What is the status of NIS?
FRONT PAGE COMMENT A great deal of funds from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is involved in the CLICO (GUYANA) imbroglio, funds which if not returned threaten the ability of the Scheme to pay future pensions and benefits to contributors. Further, another significant portion of the assets of the NIS has been invested in the [...]
There are more questions than answers
CLICO (Guyana) take over ‘Was there any abuse of insider information which allowed a selected few to withdraw their money from CLICO prior to the move by Govt.?’ – Trotman Leader of the Alliance for Change, Raphael Trotman, says that the takeover of Colonial Life Insurance Company, CLICO (Guyana), by the Commissioner of Insurance leaves [...]
This week’s Special Person is Joyce Sinclair
“Moral standards are on the decline like never before. Even the exhibition of common courtesy is now a rarity in some organizations…I believe that trying to reverse this phenomenon while it is an uphill task is not irreversible if we all work together.” If ever there was a crusader for the cause of social development [...]
Government silent on contaminated fuel
A report emanating from the investigation into the contaminated fuel that found its way into an Essequibo power plant damaging key components has been completed, but to date there has been no public pronouncement. The investigation was ordered by President Bharrat Jagdeo on January 26 last. The President made the disclosure on Thursday during a [...]
Mrs Jagan fractures shoulder in fall
Former President Janet Jagan is nursing a fractured shoulder after falling at home. Kaieteur News was told that Mrs Jagan, a former President, whose health is failing considerably, is resting comfortably at her Bel Air home. Mrs Jagan was sworn in as Guyana’s first woman Prime Minister and First Vice-President. In December 1997 she was [...]
Police ranks undergo polygraphs
Commissioner of Police Henry Greene has said that the move by the Administration to introduce polygraph testing in the force is welcomed. Responding to the question recently by media operatives about the move, Greene said he believes it is a very sensible move. He pointed out that in almost every Caribbean country polygraph testing is [...]
Jaling commissions US$10M vessel to transport lumber
…company will move more into value added activities during 2009 By Tusika Martin Jaling Forest Industries Inc. has commissioned a US$10M ship that will transport lumber from Port Kaituma to Trinidad for onward shipment to China and other markets. The 2,300-ton vessel, Zhongmu 1, which was built in Suriname, was commissioned on Friday last. This [...]
‘Vanilla’ wins 2K9 Road March title
The Mash Secretariat has declared that Carib Soca Monarch runner-up, Melissa ‘Vanilla’ Roberts is the 2009 Road March Queen. Roberts had also won the title in 2007 with her song ‘Queen of the Band’. Last year her fellow KKR Krew member Michelle ‘Big Red’ King had pipped her by just one point. This win was [...]
Carpenters, cook held for murder of UK-based man
A cook and two carpenters are in custody as detectives continue to look for the killers of UK-based George Cadogan, who was found bound and strangled in his D’Urban Backlands home on Thursday evening. Police said that the three were detained on Friday. An official told Kaieteur News that investigators were “working on some things”, [...]
All set for 2009 Pakaraima mountains Safari
The annual safari to the Pakaraima mountains kicks off this month-end, and promises participants a chance to experience an adventure of a lifetime. The safari is organised by Rainforest Tours in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. This year’s sponsors are the Guyana [...]
‘Passa passa’ causes headache for mother
…as dancing son disappears Shellon Sandiford, a 28-year-old Alstrom Alley, Christianburg mother of three is at her wits’ end as she ponders her next move in locating her son, Shelton McAlmont, whom she has not seen over a year now. Sandiford, who is a single parent, said her 15-year-old son ran away from home in [...]
JP cleared of marriage licence fraud charge
After three ‘embarrassing’ years… After three years, Justice of the Peace Parmanand Sukhu has had charges against him dismissed. These charges stemmed from an allegation that he had falsely pretended to be a marriage officer and obtained money by false pretence. The charges were dismissed last January due to insufficient evidence. Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa [...]
