Wife takes off roof
-family of ten affected One day before Christmas Day, a family is left to contemplate their next move after the roof of their house was ripped off. The incident stemmed from a dispute over the Lot 66 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge property owned by the Taitt family. According to Mortimer Codette, the lawyer representing Charles [...]
GuySuCo not bankrupt–Persaud
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is not bankrupt in anyway, according to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud. Persaud said that it is widely known that the company has been facing acute cash flow problems, especially from start of the Skeldon Sugar Factory. He said that the GuySuCo administration has to be creative in managing its tight [...]
Dem boys seh…Dem pig must be using cologne
Dem boys plan fuh start minding fowl from early next year. And dem talking bout yard fowl because dem can’t afford de layers. Feed expensive and getting more expensive every day. Yard fowl does grow slow suh that is why dem boys starting early. And de reason is egg. Whole year egg selling cheap then [...]
Former dress maker reaches 103 not out
(By Mondale Smith) In pursuit of long life many live by doctor’s orders but centenarian Millicent Sealy has additional recommendations. “Take daily glasses of cow heel broth, some soup at the weekends, drinks lots of coffee, live healthy, take care of yourself, be God-fearing and live lovingly with your neighbours.” Fondly called ‘Aunty Mille’, the [...]
Security guards accuse new employer of poor payment
Ever since the services of Strategic Security Services were taken over by the RK Security Services on November15, last, through an intervention by the government, security guards on the Essequibo Coast, who previously worked for the former and who have been transferred to RK, are seeking to be retained by the former entity. Yesterday, a [...]
Brazilian national remanded for possession of ammo
A Brazilian national, who is unable to speak English, was yesterday remanded after making a court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. Bernardo Costa Silva Filho, 31, of 105 Campbell Avenue, appeared in court to answer a charge of possession of ammunition. It is alleged that on December 21, last, at Lethem he had in his [...]
Police beat, arrest man in North East La Penitence
Yesterday morning ranks from three patrol vehicles descended on a grey car and arrested the lone occupant after roughing him up. Eyewitnesses in North East la Penitence said that the man was dealt a fleet of blows in and out of the car. So angry were some of the arresting ranks that one fell down [...]
Speedboats will need passenger manifest from January 1
Authorities have announced new requirements for speedboat from January 1, 2010. One of them is compulsory lifejackets. A notice by the Maritime Administration Department yesterday said that requirements would hold for all small passenger boats operating in Corentyne, Pomeroon, Moruca, Kaituma, Waini, Barima, Berbice, Canje, Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary, Demerara and Essequibo Rivers and its tributaries. [...]
Kitty shooting victim released on $100,000 station bail
- has to report to the police station Mark Caesar, called “Li’l Mark” was released from police custody yesterday, after he posted $100,000 station bail. Caesar and his friend, Hewley Barker, were both shot by an off duty police officer at the Roopa’s Bar, on Station Street Kitty, on Saturday. Baker was fatally shot while [...]
Guyana gets $1.2B grant from China
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, and Chinese Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Jungao, yesterday, signed an economic and technical cooperation agreement that will see Guyana benefiting from a grant worth approximately US$5.9M. The ceremony was conducted in the boardroom of the Ministry of Finance. “This will contribute in a very significant way to the development [...]
Health Ministry unable to reach blood target
The National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) will not be able to attain the 8,000 units of blood set by the Ministry of Health for this year. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, recently told Kaieteur News that December is usually a slow one, and as such the NBTS and the Ministry of Health will not [...]
West Dem residents suffers due to GPL
Although two mobile generators are in operation on the West Coast of Demerara, residents are still experiencing a spate of power outages. This has been ongoing for two days in a row, and according to reports, the ‘blackouts’ are due to a shortfall in generation. Reports reaching Kaieteur News stated that on Tuesday last the [...]
First Venezuela rice shipment finally sets sail
By Brushell Blackman After months of delay, the first shipment of paddy is poised to sail to Venezuela by tomorrow. Yesterday the media was invited to witness the loading of the ‘Pacific Clipper’, a Panamanian-registered vessel with a capacity to carry six thousand tonnes of rice, at the John Fernandes Wharf. General Manager of the [...]
