‘Globe Yard’ blaze leaves at least six homeless
…exposes countless illegal connections At least six persons are homeless after a fire of unknown origin broke out in a crowded tenement yard on Waterloo Street early yesterday afternoon. ‘Globe Yard’ which is home to several families, is a line of dilapidated houses stretching along the length of the now defunct Globe Cinema. As the [...]
Officer and Constable had an inappropriate relationship – Top Cop
Commissioner of Police Henry Greene yesterday described the relationship between the late Assistant Superintendent Ivelaw Murray and murdered constable Kelvin Shepherd was inappropriate. Speaking to reporters at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, yesterday, the Commissioner said that the relationship between the two men was ‘very close’ without going into details. Assistant Superintendent Murray shot himself dead [...]
Already behind schedule – Jagdeo
The Amaila Falls road project, awarded to Synergy Holdings, has to start “now” to ensure financial closure is met by the end of the year for the substantive hydro power project, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said. Synergy Holdings has been awarded a US$15.4 million project to build roads and bridges necessary for the start-up of [...]
Jagdeo says Princess, Pegasus not good enough for tourism
- Gov’t looking to seal investor in Marriott Project by year-end The government is putting scepticism aside and pushing ahead with plans to bring a Marriott branded hotel in Guyana, in Kingston, where substantial preparatory works have already been done. And why is this? President Bharrat Jagdeo feels the country’s best hotels – Pegasus and [...]
Dem boys seh…Bharrat mouth twist
Bharrat go till in Jamaica and announce that Princess and de Pegasus not good enough. He claim that if tourists got to come de country got to get a better hotel suh de government building Marriott. Dem boys seh that is funny how he mouth change. When he open Princess which did name Buddy’s International [...]
AFC takes campaign to Essequibo Coast
The opposition AFC community exercise over the weekend on the Essequibo Coast, culminated in a well attended fund raising dinner at Wongies, at Richmond. Senior party officials, including incoming leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, Raphael Trotman, Mrs. Sheila Holder, and general secretary, Mr. Sixtun Edwards, took the opportunity to outline the party’s ideas for better governance in [...]
St Joseph Mercy resident turn 105 today
Today Mabel Albertha Connell is celebrating her 105th birthday. The woman who was born in Agricola, East Bank, has only one child and says here that the secret to long life is always to laugh at yourself, love the Lord with all your heart, help the poor and eat healthy. Aunty Mabel, as she is [...]
GRC received $1M from Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc.
THE Guyana Relief Council has received a $1M donation from Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc. yesterday at the GRC head office. According to Administration Manager of Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc., Hao Ning, the entity is a Chinese-owned enterprise duly incorporated under the laws of Guyana. He said that the company [...]
Nine-year-old diabetic captures national attention
It was not easy for Eunice Benjamin to accept the fact that her nine-year-old daughter, Clemehana Moore, was a diabetic and would require a lifetime of treatment to ensure that she lives to become a healthy and productive adult. It was during the August holidays of 2008, Eunice recalled, that she first observed some drastic [...]
Jagdeo assents to Leader of Opposition Benefits
Some 61 days after the National Assembly gave its approval, Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo assented to the Leader of the Opposition (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act and has caused it to be published in the Official Gazette. That Office of Leader of the Opposition is currently held by Robert Corbin who has managed to [...]
Miner bludgeoned to death by colleagues
Police in the Interior have detained three persons following the beating to death of 54-year-old miner Alan Welch, at 14 Miles, Issano, around 06:30 hours on Tuesday. The three suspects are all part of a mining operation with which Welch had been working when he was killed. According to reports, Welch of Bagotville, West Bank [...]
Jagdeo lashes out at Caribbean immigration officials
… says his ex-wife also faced discriminatory, inhumane treatment President Bharrat Jagdeo says that while there have been improvements in the way Guyanese are treated at regional airports, immigration officials continue to treat Guyanese in an inhumane and discriminatory way. And he says that it is not just ordinary Guyanese who get this treatment. And [...]
