Vintage Guyana repeat as champs on ‘Dickie’ Fields 72nd birthday
It was the perfect birthday present for veteran Guyanese shooter Richard ‘Dickie’ Fields who celebrated his 72nd birthday; Guyana successfully defending the West Indies Fullbore Shooting Council (WIFBSC) Long Range Title for the Milex Cup. The Guyanese led by Captain Mahendra Persaud turned back the challenge of four other Caribbean nations including hosts Barbados at [...]
Speeding minibus kills conductor, injures several
By Latoya Giles and Rabindra Rooplall A 30-year-old minibus conductor had his head crushed yesterday morning after the minibus hit a motorcar on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of Conversation Tree. Dead is Ervin Ramroop, 30, of Lot 1 Lusignan, East Coast Demerara. The mid-morning accident also left several other passengers nursing serious [...]
PNCR joins in condemnation of attack on Kissoon
“…another example of the extent to which the present Administration would go to stifle the constitutional right of Guyanese to freedom of expression” Africo Selman, of the People’s National Congress Reform, yesterday, during the party’s weekly press briefing, voiced her party’s condemnation of the attack on Kaieteur News columnist and University lecturer Freddie Kissoon. Selman, [...]
Boxing officials must jump in with both feet if only for the sustenance of the sport
Says Michael Benjamin On Tuesday afternoon last, the boxers that were contracted to participate in the fourth edition of the ProAm boxing card that was staged Friday evening, convened at the NCN Studios for the customary press briefing. It was at this forum that most of the boxers give vent to their feelings. There were [...]
Berbice High School guard bludgeoned
QUEENSTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Sixty-year old George Campbell drew his last breath en route to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning, after he was beaten by a person unknown during what appeared to be a robbery attempt on his work site. At the time of the incident, the Lot 27 East Canefield resident was a [...]
Cops detain survivor of highway ‘crash’
- friend gives statement about illegal act prior to tragedy Police have detained the survivor of Wednesday’s Soesdyke/Linden highway crash to get to the bottom of several puzzling aspects surrounding the death of taxi driver Damien Lindore. Relatives said that 25-year-old Kemal McCalmont was picked up by police at his Wisroc home around 14:30 hrs, [...]
Roma Manufacturing Factory bond goes up in flames
Around 14:00 hours yesterday, a fire of unknown origin gutted some sections of the Roma Manufacturing Inc. Bond, which is located at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara. The facility produces mosquito coils and insect repellents. Reports are that the fire started in a room on the southern side of the building. While the Managing Director, Lewis [...]
Dem boys seh…Security guard getting scarce
Look out fuh some serious advertising and campaigning fuh security guards. People start resigning from dem guard service like mad and de people who heading de guard service getting worried. Wha cause de problem? Two guards get kill in two days and people believe that some people got something against security guards. Most of de [...]
Two jailed in UK for cocaine plot, Guyanese to be sentenced later
Two men have been jailed over a plot to smuggle more than £20M worth of cocaine into the UK inside scrap metal from Guyana. Neil Tindling, 35, of Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, admitted conspiracy to import cocaine and possession with intent to supply. Tindling was jailed for 22 years at Chelmsford Crown Court. Christopher Foile, 42, [...]
US nabs Delta passenger with 17 pounds coke stashed in Champion custard powder
A Brooklyn man was arrested at JFK Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 17 pounds of cocaine into the country. The drug was concealed as baking products from Guyana, US officials said, recently. The United States Customs and Border Protection agency arrested Shawn Hudson on May 14, at Kennedy Airport. Hudson, a tow truck driver, had arrived [...]
Grandmother distressed about missing grandson
A distraught grandmother is seeking the assistance of the law enforcement agencies and citizens in locating her 14-year-old grandson who followed a friend and ran away from home last Monday. According to the 55-year-old grandmother, Claire Haynes, both parents of her grandson, Kareem Haynes, had died, and since she has had Kareem in her care. [...]
Bahamas Defence Minister highlights regional drug woes
…at Inaugural Caribbean-United States Security Co-operation Dialogue Just this week, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force apprehended a vessel in The Bahamas territorial waters. The vessel had on board undocumented migrants from three countries, one of them in far away Asia. The vessel also had on board illicit narcotic drugs and illegal weapons. Every indication is [...]
