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A section of the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus. (Stabroek News file photo)

UG unwraps ambitious upgrade plan

…but says funding must be significantly higher The University of Guyana’s strategic plan for 2009 to 2012 envisages higher quality teaching particularly in science and technology but its administration has pointed out that the institution has to be funded at a significantly higher level and tuition fees are to be hiked.

A section of the gathering who met with President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday.

Taxis to have one colour by August

-Jagdeo Government has set an August 2010 deadline for all taxis to have one colour with easily identifiable and appropriate logos, promising a two-year waiver of licensing and radio frequency fees for those who comply early.

Daniel Gajie

Travelling to Brazil?

Lethem lobbying for awareness campaign Following the recent opening of the Takutu Bridge, a sensitisation campaign is being urged to target Guyanese travelling to Brazil, according to Rupununi Chamber of Com-merce representative Daniel Gajie.

Joseph Harmon

To say PNCR election fraudulent is total misrepresentation

-returning officer Harmon An eight-page document on the conduct of the recent elections for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive was yesterday handed over to General Secretary Oscar Clarke and Returning Officer Joseph Harmon said  if at any point he had detected significant irregularities he would have called off the elections.

Robert Corbin

PNCR polls were transparent, says Corbin

-rejects multiple voting claims Re-elected People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leader Robert Corbin says multiple voting could not have been possible during polls at the party’s recent Biennial Congress, noting that delegates were allowed to make their own observations and objections every step of the way.

The damaged workshop area

Fire wipes out top flat of Marics

–equipment damaged A fire of unknown origin yesterday morning swept through Marics Sales, Services and Spares sending public-spirited citizens dashing to help the company save some of its stock as the fire department fought to control the blaze.

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

Deportee complaints sent to Barbados

– four Guyanese deported in July Barbadian authorities are now in possession of documented allegations of ill-treatment meted out to Guyanese who have since been deported from the island.

CXC to probe forged certificates

– after army recruitment uncovers scam Concerned about recent reports suggesting the circulation of fake certificates locally, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) intends to investigate to ensure the integrity of its documentation.

Fewer Guyanese deported recently from Barbados – reports

-but future still hazy, no common regional position There has been a reduction in the number of Guyanese being deported from Barbados, recent reports indicate, seven weeks after that country enforced an immigration policy which stirred region-wide debate about illegal immigrants.

No first-time home owner will be refused lot – Ali

– ministry eying speedier distribution The Ministry of Housing has begun the move to a more organized and project-oriented system which will result in shortened transaction time for house lot applicants, and under this new dispensation no applicant, as long as he/she does not already own property, will be refused.

Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson speaking to the media yesterday.

Barbados open to ‘structured’ readmission of overstays

Amid stinging criticism of its new immigration policy, Barbados is prepared to consider the readmission of persons who have overstayed their time through a protocol or memorandum of understanding but will not swerve from its current policy to regularize undocumented Caricom nationals.

Compton Bourne

Bourne decries wee-hours raids

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Compton Bourne says the issue of undocumented immigrants in Barbados should be handled with much more sensitivity than it has been so far, adding that there are too many stories of people being rounded-up during raids and deported.

The upside of living in Barbados

“Barbados has opened some doors for me to live so much better than I used to in Guyana” – Guyanese woman living in Barbados as a skilled CARICOM national Apart from the hundreds of Guyanese bound to be affected by the new immigration policy which the government in Barbados  has introduced, there are also others who have lived in the sister state for many years mostly unaffected by prejudices.

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