Jagdeo’s trips in past 2½ years nearing $1B – AFC
…opposition to raise issue in Parliament Mere hours after President Bharrat Jagdeo set out for Russia, Alliance For Change leader Raphael Trotman is questioning the cost/benefit ratio for the Head of State’s numerous trips overseas. Trotman expressed these views during a party press briefing yesterday at the Sidewalk Café where he also announced that he [...]
KNews pressman dies in accident
The Kaieteur News fraternity was in mourning last night after their senior pressman Ashim Rafeek died at around 20:00 hrs in a collision with a car at Crane, on the West Coast Demerara public road. According to reports, Rafeek, of Lot One BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was riding his motorcycle east along the West [...]
Residents fearful as jaguar attacks Moco Moco sheep
Residents of Moco-Moco, Region Nine, are living in fear of a large cat believed to be a jaguar which is wreaking havoc with their livestock. The residents believe that the cat will soon attack humans since it is now getting bolder and emerging from the thick jungle that surrounds the area and attacking closer to [...]
Uncle, two nephews charged
Little Abary murder… Three men were yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Omeanna Hamilton when they appeared before her at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge for the capital offence of murder. The men, Satnarine Jaikarran and his two nephews Randy and Neville Crawford, are accused of killing 33-year-old Maxwell Watson at Little [...]
Another human skeleton found
Guyana’s DNA shortcomings will certainly be amplified with the discovery of yet another human skeleton, this time on the West Bank of Demerara. The skeletal remains of a male were found in an unused plot of land near the canefields aback of the old Claybrick Factory in the Belle West backlands. It was discovered by [...]
UK quartet jailed for ‘coke’ from Guyana
- drug hidden in ‘Chinese Sauce’ tins Surrey, England – An Esher businessman has been jailed for his part in a drug smuggling operation that involved importing cocaine from Guyana, hidden in tins of Chinese cooking sauce. Surrey Police were led to John Beaumont-Griffin’s Winterdown Road home after investigating the arrival of tins containing £200,000 [...]
Monday is Budget Day
The 2010 National Budget will be presented to the National Assembly on Monday, February 8 under the theme: “Consolidate, transform, sustain”. This announcement was made yesterday by Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh. Despite challenges posed by the global financial and economic crisis during last year, Guyana’s economy weathered the storm and recorded growth in [...]
Dem boys seh…De man in de bush run Robert
De government quiet. Is a long time since a group of people outside of Georgetown decide to challenge dem. And is bush people but as dem boys seh, people who live in de bush stupid. Well Robert and Robeson and Lumumba get a shock. In de fuss place, Robert went without he siren that he [...]
Nurse migration study unveiled
- Reveals money is not the only pull factor By Sharmain Cornette Money is not necessarily the primary factor that has been forcing the migration of nurses to developed countries. This assertion is based on a survey conducted by Jamaica-based doctor, Una Reid, through collaboration between the local Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health [...]
The cops have left and thieves have returned
Over the years, around the Christmas season, makeshift Police Outposts manned by armed officers have been strategically placed around Georgetown as the lawmen attempt to curtail the volume of criminal activity during the festive season. Citizens are indeed appreciative of the move by the law enforcement officers since they are able to shop and engage [...]
LCDS consultations were not genuine – AFC
- party urges Govt. to return to table for miners’ talks By Leonard Gildarie One day after thousands of Barticians took to the streets over new mining proposals, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has accused the government of lying to Guyanese on its public consultations that were conducted last year for the implementation of the [...]
DDL sends $8M worth of bottled water to Haiti
- More than 4,000 families to benefit Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), one of Guyana’s leading beverage companies, has joined the efforts to insure that the people in Haiti get clean drinking water. Yesterday, the entity informed that it is sending $8M worth of its premium brand Diamond Mineral Water to assist some of the thousands [...]
