Cabinet breached the law
- Parliamentary Committee Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Hydar Ally, along with a team of officials from that Ministry yesterday appeared before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee to submit to scrutiny and to offer explanations for discrepancies highlighted in the 2006 Auditor General’s report. One of the issues that featured prominently was the [...]
Crippled for life
- by car driven by unlicenced 16-yr-old A 47-year old woman from Alexander Village, Greater Georgetown, may be crippled for life after she was struck down by a car driven by a 16-year old unlicenced driver. Lilowtie Persaud, of 194 Fourth Street, Alexander Village, is now confined to the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown [...]
Police bust sex ring
Girls aged 12, 13, among five arrested (By Mondale Smith) After countless reports to this publication from neighbours about a Guyhoc house being used as the venue for a sex ring involving underaged school girls, yesterday the police became involved and five persons were arrested. Three were schoolgirls, aged 12, 13 and 19, while the [...]
Open koker floods Blankenburg, hurts poultry rearer
A koker left open Sunday night caused untold hardships for some residents of Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara. Early yesterday morning, one of them, a poultry farmer named Nazmoon Khan, rushed to save her chickens. She said that it was about 02:00 hours when she heard her chickens making a lot of noise so she grabbed [...]
Kwame McCoy denies comment on Jagdeo’s overseas visits
President’s Press Liaison Officer, Kwame McCoy, has denied comments attributed to him in an article captioned, “We don’t have to announce all of Jagdeo’s trips.” He said that the article “is completely misleading and it would appear as though my comments were deliberately twisted, which highlights a trend over the last few months.” Over the [...]
Miss Guyana Universe ready and waiting…
The fifteen delegates of this year’s Miss Guyana Universe Pageant were recently sashed at the Umana Yana, at an affair that was graced with high class fashion, glamour and serene elegance. At the function, the girls were officially introduced to sponsors, the media, and would-be sponsors. Reigning Miss Guyana Universe, Meleesa Payne, was also in [...]
Linden one-stop shop was transparent – Irfaan Ali
Housing Ministry is prepared to investigate authenticity of applicants’ information The Ministry of Housing and Water is prepared to address reports that suggest that people living overseas have received house lots and that spouses have benefited from separate allocations. Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, made this disclosure in response to an article published [...]
US$27M to be spent on low income settlement programme
Approximately 20,000 temporary jobs will be created when the second round of the Low Income Settlement programme gets on stream. The venture, which represents sustained collaboration between the Government of Guyana and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), was launched yesterday at the Regency Suites/Hotel, Hadfield Street, Georgetown. The programme is being funded by the bank [...]
What is domestic violence?
Dear Editor, I have been watching the news on television and reading about domestic violence in our country which I found very interesting. I heard our President calling on the religious leaders and organisations to help fight this atrocious act that is presently destroying the moral fabric in our society. Domestic violence is not a [...]
Quicksilver theft lands two in court
Two former employees from K&B Mining Company were yesterday placed on $200,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson. Bishram Samaroo, 18, of 334 Section ‘B’ Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, and Steven Marks, 22, of 88 Atlantic Ville East Coast Demerara, pleaded not guilty to stealing 235 lbs of mercury (quicksilver), valuing $1.7M, property [...]
It pains me to see the rapid decline of President’s College
Dear Editor, I was one of the fortunate 72 admitted to President’s College (PC) in 1985 and am forever grateful to the teachers and staff, who guided us through those formative years. But times have changed and PC is sailing on like a rudderless ship. There are a few things that we must come to [...]
The Domestic Violence policy alone will not solve the problems
Dear Editor, In June 2008, the National Domestic Violence policy was launched. We believe that the lack of any real coordinated implementation of this policy should be a cause for national concern. The policy recognises several guiding principles and eight thematic areas on which the Government and other stakeholders are to co-ordinate efforts to change [...]
Security Guard remanded for assault
A 29-year-old security guard attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, for threatening language. It was alleged that Leslie Shortt of Lot 160 Waterloo Street, threatened Karen Fontenoe. He was also charged with assaulting her at Waterloo Street. He pleaded not guilty to both charges [...]
