Gold nuggets report creates Para Bara frenzy
Reports of “nuggets of gold” being found around the remote Region Nine community of Para Bara have sent residents in surrounding communities in a frenzy with many heading or making plans to trek to the forested area, according to reports from the region. The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is sending a team to [...]
Pritipaul Singh company flayed over deadly trawler fire
Seafood company, Pritipaul Singh Investments’ (PSI) has been condemned for safety violations in the June fire aboard its vessel which resulted in the death of a crew member and left another missing and presumed dead. A report commissioned by the Ministry of Works also said that emphasis on maximizing production should not be at the [...]
Final date given in teen torture case
A final date has been given for the complainants and witnesses in the trial of three policemen accused of severely wounding a 15-year-old boy during a murder investigation to present themselves to the court or the matter would be dismissed. Since the trio was charged in November last year, the trial has not started due [...]
South Rupununi villages writing own growth plan
Maintaining a balance between preservation of traditional ways and development is the goal of the Wapichan (Wapishana) Amerindian nation of the remote Rupununi Savannahs who are formulating plans to take control of their development. Representatives of the 17 Wapichan villages located in the remote Deep South and South Central areas of the Rupununi Savannahs in [...]
Mushroom farming fails to catch on
Much vaunted plans to grow mushrooms – the type of initiative being targeted in the Grow More Food campaign by the government – have failed to ignite interest and the project has been abandoned while the edible fungi continue to be imported to satisfy local consumption. Director of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Dr. [...]
Manufacturers reaching out to overseas investors
The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has been reaching out to several countries in an effort to attract investors and capital, its President, Clinton Williams, says and he also pointed to a range of problems hampering businesses. With the manufacturing sector showing flat growth for the first half of the year while the services [...]
Repsol offshore well to be deepest in region
The exploratory ‘Jaguar 1’ oil well to be drilled offshore Guyana next year will be the deepest ever drilled in the region, at a depth of four miles, officials of Spanish oil giant, Repsol said as the company formally opened its Duke Street office here last evening. “Jaguar 1 has been approved to drill to [...]
Public accounts head berates gov’t over procurement commission
Volda Lawrence: `There are sinister movements in terms of contracts because the Auditor General staff went to a particular institution: couldn’t find a wall, couldn’t find windows, couldn’t find grill work but then after he went back subsequently, after they came before PAC, the wall appeared, the windows appeared, the grill work appeared. Let us [...]
Deforestation rate triples over past year
Guyana’s deforestation rate tripled over the past year and was calculated at 0.06%, compared to the average deforestation rate of 0.02% since 1990 and given recent trends it may continue to rise, according to a new report prepared under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement. The Guyana REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification System (MRVS), Interim Measures [...]
PC basks in top school glow
Celebrating 25 years of existence, President’s College basked in the glow of being the number one school in the country as it held its 20th graduation exercise yesterday. “The College is continuing to deliver quality education to our students despite the many challenges we face”, Principal Yvonette Chichester said. “We have once again demonstrated that [...]
It’s Ramjattan and Holder
Khemraj Ramjattan was yesterday ratified as the Presidential Candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) with co-founder Sheila Holder selected as the Prime Ministerial candidate after Leader, Raphael Trotman declined
Karawab
Nothing stirs within the thatched houses that occasionally crack the forested monotony along the upper Pomeroon River. Even the cries of the few birds who brave the humidity of the afternoon seem wilted. “Sometimes people say we are behind God back,” says a teacher at the Ulele Primary School. In the verdant, hilly community, where [...]
BK plugs rip-rap instead of wave wall
– European-funded work 31% completed As construction giant, BK International proceeds with multi-billion dollar sea defence work it has asked the authorities to review some projects where the designs are for mass concrete seawalls, arguing that the rip-rap design would be better. BK, under the Ninth European Development Fund (EDF) Sea Defence Pro-gramme, is currently [...]
Love keeps aging Pomeroon farmers on land but problems abound
-see great need for cannery, depot ‘We nah get market… We nah getting price’ (This is the ninth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) In his laden citrus grove in the Pomeroon, Rudolph Gobin fixes a shirt on a stick and clangs a crude bell. To scare away parrots, he explained, [...]
$89M Parika pack house underutilized
- despite focus on stepped up farming, exports (This is the eighth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) Many days the Parika Pack House is silent with little activity inside the vast building. At times though, particularly in the latter part of the week, trucks roll in and persons clean and [...]