Guyana modifies extradition law
Attorney General and Minister of Affairs, Charles Ramson, is gearing to table in the National Assembly, the Fugitive Offenders (Amendment) Bill that will allow Guyana to lawfully extradite fugitives to Commonwealth or Treaty Territories such as the United States of America. According to the explanatory memorandum accompanying the Bill that was recently published in the [...]
Gunman shoots two on Norton Street
Two young men, Christopher McLean, 17, and Richard Philadelphia, are currently in the Balwant Singh Hospital having undergone surgery for gunshot wounds sustained last night on Norton Street, Lodge, having just turned off Mandela Avenue.. According to reports, McLean, the grandson of retired Major General Norman McLean, was said to have been driving a borrowed [...]
Coast Guard trade bullets with hijackers
- rescue fishing crew Members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard traded gunshots with the occupants of a speedboat coming from neighbouring Venezuela yesterday, shortly after rescuing two Guyanese fishing crews. The shootout took place in the vicinity of Morawhanna, in the Northwest District. There were no reports of injuries. The speedboat made [...]
Teen killed in freak accident
…Pinned by father’s truck that slipped off jack A 17-year-old boy from Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital, minutes after he was crushed by his father’s truck that fell off its jack. Jason De Abreu was assisting his father Terry to free the truck after it got [...]
Garbage crisis… City Hall pays $5M to contractors
City Hall was yesterday able to pay contractors $5M of the amount owed to them for garbage disposal works. However the payment, which represents a fraction of the actual amount, owed will not be sufficient enough to see the contractors resuming their operation. According to the municipality’s Public Relations Officer, Royston King, each of the [...]
Another woman stabbed by spurned lover
- broken blade lodged in abdomen One day after the country witnessed yet another domestic violence case that had a fatal ending, a 34-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital yesterday after she was stabbed multiple times about the body, allegedly by her reputed husband. Sharmaine Mc Kay, 34, of Bachelors Adventure, was rushed [...]
Doodnauth Singh being evacuated
Former Attorney General Doodnauth Singh is being flown out to the United States to undergo immediate heart intervention. Mr Singh was admitted to Balwant Singh Medical Centre last week suffering from what is said to be an existing heart condition. He was scheduled to be flown out this weekend but his condition reportedly deteriorated, necessitating [...]
New North West Organics coffee hits local shelves today
Amidst promises of a $325,000 packaging vacuum from the Agriculture Ministry, another all natural organically produced product was launched yesterday to add to the local coffee variety available on market shelves. The new variety of locally grown coffee, produced by the Blue Flame women’s group, was launched by North West Organics (NWO) as a continuance [...]
President Jagdeo assents to new law securing his financial future
On May 28, last, Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo assented to the controversial Former Presidents (Benefits and Facilities) Bill bringing it into to law, securing his financial and other benefits when he demits office in 2011. Under the new law, a former President will receive payment in respect of the expenses incurred in the provision [...]
Warder lands in jail for taking drugs into prison
He was supposed to be a part of the team responsible for reforming prisoners but instead Glen Lewis had other ideas.The former Prison Officer of Cumberland Village was on Monday last sentenced to a total of six years in jail and fined $15,000 by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. He [...]
DFID’s £5M Trust Fund to boost C’bean growth
The British government’s Department for International Development (DFID) has established a Trust Fund for £5 million to boost growth and reduce poverty in the Caribbean. The announcement came from the CARICOM Secretariat yesterday. The Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Trust Fund (CARTFUND) forms part of the UK’s commitment to provide aid for trade [...]
Ramsaroop criticises IMF report
…claims critical issues not addressed Recently recruited Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance For Change, Peter Ramsaroop, yesterday slammed the recently released International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on Guyana. According to Ramsaroop, the unknown source that came to Guyana to prepare the report basically took the Finance Minister’s 2009 Budget presentation and “turned it [...]
