Food for the Poor is recognised at last
Dear Editor: It would be remiss of me to bottle up my delight at how, within the past week, both print and electronic media have suddenly zoomed in on the critical services Food For The Poor (Guyana) Inc., in collaboration with the Roetheli Lil Red Foundation of Kansas, Missouri, has been making accessible to the [...]
Trafficking tie-up?
To say that the latest US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Guyana has raised the hackles of local officials is to engage in the most sublime of understatements. Words like “crap”, “eye-pass” and “sinister” are not in the diplomatic lexicon usually deployed to describe the actions of a friendly state – which, [...]
THE GLUE THAT BINDS THE OPPOSITION TOGETHER IN A COALITION
Any coalition has to be united around some principal idea. Without a welding principle, coalitions eventually find themselves facing internal fissures and self-destruct. So, is there something around which the joint opposition parties can band together? There are moves afoot to cobble a coalition to contest against the PPP/C in next year’s general and regional [...]
They attack the reporter
Dear Editor, June 21, 2010, I called Guyana Times for Ms. Indrawattie Natram and left a message for her to contact me. The sole reason was to indicate to her that I was impressed with her reporting on the Mangrove Project in Region Two and carried in the GT dated June 6, 2010. I did [...]
A combined opposition cannot just be anti-PPP
Dear Editor, As expected, the recent victory of the People’s Partnership in Trinidad has created a flurry of activities in Guyana regardless of the fact that the two situations are fundamentally different. Trinidad has a constitution that the people of Trinidad can live with, while Guyana has an Executive Presidency Westminster system that stifles the [...]
Give credit where it is due
Dear Editor, You appeared to have missed a small but not insignificant event which occurred a week or two ago. There was a ceremony at Red House to launch a booklet entitled, “President Jagan Speaks on Environment and Development….. selected speeches 1992-1997”. The booklet was compiled and edited by Navin Chandarpal and published by GAWU. [...]
Missing tub, life-boat recovered but no sign of captain
- live wire caused fire – survivor Officials are expected to make another fly-over of the Waini area this morning in search of the missing captain of a fishing trawler which caught fire Saturday morning. Search officials have since confirmed that late Saturday evening, they were able to recover a missing fish tub which was [...]
Robbery/shootout at Mahdia… Bandit, victim dead
A robbery went horribly wrong when two men, one of whom was said to be the brother of a boutique owner in Mahdia, attacked another businessman in the lawless Mousie Creek landing in the Konawaruk area. The ensuing shootout left a robber and a dredge owner dead and a third man badly wounded. Police identified [...]
Dem boys seh… FIP mean Fraud In Progress
Imagine that de whole country want hydropower and everybody deh behind de government to provide hydropower. But some people hard ears and dem boys seh that de government hard ears. People talk how de man dem give money to build de road couldn’t do it. And when dem talk people get vex and claim how [...]
Sharma saga… State changes prosecutor, preliminary inquiry yet to commence
The preliminary inquiry in the witness tampering case against embattled television station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, and five of his associates, was yesterday again adjourned after the prosecution stated that a new prosecutor has been appointed to the case. The matter is before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. Sharma, his son-in-law [...]
Pomeroon kidnapped victim returns, faces police
The Essequibo boat builder who was kidnapped almost two weeks ago reported to the police at Suddie, yesterday morning. The 44- year-old Fabian Gonsalves, accompanied by his wife, Philomena Gonsalves and other family members, was questioned by police ranks for almost 10 hours before being whisked away into a car. He is fully co-operating with [...]
Garbage collectors withdraw service from city
Waste Disposal contractors, Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Service, Cevon’s Waste Management Incorporated, and Crawler and Wheeler Waste Disposal Service, yesterday made good on their threat to withdraw their services from the Georgetown municipality. Municipal Public Relations Officer, Royston King, confirmed this state of affairs yesterday, even as he underscored that “it is regrettable that to [...]
