There was a $700 million loss in the settlement of the Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) negotiations between Government and British Aerospace Engineering (BAE), according to Opposition MP Colm Imbert’s calculations. Imbert together with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley held a news conference at the Opposition’s Port of Spain office yesterday to question what victory was [...]
Former national security minister Brigadier John Sandy brought a note to Cabinet recommending that the Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) be accepted. This claim was made yesterday by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, who questioned who then overrode Sandy’s recommendation and moved instead to cancel the billion-dollar contract with British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) Systems. At a [...]
The Express yesterday examined the cost of cancellation of a £155 million contract between the Trinidad and Tobago Government and the United Kingdom firm British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) Systems for three offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). The sum lost is over $1 billion. The People’s Partnership’s decision to cancel the vessels was based on BAE’s failure [...]
A silent protest outside the Prime Minister’s office turned ugly yesterday when leader of the Highway Re-Route Movement, Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, hurled obscenities at Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan. Khan, the only Government official to meet with the group since Kublalsingh began his hunger strike six days ago, was told to “get to f— out [...]
Although Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is concerned about the health of environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh she will be setting a dangerous precedent if she were to accede to his demands. This is according to senior Government ministers in response to questions from the Express on Kublalsingh’s hunger strike. Sources told the Express there was a [...]
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar did not meet with Dr Wayne Kublalsingh yesterday but she issued a statement saying she shared a deep concern for his health and welfare. The statement read: “I share a deep concern for the health and welfare of Dr Kublalsingh. It is most unfortunate that he has chosen to pursue such [...]
Water-starved Corentyne rice farmers are being urged to conserve as the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) moves to repair a damaged pump at Manarabisi, Skeldon and deploy another to Black Bush Polder (BBP) to irrigate thousands of acres of rice fields. “By the end of next week, both sites would be restored to their [...]
Ghanaian-born, former Dean of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana, Professor John Caesar, passed away on Saturday evening at age 58, at the Georgetown Public Hospital after completing surgery on Wednesday and dialysis. Caesar, a naturalized Guyanese for the last 20 years, was also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Guyana and had [...]
By Emmerson Campbell Guyana’s Golden Jaguars ended its Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Cup campaign with a wildly entertaining 4-3 victory against French Guiana last night at the Grenada National Stadium here in St George’s. Goals by Vurlon Mills (12th minute), Clive Nobrega (46th minute) and a double Shawn Beveney (56th and 88th minutes) made sure [...]
Former Head of the University of Guyana’s Law Department, Professor Calvin Eversley, LL.M (Harvard), LL.B (Honours), died on Wednesday at the Balwant Singh Hospital after a brief illness. Calvin Eversley Eversley, 63, had his Law Chambers on King Street. He served as a full-time Professor of Law at the University of Guyana’s Department of Law, [...]
