Amerindian community slams LCDS consultation
- current mining practices do not respect rights The Amerindian community, in a hard-hitting statement last evening, has demanded action from the government and the international community to advance the land rights of indigenous peoples and ensure that the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is respected. “Our top most priority is to [...]
Bakewell unveils $100M investment at CJIA
Persons passing through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, can now enjoy quality services that many Guyanese have become accustomed to as one popular local business mind has made a whopping investment in excess of $100M at the facility. The renowned Bakewell line of companies yesterday opened the Rituals Coffee Shop, a Roti Hut, and [...]
Guyana, Suriname to conduct joint criminal investigations
Guyana and Suriname have agreed to a menu of measures to strengthen cooperation and consolidate coordination in combating crime and threats to public safety. This was contained in a joint statement between the two ministers responsible for national security in the respective countries, following a meeting at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday. Minister of Home Affairs [...]
Labour Ministry announces major campaign in East Berbice
Government has announced a massive inspection of workplaces in East Berbice starting today to ensure that employers are adhering to labour laws. In addition, the Ministry will be conducting three job fairs and a public awareness campaign to educate stakeholders on the labour laws. The campaign in Region Six ends Saturday. According to a release [...]
Necrophiliac pleads guilty, blames nerves
- Magistrate requests psychiatric report The man who invaded the Reliance Cemetery, exhumed the body of a 75-year-old female and committed an act of necrophilia (a sexual act with the dead body), pleaded guilty when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo. The man, Roopram Bacchus called ‘Toe Toe’, of [...]
Seven pumping stations completed to date
- Works on another four to commence Monday – Project Engineer The rehabilitation of the Georgetown sewerage system is currently 36 percent completed – off by a negligible two percent. It was initially anticipated that the project would have been 38 percent completed at this point. Nonetheless, the project which is being undertaken by Suresh [...]
We need to open up the competition to Caribbean Airlines
Dear Editor, I have noted the Secretary of the Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon’s remarks about the exploitation to which we Guyanese have been subjected to by Caribbean Airlines. Dr Luncheon was commenting directly on the fare structure of the airline but the exploitation does not end there. I am a businessman who has reason to [...]
Domestic violence is our concern
Dear Editor, Reading of the ordeal of Roxanne Goodman in a publication of Kaieteur News, dated March 8, 2010, caused me to speculate and supposed many others as to how many occasions did this woman experienced grave hurt from her husband without intervention from law enforcers. I distinctly remembered the article quoting the daughter of [...]
Defendants given three weeks to respond
The respondents in the compensation/punitive damages case against Attorney General of Guyana, the Commissioner of Police, and the two ranks implicated in the torture, Sergeant Narine Lall and Mohanram Dolai have been granted three weeks to file a response in the case involving the tortured teenager, Twyon Thomas. The request was made by a state [...]
Kissoon is off colour
Dear Editor, I am sincerely glad that there is someone who has a name like ‘Kissoon’ who highlights the African Guyanese dilemma. It is a step in the right direction in helping to heal racial wounds in this country. Frederick Kissoon’s column in Kaieteur News, “Lady Jags, the colour of Guyana, the colour of tragedy” [...]
Colonial ways must be phased out for improved City Council – Oscar Clarke
By Sharmain Cornette It may very well be the fault of the education system that many people are still acting and thinking as colonials even today. This assertion was made recently by General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Oscar Clarke. According to him, although Guyana was able to gain its Independence 44 [...]
Ramkarran should be PPP/C presidential nominee
Dear Editor, It seems as if at least three persons will vie for the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) nomination for next year presidential race for the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. They are: General Secretary of the party, Donald Ramotar, Clement Rohee, who has been in the movement since he was a teenager, and Senior [...]
The Constitution gives the right to all Guyanese wherever they live to vote
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned, “What a political flip-flop!” which was published in Kaieteur News on 9 March, 2010 and written by Cheddi Joey Jagan Jr. Dr Jagan often defends his father in the press and I therefore see nothing wrong with now doing so in relation to my own father, even [...]
Parents and victims: The injustices of life
How can you compare two parents, one of which was never known in this world, had no proper education, remained obscured and hardly did anything significant or nationally known in their own country, and the other parent who was one of the country’s most powerful persons and at one time was the nation’s most powerful [...]
I am pinning my hopes on Moses Nagamootoo to rescue us
Dear Editor, I comment on a recent development I read of in one of the dailies – the story about Moses Nagamootoo readiness to serve as our party’s next presidential candidate in the general elections of 2011. I am indeed excited about this latest development because it is my opinion that Cde Moses Nagamootoo is [...]
Police nab ‘Snake Eye’
- was wanted for brutal cutlass attack on reputed wife Police yesterday nabbed a 46-year-old suspect who was wanted for brutally attacking his reputed wife with a cutlass last Friday morning. The suspect who is known as “Snake Eye” was caught just around 16:00hrs. Kaieteur News learnt that the suspect was caught in the vicinity [...]
HUMILITY IS A REVOLUTIONARY VIRTUE
Monday’s column reflected on the values of Che. This was intended not just as a critique against the commercialization of his image but also as an introduction to today’s column which asks what can leftist parties such as the PPP do to create a more humane society, one in which, as Che advocated, treats with [...]
Remembering Cheddi Jagan
It is hard to believe that it has been thirteen years since Dr Cheddi Jagan passed on. Maybe it’s because he is so much in the news. During the last year there has been an extensive debate in the press over his role in the history of the country. On one side are the “revisionists” [...]
Is there a national plan being pursued for the rice industry?
Dear Editor, I find it rather strange that the weather is being used as the scapegoat for the poor performance in the sugar industry in 2009, but simultaneously is the main reason being used by the Minister of Finance for the credible performance in the rice industry. The Minister said “inclement weather made harvesting difficult [...]
