GT News Flash

08/08/2022

No increase in fares for speed boats, other vessels

01/08/2022

29/07/2022

HGP Nightly News Headlines like this are one of the many reasons why the public is losing trust in the mainstream media. This headline could be considered purposefully inflammatory and misleading. Thats what some would call clickbait. This is supposed to be the headline of a story describing a woman who defrauded her victim out of $85,000 via a facebook romance scam. Throughout the time she pretended to be the victim’s British boyfriend. She wasnt charged for pretending to be a white man, she was charged for the fraud. Please do better.

A University of Guyana (UG) student who the court heard pretended to be a male Caucasian from England was today charged for defrauding a woman. Tiana Cole reports

30/05/2022

A note on the passive voice in the media and how it often reveals a specific bias for the perpetrator of the action.

12/05/2022

Shireen dedicated her life to exposing Israeli military violence — and it is ultimately what killed her. She revealed Israel’s policy of letting its soldiers get away with murder — which is currently leading it to fabricate lies about her own targeted assassination. And she did all of this in an incredibly hostile, biased, dishonest media landscape that reports Israel’s lies as facts and erases Palestinians’ truths — now, including the truth of her own killing.

The entirety of Israeli and Western media: face facts. Multiple eyewitness accounts tell us an Israeli sniper directly targeted Shireen while she was covering an Israeli military raid in Jenin, a Palestinian refugee camp. She was wearing a press vest and a helmet, and the sniper shot her with extreme precision, near her ear, where the helmet didn’t cover. This was a targeted assassination.

The sniper’s murder of Shireen is part of a larger pattern of Israel eliminating Palestinian journalists, the people who speak truth to power and expose Israel’s crimes to the world. Since 2000, the Israeli military has murdered 55 Palestinian journalists, whom it views as being “armed with cameras” (as military spokesperson Ran Kochav said of Shireen today). The Israeli sniper killed Shireen not despite her being a journalist, but precisely because she is one.

We call for justice for Shireen, as we do with ALL murdered Palestinians, by demanding the US government end its $3.8 billion in annual funding to the Israeli military. Like Omar Asad, an elderly Palestinian whose egregious murder by the Israeli military was gravely misreported by the same news outlets earlier this year, Shireen is an American citizen. The Biden administration cannot ignore this — and we won’t let them. As Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted, “, whether you’re Palestinian, American or not, being killed with U.S. funding must stop.”

“I chose journalism to be close to people. It may not be easy to change the reality, but at least I was able to make that voice heard in the world.” - Shireen Abu Akleh

09/05/2022

What was styled as the World Press Freedom Day 2022 National Conference and Symposium helped at least to bring to the public’s attention what is required

09/05/2022

This is why we consider Guyana Chronicle government propaganda. Always read everything they write with a brick of salt.

Delivering remarks at a meet and greet last Friday night at the Guyana Consulate in Toronto, the minister pointed out that almost two years after becoming

03/05/2022

Happy World Press Freedom Day

REPEAL THE CYBER CRIME AMMENDMENT

16/12/2021

https://aniraguyana.substack.com/p/the-culture-digest?r=t5wr6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

SQUANDERMANIA! - Minimum wage increases - Power Company hasn't filed taxes in almost a decade - Pomeroon is underwater yet again

05/12/2021

The vagueness is astounding

By Vishani Ragobeer [email protected] Works on the establishment of the new city, named Silica City, could commence soon as the government has already received overwhelming interest from potentia…

25/11/2021

https://aniraguyana.substack.com/p/the-culture-digest-thursday-november-ca5?r=t5wr6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

Mohammed's Enterprise to build new HQ - GECOM to meet Friday to review candidates - G'Town NEEDS CA$H

17/11/2021

Politics and Period pads - Government Engineer says he lied to keep his job - GPF proposes Gun Court - Canada Embassy unveils Indigenous themed mural - Police send Hicks bribery case to DPP AGAIN

12/11/2021

COVID-19 Situation in Guyana Friday, November 12, 2021

12/11/2021

VACCINE UPDATE from the Ministry of Health

To date, 390,110 (76%) adults have received their first dose, and 258,864 (50.5%) are fully vaccinated. As for the adolescents, 28,195 (38.7%) have received their first dose, and 19,314 (26.5%) are fully vaccinated

12/11/2021

https://aniraguyana.substack.com/p/the-culture-digest-friday-november

Bisram takes the DPP to the CCJ - PNC Nomination Day - Shuman says GECOM needs help - Town Clerk complains of mistreatment - Former BOSAI employee seeks multimillion dollar injury compensation

12/11/2021

https://aniraguyana.substack.com/p/the-culture-digest-thursday-november-418

Gov't proposes splitting Region 4 into four electoral districts - Tourism Minister wonders why Guyanese don't travel - Nandlall wants PSC case dismissed - RPA wants to import cheap labor

