Police ranks upset over interference by senior Government functionaries
Junior ranks of the Guyana Police Force are concerned over what they termed interference by senior functionaries of the government in the execution of their duties. The ranks have cited two recent cases, one in which a traffic rank was upbraided by a senior functionary of the judiciary after she detained a relative of his [...]
Latin America and the Caribbean is world’s most unequal region – UN report shows
Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean have the world’s highest levels of differences in wealth and income, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in a new report that calls for social policies which tackle the problem of inequality in the region. “This inequality is persistent, self-perpetuating in areas where social mobility is low [...]
Dem boys seh …Don’t mess wid Bhena’s Footwear
Things got to be really bad in de country. People killing one another fuh couple box of biscuit; some killing fuh batteries and some killing demself fuh no reason. A young man tek a car and drive it into a fence. De fence post run through he. Then people gun talk how de fence wrang [...]
Municipality moving towards fortnightly collection
Head of the Solid Waste Management Unit, Clinton Urlin, says garbage collection around the city has been challenging since the withdrawal of service by the contractors. Noting that the municipality has not been able to maintain the level of collection, it has nevertheless been able to move 30 per cent of the waste generated with [...]
Fisheries Department says vessel was unregistered
… Trawler mishap in Suriname Relatives of the seaman who perished in a trawler explosion on Sunday are dissatisfied with the answers they have received about the circumstances surrounding his death while on board the MV Captain Tom. A close relative of 39-year-old Ravi Sankar Ragoonaugh has travelled to Suriname to glean further answers from [...]
ZARA Group supports IT drive in Guyana
With the United States reports pointing to the fact that some 14 Guyanese leave Guyana, daily, for that destination, coupled with the fact that while there, some of them preach about what needs to be done to make Guyana a better place without lifting a finger, it is uplifting when members of the Diaspora reach [...]
No arrests yet in Sophia murder
The police are yet to make any arrests after the brutal slaying of 58-year-old security guard Carl Nelson-Bollers. Bollers, who worked at the Mercy Wings Vocational School in Sophia, for over 10 years was found lying face down in a pool of blood a short distance away from the guard hut. He had been stabbed [...]
Gizmos opens two stores in Essequibo
Gizmos and Gadgets extended its nationwide reach with two new branches on the Essequibo Coast. The first branch located in Henrietta opened on Friday to scores of Essequibian supporters. The entity opened another branch along the Coast yesterday, this time in Charity. This other branch is set to service the Charity-Pomeroon area. As early as [...]
Canter driver receives equivalent of lost income
- Kissoon, Benschop make good on promise Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, and social activist, Mark Benschop, had publicly declared last month that they would be compensating a truck owner for the income he had lost. This was done recently when Maniram received the equivalent of four days’ income that he would have earned if [...]
Buxton celebrates 170th anniversary
From a Buxton Ball to an economic summit, the activities are varied but they have one purpose in mind – celebrating 170 years since the East Coast village of Buxton was bought by a group of freed-African slaves. There are rumours of a red-carpet type event being hosted by the state, but there has been [...]
City hardest hit by flu
The flu season is here and reports emanating from various pharmacies around the city have shown that there is a tremendous increase in the sale of flu medications at most pharmacies, while pharmacies in Berbice and Essequibo disclosed that sales are not extraordinary. Various organisations indicate a shortage in their workforce. They say that this [...]
Another batch of nurses graduates from ‘HIV Basics’ programme
Twenty-four nurses graduated from an HIV Basics Training Programme facilitated by the Guyana Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday. The ceremony was held at the Project Dawn Training Facility in Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. These nurses were the third batch in less than a year to have gone through the programme that aims to cover the [...]
The juxtaposition
In my last Sunday column, I stated that I would look at the enumeration of Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s life in the struggle for democracy as recounted by him in a letter to the Stabroek News of July 22, last. Then I would juxtapose fact-sheet with the fight for democracy in Guyana during the rule of [...]