NGOs highlight need for sexual offences bills to be tabled in Parliament
On Tuesday last, Red Thread, in conjunction with Help and Shelter, again dealt with the issue of the need for the Sexual Offences Bill to be tabled in Parliament. This decision they say should be in conjunction with the ‘Stamp it Out’ and Child Protection legislation that have already been tabled. These issues were raised [...]
US citizens remanded for drug trafficking
Two US citizens were remanded to prison on Tuesday last after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. It was alleged that the two 24-year-olds, Tracy-Ann Samuels and Asha Smallwood, on June 7, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, had in their possession 3.863 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. The two defendants pleaded [...]
Taxi service owner granted bail on abduction charge
Taxi service owner, Fazil Ali, also known as ‘Yuppie’, was granted $250,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday, on a charge of abduction and assault. It was alleged that on March 28, last, he abducted Keron Munroe; he was not required to plead to the indictable offence. A second charge states that [...]
Etwaroo Dhanraj – a relic from Bath sugar estate
He is a sprightly old man living at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. His name is Etwaroo Dhanraj but he is better known as Cheddi Basil. He joined the Staff at Bath Estate in 1935 at age 12 as a trainee blacksmith. At the Estate there was a sluice attendant with a beautiful daughter named [...]
Brother charged with attempted murder
Sadar Sukdeo, aka Rakesh or Hangman, was on Tuesday last remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It is alleged that on May 23, at Uitvlugt, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded his brother, Colin Lawrence, in an attempt to murder him. Sukdeo, who was not required to plead, and who was unrepresented in [...]
Father, children escape injury in two-vehicle collision
…other driver critical in hospital A driver is reportedly critical, and another and his children escaped serious injury, after two vehicles collided on the Port Mourant Public Road yesterday afternoon. Eyewitnesses report that a motor car bearing license plate PKK 8578 and owned by Zameer Ali, of Belvedere, collided with motor PFF 568, driven [...]
Foreign company uses bogus Demerara Sugar label
Six years have passed since a company has been using Guyana Sugar Corporation’s label ‘Demerara Gold’ to dupe overseas-based Guyanese into buying sugar purported to be made in Guyana when in fact the commodity is produced in Mauritius. And whoever is doing this continues to get away with the act. As such, Minister of Agriculture, [...]
South R/veldt man shot during early morning robbery
A South Ruimveldt resident is nursing a glancing gunshot wound to the upper part of his body following an attack on a shop at Mandela Avenue and Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, by three gunmen early yesterday morning. A suspect was taken into custody yesterday afternoon. According to the police, the gunmen entered the business place [...]
“Not a three-headed baby…”
Newborn has Meningocele – Medical Practitioner By Jenelle Carter A Medical Practitioner has stated that the baby that was delivered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation last week, does not have “three heads”. Rather, the condition represents a defect in the bones of the skull. According to Dr. Clive Bowman, who is attached to [...]
GT&T monopoly has held back Guyana’s economy – Dr. Luncheon
The monopoly held by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has hindered Information Technology from making the kind of contributions to Guyana’s economy that have been made in other economies, said Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon. Dr Luncheon said that there has been rapid improvement in countries where de-monopolisation has taken place, and a more [...]
Essequibo residents disgusted by constant escapes from NOC
Even as police on the Essequibo Coast continue to grapple with the increasing number of escapees from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) more delinquents are freeing themselves by any means possible from the facility. Reports are that on Sunday last, two more inmates escaped from the NOC. The following day three others managed to free [...]
Businessman on $1M bail
Businessman, Haresh Narine, 58, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday placed on $1M bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on a charge of falsely obtaining $10M from Kennard Gobin by pretending to sell him a Caterpillar 320B excavator. The act allegedly occurred on October 8, last. He pleaded [...]
President Jagdeo warns ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur to cooperate with NCN Board
President Bharrat Jagdeo has warned NCN Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, to work along with the Board of Directors. Yesterday, the Head of State summoned the members of the Board of Directors along with Sattaur to intervene in the apparent friction between the parties. Kaieteur News understands that the President made it clear that [...]
