UG fires lecturer for inappropriate behaviour
The University of Guyana Council (UGC) has fired one of its lecturers for inappropriate behaviour following a meeting Wednesday night. Although it was unclear last evening whether the lecturer was told of the decision, a top source of the university confirmed that the decision has been taken and the lecturer, Evan Persaud, will have to [...]
US embassy staffer arrested for rape
An employee of the United States Embassy has been arrested for rape and is likely to face the courts tomorrow. Kaieteur News understand that the staffer committed the offence on Sunday on a 21-year-old teacher after she visited him at his Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, home where she had gone to return a book. The [...]
Three Rose Hall businesses go up in flames
By Melissa Johnson ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey building that housed three business entities at Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne, yesterday. In the aftermath, there were accusations and allegations of theft leveled against some members of the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service. Many residents [...]
Suriname deports illegal Guyanese nationals
By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Law enforcement officials in Suriname have disclosed that over the past several days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were deported to Guyana. Also at least four were detained for various offences ranging from drug trafficking to violation of the Foreign Currency Act. ‘Operation Koetai’, a wide-scale security [...]
Kwame, Julius sex tape hits the streets
Risking arrest, activist Mark Benschop yesterday caused a stir in the Stabroek Market area after he used a music vendor’s cart to play a taped sex conversation of a government official, prompting scores to flock around him. Benschop, who is no stranger to clashes with authority, arrived shortly after 11:00 hrs at the Ministry of [...]
36-foot whale dies
The 36-foot whale which had drifted ashore at Almond Beach, Morawhanna, Region One, has finally died. For the past four days, the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) with support from volunteers in the community, tried desperately to save the whale. This was confirmed by Farmers Relations Specialist of the [...]
Gunman grabs Kissoon’s payroll
Two officials from A H&L Kissoon’s Limited were left traumatised yesterday, after a lone gunman grabbed a $2M payroll from them as they sat in a car on Camp Street. Police said that the officials had just uplifted the cash from Demerara Bank Limited around 13:00 hrs and were heading to the Kissoon’s branch in [...]
Stone was stoned when he made that film
What I find inexplicable about the American film maker, Oliver Stone, and the Caribbean economist, Professor Norman Girvan, is that despite all their panegyrics of Castro’s Cuba and Venezuela’s Chavez, they would not work and live in those two countries and they wouldn’t send their children to universities there. Girvan is happy to remain on [...]
WHAT IS EARNED SHOULD NOT HAVE CONDITIONS ATTACHED
There is an age-old adage which states that impediments should not be placed in the way of a man receiving what is rightly due to him. Thus, if someone has worked, he should be allowed to receive his earnings and benefits without extraneous considerations. There is also however a responsibility on the part of the [...]
What is the obsession with polls in Guyana?
Dear Editor, I recall the day I met Vishnu Bisram – February 10, 1990 – at a meeting on Liberty Avenue, attended by approximately 300 Guyanese activists. At this meeting the World Union of Guyanese was formed under the guidance of Dr. Fenton Ramsahoye. Bisram had joined me and others at meetings with several U.S. [...]
A passing sexual fetish?
Dear Editor, Being in a crowded New York subway car is no fun. You are literally pushed up against hundreds of cultures from around the world, all with its nauseating odours and its alien, even irritating mannerisms. Couple this with the fact that almost half the people on the train don’t speak English and everyone [...]
Only good environmental governance can sustain real development in Latin America
Dear Editor, Old dancing partners, with new faces, are making well-coordinated steps across the countries of Africa and Latin America. In the face of the global financial recession and, what appears to be, the end of the Monroe Doctrine, these partners are moving lightly across the geopolitical spectrum to the increasingly sweet sound of South-South [...]
Self confessed murderer remanded
Also charged with possession Damian Griffith, also known as Damian Marks, appeared in court last Thursday to face multiple charges, including murder and narcotics possession. According to reports, Griffith had murdered Juliet Forde, a shopkeeper, two years ago at Mahdia. He was also charged for having in his possession, on Monday last, a 9mm pistol [...]
