Daily Archive: Friday, November 30, 2018

Articles published on Friday, November 30, 2018

Ubraj Narine

Ubraj Narine elected Mayor of Georgetown

APNU Councillor Ubraj Narine is the new Mayor of Georgetown. Narine, who won Constituency One (Kingston East and West, Thomas Lands, Nonpareil Park, Cummingsburg, Alberttown and Queenstown) at the November 12th local polls, was elected when the new councillors of the municipality met today. 

2019 Budget providing funding for upgrading rice infrastructure

Budget signals focus on more robust agricultural sector

Seemingly seeking to heed  the persistent warning that Guyana should not allow the advent of oil and gas to result in a neglect, or worse, a wholescale abandonment of those sectors that have historically sustained the country’s economy, the APNU+AFC coalition administration this week used the presentation of its budgetary proposals for 2019 to set out plans for what it says is “production, transformation and agricultural transformation” which, it is envisaged, will coexist with the historic move with the recovery of ‘first oil’ in 2020.

Team Leaders: The Balance founders Donella Long and Mariah Barker

The Balance: Waiter service aiming to add elegance to seasonal revelry

Two close school friends who first met each other in First Form at Charlestown Secondary School have not only retained their friendship through their teen-age years and into adulthood but have now pooled their resources and their talents to create a business for themselves and jobs for other young people through The Balance, a professional waiter service that appears destined to make a mark in one of the country’s fast-emerging sectors.

Nand Persaud & Company CEO Rajindra Persaud

Nand Persaud & Company taking rice industry’s challenges in its stride

For all its challenges associated with weak infrastructure, high investment costs, unfavourable weather and an unpredictable global market, Chief Executive Officer of one of Guyana’s most successful investors in the sector, Nand Persaud and Company, Rajindra Persaud firmly believes that over the long haul the rice industry has been a stayer, a success and that it has proven itself to be very much the front runner in the country’s still highly valued agricultural sector.

The 2019 Budget: Implementing undertakings

As has been pointed out in our lead story on government’s proposals for the agricultural sector in 2019, there appears to be a deliberate effort to send a message in the 2019 budget proposals that approaching ‘first oil’ will not have the effect of placing agriculture, a sector that has, historically, served the nation well, on the back burner.

The Courtyard Marriott, Barbados

Eighty-four thousand empty hotel rooms nightly hurting tourism sector – CHTA Director General

If the Caribbean is truly keen on significantly increasing its earnings from the region’s tourism sector one way of doing so is through the launch of an aggressive marketing initiative that targets the filling of its thousands of hotel rooms that remain vacant every night, Chief Executive Officer and Director General of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) Frank Comito says.

#MeToo phenomenon finally reaches Guyana

Judging from a news article published in the Stabroek News of Monday, November 26th, 2018 on the inquiry ordered by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) of allegations of sexual harassment leveled against members of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) it would appear that the #MeToo Movement has finally found some daylight in Guyana.

City’s mismanagement of solid waste collection

It is now an all too familiar dance: The City of Georgetown employs waste disposal firms to collect the City’s garbage, the City winds up owing enormous sums to these firms, who then switch partners and call on Central Government to join the dance, and after being sufficiently appeased by government payments, these firms return to the welcoming arms of the City Council.