Friend tries to hide body in suitcase
After chopping spree Police on the West Bank of Demerara have arrested a man whom some say is mentally challenged, following the discovery of the body of 49-year-old Rajah Alli, called Bobby, in a suitcase at a house at Bella Dam, Pouderoyen yesterday afternoon. The gruesome discovery was made shortly before 17:00 hours, after police [...]
This Week’s ‘Special Person’ is Ronaldo Robertson
A two-year-old wonder “Even in the bus, he would count from one to a hundred and when I tried to stop him, the passengers intervened.” At two years old when most children could barely talk, Ronaldo Roberston is already writing his alphabet from start to finish. Ronaldo is this week’s special person and to say [...]
Suspect in Miami cocaine captured
The police yesterday arrested Nymrod Singh, who was being sought in relation to the find in Miami of a quantity of cocaine in furniture shipped from Guyana. This newspaper understands that Singh was arrested at around 15:05 hours, after arriving in Bartica and checking into the Platinum Hotel under the name Errol Daniels. Singh, of [...]
Two directors to replace all general managers at GuySuCo
As the restructuring continues at the Guyana Sugar Corporation, a decision has been taken to remove the company’s head office from Ogle, East Coast Demerara to Albion, Corentyne, Berbice. Kaieteur News was told this move will reportedly save the company in excess of $100M per year. In the old management structure, there were general managers [...]
Public Schools re-open tomorrow
- few to remain closed Public schools are to reopen tomorrow with the exception of a few that have been affected by the heavy rainfall. Minister of Education Shaik Baksh said that all schools in Regions Four and Six will be re-opened with the exception of Bohemia Primary in Region Six. Nine schools in Region [...]
Water receding in affected regions
Subsequent to continuous monitoring and interventions by the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), to support the various regions in areas affected by heavy rainfall, accumulated water continues to recede. The Ministry of Agriculture has redeployed technical staff and equipment to critical areas from areas that have drained and experienced significant water [...]
Policeman charged for “squib throwing”
A serving member of the Guyana Police Force and a former member of the force are to appear in court, charged with causing “terror with explosives”. The charges were instituted after the two were arrested at the recently concluded Kashif and Shanghai football tournament on Monday last. According to sources, the charges came after Head [...]
Florida man saves dog from shark
Now Jake, the dog, is enjoying Guyana’s blackwater and curried chicken bones When Greg LeNoir jumped into the waters of a marina in the Florida Keys and attacked a shark to save his dog last September, naturally, the story made international headlines; now Jake, the celebrity dog at the centre of LeNoir’s “heroic” leap, is [...]
Eze Rockcliffe released on bail
Following his arrest on Friday night, the leader of the Yoruba Singers band, Eze Rockcliffe, said that he was released on $5000 station bail, and was told to report back to the Brickdam Police Station yesterday. Rockcliffe said that when he returned to the police station at 9:00 hours yesterday, the police ranks took his [...]
“2008 was one of the best years in terms of culture”
– Dr. Anthony “2008 has been one of the best years Guyana has had, in terms of culture.” This is according to the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, who expressed this opinion at a press briefing last Wednesday while summarizing all of his Ministry’s activities for 2008. The most significant event [...]
“Nothing to Laugh About” back by popular demand
After six successive sold out shows in Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam and Kildonan, “Nothing to Laugh About” is back by popular demand. Scheduled to be held at the National Cultural Centre for one night only on the 24th January, the two-hour satirical production has indeed created a buzz. Veteran comedian and director Henry Rodney promises [...]
Republic Bank delivers ‘Right Start’ for New Year babies
Three lucky mothers of the first New Year’s babies in their respective counties were treated to abundant cheer when they received ‘Right Start Baby Care’ hampers from the Republic Bank recently. The mothers were also presented with a Right Start Gift Certificate valued at $15 000 which will be used open an account in the [...]
Belize PM is new Caricom chairman
Belize Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, is the new chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom). Barrow is taking over the position from Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, who served as chairman for the past six months. In his New Year’s speech to the Community, Barrow said that the particular characteristic of geography in the [...]
History will judge this Government
Dear Editor, As a young person I’m disappointed with the way in which the government dealt with the motion in Parliament which sought to give access for local channels to operate in Linden. This government is on a campaign not for change but to stifle the people of Linden of their right to freedom of [...]
Breach of constitutional rights
Dear Editor, I write with respect to our administration of justice, and unfortunately, the system is just drowning day after day. I will write on this aspect later. However, I will, in this letter, address what I perceive to be a breach of the constitutional rights of some accused persons appearing in the Magistrates Courts, [...]
Let’s protect against Leptospirosis
Dear Editor, The Ministry of Health (MoH), via its health care workers and no less than the Minister himself, has educated citizens about the threat of Leptospirosis, especially during the rainy season. The Guyana Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (GSPCA) is taking the Ministry of Health’s lead, and is hereby alerting dog owners [...]
What is the difference between these eras?
Dear Editor, As I was reading an old Kaieteur News, I was struck on seeing this front page headline: “Protestors burn Jagdeo’s effigy out side Parliament… Parliament tenants locked within” – May 9, 2008. To the immediate right of this headline, protestors held a hoisted effigy of Mr. Jagdeo. According to the coverage, the masses [...]
Change instruments are needed to move GuySuCo forward
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Kaieteur News for opening the doors to the public on the brewing GuySuCo tribulations. GuySuCo has responded to the effect that the losses are irrelevant. I suspect the persons who coined this response were referring to relevant and irrelevant cost in the field of accountancy, and this contextually can be misconstrued [...]
Prison reform
The announcement by the Minister of Home Affairs, a while back, to commit more resources to the maintenance and upgrading of the country’s prisons and the welfare of prisoners, as part of a prison reform package, was very welcome news; but the measures that have so far been outlined have not addressed the enormity of [...]
Preparing for the worst
The New Year has dawned, and with it the hopes and aspirations of everyone; all of them hoping that it will be as good as, or even better than, the year just finished. In his New Year’s message, President Bharrat Jagdeo pointed to the challenges that had to be overcome last year. And the challenges [...]
Celebrating our literary ancestors PART 2: A. R. F. Webber
by Petamber Persaud As we continue this ritual of looking backwards and forwards, as we continue to celebrate our literary ancestors, a new book has surfaced to provide us with an ample view of a most remarkable man in Guyanese history. The name of that book is ‘Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the [...]
2009 – A defining year
The Parrot, in this its first squawk for the year, would like to wish all readers (and non-readers if they do read this), a very prosperous and rewarding 2009. Those who are superstitious would breathe a sigh of relief to see the end of 2008; a leap year, and given the “speed” at which it [...]
The Baccoo speaks
The week is going to see more of the madness on which the past year ended. Schools, as they reopen, will once more see minibuses rushing to capitalize on the possibility of fares to compensate for the expenditure the owners and operators incurred this past month. It is this that would lead to a crash [...]
EDGAR MITTELHOLZER: Race, Colour and Class
By Ameena Gafoor EDGAR MITTELHOLZER was born in a house owned by the Lutheran Church, on Main Street, New Amsterdam, on the sixteenth of December,1909. Aldous Huxley, in his introduction to the 1934 edition of Alfred Mendes’s Pitch Lake offers a useful description of the composition of the Trinidad society at early twentieth century. The [...]
