Roger Khan’s sentencing two months away
- judge awaits probation report By Dale Andrews Personnel from the United States Probation Department have concluded their interview of confessed Guyanese drug kingpin, Roger Khan, and are expected to present their report to the trial Judge shortly. Khan had pleaded guilty to 18 counts of trafficking in narcotics and to the 1994 gun running [...]
President Jagdeo touts Guyana’s rainforest before United Nations
President Bharrat Jagdeo, addressing the 17th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York, told the gathering that it will be mathematically impossible to avoid catastrophic climate change without the developing world being able to take a more sustainable path to their future development. The Head of State added that Copenhagen [...]
Berbice High School student slaps teacher
- union to issue definitive statement By Dale Andrews Teachers at the Berbice High School are awaiting instructions from their union on what action to take following the physical assault on one of their female colleagues by a male third form student yesterday. The teacher suffered a concussion and was forced to leave the school [...]
Princess Group to hire some 150 Guyanese for casino
By Nadia Guyadeen The Princess Group of companies, which recently took over the Buddy’s International Hotel, is investing millions of dollars to provide Guyana with its very first casino. This recent investment comes at the time when the world is in crisis and jobs are being lost. However, the opening of this casino is seen [...]
Cabinet Secretary seeks to explain ‘Fuzzy’ debacle
“Good things don’t last forever,” Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday when he described the relationship been the NCN Board of Directors and the management of the entity. Commenting on the recent suspension of Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, and the Board’s decision to rescind the suspension, Dr. Luncheon said that the Board and the [...]
PNCR protesters may have to wear masks soon -Norton
People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member, Aubrey Norton, says that the party is reviewing its militancy approaches given its little or no clout in the National Assembly in which the Government holds a 51 per cent majority and passes any Bill it chooses to. Norton was speaking at the party’s weekly press briefing at [...]
Powerlifters depart for regional c/ships
The team to represent Guyana at the 3rd Annual Caribbean Islands Bench Press and Powerlifting Championships set for Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands from May 14–16, left the country yesterday. The team comprises of strongmen, ‘Big’ John Edwards, Mervin ‘Spongy’ Moses and Randolph Morgan along with Guyana Powerlifting Federation President Peter Green. Green [...]
Television report helps in return of missing lad
“Your aunt is depending on you to come home in your best interest and we love you; so please come home.” This was the message of Lisa Washington, 54, to her grandson, Shaqueel Washington, aka Akeem Benjamin, 11, who disappeared one month ago today. The lad, a student of St Sidwell’s Primary School, is one [...]
Cattle rustlers chop, beat farmer
A 40-year-old cattle and rice farmer narrowly escaped with his life at 11:00 hrs yesterday after a gang of rustlers chopped and beat him at Ithaca Savannah, West Coast Berbice, before making off with part of his herd. Nnamdi George, of Number Nine Village, West Coast Berbice, was reportedly found in a semi-conscious condition on [...]
GCA cricket continues tomorrow
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Cellink Plus two-day first division cricket competition continues tomorrow with three matches in the City. MSC host GNIC with Nigel Dugid and Hortence Isaacs being the umpires, while Transport Sports Club and Police clash at DCC with the on-field officials being Colin Alfred and Ahmad Salim. Eddie Nicholls and Shannon [...]
NGOs picket Office of the President again
The allegation of slothfulness in debating the recently drafted Sexual Offences Bill, some non-governmental organisations staged yet another picketing exercise outside of the Office of the President, yesterday. The draft is currently with the Ministry of Legal Affairs. A small crowd assembled outside Office of the President yesterday bearing placards calling for the passage of [...]
Vishal Nagamootoo slams ton for United Sports Club in US league
The 2009 Nassau Cricket League season in the United States got underway last weekend at the Flushing Meadows Park with United Sports recording a lopsided victory over Eagles. On a sunny day with windy condition, Eagles won the toss and invited United Sports to bat on a pitch that was uneven for batting. However United [...]
Guyana Beverage Co. launches Busta 40-over Cricket in Bartica
Just over a week after launching the Kool Kidz Cricket Championships in Berbice, the Guyana Beverage Company Ltd (GBCL) has acquiesced to another sponsorship deal, this time, the Busta 40 Overs Cricket Competition, scheduled to bowl off at the Bartica Secondary School Ground on Sunday, May 17. At a press conference convened yesterday morning at [...]
