Unlicensed driver flees from cops, ends up in canal
The occupants of this car are lucky to be alive after ending up in this Diamond New Scheme canal while trying to avoid a police patrol. The crash occurred around 23:45 hrs yesterday. The patrol had attempted to stop the car after a resident informed the ranks that the two occupants appeared to be acting [...]
GDF lieutenant colonel drops dead after squash game
Commander 2nd Infantry Battalion (Res), Guyana Defence Force, Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Hartley, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday afternoon. Lt Col Hartley, 45, had earlier completed a game of squash at Base Camp Ayanganna and was on his way home when he complained of feeling unwell. He was [...]
GWI employee slapped with conspiracy charges
A former employee from the Guyana Water Incorporated was yesterday placed on $450,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty to six counts of conspiracy to defraud the company. Samantha David, 34, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. It was alleged that David, on April 18, 2006; May 30, 2006; [...]
Police intensify search for missing youth
The police are still searching for 17-year-old Mark Lawrence who has been missing for the past two months. Kaieteur News understands that the officers at the Parika Police station have now focused their search for the youth in Puruni, Middle Mazaruni. The boy’s mother, Indranie, said that on March 16, last, her son left home [...]
Parent denied bail for assaulting school teacher
Shabana Singh, 28, a parent who allegedly assaulted a North Ruimveldt Secondary School teacher, was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that Singh on April 29, last, at Woolford Avenue unlawfully assaulted Natasha Paul. She pleaded not guilty and was unrepresented in court. Singh, who resides at 1081 South [...]
Enterprise Sports Club seals sponsorship deal with Guyana Beverage Company
The Guyana Beverage Company Ltd (GBCL) is consistently in the forefront supporting the development of young people through their involvement in sports activities. The company has been visible in most of Guyana’s 10 regions and despite the economic downturn, continues to render support. Just about a month ago, at a press conference, held at their [...]
Goal feast on day two of division one league
Santos hammer Black Pearl 5-0, Uprising swamp Thomas United 7-0 Under the sweltering afternoon sun, on a day when Guyana celebrated its 43rd Independence Anniversary, Uprising and Santos helped themselves to huge wins, as the Western Union first-division league continued at the Camptown Community Centre ground, on Tuesday. Both winners on the day were relegated [...]
Al Sport/MCYS Primary Schools Windball C/ships: Graham’s Hall, Strathspey, BV, Mon Repos advance to final round
Graham’s Hall, Strathspey, Beterverwagting (BV) and Mon Repos have all made it to the final round of the Upper and Lower East Coast Demerara Zone in this year’s Al Sport / Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport (MCYS) Primary Schools Windball Cricket Championships after recording victories yesterday, at the LBI ground. The four teams will [...]
I think I really surprised myself – Gafoor
Collins, McDonald still fancy chances in GASP National C/ship Leader in the 2009 Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) National Open Championship, Moen Gafoor in an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport revealed that he really surprised himself with his opening day performance. Gafoor, who holds pole position after the first round which concluded Tuesday at [...]
Fudadin (55), Batson (4-29) spur RHTWSB to win against Albion
National middle-order batsman Assad Fudadin stroked an accomplished 55, while Renrick Batson took 4-29 to spur hosts Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) to victory over Albion last Sunday, in the Telenec Berbice 50-over first division cricket competition. Fudadin got support from Michael Hicks (32) as RHTWSB fell for 205 in 49 overs with [...]
Busta Champion of Champions semi-final ends in tie
Samaroo (104*), Beharry (6-34) star Balram Samaroo stroked a magnificent unbeaten 104 and Anil Beharry snatched 6-34 in wasted efforts for Young Warriors at the Rose Hall Canje ground last Sunday. The pair will have to try and reproduce their excellent form Saturday at the same venue after their semi-final match in the Busta Champion [...]
Fire set in nursery school
- cops question teacher Police yesterday questioned a female teacher for several hours to ascertain who set a fire in the Eccles Nursery School after soaking several documents in the principal’s office with kerosene. An official said that the school’s financial records and receipts, and teachers and pupils attendance registers were among the documents that [...]
