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The Guyana Update -- October, 1997. |
During the past five years, more than 6,000 leases for plots have been allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Statistics reveal that 1,638 long-term leases were issued for agricultural plots; more than 1,000 free-hold titles for house lots in land development schemes; about 3,000 free-hold titles were distributed for house lots and another 1,000 leases for house lots surrounding sugar estates under the auspices of the Sugar Industry Labor Welfare Fund Committee.
Agriculture Minister Reepu Daman Persaud recently distributed forty 25-year leases to farmers of Regions Three and Four.
Before the end of the year, another 1,000 leases will be distributed, according to the Minister, which will be the largest amount for any one year.
Minister Persaud said the services of private lawyers will also be retained to expedite the processing of transports.
Many of the leases distributed by the administration were pending for decades as thousands of Guyanese occupied plots without any legal right.
The Lands and Surveys Department has been receiving attention from the central government to strengthen its capabilities to reduce delays in the processing of documents.
Efforts are also being made to computerize its operations. To bolster its complement of surveyors, the department has also embarked on a training program by which 13 surveyors were trained. There is also an apprenticeship program being administered by the department.
As promised, the Elections Commission recently handed over a copy of the Final Voters' List, the register of names that will be used to allow voting in the country's upcoming general elections, to President Samuel Hinds. The final list contains the names of 446,864 who are eligible to vote. The names of another 13,133 persons on the list have not had their photographs taken for the identification cards necessary for voting. The Elections Commission is considering ways to allow these "camera shy" Guyanese to come forward and have their pictures taken to make them eligible to vote in the polls.
Meanwhile, Guyana's Elections Commission began distributing 446,864 voter identification cards to eligible Guyanese on September 22. The cards, to be used in voting for the first time, represent part of Government's continuing effort to return credibility to an electoral process marred by rigged voting for almost three decades. So far, 23 political parties have registered to contest what will be the second free and fair polls in Guyana since 1964.
Guyana is likely to feature among Commonwealth nations being considered by Britain for US$211.5 million in debt cancellation. Guyana is one of the countries implementing poverty alleviation programs, a key criterion Britain's International Development Secretary Clare Short says will determine eligibility for the planned cancellation on top of London's commitment under the IMF/World Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative. Under a three-year initiative announced in 1995, Government is spending $1.2 billion to alleviate poverty in a country in which almost 80% of its 800,000 people were diagnosed as living below the poverty line when the PPP/Civic administration assumed office in October of 1992.
The Guyana Government says it is equally "heartened and encouraged" by the disclosure by British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that Britain would implement promises made under the IMF initiative, Guyana and Mozambique are expected to be the first of some 19 beneficiaries of the initiative.
Guyana is expected to hear later this year whether it has won the nod of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for priority relief of part of its US$1.4 billion foreign debt under the two institutions' joint Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. The decision will come after multilateral donors review an IMF/IDB-prepared document on Guyana presented recently at the IMF board meeting. Final approval of the document could see Guyana qualifying for US$292 million in multilateral debt relief under the initiative in 1998.
Chinese companies are to invest up to US$12 million in Guyana over the next 12 months. An agreement to this effect, signed in Guyana on Wednesday September 3, between ForeignMinister Clement Rohee and Zhu Degui, vice president of the Import/Export Bank of China, provides for Chinese firms to invest in export-led textiles manufacture, bicycle assembly, clay brick production, food cultivation, agri-processing, deep sea fishing, and aqua-culture. China's Import/Export Bank will provide low-interest capital inflows to the companies doing business in Guyana.
As part of this agreement, China will invest US$6 million on the cultivation and processing of 2,000 acres of fruits and vegetables on the Corentyne in eastern Guyana, and will set up a plant to process the produce for domestic and foreign consumption
The Caribbean Development Bank has approved 23 infrastructure and 7 community development projects in five of Guyana's administrative regions. The projects, which include the construction of two nursery schools, the rehabilitation of one high school and the laying of pipelines in several communities, will be executed by the Finance Ministry at a cost of approximately US$2.5 million
A committee has been created by the Education Ministry to help it find ways to reduce the rate of illiteracy among Guyanese. The committee, launched on September 3, has been tasked with working with educators to improve the sensory abilities of students in order to increase reading achievement, and with devising strategies to ensure that students complete the full cycle of primary education.
