NIS invests $6B in Clico – Luncheon
An estimated $6B (US$30 million) of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Fund is invested in the operations of Clico (Guyana), but the Scheme is not worried about the security of the funds, Cabinet Secretary and re-elected Chairman of the NIS, Dr Roger Luncheon, said yesterday. Speculation about the local operations of the insurance giant set [...]
CANU busts cocaine shipment through GPO
… sender uses fake ID, disappears The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit is hunting a man who presented himself to the Guyana Post Office as Anand Singh to ship three kilogrammes of crack cocaine hidden in chunks. The man went to the GPO on Tuesday with the drug hidden in the condiment and placed in a [...]
Students, parents lock teachers out, police intervene
QUEESTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – ‘We want Miss Jeanne back!’ and ‘We must learn. No Miss Jeanne – No school!’ were written on some of the placards carried by students of the Berbice High School yesterday. The voices of the students filled the air when their parents closed the school to protest the failure of Minister [...]
Delay in overseas surgery lands eight-year-old in hospital
The surgical operation for eight-year-old Amelia Etwaroo of 42 Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara, has been declared a matter of immense urgency, since the child’s life is very dependent on it. As was reported in last Monday’s edition of this newspaper, the father of the Grove Primary School grade three student, Mahadeo Etwaroo, said [...]
JP, woman held for sexually abusing 13-year-old girl
A Justice of the Peace and a 28-year-old woman are in police custody following allegations that they sexually abused a 13-year-old girl. Ranks from the Grove Police Station swooped down on the JP’s East Bank Demerara home at around 13:00 hrs on Wednesday, after being tipped off about the girl’s presence at the man’s residence. [...]
Crime Chief refuses to return miner’s millions
… despite order from DPP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rutherford’s Holdings Inc., Neville Rutherford, has brought a court action against Attorney General Charles Ramson and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud, claiming in excess of $10M in damages. The action was filed after the police raided the home of one of Rutherford’s security officers, seizing currencies [...]
Cell phones, ‘jukas’, ganja, condoms found in dorms of ‘dangerous’ inmates at G/town Prisons
by Michael Jordan Police recovered cell phones, makeshift knives, marijuana, and even condoms in a dormitory that houses dangerous inmates during a pre-dawn raid yesterday at the Georgetown Prison. The items were all recovered in the ‘Capital’ section of the prison, which houses prisoners who are incarcerated for offences ranging from armed robbery to murder. [...]
Ramotar defends Government borrowing
…as PNCR Chief Whip dismisses budget as visionless By Gary Eleazar People’s Progressive Party’s General Secretary, Donald Ramotar, in his presentation to the National Assembly yesterday, told the House that the conditions in Guyana did not warrant a stimulus package, commonly called a financial bailout. Local banks were not collapsing, persons were not [...]
Opposition parties squandered golden opportunities to examine policy agenda – Dr. Ashni Singh
By Tusika Martin In a dramatic presentation, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday wrapped up the week-long debate in the National Assembly on the 2009 budget. Throwing hard and low blows at the opposition parties, Dr Singh yesterday said that he thought that they would have used the debate of the Budget to present alternatives, [...]
Berbice businessmen look to Bridge toll change
Businessmen from three chambers of commerce say they are optimistic that there will be a change in the current toll structure for crossing the recently commissioned Berbice River Bridge. The statement by the businessmen came after a meeting with officials of the Berbice Bridge Company yesterday. Representatives of the Upper Corentyne, Central Corentyne and Berbice [...]
Guyana to host regional police conference after 13 years
Come May 11 through May 15 the Guyana Police Force will be hosting the 24th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown. The theme for this year’s conference is: “Police Reform – an Imperative for Quality Service”. Members of the media were yesterday briefed by Police [...]
Health Minister defends operations at GPHC
Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, defended the operations at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) during a fiery debate in the National Assembly Thursday afternoon. According to Dr. Ramsammy, the hospital has been significantly transformed into a state-of-the-art facility, as it now conducts surgeries that were once accessed overseas. But the Minister’s attempt to [...]
