Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the UK sought to be entrenched in the management of the £3M project, which had not been made clear when the two countries agreed on a design at the end of last year. He also told reporters at a briefing at the Office of the President (OP) that the decision by the British Government to pull the plug on the project would not have a...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The British Government wanted to be “chief cook and bottle washer” of the security sector reform project which it has now pulled out of, Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon said, yesterday. What it came down to was a project that was “set up, organised, and run by the Brits,” Luncheon [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Eight more contracts were awarded during the last cabinet session. This is according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon. At the time Luncheon was addressing members of the media at his weekly press conference at the Office of the President yesterday. Luncheon stated that the contracts were in the Public Works [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
- production ability being questioned Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon has said that there are some new developments with the provision of cement being produced by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL). He said that these developments are neither new nor unique to Guyana. He explained that the demand for cement in Guyana and also [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By Leonard Gildarie Ongoing wages talks between Guyana’s sugar company and its largest union was declared deadlocked yesterday but government stepped in late last evening and imposed compulsory arbitration. Several workers from the Rose Hall factory reportedly walked off their jobs forcing operations to a standstill there. Government’s spokesman, Dr Roger Luncheon, yesterday...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The BBC has published the decision of the UK Government to abandon the negotiations with the Government of Guyana on the ₤4.9M project on security sector reform. In Guyana, Cabinet secretary Dr Roger Luncheon, in a statement, noted that the position of the Government of Guyana is that indeed the decision is regrettable. “Guyanese would recall that [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Health Ministry is expected to be boosted, after the Cabinet approved a contract for the procurement of drugs on Monday last. This disclosure was made by Head of the Presidential Cabinet Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his weekly press briefing at the Office of the President. According to Dr. Roger Luncheon, a US$ 885,900 contract got Cabinet’s [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, at a press conference on November 27, 2002, commented that “there seems to be reasonable, plausible evidence that suggests that there is a body out there that has been involved in criminal activities and it is not the (prison) escapees. Attention is now being paid to those [...]
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The government yesterday confirmed a BBC report that a 4.9m pounds sterling security sector reform project with the UK had collapsed following differences between the two countries.Roger LuncheonIn a statement last night, the Office of the President (OP) linked the collapse of the project to the denial of a UK request for a live firing exercise in the west of Guyana.“This decision by...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
- Dr. Luncheon Comments abound in the wake of the recent fires and these comments are about who is ultimately responsible for fire hydrants in Guyana. Yesterday Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said, “This is a government responsibility.” One day prior, Minister Clement Rohee had said that his Ministry was not responsible for hydrants neither were the [...]
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon also announced yesterday that a $17.7 million contract was given the green light for the completion of rehabilitative work in the capital section of the Georgetown prison. He also said a $22.09 million contact was given the no-objection for the construction of a road at Patentia, West Coast Demerara and another for $15.79 million for the installation...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, announced eight contracts that have attracted Cabinet’s no objection over the past week. At the time Dr Luncheon was addressing members of the media at his weekly press conference. He said that contracts were awarded in the area of sea defence and public works. The first contract was for $49.4M [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... stability and it needed to maintain the status quo until year-end. Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon at a media conference on Thursday, said Guyana’s options on the matter were dwindling. However, he maintained that TCL was solely to blame for the state of affairs. “We’re not in the business of buying and selling cement, we’re in the business of development, and housing development...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
By Gary Eleazar Now that self confessed drug trafficker Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan has been sentenced, many in the political, social and other spheres now believe that the Guyana Police Force, more so its Commissioner, Henry Greene, is now at crossroads to demonstrate a commitment and take a proactive stance towards the promised investigation. They believe that it [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... sex from the minor surfaced. McCoy moderated the weekly press briefing of the Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday. When McCoy was asked about the allegations and his return to work, Luncheon said that the press briefing was his (Luncheon’s) and that McCoy was available for questioning. Luncheon said he did not want to waste his “quality time” answering...
