High Court orders seized vehicles returned to CLICO
The drama between CLICO (Guyana) and the Kissoon Group of Companies continued yesterday after the High Court ordered that three vehicles that were seized from CLICO be returned to the beleaguered insurance firm. Two of the impounded vehicles were removed by crash truck from the High Court compound at around 11:00 hrs yesterday, and taken [...]
Gov’t acting like vultures picking at the flesh of a dying nation – Lincoln Lewis
Veteran Trade Unionist Lincoln Lewis yesterday lashed out at the Government, saying that the administration was acting like vultures picking at the flesh of a dying nation, citing what he sees as the wanton abuse of the nation’s finances as a point of reference. Lewis also made a nationwide plea for civil disobedience and for [...]
North Sophia man brutally murdered …killer chased wounded man around shop
A 38-year-old unemployed man was stabbed to death during a brawl on Sunday night outside a North Sophia shop. Adrian Thomas, called ‘Pyee’, of North Sophia, sustained a gaping wound to the neck at around 21:00 hrs after he had argued with another patron who was allegedly blocking his view while he was watching television. [...]
Prisoner causes courtroom ruckus – Lunges at magistrate
A man who allegedly stole a cell phone caused uproar at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Randy Samuel had to be subdued by several police officers as he attempted to reach the magistrate’s bench. The presiding magistrate was Priya Beharry. The allegation was that the defendant stole a cell phone from Shennel Rodriques and as [...]
Berbice Sea Defence Unit grossly understaffed
The Sea Defence Unit at Springlands on the Corentyne, which is responsible for river and sea defences in the entire county, currently has no emergency crew, and in fact has but two technical staff. Kaieteur News understands that apart from an engineer and his foreman, the Unit has no personnel to carry out emergency repairs [...]
Sugar production for second crop passes 26,000 tonnes
Sugar production for the second crop has surpassed 26,000 tonnes after four weeks of grinding. The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) said the “encouraging” tonnage was contributed by seven factories. This production, the Corporation said, is expected to increase significantly from the new week when the new factory at Skeldon joins the production drive. In the [...]
ERC launches investigation into McCoy’s allegations
The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has launched an investigation into the complaint made by Information Liaison to the President, Kwame McCoy, against Kaieteur News Columnist, Freddie Kissoon. In an official complaint to the ERC, McCoy is alleging that Kissoon in one of his columns, titled, “Ten Years of Jagdeo – Faustian Journey,” exhibited racist behaviour [...]
Youths suspected of manipulating ATM caught on camera
Some city youths who hatched a plan to hit a city bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and thought that they could get away with it, have landed in hot water with the police. The youths did not bargain for the surveillance cameras that surround the facility, or maybe they got too careless. This newspaper understands [...]
Bulletin issued for another suspect
The police have issued a bulletin for another suspect in the fire which gutted the Ministry of Health a month ago. The suspect is George Lashley, who according to the police is about 60 years old and resided at Lot 187 Freeman Street, North East La Penitence. Lashley is described as stoutly built with a [...]
Jurors peruse Vaughn/Simels taped conversation …as fourth day passes without verdict
Jurors deliberating the Robert Simels/Arianne Irving obstruction, witness tampering and illegal importation case, in New York, USA, have requested additional extracts of testimonies to assist them as they completed the fourth full day of working towards a verdict. The 12-member jury requested the tapes of certain aspects of the conversation between Attorney, turned defendant, Robert [...]
Contractor did not abandoned the media team
Dear Editor, Reference is made to your Saturday 15th August, 2009 edition, captioned “Minister abandons media team and contractor seeks to frustrate…..” in which a few points mentioned are not quite accurate and needs to be clarified: (i) The contractor (Roopan Ramotar) was informed of the visit from persons within the Ministry of Agriculture, in [...]
Behold! Who is playing the race card?
Dear Editor, Kwame McCoy is lodging a complaint against Freddie Kissoon on the basis of a historical racist behaviour against persons of African descent. Mr. McCoy’s has suddenly become sensitive to actions and attitudes in Guyana that are reminiscent of a historical pattern in the black experience. If the ERC is interested in becoming a [...]
