Entries for February 26-27, 2021
GUYANA: A Cultural Melting Pot – Guyana Tourism News
GUYANA: A CULTURAL MELTING POT
You can sense it as you walk the streets of Georgetown. There’s a whirl of colours, architecture, sounds and scents. Guyana is a vibrant, energetic cultural melting pot which can more easily be along the coast and especially in the capital city of Georgetown. Over the centuries, a variety of ethnicities and populations have woven their influences into what is today a unique tapestry of Guyanese culture.
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OPINION: Why Venezuela Wants a Piece of Guyana – Reybert Carrillo | Caracas Chronicles
Map of Guyana – Disputed Area being claimed by Venezuela
Maduro can try to resurrect an old claim to distract Venezuelans, but what’s the geographical reason to want the Essequibo? How would we benefit from it?
Reybert Carrillo | Caracas Chronicles
Since the 19th century, Venezuela has claimed a good part of what is now the Republic of Guyana. Venezuelan kids were used to seeing that “zona en reclamación” as a striped area attached to our country’s Eastern border, and imagine it like the hind legs of a cow, a rhinoceros, or even an angry elephant, whose head lies between the Guajira and the Paraguana peninsula. Continue reading
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CCJ urges Guyana Government to consider reform of Deed’s Registry Act
— Ruling in property dispute…
Feb 26, 2021 – Kaieteur News – In a judgment delivered yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) allowed the appeal of Merlene Todd, a Guyanese embroiled in a battle over a city property, which was sold to her on the basis of a fake power of attorney. In confirming Todd’s ownership to the land, the CCJ urged the Government of Guyana to urgently consider reform of the Deed’s Registry Act.
According to a summary of its judgment, the CCJ outlined that Allan Price (now deceased) owned the West Half of Lot 153 Queenstown, Georgetown. Continue reading →
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GUYANA: Georgetown: City vending – One of the most pressing issues – Commentary
City Hall – Georgetown
By Stabroek News Editorial – February 25, 2021
The announcement last Thursday (February 18, 2021), that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was moving to implement a policy to regularise vending in Georgetown should have come as no surprise to anyone.
In fact, if anything, some might have questioned what took Mayor Ubraj Narine so long. One of the just four mayors Georgetown has had over the past three-plus decades, it was almost a given. He had to step up to address what is one of the city’s most pressing issues: vending. Continue reading →
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U.S.A — While ordinary Americans fight for political crumbs, the rich get richer – opinion
By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN
The federally mandated minimum wage is $7.25 an hour but the average actual wage is $19.33; for Florida, $16.
The average hourly wage of a CEO is $369 but can be as high as $9,000. The average hourly wage of a billionaire is $1 million but can be as high as $4 million.
Billionaires numbered 565 in 2017and their combined wealth was $2.7 trillion. By 2020, in four years of the Donald Trump presidency and a year of the coronavirus epidemic, their number rose to 614 and their wealth to $2.9 trillion. By April 10, the number increased by15 to 629 and their wealth to $3.2 trillion. Meanwhile, more than 20 million Americans have had to survive on about $333 per week in jobless benefits. Continue reading →
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MADE IN CANADA – Some interesting facts.
HERE THEY ARE:
- Did You Know Most of the World’s French Fries Come from New Brunswick?
New Brunswick-based McCain Foods makes one-third of all the frozen French fries produced in the world, and many come from a $65-million state-of-the art potato processing plant that’s in Florenceville-Bristol.
The small town in western New Brunswick has taken on the moniker “The French Fry Capital of the World.”
Not surprisingly, this is the location of the Potato World museum, and the heart of the mid-July National French Fry Day celebrations. Continue reading →