Opposition not being railroaded in Parliament – Ramotar
“There are lies, damn lies and statistics…the statistics don’t lie,” Trotman By Gary Eleazar General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, says that contrary to the Parliamentary Opposition’s view that they are being railroaded in the House they are in fact very included in the legislative process. Ramotar recently told this newspaper that [...]
GAWU pickets Finance Ministry on retroactive tax waiver
Two days before Christmas, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) picketed the Ministry of Finance to up its demands for a waiver of income tax on a recently awarded three per cent retroactive pay. Sugar workers are expected to receive the payout today retroactive to January 1, 2009. GAWU, on Monday, wrote Minister [...]
Digicel confirms Kennard Memorial sponsorship
Digicel confirmed its sponsorship of the race for two year-old local and West Indian bred horses for this Saturday’s Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Race Meeting with the handing over of the cheque worth $275,000 at the Company’s Head Office in Kingston. Making the presentation of the cheque to Justice Cecil Kennard was Sales Manager Dwayne [...]
Police refuse to return recovered money
A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo businessman is at his wits end with police on West Coast Demerara after been given the royal run around to get back his money stolen from him during a robbery and recovered by the police. Charles Cozier, of 293 Tuschen, operates a general store in the area. Within the past [...]
Alpha Utd President angry over unfair ploys by K&S organizers
Threatens to pull out of the championships President of the Alpha Football Club, Odinga Lumumba, is fuming over what he terms impartial and unfair practices by the organizers of the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament. He has since issued a twenty-four hours ultimatum to have the situation rectified, failing which, he has threatened to withdraw [...]
Tobacco Standard still at GNBS, not at Tourism Ministry
The tobacco standard is not at the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. Rather, it is still receiving the attention of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS). This is according to the Public Relations Officer of the GNBS, Lloyd David, who in a press statement to the media noted that the GNBS is still [...]
Rough country at Christmas
This writer comes in for libelous commentary quite often in the Chronicle, frequently in the Guyana Times and occasionally in the Mirror, the PPP’s newspaper. I know what my role as a commentator should be so I refuse to be distracted by the incessant asininities produced by these newspapers. All of the time, the facts [...]
Rambarran seeks to try case in court of public opinion –Keith Burrowes
General Manager of the Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB), Keith Burrowes, has responded to the claims by Wilfred Rambarran as it relates to the $10M cheque he handed over to that bank prior to the sale agreement with George Lord. Rambarran eventually entered into an agreement with Lord for the purchase of Ocean View International [...]
Riverview man dies mysteriously in Demerara River
Residents of the impoverished community aback of Riverview, Ruimveldt plan to pool their meager resources to facilitate a proper burial for a 22-year-old homeless man who perished in the Demerara River on Tuesday morning. Shawn Anthony Beharry was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital, minutes after he was pulled from the Demerara River. Beharry, [...]
Randy Persaud responds to Freddie Kissoon
Dear Editor, I respond to Frederick Kissoon’s, “The President’s advisors: Does this make sense” (Kaieteur News December 23, 2009). In what follows, I will address all of Freddie’s main concerns. Freddie starts his article with reference to comments made by President Jagdeo at the Private Sector Commission dinner last September. Freddie simply dug up one [...]
K&S Boxing Day matches set for two venues
Kashif and Shanghai Football quarter-final action on Boxing Day will now be played at two venues. The organizers have disclosed that Alpha United and Fruta Conquerors will clash at the GFC ground on Saturday night from 20:00hrs. Up at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden, Bakewell Topp XX will meet the winner of the [...]
FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY
The Peeper apologises for having confused one Mr. E. B. John with my column of last Sunday. I will try my utmost today, despite being in “high spirits” to clarify the central themes and arguments of that contribution. Unlike what Mr. E. B. John feels, the column did not detour from the initial theme concerning [...]