Government says it is not considering the privatization of Guyana's thriving sugar industry, but will retain its agreement with Booker/Tate for the British company to continue managing the state-run Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). Agriculture Minister Reepu Daman Persaud, speaking at the opening of a five-day international sugar technology conference at the Pegasus Hotel, said the sugar industry was an irreplaceable institution that had become so lucrative that consideration is being given to increasing GUYSUCO's eight sugar cane factories by another two.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has donated US$875,000 to Guyana to finance the training of Guyanese managers in several key industries . The money, granted from the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund, will enable the Consultative Association of Guyanese Industry (CAGI) to train, 1,500 middle-level managers in agri-business, engineering, capital goods construction and service industry skills over the next three years.
The ruling PPP/Civic alliance has formally announced its candidature for Guyana's upcoming elections, at a massive rally at Kitty market square in early September. Prime Minister Janet Jagan, the country's most experienced politician, will run as the alliance's Presidential candidate, with current President Sam Hinds as her Prime Ministerial running mate. As was the case in 1992, when Guyanese voted in the country's first free polls since 1964, international observers will be invited to scrutinize the upcoming elections. Finance Minister, 33-year-old Bharat Jagdeo, is also listed as the alliance's vice-presidential candidate.
TECHNODOMI, the Greek company on a US$11 million contract to build the main roadway on the Essequibo coast, has begun asphalting the 37-mile road in September. Progress by the company is being aided by a US$1.5 million asphalt plant on the coast and the importation of stones from Canada, which became necessary after local quarry producers found that they were unable to grapple with the phenomenal upsurge in construction activity across Guyana.
The President of Britain's Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), Lord Peter Carrington, is to visit Guyana soon. British High Commissioner David Johnson announced the upcoming visit at a reception for 12 new VSO members who arrived in the country in early September. The 12, bringing to 39 the number of VSOs currently serving in Guyana, will work in a number of public sector agencies.
Another water supply plant has been commissioned in Guyana, this one in Cumberland, East Canje, at a cost of G$43.3 million. The electrically-driven plant is pumping 760 gallons of water per minute into the homes of 7,000 inhabitants in the rural community. Most of these homes are receiving running water for the first time.
Prime Minister Janet Jagan traveled to Suriname at the head of a five-member delegation, for talks with Surinamese President Jules Wijdenbosch on Guyana/Suriname relations. The goodwill visit, the first by Mrs Jagan since assuming the position of Prime Minister in March, focused, among other issues, on the European Union-funded Guyana/Suriname Ferry Project. The US$20 million project should have gone into operation by August 31, but legal complexities between the two countries which have recently been ironed out, caused a delay.
Discussions on the inauguration of the Ferry Service concluded in the last week of September following a breakthrough in the talks by Prime Minister Janet Jagan and the Surinamese President in Paramaribo. A major issue ironed out during the visit was the country of registration of the ferry boat: the two sides agreed it would be registered in Suriname under Surinamese laws.
Representatives from Malaysia's Oil Promotion Council are to visit Guyana by December to pursue discussions begun in Guyana in early September with visiting Malaysian Minister for Primary Industries, Dr Lim Keng Yaik, on direct Malaysian investments in Guyana's oil palm industry. Guyana's Ministry of Agriculture is to conduct soil tests in the country's intermediate savannah region to determine a suitable site for the cultivation, processing and marketing of an oil palm scheme by the Malaysians.
A clay-brick factory that languished under the rule of the former regime is to be put back into operation under a lease agreement signed in Guyana recently between the Guyana Government and China's Tian International Economic and Technical Corporation. The Bel-Lu Clay-brick Factory, 15 miles southwest of Georgetown on Demerara's west bank will be rehabilitated by Tian Corporation at a cost of US$2.77 million, to be financed by the Import/Export Bank of China, and run by the Chinese for ten years under the lease accord.
The Guyana office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has donated US$300,000 worth of equipment to Guyana's Elections Commission, part of a grant of US$300,000 it has pledged to the Commission to aid electoral officials in their endeavor to ensure smooth and orderly voting in the country's upcoming general elections. Canada also delivered a quantity of equipment worth C$300,000 to the Elections Commission in September.
Political parties contesting Guyana's upcoming general elections will not have to deposit a non-refundable sum of G$1 million to become eligible for participation in the polls. Elections Commission chairman, Doodnauth Singh, spoke after an Inter-Party Committee on Electoral Reform rejected the Commission's proposal. Over 20 parties have indicated their intention to contest the country's second free and fair polls in almost three decades.
The Social Impact Amelioration Program (SIMAP), the agency responsible for implementing Government's poverty alleviation initiatives, has begun processing applications by community groups for financial assistance to execute rural development projects. SIMAP's Quick Response Department expects to approve about 600 applications for aid under a three-year US$18.9 million program for which the Inter-American Development Bank is disbursing US$17 million in credits to the agency.
