Stiffer penalties for rapists
Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of the Human Services and Social Security Minister and the Government that everyday you read in the newspapers about underage girls being raped and robberies are on the up all over the country. I am calling for no bail on these predators and also on [...]
IF THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE
Just before the 2001 General and Regional Elections in Guyana, Mr. Desmond Hoyte, then Opposition Leader in Guyana, issued a public statement discouraging a foreign company from taking over the management of the local electricity company. Hoyte was taken to task for this statement because it amounted to a virtual threat against a foreign investor [...]
Phone theft experience on Regent Street
Dear Editor, As I read Peeping Tom’s column about cell phone theft (Big Brother may be watching but is he seeing everything?” (Kaieteur News April 24th, 2010), I am prompted to add my comments since I experienced a similar fate on Wednesday afternoon (21st April, 2010) in front of the Esso Service Station on Regent [...]
Cattle farmers’ plight
Dear Editor, We the cattle farmers on the right and left bank of the Abary Creek from Blairmont to the reservoir are in dire need of water for our cattle that are dying everyday. The water in the trenches is muddy, some cows that is strong, at this point drink the water, those that are [...]
School children are litterbugs too
Dear Editor, The patient’s condition is serious. Symptoms are multiple. Poison has been found in body fluids. When symptoms are treated in one area, more pop up in other body parts. If this were a usual patient, doctors would be inclined to declare the multiple sicknesses as chronic and terminal. Not knowing what else to [...]
Two judges request that the DPP explain her behaviour
At last, the archaic British libel laws have come under scrutiny by the UK Government and there may be changes along the lines that were established a long time ago in the United States. It will be a victory for freedom in all former British colonies when those anachronistic laws are burned in the fires [...]
GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME
Our friend Tricia, with whom we had left our dog “Crix” when we went away for a few days, dropped the bombshell on my wife Indranie, “Congratulations, you are now a grandmother!” Then Tricia looked at me, “What do you have to say to that Grandpa?” Fortunately, this was said in the presence of [...]
Everyone has a role to play in journalism
Dear Editor, I have a question to ask. If there is a reporter/journalist who works with a media entity and a public-spirited citizen with a pen, paper, video camera, zeal and enthusiasm for journalism, then who becomes more important in the news cycle? Now suppose there are many thousands of persons like the public- spirited [...]
World Bank: Glacial Reform
It has been reported that yesterday, the World Bank’s Development Committee met in Washington and approved a proposal to increase the share of the voting power for emerging and developing countries in the pivotal global financial institution by 3.13%. It is as if the mountain struggled strenuously but finally produced only a mouse. The World [...]
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 [...]
