President should immediately order independent inquiry into torture – PSC
…as Gouveia somersaults on Kaieteur News graphic publications President Bharrat Jagdeo should immediately order an independent inquiry into the administrative and operational command structures of the Guyana Police Force which have allowed torture to take place, the Private Sector Commission said yesterday. The Commission’s statement comes in the wake of allegations that the Police set [...]
Man gets severe beating for stealing bicycle
Raymond Jabar, a known convict, was caught stealing a bicycle yesterday on Middle Street, opposite the Georgetown Public Hospital, by public-spirited citizens and given a severe beating. According to an eyewitness, the man snatched a bicycle that was parked on the road. The owner spotted him and gave chase with support from public-spirited citizens. They [...]
Inquiry into GUYOIL tainted fuel commences
Management officials at the Waterloo Street, Georgetown, headquarters of Guyana Oil Company launched an internal inquiry, on Tuesday, into the contaminated fuel recently detected at two Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) Service Stations. Reports reaching this newspaper are that another meeting is set for next week when the management is likely to make some decisions. Efforts [...]
AFC’s one-eye focus on human rights abuses
Dear Editor, There is no pleasure writing this letter, but write I must. The unfolding events and the seriousness of growing discrimination cannot be swept under the carpet or ignored. I am referring to the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior, as practiced by the PPP and AFC, albeit different in focus. [...]
R.K Sharma calls it a day at GBTI
Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), Radha Krishna Sharma, has resigned from the Bank, saying that he has had enough of managing financial institutions. Sharma also confirmed that he is in the process of handing over his portfolio to John Tracey, who served as a Director to the Bank [...]
Local artistes partake in HIV/AIDS testing
As the National Week of Testing approaches, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) has got on board a number of local artistes to participate and be tested for HIV/AIDS. Playing their role in society yesterday was Melissa Roberts (Vanilla), Michelle King (Big Red), Adrian Dutchin, Roger Hinds (Young [...]
This national outrage calls for a national response
Dear Editor, Even for a country accustomed to official abuse, misconduct and illegalities, the revelation of torture inflicted on a child by members of the security forces has met with an outrage that was palpable and instantaneous. We have had the inevitable, obligatory and strident calls for action and “never again.” But in all our [...]
The time is now that the image of the GPF be changed
Dear Editor, I was reading the editorial every day since the news broke about the 14-year-old, who it was alleged that was tortured by the police. I have read many of your editorials over the past in respect to disciplinary forces and crime in general and I am impressed with your research. Your editorial caption, [...]
Alcohol should be used responsibly – Health Minister
Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy firmly believes that the global focus on alcohol is misplaced. He emphasised this while making a ‘drop-in’ visit to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) workshop on alcohol-related problems held at the Georgetown Club, yesterday. Dr. Ramsammy conceded that alcohol can be used in responsible ways that would not [...]
The Leviathan is on the rampage in Guyana
Dear Editor, The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbs, must have looked down the years and saw Guyana when he was trying to make sense of the ‘nonsense’ in society. Hobbs, in his writings, saw society as being paralysed with continual fear. This fear is based on the view that the lives of individuals will be solitary, [...]
NRSC celebrates month of activities
The Theme for Road Safety Month is Be Vigilant, Be wise, Practise Road Safety to Stay Alive. Motor vehicle accidents, which are preventable occurrences, are the ninth leading cause of injury, death and disability around the world, with an average of about 13,000 fatalities per day. Unfortunately, Guyana has an average rate for motor vehicle [...]
Three charged for stealing motor car
- claim they were all brutalized in lock ups The three men who allegedly robbed a taxi driver and stole his car made their court appearance on Tuesday. They all claimed that they were approached by police to pay bride and claimed that they were brutalised in the lockups by the police. Kifa Small, 19, [...]
Maccabees win KWM First ‘D’ title
CPS emerge Third ‘D’ champions Maccabees won their first major tournament this year when they took the sting out of the Beepat’s Scorpions in the First Division final of the second annual Kevin Worrell Memorial (KWM) basketball competition Sunday. Maccabees won 33-21 with K’naniel Stewart scoring 10 points and guess player, Akeem Kanhai five points [...]
