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Keller Williams Guyana to host real estate summit in Georgetown Aug 19, 2024 News Kaieteur News – Keller Williams Guyana, in collaboration with ALA Strategic and the Ghana Chamber of Commerce Guyana, is set to host, “Connect: Real Estate Mega Summit” on September 6, 2024, at the Marriott Guyana in Georgetown. keller williams The summit is expected to attract top real estate professionals, investors, developers, and key stakeholders from across the Caribbean, USA, Canada, Ghana, Latin America, and beyond. This event aims to foster collaboration both locally and internationally, offering a platform for industry leaders to share insights and explore the numerous opportunities within Guyana’s rapidly expanding real estate market. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with influential figures in the industry, discuss future developments, and establish strategic partnerships to drive growth and innovation. At the core of Connect, Real Estate Mega Summit is the real estate agents who play a crucial role in driving the industry forward. This event is designed with them in mind, offering unparalleled opportunities to expand their networks, showcase their expertise, and connect with potential clients and partners. The summit will empower agents to take center stage, highlighting their vital contribution to the growth and success of Guyana’s real estate market. “We’re excited to bring global real estate professionals to this groundbreaking event in Guyana. It’s unique chance to forge partnerships and explore the potential of Guyana’s market. With confirmed agents and key players from the Oil & Gas and diplomatic sectors, attendees will engage directly with influential entities and gain insight into the country’s next major developments,” said Stefan John, Operating Principal of Keller Williams Guyana. The summit will feature an impressive lineup of speakers, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, making it a must-attend event for anyone involved in the real estate sector. Keller Williams Guyana is a franchise of Keller Williams Inc., the largest real estate franchise brokerage in the world. The company provides top-tier services to clients and partners, helping them navigate and capitalize on the immense opportunities within this rapidly expanding market. For more information about the event and to register, please visit: (http://www.kwguyana.com/kw-mega-summit). Related Similar Articles

Leonora is not the only livid and lonely loser, limping along lamentable lines Aug 19, 2024 Letters Dear Editor,  The infringement on the right of society to live safely, securely and peacefully has tarnished the image of a once respected village and is creating an unprecedented upheaval, uncharacteristic of the laws of Local Government, flouting the Ministry of Home Affairs, flaunting the Ministry of Legal Affairs, breaching the advocacy of the Ministry of Human Services, encumbering on the Ministry of Health, challenging the Labour Minister, confronting the Ministry of Housing and affronting the Environmental Protection Agency. In fact, holistically, it broaches on the breath of a nation that boasts bravely that, no one is above the law. An insatiable appetite to satisfy a dissatisfied customer with a distasteful meal is being enforced on a vulnerable community. Stripped naked of decency, the respect for moral dignity is washed to the wayside in full view of the upholders of subjective reformers and law enforcers who are also enablers to this incursion and adding to its shriving prevalence. The simple tool of proactiveness to protect and provide, is conveniently abdicated in order to facilitate compromising accommodation. Teachers, religious advisers, community developers, social workers and upholders of the requisite legal institutions have absconded from their basic duties, failing society and thus, assisting to fuel an inferno. Innocent victims, with their backs against the wall, are on the verge of climaxing the pivotal point of frustration and being strongly influenced to grasp the law firmly in their own hands. They are tempted to seek refuge in protection in defense of survival but also, at the said time, encountering exposed danger at the cost of risking their lives. Who cares for the concern of the welfare of people without a voice, who are daily pressured by the offenders and their sustained affiliates being amused by-standers, privately ridiculing the aggrieved party and laughing behind their backs? Imagine a bar, the size of a double-decker 50 x 100 feet, accommodating over the number of patrons stipulated as per the fire regulations, with only one main entrance and exit for customers, allowed to complete construction without an approved building permission for extensive extension, located in the middle of a residential area and right in front the eyes and nose of all official authorities? How do the Ministry of Housing, Local Government and the Fire Department address this issue? This building encroaches on the street stipulated reservation and traffic is snarled and stifled