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Air traffic controllers’ strike… – Minister Benn warns striking workers The Air Traffic Controllers’ strike action, now in its fifth day at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA), has been described as illegal by Minister of Public Works and Transport, Robeson Benn. Yesterday, Minister Benn disclosed that alternative plans will be put in place [...]
Guyana alerted to tainted peanut products
The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department (FDD) is continuing inspection exercises around Guyana in search of peanut butter and other peanut byproducts that originated from the US after July 2008. This is in light of an alert from the US Food and Drugs Administration that certain peanut butter brands were found to be contaminated with [...]
MACORP incurs $6M expense after lending excavator to M&CC
It was intended to be a kind gesture to help the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) with addressing the city’s drainage problem, but MACORP’s lending of an excavator to the municipality last December would about a month later turn out to be a financial nightmare. In light of the flooding situation which existed [...]
Derelict building collapses with occupants
- family left homeless The occupants of a derelict Hunter Street, Albouystown house can consider themselves lucky to have escaped serious injury after the two-storey building they called home collapsed at around 03:00 hrs yesterday while they were still inside. Elsie Singh, one of the five occupants, suffered minor injuries to her legs when a [...]
Woman, 40, raped and beaten at Bath Settlement
…One in custody By Fareeza Haniff The community of Bath Settlement on the West Coast of Berbice has been hit by yet another rape. This time the victim is a 40-year-old woman from the area, who was beaten mercilessly by a gang of men. Kaieteur News understands that the woman is of an unsound mind, [...]
Erskine vows disciplinary action following embarrassing escape
Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine has vowed to take disciplinary action against some of his ranks following last Thursday’s embarrassing escape of inmate Surajnarine Singh. Erskine said that the persons who are culpable have not yet been identified since the investigation into Singh’s escape is still incomplete. It is also still unclear whether the escape [...]
Jagdeo secures European ally in ‘money for standing forest’ quest
Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo is currently in Norway where he is pressing his case on climate change. The President met that country’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, in Oslo yesterday where they agreed on the need to keep climate change firmly at the top of the international agenda and underlined that it is essential to [...]
Shot cologne vendor denies snatching gold band
Kevin Williams, 23, of 41 Prince William Street, Plaisance, yesterday appeared before Acing Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to face a charge of larceny from the person. He pleaded not guilty. It is alleged that Williams on Monday last, at Croal Street, snatched a gold band from Lalita Shivgobin. According to Shivgobin, a resident of Cornelia [...]
Mother of five faces jail for cocaine trafficking
Fabya Helkin, 32, was yesterday remanded to prison after she made her court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. She is accused of having in her possession in excess of two grams of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. She pleaded guilty. According to Police Prosecutor Robert Clement, on the day she was arrested, the defendant, [...]
Air Traffic Controllers to seek President’s intervention
Air Traffic Controllers, through the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), will be approaching President Bharrat Jagdeo upon his return tomorrow, to intervene in the wages dispute between themselves and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). Yesterday, during a press conference, President of the GPSU, Patrick Yarde, called on all other members of the union to [...]
Kaieteur News dominates media awards
- Wilson, Welch sweep print prizes Hard work and a steadfast commitment to the job were attributed as the hallmarks for success which was evidently recognised by the National Sports Commission panel who selected Kaieteur News staffers Franklin Wilson and Rawle Welch as the top Print Photographer and Journalist respectively for 2008 in sports. Wilson [...]
Guyanese part of L&L Radio team for England series
“Our aim is to assist regional stations” – Wilkinson Former Guyana first-class cricketer Neil Barry is set to make his International debut as a radio cricket annalist during the Digicel West Indies home series against England which starts in Jamaica tomorrow. Barbadian Barry Wilkinson, Managing Director and Executive Producer of the newly formed Line [...]
Johnson, Bess back for Guyana’s next match
Fudadin, Garraway sent home By Sean Devers West Indies One-Day left-hander Leon Johnson and fast bowler Brandon Bess leave Guyana today for Barbados to join the Guyana team for their next West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four-day first-class cricket match against Barbados which starts on Friday at the Windwards ground in St Phillip. Johnson [...]