Malaysian Airlines is planning to host a visit of Guyanese hospitality officials to Malaysia to learn more about the country that the Airlines wants Guyana to promote in the Caribbean. The decision was announced in Georgetown recently by Ms Zeenat Koreishi, Malaysian Airlines representative on the US East Coast, at a reception the airlines held for representatives of Guyanese tourism organizations. Ms Koreishi, who disclosed that Malaysian investors are booking to visit Guyana in increasing numbers, was a member of the delegation that accompanied Malaysia's Minister for Primary Industries, Dr Lim Keng Yaik, on a four-day visit to Guyana.
Guyana has participated in the Investment Council meeting between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States in Miami, Florida. Guyana was represented at the meeting on September 21 and 22 by its Ambassador to the US, Dr Odeen Ishmael, Honorary Council in Florida, Mr Hilton Ramcharitar, and Director of Industrial Development in Guyana's Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry, Mr Tarchan Ramlogam. This year's two-day forum discussed NAFTA parity, the reduction barriers that inhibit CARICOM/US trade, the accruing of more Caribbean Basin Initiative benefits to CARICOM member nations, investment promotion, the setting up of concrete mechanisms to iron out trade-related issues, and the defining and implementation of pledged US technical and financial assistance to regional Governments.
Foreign Affairs Minister Clement Rohee traveled to the United States to participate in the 52ndsession of the United Nations General Assembly. Rohee, who addressed the Assembly, stressed the need for countries to work closely to alleviate poverty, unemployment and social disintegration in the developing south. While in New York, Mr Rohee attended ministerial meetings with South Korea, Canada, China, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Rio Group of which Guyana is the Caribbean Community representative.
The Guyana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has accepted Government's 'good faith' pay offer of $383.5 million to public servants, forcing the Public Service Union (PSU) to call off a strike and back down from its demand that the money go only to "traditional" public sector employees. The Government, responding to an undertaking by late President Cheddi Jagan, initially offered $333 million after agreeing to cut some programs, and later increased the sum by $50.5 million, but stuck to its position that all civil servants had to benefit from the one-off income bonus payout.
The strike, which did little to disrupt operations in the public sector, fizzled out after two days after Guyanese felt that the PSU was being 'antagonistic' and 'discriminatory' by protesting the inclusion of nurses, hospital maids, police officers, and soldiers in the payout proposal even as bipartisan discussions between officials and the TUC leadership were on-going.
The European Union's Center for Development Industry (CDI) has assured Guyanese jewelers it will continue to provide technical assistance to enable them to increase output, improve the standard of their commodities, and attract more international sales for jewelry. CDI Representative in Georgetown, Hilton Forde, made the commitment at the conclusion of a Center-funded course on jewelry manufacture.
The United Nations Development Program, the United States Agency for International Development and the Commonwealth Secretariat have agreed to co-fund an initiative by the Guyana Government to raise living standards and eradicate poverty among the country's indigenous inhabitants. The $52.3 million project will provide venture capital to 3,000 Amerindian in 13 communities in the northern Rupununi, the country's region bordering Brazil, to enable them to start up and manage income-generating projects.
An exhibition was held at the Umana Yana in Georgetown showcasing the contributions of ethnic Amerindians to cultural enrichment and socioeconomic growth in Guyana and the benefits accruing to them from state and non-governmental assistance. The 11-day exhibition, which ran in September, was staged as part of Amerindian Heritage Month, commemorated in September of each year from 1994.
The newly-designated United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr James F Mack, arrived in the country on September 20, to take up his new posting. Ambassador Mack, whose last post was as Deputy Chief of Mission in Peru, presented his letters of credence to President Samuel Hinds on September 25.
At the accreditation ceremony, both Guyana and the United States reiterated their commitment to concluding a bilateral investment treaty, agreeing it will give fresh impetus to Guyana/US collaboration in the fields of trade, investments and law enforcement. President Samuel Hinds, said Guyana wants to conclude the treaty "at the earliest possible time" with the expectation it will "encourage and stimulate the promotion of private investments and the growth of the Guyanese private sector."
Ambassador Mack promised progress in negotiations on the treaty, saying it would be an important positive signal to potential US investors. He also assured Government of US support for debt relief for Guyana under the World Bank/IMF Heavily Indebted Poorer Countries Initiative, and defined his mission in Guyana as working closely with Georgetown and Washington to help guide American resources and programs in promoting the best interests of both countries.
Saskatchewan's Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) has agreed to pursue discussions with officials on providing technical and financial assistance to help Guyana increase the productivity, supply and export potential of its diary industry. The agreement was reached after STEP Latin American representatives, Mr Murad Al-Katib and Ms Inge Ryan, met in Georgetown recently with Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Mr Sash Sawh.
