Makeshwar Fip Motilall: Contractor or Grocery Salesman
As investigations continue into Synergy Holdings Inc. headed by Makeshwar Fip Motilall, even more questions surface. This newspaper previously reported that even though the company has had a vested interest in the Amaila Hydro Electric Project for some time now, Motilall is now constructing an office in Guyana. He is no longer building the hydro [...]
Pandit from India fleecing Guyanese
…tells undercover reporter, pig, cow and chicken were killed to prevent her from getting pregnant When I do puja, you must not mingle (sex) for three nights. I guarantee you pregnant one month’ – Pandit By Leonard Gildarie One woman alleged that she paid $96,000 to remove a sore on her foot. Three weeks later, [...]
Dem boys seh….Jumbie bee bite Robeson
Nobody ain’t got right to suffer these days. In fact, nobody should complain about being unemployed. Dem boys seh that all dem who thiefing putting dem whole life at risk because dem got other ways to mek money. Imagine a man come from India, till from India because he hear that Guyanese believe in spirits. [...]
All indictable matters should be prosecuted by trained legal practitioners – former Attorney General
Former Attorney General, Doodnauth Singh, is convinced that all indictable matters should be prosecuted by qualified attorneys at law from the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Singh, a Senior Counsel who resigned last year as Attorney General after serving for close to five years as a technocrat in the Bharat Jagdeo administration, told [...]
Police in hot water for stealing seized marijuana
Corruption has raised its ugly head in the Guyana Police Force as ranks stationed at the Mahaica Police Station are being investigated for the theft of a substantial amount of marijuana which was confiscated in the Mahaica Creek on Friday. Kaieteur News understands that instead of declaring the full amount of drugs seized, the ranks [...]
Three committed to High Court for Lusignan massacre
Three youths from the Buxton/Friendship area on the East Coast of Demerara have been committed to stand trial in the High Court for their involvement in the 2008 massacre of 11 persons at Lusignan. Magistrate Sherdell Isaacs-Marcus on Friday at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, brought an end to the Preliminary Inquiry when she found that [...]
Cross Debarment: A new global tool against corruption
The cross debarment agreement signed recently by the world’s top multilateral banks is a milestone for the anticorruption agenda. Due to come into force by mid-year, the agreement says that if one Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) declares a firm or individual ineligible for procurement contracts because of fraud and corruption, then all the other MDBs [...]
Berbice Education Department withholds teachers’ salaries
East Berbice Corentyne- More than 20 teachers in East Berbice will have to seek alternative means of providing for themselves and families. Their salaries for April have been withheld by the Department of Education in New Amsterdam for nearly two weeks. According to reports, Regional Education Officer Ms Shafiran Bhajan sent a directive to Principal [...]
Huge overseas demand for mangoes putting strain on local market
- earned $38M in exports last year By Leonard Gildarie As international markets struggle to recover from the global economic crisis, at least two crops in Guyana are recording unprecedented gains from exports. Last year, mangoes earned $38M, more than a $7M increase in exports from 2008. While it did not mirror the explosive growth [...]
JP president calls for compulsory registration
“By instituting compulsory registration with the Association, we can assist the authorities in preparing and compiling a list of all JP’s and COA in all of the 10 administrative regions in Guyana,” said president of the Justices of the Peace association, Hermon Bholaisingh. He said that compulsory registration should be made mandatory by the Office [...]
Charlestown Secondary School student wins Pepsi essay competition
Pepsi, sponsor of the ICC World T20 and local bottler Demerara Distillers Limited Friday rewarded secondary school students for outstanding performances in the secondary school essay competition. As part of activities to spread the ICC Twenty 20 cricket spirit, secondary school students between the ages of 13-17 were invited to write an essay of no [...]
Critchlow Labour College to reopen next month
The Critchlow Labour College, which closed its doors last year after facing severe financial problems, is set to open its doors again this month, even as Thursday’s “re-opening” ceremony saw a no-show from Government officials. Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, was listed to speak at the ceremony but the college’s new management reportedly received correspondence [...]
Guyana-born journalist is Pulitzer finalist
- cops 2010 Dart Award for investigative series A Guyana-born journalist has done her former homeland proud by being a Pulitzer finalist and copping the 2010 Dart Award for a series of investigative stories about the brutal treatment meted out to inmates at a boy’s home. Waveney Ann Moore, who writes for the St. Petersburg [...]
