All CLICO claims guaranteed
- Jagdeo Persons who have insurance policies at Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) are asked to continue paying their premiums. President Bharrat Jagdeo repeated this yesterday. The Head of State said that the company can guarantee all claims, whether these are medically related or vehicular. Speaking with the media, President Jagdeo said that if someone [...]
Water well erupts during drilling, blocks roadway with silt
Pandemonium broke out in Third Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday after a partly-completed well in a resident’s yard spewed a fountain of mud more than 40 feet into the air and blocked a nearby roadway with a mound of silt. Houses several meters away were also coated with mud. The yard in which the [...]
Torture victim reports matter
- army remains mum One of the victims of the alleged torture at the hands of the Joint Services during last Saturday’s raid that netted $20M worth of cocaine on Wakenaam, has made a formal report to the police. Ryan Gordon yesterday gave a detailed statement to the Parika Police on the alleged atrocities by [...]
Hand-in-Hand Trust ‘closely monitoring $5B overseas investment’
…CEO insists company can withstand complete loss to Stanford Investment By Gary Eleazar In light of the impairment of a $822M Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation (HIHTC) deposit as a result of the recent freezing of assets of the Stanford Bank in Antigua, the company is ever more vigilantly monitoring the additional $5B in investments throughout the [...]
Record proves investments in Bahamas
CLICO takeover… – President Jagdeo By Tusika Martin Guyana has an audit trail and records of its investments in Colonial Life and Insurance Company (CLICO) Bahamas, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday. During a press conference at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport just before departing for Washington, the Head of State said that there are records [...]
Wakenaam residents on high alert for reprisals
$20M cocaine seizure… Residents on the island of Wakenaam are on high alert to prevent any possible reprisals for the seizure of 50 kilograms of cocaine by the Joint Services. Divisional Commander Christopher Griffith told this newspaper that the security forces are cognizant of the threat and have asked residents to assist in surveillance of [...]
MY LAST LAP WITH CHEDDI JAGAN
Fragments from Memory By Moses V. Nagamootoo On Friday, February 14, 1997 (Valentine’s Day), Cheddi Jagan suffered a fatal heart attack. He battled heroically in hospital for twenty-one days, but succumbed on March 6. The late Cheddi Jagan gave over fifty years of his glorious life to his country and people. At 79, he had [...]
Sugar loving seaman granted bail
Rakesh Gorrahoo, 35, of 172 Kingston, Corriverton, was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that on February 25, last, he stole 35 bags of sugar from the MV Helogan which was anchored at a wharf in the Demerara River. The sugar was the property of Guyana Sugar [...]
Judge admits caution statement
Better Hope murder trial… Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday admitted the caution statement of Richard Reid, called “Bully Boy”, who is on trial for the 2002 murder of Michael Rodrigues. This admission came after the voir dire (trial within a trial) concluded. Reid is indicted for the September 15, 2002 murder of Rodrigues, which occurred at [...]
US-based Guyanese believed to have fled to Guyana
- charged with harming infant, first-degree assault Rohan Ganesh, a 19-year-old United States-based Guyanese man, from Schenectady, New York, who had been charged with violently shaking his infant son last year, may have fled back to his home in Guyana. According to the New York police, in May last year, Ganesh picked up his four-month-old [...]
US-based Guyanese believed to have fled to Guyana
- charged with harming infant, first-degree assault Rohan Ganesh, a 19-year-old United States-based Guyanese man, from Schenectady, New York, who had been charged with violently shaking his infant son last year, may have fled back to his home in Guyana. According to the New York police, in May last year, Ganesh picked up his four-month-old [...]
Guyanese women busted with cocaine en route to Africa
Two Guyanese women, travelling separately, have been nabbed en route to different parts of Africa, with a quantity of cocaine. This information was relayed to the Guyana Police Force by the authorities in Portugal and Brazil, where the drug runners were apprehended. On February 11, Customs officials in Lisbon, Portugal managed to seize more than [...]
NLE holds meeting with Georgetown clubs
– discusses rules ahead of Friday’s ‘jump ball’ By Edison Jefford Georgetown’s top seeded basketball clubs had the opportunity to vent their discrepancies with the administration of the sport when Next Level Entertainment (NLE) held a needed ‘no–holds–barred’ meeting Monday night. The forum became necessary as the most lucrative financial basketball tournament looms and [...]
