RUSSIA   – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday his country’s involvement in Syria is helping protect the world. “We are not striving for any kind of leadership over Syria. Syria can have only one leader the Syrian people,” Putin said at a Moscow investment forum, according to Reuters.(CNN/photo: usnews.com)…[+]

The staff of the National Communication Network (NCN) at most levels, with the exception of four persons, had been kept in the dark about the presence of satellite uplink facilities lying still in plastic wrapping in the compound. According to an audit, it was only the former Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, then Programme Manager Martin Goolsarran, the Finance Controller and a technician Kenneth Jones, who were aware of the presence of the multi-million dollar equipment. Sattaur resigned from his post at NCN following a massive corruption scandal that rocked the entity. The scandal involved millions from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T).(Kaieteurnieuws.com/photo:Kaieteurnieuws.com)…[+]

The previous administration continues to come in for flak over a US$30M transaction it would have entered into to sell off the generation facilities of the Skeldon Sugar Factory. Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, is condemning it as a deal that doesn’t make sense. “It was a silly arrangement. Minister Holder was at the time responding to queries Tuesday by media operatives and he opined that, “conceptually, it makes no sense.”(Kaieteurnieuws.com/photo:Kaietuernieuws.com)…[+]