when in operation which is, 4PM to beyond 4AM the following morning, Wednesday to Sunday. With cars, buses, vans and motorcycles vying for parking space on both sides of the narrow street, other users find it almost impossible to traverse to their destination. Drivers barefacedly park in front of driveways and side street entrances, creating further bottle neck. What would happen if an ambulance or fire truck has to answer a call in the street? Is the Ministry of Home Affairs influenced to pay attention? Criminal elements have infested the once quiet street. Drug peddling has penetrated the area. Customers could be seen sharing joints and leaving needles and caps behind. Fights, brawls and other verbal and physical confrontations take place often. Customers resort to brandishing weapons and parading the street in search of their attackers. Drivers can be seen drunk and with beers in their hands while getting in their vehicles to drive.  How can the police fail to be cognizant of such dangerous situations? Ladies of the night unfailingly work the night shift along with suspected under-age girls and boys. A once clean community has been desecrated with prostitution and morality has plunder and plummeted to an all-time low. The rape of honor and dignity has transgressed to a pervading obscenity. Drunk patrons are seen engaging in intimate promiscuity in the public domain. Men and women can be seen exposing their private parts while urinating in the street and on residents’ properties. The stench of urine and vomit attracts the infestation of flies and insects and forms a breeding ground for mosquitoes. The street is littered with bottles, cans and cups. These items are left behind and many a times broken and also tossed on residents’ properties. How annoyed are the Ministry for Human Services, the Ministry of Health and the sanitation department? Lack of decor by the proprietor of the bar and the patrons play second fiddle to the invasion of noise nuisance. Noise emanating from the premises of the bar, adds injury to insult as it is compounded by the noise in the street aflame from loud and lewd laughter, screams, foul language, shrieks, bawling and shouting. Drivers and motorcyclists are engaged in playing loud music, tooting their horns and screeching their tires for fun and to deliberately annoy residents, all hours of the night and morning. Car alarms going off is a regular feature and vehicles racing down the crowded street forms part of the recklessness. Is the EPA influenced in using this ground as a testing ground at 4 AM? Lack of sleep and proper night rest is of no concern to those guilty of this debacle. Students are affected with their studies, babies and children are kept awake with their parents, the sick and invalid cry for a moment to rest, seniors are transfixed with fervor and those who have to go to work next morning are adamant with fatigue and unable to function. How interested is the Ministry of Labour in this alarming and dangerous situation? Without exaggeration, the young, sick, weak and vulnerable are tormented and have to seek medical attention for depression and to avoid mental collapse, one family quit the area in order to protect their children while one person who was also frustrated and scared, died from a heart attack. The luxury of enjoying a peaceful walk on the street in the afternoon or evening as an exercise, or just standing at the street corner, is no longer a privilege. The street has been invaded by patrons of the bar, cars and foreign elements which pose a safety and security risk. The Ministry of Legal Affairs’ attention is drawn. To compound the issue, two food stands have now joined the all-night picnic, adding to the traffic hazard, private exposure, urination, the environmental pollution with discarded food boxes and bones and the noise menace. Who is checking on this abomination? No one respects the law, even those upholding the law. Even the police can be seen as emissaries of adversities advancing this appalling attitude. The anomaly of a norm pervading with pervasive passion, cannot be underestimated or underrated but is underlined by a war on peace, attack on civility and the erosion of the rights of residents begging to live a peaceful life in a community. With so many agencies involved in this ground breaking example, it is worthy to note that, this matter was explicitly documented in detail and with all required proofs and evidences and signatures from the neighborhood. The NDC, the Police and the CPG have fallen short of expectation and would appear as if they are wary of being identified with insubordination. Unanswered calls by the police from residents during the night are no illusion. April to August has been no excursion for enjoyment but an incursion in frivolity.  Would the 43 recently trained police officers in noise management from Region 3 make a difference? Leonora is an excellent starting point to test their skills and knowledge in practical application, education and execution. Leonora is not a lonely and livid lousy loser, limping along this lamentable line in the country. Yours respectfully, Jai Lall  Related Similar Articles