‘We are living in the cloud of darkness’
Dear Editor, I believe the various issues that were raised on Channel 8 last weekend on a live call-in programme with an herbal doctor in Berbice and Mr. Ramjattan of the Alliance for Change (AFC) should be made known in these columns. The programme, a fort-nightly one, was given the name “We are living in [...]
Machiavelli did not rescue Guyana
Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon must be credited for his efforts for his recent work in shedding some light on the people who have led Guyana since the run up to Independence to present day. The two most important players were obviously Cheddi and Forbes. Forbes was lauded for his Machiavellian traits during his leadership. Niccolo [...]
Gandhi’s views on political culture
Dear Editor, Saturday, August 15, 2009 was the 62nd Anniversary of India’s Independence. And I thought in an effort to review India’s emergent move into global economic dominance that it might be useful to bring to the table a few of Gandhi’s ideas of something called ‘political culture’ through the eyes of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. [...]
Obama can’t be bothered with our delusions
Dear Editor, Poor Barack Obama, militant forces here in Guyana are trying to get him to fight for their cause, but the chap seems to have his own headaches to think about. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is reporting that right-wing militia groups in the United States, incensed by the election of the first [...]
Largest evidence to date we are a 10th rate country
In every sphere of life in this country, we see the falling down, the fast rate of social decline, the disappearing human resource index. Out of all of this comes the ubiquity of mediocrity. It affects journalism, higher education, the private sector, the police force, car repair service, technical operations, the heath sector, public sector [...]
Back to square one
Dear Editor, During the count down to the CARICOM Summit there were massive clean up campaigns in Guyana. Those indigent ones living on our streets were assembled and taken to homeless shelters. Huge piles of garage located in all corners of Guyana were cleared. It was beginning to look as if we were in renewed [...]
There must be answers to these queries
The government is not happy that Kaieteur News is taking a look at some of the contracts awarded in the Drainage and Irrigation sector. Such has been the anger that Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud, by way of press releases and public comments, has actually accused the newspaper of waging a campaign against him. Such a [...]
Closing the doors after the horse has bolted
The announcement by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that it will allow observers, public counting of votes and scrutineers for the forthcoming elections within the party is a case of closing the door after the horse has bolted. All these measures will mean nothing, since the principal controversy at the last Congress was not [...]
East trample West in Linden All-Star duel
By Edison Jefford The Eastern half of the Demerara River that flows through Linden proved that they really produce better ‘ballers’ when they overcame the Western half in an All–Star Basketball Showdown at the Mackenzie court Saturday night. Louis James and Jason Alonzo both scored 13 points to lead the offensively ready East to bragging [...]
Monkey Mountain is an actual place in Guyana
Dear Editor, Could someone please inform Kwame McCoy that Monkey Mountain is indeed an actual place in Guyana? This is what Freddie Kissoon said in his column captioned, Ten years of Jagdeo: Faustian journey, “Burnham would have never tolerated a Kwame McCoy as his spokesperson. Burnham would have consigned McCoy to a platoon in the [...]
Irish Gel wins feature, Singh named best jockey
Irish Gel ridden by champion jockey Kumar Singh produced an authoritative display to capture the C & Lower feature event at last Sunday’s Jumbo Jet Auto Sales Guyana Cup Horseracing Meeting which was held at the Rising Sun Turf Club on the West Coast Berbice. Singh, who had already won three races before was at [...]
Ram has lost all claims to his non-partisan credentials
Dear Editor, Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram, to the surprise of no one, was true to form, trying to embellish his non-partisan credentials by attempting to ‘chair’ a large gathering of 25 persons at a so-called civil society meeting at City Hall last week. He lost all claims to being non-partisan by being a co-author of [...]
Annandale edge Brusche Dam on penalties
Annandale edged Brusche Dam on penalty kicks 4-2 after the pair played out a 0-0 stalemate at the end of regulation time at the Vigilance ground in the lone match played on Sunday last in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Buxton Inter-Block football tournament. Annandale join Vigilance as the two teams with perfect [...]
