Bandit attack leaves one dead
- another injured By Melissa Johnson (with additional reporting by Samuel Whyte) WELLINGTON PARK, CORENTYNE – What was intended to be an early Monday morning robbery at the home of a businessman at Wellington Park, Corentyne, has left one person dead and another hospitalised. Dead is 47-year-old Arjune Gobin, a security guard attached to Nand [...]
Guyanese twin slain during robbery in US
Brooklyn twin brothers who tried to rob a Connecticut apartment were fatally gunned down by the pistol-packing resident. Andrew and Andraw Moses, both 21, each took a bullet to the head during a wild shootout in an East Hartford apartment early last Friday, officials said. The twin hailed from McDoom, East Bank Demerara. They left [...]
Bank of Guyana ‘Mystery Account’ holds $$M
…monies not being transferred to nation’s coffers Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elizabeth Harper, and other officials from that Ministry yesterday appeared before the Public Accounts Committee where she and the Accountant General were at odds to explain why monies generated from the Missions in Washington and New York are not finding [...]
Bandits shoot man for his gold jewellery
Police are on the hunt for three bandits who shot a city resident after relieving him of the gold jewellery he was wearing during a brazen robbery at the Tucville Squatting Area around 22:30 hours on Sunday night. Mark Hunte is nursing a gunshot wound in his abdomen after the bullet fired by one of [...]
Man charged for attempted murder, unlawful wounding
A man who allegedly attacked two brothers with a knife was yesterday denied bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It was alleged that Clavin Johnson, on April 26, stabbed Shawn Atkins in the region of the heart and slashed Leon Atkins to the neck with a [...]
Mahaica resident doused with acid
- may have to seek overseas treatment Relatives of Shazaad Shaeed, 48, are considering overseas medical treatment to save his eyesight after the man was doused with a corrosive substance, on Sunday night. The man, who resides at Supply, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, yesterday told Kaieteur News that he was doused with the corrosive substance [...]
Family of amputees appeals for help to rectify fallen house
Last Mother’s Day was probably one of the worst days in the lives of 76-year-old Doris Thomas and her children of Victoria, East Coast Demerara. On that day, their wooden house which rested on stilts came crashing down, and although to the naked eye it appears habitable, no one will want to endure the suffering [...]
Dem Boys Seh… Shaik want courtesy
Some people does want respect and dem don’t even give respect to anybody. Imagine that Shaik get vex when de newspaper carry a comment by Patrick Yarde how he, Shaik, seh that he cant wuk wid de lady who doing de wuk as Chief Education Officer. In de fuss place all Shaik was doing was [...]
New Building Society gives back to community
New Building Society Ltd. New Amsterdam, Berbice Branch, recently made monetary donations to a number of charitable organisations in the Ancient County as the financial entity seeks to continue empowering organisations and the community as a whole. Anil Beharry, Senior Manager of the Society’s Berbice Operations, presented the cheques to representatives of the various entities. [...]
Wilderness Explorers completes FAM trip for int’l tour operators
Wilderness Explorers has completed its seventh annual familiarisation trip for UK and other international tour operators to Guyana, visiting many of the country’s key locations, lodges and communities. This year, 10 operators, some who have never promoted Guyana before such as Travel In Depth and Latin Discover, visited Guyana. Among the participants were representatives of long-standing [...]
Gender Equality Commission finds some women under-paid
Among some of the issues identified at the Women and Gender Equality Commission on Wednesday last was non-compliance by some employers who under-pay women even though they had entered into an agreement to provide a higher wage. This is according to Chairperson of the Women and Gender Equality Commission, Indranie Chandarpal. According to Ms Chandarpal, [...]
Regional Chairman orders into CSEC fiasco
Chairman of Region Ten and Chairman of the Region Ten Education Committee Mortimer Mingo in a recent statement said that he was appalled at the reports that 25 students of the Hururu Academy were denied the opportunity to write the Human Biology and Social Biology Paper 2 Examination. At the time the examination was being [...]