Don’t forget the role the private sector played Aug 19, 2024 Letters Dear Editor I commend Vishnu Bisram for having reminded us of what he described as “the drama behind the 2020 elections result “in a letter to Stabroek News last Thursday (15th August). `In his letter, he  makes the point that “there were several untold events and unsung heroes behind those happenings” and he proceeds to name some of them, including the several court cases and the intervention in one way or another of the Diplomatic Community, US, UK, EU and Canada, in particular and most especially former US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch, in the part they played in preventing former President David Granger from being sworn into Office, on the basis of fraudulent elections results. We should also never forget and specifically remember and recognise the huge role that the Private Sector Commission played in ultimately ensuring against the David Granger government being returned to Government on a rigged election result. Prior to the Elections, the Private Sector Commission, under the Chairmanship of Captain Gerry Gouveia had established within its offices, a Command Centre, managed by retired Brigadier General Norman McLean, a former PSC Chairman, with the specific purpose of observing and monitoring the 2020 Elections. The Private Sector Commission had also met the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission and had been accredited full Observer Status for the forthcoming General and Regional Elections. On election day and the days that followed, the Commission had accredited Observers strategically placed around the country and in Polling Places where the count was being compiled. I was one of those accredited observers.  We know that in every district except district 4, at the end of election day, the count had been tabulated and posted and Statements of Poll were in the possession of all of the contesting political parties. I was the accredited observer for the PSC in place at the District 4 GECOM Building at Ashmins where the first attempt was made to present a tabulation of numbers which did not accord with the Statements of Poll from the District 4 Polling Places which had already been published and in the possession of the contesting political parties and the various election Observer Missions from the Diplomatic Community. I personally witnessed the obviously blatant attempt to cheat the results. I returned immediately to the Private Sector Commission, reported what I had witnessed to Captain Gouveia and we decided to immediately call a Press Conference on the matter. I reported what I had seen. It was, therefore, the Private Sector Commission at that press conference which first disclosed to the public that an attempt to falsify the election results. At the time, I was astonished at what I had witnessed and at the Press Conference. I said “I have to say this, that in all my life and career, in and out of politics in this country, I have never seen such a barefaced, ugly and deliberate attempt to rig an election.” The next day on the 14th March 2020, the Kaieteur News reported what I had said at the Press Conference as “a deliberate attempt to rig an election”. I was convinced then, and events have proved me to be accurate, that the APNU/AFC Coalition had already in their possession the Statements of Poll of all ten election Districts and already knew the results of the election, knew that they had lost to the PPP/C and were now attempting to reverse the results. It is now history that after a long and painful series of Court cases, high level foreign diplomatic intervention including Caricom, and the continuing persistence of the Private Sector Commission’s, Observer Mission, a decision was made to recount the election results establishing that the People’s Progressive Party Civic had won the election and that Irfaan Ali was sworn in as President on the 2nd of August 2020. I had, during this period, decided to write a series of letters and make a number of broadcast commentaries exposing the degree of the conspiracy which was taking place within GECOM by its officials. Ultimately, we all know, it required the Chairperson of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, to make the casting vote for the majority in favour of the elections recount being accepted by GECOM with all of the APNU/AFC appointed GECOM members voting against. To his credit, President David Granger at the time had said, “whatever declaration is made by the Chairman of the Elections Commission would be regarded as legitimate by the Coalition Government.” But, earlier officials of the coalition had publicly pronounced that the Recount is illegal. Again, when asked about this, David Granger emphatically declared: “As President of Guyana and Leader of the Government, it is my policy that any declaration coming from the Chairman of GECOM will be accepted by the Government of Guyana”. So said so done. SincerelyKit Nascimento Related Similar Articles

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