GPL disconnect Barama
– win Inter-Organisation b/ball title Every decade has at least a guard that a generation remembers, but history wants to forget but simply cannot, because that guard shows up when it matters. Lugard Mohan has to be that player in this epoch of local basketball. The former national captain and Caribbean Confederation All-star led Guyana [...]
Game on for Albouystown/Charlestown, North Ruimveldt
- collide for place in Inter-Ward Final By Edison Jefford Albouystown/Charlestown and North Ruimveldt are expected to play in an atmosphere fit for a final, when they collide in game three of the best-of-three semi-final series of the HJTV and Lens Craft Inter-Ward Basketball Championship tonight. Albouystown blew out North in game one, but North [...]
Boat captain drowns after boat sinks
A 34-four-year father of one was fished out of the Corentyne River on Tuesday, two days after his boat in which he was transporting lumber, sunk. Dead is Grandville Patterson of Orealla Village, Corentyne River. According to Patterson’s sister, Tamasha Mc Almont, she last spoke to her only brother on Saturday night. The sister added [...]
Deafening silence over disbursements for backlog cases
Dear Editor, It is amazing that after this revelation, that there is such a deafening silence over such a major disbursement to the Chancellor and others. The receipt of almost $21,000,000 out of a total of $40,000,000 for the disposal of backlog cases does indicate the monetary reward is a powerful motivation. However, it does [...]
Lad slipped away from mum under pretext of buying drink
Roy Prince, the eight-year-old boy, who drowned at the Roger Hinds International Hotel poolside on Independence Day, had slipped away from his mother under the pretext of seeking to purchase a soft drink. The Mahdia Primary School pupil drowned at around 17:10 hrs on Tuesday after plunging into the deeper end of the pool which [...]
Vendors to file injunction against M&CC
…seek to halt increase in stall fees Some vendors at the Bourda Market are prepared to file an injunction against the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) to temporarily halt the decision to increase stallholders’ fees until repairs are carried out. Several of the vendors said that they have secured the services of a [...]
Should we simply settle for this inept bunch?
Dear Editor, Ever since Dr. Richard Van West Charles has returned to Guyana with a view to attaining the leadership of the PNCR, he has been relentlessly attacked. Party members, as well as the PPP, have repeatedly made the following points: (a) Dr. Charles had been away for too long (b) He was associated with [...]
Creative talent on the rise
Dear Editor, In addition to a previous publication in the dailies, I was again bowled over with art pieces published in the Kaieteur News (5-24-09) of Anil Robert, Loi Ann Jacobs and Betsy Karim. My advocacy on creative talents from this end of the globe is definitely proving to the world that we will eventually [...]
We are all equal but some of us are more equal than others
Dear Editor, Marissa Lowden in the letters to editor section of the Guyana Chronicle of May 20, 2009 asserts that Government continues to commit to the working class of Guyana. As evidence of this she contends, inter alia, that teachers recently received a five percent per annum across-the-board increase and an annual clothing allowance of [...]
Education Ministry gets training computers from Food for the Poor
Government’s effort to equip all secondary schools and at least fifty percent of the nation’s primary schools with computer laboratories by 2013, received a shot in the arm from Food for the Poor Guyana Inc, yesterday. Education Minister Shaik Baksh yesterday received 21 sets of training computer systems valued at $1.6m from Food for the [...]
CCL condemns reaction to Barbados immigration decision
The Caribbean Congress of Labour yesterday in a release to the media said that in every modern and civilized society principles, protocol, conventions and laws exist to regulate the behaviour of citizens and Nation States. It drew reference to the current spate of reactions to the recent decision taken by the Government of Barbados to [...]
I shudder to think of others, who have had similar experiences
Dear Editor, I live at Agricola. At about 4 am on Saturday, May 2, 2009 my wife and I were awakened by the barking of dogs in our street. We peeped through our window and saw a large group of men in the street. Shortly afterwards we heard a banging sound on our house. It [...]
Emulate the Ministry of Education
Dear Editor, I was quite surprised at the level of efficiency, competency and professionalism at the Personnel Division of the Ministry of Education on Brickdam, Stabroek in downtown Georgetown. As a teacher visiting from East Berbice along with other colleagues, we were tended to right away and in the most expeditious manner. I must say [...]