The Battersea Bomber may yet win that world title
By Michael Benjamin Even though he is Guyanese, Howard Eastman spent the majority of his boxing life practicing his trade in the United Kingdom. “The Battersea Bomber” as he is known was born 39 years ago, on December 8, 1970. On March 6, 1994, Eastman ascended into the professional arena and had his hands [...]
RHTYSC cricket teams’ honours five retired senior teachers
Five retired educators, with a combined total of 185 years of teaching experience, were honoured recently by the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) at the launching of the Farouk Kudrath Annual Memorial tribute to Retired teachers Programme. Kudrath, who was the club’s Assistant Secretary / CEO died last [...]
Surujpaul leads E’bo to victory against Berbice at Anna Regina
Essequibo defeated Berbice by 61 runs in the third round of the Castrol U-15 Inter-County 50 overs cricket competition played yesterday at the Anna Regina Ground on the Essequibo Coast. Berbice won the toss and asked Essequibo to bat first on a pitch with preparation moisture and lead by their Captain Ricardo Adams who hit [...]
High investor-interest in Guyana at international aquaculture show
Representatives of the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) were recently in Seattle, Washington to attend Aquaculture America 2009, where leading professionals in the field pointed to Guyana as a place to invest. More than 1,500 aquaculture specialists from around the world met to hear technical presentations as well as attend a trade show with [...]
All is not well at the Kintyre/Borlam NDC
SEAWELL, CORENTYNE – All is not well with residents of the Kintyre/Borlam Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and their councillors. There appears to be a communication problem as was highlighted on Monday. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony; Public Service Minister Dr Jennifer Westford; and Chief Executive Officer of the New Amsterdam Hospital [...]
Khan smashes 68 for MMZ Sports Club
By Sean Devers The 2008 Barakat Brothers 20/20 cricket competition in West Demerara continued over the weekend with three matches. At Meten-Meer-Zorg West, hosts Meten-Meer-Zorg Sports Club ‘A’, booked a place into the semi-final by beating Zeelugt in the morning before getting past the Meten-Meer-Zorg B Team in the afternoon from 14:00hrs. In other matches, [...]
Love-seeking man lands in jail for drugs
Jermaine Haywood, 28, of Lot 1 Grove Housing Scheme, who was charged for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, will have to remain in jail until Friday. The accused on February 25 at Craig, East Bank Demerara allegedly had in his possession two grams of cocaine and 21 grams of cannabis for the [...]
Scotsburg & Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’ to play final
Scotsburg Cricket Club of Corriverton hammered Rose Hall Canje by 60 runs in the lone semi-final of the Gilgeous Pawn Shop under-19 twenty20 cricket competition and will face Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’ in the final. In a low scoring match, Scotsburg won the toss and decided to take first strike on a flat pitch. Anthony [...]
Maintenance of Number 63 Beach lacking
Maintenance and upgrade of the facilities at the No.63 beach on the Corentyne Coast – long pointed to as a major tourism hotspot for development – is severely lacking despite promises by government officials and a committee set up to develop the area. One of the major problems is the lack of an initiative to [...]
GCB congratulates Sarwan
The Guyana Cricket Board congratulated Guyanese Ramnaresh Sarwan for his impressive double century performance in the just concluded test match against England in Barbados. Here is the full text of the message: “Heartiest congratulations on the achievement of yet another milestone in your glittering career, which once again kept the Golden Arrowhead fluttering proudly. Your [...]
Linden farmer accuses Govt official of assault, misappropriation
“Imagine I turn up at the Lands and Survey Commission Office to make queries about my land title, and instead of a favourable answer, I was physically manhandled, thrown to the ground, and threatened,” a perturbed Moblissa farmer reported. Ray Murray, 37, and a farmer and resident of Wismar Hill, Linden, said that he got [...]
‘Obama youths’ assist Habitat home partner
It was a fulfilling experience last Saturday when the youths of the Obama Youth Organisation offered their time and energies towards the construction of a home for a Habitat for Humanity Inc. home partner. The youths were involved in voluntary work, including constructing the internal walls, painting, laying of blocks and other related work at [...]
