Gold miner shot dead at Kurupung
A 30-year old gold miner from Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara became another murder victim in Guyana’s interior. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that Rawle Mentore was shot dead after inflicting several chop wounds on his alleged killer. The incident occurred in the Takuba Trail of the Kurupung Backdam on Friday midday. According to information, Mentore [...]
Linden accident leaves two dead
A gruesome accident at Kairuni on the Linden/Soesdyke highway has left two men dead and three others hospitalised with injuries not considered life threatening, according to informed sources. One of the dead men, Christopher George of Kairuni was grotesquely mutilated. The entire back of his head was sliced off and so was one of his [...]
Early morning accident leaves one dead
- three others hospitalised An early morning accident on the Mandela Avenue, in the vicinity of the National Cultural Center yesterday, left one person dead and three others nursing various injuries at two city hospitals. Dead is Christopher Crawford, 19, of 111 Miles Mahadia, who according to hospital sources suffered tremendous head injuries. He was [...]
A political dance seeking credence among Afro-Guyanese – WPA
Jagdeo’s Buxton Visit… The Working Peoples’ Alliance says that it joins with others in characterising President Jagdeo’s recent visit to Buxton as a political dance aimed at satisfying the Peoples Progressive Party’s quest for respectability and acceptance in the African Guyanese community. “While we respect the right of political parties to try to win support [...]
‘Killer’ drivers paying to stay out of jail
By Michael Jordan How much is a child’s life worth? Five million dollars? $600,000? Half of this figure? All of the above, it seems. A three-month Kaieteur News investigation has unearthed a disturbing trend in which drivers from affluent families are forking out millions—and in some cases a mere pittance—to avoid being hauled off to [...]
Dem boys seh…Is more thiefing
De lie detector people coming back again. De first time dem come, dem test all de security workers. Dem ketch some people lying and of course Bharrat knock dem off. Dem boys seh that all over de world, machine like de lie detector does ketch thieves and dem wonder whether dem big ones at the [...]
Businessman’s wife was not arrested for refusing to sing statement
- police The Guyana Police Force has stated that the wife of a businessman who was handed over to Brazilian authorities early last week was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to obtain the passport upon a forged birth certificate and not for refusing to sign a statement as was stated by this newspaper yesterday. The [...]
The ‘Sheriff’ of East Ruimveldt Secondary
Retired headmaster Samuel B. Moffatt is a ‘Special Person’ “You can’t build on sinking sand. I had a meeting with the Ministry of Education. I said. ‘You sent me there, I can’t work under these conditions with the quality of teachers.’ I gave them a list of the teachers I wanted weeded out. I said [...]
High Court halts CCWU’s election
A High Court judge has granted court orders halting today’s elections for a new executive of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU). The application for the injunction was filed by the union’s former President, Roy Hughes, who contended, among other things, that he has another court matter challenging the current leadership. Yesterday, Hughes’ lawyer, [...]
Guyana one step closer to receiving money from Norway
The Forestry Commission is currently seeking an Independent Forest Monitor, to undertake the initial scoping mission in 2010 and a monitoring assessment in 2011, which are required before any money can be disbursed from Norway to Guyana under the Memorandum of Understanding signed. That MOU between the Government of Guyana and the Government of Norway [...]
CUSH FIRES USA TO ICC WCL TITLE
All-rounder ready for Guyana’s Campaign in S/Africa By Sean Devers It has been a wonderful year so far for the versatile Lennox Cush and the Guyanese all-rounder is hoping that his success continues next month when he aims to help Guyana create one of the biggest cricketing upsets by winning the Champions League 20/20 cricket [...]
Lumumba returned as Alpha boss, Ninvalle is his deputy
The Alpha United Football Club held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday last at the Water Chris Hotel and Odinga Lumumba has been returned as head of the country’s number one football club. Parliamentary Secretary within the Ministry of Sports Steve Ninvalle was appointed as the Vice President. Ninvalle previously served as Public Relations Officer. [...]
“Guyana’s CLT-20 2010 Effort – A rough road to travel; a long, long way to go!”