West Dem police ranks implicated in more beatings
With people from all sections of society calling for the authorities to see that justice is served in the recently publicised incident of a 14-year-old boy being tortured by police ranks, another individual is now coming forward with their cases. The now 70-year-old Godfrey Alexander, of Farm, East Bank Essequibo said back in 2003 he [...]
GDF contributes to youth development
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday made another contribution to youth development with the presentation of a cheque for $25,000 to the Ambassadors of Buxton Community Development Association (ABCDA). This contribution continues the GDF’s commitment to building stakeholder partnerships with communities throughout Guyana and represents a commitment given by the army’s leadership not to give [...]
MACORP Golf tourney to be contested Saturday
Another exciting tournament is on the cards for this weekend when Machine Corporation of Guyana (MACORP) sponsors its second Annual Medal Play Golf tournament on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara. MACORP, the heavy duty equipment company of Providence had sponsored a tournament last year as part of its 15th anniversary and [...]
‘Torture Station’ attracts protest action
…as Red Thread denounces silent Guyanese The Leonora Police Station yesterday attracted a modest group of persons affiliated with Red Thread who lead a picketing exercise in protest of the torture that was committed on a 14 year-old boy whilst he was in custody at that station. Karen De Souza, who spoke on behalf of [...]
Another Berbician reaches three figures for Guyana at the Regional one day level
Dear Editor, It was a black Friday for Barbados at the Albion Sports Complex. Playing at the venue which hosted the first one day international in the West Indies (1977), Ryan Hinds men had no counter for the merciless hometown boy Narsingh Deonarine. Deonarine whose maiden regional one day ton propelled the land of many [...]
Five staffers under investigations for multi-million-dollar fraud
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is investigating a massive fraud conspiracy involving cashiers and a staffer of its Information Technology (IT) Department. According to a statement from the GRA last night, from initial investigations its IT security system was compromised in a scheme that may have started a year ago and involved several prominent businesses. [...]
P&P ON BOARD FOR GMR&SC NOV 8 RACES
P& P continued its support for racing driver Kemal Rahaman. He will compete in a Mazda RX7 and is expected to give keen competition in Group 2B and Group 3 events. Mr. Bish Panday, head of P & P Insurance Brokers said he was happy to support Kemal and wished him all the best. Rahaman in [...]
Self-confessed murderer to be rearrested
Police should be made to answer- DPP One week after self-confessed murderer Andrew Gomes walked free for the murder of his 57-year-old father, Shalimar Ali-Hack, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has slammed the police for allowing this to happen. Gomes’s relatives reported that no police file was ever made available to the Providence Court [...]
Former ERC head, Chairman at loggerheads
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Christine King, and Chairman of the ERC, Bishop Juan Edghill continue to go back and forth with accusations leveled at each other. On Tuesday, King issued a statement accusing Bishop Edghill and others at the Commission, of scheming to terminate her services prior to the [...]
Kildonan win Ministry Inter-Block football competition on the Corentyne
Kildonan Village emerged champions of the Corentyne leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter-Block football competition. Kildonan played unbeaten to end of the five-team competition with a total of 12 points. Liverpool Village placed second with one loss to Kildonan. The other teams that participated in the competition were Eversham, Rose Hall [...]
$450M spent on mechanical cane harvesters -Hanoman
By Gary Eleazar Some $450M has been spent on mechanical cane harvesters and it is expected that 2,675 hectares of the cane harvested at Skeldon will be done using this method. This is according to Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, Errol Hanoman. According to Hanoman six harvesters were bought for Skeldon at [...]
Police stage exciting Gymkhana in Berbice
It was long in coming and when the Police finally delivered their version of the Gymkhana to Berbice, it was spectacular stuff. The Berbice version of the annual Police Gymkhana Event was held last Sunday at the Rose Hall Community Centre ground. When it was over there was not one unsatisfied patron who thronged the [...]
