Regional U-15 tourney switched from Guyana to T&T
Embattled CLICO still sponsors By Sean Devers in Trinidad Originally scheduled to commence on April 6 in Guyana, the West Indies 50-overs under-15 cricket competition has now been switched to Trinidad and will run from April 4-13. Officials from the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) told Kaieteur Sports yesterday that the details are now [...]
Reassessing the actual devaluation of the Guyana Dollar
Dear Editor Please allow me to reassess the actual devaluation of the Guyana Dollar that I said may take place in my letter to Guyana Chronicle, 27 March 2009, “Savers should convert their savings into foreign currency to offset depreciation”. In that letter, I said that the Guyana Dollar may be devalued from the current [...]
The law rarely works in the best interest of the small man
Dear Editor, Over the years from PNC era to now I am convinced, supported by overwhelming evidence, that the Guyana Police Force motto ‘Service and Protection’ is blatantly false “ nowhere near its target. A survey will show beyond the shadow of doubt that the police have hardly worked diligently in the interest of the [...]
Grove water well gas sent to USA for tests
Samples of the gas taken from the well that erupted in Grove New Housing Scheme earlier this month were yesterday sent to a laboratory in the USA for tests that could help to ascertain whether it has commercial value. Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) official, Newell Dennison, yesterday told the Kaieteur News that the [...]
M&CC demolishes stalls at Stabroek Market
In what was described as a surprise move, the City Constabulary, under orders from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown, demolished a number of stalls in the Stabroek Market area, just outside of the Western side of Demico House, on Friday evening. In addition to demolishing the stall the goods were taken away [...]
Berbicians need help
Dear Editor, Guyana is still yet to face the worst. It is time for the government to take stock of themselves. Berbice is the one county that is facing extreme neglect. I do not want to hear about the Skeldon Sugar Factory and the Berbice River Bridge. We were entitled to those anyway, but what [...]
Health Ministry poised to improve DOTS programme
With the main intent being to provide a set of directions to strengthen the health system and decrease mortality and morbidity due to Tuberculosis (TB), the local Health Ministry is working towards ensuring that its Direct Observation Therapy Strategy (DOTS) services are sustained and improved. In 1994, Guyana established DOTS, a programme that sees health [...]
Sensitise farmers and consumers about the ills of chemical fertilizers
Dear Editor, The majority of Guyanese are being fed with fertilizer chemicals, which I am sure can have an adverse effect on their health. This has not been considered seriously by anyone I know of. Vegetable farmers like to see their crops looking healthy and flourishing. In order to achieve this result they have to [...]
GTUC accuses CLICO (Guyana) of industrial relations breaches
It is very disappointing that the there is a deafening silence by the Minister of Labour in relation to the employees that were dismissed from CLICO (Guyana), says General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Norris Witter. He told the media on Thursday that in keeping with normal industrial relations practices, Geeta Singh-Knight [...]
Developing the tourism product
Dear Editor, When Mr. Jad Rahaman operated his Tour Company at the Barakara Resort in the Mazaruni River, he painstakingly kept the nature trail that leads to the Barakara Falls (opposite to the resort) in a clear and clean state. Mr. Rahaman, you will remember, received a Caribbean Entrepreneurial Award some years ago for being [...]
‘Plastic City’ residents deterred by cost of house lots
As the Ministry of Housing and Water continues to seek to relocate the squatters of Plastic City, the price of house lots continues to deter many of the squatters from pursuing the government’s intention. Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, maintained that relocating the residents of Plastic City was necessary, since they are exposed [...]
Multi-million-dollar misery in Diamond
Dear Editor, I am a resident of Third Street in Section ‘A’ Block ‘X’ in Diamond, East Bank Demerara. A little over six years ago I was allotted and purchased the plot of land on which I currently reside for $1.2 million, from my lifetime savings, and spent several more millions to provide my family [...]
