Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The staggering scope of Haiti’s nightmare came into sharper focus yesterday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this luckless land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble. The world pledged [...]
Guyana Haiti relief fund stands at $214.8M
One Guyanese confirmed dead Even as logistics for the international community remain a major challenge to access and provide aid to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti, reports from the Guyana Committee for Haiti relief are that one Guyanese died in the earthquake. Minister Priya Manickhand yesterday confirmed that Donald Richards died and stated [...]
65 year-old wrestles with gunman following robbery
- gets Commendation Award from Top Cop hours later A 65-year-old businessman is now thanking God for sparing his life and for his military training. He said that these are the only two reasons he is alive today. Victor Wilson, of Carib Drilling Inc., 10 Thorne Drive, D’Urban Backlands, said that the new establishment was [...]
Body found at Georgetown seawalls with throat slashed
Detectives were up to press time trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was found murdered at the Kingston seawall yesterday morning. The man is of mixed ethnicity, and is about 35 to 40 years of age. He was clad in long khaki pants, brown striped shirt and a pair of black sandals, [...]
Bulkan denies being at meeting when it was presented
… Controversial Suriname map Forestry critic, Janette Bulkan, who is under fire from government, has denied that she was present at an October meeting in Washington where Suriname reportedly presented a map of that country showing part of Guyana’s territory as Suriname. In a response to an article in Sunday’s edition of Kaieteur News under [...]
Banks DIH profit crosses $2 billion mark
Brewery giant Banks DIH Limited crossed the $2 billion profit mark in 2009. This is according to Chairman Clifford Reis who will present his annual report to shareholders this Saturday. Before tax, profit for the conglomerate reached $2.3 billion in 2009, Reis reports in the company’s annual report. This represents a 19.2 percent increase over [...]
Dem boys seh… Haiti is out of bounds
Guyana busy sympathising wid Haiti but de people in that country don’t know. Dem ain’t hearing nutten from Guyana and de Americans shut down de airport. Imagine a Caricom Prime Minister try to go to Haiti which is a sister Caricom country and he couldn’t land. He get tun back. But Hammy now want send [...]
UK commits further £20m to relief and recovery work in Haiti
…as EU ministers meet in Brussels The UK Government is trebling its funding for the immediate humanitarian response to the Haiti earthquake. International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, said the total sum would rise from $10 million to £20 million (over $30m) based on the latest assessments of the scale of the disaster from our team [...]
Essequibo businessman dies in Haiti
Guyanese businessman, Donald Richards, a\k, McDonald is being counted among the dead in Haiti. Richards, who operated a business place at Lima Essequibo, left Guyana with his son, Peabo Richards, to seek his fortunes in Haiti about a year ago. The son was also feared dead after being caught up in the worst ever disaster [...]
Guyana, Kuwait sign MoU, co-operation agreements
…as Jagdeo visits Middle East KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — President Bharrat Jagdeo and his delegation arrived to a red carpet welcome early Sunday morning in Kuwait City where the flags of Kuwait and Guyana flew across the city. At the airport to receive the Guyanese Head of State was a large Kuwaiti delegation led by [...]
GRA putting final inputs into new Tax Act
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is putting its final input in the design of the new Tax Administration Act, Commissioner General Kurshid Sattaur said yesterday. The process of putting together the act began some months ago with the hiring of a consultant, Ms. Jenifer Brooks. Sattaur said that the act is one that seeks to [...]
Embrace Martin Luther King’s ideals – says Clement Rohee
Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, who is performing the duties of President, urged a gathering at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Assembly Hall, yesterday, to embrace the ideals of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Rohee was at the time speaking at a symposium to observe Martin Luther King Day here in Guyana. In a [...]
Mayor laments City Hall’s exclusion from Haiti Relief efforts
Although City Hall remains in a cash-strapped state and struggles to maintain its daily administrative operation, City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday raised his concerns about efforts to exclude the municipality from certain matters of public interest. The Mayor was at the time extending his sympathy to the people of Haiti whose homeland has been devastated [...]