12/11/2021

Covid-19 numbers for today Thursday, November 11, 2021

12/11/2021

ExxonMobil is discussing with Dutch contractor SBM Offshore to build a fourth production vessel to extract oil offshore Guyana. The talks include the potential for some future platform assembly in Guyana. This includes potential made-in-Guyana requirements to build part of future production units. Exxon could choose a building platform within the coming months. While a price has yet to be announced, vessels of similar size cost around $2.5 billion to $3 billion to construct. Source [Reuters]

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ExxonMobil is discussing with Dutch contractor SBM Offshore to build a fourth production vessel to extract oil offshore Guyana. The talks include the potential for some future platform assembly in …

12/11/2021

THE BRIDGE WILL BE CLOSED FOR REPAIRS YET AGAIN... The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to all traffic this Saturday night from 9pm to 5am Sunday morning, to facilitate repairs on its retractor spans.

12/11/2021

On Thursday morning, two armed men robbed the Johnny P Shopping Centre in South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown. According to police, the men stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the register. One of the sales representatives was robbed of his iPhone 11 and a gold ring while they robbed the second sales representative of her HP laptop computer. The police currently have no leads.

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On Thursday morning, two armed men robbed the Johnny P Shopping Centre in South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown. According to police, the men stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the register. On…

12/11/2021

Police are currently looking for a knife-wielding criminal who ran into a Superbet in Tuschen and beat up the cashier before robbing the cash register of $367,000. The beating left the victim with several facial injuries. He was treated and discharged from the hospital soon after.

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Police are currently looking for a knife-wielding criminal who ran into a Superbet in Tuschen and beat up the cashier before robbing the cash register of $367,000. The beating left the victim with …

12/11/2021

After the Ministry of Labour helped facilitate close to three weeks of negotiations, the management of BOSAI Minerals Group has come to an amicable resolution with the employees of its Linden plant. On Thursday night, the Ministry of Labour announced that the representatives of BOSAI Mineral Group (Guyana) Inc. and the worker's union, the National Association of Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), signed a Memorandum of Agreement....

https://gtnewsflash.com/?p=1042

After the Ministry of Labour helped facilitate close to three weeks of negotiations, the management of BOSAI Minerals Group has come to an amicable resolution with the employees of its Linden plant…

12/11/2021

According to the Ministry of Finance’s October 2021 report of the Natural Resources Fund, Guyana has collected close to $534 million USD in oil revenue thus far. No money has been withdrawn from the fund, as the government is looking to first pass stronger legislation regarding the fund's use and management. They aim to table the legislation in Parliament by year's end.

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  According to the Ministry of Finance’s October 2021 report of the Natural Resources Fund, Guyana has collected close to $534 million USD in oil revenue thus far. No money has been withdrawn …

11/11/2021

When a service truck entered the Lusignan Prison on Wednesday morning, 20-year-old armed robbery convict Shamar Prince immediately bolted out the front gates only to be recaptured about six miles away in Annandale Village.

https://gtnewsflash.com/?p=1034

When a service truck entered the Lusignan Prison on Wednesday morning, 20-year-old armed robbery convict Shamar Prince immediately bolted out the front gates only to be recaptured about six miles a…

11/11/2021

To date, 388,444 (75.7%) adults have received their first dose, and 255,650 (49.8%) are fully vaccinated. As for the adolescents, 28,045 (38.5%) have received their first dose, and 19,138 (26.2%) are fully vaccinated.

https://gtnewsflash.com/?p=1032

To date, 388,444 (75.7%) adults have received their first dose, and 255,650 (49.8%) are fully vaccinated. As for the adolescents, 28,045 (38.5%) have received their first dose, and 19,138 (26.2%) …

11/11/2021

Police busted three men with ma*****na in their car right outside of the Ministry of Health in Georgetown. The police searched the vehicle and found 28 parcels in the back seat and the car's trunk. It weighed 13.68 kilos in total.

https://gtnewsflash.com/?p=1029

Police busted three men with ma*****na in their car right outside of the Ministry of Health in Georgetown. The police searched the vehicle and found 28 parcels in the back seat and the car’s …

11/11/2021

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd is now pushing for the removal of visa restrictions for Guyanese to travel to the UK. Todd stated his case to a UK Trade Delegation that recently visited Guyana. He said the removal of visa restrictions would help facilitate the travel of Guyanese to the UK to develop business relations.

https://gtnewsflash.com/?p=1026

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd is now pushing for the removal of visa restrictions for Guyanese to travel to the UK. Todd stated his case to a UK Trade Delegation that recently visited Guyana. …