Husband, 59, kills wife, 36
(By Mondale Smith and Rabindra Rooplall) Terrifying screams for help in the Herstelling, East Bank Demerara village rent the air about 10:30hrs yesterday. Seconds later, as blood spurted from her body, Donnette Greenman Warde, 36, dashed out of the upper flat of lot 100 First Street screaming “Patrick Help, he coming with a knife”. She [...]
Citizen files lawsuit against ‘illegal spending’ of Lotto funds
Attorney General Charles Ramson, by way of a summons filed in the High Court by Attorneys-at-Law Miles Fitzpatrick and Christopher Ram on behalf of Political Activist Desmond Trotman, will have to defend the legality of proceeds of the Lotto Funds being controlled by Office of the President and not turned over to the Consolidated Fund. [...]
Dem boys seh… Pray fuh dem Guyana
Now-a-days is sheer thiefing. This thiefing now tun a big word like corruption. Dem boys seh that when people talk bout corruption is thiefing dem mean. De big word is only to confuse de ordinary man. Now dem boys seh that this corruption thing got consequences. De Waterfalls notice de thing and talk all de [...]
Aunty Gerty is 102 and still going
Despite her frail condition, God has spared Muriel Dolphin’s life to see yet another year. Today marks the 102nd birth anniversary of the resident of Lot 244 Bourda Street, Lacytown, Georgetown, who is fondly called Aunty Gerty. She was born on April 25, 1908. The aged woman was not up to an interview with this [...]
Nobel Prize winner lauds Jagdeo
Lord Nicholas Stern of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment of the London School of Economics has congratulated President Bharrat Jagdeo for receiving the 2010 Earth Champion Award. Lord Stern, who is widely credited with changing global understanding of the economic impact of climate change, described President Jagdeo as “one of the world’s [...]
Man shot by former work colleague
- Police suspect robbery was the motive, one arrested Police are currently investigating what some say might have been an attempted robbery that has left a 24-year-old man hospitalised with a gunshot wound. Reports are that Richard Barton was reportedly shot some time after 16:00 hours, yesterday, at his place of employment, Lambert’s Enterprise, Charlotte [...]
Students blow whistle on cash for assignments
School launches probe as… By Leonard Gildarie In a case that seems to be the tip of the iceberg, the Head Teacher of an East Bank Demerara secondary school has initiated investigations into a suspected racket where students were paying teachers to do assignments issued by the Ministry of Education. Students of Grade Seven and [...]
Guyana Consulate facilitates speedy deportation from the US
- says deportee A recent Guyanese deportee from the United States of America has lambasted the Guyana Consulate in New York for not doing enough to assist his countrymen to fight their removal from the US. Mahash Singh, who this year was deported to Guyana after spending a decade in the United States, believes that [...]
British citizen on worldwide motorcycle tour
A British citizen, David Kitson, 29, plans to motorcycle around the world. He has already passed through more than 20 countries. He started in his native England then continued to the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, the United States of America, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, [...]
Vagrant found dead
A vagrant identified only as Roy, was found dead under the Avinash Store on Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown yesterday. The man was clad in a long black pants and long sleeve brown shirt with blue vest. He was lying on a cardboard. According to a security guard in the vicinity, the man had been lying [...]
Sangeeta Persaud’s body exhumed
By Latoya Giles and Jenelle Carter Foreign pathologist, Dr. Valery Alexandrov, a specialist in forensic and anatomic pathology, yesterday conducted a second post mortem, this time on the exhumed remains of Sangeeta Persaud, a West Bank Demerara teen. The Trinidad-based pathologist yesterday collected samples from various parts of Persaud’s body in an effort to [...]
Authorities to debrief crew of ‘missing’ chopper
Local aviation officials were expected to debrief the pilot and passengers of a Suriname-registered helicopter which went incommunicado Thursday evening for five hours while on a hinterland flight. The helicopter landed shortly around 11:00 hrs yesterday at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), with the occupants safe, almost two days after they took off from [...]