Dragging of feet and a frustrated pensioner
Dear Editor, I am writing on my father’s behalf. His name is Seegobin and he currently resides overseas. My father’s local address is lot 151 Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice. His NIS # is A-1656404, and he has been the recipient of old age Pension since 2007. He last received payment in May 2009 and was [...]
Ex-GPL employees face Magistrate
Two ex-Guyana Power and Light employees yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, charged with demanding money with menace. It is alleged that on September 23, last, at Craig, East Bank Demerara, Solomon Jones and Jermaine James demanded $60,000 from one Shionjali Sheumber. The prosecutor told the court that the two men, aged 28 [...]
Plantain farmers hit by infestation
…Agriculture Ministry ‘studying’ the issue Plantain farmers in Rosenanti Tuschen Backlands, East Bank Essequibo are being severely affected by Sigatoka disease which has taken over their farms. The farmers, through representation from People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) Member of Parliament, Mervin Williams, raised this issue with Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, yesterday during a farmers’ [...]
A man with a passion for education has passed
Dear Editor, It is with deep sorrow that I write to express my sincere condolences to the family of the late Randolph Gordon, who passed away on September 24, 2009. I met Mr. Gordon some years ago while working with the Georgetown District of the PNCR, and this gentleman I can only describe as a [...]
Shooter remains critical, two youths undergo surgery
Four days after the gun brawl at the National Gymnasium, Jermaine Langevine, remains critical, while two of the youths shot underwent surgery. Dwayne Wharton, 17, and Terrence Edwards, 15, underwent surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital to remove bullets from their left foot and buttock respectively. Jamel Thomas, 17, who was also shot, was discharged [...]
The silence of the political opposition
The silence of the opposition in the face of serious national issues is something of concern for the more that 44 per cent of the population that voted against the current rulers of the nation. And there are very many issues that demand political action. More recently, there were a number of queries about some [...]
Minister vetoes Grove NDC’s bid to increase rates
Residents of the Golden Grove/Diamond area will not see any increase in their rates for this year, according to the Local Government Ministry. A notice posted in yesterday’s edition of Kaieteur News said that rates for residents, commercial and industrial/agricultural lands will not be increased. Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall, also [...]
GPL moves to separate more workers
“We still have to discuss our options with the Union” GPL- CEO Dindyal As the modernisation of Guyana Power and Light Company continues, there is the likelihood of more workers being separated from the company. Word is that workers from the Generation Section of the company are those who may be affected by the separation [...]
SAME OLD STORY!
E’bo lose by 36 runs, defeated before lunch By Sean Devers in Essequibo In Association with Arabian Hotel & Brydens & Fernandes Twenty-one year-old former West Indies under-19 Captain Steven Jacobs grabbed his maiden 5-wicket haul at the senior 4-day level to engineer a come from-behind- 36-run win for Demerara against Essequibo at the Anna [...]
Swansea claims Ministry of Culture owes company $12M
By Michael Jordan Managing Director of Swansea Industrial Associates, Christian Duncan, is alleging that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports still owes him over $12M for work his company did during Carifesta X a year ago. Duncan told Kaieteur News on Thursday that the outstanding sum is for an album of 45 folk songs [...]
Region Three Chairman, PNCR member clash over interventions for farmers
…Agriculture Ministry admits that contracts not cost effective People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) Member of Parliament, Mervyn Williams, and Chairman of Region Three, Julius Faerber, were yesterday engaged in a very blunt exchange of words, as they differed on interventions being made at the regional level to support farmers on the West Coast of Demerara. [...]
RHTWSB face-off with Albion today at Canje
By Sean Devers The winner of the Berbice zone of the Neal & Massy National 50-overs 1st division cricket competition and the Berbice team to oppose the Essequibo winner will be known this afternoon after Albion and Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) will clash in the Berbice final of the competition from 11:00hrs [...]