The President said the Ministers work for him
Minister Robeson Benn is very upset at my column yesterday. For what I do not know because in Guyana when something is public knowledge, the entire country knows about it. Minister Benn is livid over what he claims can be an interpretation in my article that his name was linked to Roger Khan in the [...]
THE WATER MAN WILL BE BACK AT HIS DESK SOON
I have placed a wager that by the time President Bharrat Jagdeo returns from his Middle East trip, Mr. Karan Singh will be back to work at the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). Mr. Singh was this week sent off on leave to facilitate a probe into allegations of kickbacks at his entity. Mr. Singh has [...]
Jagdeo seeks bolstered ties between Guyana, Jordan
President Bharrat Jagdeo has held talks with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on appropriate ways to further bolster ties between Jordan and Guyana. During a visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Judeh reiterated the King’s keenness to foster Jordan’s relations with Guyana and Latin American countries. Judeh stressed the need to exert [...]
Clinton’s U.S. Mea Culpa
Last week, President Jagdeo made his displeasure public about the United States’s seeming penchant for “lecturing” rather than assisting more materially in the fight against drug trafficking from Guyana. It was their insatiable demand for the drugs, he reasoned, that precipitated the supply and transport chains. But even before the President’s intervention, we had noted [...]
Roadblock saves woman from abusive spouse
“When I saw you guys, I thought that there was some road construction. But then I saw it was the police I grabbed the blade and screamed.” Police at a roadblock set up at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, on Wednesday night, rescued a woman from a car when she raised an alarm. The [...]
Divorces granted without judge’s knowledge
Justice Roxanne George on Monday wrote to Chief Justice Ian Chang seeking a review of all divorce cases that purport to indicate that she had heard them and made orders. Justice George was referring specifically to divorce cases filed by attorney at law Lennox Hanoman. This development comes out of revelations that three such matters [...]
Globe Trust Liquidation: Gloomy future predicted for stakeholders
Liquidator for Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL), Nizam Ali, says that the future of stakeholders at that company appears gloomy. Ali has since moved to the courts in an attempt to recover some of the money loaned without adequate security, but the judicial system has been described as “ridiculously slow.” The liquidator has [...]
Flammable gas oozes from Grove water well
- Geology and Mines official says entity lacks authority to ask owner to move The presence of the highly flammable gas, methane, is believed to have caused the bizarre eruption earlier this month at a partly completed water well at Grove New Scheme, East Bank Demerara. But a Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) official who [...]
Teacher sustains eye injury in fight with student
A violent fight broke out at the Clonbrook Community High School yesterday, leaving a teacher with a stab wound to her face and a Fourth Form student with scratches around her neck. Kaieteur News understands that the student stabbed the teacher with a pen after she tried to retrieve a pen that another student reported [...]
NIS pays $180M for $70M property, alarms GTUC
The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has purchased a plot of land from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) for $180M, much to the alarm of the Guyana Trades Union Congress. Yesterday, General Secretary, Norris Witter, said that the very plot of land which is located in Kingston was recently valued at $70M. A decision to purchase [...]
Nephew charged for killing uncle
Fernando Cush, 26, appeared in court yesterday before Magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, charged with the murder of his uncle Andrew Benjamin. Cush, who was not required to plead and who was represented by defence counsel Vic Puran, was remanded to prison. On Tuesday, 41-year-old canecutter, Andrew Benjamin, was knifed to death [...]
$50M to be spent on fogging
The Ministry of Health is expected to spend some $50 million in 2009 on fogging exercises in an effort to reduce the number of dengue cases in the country. So far for this year, a total of $5 million has already been spent. According to Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, fogging is now being completed [...]
No application yet for new airline
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has not yet received any applications from the new airline, Regional Jet Express, despite publications that it would begin service to Guyana sometime next month. Without these applications, the airline will not be allowed to fly to Guyana. Chairman of the GCAA, Zulficar Mohamed, said that while he had [...]