Car stolen at Aracari chutney show
A woman was shocked to see that the car she left outside the premises of the Aracari Resort was gone when she returned at the end of the show. The car is a burgundy AT192 Toyota Carina PJJ372. On Friday last at around 22:00 hours at the Aracari Resort, West Bank Demerara, owner of ‘Reshma’s [...]
Soesdyke/Linden Highway deteriorates dramatically
The Soesdyke/Linden Highway has over the years been deteriorating, and not very much seems to have been done to maintain this stretch of road, which is vital in linking Linden and interior locations to Georgetown and the coastline of Guyana. According to commuters, the stretch of road between the East Bank junction and Yarrowcabra has [...]
Dr Henry Jeffrey now Executive Committee member of OICD
Former Minister of Foreign Trade, Dr Henry Jeffrey, is the latest member of the Executive Committee of the Organisation for Intra-Cultural Development (OICD). The OICD is a not-for-profit organisation working to expand understanding of human identities, improve social cohesion, and reduce conflict through interdisciplinary research and its application and dissemination. Among some of the activities [...]
Rose Hall bank robbery accused among detainees in police East Coast raids
It started at around 22:00 hours on Friday night and, by the time it ended early yesterday morning, a police raid on several villages on the East Coast of Demerara had almost filled the several lock-ups to capacity. And Police Commissioner Henry Greene said that there is still a lot of work to be done. [...]
Suspected cocaine swallower nabbed at CJIA
A Jamaican national, Richard Rudolph Gayle, 38, was yesterday apprehended at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at approximately 5:00 hours by the Police Narcotics Unit, under the suspicion that he had swallowed pellets containing cocaine. Gayle is currently under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after X-rays of his abdomen showed [...]
Police involved in accident on Smyth Street
A policeman on a motorcycle (CF 1754) yesterday collided with a motorcar (PKK 4742) at approximately 14:15 hours yesterday at the junction of Smyth and Princes Streets, Werk-en-Rust. According to bystanders, the police rider, who was proceeding south along Smyth Street, failed to stop at the major road and collided with the motorcar that was [...]
Agricola resident is latest road fatality
Terrence Mackend, of Third Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, became the latest road fatality when he was struck down by a Leyland truck GKK 3364 on the Agricola Public Road just after 19:00 hours yesterday. The truck is said to be owned by the Ministry of Public Works and was being driven by a man [...]
CLICO (Guyana) policyholders to know fate in two weeks
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance yesterday issued a statement to the media which stated that that it will be communicating with policyholders of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) within two weeks. This is in light of the uncertainty that abounds among the policyholders who, since news of the judicial-ordered takeover, rushed to withdraw [...]
Fixing the foundation
For any country to develop in the modern world it must stress the education of its population. Brains, not brawn, are the key to national and individual success. This focus on education, contrary to what some may believe, cannot however be sprung willy-nilly on an unsuspecting citizenry, but rather must be grafted into a solid [...]
Delay in activating Committee resulted in many suicides
Dear Editor, In January 2008 the Chairman of the Suicide Board visited Region Five, and along with the regional executives launched a Suicide Committee to work towards the prevention of suicide in this region. The reason I am writing this letter is because to date, more than a year later, no action was taken to [...]
Unqualified teachers will be terminated if reluctant to upgrade themselves – Baksh
The Ministry of Education is prepared to terminate the services of all unqualified and temporary qualified teachers within the public education sector if they are not enrolled in a teacher-training institution by September 2010. Minister of Education Shaik Baksh recently made this disclosure even as he reiterated the Ministry’s intent to ensure that the system [...]
I saw it but couldn’t believe it
Dear Editor, I saw it but couldn’t believe it, the Region Six Regional Democratic Council mashing in Georgetown. What a shame and disgrace to Berbicians. They should have stayed home instead of going all the way to Georgetown to make Berbicians look like a fools. What happened to all the money they budgeted for Mash [...]
A source or the Canadian Embassy?
Dear Editor, I am responding to a “source” in the Canadian High Commission that says there will be no aid cuts to Guyana, carried in the February 27th edition of Kaieteur News. This is in response to my column of Thursday, February 26, 09. As it stands the Canadian High Commissioner, the Canadian High Commission [...]