Regional vice chairman denies assaulting villager
- calls for a thorough investigation Vice Chairman of Region Five, West Coast Berbice, Karran Persaud Deokarran, is calling on the Commissioner of Police and the Commander of the Police East Coast Demerara Division to ensure that a thorough investigation is conducted with regards to allegations of assault that are being leveled against him and [...]
Farmers urged to conserve on water as EDWC drops low
Farmers and all users of water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) are being urged to conserve water as the water level in the conservancy has dropped below the “dead storage level.” The lowest safe level for the conservancy to provide irrigation water to farmlands is 53.50 GD (Georgetown Datum). The current level is [...]
Man loses hand in road accident
Labourer Harry Persaud, a\k Terry of Hampton Court Village, had his left hand severed because of an accident Sunday afternoon on the Hampton Court Public Road. According to Persaud’s sister-in-law, Savitree Persaud, her brother-in-law had left his Hampton Court, residence for a neighbouring shop, heading north; to purchase a bottle of bagyon minutes after the [...]
CARICOM heightens response to Haitian crisis
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moved its assistance to its earthquake devastated Member State, Haiti to another level with the deployment of a Tactical Mission to that country on Sunday. Last Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the earthquake struck on 12 January, Jamaica had deployed medical personnel and security forces to Haiti as a first [...]
GDF cultivates “exotic” vegetables
The Guyana Defence Force Agriculture Corps has initiated a project which has, to date, delivered promising results in the cultivation of cauliflower and broccoli, two crops that are gaining popularity in Guyana. The project is a collaborative effort with the Ministry of Agriculture and utilises ‘shaded cultivation’ – a modern farming system where the crops [...]
Scores of nursing students being selected for training – Dr Ramsaran
The notion of having local doctors tutor students of nursing has attracted some level of stubbornness on the part of tutors within the system, according to Minister within the Health Ministry, Dr Bheri Ramsaran. The move to include doctors, Dr Ramsaran said, is geared at increasing the number of tutors within the country’s nursing schools [...]
Another community at Siriki
Food for the Poor constructed yet another village on the Essequibo Coast, this time at Siriki, Pomeroon. The houses which are already occupied were completed late last year. This is the second village to be constructed by Food for the Poor. T he first was dubbed Little Red Village. This new community has been dubbed [...]
Pensioner dies after being dragged by minibus
Victorine Barrows, 81, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, was pronounced dead after she was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corperation (GPHC) yesterday. According to sources, minibus BMM 2018 at the Linden Bus Park “hooked the turn” and hit Victorine Barrows and dragged her for approximately 30 feet before she was detached. She was later taken [...]
Guyana United for Haiti concert set for Jan 22
All stakeholders have a role to play in sharing, not just heart, but providing necessities as ‘our brothers’ keepers in Haiti says entertainer, Kerwin Bollers, as he announced plans for a mega relief effort concert this Friday. He says that in collaboration with the Guyana Haiti Relief Committee and Vision Sounds the stage is being [...]
Submerged excavator being dismantled to bring it ashore
Workers yesterday continued their efforts to remove a sunken excavator from the Atlantic Ocean, aback of Pegasus Hotel. Using cables, the workers dismantled the bucket and other sections and dragged these to shore using another excavator. This excavator which was working under the supervision of the Guyana Marines Services, a private company, became stuck last [...]
Earthquakes in diverse places
Dear Editor, As a nation and people of this Republic we are deeply sock, horrified, heart-stricken, and even traumatized at this terrible, untold, and unforeseen disaster which struck Haiti. Claiming the lives of thousands, the injuries of many, and the damage of an uncountable amount, as its destructive force (an earthquake at 7.0 on the [...]
Race and politics in 2010
Dear Editor, A national consultation must be held on race and politics in Guyana. The year must be 2010 and every ordinary Guyanese must participate. Every youth organisation, autonomous and politically affiliated will participate in this national discourse in an objective, fair and unbiased manner. At the conclusion, Secondary and Primary schools fourth and fifth [...]