‘Mauby water’ and spiked hands greet Irfaan Ali’s Budget contribution
By Neil Marks His overreaching gestures and political platitudes threatened to overshadow his plausible arguments for job creation in the housing sector and provision of potable water to unserved communities, but Minister Irfaan Ali had his house in order and his energy flowing when he presented arguments in support of the 2009 National Budget Thursday [...]
PNCR sees need for hinterland police divisional relocation
Police Commissioner Henry Greene said that the separation of the largest police division in the country, E&F Division, and the relocation of its headquarters are under active consideration. The Commissioner was responding to a recommendation made by PNCR-1G Member of Parliament, Deborah Backer during the debate on this year’s national budget. Backer told the National [...]
$501M for Competitive Programme
The activities planned for 2009 under the Competitiveness Programme include continuing the process of telecommunications reform, conducting a feasibility study on expanding shipping capacity, implementing a monitoring and evaluation system for the National Competitiveness Strategy (NCS), and continuing the process to modernise the Guyana Deeds Registry. This is according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and [...]
Girvan’s Cuba
No one can deny that Caribbean economist, Norman Girvan, is a learned professor. He is a formidable economist and a scholar of regional fame. But like all human beings, he has his inexplicable moments. This is life. The strange things that people do that defy logic or are hard to understand will forever be present [...]
PRESERVING OUR HISTORIC MEMORY
I have once again been embarrassed by my country. A Minister within the Foreign Ministry of Canada was in Guyana and when he turned up at State House to meet with our President, he along with his delegation was seated but there was no visible presence of any other Guyanese to keep the delegation’s company [...]
Simmons’ unbeaten 148 rallies T&T to 279-3 on truncated opening day
By Sean Devers Lendl Simmons continued his prolific form this season with a magnificent unbeaten 148 at the Guyana National Stadium to see Trinidad and Tobago to 279-3 on a truncated opening day of their seventh round WICB regional four-day cricket fixture against Guyana yesterday. Simmons reached the boundary 17 times and cleared it twice [...]
‘Next Level’ basketball officially jumps off
- Kings come in at eight from Linden By Edison Jefford “They are back with a bang and we hope it is a bang because I think basketball fans and enthusiasts in Guyana look forward to good basketball that includes a high level of play, decent discipline and good team performances”. Those were the opening [...]
The importance of medical checks in sports
Dear Editor: Fitness and good health are terms which can be readily associated with sport. Recreational Sport can do much to contribute to good health and fitness, and the association between the sport, health and fitness can do much to persuade Government to provide facilities for the playing of Sport. For the top level and [...]
Kitty Market a risk to life and limb — says Commissioner of Inquiry
The Kitty Market was regarded as a ‘risk to life and limb’ on Thursday by Commissioner of Inquiry, Keith Burrowes, when he visited the dilapidated facility among several others to get a first-hand look at their revenue collection integrity. Burrowes, who is tasked with investigating financial irregularities and mismanagement at the Georgetown municipality that were [...]
Unbeaten Georgetown hammer East Coast by 10 wickets
W/Demerara beat E/Bank by 2 wickets in rain hit match By Sean Devers Defending champions Georgetown, the best prepared and most efficient of the four teams in the Nalico/Nafico Demerara Cricket Board Inter-Association 50-overs under-15 cricket competition, maintained their unbeaten record, while West Demerara registered their first win in second round action yesterday. Georgetown, who [...]
GRA withdraws VAT claim on Linden electricity supplies
A protest march called by the members and management of the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL), to demonstrate their rejection of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s demand for VAT on the electricity supply to Wismar residents, was abruptly halted on Thursday morning. The protest, which drew a crowd of peeved residents, commenced at LUSCSL’s [...]
Stolen milk lands man in hot water
Mark Griffith, 30, of 169 Campbell Street, Albouystown, was asked to pay $25,000 or serve nine months in jail for stealing a bale of full-cream powdered milk from Kissoon Sookwah. He pleaded guilty to the offence. The sentence was imposed by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. The theft [...]
ABS 40 overs Division One KO starts tomorrow
The first ever Associated Business Services 40 Overs first division cricket tournament in the Ancient County bowls off tomorrow with six matches across Berbice. Young Warriors clash with Skeldon Community Centre at Cumberland, Albion host West Berbice, Kildonan travel to the Area “H” Ground to play Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar, Bermine and Police [...]