Berbice to launch cricket season with inter zone match
The 2009 Berbice Cricket season would be launched on February 15 with the Berbice Board hosting a special Inter-Zone match featuring West Berbice / New Amsterdam / Canje against Lower & Central Corentyne at the Rose Hall Canje Cricket Ground. According to a Board release, plans are in train to have the match as an [...]
Central issues discussed at GHB Meeting
- plans to re-modify Diamond Mineral Water Festival With its stated intention to re-energise the game, the Executive of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) met last Saturday to address a number of issues related to the development of the sport. Among the central subjects discussed was the intended re-modification of the Diamond Mineral Water Tournament [...]
Guyanese Blyden, Baker shine in T&T’s 20/20 cricket
The Guyanese pair of Travis Blyden and Elton Baker hit half-centuries in useful all-rounder performances for Trinidad club side Rouillac United (RU) last Sunday in the Twin-Island’s national 20/20 cricket competition. Baker, who plays for GNIC in Guyana and Transport Sports Club (TSC) leg-spinner Blyden, shared five scalps between them as their side defeated Progress [...]
Bishops’ eases past Marian Academy
By Edison Jefford Obviously the stronger team against weak opposition, Bishops’ High School eased pass a young Marian Academy line–up that showed clear room for improvement as their newly compiled team grows on the high school circuit. As a fair–sized crew of school supporters among a sprinkling of other enthusiasts beamed on duo Tesrick Rambissoon [...]
Man charged for indecent assault of stepdaughter, 10
A 25-year-old Bagotstown man has been charged with indecently assaulting his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The child has since been taken into protective custody by the Childcare Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security. This newspaper has learnt that the child told a teacher at school that she had been awakened by a [...]
RHTY&SC attracts sponsorship from Gilgeous Pawn Shop & Scotia Bank
The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club continue to attract sponsorship from corporate Guyana for its numerous activities. On Thursday last, the club received sponsorship from Scotia Bank and Gilgeous Pawn Shop at a simple ceremony held at the Berbice Cricket Board Office, New Amsterdam. The sponsorship from Orin Battice of Gilgeous Pawn Shop [...]
Reon King to head GCA senior selection panel
Lovell in charge of juniors By Sean Devers Thirty-three year-old former West Indies fast bowler Reon King will head the senior selection panel of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), while ex-Guyana first-class medium pacer Roddy Lovell is the chairman of the association’s youth panel. King, who took 53 wickets from 19 Test, played the last [...]
Guyana, WWF sign carbon storage grant
One of the largest environmental organizations in the world, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas yesterday signed a grant totaling US$151,250 with the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to support the government’s bid to quantify the carbon storage capacity in its forests and stock assessment of Guyana’s forestry resources. The grant for this project is provided [...]
Itinerant vendors removed from Regent Street pavements
Officers of the City Constabulary swooped down on itinerant vendors plying their trade along the Regent Street pavement early yesterday morning, in a bid to rid the M&CC reserves of the unlawful practice. The constables did not spare legitimate businesses, some of whom displayed their goods on the pavement just outside their premises. The constables [...]
Ferreira James happy with sports personality award
“I am happy to hear that I have won the National Female Sports Personality Award for the 6th time,” leading Guyanese female football referee Dianne Ferreira James told Kaieteur Sport via email. “This one is special from the rest as it was with my father’s brutal slaying and knowing he will not be here to [...]
P&P Insurance assists young athlete
To train with Mensfist Pioneer Athletics Club in T&T for Caribbean Games P&P Insurance Brokers & Consultants Limited recently made a contribution of $50,000: to Jermaine Pilgrim, an athlete with the Royal Youth Movement & Sports Club. Jermaine is leaving shortly for Trinidad and Tobago to undergo preparatory training for participation in the inaugural Caribbean [...]
Gov’t still to meet GT&T on wiretapping debacle
By Gary Eleazar It will cost some US$1M for the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) to purchase the equipment to realize the interception and storage of communication on mobile phones. This is according to a senior official at the company who revealed that the equipment has still not been purchased. The official added that [...]
