Stabroek News website in the clear – Google
Re-printed from Stabroek News Internet search giant Google says that the Stabroek News website has not hosted malicious software over the last 90 days and that it “is not currently listed as suspicious.” Google said that over the last 90 days the website www.stabroeknews.com “appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 [...]
Police rescue sexually abused handicapped child
- man, 62, arrested She was just six years old when she was rescued from a shack on the West Coast of Demerara, while suffering severe physical abuse, now she is 13, and the police and the Ministry of Human Services are being called upon to investigate allegations of sexual abuse, at the hands of [...]
World Bank not interested in tit-for-tat with Guyana Govt.
- Valentini It would be inappropriate and as such the World Bank will not get into any tit-for-tat with the Government of Guyana. This was the response by the entity’s representative to Guyana, Giorgio Valentini, when asked for a comment on the statement issued by Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh in relation to several [...]
Abdel Nur pleads guilty to lesser charge
JFK terror plot… One of the four accused in an alleged terror plot targeting a popular landmark in the United States yesterday pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn Federal Court. Guyanese Abdel Nur, who appeared before Judge Dora Irizarry, pleaded guilty to providing material support to the John F. Kennedy Airport bombing conspiracy Nur, who also [...]
Health Minister defends $100M disappearance
The Ministry of Health, in a statement signed by Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has rejected a headline in last Tuesday’s edition of Kaieteur News “$100M disappears, no paper trail found”, describing it as “a misrepresentation of the truth and blinded by an anti-government crusade.” According to the statement issued last evening, the headline gave the [...]
Dem boys seh…Kwame planning fuh Edghill
Guyana got nuff law. One law fuh poor people, one fuh rich people, one fuh government people and one fuh everybody else. Dem have a special law fuh Fip and Brassy. Imagine that people plan and mess up Freddie wid mess, real mess. Freddie did write how de government mek twenty-four out of twenty-seven septic [...]
Another murder accused granted bail in High Court
Yet another significant ruling was yesterday made by Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire when she granted bail to murder accused Dilip “Peppie” Lambert. The ruling came days after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous or near unanimous verdict, thus returning with a hung jury. Lambert is alleged to have thrown a lighted kerosene stove on [...]
Police still awaiting DPP’s response on fatal hit-and-run
- three weeks after sending file Some three weeks after sending a file to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), police are still awaiting advice on the case involving the Good Friday night death of Ramona Harris. Traffic Chief Neil Semple confirmed yesterday that the DPP’s office is still to return a [...]
Former TUF Chairman passes on
Former Chairman of The United Force (TUF), Fred Fredericks, has died, says leader of the party, Manzoor Nadir. In a statement, Nadir noted that Fredericks was instrumental in gaining recognition for Amerindian Heritage Day – which is celebrated every September – and the founding of the National Toshaos Council. Fredericks, 82, died early yesterday at [...]
Oldest Berbice studio hosts World Camera Day exhibition
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The pioneers of photography in Berbice, the Rambarrans, proprietors of the oldest photo studio in Ancient County, and perhaps one of the oldest in these parts of the Caribbean, held an exhibition of antique cameras and photographs which dated back to over one hundred years ago, in celebration of World Camera [...]
West Indies crushed by 7 wickets as S/Africa win series 2-0
By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Caribbean Airlines Despite a fiery burst from fast bowler Kemar Roach, South Africa inflected a crushing 7-wicket win over the West Indies on the penultimate day of the 3rd and final Test at the Kensington Oval yesterday to take the series 2-nil. Set 47 to win [...]
Moen Gafoor survives close encounters to register second win
Moen Gafoor survived two close games to Michael Benjamin and Yvonne Murray to register wins by spreads of 18 and 16 respectively, eventually chalking up 6 games and a positive spread of 352 to cart off the spoils when affiliates of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) contested for a notch on the Earl [...]
