Tortured teen seeks in excess of $25 million compensation
Attorneys-at Law Khemraj Ramjattan and Neil Persram will today file an affidavit in the courts on behalf of Twyon Thomas, the teenager who was tortured at the Leonora Police Station in October last year.
The attorneys are seeking in excess of $25M in compensation on Thomas’ behalf.
The lawsuit names as respondents the Attorney General of Guyana, [...]
Unauthorised driver crashes CANU vehicle
An early morning accident has left one Customs Anti Narcotics Unit Rank and another man with minor injuries after the vehicle they were in turned turtle on the Soesdyke Public Road.
This newspaper was told that the incident occurred sometime around 05:00 hours yesterday. Reports are that the vehicle had earlier in the morning transported Head [...]
Remand prisoners stage riot
By Latoya Giles
Just two days after two inmates at the Georgetown Prisons died violently, the inmates in the Capital Section of the facility went into an uproar early yesterday morning, protesting the fact that the dormitory was without water for a number of days.
Kaieteur News understands that the prisoners asked a prison official for [...]
Linden operating theatre now functional
– Ramsammy
Health Minister, Leslie Ramsammy, is strongly denying claims that the Linden Hospital main operating theater is non-functional. Sources at the Linden Hospital had told Kaieteur News that the operating theater was not functioning and that patients who had to do simple surgeries had to be transferred to the Georgetown Hospital.
But yesterday, the Health [...]
Dem boys seh….Is Dr Bharrat now
People use to talk and dem use to wonder wha Bharrat gun do when he term done. Well de man is a doctor and from now is Dr Bharrat or Dr Jagdeo. Is now people understand how de man good at many things.
He good at economics and now he is a doctor. But dem boys [...]
Wales Community High School overcrowded
Parents of children who attend the Wales Community High School on the West Bank of Demerara are frustrated at what they say is confusion at the School, which approximately has 1,300 children in attendance.
According to Nicola Brown, whose son attends the school, which is expected to be renamed Wales Secondary School, some children attend classes [...]
Sewer System abuse a source of concern
- big businesses to be scrutinised
No amount of investment will give value for money unless the system is used for all intent and purpose and this offers a unique challenge for the sewerage system managers at GWI.
As works on the 24 pump stations continue, items such as sewing machines and engine blocks and in [...]
Debate for Allied Health Professionals Bill likely by March
Although it is currently with the Special Select Committee, the Allied Health Professionals Bill is likely to be up for debate by next month. This is according to an optimistic Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy who related that a report is expected from the Committee which has already examined the draft Bill at a meeting [...]
Don’t mix Phagwah with alcohol - IAC
The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) is supporting the call by the Hindu Community of Guyana for the festival of Holi (Phagwah) to maintain its sacred form and be respected.
The IAC has noted that over the last few years, some entertainment promoters use Phagwah to encourage undesirable practices and have associated the sale of alcohol with [...]
NAMILCO examines possibility of exporting flour to Brazil
Despite the many challenges in the local flour industry, over the past 16 years there has never been a shortage.
This is according to General Manager of National Milling Company, Bert Sukhai. Sukhai, in a recent interview, stated that the many successes over the years are as a result of strategic planning.
He said that his company [...]
Debate for Allied Health Professionals Bill likely by March
Although it is currently with the Special Select Committee, the Allied Health Professionals Bill is likely to be up for debate by next month. This is according to an optimistic Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy who related that a report is expected from the Committee which has already examined the draft Bill at a meeting [...]
Island Princess returns today
The ill-fated cargo vessel Island Princess is due in Guyana today.
Its owner, Errol Prince, told Kaieteur News that the vessel was finally released on Thursday after police officials here contacted their counterparts in Grenada.
The vessel set sail from Grenada on Friday and is expected to reach Guyana sometime in the evening today.
Mr. Prince said that [...]
Four refrigerated truck, five containers for farmers
Venezuela finances key agri project:
Farmers facing severe transportation constraints to ship their produce will see their plight eased considerably as government yesterday signed an agreement for the purchase of four refrigerated trucks and five refrigerated containers.
The $66M contract was signed Wednesday by Nizam Hassan, General Manager of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC) and [...]
