Kitty shooting file completed, awaiting DPP advice
…another suspect arrested Commander of “A” Division, George Vyphuis, has said that Office of Professional Responsibility has completed their investigations into the shooting to death by an off duty police officer, of Hewley Barker and the wounding of Mark Caesar, called “Lil Mark”. The commander said that file is fully ready and it is going [...]
Trinidad union condemns Rusal situation
- 40% workers want to leave bauxite union Bauxite Company Guyana Inc. (BCGI), owned by Russia’s RUSAL, a major bauxite player in the globe, says that almost 40 per cent of its workers want to pull out from the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU). And a Trinidad union has joined in the fray, [...]
Brothers charged with wounding
Two brothers were yesterday granted $100,000 bail each, by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on a charge of wounding their brother-in-law. Ivor Emanuel, 33 and Richard Emanuel, 41, both of Long Creek Soesdyke/Linden Highway were charged with unlawful wounding. It is alleged that on December 26, at Long Creek, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, the two unlawfully and [...]
Teenager receives Castrol GTX Toyota NZE car
The mother of 13-year-old Nicholas Prince, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, collected the keys to the brand new Toyota NZE car after he was named winner in the Castrol GTX ‘win a car’ promotion. His name was drawn from thousands of coupons on December 19 at the same location. He was entered in the promotion [...]
Ansa McAL continues “Cheekies Bundle Of Joy” giveaway
Spreading joy and honouring mothers who gave birth on Christmas Day has been an Ansa McAL Trading Limited tradition and the cheers were no less for the 11th year when the company distributed Cheekies hampers at various hospitals around Georgetown. Over the years, distribution of hampers of “Cheekies diapers” was done at the Georgetown Public [...]
Tuschen resident furious at toothless authorities
A Tuschen resident who has lodged many complaints with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Tuschen\Uitvlugt NDC of the stench produced by a herd of cows owned by his eastern neighbour is outraged. According to Mohamed Wahid of 10 Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, his eastern neighbour, Abdul Wahad, has been herding cows [...]
Tobacco Standard … GNBS still to submit document to Tourism Ministry
Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has confirmed that the controversial tobacco standard is indeed at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) and not at the Ministry of Tourism Industry and Commerce. This has now cleared the air on the location of the tobacco standard, given the fact that Project Officer of the Guyana [...]
XM Royal Gold 10-year-old gets top rating
Guyana’s XM Royal Gold 10-year-old Rum has received top rating at an international tasting event in London. XM Royal Gold 10 Year Old, produced, bottled and exported by Banks DIH Ltd., registered the highest score as bartenders and industry experts evaluated 12 rums from Central and South America at a blind testing event held at [...]
Charges Pending for driver of Vreed-en-Hoop Smash up
The female driver of the pick up, PLL 2473, who was involved in an accident on New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, on December 22, which claimed the life of Alwin Jordan, 54, is likely to be charged this week. According to police reports, the file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions pending recommendations of charges [...]
Cellink Malika Boyd music video for January 2010 launch
Cellink Jingle and song competition 2009 winner, Malika Boyd, has just completed her first music video for the winning song “dance love, live give and if all goes well her fans will get the first taste in early January when it is released. The music video comprises of actors from the Mic James drama group [...]
Guyanese makes music history
Wins US 2009 Outstanding R&B/Soul Song Award Singer Nhojj, a US-based Guyanese who performed at Guyana Fashion Weekend 2008 had much to celebrate this past Christmas. His song ‘Love’ has won the 2009 OutMusic Award for Outstanding R&B/Soul Song of the year. Those in the music business have opined that Guyanese should be proud of [...]
Another life lost on the Berbice roadways
MANCHESTER VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – On Sunday yet another road fatality was recorded on the Berbice roadway. The latest casualty is Albert Smith of Lot 95 Alness Village on the Corentyne. He was the victim of a hit and run that has police in Division ‘B’ trying to ascertain the identity of the driver. However, relatives [...]
