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    Standing from left to right are Director of Finance at Prime Energy, Carlos Villegas; Director of Energy Systems at Prime Energy, Raul Arrondo and International Director of Prime Energy, Vidjai Doerga while seated from left to right are Sergean Elias, Project Manager; Chief Executive Officer of Chemex, Jerry Brooks and International Director of Prime Energy and Chemical LLC, Dr. Turhane Doerga at the Princess Hotel yesterday.

    US-based consortium upbeat on oil refinery

    A US-based consortium is examining building Guyana’s first oil refinery in the next 18 months, to provide cheaper fuel in an initial investment estimated at US$75M. “It is expected that within 18 months, an estimated US$75M will be spent to establish the facilities which will also be providing over 100 jobs and ultimately see cheaper [...]

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    Donald Ramotar

    Ramotar ‘humbled’ by unanimous selection

    PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar yesterday said that he was humbled by his unanimous selection as the party’s presidential candidate and said he will stand by the party’s record of achievement. “With hard work, I think we can have a big victory at the polls,” Ramotar told Stabroek News following his selection. During over four [...]

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    Erik Solheim

    Stricter deforestation limits set in revised Norway deal

    New terms for Guyana’s forests’ deal with Norway have been agreed, with payments from Oslo to decrease should the deforestation level here increase over last year’s level. “There is room for small fluctuations but if you go above last year’s results then you immediately start to reduce the amount [of money] due to Guyana. At [...]

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    Erik Solheim

    Norway releases another US$40M into GRIF

    Norway will deposit another US$40 million into the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) immediately as research shows that Guyana’s deforestation rate is lower than previously thought, Norway’s Minister of the Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim announced last evening. This is very positive and Oslo will immediately pay US$40 million into the GRIF, Solheim said [...]

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    Renaldo Parris

    Renaldo Parris finds refuge with kind stranger

    For most of his young life Renaldo Parris has worked, fought hunger and slept on the streets with nowhere to turn. Abandoned at a very young age after his parents’ death, Renaldo had to fend for himself on his own. “He has nothing,” says Ivy Harris, 64. “He has no documents, no birth certificate. He [...]

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    Mohammed Rasheed stands next to the tractor pumping water out of his flooded fields at Spillweir, Canal Number Two on Tuesday. Inset: Cabbages surrounded by water in Rasheed’s field.

    ‘Grow More’ farmers reap less at flooded Spillweir

    Mohammed Rasheed returned to Guyana two years ago excited by the prospects of the Grow More Food campaign. On Tuesday, as he pumped water out of his flooded fields, battling to save the crops, he lamented that promises made have not kept. “Every time I follow up, they dragging, dragging (their feet),”

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    Prescriptive title to end for state lands

    Prescriptive title to end for state lands

    Persons living on state land can no longer apply for prescriptive title, with the passage of an amendment that the government stoutly defended as necessary to protect state property while opposition parties dubbed it unconstitutional. The Title to Land (Prescription and Limitation) (Amendment) Bill 2011 was yesterday denounced by opposition speakers as “overreaching” and in [...]

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    A section of the gathering at the launching of the Men Affairs Bureau at the Umana Yana yesterday.

    Bureau launched to support men facing societal pressures

    Men face tremendous, varied pressures in society and require these to be dealt with in a masculine way was the message as the Men Affairs Bureau (MAB) was officially launched yesterday. “We need to ensure that men and boys are not left behind,” said Trevor Thomas, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Human [...]

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    A policeman looks at the placards held by AFC protesters outside the Public Buildings yesterday.

    AFC protests gov’t sloth on broadcast, FOI laws

    Broken promises to pass broadcast and Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation shows the administration’s lack of credibility, said Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan as the party picketed outside Parliament yesterday over government’s failure to act on these issues. “We rather suspect that the government wants to maintain the control over information. It wants [...]

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    Khemraj Ramjattan

    AFC to keep two Parliament seats for Diaspora -Ramjattan

    Giving overseas-based Guy-anese parliamentary representation and ministerial positions is a big part of the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) policy, given the large contributions of the Diaspora to Guyana, the AFC’s Presiden-tial Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan has said. He said that in his legal opinion there is nothing blocking Guyanese residing overseas who continue to hold Guyanese [...]

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    The new Demerara bank at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. (Photo by Gaulbert Sutherland)

    $460M Demerara Bank branch opens at Diamond

    Demerara Bank Limited opened its newest branch at Diamond on the East Bank Demerara yesterday, with its Chairman Dr Yesu Persaud calling for the creation of a business climate that would lead to more jobs. A beaming Persaud recalled the journey from when he conceived a dream of an indigenous bank back in 1991 to [...]

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    David Granger

    ‘It’s not a one-man show’ – Granger

    Declaring that it was not a one-man show, freshly minted PNCR presidential candidate David Granger says he will discuss elections strategy with party leader Robert Corbin and warned that corruptly conceived projects will be rolled back under any government led by him. Having been elevated to lead the PNCR into national elections later this year, [...]

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    President Bharrat Jagdeo (standing, backing camera) speaking at the funeral service of veteran journalist Sharief Khan yesterday.

    Sharief Khan eulogised as hard worker, mentor

    Veteran journalist Sharief Khan worked his way up from humble beginnings to leave a legacy of hard work and well trained-journalists. His colleagues and friends yesterday recounted the story of his life during a funeral service as he was laid to rest in the village of Philadelphia on the East Bank Essequibo. Mourners including President [...]

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    The area before the Laluni Creek bridge that leads from Number Three to Number Four, Laluni yesterday.

    Swamped Laluni farmers blast gov’t for broken promises to clear creek

    Heavy rainfall swamped sections of Laluni yesterday leaving anxious farmers fearful for their crops and renewing their plea to the authorities to clear the overgrowth that clogs the Laluni Creek. Government officials on visits to the community had repeatedly promised to clear the creek but it was never done, residents told this newspaper during a [...]

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    Better Region Eight roads may revive onions, potatoes plan

    Improved road links could see the resuscitation of south-western Region Eight as a large producer of “environmentally adaptable crops” such as onions and Irish potatoes but for more perishable crops other constraints will have to be tackled if those are to be produced competitively. Over three decades ago, a massive agriculture enterprise in the mountainous [...]