Nephew knifes uncle to death
A 41-year-old canecutter was knifed to death in an alleyway at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, at around 14:20 hrs yesterday, during an altercation with his 25-year-old nephew. Andrew Benjamin, called “Mongoose”, of Lot 66 Friendship, East Coast Demerara, collapsed from multiple stab wounds to the upper body and succumbed before he could receive medical attention [...]
Kidney patient re-admitted to GPHC
- claims he is unable to retain fluids Recipient of a kidney during the most recent transplant operation undertaken at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Retired Major, Winston George, was readmitted to the public institution yesterday after he became concerned about his health. According to the 47-year-old man, who was accompanied to the hospital [...]
Killers reportedly used assault rifles
… Pomeroon double murder Police have detained a 25-year-old in connection with the murders of Romeo and Clint De Agrella, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Monday in the Atlantic Ocean near Iron Punt, North West District. The man in custody at the Anna Regina Police Station is a nephew of 41-year-old Romeo De [...]
Police take over security at CLICO
Police ranks were deployed to the CLICO Head Office on Camp Street as reports of threats to staff are being investigated. The move by the police stemmed from action by the Judicial Manager, Maria van Beek, who by way of letter, authorized Dinanath Deodat, Administrative Officer, CLICO Life and General Insurance Company, to uplift all [...]
C’bean governments should apply adaptation policies
– St. Lucia PM Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister, Stephenson King, is urging Caribbean governments, as a matter of priority, to develop, strengthen and apply national and regional adaptation policies that will address Climate Change concerns within the Region. He also called on the governments to pursue vigorously mitigation, adaptation and resource mobilisation strategies [...]
Intense attraction with a tragic end
- Diamond mother tells how she ended up in a relationship with a man who has caused her sons to be locked up for manslaughter By Neil Marks Latchmin is still seething with anger and despair, and the few chances she has for joy are restrained. Her admitted “shine eye” led her into a [...]
Students’ attendance rates affected by home and school-based factors
– Education official Although there has been no major research done in Guyana in recent times to substantiate the root cause of students’ absenteeism, it has been established that this problem has its links in both home/family and school-based factors. Planning Officer within the Education Ministry, Evelyn Hamilton, expressed this opinion recently. Basing her [...]
Runaway teen found
After being missing for eight days, 11-year-old Andre Pratt, also known as Ron, was found lingering at the Plaisance Car Park on Friday night last.. The youth of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara was found at around 21:00hrs by one of his cousins who was also searching for him at the time. The youth [...]
God’s angels, a tragic suicide and a mother’s tears
I once did an essay on this page titled, “God’s perfect children.” The point was that the PPP leaders in government were indeed God’s angels. You trace the governments that have been in power in all the continents over the past twenty years and you will find countless numbers whose leaders have on many occasions [...]
Minorities all
Not unexpectedly, the Report of the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues has generated some controversy, locally. Any analysis that touches on our fractious politics can be counted on, as if magnetically, to align our touchy partisans along two widely separated poles – those whose positions appear vindicated and those who feel misunderstood. However, there [...]
BETTER NEEDS TO BE DONE NEXT TIME
If the just concluded two international one day matches between England and the West Indies at the National Stadium was an administrative dress rehearsal for next year’s ICC World Twenty20 competition, then Guyana needs a completely new wardrobe. There were tremendous slippages in the logistical arrangements from the high standards enjoyed during Cricket World Cup [...]
NIS losing close to $1 million daily – Cristopher Ram
…as CLICO debacle ripples across financial sector As a result of the $6.9B investment in Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Guyana, the National Insurance Scheme is losing close to $1M per day. This is according to financial analyst and economist, Christopher Ram, who in an invited comment yesterday, said this is so, given that [...]
Exports down significantly
…company freezes employment – John Fernandes’ CEO By Nadia Guyadeen Chief Executive Officer of John Fernandes Limited, Chris Fernandes, says that exports are down significantly where his company is concerned. He added that imports, while down, are only down marginally but as it relates to the exports there is cause for concern. “Containerised export [...]