Government is expected to sign contracts with two US companies in October for their exploration for oil off Guyana's continental shelf. The companies are Century Guyana Limited, with offices in Kansas, Louisiana and Iowa, and Maxus Energy Corporation of Dallas, Texas. Another company, CGX Resources Inc. of Canada, is negotiating a similar exploration contract with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission.
A team of representatives from SaskPower Commercial Inc visited Guyana to continue negotiations with officials on SaskPower acquiring a 50% equity interest in the Guyana Electricity Corporation (GEC). The two sides are due to conclude their negotiations in early October, but analysts say opposition Parliamentarians are not in favor of returning from recess before October 10 to debate a Government-drafted Bill whose passage into law would endorse SaskPower's management of a privatized GEC.
The new North Korean Ambassador to Guyana, Mr Jon Hyon-Chan presented his credentials to President Samuel Hinds, succeeding Mr Choi Chu Yong. Guyana and North Korea established diplomatic ties on May 18, 1974.
The Organization of American States (OAS) is sending a four-member team to Guyana in early October to examine the logistics for a full-fledged mission that will be monitoring the country's upcoming parliamentary elections. An OAS observer mission will travel to Guyana at the invitation of President Samuel Hinds, and will be among teams from the United Nations, the Carter Center and several other institutions. The logistics team met in Washington with Guyana's Ambassador, Odeen Ishmael late last month.
India, meantime, has offered help to Guyana's Elections Commission to accelerate the promotion of a democratic culture in Guyana. In discussions with India's Chief Electoral Officer during his recent five-day visit to New Delhi, Guyana's Elections Commission chief, Mr Doodnauth Singh, was assured by Mr Mohinder Singh Gil of India's willingness to help improve Guyana's electoral process and to develop a sense of professionalism and integrity in its electoral officers.
After 40 years of existence in the dark, the 300 households of Gangaram heralded the evening of September 28 in the glitter of electric lights, following the rekindling of Government's rural expansion program to connect the Canje village and 29 other communities in East Berbice to the national power grid. The program, the implementation of which began two months ago, is being co-funded by US$3 million in grant aid from the Japanese Government. The Guyana Electricity Corporation says it is working toward the completion of the program by March of 1998.
In another signal demonstration of Government/business collaboration, Government and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have established a five-member Committee to help cut the bureaucratic red tapes inhibiting speedy cargo processing by the Customs and Excise Department of the Ministry of Finance. The top-level Committee comprises the heads of the Guyana Manufacturers' Association, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Consumer Advisory Bureau, as well as the Comptroller of customs and the Administrative Assistant to the Finance Minister.
Guyana has established a National Advisory Committee on External Negotiations to consult and reach consensus with Caribbean nations on a common approach to global-level talks on trade and economic issues. Sir Shridath Ramphal, who heads CARICOM's Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), says the Committee must work toward improving Guyana's international competitiveness and promoting regional economic growth.
The Embassy of Guyana in Washington DC has undergone massive infra-structural work ever since 1995. The entire interior of the building has now taken on a pleasant, new and inviting look with the replacement of new furniture, carpets, blinds, coats of new paint, beautiful lighting structures and other amenities. In addition, the obsolete heating and air-conditioned systems were both replaced with modern systems to create a more conducive working environment to benefit both the staff and the visiting public including Guyanese in the Washington Metropolitan area.
Most recently, the renovation of the concrete work leading up to the entrance of the Embassy was completed. Already plans are in place for the repairs of the roof of the building along with the garage, located at the back of the Embassy. The establishment of a library of documents in the basement of the building is currently in process and should soon be completed to benefit the general public.
President Samuel Hinds recently signed a Government-drafted Integrity Bill into law to address corruption and unethical conduct by public officials. The legislation honors a campaign promise by the PPP/Civic alliance and intensifies its fight against corruption.
A new primary school was opened at Itabac Village in the Upper Takatu River recently which will benefit the Amerindian children in that area. The school will be able to accommodate about 160 students. Meanwhile another new school was also constructed at Kopinana to meet the needs of the settlers there too and was opened on that same day.
Scores of house lots will soon be distributed in Paradise/Suddie, Essequibo Coast. The Central Board of Health is currently looking at the area to give its approval for the house-lots to be distributed. The new area being developed will be having running water and will be connected with electricity supply. In addition, a recreational facility will be provided at the housing area.
This year's investiture ceremony will take place on Sunday, October 5, at the National Cultural Center. At the ceremony, scheduled to commence at 10:00 hours, President Samuel Hinds will invest national awards on 65 persons, four of them posthumously.