Sir Ron Sanders among ten to cop Commonwealth eminent group award
By Oscar Ramjeet Two eminent Caricom nationals were among ten who won the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Award. They are Guyanese Sir Ronald Sanders, International Consultant, writer and former Caribbean diplomat, and Jamaican Patricia R. Francis, an award-winning leader and business facilitator. Sir Ronald is well known in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom having [...]
Hampton athletes pay courtesy call on minister
- Anthony calls for benchmark athletics event Most of the outstanding performers at the 2010 Hampton Track and Field Games in Trinidad and Tobago last weekend paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, who expressed elation, yesterday at his Main Street Office. In congratulating the athletes, Anthony [...]
Raymond Ally confident ahead of July 18 Meet
Group 2A champion Raymond Ally speaking with Kaieteur Sport about his chances of doing well at the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club upcoming Race Meet which is scheduled to be held on July 18, at the South Dakota Circuit said that he is confident and rearing to go. Ally, who performed impressively at the [...]
Modern Optical sponsors Sunday’s Inter Service pistol shoot
Modern Optical of Middle Street, Cummingsburg will sponsor Sunday’s Inter Services Pistol shooting championship billed for the Timehri ranges. The team event organized by the Smallbore (handgun) Section of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) will feature some of the top handgun shooters locally. The competing teams are Guyana Police Force, Guyana Defence Force, Bank [...]
Lennox Allen confident of victory one week prior to clash with Latino fighter
Lennox ‘Pretty Boy’ Allen is scheduled to return to the ring some six months after notching up a convincing victory over Puerto Rican Amador Aceveda at the Mid Hudson Civic Centre, Poughkeepsie, New York. This time he will oppose Victor Paz on Saturday July 10 at the same venue of the Aceveda bout. Allen spoke [...]
Kwakwani has basketball nursery
- Says Coach, Ann Gordon By Edison Jefford Following their emphatic success at the just-concluded National Schools’ Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, long-standing Kwakwani Secondary School Coach, Ann Gordon believes the triumph came as a result of an established nursery. Gordon was speaking to Kaieteur Sport after her teams won three of [...]
Caribbean cup to start August 18, Guyana host second round
Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup will open August 18 in Antigua and Puerto Rico and finish with the Digicel Caribbean Championship final in Martinique on November 28, the CFU announced Tuesday. Sixteen teams will open the competition in four groups of four at Puerto Rico, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados and the Dominican Republic [...]
Jailbird gets three years
A regular inmate of the Georgetown Prisons at Camp Street, asked Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, on Tuesday, for a sentence of two or three years imprisonment . Lesley Conway, a\k, Pickle, told the magistrate that he did not wish to waste the court’s time. “Indeed I stole the money from the man, but I did [...]
Defendants losing battle over use of evidence
As the trial of the two Guyanese involved in the alleged plot to blow up a fuel bunker at the John F Kennedy Airport continues, the defendants, namely Abdul Kadir and Russell De Freitas, have been losing their battles to have the US suppress state witness and evidence. The motions filed by the defendants to [...]
Horseracing switches to Norman Singh Turf Club
Horseracing action switches to the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (NSMTC) Silver Park No 6 West Coast Berbice where the authorities will bring off their first race meet of the year which is a Grand eight race meet slated for Sunday July 18. Close to $3.5M in cash and prizes will be available for the outstanding [...]
Registration for ECCB Academy to be done today at LBI Community Centre
The East Coast Cricket Board will commence its 9th Cricket academy on July 12 and conclude on July 23 at the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence LBI East Coast Demerara. Seventy-five participants (male and female) age ranging from ten years to fifteen years old will be apart of the programme. Registration will be done today [...]
Woman identified as Hadfield Street resident
Three days after the mutilated remains of a woman was found on the Georgetown Seawall, relatives have turned up to identify the woman. Yesterday the woman was identified as 42-year-old Claudeen Inniss, called ‘Ann’. The woman was positively identified by her bother at the Lyken Funeral home. The dead woman’s mother, Claudette Bentham, told this [...]
Citizens must use the courts to achieve democratic restoration in Guyana
If the citizens of this country are going erase the ubiquity of state power before the next general elections, then the courts of this country offer unlimited possibility of doing so. I sat behind Robert Corbin as he responded to the police charges against the truck owner who transported the school children from Patentia to [...]