Muslims, US embassy to host lecture by Islamic professor
The Muslim Youth League of Guyana, The Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman and the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex in association with the Embassy of the United States of America in Guyana will this Thursday host a lecture by renowned scholar Professor Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari. The lecture is slated for the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex [...]
Naked woman collapses on city streets
…relatives say she refused their shelter “I come to work about 7.30 and see her…I wondered what was going on!” said a security guard employed with the Georgetown Public Hospital to oversee the parked vehicles of doctors and other staff members. What he was wondering about was the fact that a woman was lying on [...]
International AIDS candlelight memorial promotes tolerance
Guyana joined the rest of the world in recognition of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial under the theme “Many Lights for Human Rights” at the St. George’s Cathedral Sunday in Georgetown. According to Society against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) co-chair Namela Baynes-Henry, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is in commemoration of all the people, friends, [...]
Digicel says thank you to Lethem supporters
Expressing appreciation for the support given to the company at Lethem, Digicel Guyana last week began to express its gratitude with the first ever ‘Dine With Us’ to be held in Region Nine. Approximately 60 guests gathered at the Savannah Inn Hotel and Restaurant for dinner with the telephone company. Guests included members of the [...]
El Dorado Communications major GSM service provider in Guyana
They were two vibrant young men, accompanied by their Marketing Manager, walking into the Editorial Department and requesting an interview. Tyrone and Tamel Williams want Guyana to know that El Dorado Communications Inc. has the best to offer clients where GSM tracking is concerned. Tyrone who is the Technical Director of the company explained that [...]
Police question taxi driver after Eccles robbery
Police are questioning a taxi driver who they believe could provide them with information about bandits who robbed an Eccles, East Bank Demerara woman in broad daylight yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the taxi driver was detained shortly after he dropped off the bandits in the city. The victim of the robbery declined to give [...]
Schools’ welfare department to take 14 more parents to court
The Schools’ Welfare Department will be taking 14 parents from Mosquito Hall, Riverview, Unity and Lancaster, in Mahaica, Region Four, to court for abandoning the responsibility to educate their children. According to a statement from the Ministry of Education, the Department last month had taken 17 parents in the Upper Corentyne area, Region Six, to [...]
No side effects reported from HINI, RotaTeq vaccines – CNO (ag)
Almost two months have already elapsed since the arrival of the first batch of HINI vaccines to these shores, allowing for some vulnerable groups to access the medication. And according to Acting Chief Nursing Officer, Tarmattie Barker, persons have been accessing the vaccine at the Ministry of Health and at all health facilities in the [...]
Drip irrigation technique to be adopted locally
Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud has approved the drip irrigation technique to be used in Guyana. Addressing farmers at a seminar to instruct farmers on the new irrigation method, the Minister explained that it is a more cost effective method that requires less manpower. The system was first introduced to Guyana in 2006 and to a [...]
Cops raid AFC Chief Executive Officer’s properties
- party alleges political harassment Top executives of the Alliance For Change (AFC) are alleging political harassment after police ranks raided a Queenstown building owned by businessman Peter Ramsaroop, the party’s Chief Executive Officer. Ramsaroop told Kaieteur News that police conducted the search around noon, yesterday, shortly after he had returned from Barbados. He said [...]
Child abuse starts within the home
- neglect cited as major abuse By Rabindra Rooplall For last year, 886 incidences of child abuse cases were recorded. Of that number, 40 per cent were boys and the rest were girls, according to the Statistical Unit from the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security. According to the statistical report, girls are [...]
Paddy bug infestation being addressed
Following reports of a paddy bug infestation in Region Six, it was pointed out that the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) initiated the publication of several paddy bug alerts in popular daily newspapers, advising farmers on how to proceed in achieving control. This newspaper has also learnt that several meetings with farmers were held in [...]
ERC Engaged Representatives of its Hindu and Muslim Constituencies
The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday convened its annual Constituency Meetings for the year. The meetings were held with representatives of the Hindu and Muslim Communities respectively as the Commission commences its Strategic Assessment process. The ERC stated the first meeting was held with representatives of the Hindu Constituency where 13 persons participated in addition [...]
