Climate Change to be discussed at forum, not negotiated – PM Manning
By Gary Eleazar in Trinidad Today, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2009 will officially get underway here in Port of Spain, with the world watching and listening to what the leaders of more than fifty countries, both from the developed and the developing world, will say about Climate Change. Trinidad & Tobago Prime [...]
Sacrifice and Nation Building
Today the nation joins the Muslim community in observing Eid-ul-Adha – the festival of sacrifice. Grounded in an event that is of critical significance to three major world religions – Islam, Christianity and Judaism – its import has resonated in almost every culture of mankind. The literal story of the origin of the festival tells [...]
Schoolgirls and taxi drivers caught having sex in church
Six school aged girls from West Coast Demerara, and two taxi drivers were yesterday taken into custody after they were caught having sex in an abandoned church in Stanleytown, West Coast Demerara According to reports the girls who are from the Patentia Secondary, La Grange Secondary and Vreed-en-Hoop Secondary were caught around 13:00hrs after neighbours [...]
Actor’s throat slit on seawall
The gruesome murder of popular local actor, Joel Fraser, has sent shockwaves throughout the city, especially among his colleagues. Fraser’s body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the Liliendaal Seawall, aback of the Ocean View International Hotel by early morning joggers. His throat was slit and his face bore numerous stab wounds. [...]
Sergeant, Constable charged for torturing teen
By Jamal Scott Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday remanded Mohanram Dolai, one of the policemen ensnared in allegations of the torture of a teenager at Leonora. The other, Narine Lall, who was absent from court was excused and will later appear to be read the charge for torturing the teenager. However, Corporal Oswald Foo, was [...]
Cops arrested for raping teen, 15, in lockups
Officials at the Springlands Police Station are investigating the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by two police ranks and a Rural Constable. Kaieteur News understands that the three men are under close arrest and that the Rural Constable has admitted to having sexually assaulted the juvenile. The incident allegedly occurred last month but only [...]
Dossier misses numerous execution-style killings
By Michael Jordan The joint opposition’s crime dossier has omitted several execution-style murders that occurred within the past 17 years. While the 157-page document contains some 400 ‘victims’, Kaieteur News has compiled a list of 19 more unsolved murders—many of them execution-style slayings—which occurred between 1992 and 2009. The victims include Charlestown resident Marlon De [...]
UG staffers protest delay in five percent increase
Yesterday staffers of the University of Guyana staged a sit in to air their concern over the non-payment of a five per cent increase which was promised by the government that has not been paid to date. One lecturer, Frederick Kissoon, told this newspaper that the government had agreed to pay civil servants and certain [...]
Aroaima bauxite strike continues
The Guyana bauxite mining operations of Russian aluminium giant Rusal is still stalled after workers downed tools to protest a new wages agreement. The Union representing workers at the Aroaima bauxite site, some 65 miles south of the capital Georgetown, said that they would not accept Rusal’s demand that they sanction the shedding of 75 [...]
Police crack down on sale of sex videos
Government says that it will be cracking down aggressively on the continued sale of pornographic videos and that offenders can face fines or jail time if caught. In an advisory printed yesterday in Kaieteur News, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that it is teaming up with the police to “stamp out the sale of [...]
Dem boys seh… Dem beggars gun protest
Imagine how this country so rough that people stop wukking in office and looking fuh teaching job. Everybody want a job that encouraging scampishness. Today Guyana got more contractors that it got contracts. De other day dem boys see three contractors line up fuh a wuk that good contractors use to refuse and shovel men [...]
Missing soldier died from drowning
The Guyana Defence Force has launched an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the death Private Julian Marks. According to a press statement the GDF would be working closely with ranks from the Criminal Investigation Departments. The body of 21102 Private Julian Marks, of Jaguar Company, 1 Infantry Battalion of the Guyana Defence Force [...]
Repossession of farm lands will be last resort – MMA
The Mahaica/Mahaicony/Abary— Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) and the People’s National Congress Reform are now at loggerheads over the decision by the MMA moving to seize lands from residents in West Coast Berbice. The reason is the people’s non-payment of all fees owed to the MMA-ADA. Recently PNCR Member of Parliament, Africo Selman, described the move [...]