270 shotgun cartridges found at city wharf
- shipping agent detained Police officers acting on a tip off, on Friday, seized a container destined for Ali’s Bakery, on the West Coast of Berbice. It contained more than 270 shotgun cartridges. The operation occurred at a city wharf. According to police sources the shipping agent was “sim.cargo”. Kaieteur News understands that the officers [...]
Understand that Govt. is spending taxpayers $$ – Lincoln Lewis
“Fight back against these injustices… we have a civic and moral responsibility to hold government accountable and we must not shirk from it” – Lewis General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, and of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Lincoln Lewis, has challenged workers to understand that the money being spent to the tune [...]
The media landscape has changed but the basics remain – US Charge d”affaires
Tomorrow is World Press freedom Day. It is the day when journalists and reporters the world over grab the attention despite there is the tenet that reporters do not make the news. Indeed, with the change in the way news and information are being disseminated—blogs, internet and the other electronic media by the very reporters. [...]
WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED?
National education situation out of control? – Clarence O. Perry Part 1 We cannot plant limes and hope to reap oranges! The Guyana Review (SN 25-02-10) reports: “Violence in schools poses serious challenges to the fabric of the country’s education system. The authorities are yet to fashion a workable response.” The report cites examples of [...]
P.J. Patterson appeals to OAS on Haiti’s behalf
CARICOM’s Special Representative on Haiti, P.J. Patterson on Wednesday last, challenged the Organization of American States (OAS) to work with the rest of the international community to help Haiti realize its vision of prosperity built on the foundations of freedom and the total release of its people’s innate creative talents. Mr Patterson was addressing a [...]
English at UG Berbice Campus
Dear Editor, My daughter obtained a Grade One in English A at the CSEC Examination. She went to the Teachers’ Training College Secondary at Rose Hall and majored in English. She then applied to UG Tain Campus with the intention of majoring in English. Sadly, she was told no English so she is now majoring [...]
Voters reject Panday’s independent candidacy
Dear Editor, As Trinidad goes to the polls on May 24, Trini voters have objected to Basdeo Panday, the former leader of the opposition, seeking re-election as an independent. Panday has been rejected by his party as a candidate for re-nomination. However, he is considering an independent run. The findings of NACTA’s tracking opinion poll [...]
What’s the reason for the reduction of govt. ads to KN?
Dear Editor, I have noted your notice to readers detailing a nefarious, systematic Government of Guyana campaign to strangle Kaieteur News by drastically decreasing or withdrawing government advertising as a punitive measure. I have also scrutinized the following statistics which you published on the percentages of government of Guyana advertisements which were placed in newspapers [...]
It is not unusual for ethnic identity organisations to highlight achievements
Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon is a champion for ordinary Guyanese. His courage and moral certitude in addressing injustice in the Guyanese society are unquestionable. His humanist approach to analysis of social and political events is encouraging. Freddie Kissoon’s role in the media fill the void that is in current opposition politics, and as such, Guyanese [...]
The Lotto Loot: The case of the people of Guyana versus the President of Guyana
Dear Editor, When political activist, Mr. Desmond Trotman, recently sued the Jagdeo Government over its failure to pay monies obtained from the Guyana Lottery Company into the Consolidated Fund, and also engaging in the practice of disbursements without parliamentary approval is illegal, not only did he act on behalf of all law-abiding Guyanese, but his [...]
Clarence was a big man in an era when such men progressively became an endangered species
Dear Editor, I just returned to Arizona from Maryland where I went to bid farewell to by friend and mentor, Clarence Ellis. Although some of us knew the end was near for Clarence, when Bro Eusi called to give me the news, I experienced that sudden rush of emotions that death of those close to [...]
CARICOM still concerned about OECD “gray” listing
On Friday, Secretary-General of CARICOM,. Edwin Carrington, and Mr. Philip Kentwell, the first Plenipotentiary Representative of Australia to be assigned to CARICOM, began a new chapter in the history of the community. As he welcomed Kentwell and the Australian Government’s overtures of improved relations between the regional agency and Australia, Carrington called for its newest [...]
