhi and members of the Surinamese Business Association (Vereniging Surinaams Bedrijfsleven – VSB) that there would have been the launch of a Joint Business Council. And on Saturday, in a joint statement, the Private Sector in Guyana and Suriname…
–project creates opportunity for over 50 direct jobs THE physical landscape of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, is set to be transformed with the construction of a US$25 million wharf facility to service Guyana’s fast-growing oil- and-gas sector. This modern facility is being constructed by TKK Properties Incorporated, a company registered in Guyana since 2017. Based…
Jaheim Straker, a 16-year-old Fourth Form Student of the Silvercity Secondary School in Linden, is currently a patient at the Linden Hospital Complex where he is being monitored after suffering a fractured skull; he was viciously attacked by a classmate and a gang of youngsters on Thursday last. His mother, Fiona Lewis, said the incident…
Charles Leclerc won a close battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen before taking a classy victory as Ferrari took a one-two in a dramatic season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Leclerc and Verstappen staged a thrilling wheel-to-wheel dice for a couple of laps after their first pit stops, swapping places five times in two laps before Leclerc…
… to leave 97 seats empty when they face Liverpool today NOTTINGHAM Forest will leave 97 seats empty when they face Liverpool in the FA Cup today in tribute to the fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster. It was Forest who were Liverpool’s opponents in the FA Cup semi-final at the…
BIRMINGHAM 2022 is staging the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – an epic journey across the Commonwealth, with The Queen’s Baton visiting all 72 nations and territories. The Relay began on October 7, 2021, with Her Majesty The Queen placing her Message to the Commonwealth into the Baton. The Baton is now on its 294-daylong…
THE Kensington Oval DJ had tried with a track that was positively thumping while the one in the middle was as flat and lifeless as a piece of blank vinyl. In the end, the man on the decks resorted to the mellow tones of Ben E King’s Stand By Me, as if pleading with those…
THE entire world is watching in disbelief if not outrage at what is happening in Ukraine, especially in this supposedly modern and civilised age. Images of the indiscriminate killings of men, women and children are beamed in the homes of millions if not billions of people around the globe on a daily basis. This is indeed depressing…
Dear Editor, PHAGWAH was celebrated on Friday, March 18 in Guyana and among the diaspora. Phagwah was introduced in New York and other USA locations by the Guyanese diaspora some five decades ago. Early Guyanese and Trinidadian migrants started celebrating Phagwah, Diwali, Eid, and other Indian festivals going back to the 1960s. Facing discrimination at…
Dear Editor, THE just-concluded meeting held between the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the representatives of the APNU+AFC leave many questions and suspicion about the real motive and agenda of the latter. The APNU+AFC’s urgings to GECOM against holding elections without major reforms is merely one aspect of their hidden political agenda that must not…
