The noise culture is quickly festering
Dear Editor, If there is any time that citizens of Guyana deserve peace, quiet, tranquility and immunization from the horrors of noise it is at nighttime. Today, our world is not as quiet as it had been decades ago. If it isn’t the telephone or cell phone ringing, it is the beep of this or [...]
Community outreach on agenda for Education Month
Community outreach activities will be among the important features which will be engaged next month as part of the observance of Education Month. According to Minister within the Education Ministry, Dr Desrey Fox, the innovative initiative which was introduced as part of last year’s observance will be retained this year as one of the more [...]
More Distortions from Freddie
Dear Editor, In his vitriolic column of August 23, Freddie Kissoon made references to me that are untruthful – deliberate and malicious attack to impugn my political independence and objective analysis as a social analyst. Freddie smeared my character with lies and distortions. Freddie pens that “Vishnu Bisram writes daily pro-PPP personalised attacks against him” [...]
The Guyanese people must demand these soldiers take a polygraph
The worst is yet to come and come it will. I speak as someone who lived under Burnham and saw the angry reaction of this entire nation, but greater tempest came from the East Indian population, to the scandals and mistakes of the PNC Government. What Burnham did was a drop in the ocean to [...]
Bandits invade Corentyne home
- use victim to fetch loot Bandits in Berbice resumed their nefarious operations in the Corentyne area, terrorising a family before making off with about $650,000 in cash, electrical equipment and a quantity of jewellery, on Sunday night. The bandits, who numbered four, had targeted the home of 52-year-old spray painter, Budnarine Surattan, at Number [...]
The Congress Place challenge that failed
For the past few weeks all eyes were on Congress Place, the headquarters of the main opposition party, the People’s National Congress. That party was holding its biennial congress, its highest forum and the scene of its elections for key crucial positions in the party. For the fourth time there was a challenge for the [...]
IS JAGDEO PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK?
Is our caring President playing hide-and-seek with the media? Ever since he returned from Emancipation celebrations in Jamaica, President Jagdeo has not yet called a press conference to brief the nation on his visit to that country and also his attendance at the UNASUR meeting held in South America, which he also attended. Ever since [...]
‘Snitch’ arrested
$17M river heist… A man who investigators believe provided information to the three Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard ranks who robbed and killed 23-year old Dweive Kant Ramdass has been arrested. The man who is said to be a speedboat captain who operates at the Parika Stelling was arrested on Saturday. This was after police [...]
Booty was handed over to car at roadblock
- arrested driver Evidence has emerged that police ranks at a roadblock on the West Demerara had siphoned off cash recovered from the Essequibo River heist into a car that was summoned on the scene by a Cadet Officer. This was revealed during a confrontation between the two men arrested with the cash and the [...]
GDF refutes Coast Guard’s alleged link to Lindo Creek
- Kaieteur News stands by video interview The Coast Guard rank under arrest for the murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass, was never involved in JSOG operations in the Lindo creek area, according to a release yesterday from the Guyana Defence Force. The release was in response to Sunday’s Kaieteur News story headlined “Army Chief, Coast [...]
Corbin should have properly verified his own list
- Donald Ramotar General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, in an invited comment yesterday said that re-elected People’s national congress reform leader, Robert Corbin, should have verified his own list, just as how he is calling for adequate verification of the national register of registrants. Ramotar was referring to accusations of massive [...]
President’s decision to buy Computers is ludicrous
…why not use the dividends instead and keep revenue flow – AFC Govt. sale of shares at GT&T… Alliance for Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, lashed out at the recent comments by Head of State, Bharrat Jagdeo, that he would prefer to use the US$20 million from the proposed sale of government’s shares in the Guyana [...]
River heist victim died from drowning
- postmortem A post mortem conducted yesterday on 23-year old, Dweive Kant Ramdass, revealed that he died from asphyxiation due to drowning. The post mortem was done yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital by Dr. Vivikinand Bridjmohan, the Government Pathologist for Regions Five and Six. But Ramdass’ sister Simone Singh, said that they were informed [...]