Murdered GPL security boss laid to rest
There wasn’t enough space in the Merriman Funeral Home to hold the hundreds of mourners who turned out to pay their final respects to the late Clifford Peters, former Chief Security Officer of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. and former Senior Superintendent of Police. Family members were overwhelmed and close friends could not hold [...]
Top horses on show at Kennard’s Memorial Arrival Day Meet
DDL lends customary support An exciting day of horseracing is envisaged when the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) stages its Post Arrival Day Meeting scheduled for the Club’s Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne Berbice, headquarters on Sunday. According to President of the KMTC, Justice Cecil Kennard, over 52 horses have already signed up to participate in [...]
Police heads seek ways to treat chronic gang violence
By Mondale Smith With Trinidad and Jamaica in the lead, gang violence and its rippling effects in the Caribbean, are among the many risk factors that drive criminal activities at the regional community level. However, regional police commissioners and their representatives plan to create a template intervention to deal with the chronic problem of violence [...]
GCC ‘A’ stun Hikers ‘A’ for place in final
-GCC Ladies battle for crown GCC “A” men’s team produced a stunning performance to defeat tournament favourites Hikers ‘A’ 5-4 and advance to the final of the First Division as play in the Mr. Toppers Indoor Hockey Competition continued Wednesday evening, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Needing a win against the previously unbeaten Hikers [...]
DCC out of WIPA 20/20 tourney
Esuan Crandon spurs Merry Boys to next stage Merry Boys celebrated their controversial group ‘C’ quarter-final place in the West Indies Players Association 20/20 cricket tournament in Trinidad with an emphatic 10-wicket win against Group ‘A’ winners Powergen. Guyanese Esuan Crandon grabbed 4-24 from 4 overs in a Man-of-the-Match performance to help dismiss Powergen for [...]
Caribbean Top Cops end successful meeting
“It’s now up to the policy makers” Caribbean Commissioners of Police and their counterparts from the French Antilles, British Virgin Islands and Suriname, yesterday concluded their 24th annual conference with a pledge to protect national interests that are susceptible to criminal activities. The conference which was held at the Savannah Suite, Pegasus, did not confine [...]
Lall’s Workshop play Floodlights XI tonight at Bourda
The specialist for care and repairing of all small engines, Lall’s & Sons Workshop of Lot 8 A Eccles, East Bank Demerara will be fielding a squad to take on the Floodlights team in a featured 25 overs softball cricket match at the GCC ground, Bourda tonight starting at 6:30pm. Muneshwar Lallbeharry, proprietor of Lall’s [...]
Evolutionist or Evolution hypest?
Dear Editor, Standard high school biology text holds that evolution is a theory and that mutation may be one of its mechanisms. Adaptation, variation, natural selection and such likes are observable phenomena in nature, a definitive proof for evolution (changing it from theory to fact) lies in finding a demonstration in nature that involves the [...]
Ministry Inter-Block Football continues
Play in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter-Block Football tournaments continue this weekend with the culmination of the Beterverwagting (BV) tourney and continued play in the Victoria and Grove legs. At the Victoria ground from 2:00pm Sunday, Backdam Super Eagles are down to challenge Road Front Elephants in the first game of a [...]
Minister Rohee missed the point and an opportunity
Dear Editor, It has always been said that everyone should respect their elders and more so prominent persons in society, regardless if one should question their physiognomic condition. I will always adhere to such philosophy of life; remembering that one day some of us will get old. Having said such, while I do respect the [...]
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
The National Library should take a bow. It has been quietly providing a most important service to students and other booklovers over the years. Its main location is in Georgetown. That beautiful building has undergone some expansion over the years. An extra wing was built and attached to the original structure. This addition totally distracted [...]
Has the Govt. turned its back on pensioners?
Dear Editor, The government takes pride in emphasising the percentage increase for “Old Age Pensioners” over the past few years. The hypocrisy in this, however, is that the sum on which the percentage is calculated is never mentioned. Secondly, when the actual increase is measured against the continuous escalating inflation trend and then translated into [...]
