Shocking admission of a senior policewoman
I never called him “Beltman” to his face. But that was my name for him. In all these years that he came up to me and chatted with me, I have never asked him his name. I don’t know his name. When my daughter was growing up we did her shopping together and there were [...]
Court stops cremation, husband thrashed, rearrested
…third autopsy ordered By Latoya Giles and Neil Marks High Court Judge, Rishi Persaud, yesterday granted a motion stopping the cremation of Bridgette Gangadeen. He also ordered a third autopsy. The police also rearrested the dead woman’s husband, Dwarka Gangadeen, but not before he received a sound beating by the dead woman’s relatives in high [...]
Hydroelectric project price questionable
Hydroelectric plants have been in existence for several decades. It has long been recognised that while they are expensive to build the long-term benefits are worth the expenditure. The concept is largely simple; a dam is built to trap water, usually in a valley where there is an existing lake and the water is allowed [...]
Region Four in crisis as monies withheld – Chairman
- fuel purchases, school maintenance, drainage works in jeopardy The operations of Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica) is in a crisis situation after millions of dollars, representing budgetary allocations, have not been released by Central Government. Yesterday, Regional Chairman, Clement Corlette, said the withheld monies are seriously affecting the operations of several contracts already awarded with no [...]
MILLIONS paid twice for same contract – source
The long-awaited Marriott Hotel continues to be elusive but the money spent by the government to prepare for the investors has raised eyebrows in that there were two payments to two separate contractors for one project. Courtney Benn Construction Company Limited was initially awarded the US$700,000 contract to reroute the sewer lines in Kingston but [...]
Fake pandits flee hideouts
- leave acroutrements behind By Leonard Gildarie Several Indian nationals who pretended to be Pandits with mystical power, and who fleeced several Guyanese over the past weeks of millions of dollars, have left a mountain of evidence behind. There are indications now that at least two of them may have fled to Grenada yesterday. In [...]
Dem boys seh….Happy Mother’s Day
Today is a special day fuh dem mothers. And dem sweet. Dem boys does forget dem whole year but today dem can’t forget dem. Everybody love y’all. I love you too. Dem got other people dem boys can’t forget. Dem pandits is one set. Dem bandits is another set and de bandits come in many [...]
Dave Martins-Guyanese cultural icon
“I preach that all the time, don’t be ashamed of your dialect, it is a powerful (means of) communication…it’s a language, it’s not ignorance.” By Michael Jordan An elephant bowling off a half-mile run-up to a cricket-loving donkey? A flock of sex-starved hens harassing a rooster to death? Welcome to the world of singer/songwriter Dave [...]
Li’l Champs show now cancelled
The troupe, including Li’l Champs Hemant, Shreyasi and Yatharth, Afsha Musani, Raja Hassan and musicians coming out of Mumbai India will not be performing at the National Stadium Providence. The show was initially postponed from yesterday to today, but the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha has announced that the show has altogether been cancelled. “The promoter, [...]
New public servants not getting $4,000 hardship allowance, GPSU upset
New entrants to the public service are not benefiting from the tax free $4,000 hardship allowance the government began paying out at the height of the global financial crisis. This has angered the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), which now says that the move is discriminatory and unconscionable. The GPSU, on Friday, said that it [...]
School days are the best but these are the worst
School days are among the best days of one’s life. During my childhood days my parents, but more specifically, my mother spared no effort in reminding me of this fact. The problem, though, is that I could not begin to understand what my mother saw in school that caused her to describe that institution in [...]
President takes another swipe at Economic Index report
The low ranking which the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom report gave on Guyana again came in for another heavy criticism by President Bharrat Jagdeo, who said that it emanated from, a right-wing and hostile organisation called the Heritage Foundation. Appearing in a Kaieteur News article on April 29, the report said Guyana’s economic freedom [...]
Ministry of Health awaits report on maternal death
Having learnt of the death of Waheeda Basil, of De Willem, West Coast Demerara, who died hours after giving birth to a baby boy on Thursday, Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, in a statement has revealed that he is awaiting a report from the West Demerara Regional Hospital. According to the Minister, his Ministry [...]