Crossing the threshold to commit crime is reprehensible and shocking – Army Chief
- The law will deal with them A heinous crime that should be punished to the full extent of the law is how Army Chief Commodore Gary Best described the act of the three ranks who brazenly robbed a Bartica resident on Thursday night. Two days earlier, 23-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass was robbed of $17M, [...]
Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play
On January 23rd 2007 three fishermen sailed some 40 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on what was to have been, at most, a routine three week fishing trip; they never returned. Mahadeo Ramdeo, 24; Ramnarine Jagmohan, 46 and Jason Marshall, 24 have never been seen or heard from since they left the Prittipaul Singh [...]
Corrupt Coast Guards took our money, goods
Essequibo farmers, boat operators say… By Latoya Giles Boat operators and farmers who traverse the Essequibo River are calling the recent arrest for murder of three Coast Guards as a long-awaited blessing. A few operators and farmers who spoke to Kaieteur News on Saturday said that what happened to 23-year old 23-year old, Dweive Kant [...]
‘Cammy’ Ramsaroop elected PNCR Chairman
Despite all the talk of unity at the opening of the 16th Biennial Congress of the Peoples National Congress Reform, the division within the party was on full display during the plenary session on Friday when members were allowed to speak their minds. As the various persons took the floor to air their various viewpoints, [...]
Enterprise Road Safety Group prepares for new school term
In an effort to make the roads in their community safer, members of the Enterprise Road Safety Group on the East Coast of Demerara have erected several speed humps to curtail reckless driving. With schools re-opening in a week’s time, the venture could not have come at a better time. In addition to the speed [...]
US Citizen vanishes after cocaine find at CJIA
Ranks from the Police Narcotics Branch are seeking the public’s assistance to locate a citizen of the United States who fled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri leaving her hand luggage with cocaine behind. Reports stated that the woman who has been identified as Ebony Singh was checking in on an early morning flight which [...]
Suriname re-opens ‘Backtrack’ crossing
- agri and other exports to resume The Surinamese authorities have agreed to re-open the ‘backtrack’ border crossing as of today, allowing once more the flow of people, goods and certified agricultural exports. On August 17, Suriname closed the route over fears that the plant disease, “Black Sigato”, which it claimed is rampant here, would [...]
Authorities breached Prison Act
Death at Camp Street Prison… The Ministry of Home Affairs says it is disturbed over the death of prisoner, Nave Beharry, who was discovered in his cell, at around 07.00 hrs, on Friday last at the Georgetown Prison. Beharry who was a remand prisoner, was deemed as being of unsound mind, and was in a [...]
Wakenaam farmer hit hard by spontaneous combustion
A Wakenaam resident who cultivates a farm at Hamburg Island (Tiger Island) has suffered almost one million dollars in losses due to a fire, believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, and which has been burning out of control for more than a week. Thakurpersaud Lookram, popularly known as “Pullout” cultivates plantains, pumpkins and [...]
Essequibo farmers receive payments from MRL
Some farmers in Essequibo have reported that they have begun receiving monies owed to them by the Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL). This is according to General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, who told Kaieteur News yesterday that although he is not sure that the entire $17 million was paid [...]
Republic Bank opens new Anna Regina branch
The newly constructed $348million building which now houses the Republic Bank, Essequibo branch, was officially opened with at its Anna Regina location with a simple ceremony. Prime minister, Samuel Hinds; Managing Directors of Republic Bank [Guyana] Limited, Mr. Edwin Gooding and Mr. John G. Carpenter; Executive Director and Mr. John Alves were present at the [...]
Troubles seem never ending for Parika vendors
The troubles faced by vendors operating alongside the Parika Mini-Bus Park seem to be never ending, since they were again ordered to move in three days or face ‘stall demolition’ by their Regional Chairman, Julian Fabian. This newspaper was summoned on Saturday to the KSI entrance where the vendors operate and they provided a document [...]