By Colin Croft Many would think that I should get into the melee that is the Champion’s League fiasco, with the Guyana Cricket Board in one corner, the Guyana cricket team in the 2nd corner, the West Indies Cricket Board in a 3rd corner, and, to complete the boxing ring, there is the West Indies [...]
Burnett opts out of Commonwealth Games
-cites illness, unpreparedness as reasons By Edison Jefford Guyana’s international middle-distance runner, Marian Burnett, have opted out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India in October, citing an illness that developed at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games as the primary reason. Burnett’s unavailability for the Commonwealth Games was communicated to the President [...]
Toolsie Persaud doles out hefty sponsorship deal to athletic star
Following his sterling performance at the Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago supported by a personal best time of 10:47secs in the 100M dash, star sprinter of the Enmore Athletics Club, Kenneth Semple, has managed to clinch a lucrative sponsorship deal that supports his five months off season training programme. Toolsie Persaud once again rose [...]
Cocaine Made Him Eat Dog Mess Yet He Can’t Let Go
By Michael Benjamin Scenario # One: A concerned mother tells her husband that she is upset about her son smoking marijuana. She is so upset that she takes a double dose of prescribed sleeping pills. Scenario # Two: a young man comes home from a stressful day at his high-pressure job and drinks a six [...]
Health Ministry aims to triumph over malaria scourge
The ambitious target of reducing malaria from more than 40,000 cases per year by 2000 to less than 8,000 cases by 2012 has been charted into the local Ministry of Health’s agenda. Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, in a statement issued yesterday said “significant progress was made to attain this goal, and by 2008 [...]
GT&T says farewell to Joe Singh
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has said goodbye to its former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Major General (rtd), Joe Singh, who demitted office on July 31, after five years at the helm. Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, the guest of honour, speaking at a cocktail ceremony held Thursday at the International Conference Centre at [...]
Queen’s College records outstanding CSEC performance
“It basically feels good that we are coming out on top once again,” said Queen’s College Senior Mistress, Candida Williams, as she commented on the outstanding performances exhibited by students of her school at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination this year. Williams is the Head of the Modern Language Department at the prestigious [...]
Extract of an interview with Dr. Ian McDonald
(Extract of an interview with Dr. Ian McDonald, June 30, 2010, Georgetown, Guyana. McDonald is a prizewinning poet, novelist, playwright, columnist and editor; he has to his credit six collections of poems.) Petamber Persaud (PP): It is not easy to assess the impact of books…it is not easy to assess the impact of literature on [...]
Let’s not play cheap politics with a critical developmental strategy
Dear Editor, The announcement by President Jagdeo that the government will be expending some US$30 million for the purchase of computers to be distributed must be looked at with a jaundiced eye. First it begs the questions what goal is he trying to achieve. We do know that there is an International Programme founded by [...]
Killing the messenger
Last week, to illustrate its report examining Venezuela’s failure to stem widespread violent crime, El Nacional, one of that country’s largest newspapers, published a photograph of bodies piled up at a Caracas morgue. In a move that may be a harbinger of things to come in Guyana, a Venezuelan court ordered the paper (and another [...]
THE LIFE & LEGACY OF LFS BURNHAM, Part 2
Excerpts of Presentation by MR ROBERT H O CORBIN, MP, on Thursday August 7, 2008 in the National Assembly on the Motion Recognising the contribution of Mr. LFS Burnham to Guyana. “In painful reminiscence An evening shadow lurks A kaleidoscope of memories Hurries across a faded screen of life As a weary warrior hopes vainly [...]
172 countries should matter: Making the G20 listen
By Sir Ronald Sanders The G20 should be the ‘T20’ – trustees not just of the 20 rich countries that sit at their meetings but also of the 172 nations that are denied a seat at their table. This powerful statement has been advanced jointly by the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie, two [...]
Welcome to the Plantation, Part Two
Three Novels by David Dabydeen By Keith Jardim (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) These thoughts are the result, again, of the question: “Why, Mrs. Rutherford wanted to know, did I become an engineer?” Our narrator eventually comes under a contemplative spell caused by the African masks and Rutherford’s questioning. The spell also leads to proto-historic considerations, [...]
