Mother, daughter saved from fiery death
A woman and her six-year-old daughter were spared a fiery death when they were pulled from a burning house at Montrose North, East Coast Demerara but not before they both received minor burns. The woman, Kumarie Baljit, 24 , and her daughter, Rachel, were asleep in the bottom flat of the two-storey wooden house when [...]
Corbin not running for Presidency in 2011 – PNCR
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, has announced that he will not be contesting the Guyana Presidency in next year’s General Elections. Speaking at the first General Council meeting of the PNCR for this year and which concluded on Saturday, Corbin acknowledged that a major challenge that will face the PNCR [...]
$$$M unaccounted for in seized Port Mourant co-op
…members get $85,000 payout from interim management By Leonard Gildarie For 10 years there was no Annual General Meeting (AGM). Then $91M that was supposed to be held in reserve was nowhere to be found. And of the massive $540M collected from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for sale of sugarcane, less than $9M was [...]
Magistrate continues legal challenge to Service Commission
By Latoya Giles The case against the Judicial Service Commission and Magistrate Geeta Chandan- Edmond is expected to be called up today before Justice Diana Insanally. The members of the JSC are Acting Chancellor Justice Carl Singh who acts as the Chairman, Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, Ganga Persaud, Justice Prem Persaud (retired) and Senior [...]
Developer acquires disputed land at Non Pareil
- co-op society contemplates restraining order Members of the People’s Democratic Project Co-operative Society are contemplating a move to the courts to restrain any further development on a disputed plot of land at Section D Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara. The members were forced from the land in 1998 when then Housing Minister, Shaik Baksh, [...]
Jagdeo’s defense of Geeta Singh-Knight “high class lawlessness” – Trotman
Alliance for Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, who has previously been critical of having Geeta Singh-Knight sit on the Board of Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), is now lashing out at the President for the way he has defended her position there. Head of State, Bharrat Jagdeo, recently told media operatives that it was [...]
NBS profits exceed $500M in 2009
The New Building Society Ltd., according to its financial statements for the year passed, has secured a profit of $535M, an increase of 9.7 per cent over the profits secured in 2008. The Society has come a long way from 1983 when assets just topped the $100 million mark to achieving an asset portfolio that [...]
Delta mek Glenn and Bharrat smell bad
Old people always seh that when you lef you house you must full you belly. You never know when you gun eat. And nuff Guyanese tek de advice. Bharrat eat and drink before he ketch de plane Sunday morning. De Waterfalls boss Man didn’t eat home but he go to de First Class lounge and [...]
Delta out of Guyana makes two emergency landings
…President Jagdeo, passengers treated like monkeys, given peanuts only A Delta airline flight out of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Sunday morning had to make a forced landing at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and another at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The aircraft left the Cheddi Jagan International Airport shortly after 7:00 hours with an estimated time [...]
Bandits strike at attorney’s home
Two brave bandits yesterday raided the home of attorney at law, Gwendolyn Bristol, carting off close to $2M in cash and jewellery in a daring midday robbery. The Counsel’s home is located just a few doors from the Sparendaam Police Station and the robbery occurred while Ms Bristol was attending court at Sparendaam. Reports reaching [...]
Health and family life education for school curriculum – Minister Baksh
Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, yesterday highlighted the role of parents in disciplining children. He called on them to make that responsibility a priority in an effort to effect the change of violence in schools. The Minister was at the time addressing a wide cross section of stakeholders, among them parents, children from several schools [...]
Relatives renew appeal for information on missing American
Relatives of Kwame Rumel Jobronewet have renewed their appeals for information on the fate of the 67-year-old US citizen who disappeared eight months ago. Jobronewet, also known as Romie Johnston, vanished on June 12, 2009, shortly after visiting relatives in Buxton. At the time, Mr. Jobronewet was in Guyana to attend his mother’s funeral. A [...]
