Coast guards abduct, rob gold dealer’s employee
Perpetrator’s sister nabbed with $5.7M Victim missing, ranks detained Three ranks from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard were arrested yesterday afternoon following a brazen multi-million dollar robbery in the Essequibo River. The men were nabbed at Parika, East Bank Essequibo, after police recovered one-third of the stolen money. The victim 23-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass [...]
Simels, Assistant found guilty
- to be sentenced November 20 Famed New York Lawyer, 62-year-old, Robert Simels who represented self-confessed drug dealer Guyanese Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was found guilty on 12 of the 13 counts against him as the jury handed in their verdict, yesterday after seven days of deliberations. His associate, Arianne Irving was found guilty on five [...]
It’s Corbin vs Murray
…as Team Alexander, Reform component, Van West Charles throw weight behind Murray By Gary Eleazar Rumours were yesterday confirmed as fact when Dr Richard Van West Charles, the Reform component of the People’s National Congress, as well as Team Alexander, yesterday threw their support behind the Shadow Finance Minister Winston Murray to contest the post [...]
‘Eyewitness’ fingers Coast Guard vessel in Essequibo River mishap
- afraid to come forward with information Relatives of two men who perished in the boat mishap which occurred 10 days ago on the Essequibo River, are pleading with eyewitnesses to come forward with information, since a clandestine act is believed to have occurred. According to the relatives of Jainarine Dinanauth and Henry Gibson, they [...]
Is sheer Monkey business
When you sensitive all kind of things does jump out at you. If a man laugh you feel he laughing at you and if a man just watch you when he walk past you feel he got you in he mind. Nuff people get into fight just because dem sensitive. Dem boys remember a man [...]
Bandits nabbed after Linden restaurant robbery-booty missing
Public-spirited citizens turned the tables on three young bandits who carted off $500,000 from Dick’s Chinese Restaurant in Republic Avenue, Linden, early yesterday morning, after holding the owners at gunpoint. One of the bandits was soundly beaten while trying to escape, while the others surrendered to police after hiding in a nearby yard. Police sources [...]
Courts Pee Wee U 11 knock-out stage starts today @ Thirst Park
Battle for semi-final spots on It will be do or die for Under-11 teams when the knockout stage of the Courts Pee Wee competition organised by the Georgetown Football Association kicks off at the Banks DIH ground, Thirst Park from 13:00hrs. Thomas United match skills with Renaissance to be followed by a clash between defending [...]
Black Out halts completion of Trix U-17 tournament
An unwanted guest invaded and brought a premature end to proceedings on what should have been the final night of action in the inaugural Trix Under-17 football competition in the city on Wednesday night. Twenty-three minutes into the third place game between Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Uprising, the Guyana Power and Light took power [...]
City Hall receives ‘gag order’ on Inquiry Report
Although copies of the Commission of Inquiry Report have been handed over to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Georgetown, no comments have been forthcoming from the municipality. City Mayor Hamilton Green had for weeks lamented the fact that he had not been able to peruse the three-volume report which has the potential of significantly [...]
Suriname Embassy investigating suspected change in importation protocol
The Suriname Embassy in Guyana has commenced its own investigation into recent disclosures that there has been a change in Suriname’s protocol as it relates to the importation of produce from Guyana. This disclosure was forthcoming yesterday from an Embassy staffer who disclosed that the relevant officers were preparing to place a call to Suriname [...]
Vigil outside State House
The beginning of the end of the concept of the maximum leader
The ongoing political competition taking place within the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is good for the party and for the country. It is also not unique to the PNCR since similar events are taking place within the PPP, thus marking the end of the rule of the principle of the Maximum Leader with both [...]
Flamingo oppose Conquerors, Camptown face Pele
The battle for supremacy in the 2009 Cellink Premier League, which is in its second and final round, continues tonight at the Tucville ground with another double header. Sunburst Camptown are down to engage Pele in the feature game and will be looking to bag another 3-points following their 4-0 hammering of GFC in their [...]