Another vehicular smash up…
The two cars involved in the smash up at Meten-Meer Zorg, West Coast Demerara, Saturday, were heading in opposite directions when one turned across the other.
Both drivers claimed to have been in the right. Nevertheless, they both suffered injuries and were rushed to the nearby hospital for treatment and sent away.
Arjoon holds nerves to capture title
It was tough going at the finals of the 2010 Bounty Farm Handicap Squash Tournament on Saturday night, at the Georgetown Club.
In the Open Category final, Andrew Arjoon (+10) defeated Alan Downes (+6)11-15, 15-9, 15-10 to capture the title and winning trophy.
The two veteran players, each more accustomed to coaching and cheering their high performance [...]
Grove Hi Tec tame Kuru Kururu Warriors 6-0 to top table at end of 1st round
Grove Hi Tec took pole position going into round two of the Stag Beer sponsored East Bank Football Association (EBFA) with an emphatic 6-0 whipping of Kuru Kururu Lions in the final first round game contested at the Grove Community ground, yesterday afternoon.
The home team controlled the game at will and had the Warriors caged [...]
Alpha, Uprising draw 3-3 as 2009 DeSinco U-19 football tourney resumes
The 2009 U-19 Round Robin tournament organized by the Guyana Football Association (GFA), in collaboration with DeSinco Trading Ltd which was temporarily aborted late last year, resumed last Saturday morning with Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United and Uprising FC playing to a 3-3 stalemate.
Organizers were forced to put the matches on hold to facilitate the yearly [...]
Police Commander assures Berbicians of reduced crime rate
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – “We would be hot on their heels.” This is a promise from Commander of Division ‘B’ of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Commissioner, Steve Merai, as ranks in Berbice grapple with what appears to be an escalating crime rate.
To control and reduce this spate of crime, the Division activated similar strategies [...]
No charges laid yet in Line Path murder
LINE PATH, CORENTYNE – No charges have yet been laid in the Line Path, Corentyne homicide after the body of 43-year old Nalini Bhoge was found in her Lot 19 Line Path home.
The mother of three was discovered with her neck almost severed and a chop to the back of her head. At the time [...]
Another heart patient gets financial assistance
ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Linden Mason, a 13-year old J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School student must undergo open heart surgery and is in dire need of financial assistance.
The boy’s foster mother, Brenda Hunte, said her family cannot raise the required amount all alone.
“It is too much for us to get. We have to raise US$5,000 [...]
New ambulance for Kwakwani today – Health Minister
Major focus will be placed this year on the availability of ambulances at public health facilities countrywide. In fact, Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, revealed that efforts will even be made to procure more durable quality ambulances, particularly for regional operations.
His disclosure comes on the heels of complaints that the Kwakwani Hospital Complex has been [...]
No amount of criticism of the USA and cozying up to Iran can excuse the PPP’s failure in the last 17 years
Dear Editor,
If R. Chickerie, writer of the letter, “Why all the anti-Iran hysteria?” (Kaieteur News, February 6), is the same reporter who covered the President’s Iran visit for the Guyana Chronicle, then it explains why s/he would spend an enormous amount of time inundating letter readers with selective snap shots of Iran’s ancient and contemporary [...]
Construction on Hope/Dochfour Canal
Dear Editor,
In an Article which appeared in Kaieteur News of January 29, Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud announced that construction on the Hope/Dochfour Canal is expected to start in late February. His statement has come at a time when a number of technical and financial issues for the project remain unresolved and will have to be [...]
ELECTIONS BUDGET
Today is Budget Day, a day that holds more significance for the contracting class than it does for the working class whose only fears today will be whether the government will continue to subsidize water and electricity.
It is a sad indictment of the government that years after it entered into a structural adjustment program which [...]
Why is Mr. Trotman attacking Mr. Corbin for alleged talks with PPP?
Dear Editor,
I would like to comment on the recent articles in both the SN and Kaieteur News, reporting Mr. Robert Corbin’s statements concerning the revelations by Mr. Raphael Trotman and the AFC, that, there are ongoing “secret” talks between the PPP and PNC and furthermore, Mr. Trotman’s insinuation that there is something sinister in such [...]