President Jagdeo’s Award could be used as a point of reference
DEAR EDITOR, The Environmental Community Health Organization (ECHO) was among the first to congratulate President Bharrat Jagdeo on his achieving the UNEP Award because we believe that it was historic and particularly significant to Guyana as a developing country. However, this award brings with it certain very serious responsibilities. It is not often that, small [...]
ACDA stands in solidarity with Freddie Kissoon
Dear Editor, The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) strongly condemns the rampant and growing intolerance in our society most recently exhibited by the attack on journalist Freddie Kissoon. We would like the intellectual authors to know that nothing goes unnoticed. Only two weeks ago, President Obama signed into law the Daniel Pearl Freedom of [...]
Murder accused remanded
A 21-year-old miner from Wakapoa, North West District was yesterday not required to plead to the capital offence of murder when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that Seaford Obermuller, on May 23, last at Ikawna Backdam murdered Elson Prince. Obermuller said that he acted in self defence. He told [...]
Some people are becoming primitive and uncivilised
Dear Editor, As Guyana celebrates its 44th anniversary as an independent nation, I wonder if we would not have been better off under colonial rule. Forty-four years of independence and nothing to show for it. Guyana has been reduced to one of the poorest countries in the world, and the recent animalistic behaviour of the [...]
Two charged for child’s death in road accident
Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, refused to grant bail to two men who were involved in an accident on Tuesday night that claimed the life of 11-year-old Austin Lashley. The men, Desmond De Souza, 53, of 3330 South Ruimveldt Gardens, and Pharell Carpenay, 25, of 41 High Street, were not required to plead to the [...]
Boodhoo sees lessons for Guyana in Suriname elections
Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodhoo, believes Guyana can draw lessons from the conduct of the people in Suriname during elections held in the neighbouring country last Tuesday. “We can learn a lot from these people. All the fighting and the animosity you have (here in Guyana) doesn’t pay off. I enjoyed what I saw (in [...]
Can you help Mr. President?
Dear Editor, I would like to relate something to our President which I think may be of interest to him. Mr President, approximately one month ago I was contacted by Mrs Isaacs, the principal of Queen’s College and asked if I would give parental consent for my daughter Alicia Bankay to attend a conference in Brazil. I was told that Alicia was [...]
Corbin acted outside the ambit of party constitution-Mason
The People’s National Congress membership crisis seems to be deepening following the fracas at the party’s regional conference. National Executive of the Guyana Youth and Student Movement, Wayne Mason, yesterday in an interview with this newspaper blasted the party leader Robert Corbin. Mason chided Corbin for the manner in which he handled the situation last [...]
Nothing can justify throwing faeces at someone
Dear Editor, I write to condemn in the strongest words possible the attack on my friend and newspaper commentator, Freddie Kissoon. It was an abhorrent and disgusting act that does not belong among civilized people. It shows that certain individuals have not risen above animal instinct. Nothing can justify throwing faeces at someone, regardless of [...]
Den Amstel mother seeks help with domestic violence issues – says system not working for her
A Den Amstel woman is appealing to the authorities to tell her where she could go to get justice. Rhonda Layne, in her late 50s, explained that her troubles began about six years ago when her son got married and brought her daughter-in-law home. She said that the family enclosed the downstairs of her home [...]
A collapsing society
Criminal activities are a part of almost every society. There are always deviants and no matter how hard a country tries to create employment for all, there will be people who will fail to co-operate and will display anti social behaviour. This explains why policemen get into the league of criminals; why people who are [...]
For Amerindians who used shovels to build hinterland roads
They used shovels and spades and in several Amerindian villages of Region Eight, it was the women and children that did the work. It took six years, but the hard work paid off. Now Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni), has roads existing where there were once many trails. One road now joins the Lethem highway. On Thursday, [...]
PNCR activist gets $50,000 bail for punching woman member
The man who punched a woman in the face at the General Council of People’s National Congress Sophia, on Sunday was yesterday granted his pre trial liberty when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. The man Sherwin Benjamin 29, of 218 Pike Street Campbellville was accused of unlawfully and maliciously assaulting Marlene Nelson [...]
