Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned
3rd Annual NAMILCO Football Festival By Franklin Wilson What was turning out to be an exhilarating night of football on the opening day of the 3rd Annual 2009 NAMILCO Football Festival was dampened by indiscipline on the part of one spectator which led to the abandonment of the feature game between Pele and upstarts Riddim [...]
GECOM ready to roll out ID cards
By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Elections Commissions was up to yesterday briefing the staffers who will be producing the new Identification Cards. This newspaper was afforded an exclusive tour of the production line where Andrew Chung, GECOM IT Administrator and System’s analyst, and David Coglan, the Project Manager to Guyana’s ID card programme, explained the [...]
Reepu in pickle
Jamaicans and Guyanese use to run to de States because dem believe that things easy. Dem family tell dem that once people get a job de sky is de limit. Now de Jamaicans running back home because dem ain’t get a job, and dem still illegal. De Jamaican authorities claim how de flights full and [...]
Brothers knife man to death
Twenty-four-year-old Mervin “Jess” Boston was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed more than a dozen times, allegedly by two brothers. Boston, a resident of 138 King Edward Street, Albouystown, was knifed just three houses away from his home. According to the dead man’s cousin, Sonia Williams, who [...]
A lasting handprint on Guyana’s landscape
Dr Yesu Persaud is a ‘Special Person’ “I love what I do. I like to see people develop themselves and help themselves. This is what life is all about. I am a student of philosophy. Money is an object that can disappear overnight. One of those things that you can acquire, but it can also [...]
East Bank four-lane highway to extend to Diamond
by Leonard Gildarie As the traffic situation on the East Bank Demerara worsens, Government has announced that it is looking at plans to extend the four-lane highway from Providence to Diamond. In the meantime, however, another access road into the New Diamond Housing Scheme is being looked at. According to Minister of Public Works, Robeson [...]
Bicycle taxi taking Wismar by storm
In the trying economic times, people are daily conjuring up creative ideas to earn their livelihood. And 35-year-old Seon Semple, of Christianburg, Wismar, classically fits the mould of enterprising entrepreneur. This adventurous young man recently embarked on a mission to provide affordable taxi services for those who cannot afford a regular taxi, or who simply [...]
Demolition hammer falls on Mon Repos
By Fareeza Haniff Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn, is at it again. This time his hammer has fallen on residents in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, more particularly on the business community. It was chaos yesterday morning when the demolition crew turned up at Emran Khan General Store and took away two truckloads of sand [...]
PNCR track record with rice industry dismal
…as GRDB says it never attempted to protect farmers The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday lambasted the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) and to some extent the Alliance for Change for what it called a dismal track record and not doing anything to protect rice farmers. In a statement issued to media it stated [...]
Thieves hit New Amsterdam court again
Thieves on Friday for the second time in a week broke and entered the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court, this time carrying away a laptop computer. According to reports, the staff locked up around 16:30 hrs on Thursday and when they returned for work around 07:30 hrs on Friday they were greeted with a broken window [...]
MRL pays $24M to farmers
Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL) has finally paid $24 million to farmers in Regions Five and Six. This is according to General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, who told Kaieteur News yesterday that the milling company had owed farmers in Region Five $8 million, while $16 million was owed to [...]
Essequibo Night deemed a success
The annual Essequibo Night 2009 event was officially declared open Friday night at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground, after the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon by Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds. The prelude to the activities that added to the night’s event was the recitation of prayers from the three major religious groups— Hindu, Muslim [...]
ERC consults with hinterland women
In an effort to empower women to make informed decisions and to be more involved in community development, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is continuing to implement various aspects of its 2009 Work Plan. The Commission had outlined that it will consult with women all across Guyana this year. It is with this in mind [...]
Police shoot drug suspect
A 27-year-old Kitty resident is nursing a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, which resulted from his alleged attack on a policeman. The incident occurred around 23:00 hours on Friday when Kevin Maloney allegedly attacked a policeman with a knife at William Street, Kitty. The police stated that ranks on a mobile patrol observed Maloney [...]
GUYOIL forced to buy fuel from other terminals
For almost one week now the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) has been forced to procure fuel from other companies in order to meet the fuel needs of its customers. This newspaper was informed that GUYOIL last received a modest supply of fuel about two weeks ago. Early last week fuel levels of gasoline and dieseline [...]
Fugitive drug dealer terrorising Aranka backdam miners
An Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara mining employee is urging the speedy arrest of a drug dealer whom he says is terrorising persons in the Aranka Backdam. Orvin Adams, one of the victims, is presently nursing several lacerations in his head after he was repeatedly gunbutted last Wednesday night. Adams who had to travel to [...]
Reepu Daman Persaud should be disciplined – AFC
“If it was anybody else making such an obviously out-of-line Party statement, he or she would already been hauled up for disciplinary proceedings by the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party.” This is according to Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, who was responding to comments by PPP stalwart, Reepu Daman Persaud, who at the [...]
‘Buxton Girl’ sustains second stabbing in two months
Gavin Hersham, 22, of Number One Public Road was stabbed in the left side abdomen on Friday night at 7:15hrs. Last night he was a patient in the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital up to press time. According to Hersham who could barely speak, “I was on Church Street and a man [...]
Selective participation, parliamentary boycott a disservice to constituents?
By Gary Eleazar One arm of Guyana’s administration is the legislative branch which meets at the Parliament Building. When the President is not in the gathering it is referred to as the National Assembly. Guyana’s parliament has 69 seats of which the ruling administration controls 41, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) 22 and the [...]
Police officers sworn in as Justices of Peace
A number of senior police officers of the Police B Division were recently sworn in as Justices of the Peace in a new move by the administration to give more power to the police in cases of emergency. Among those taking the oath of office on Friday at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate [...]
LBI planting gang on strike
All does not seem to be going well at the La Bonne Intention Estate (LBI). In less than two weeks, sugar workers are once again engaged in strike action. This time, the workers in the planting gang are on strike seeking compensation for the extra work that they have to do. General Secretary of the [...]
Berbice bandits strike twice in one night
Police in Berbice are being kept busy in the wake of two more robberies on Friday night. In the first robbery attack, two armed bandits attacked an elderly couple in their home at Letter Kenny, Corentyne around 21:00 hours. And almost two hours later, three men relieved the occupants of a Canje home of jewellery [...]
Legal irregularities frustrate land issue
By Prakash Persaud I wish to express my disappointment with the sordidness being practised by some individuals whom we expect to display some degree of moral standings, but who instead contribute to the decay of ethical fibre in our beloved country. Yet, some such people have the courage to appear in various forums to [...]
Facelift for the Cenotaph
Visiting cricket team reaches out to local Orphanage
The Bless the Children Home yesterday received food and toiletries from the United Charges/US Cricket team. The orphanage was dedicated on September 27, last year, and is today the home for 17 orphans ranging from three to thirteen years old. The United Charges/United States cricket team is in Guyana to take part in the current [...]