Roraima Airways sues Kaieteur News
Roraima Airways Inc. has taken legal action against National Media and Publishing Company Ltd., the publisher of the Kaieteur News, seeking damages in excess of $100 million for libel. Additionally, Roraima Airways sought an injunction restraining the Kaieteur News from re-printing the allegation published in the story. The injunction was granted by the High Court [...]
Peter Ramsaroop leaves AFC
…says Ramjattan did not demonstrate leadership skills Former Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for Change, Peter Ramsaroop, has cancelled his membership with the party. This was confirmed by party Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, who yesterday, during a press briefing, said that Ramsaroop was no longer an official member of the party. He said that Ramsaroop [...]
Police release businessman held for Saturday’s execution
Police yesterday released a local businessman whom they detained in connection with the execution style killing of 26-year-old Quincy Jamal Beete last Saturday. The man was held shortly after the discovery of Beete’s body in a house on George Street, Werk-en-Rust. The man was detained for questioning on the basis that he had caused the [...]
Guyana supports UN plan of action to knock out trade in small arms
Guyana has fully supported the implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons (SALW) in all its aspects. Representing Guyana at the fourth Biennial Meeting of States at the UN Headquarters in New York, Chargé d’ affaires of the Guyana Permanent [...]
Wife moves to court for compensation from dead husband’s employer
A young mother of two has moved to the High Court, seeking some form of compensation following the death of her husband, who fell to his death from a two-storey building owned by his employer earlier this year. The woman, Denise Smith, is seeking damages in excess of $5M for negligence on the part of [...]
More men should be involved in domestic violence awareness
Men should be more integrally involved in programmes geared at combating the scourge of domestic violence. This notion was emphasised yesterday when the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) kicked into motion a domestic violence sensitisation programme. The programme was deemed a phenomenal move on the part of the municipality to address the social [...]
Improvements to deplorable Diamond hire-car park soon – Minister Benn
Government yesterday said that it is making arrangements for a temporary parking lot for hire cars of the new schemes at Diamond/Golden Grove, East Bank of Demerara. For the past months, the cars were shifted from the main access road to the schemes, to a location near the entrance to the Diamond Housing Area. Then [...]
More Foster parents needed
- Hundreds up for adoption and foster care By Rabindra Rooplall Forty children were fostered last year by the local foster care programme which is controlled under the Child Protection Agency, which also falls under Ministry of Human Services, which was established to focus specifically on the welfare of children. Reports reveal that there are [...]
Rose Hall Fire Station needs more volunteers
ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – The Rose Hall Town Fire Station is in need of more volunteers. Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle said that there are 17 volunteers at present to lend support when necessary but particularly more men are needed. Interested persons must be between 18 and 55 years with good mental and physical [...]
IMC pays five percent increase
ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Increased market revenue was one of the reasons that permitted the Rose Hall Town Interim Management Committee (IMC) to pay workers a five percent wage and salary increase. Chairman Bhadenauth Somrah said this took effect from June 1, last. According to him, all aspects of the IMC showed steady improvement, [...]
New Hope residents clash with businessman over flooding
Residents of New Hope, East Bank of Demerara, yesterday clashed with a prominent businessman, who is constructing a new housing scheme there, accusing him of illegally cutting drainage channels and causing their homes and farms to be flooded. However, the businessman, Deo Singh of Didco Trading, is refuting the claims. He told Parliamentarian, Clinton Collymore, [...]
Chanderpaul misses double century as Windies overhaul S/Africa’s 543
By Sean Devers Shivnarine Chanderpaul fell 34 runs short of becoming the 10th West Indian to score two Test double centuries but the length of his innings and his 100-run 5th wicket stand with Dwayne Bravo (53) yesterday left South Africa with no hope of winning the 2nd Digicel Test at Warner Park in St [...]
Jeffrey/Khalil into Doubles semi-finals
- Guyanese pair also makes it to Mixed Doubles semis Keisha Jeffrey and Ashley Khalil pulled off a heart stopping 10/11, 11/6, 11-9 victory over a Guatemalan pair in the quarter-finals of the female doubles at the VIII Pan American Junior Squash Championships in El Salvador. After losing the first game, the Guyanese, displaying the [...]