Bullet-riddled bodies and bloodstained boat found at Pomeroon
- father and son believed slain after returning from Venezuela The bullet-riddled decomposing bodies of a father and son, along with their bloodstained boat, were found at around 13:00 hrs yesterday at Iron Point, an area some 35 miles from the Pomeroon River mouth. Relatives said that Romeo De Agrella, 41, and his son, [...]
Woman electrocuted at Land of Canaan
Mystery surrounds the death of Ms. Ula Brown, also known as “Ms Brown”, a supervisor attached to the Secret Villa Hotel, Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara. Brown was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening after she was rushed to the institution under the suspicion that she may have [...]
Baby suffers fractured skull, four others hospitalised as man goes berserk
Four members of a Mahaica family, including a six-month-old baby who sustained a fractured skull, are hospitalised after a man went berserk when a case of domestic violence spiraled out of control yesterday. Those hospitalised are 56-year-old Lapatie, called Shirley; her daughters, Kaloutie Kumar, 21, and her baby Seema Rabarat, as well as her sister [...]
KN journalists turned away from OP
Kaieteur News Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris and reporter, Fareeza Haniff, were yesterday turned away from the Office of the President in Shiv. Chanderpaul Dr. because they were not in possession of their media badges issued by the Government Information Agency (GINA). Mr. Harris and Ms. Haniff were at the Office of the President to attend the [...]
Senna pod deaths due to dehydration, overdose
A post mortem preformed on the remains of five-year-old Afiena and three-year-old Aliyah Ramdeen, revealed that the two died of dehydration due to an overdose of a laxative. The post mortem also showed that the intestines of both of the children were swollen. Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, conducted the examination yesterday at the Georgetown [...]
HEALTH MINISTER’S WORLD TB DAY MESSAGE 2009
Today is World TB Day. It is an opportune time for me to remind Guyanese of my warning more than five years ago that TB is likely to become our greatest Public Health Challenge. This public Health Challenge is not unique to Guyana but globally. My warning more than five years ago still stands and [...]
UNAIDS committed to helping reduce TB/HIV co-infection
Significant progress has been made in the local Health Ministry’s fight against Tuberculosis (TB) which is evident in the fewer number of cases of the disease detected last year, according to Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. He said that the public health sector has been able to manage and prevent TB deaths but noted that [...]
Court Registrar concerned about bias in conduct of investigations
Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes, in a letter to Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, on behalf of his client, Supreme Court Registrar, Sita Ramlal, says that his client welcomes a thorough investigation into alleged forged orders of court, the creation of which Ramlal is accused. According to the letter, Ramlal is particularly concerned about the manner and [...]
An apology to Patrick van Beek
Patrick van Beek, the husband of Commissioner of Insurance, Maria van Beek, severed ties with CL Financial in January 2006. He worked with a Caribbean Money Market Brokers Limited, a subsidiary of CL Financial, in 2005. Kaieteur News apologises for incorrectly reporting that Mr van Beek was still associated with CL Financial, and for implying [...]
Deworming exercise gaining results
As the Ministry of Health continues its national deworming exercise in the country, Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has said that so far there are indications that there is a significant reduction as it relates to persons who have ‘worms.’ The deworming programme was recently completed in Region Six where 29,299 households were visited as [...]
Ravens enforce Royal beating
emphatically take NLE title By Edison Jefford It is popular basketball parlance that there is always a sixth man on the court apart from a conventional starting five. Ravens proved that idiom true when they emphatically won an elusive Next Level Entertainment (NLE) Championship. The team that lost in the first NLE final three years [...]
Uprising stun Tigers, Conquerors swamp Thomas
By Franklin Wilson Day two of the 2nd annual Banks Premium Beer Cup produced the biggest upset to date when former division-one champs Uprising stunned the new division-one kings, BK International Western Tigers by the lone goal of their feature encounter on Sunday evening at the Tucville ground. The evening’s opening game turned out to [...]