Jamaican appointed Judge in CCJ
…as Justice Duke Pollard retires By Oscar Ramjeet The Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC) has appointed a Jamaican as the newest judge in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). He is Professor Charles Anderson, an academic who replaces Guyanese Justice Duke Pollard, who goes into retirement on June 10 next, when the new [...]
Skeldon sugar factory to commence final test run today
… as Hanoman says Chinese “on board” with the extension request The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is all set to commence the execution of the final test run today at the Skeldon Sugar Factory after scores of delays. This is according to Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Errol Hanoman, who told this newspaper that the [...]
More Peace Corps to take oath
Today, at 10:00 am, Peace Corps Guyana will swear in its 22nd group of Volunteers. The ceremony will take place at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston, Georgetown. This group of 33 Volunteers arrived in the country on February 07, 2010 and engaged in an intensive eight-week training programme. These Volunteers assigned within the Health, Education [...]
Linden man shot by cops in 2006 to appeal Magistrate’s decision
Linden businessman, Herbert Thompson, is appealing a Magistrate’s recent ruling that he was in the wrong when a police rank shot him in 2006, and that he should pay a $150,000 fine or spend five years in prison. Thompson yesterday took the unusual step of picketing near the old Co-operative Bank in Republic Avenue, Linden, [...]
Women’s Progress is Human Progress
By Hillary Rodham Clinton Fifteen years ago, delegates from 189 countries met in Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. It was a call to action to the global community to work for the laws, reforms, and social change necessary to ensure that women and girls everywhere have the opportunities to fulfill [...]
“My sons were following their friend home”
…says mother of two arrested for Triumph robbery The mother of two of the three persons arrested for the robbery and severe beating of Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman, Mohamed Husain, says her two sons were following their friend home. Senita Henry said that her sons – one an employee of the Guyana Revenue Authority [...]
El Nino takes toll on East Bank communities
The current El Nino situation is taking a toll on almost ever farming community and on residents in Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. They say that it is no different for them. Several of the residents who spoke with this newspaper said that their community is hard hit by the dry weather. Many of [...]
GHRA lauds Brickdam lock ups
For decades the Brickdam lock-up defined all that was brutish, callous and backward about policing in Guyana, said the Guyana Human Rights Association, yesterday. Completion of renovations to this facility is a welcome development that goes some way to removing the most persistent obstacle to the modernisation of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), for which [...]
Catering for the shy
Dating is often something that leads to permanent unions. But for all its common nature, there are people who are reserved. These people often find it difficult to meet others. For nearly seven years, Mrs Juliette Chapwanya has been helping people to find friends through a dating service she set up in September 2003. According [...]
Actors Action Association celebrates cultural icon, Daphne Rogers
The song “where are your heroes Caribbean” rings home to Guyana, a nation laden with day to day ordinary people doing extraordinary things as unsung heroes. Many die of a broken heart and are vaguely celebrated even in death. But while there is no wish for death to show its face, at this time one [...]
Bishops’ Old Girls host Magda Pollard
Magda Pollard celebrated her 79th birthday yesterday. However, one day earlier, she was the guest of honour at a function hosted at the Atlantic Gardens home of Ret’d Supt. of Police George Grant and his wife, Leolene. Hosting the function was the Old Girls Association of the Bishops’ High School. Ms Pollard was an old [...]
GABA, UGSS organise ‘Night of Tribute’ for Lawrence
The Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) in collaboration with the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) will hold a ‘Night of Tribute’ tomorrow evening at 19:00hrs for the late national basketball player Kevin Lawrence, who passed away last Friday following an accident in neighbouring Suriname. The tribute will be held at the Cliff Anderson Sports [...]
Endangered ‘Olive Ridley’ returned to natural habitat
The endangered ‘Olive Ridley’ sea turtle that was washed up on the Tuschen Foreshore, Sunday, and was transported to the Leonora Police Station was released yesterday on a beach next to Greenwich Park on the East Bank Essequibo, where it returned to its natural environment. According to Country Co-ordinator for Marine Turtle Project, Romeo DeFreitas, [...]