A POSITIVE STATEMENT
Whatever one feels about the current administration or its sincerity about working to improve the state of Georgetown, it makes a great deal of sense to test the intentions of the government especially following a promising statement. At his most recent press conference, the President of Guyana did not lambaste the City Council. Instead he [...]
Guyana, T&T share top honours
Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago ended on a similar record to head the standings after the completion of the first day of competition in the NACRA Championships yesterday at the National Stadium. The hosts registered victories over Mexico and St. Lucia and drew with Jamaica, while T&T had wins over St. Lucia and Mexico and [...]
Night Crescendo shines on wet day to win feature at Rising Sun fund raising meet
A blistering run down the homestretch was all that it took for Senior Council Marcel Crawford’s Night Crescendo to create one of the big upset for the year in the horseracing circle. The racehorse steamed to front on a wet and slippery day to outshine its opponents and take the feature C class event when [...]
Digicel supports Karate Federation’s preparation for 11th Pan American C/ships
Just a few days after they had managed to clinch sponsorship packages from two corporate entities to facilitate the successful staging of the 11th Pan American Karate Championships, scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) from August 12-15, the executive of the Karate Federation received a cheque valued $300,000 a contribution meant to assist [...]
Guyanese hope to avoid T&T in semis as Caribbean 20/20 shifts to Trinidad
By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Digicel Back-to-back victories in the preliminary round of the Caribbean 20/20 cricket championships in Barbados pushed Guyana into the semis and their final preliminary round match against Barbados here on Thursday will decide the zone ‘B’ winner as the tournament shifts to Trinidad. After claiming the inaugural [...]
Is the PPP hierarchy split between those supportive of the status quo and those against it?
Dear Editor, The state-run Guyana Chronicle engaged in space-filling by producing a non-story captioned, “AFC leadership crisis persists,” (GC, July 26), but saner minds know that there is a huge difference between a crisis and a challenge, and that wise leaders know how to turn even crises into challenges. The AFC is no different from [...]
There is need for accountability
Accountability is the greatest measure of achievement; it is how people assess honesty, genuine labour and of course, forward planning. The aspect of honesty is judged when one examines the labour and finds it fitting for the expenditure; it is when lending agencies make money available for a project and they see that the project [...]
Guyana trawler explodes, sinks in Suriname waters
- one dead, two others hospitalized A Guyanese seaman is feared dead following a fuel explosion on a trawler, the ‘Captain Tan’, which subsequently sank in Suriname waters shortly after 01:00 hrs yesterday. Ravi Sankar Ragoonauth, 39, of De Willem, West Coast Demerara, is believed to have perished after being trapped on the blazing craft. [...]
Car slams into pedestrians, one dead, three injured
Sixty-nine-year old Bernice Savitrie Herbert, a mother of six, was killed, and three persons are nursing injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being the victims of a motor vehicle accident opposite Crane Old Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD), yesterday. Herbert of 1092 Crane Housing Scheme was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara [...]
Prashad Nagar residents up in arms over ‘new dump site’
Residents of a section of Prashad Nagar are up in arms over what they described as a new dumpsite in their community. At the centre of the controversy is the presence of derelict heavy duty machinery, including bulldozers, the property of a mining company, which residents are claiming is destroying the aesthetics of the once [...]
Security guard stabbed, strangled at Sophia school
By Latoya Giles A 58-year-old security guard was stabbed over ten times and then strangled with his own belt, early Sunday morning at the Mercy Wings Special School, Sophia. Carl Nelson Bollers, of Lot 234 Block X A Field Sophia, was found lying face down in a pool of blood about 15 feet away from [...]
Dem boys seh…De government can waste money
De world really got some funny people. Sometimes these same people does go and look fuh wuk when all dem had to do was sit down and de wuk woulda finish and it woulda cost nobody anything. These are de people who does got de government spending money that coulda go to poor people. A [...]