The education system is out of control — Part Two
What else could be expected? By Clarence Perry The environment in many of our schools was not too far removed from the days of slavery when the whip and harsh punishment prevailed. If you could not learn fast enough, you felt the whip across your back. It will not be an exaggeration to say that [...]
Man caught in compromising position with boy on seawall
A man who thought that the Georgetown seawall was the safest place to have sex with a nine-year-old boy, spent a night in the Brickdam Lock-ups, after he was caught by the probing eyes of ranks of a Police Mobile Patrol Unit. However, the man was released after police could not locate the nine-year-old victim. [...]
Taxation sends local car prices skyrocketing
It has not always been an easy task for automobile dealers with the conscientious ways of importing cars for the Guyanese market. Import taxes are hugely exorbitant for local auto dealers. Therefore, the Guyanese market feels the squeeze of purchasing vehicles today. One auto dealer, Richard Singh, owner of “Best Buy,” commented on the “painstaking” [...]
GBTI impromptu competition continues with great excitement
Richard Ishmael Secondary School secured a landslide victory last week Tuesday over the Institute of Business Education when the two schools clashed in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) sponsored Inter-Secondary School impromptu competition. The match-up represented the final match of the first round of the competition which started last month. The triumphant [...]
THAG denies ‘erasing’ President Jagdeo’s message
The magazine produced by the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) has revamped the pages on which the messages by President Bharrat Jagdeo, Tourism Minister Manniram Prashad, and THAG President Paul Stephenson. Contrary to what was published in the Saturday issue of Kaieteur News that the magazine was “erasing” the boring messages by President [...]
IT’S DO OR DIE AT KENSINGTON OVAL TODAY
Windies must beat India to stay in title hunt By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer & Leisure Inn After being trashed in their opening Super Eight games here on Friday, it’s now ‘do or die’ at the Kensington Oval from 09:30 today when West Indies face-off with India to stay in [...]
KKR school show a mega hit for Guyanese artistes
Event outgrows National Sports Hall The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall is a spacious venue but judging from the turn out of the nation’s youth yesterday, it might not be the first choice next year for the KKR school show. It would seem that the event has outgrown the location. From about 13:00hrs, children donning uniforms [...]
Rosignol Post Office needs maintenance
Dear Editor, I am a resident of Rosignol Village, West Bank, Berbice; I am concerned about the post office in Rosignol. For the past years the Rosignol Post Office is in a state which is not pleasing to the community. I am aware that the building was given a “make-over”. It was painted on the [...]
No offence was meant to the true and sincere pandits
Dear Editor, Mr. Mahadeo Panchu was filled with emotionalism on reading my letter, perhaps because he is a Hindu, and so missed the point I was making about pandit and bandit. For his information the letter never denounced the true pandits as bandits. The letter highlighted the tricksters and fraudsters whom the police were hunting [...]
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: The Jagdeo Administration must submit hydro proposals to Parliament
The lack of transparency and accountability of the Jagdeo Administration is once again illustrated by the mystery surrounding the granting of the US$15.4 M contract, to Synergy Holdings (a company owned by a friend of the President, Mr. Fip Motilall), for the upgrade of approximately 85 kilometers of existing roadway, the design and construction of [...]
Inconclusive elections: British Guiana 1964 and Great Britain 2010
Dear Editor, The current British election results poignantly make the point that with a hung Parliament, the Prime Minister remains as Prime Minister until there is resolution to the inconclusiveness. In Britain, with this hung Parliament, Prime Minister Gordon Brown remains in office until he issues his resignation; and don’t forget that Gordon Brown also [...]
Sangeeta Persaud, Swami Aksharananda and a dark, deep, fathomless hypocrisy!
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Swami Aksharanda, captioned, “Many questions remain unanswered regarding Sangeeta Persaud’s death” (SN May 7, 2010) and would appreciate the opportunity to rebut. With Swami’s misguided tirade, poor Sangeeta Persaud officially becomes a political football! SN is not without is defenders (see “As a matter of principle, what [...]
