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 [...]
Gunmen rob businessman, tenant, flee with $3M in cash, jewellery
Popular Diamond, East Bank Demerara businessman, Motielall Beharry, was beaten and robbed of an estimated $2.7 M in cash and jewellery by three gunmen who invaded one of his properties around 23:30 hrs on Sunday. But Beharry believes that someone with whom the family has a dispute sent the men to harm his wife, Veronica [...]
Munroe should make the truth public
By Edison Jefford I was taken aback yesterday when I learnt that the General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has distant himself from a recent interview with Kaieteur Sport where he disclosed a particular national tennis team. This development surprised me because I now have to question the character, leadership and professionalism [...]
Broad Street fatal accident driver denied bail
…more charges likely A 27-year-old mother of two was yesterday remanded by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Ashley Pieters, of 33 Lyng Street, Charlestown, pleaded not guilty to two counts of dangerous driving. It was alleged that the accused, on June 12, last, at Broad and Ketley Streets, Charlestown, drove [...]
Health workers graduate from IT course
A number of health workers graduated yesterday from a six weeks training program dealing with Information Technology, which was hosted by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with CDC. At the graduation ceremony which was held at the Ramphal House in New Garden Street, Director and Chief-of-Party for CDC, Global AIDS Programme in Guyana, Dr. [...]
ICC Twenty20 Championship : Eyes of the cricket world on the Region
By Rawle Welch The ICC Twenty20 Cricket Championship will be played in three Caribbean countries next year and the challenge for the region right now is whether we could do a job comparable to what was witnessed at the recently concluded tournament in England. Having hosted Cricket World Cup 2007, many of the playing venues [...]
Todd overcomes weather, strong field to win GEB Golf tourney
Gavin Todd defied inclement weather and a strong field to secure victory in last weekend’s, GEB Security Service sponsored Medal Play Tournament, at the Lusignan Golf Club. Playing off a handicap 24, Todd recorded a net 63 from a gross 78 in capturing the win from 26 other players, who battled early showers and overcast [...]
NBTS satisfied with pace of blood donation
Ten months after issuing an advisory on a severe shortage of blood, the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) has now reported that such a shortage no longer exists. National Blood Donor Manager of the blood bank, Shameeza Mangal, told Kaieteur News yesterday that due to the many blood donation exercises by various organisations, and the [...]
Police want ‘Wild Hog’
Clarence Williams, called ‘Wild Hog’, is wanted by the police for escaping from the New Amsterdam Prison between June 1 and June 2, last. Williams was on remand on a charge of break and enter and larceny, sacrilege and possession of house breaking implements. The suspect is 35-years old, six feet- one inch in height [...]
Grand meet billed for Norman Singh Turf Club July 19
Horseracing lovers are assured of an action packed day of exciting races when the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (NSMTC) stages a one-day meeting at the Club’s Bel Air #6 Village, West Coast Berbice, on Sunday July 19. Several top horses from the country’s leading stables would be competing for lucrative cash prizes and entries [...]
Shooting suspect in custody, victim goes into hiding
Police are looking for an 18-year-old woman whose boyfriend shot her in the hip during a heated argument at Jeep Landing Kwakwani waterfront about 22:00 hours, Sunday night. The woman, Ann Louden, took her own discharge from the Mckenzie Hospital yesterday, after she was transferred from the Kwakwani Hospital where she was initially admitted immediately [...]
Invaders record lone win in Ann’s Grove Inter-Block football
Invaders recorded the lone victory last weekend, when play in the Ann’s Grove leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport organised Inter-Block football programme got underway. On Saturday last, Young Warriors and Invaders played out a nil-all stalemate in the opening contest of the double-header, while Panthers and Pacesetters also played scoreless in [...]