Competitive action as Grove Inter-Block football continues
Several teams registered victories when the Grove Inter-Block football knockout competition got underway at the Grove Playfield Sunday June 27 last. In the inaugural game of the evening grove North defeated Caneville 4-3 on penalty kicks after both teams scored 2 goals apiece during regulation time. Teashawn Blackman netted two goals while Orson Francois and [...]
They deserve to be there
- another team made to suffer By Rawle Welch The news that Guyana ‘Lady Jaguars’ will not be competing at the CAC Games scheduled to be held in Puerto Rico next month must have dealt a severe blow to the group of ball-weavers who sacrificed so much to represent this country. Once again the reason [...]
Horrendous treatment by Cuba FA will not deter Lady Jags
Return game set for Saturday @ GCC “The Lady Jags all want to make their country even prouder of their accomplishments, and are all committed to getting to the Gold Cup Finals.” Despite experiencing the worst possible treatment in their fledgling careers at the hands of the Cuban Football Association, the ‘Lady Jags’ are more determined [...]
Preparations for 2011 junior season to start in September – BCB
The 2011 Guyana Cricket Board season for Junior Cricket does not start until next March when the Inter-county Under-15 tournament would be played but the Berbice Cricket Board would start its preparation for the season in September of this year. This pro-active move was announced by Treasurer of the Board and Senior member of its [...]
GFF withdraws from CAC Games
Executives of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) at a recent Emergency Meeting decided to withdraw its Senior National Women’s Team from participating in the July 2010 CAC Games in Puerto Rico. A GFF Release noted, “Members of the Senior National Women’s Team which met the criteria for participation in the Games were looking forward to compete against [...]
NSC/Ministry of Sport Inter Village Knockout b/ball off to bright start
Grove defeated Herstelling 56-51 when action in the National Sports Commission/Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports sponsored Inter Village Knockout basketball competition got underway at the Samantha Point Basketball court, Sunday June 27 last. Sherwyn Kyte contributed 20 points with support from Travis Klass (12) and Devon Browne (10). Samantha Point then enjoyed the home [...]
G-20: “You’re on your own”
The G-8 group of industrial nations met last week in Canada, followed by the expanded G-20 grouping that has recognised the new global economic realities and roped in the largest developing countries, in their third attempt since 2008 to ensure a smooth recovery from the global recession that kicked in that year. For a small [...]
Two hospitalised after car plunges into Le Ressouvenir canal
Two persons, a man and a woman, are now hospitalised after sustaining injuries when the car in which they were travelling plunged into a trench on the railway embankment in the vicinity of Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara. Cliff Major, of Victoria, ECD, who was the driver of the car, was listed as critical but [...]
Stakeholders to meet on Friday
Stakeholders are expected to meet with officials on Friday to determine what is causing a shortage of chicken and eggs on the local market. The dwindling supply is obviously compounding the problem of cost. Plucked chicken, as of yesterday, was averaging around $350 per pound retail while businesses said that they are purchasing live chicken [...]
Judge orders mental examination for murder accused
Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire yesterday ordered that an independent mental examination should be conducted on murder accused Kenrick Heywood, to determine whether or not he is capable to stand trial. Heywood is accused of killing Jairam Shivram on November 18, 2003. He was committed to stand trial in the High Court on January 13, 2006. Yesterday [...]
M&CC considers waste disposal programme
No further payments have been made available by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) to waste disposal contractors in order to have them resume garbage collection in the city. However, this newspaper understands that Crawler and Wheeler Waste Disposal Service has since resumed operation which is constituted by its ensuring the integrity of [...]
Hit-and-run taxi driver remanded
- after turning self in A 26-year-old taxi driver who fled the scene after hitting down a couple near Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was remanded to prison yesterday after turning himself in. Dinod Narine, of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, was charged with failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing [...]
Lightning-fast internet is here!
- First phase of GT&T’s DSL upgrades kicks in By Leonard Gildarie Just “e-magine” what it would be like to download a movie in one hour or view in real-time, while you are in the US, what is happening at a particular business office in Georgetown. What about the possibility of being at home and [...]