Controversy surrounds police payment for Gov’t organized special events
The memory of the CARIFESTA payment fiasco has raised its ugly head once again. This time it is the members of the Guyana Police Force who are crying foul. Controversy has erupted over the payment of ranks for work done during two major events- The President’s Cup Premier League Cricket, which was played over two [...]
NATIONAL RUGGERS TRIP TO URUGUAY OFF
- Flight difficulties, funding major impediments President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union Noel Adonis in a telephone conversation with Kaieteur Sport yesterday confirmed that Guyana will no longer be attending the Punta Del Este International Sevens Tournament in Uruguay. Adonis said that the cancellation of the trip was due to two main reasons, citing [...]
GABA Christmas Championships off
“We have to step on the gas next year”- says Cadogan By Edison Jefford The proposed Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Christmas Championships scheduled for last weekend was officially cancelled owed to the lack of sponsorship and some other undisclosed factors. The tournament was expected to supplant the disappointment from the cancellation of the GABA [...]
Former scrabble player lauds progress of current word formers
Abigail McDonald’s feat at the World Scrabble Championships, recently staged in Malaysia has attracted plaudits from Guyanese at home as well as the Diaspora. The latest words of praise emanated from the pen of Lewis Singh, a founder member of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP), now resident in the United States of America. [...]
The Mayweather/Pacquiao bout, the superfight of the 20th century
By Michael Benjamin As the world anxiously awaits what is shaping up to be the fight of the century, the two principals, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are locked in a verbal warfare that threatens to abort the contest thus leaving boxing buffs worldwide wrangling with many unanswered questions concerning the perceived invincibility of Mayweather [...]
Campbell leads RHT Metro to finals of GCB female tourney
Led by another brilliant performance by West Indies all-rounder Shemaine Campbell, Berbice Female cricket champions Rose Hall Town Metro (RHTM) crushed Georgetown by 109 runs to book a place in the finals of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) organised national female tournament. Campbell hit an even 50 when RHTM batted first and returned with the [...]
RHTYSC cricket teams complete multi-million Christmas Charity programme
The respective cricket teams of Guyana’s leading Youth Club – Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club – along with the entity’s over-35 group have successfully completed their Christmas Charity Programme for 2009 valued at some 2.5 million dollars. The teams – Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17, Pepsi Under-19, Metro Female [...]
Don’t forget pensioners
Dear Editor, Recently a sex percent increase was announced for Public Servants. I hope the Government pensioners are not forgotten this time. There were two increases last year, the first paid in May, retroactive to January and the second paid in December, retroactive to May. Pensioners are not in receipt of the latter increase and [...]
Freddie misunderstands Misir and Persaud’s motive
Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon says he doesn’t understand why Prem Misir and Randy Persaud accept Kaieteur News as a newspaper when their boss, President Jagdeo wants it to cease publication. The answer is they don’t and they too wish it would cease publication. As long as the independent dailies exist these men will be forced [...]
Third term drama: Where is Navin Chandarpal?
Mr. Navin Chandarpal has been relieved of his job as Science Advisor to the presidency. Since then, this country has not heard from Mr. Chandarpal. He hasn’t written anything to the press. He has not been interviewed as far as I know. So there is no solid reason which we can write on as to [...]
Misir’s stand is nothing but a cop out
Dear Editor, I wish to offer some comments on Dr. Misir’s letter of December 21 in response to mine of December 12. I know that Dr. Misir is a man of many talents and that he wears many hats (or is it caps). I was however surprised when he manifested the capacity to divine what [...]
Duke Street is not and has never been zoned as a commercial district
Dear Editor, Forgive our late response which is due to our holiday preparations. We can’t believe that Mr. Gerry Gouveia has the audacity, the unblushing insolence to boldly publish such an article in response to the claims of all the residents of Duke Street representative of the seven houses in that very “Upper district of [...]
BLACKOUTS ARE HERE TO STAY
There is a generation or two of Guyanese who have known blackouts. They grew up in the day when every other day there was at least eight hours of load shedding. On the other hand there is another generation of Guyanese, the younger generation, who grew up in an environment in which blackouts were almost [...]