Toolsie, DTL complain of uncontrolled mining
As miners protest over government’s attempt to streamline the mining and forestry industries, there are indications that the administration’s proposal for a six-month notification, before any mining operations, are being seen as justified in some quarters. This is evident in correspondence from at least two large logging companies which complained to government of severe environmental [...]
UNFCCC receives list of government climate pledges
Following the conclusion of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has received submissions of national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries. These countries together account for 78 per cent of global emissions from energy use. “This represents an important invigoration [...]
PAC mandates Finance Ministry to submit list of outstanding advances
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday last mandated the Ministry of Finance to present to it by February 15, a breakdown of how many officials, and belonging to which ministry, still have to clear their conference advances. The PAC was at the time scrutinizing the expenditures of the Finance Ministry when it was pointed [...]
Grenadian officials still to release Island Princess
The owner of the ill-fated Island Princess will have to wait just a little longer before his vessel is returned to him. Errol Prince said that he learnt the disappointing news yesterday from his agent who informed him that the Deputy Commissioner of Police was awaiting word from his counterparts in Guyana before the cargo [...]
MMC guard still in custody for fatal shooting of alleged thief
An MMC security guard remained in custody yesterday as police continued investigations into Sunday’s fatal shooting of alleged battery thief Kwesi D’Andrade. D’Andrade, of “C’ Field, Sophia, died after he was shot in the back with a shotgun, allegedly during a struggle with the guard. An MMC official told Kaieteur News that the rank was [...]
Thieves cart off Money Gram safe with $3.3M
Thieves broke into the Money Gram office at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, and reportedly stole a safe containing $3.3M. The discovery was made at around 08:45 hours yesterday and the police have since launched an investigation. According to the police the locks to the outer door of the premises were cut and the [...]
Is this homelessness or slackness?
This man was spotted sleeping with this child on the pavement at the corner of Oronoque and Robb Streets around midday yesterday. He claimed that he is a security guard at nights and has nowhere to sleep during the day, since the house he was living in was sold and the new owners put him [...]
Police vehicle crashes into minibus at Uitvlugt
- five injured Five persons were yesterday rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital following an accident on the Uitvlugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara. Reports are that a police pick up PKK 741 crashed into the back of a minibus PJJ 5718 just as the minibus stopped to put off a passenger. The driver of [...]
Nurse Practitioners’ Bill likely by 2011
– Health Minister By Sharmain Cornette A new Nurse Practitioners’ Bill is likely to be in place by next year which is intended to ensure that continued nursing education becomes compulsory rather than an optional endeavour within the local health sector. Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, made this disclosure yesterday even as he recounted the [...]
President of GFF optimistic of chances
President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Colin Klass is optimistic that Guyanese women footballers would do well in the upcoming qualifiers for the Women’s World Cup football tournament, scheduled to get underway at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground from March 4 – 7 next. Already, the countries have been grouped and Guyana, placed in [...]
Bladen Hall captures School Windball Cricket Competition
2010 season opens later this month Bladen Hall Multilateral defeated Central High by 16 runs to capture the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport 18th Annual Christmas Term Female Windball Cricket Champions Trophy 9-a-side 6 overs round robin tournament which ended recently, at the Carifesta Sports Complex. Taking first strike in the final, Bladen [...]
Another torrid time on the road
Guyana cricketers continue to struggle overseas By Sean Devers in Barbados The struggles of the Guyana team on their overseas assignments over the past few years continued this year leaving them out of the race for their first regional First-Class cricket title since 2002. After scarping 7 points and a bottom-of-the-table place following 4 rounds [...]
Rookie Ironmen gearing up for GAPF Novices on February 18
Colin ‘Mr. Clean’ Chesney to attempt squatting 800lbs The 2010 Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Novice Championships which is set for February 18 at a venue to be announced is anticipated to be the most exciting ever. According to Public Relations Officer of the GAPF Mark Seymour, this year’s Novices, coming just before the Caribbean [...]
