Police seeking close associate
Body on sand pit… As the police continue their probe into the brutal murder of Soesdyke resident, 43 year old Rafeek Khan, sources close to the investigation have said that focus is now being shifted to a close associate of the man. Khan’s partly decomposing body was found in a clump of bushes at a [...]
Hurricane Earl grounds several LIAT flights
LIAT (1974) Ltd. announced the cancellation of several flights scheduled for today across the Caribbean island chain due to Hurricane Earl. According to reports, the airline did not say whether flights from Guyana to Trinidad and Barbados would be affected in any way. The Antigua-headquartered airline also announced that its reservation centre has been shut, [...]
An expensive way to tear down a fence
Woman stabbed nine times discharged from hospital
- estranged husband and sister released on $300,000 bail each Twenty-two year-old Trishawarie Ramdharie, of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, who was stabbed nine times by her estranged husband one week ago, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday last. Ramdharie’s estranged husband and his sister faced the court and were [...]
Weather change favourable to farmers
BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – Some 50 percent of the second rice crop in East Berbice/Corentyne is almost ready for early harvesting. The change in weather last week is favourable to farmers and should the sunshine continue the crop can be sown next week. The past week of sunshine left many dams partially dry and should [...]
Mainstay to benefit from IDB Cultural Development Programme
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has selected 28 partner institutions to finance and provide technical assistance to small-scale cultural development projects in 21 countries. One such project will be conducted in Region two, where the Mainstay Village Council is set to benefit from the small-scale cultural development project, which will entail the promotion of Sustainable [...]
Top Nat’l Grade Six Assessment students honoured
TAIN, CORENTYNE – The six top performers in Berbice at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment were recognized for their efforts on Friday by the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce. The recipients were Kessa Kendall 540 marks, Victoria Harry 537, Simon Bactawar 533, Alisa Chaturi and Anthony Henry both scoring 532 each, all earned a [...]
Forestry Commission increases awareness of Lacey Act
The Guyana Forestry Commission is working to ensure that all timber exporters understand the intricacies of the US Lacey Act and avoid the penalties attached with non-compliance. Signed into law more than a century ago by President William McKinley on May 25, 1900, the Lacey Act protects plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal [...]
UG applications reopened
The University of Guyana is facilitating late applications from potential students whose CSEC or CAPE results became available during the third and fourth weeks of August. This is according to Public Relations Officer of the University, Paulette Paul. The University reopened its application process on Sun, August 21, 2010. As a consequence, there are still [...]
Oldies are goldies
When the curtains are raised for the 38th edition of ‘Oldies are Goldies’ on Sunday September 5, patrons can be assured that they would be enthralled right up until they are lowered. At least that is the promise made to those contemplating attending the event, by its organiser Hector Stoute, moments after assessing yet another [...]
Region Six continues to show improved performance at CSEC
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Education Officer in Region Six Shafiran Bhajan said the overall performance of students at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examination (CSEC) is heartening. “The results show that there has been a progressive increase in our pupils’ performance over the past two years.” A comparative analysis Region Six for the 2008 [...]
Bandits relieve businessman of firearm
The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 20:55hours on Saturday at a Sports Bar in Barr Street, Kitty, during which a businessman and his female friend were attacked and robbed by three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm. Investigations revealed that the two victims were outside of the [...]
Murdered boy’s mom believes she knows son’s killer
Even as his murder remains unsolved, the mother of seven-year-old Dacwaun Sutherland is convinced that a man in her community holds the answers to her son’s death. The man in question is an individual who police had detained shortly after the schoolboy’s body was found submerged in a canal in ‘B’ Field, Sophia. An autopsy [...]
Regional body agrees to provide flood, drought insurance
Crucial breakthrough… By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s fight to introduce disaster insurance has moved one step closer to becoming a reality with a regional body saying that it will be ready with a plan to provide coverage within months. On Friday, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) indicated that it will be able to provide [...]
Two die by drowning in Berbice
The police are investigating two separate drowning incidents in Berbice over the last 48 hrs. They involve a one-year-old boy and an 81-year-old man. The body of one year old Clifford Campbell was fished out of the Berbice River some 40 feet from the shore at around 18:30 hrs on Friday. According to reports, the [...]
STATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO WORKING CLASS POWER
No one can dismiss the factor of race in Guyanese politics. But is race holding back this country or is the real problem economic, and more specifically the absence of a model of development that would allow the working class, which comprises persons of all ethnicities, a greater share of the resources of the State? [...]
“Mirrors on the ceilings, the pink champagne on ice” They’re living it up at the Hotel Prado
This is a small country. People see, people talk. There is no place to hide. The trouble the media have is when we write about what we know, you can face a libel suit because there are those who will deny what they told you out of fear, and evidence will be withheld or just [...]
IN A GREEN NIGHTMARE
I used to like rain. When I was growing up, the sound of the rain on the galvanised (zinc) roof was a symphony and lullaby simultaneously. But now it galvanises me into action since the rain comes from the same direction as the wind so when the rain hits the roof, I do the same, [...]
Mr. Singh is deliberately silent on some salient facts of history
Dear Editor, Mr. Sasenarine Singh in his letter, “Why blame the AFC for reading the grassroots point of view and strategizing accordingly?” in Kaieteur News August 25, 2010 sets out to analyse aspects of Guyana’s history using the binary good/bad which he conveniently skews to make bad Mr. Forbes Burnham and the PNC. Taking a [...]
Corbin supporters seem obsessed with the need to respect Party rules
Dear Editor, The closer we get to General Elections, the more I am convinced that the opposition is blowing the greatest opportunity to defeat the ruling PPP/C. With all the scandals, corruption, murders, high unemployment and a thriving drug trade in Guyana, the Jagdeo Administration has created the perfect storm that should lead to their [...]
Wastage of taxpayers’ money
Dear Editor, This country sickens me to the core. The level of waste, corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency that surround this nation is staggering. Two hundred and fifty-four million dollars already down the drain for an election that never came off the ground. Beyond the inglorious mockery of democracy and the savage denial of the constitutional [...]
Using the Baldridge model in higher education
Dear Editor, This is an abridged version of a piece I wrote some time ago on reforming higher education. Governments in many countries have initiated dramatic cutbacks in higher education budgets. Budget cuts now are becoming the norm in higher education in most developing countries. Today, the public in many countries demand increasing efficiencies, greater [...]
Minister Robert Persaud responds to Henry Jeffrey
Dear Editor, Burying past mistakes with deception and distortion in today’s social environment smacks of political opportunism and a proclivity to historical revisionism of our contemporary political history as is seen in Henry Jeffrey’s missive in the daily newspapers captioned: “Unitary opposition slate at the next general election is a critical component/The traditional PPP historiography [...]
Vindictiveness and spite
Responding once to complaints that the then opposition was getting too “big for its britches” and becoming emboldened in its criticism of his government, LFS Burnham pointed out that “there are many ways to kill a cat”. And he proceeded to list a set of gruesome options: strangling, beheading, scalding, mange…etc. Dubbing the press of [...]
This is unprincipled and a smelly red herring
Dear Editor, The Cabinet Secretary’s (CS) statements as reported in SN of August 27, 2010, smacks of arrogance, feeble minded thinking, and surreptitious intent. If we take the CS at his word, the intent of the Government is to save cost and utilize technological advancement. Here is the fallacy of the position. The Government has [...]