The Ministry of Education has launched "Operation Care" a program aimed at ascertaining the factors contributing to student absenteeism and taking appropriate action to ensure children complete the full cycle of primary education.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) will begin a US$100 million modernization program in January of next year to improve output and product quality and cut investment costs. The program, to be implemented over five years, will include the merger of two of the corporation's eight factories and intensified skills training.
A group of Lindeners recently staged a picketing exercise outside the PNC-controlled Mayor and Town Council of Linden. The citizens were protesting against the poor services extended by the town Council to the community in Linden.
The Berbice High School is preparing some 27 students for the 1999 CXC Examination in Computer Science Technology. The pioneer program is aimed at keeping the students abreast with the rapid pace of development in technology information and a competitive education system. Dr Tulsi Dyal Singh, who resides in Texas, made the computer equipment available to the institution to assist in the teaching program. The school is currently undergoing massive infrastructural rehabilitation to the cost of $26.8 million and is targeted for completion by year end.
A US$10 million asphalt plant has been established at Coldingen, 13 miles east of Georgetown, to boost Government's reconstruction of the country's rundown roads. The plant is owned and will be operated by Dipcon Engineering Services Limited, a Trinidad and Tobago road construction company.
New York State Senator John Sampson visited Guyana to meet with officials on American/Guyanese ties and to renew acquaintances with relatives in Berbice, eastern Guyana. Mr Sampson, whose father is Guyanese, met with tourism officials on ways to channel American support to the growth of Guyana's emerging tourism industry.
The Ministry of Agriculture will mount an exposition of Guyanese commodities at the Sophia Exhibition Center in Georgetown on October 16 and 17 , to showcase Guyana's agricultural accomplishments and promote farm growth as the key to transforming the country's agrarian society into an industrial economy. The theme of the exhibition, to coincide with World Food Day, will be "Investing in Food Security".
Engineers from the Sea Defence Unit of the Public Works Ministry are currently reviewing the quality of work being done to revet sections of the Supenaam river defense. This followed the collapse of the Charity Stelling several weeks ago.
The Region Three Administration recently constructed a new heavy duty bridge at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. The bridge will facilitate easy access for residents to their homes.
Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Sash Sawh, recently handed over a new 180-acre pasture to cattle farmers at Windsor Forest. They were urged to work in cooperation with rice farmers in their community.
Rice farmers in Region 6 have commenced reaping of paddy on 34,205 acres cultivated for the current autumn crop. With an increase in yield per acre, it is expected that for this crop farmers will net about 900,000 bags of paddy.
A new $5 million aqua-culture farm was commissioned at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. 3,500 finger-lings of red tilapia were also released into the five ponds. Special incentives were provided by the government to encourage investment in this area.
Work is proceeding apace on the new Venezuelan Housing Scheme at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. When completed this would be the third joint Government of Guyana/Venezuelan Investment fund Housing Project established since the new government took office in 1992.
Cabinet has approved a contract for the rehabilitation of the St Gabriel's Primary School in Georgetown. The contract costs about $23 million.
Funds have been allocated for the construction and maintenance of roadways on the East Bank of Demerara. Roads to be repaired or constructed include Lusignan main road, Plaisance, John Pollock and others. Meanwhile, in Georgetown, Princess Street is to be rehabilitated.
Secretary to Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon, announced that $10 million was approved to repair and renovate the Institute for Women at Belfield, East Coast Demerara. Also some $23 .9 million was released for the rehabilitation of the access way from 73 Miles to 108 Miles, Madhia.
New pipelines are being laid at No 19 village in East Berbice to provide potable water for residents in that community. Residents along with the Guyana Water Authority have undertaken the task to lay the new pipelines.
Work has begun to develop a new housing area at Diamond, East Bank of Demerara. Dr Henry Jeffrey, Minister of Housing said 6,000 house lots are to be opened-up for distribution to the country's landless. About 5,000 house lots, he said will go to the low-income earners and 1,000 to middle-income earners.
A new institution of learning was recently commissioned. This is the Western Hogg Island Primary School built to accommodate students in the area.
Speaking at a large public rally at Albion on the Corentyne, President Samuel Hinds hinted that Guyana's next election should be held around December 1 to 29 of this year. The rally was sponsored by the PPP/Civic alliance as part of its election campaign.
Barama Company Limited, a plywood company owned by Korean and Malaysian investor, recently handed over a 3,000-foot road it built as a by-pass next to its operations at Land-of-Canaan, East Bank Demerara, at a cost of G$70 million
Firms from Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago have bid for contracts to install the infrastructures necessary to allow the Guyana Electricity Corporation to extend electricity to 17 rural communities in eastern Guyana for the first time.
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