Freedom of speech is a right not accorded to all Guyanese
Dear Editor, I refer to Dr. Randy Persaud’s article titled “The PNCR Congress and a note to Mr. L. Lewis” (Guyana Chronicle, August 13, 2009). From the outset let me say Persaud’s right to freedom of speech is not only endorsed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, where he is resident, but also [...]
Runaway teen accuses father of sexual molestation
Police on the Essequibo Coast have detained a 40-year-old man after receiving information that he was sexually molesting his teenaged daughter. According to reports, the teen’s parent had reported her missing over the weekend. However the family subsequently received information that the teen was hiding at a friend’s home on the Essequibo Coast. The teen’s [...]
Health Ministry arson suspect granted High Court bail
Ministry of Health arson suspect Keith Ferrier has been granted bail in the High Court in the sum of $350,000. Ferrier’s attorney Mortimer Coddett made the petition and it was subsequently accepted. Coddett had earlier argued that there were no legal backings for the denial of bail, by the magistrate. But the prosecution had argued [...]
The day Jagdeo dropped the ball
Dear Editor, With West Indies cricket facing perhaps its greatest crisis, the responsibility was given to Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo to resolve the issues and remove or narrow the gap between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association so that the region would again be properly represented at the international level. [...]
3rd Annual Chubby U-13 Competition unveiled
Ten teams to vie for top honors, Uprising are defending champs By Franklin Wilson The Third Annual Chubby Under-13 Round Robin/Knockout competition sponsored by Guyana Beverages Inc. and organised by the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) was unveiled yesterday at the sponsors, Diamond Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara, Headquarters. Ten teams including defending champions Uprising will [...]
The PNCR as a party will always emerge the victor
Dear Editor, The People’ National Congress Reform (PNCR) 16th Biennial Congress scheduled to be held on Friday 21st August and Saturday 22nd August 2009 is likely to attract the usual national and international attention. I therefore, wish to congratulate the party on reaching this milestone in its history, despite encountering many turbulent waves over the [...]
Lumber truck topples after side-swiping bus
Passengers in a route 42 minibus were lucky to escape serious injury at around 05:35 hrs yesterday after a lumber truck side-swiped their vehicle before toppling over on the East Bank Demerara public road near Diamond Housing Scheme. A woman who was in the bus sustained minor injury to one of her hands. The careening [...]
Cops return former Chief Magistrate’s vehicle
After almost three weeks, police have returned the vehicle that they had seized from Former Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen during their investigations into the Health Ministry fire. In a statement to Kaieteur News, Mrs. Holder-Allen said that she received a call two days ago from someone at the Brickdam Police Station, who informed her that [...]
CCJ rules against Guyana, orders reinstatement of CET on cement
By Gary Eleazar The Right Honourable Justice M. A. de la Bastide at the Caribbean Court of Justice yesterday ruled against Guyana in the case against the Trinidadian Cement Company and TCL Guyana Incorporated and has ordered that the country reinstate the Common External Tariff (CET) that sparked the fiasco, within 28 days. The Court [...]
North Sophia murder accused remanded
Romeo Andrews, who is accused of killing a North Sophia man on Sunday last, was yesterday remanded to prison, when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Andrews was not required to plead to the indictable offence, which stated that on August 17, at Sophia, he murdered 38-year-old Andrew Thomas called [...]
Freddie was being extremely kind by suggesting McCoy be sent to Monkey Mountain
Dear Editor, I am sure that the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) can better expend his time and resources than to deal with the folly and lack of basic knowledge in Mr McCoy’s highly publicised adventure to ask the ERC to deal with what is a non-issue. I read the purported offending article [...]
The highest paid teacher in New York City
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Vishu Bisram (Kaieteur News, August 19) in which he wrote; “I am happily employed as a teacher in NYC. I will be an idiot to leave a tenured teaching position with only a few years remaining for my retirement and as the highest paid teacher with the [...]