Man beats wife’s paramour, lands in court
Forty-seven-year old Mark Woolford, of 148 Cato Street, Agricola, was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $45,000 or spend 18 months’ imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm. Woolford, appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, pleaded guilty to assaulting Julius Arthur causing him actual [...]
The fight to finance standing forests
Dear Editor, China is one of the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitters because of its heavy industrialization and urbanization. China is more focused on a cumulative emission budget over the 21st century, the low carbon economy characterized by low energy consumption and low emissions are becoming more popular in China. Global talks about climate change [...]
Ramkarran replies to Ogunseye
Dear Editor, Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye, in his letter of June 21, challenges me to “demonstrate political maturity and integrity by publicly correcting (my) falsification of an important development in this country’s political history.” He predicts that if I fail to do so I will be so damnified that I will be “no different than (my) [...]
Support for National Martyrs Day
Dear Editor, I write in support of a letter captioned, “Let’s have a National Martyrs Day” under the hands of Fazel Khan, printed in the Kaieteur News, Monday June 22, 2009. I wish to state quite categorically that in the interest of forging national unity and building social cohesion all those persons who are considered [...]
Vendor still critical after being shot
Troy De Mattos, 41, of Shirley Field-Ridley Square, West Ruimveldt, who was shot on Saturday is said to be in a critical but stable condition. Up to press time yesterday, De Mattos was still being treated for a bullet wound to his chest. This newspaper was told that the bullet which was lodged in the [...]
Is the government encouraging corruption?
The Auditor General has once more revealed what can only be termed blatant disregard for accounting procedures and for the rule of law. The most damning comment to come out in the wake of the report has been the findings on the award of contracts to the local drug manufacturing company. The law states that [...]
Police attempt to return seized cellular phone without memory card
A West Bank Demerara cattle farmer who was arrested for recording his conversation with a police rank at the Wales Police Station is refusing to take possession of the instrument, after discovering that the memory card was missing. Shadier Hassan, of Clay Brick Road, Canal Number Two Polder, was placed on $5,000 bail and had [...]
Boxers on S&S Promotions’ card intensify training sessions
As the time draws closer for his bantamweight championship bout with Dexter Marques, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore stepped up his training with a six-round sparring session against several boxers at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Boxing Gym (ALBG), Sunday morning. In the above photo Moore (left) is about to launch an attack on Rudy Fraser, who [...]
Gardner performs creditably in USA Musclemania championship
…Says love for country inspired achievement Approximately one year after a scintillating performance at the Musclemania Superbody competition in the United States of America that earned him that title and an elevation into the professional ranks, local bodybuilding sensation Sylvan Gardner returned this year to place 6th from a field of 13 competitors worldwide. This [...]
Tenelec Berbice 1st division 50-over cricket: Rose Hall Canje, Police join RHTWSB and Albion in semis
Any hopes West Berbice had of reaching the semi-finals of the Tenelec Berbice first division 40-over cricket competition were washed away by torrential rain, which left the Canje ground waterlogged, resulting in them sharing the two points with Bermine in their final preliminary round game. West Berbice, who finished with five points, faulted on Saturday, [...]
Witness places ‘Blondie’ at crime scene
“… she was the only person with what appeared to be a gun.” Yesterday as the Ashanti ‘Blondie’ Shultz murder trial commenced, the first witness to take the stand before Justice William Ramlal, Police Detective Constable Kenton De Younge, placed Schultz at the scene. Shultz, a broker, of 109 Eccles, East Bank Demerara, is before [...]
Sunburst Camptown cart off Football Festival
Western Tigers are a no show Sunburst Camptown defeated Fruta Conquerors 2-1 to cart off the Marlon Hendricks trophy and $80,000, when the finals of the Camptown Football Festival concluded at the Camptown Ground in Campbellville Housing Scheme, Sunday evening last. Fruta Conquerors earned themselves $40,000. Reshawn Sandiford wasted little time in sending Camptown ahead [...]