Cattle farmers beaten, robbed
Two cattle farmers were treated early yesterday morning at the New Amsterdam Hospital after they were severely beaten by bandits. Reports are, that just after midnight on Tuesday, four bandits in the Canje River attacked a cattle farmer and his workers This newspaper was told that the farmers were held at gunpoint by one of [...]
CARICOM to hold bilateral meetings with four countries
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago will hold talks with four countries and an international financial institution on the margins of the meeting which takes place in Port of Spain, from tomorrow. A CARICOM press statement quoted Secretary General Edwin Carrington, [...]
Caribbean reports 20,000 new HIV infections
Infection rate high among sex workers in Guyana An estimated 20,000 new cases of HIV were found in 2008, according to new data published by UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation. The new report, released Tuesday, found that in Guyana, 27 percent of commercial sex workers (prostitutes) are infected with HIV. Civil society monitoring [...]
Differently-abled people eager for Persons with Disability Bill
Say much still needs to be done The differently-abled community is pleased with the tabling of the Persons with Disability Bill, and is anxiously awaiting its passing. The much-anticipated Bill was presented by Minster of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy at the most recent sitting of the National Assembly last Thursday. Even with the tabling [...]
Baby accident victim needs surgery
One-year-old Jonathan Bourne, a survivor of the Mahaica smash up, would have to undergo a series of surgeries. According to a relative the child did a CT scan which revealed that he has a fracture of the skull. The relative said that the doctor had said that as the child grows the fracture would “knit” [...]
Foetus found at Muneshwer’s wharf
Yesterday morning, workers at the Muneshwer’s wharf found a foetus in the Demerara River behind the wharf. It floated near to a koker at the wharf. The foetus was discovered by the night shift workers who were leaving the premises and saw the object floating next to the koker. One of the workers, Garcia Henry, [...]
GDF contributes to Salvation Army Christmas programme
As Christmas approaches the Guyana Defence Force has joined the ranks of those who give to the Salvation Army. On Tuesday, the military continued its support for civil society organizations through the presentation of a sizeable cash donation to the Salvation Army to assist with the organisation’s 2009 Christmas programme. Major Stanford, who made the [...]
Corbin donates computer to alma mater
The pupils and staff of the Christianburg Primary School in Linden, were yesterday the proud recipients of a ‘multitask’ Hewlitt Packard Office Jet, which incorporates a printer, photocopier, scanner and fax machine. The much needed equipment was handed over to the President of the school’s Parent Teachers’ Association by Leader of the Opposition, Robert Corbin. [...]
Over 26,500 persons tested for HIV
…82 positive for the virus During the National Week of Testing by the Ministry of Health, a total of 26,660 persons were tested across the ten administrative regions of Guyana, exceeding the initial target of 20,000. This is only the preliminary figures, as more statistics are expected to be retrieved from Regions Seven, Eight and [...]
Proposed Uganda legislation could accelerate Caribbean homophobia
By Gary Eleazar in Trinidad A Bill that has been proposed in Uganda on the continent of Africa that puts in place the death penalty for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as arrest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenders could accelerate the level of homophobia in the Caribbean. This was the opinion voiced by Stephen [...]
Bandit poses as teacher, robs students of earrings
Several students of an East Bank Demerara primary school were robbed Tuesday by a bandit posing as a teacher. Kaieteur News has learnt that shortly after 08:00 hrs, a lone man waited until the security guard of Grove Primary School had gone to the back of the compound to lock the gates there, then used [...]
Guyana draw bye in 2010 regional first-class opening round
Moore, Seeram retained as Manager/Coach By Sean Devers While the Guyana Cricket Board is yet to make an official announcement, it has been confirmed that Carl Moore and Rabindranauth Seeram have been retained as Manager and Coach respectively for the 2010 Regional First Season which begins in the first week of next year. The 48-year-old [...]
