Cops still to find Mandela Avenue hit-and-run driver
Traffic Chief Neil Semple said yesterday that a licence number that was provided to them is not that of the driver in Saturday’s hit-and-run accident on Mandela Avenue. Senior Superintendent Semple said that a woman who said that she witnessed the accident alleged that the vehicle which struck and killed Gregory Greaves is a white [...]
Truancy campaigns intensifies
Several parents taken to court for negligence – Education Ministry As the Education Ministry works to intensify its truancy campaign to ensure all school age children attend school, some 35 truants from Region Three were apprehended last month. The Schools’ Welfare Department reports that campaigns were conducted at the Parika Wharf area, Bushy Park, Farm, [...]
Why the delay in probing Roger Khan?
Dear Editor, It is almost one year since Attorney General, Charles Ramson, said that an investigation into Guyana’s biggest convicted drug lord, Roger Khan’s operations here is possible. When he responded to a question about whether the administration would go after Khan’s assets given that the money laundering legislation has been assented to… and further [...]
Relatives dispute police version of wedding house shooting
Two brothers, one of whom was shot by police last Sunday at a wedding house in Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, are expected to appear in court today to face a series of charges. But the men’s relatives are alleging that the police used excessive force to apprehend them, adding that their incarceration following the incident [...]
Change attitudes towards stray animals
Dear Editor, It is with great distress that I write to you in anticipation that people reading this letter may change their attitudes towards stray animals in Guyana. I am extremely disheartened at the stray dog situation in Guyana. The roles of domestic animals such as dogs are unique and incomparable to other animals such [...]
A household suffers through police inaction
Dear Editor, Is there a law against very loud music being played late at night and early in the morning? On April 8, last, the loudest music was being blasted from the open top floor of a yellow-painted hotel in West Ruimveldt around Front Road and Hunter Street from 21:00 hrs until 3:30 hrs. The [...]
Sangeeta Persaud died from Meningitis
Amidst all the speculation surrounding the death of 14-year-old Sangeeta Persaud following alleged attempts to exorcise demons, Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh has confirmed that the teenager died from meningitis. Dr. Singh who performed the post mortem examination on Persaud’s remains had initially indicated that his findings were inconclusive. However he had taken samples from [...]
We live in a topsy turvy world
Dear editor, This world is indeed a strange place, where everything appears to be topsy turvy, and is easily accepted without question and as normal. “A bank is a place that would lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it,” said Bob Hope. It was this obvious contradictory quote of the [...]
I am not a man-kisser and have never been one
When I heard President Bharrat Jagdeo call me a self-confessed man-kisser, accuse the Alliance For Change of being associated with drug trafficking and castigate GECOM for buying from one source only, I thought that his jokes were stale. He could have chosen other digs that would have brought laughter. There could be no other explanation [...]
Health Facilities Act to help govern waste disposal
- Doctors’ offices could come under scrutiny “Waste in general is a major public health issue in this country and it is time we all confess that we do not have a clean country,” Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, declared yesterday. He was at the time addressing a biomedical waste treatment workshop at the [...]
THE SAFEGUARDS ARE NO SAFEGUARD AGAINST FAILURE
For years now the name Synergy Holdings Inc. has been associated with the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project. Yet the government at a hastily called press conference announced that another company will be building the hydroelectric power facility and that Synergy Holdings is no longer the sponsor. What does this mean? It is hard to [...]
Capital Gains
According to a report in the Sunday Stabroek of April 18, Mr. Odinga Lumumba purchased a tract of land from the Government in 2004 for $1.5 million and sold it in 2008 for $38 million. After selling it, but prior to passing transport to the purchaser, Mr. Lumumba increased the value of the land to [...]
It’s The Money Stupid
Dear Sir, During the U.S. presidential election between Bill Clinton and George Bush, Sr.; the democrat, Bill Clinton, coined the phrase “It’s The Economy, stupid” to highlight the disconnect between then president Bush and his understanding of the electorate that was disenchanted with him and republican fiscal policies. Politicians in the opposition and those who [...]