Teen killer of Guyanese-born girl appeals US conviction
Albany, New York-An attorney for Jermayne Timmons is appealing his conviction of depraved indifference murder in the death of 10-year-old Kathina Thomas. Thomas, whose family had arrived in Albany from Guyana some 16 months earlier, was hit by a stray .45 caliber bullet while playing outside her home at 445 First Street on May 29, [...]
Board of Industrial Training Graduates 726 under NTPYE Apprenticeship Programme
Today will see the first in a series of graduations across the country as 726 participants in the last year’s Apprenticeship Programme under the National Training Programme for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) receive their certificates of completion, says Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Industrial Training, Alana Brassington. The programme which is conducted over six [...]
Guyana, Brazil to sign major agricultural agreement
- several Rupununi projects to be accelerated Guyana and Brazil are expected to sign a major agreement, tomorrow, that will accelerate cross border agricultural investments, especially in the Rupununi. The agreement will see the development of several projects including corn, soybean, cashew and rice farms for the Regions Nine area. It will also cover technical [...]
Clarence was a true champion in spirit and in mind
Dear Editor, I would like to echo the kind sentiments written about a good and valiant brother who died after a period of illness. Brother Clarence Ellis was indeed an indefatigable son of Guyana. He was an economist by trade but an over-all intellectual. Clarence was a patriot who cared deeply about the well being [...]
HUBBLE TURNS 20
In the daily grind of life, it can be quite easy to forget that we are inhabitants of a vast universe; that we reside on the third smallest planet in a system of nine revolving around a medium sized star in a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars. The Hubble Space Telescope, however, has [...]
The more you live the more you learn about people
Dear Editor, I stopped writing letters in the press because there is a nauseating level of ignorant insensitivity that emanate from the pages of all the print media houses in Guyana as it relates to issues involving or connected with Guyanese of African descent. That is why it is so urgent and important that there [...]
Final goodbyes said for retired Chief Justice Joaquim Gonsalves-Sabola
As if it were a prince of real royal blood, the life of a Guyanese who made Bahamas his home proudly was laid to rest on Friday April 16, in statesmanship fashion. Tributes of honour and opulence were many for the late Sir Joaquim Claudino Gonsalves-Sabola who dedicated most of his life to the legal [...]
Clarence Ellis has left a legacy
Dear Editor, It was quite touching to see Ravi Dev acknowledge the life of the recently departed Clarence Frederick Ellis. It was not surprising because Ravi has always had the courage to be honest. Ravi’s words do sum up this “good man” when he wrote, “Over the last two decades, I have had extended colloquies [...]
Melanie residents clash with villager over fence around old bus shed
A villager’s move to erect a fence around an old bus shed and on what is Government’s reserve has several of his neighbours crying foul. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Public Works had ordered a roadside stall on that same plot of land on the road leading to Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, to [...]
Kamla is the most liked politician in T&T
Dear Editor, According to NACTA’s latest survey in Trinidad, UNC and Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar is more liked than PNM Leader and Prime Minister Patrick Manning and COP Leader Winston Dookeran. However, this does not mean she is favoured to win the May general elections. In fact, according to the poll’s findings, the election is [...]
Trust building is a work in progress
Dear Editor, I wrote in 2004 the following: “…President Bharrat Jagdeo presented the PPP/C’s position on inclusive governance in 2003 at the State House. The paper came at a time when everybody seems to have an opinion on shared governance. However, the President’s paper, true to form, sustains a long established tradition where the PPP [...]
Fighting Sexual Violence
The unanimous passing of the Sexual Offences Bill 2009 last Thursday night by the National Assembly is a landmark event for a host of reasons. Coming as it does in the wake of the latest high-profile allegations of predatory sexual assault on hapless children it is nothing if not timely. The national psyche has been [...]
First two Mayor’s Cup semi-finalists will be decided tonight at GFC
The first two semi-final places will be decided tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground when action in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football championship continue at the venue starting at 6:00pm with a double header. Fans should be in for a treat. The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will oppose Uprising in the night’s opening encounter, [...]
