Court paves way for Jagdeo to pay CLICO policyholders
… orders failed insurance giant liquidated Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday paved the way for Head of State, Bharrat Jagdeo, to pay the policyholders that fell victim to failed insurance giant, Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Guyana, when he ordered the company wounded up. The Bank of Guyana was ordered to be the liquidators [...]
‘Sweet woman’ begs court to discontinue matter
The woman who allegedly abducted an 18-year-old female on Friday, at the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, as a free woman since the teen refused to give evidence against her. Odella Patterson was yesterday not required to plead to the indictable offence of abduction when she appeared before [...]
Phone thief in car runs over bank employee
A 21-year-old bank employee was badly injured at around 18:40 hrs last night after she was run over by a car driven by a thief who had snatched her mobile phone. The victim, identified as Sheema Mangar, was callously run over and dragged for several yards along Camp Street, after standing in front of the [...]
Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie running from Stella
Some people frighten dem own shadow and some does talk how nutten can’t frighten dem. When some people really mess up Uncle Freddie de man talk big and bold that nobody gun mek he shut up. He even claim how he gun get more bad. Dem boys seh that he only talking. Stella come to [...]
Ex-cop being sought in Cummings Lodge execution
A former policeman who was charged and acquitted for a double-murder is being sought for questioning into the recent drive-by slaying of five people in Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Kaieteur News understands that investigators have received information that appears to implicate the former cop in the suspected drug-related killing. The same individual had been [...]
Mahaicony plunger may be listed among suicide stats
When the Ministry of Health 2010 surveillance and death report comes up for verification later this year, some concerns may be amplified when it comes to the controversial death of small-time promoter Godwin Maxwell. It was just recently that Maxwell, after being taken to court, reportedly for tax evasion, opted to escape from the custody [...]
Not enough money, too much water
Thursday’s record high spring tide, which left more than 70 coastal villages under water, may force authorities to rethink their strategies in combating climate change and rising sea levels. This was disclosed yesterday even as the Ministry of Agriculture says that squatting and blockage of access points to drainage facades and other areas have been [...]
Berbice gets hit by high tides
East Berbice residents were going to bed with their yards under several feet of water as the raging spring tide swamped most of New Amsterdam and all of the villages along East Bank Berbice. New Amsterdam Market, for the first time, was under several inches of water. When vendors left the market earlier in the [...]
US body donates medical supplies to Linden
Linden Fund USA recently donated a quantity of medical supplies and other amenities to the Linden Hospital Complex and the Linden Care Foundation. Some of the items donated to the hospital were catheters, wash basins, surgical blades and disposable gloves, syringe needles, hospital gowns, sterile water and hand sanitisers. The Linden Care Foundation received similar [...]
Approved Bill would not affect Venezuela – Minister
Venezuela’s unhappiness over an updated Maritime law may be much ado about nothing, according to an official of the Guyana Government. Earlier this week, a Venezuela newspaper, El Universal, quoted Foreign Affair officials as saying that they stand ready to fight, via the diplomatic channels, a Maritime Bill recently passed in Guyana which may affect [...]
Suicide – a major public health problem says Health Minister
- More than 5,000 victims recorded in last 25 years More than 5,000 people have lost their lives to suicide in the last 25 years. This declaration was made by Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, yesterday even as he addressed a gathering to mark the observance of World Suicide Prevention Day. The day is [...]
Man goes on $200,000 bail for abduction
Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday placed salesman, Vishal Nandlall, on $200,000 bail when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates Court on a charge of abducting a young woman. It was alleged that on October 12, 2009, he abducted the woman and held against her will. He was not required to plead to the charge [...]
Ex-cop among two held
Police have detained an ex-policeman and another man in connection with the murder of gold dealers Ramdeo Deonarine and Jainarine Raghubar at Bartica. But investigators have declined to say whether they have made any progress in the case. Kaieteur News understands that the ex-policeman was taken into custody after police received information that a car [...]
Free classes for some CSEC students
The Ministry of Education is offering free classes in English A and Mathematics for students who wrote the May/June 2010 CSEC examination and secured between Grades One and Three in at least four subjects, excluding English A and Mathematics or at least five subjects with either English A or Mathematics and would like to rewrite [...]
Team cricket will be the key in CLT20 says Dowlin
By Sean Devers in South Africa In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Cops Security, Leisure Inn, Igloo Ice-Cream, Forest Enterprise, Dave West Indian Grocery & Universal DVD Club Travis Dowlin is enjoying a second life in his cricket career and is Guyana’s most successful T/20 batsman. The solid DCC right-hander failed to deliver when used [...]
Minister Prashad lunches with rugby officials, team
Minister of Tourism and Commerce Manniram Prashad during a luncheon with officials and team members of the national rugby squad currently preparing to represent Guyana at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India confessed that the fraternity was neglected in the past. Prashad whose Ministry organised the lunch which was hosted in the entity’s Boardroom [...]
No play today in Tradewind Tankers ‘True Champions’ Volleyball Tournament
The semi-finals of the Tradewind Tankers ‘True Champions’ Volleyball Tournament which was scheduled to be played today, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall had to be postponed due to the unavailability of the venue. This is according to the Organisers who told Kaieteur Sport that because the teams preparing for the upcoming Inter-Guianas Games in [...]
Father seeks justice for disfigured woman
Lloyd Jackson, 80, of Goed Fortuin Squatting Area, West Bank Demerara, is alleging that the police at La Grange Police Station are reluctant to find the man who disfigured his 28 year-old daughter’s face last Sunday. According to Jackson, his daughter Tiffney Jackson was attacked by the father of her child, Sheldon Braithwaite, causing her [...]
ERC investigates discrimination in transportation sector
Various allegations have come from commuters against owners and operators of Public Transportation. According to the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), some of the complaints reveal that more specifically minibuses are in the habit of refusing to transport persons of particular ethnic groups especially when the ethnicity of the intended passenger is different from that of [...]
US-based Guyanese stranded after vacation
Edward Isaacs, a New York-based Guyanese has expressed total frustration with Caribbean Airlines after making a booking for a trip to Guyana on July 22, for return to the USA on August 21. However, Isaacs said that when he turned up at the airport and presented his passport for departure on that day, he was [...]
GT&T sponsored GTA SUPER SIXES Tapeball cricket continues this weekend
Play in the Guyana Tapeball Cricket Association Super Sixes competition sponsored by GT&T, Ramotar Investments, R & M Shipping, Regal Stationery and Computer Centre, Imran and sons, GTM, Babulal Mining, PSC, Wireless, GNSC, Trophy Stall and Kris International in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport continues this weekend with several matches. In [...]
Works yet to commence at MSC Basketball Court
- despite the awarding of contracts By Edison Jefford The much-anticipated rehabilitation works are still to commence at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Basketball Court despite the awarding of contracts. The non-progress of a Government promise has irked the Linden sub-association for basketball. Kaieteur Sport understands that nothing has been done to the premier basketball [...]
Linden social workers examine sexual, domestic violence
Social Workers and counselors in Region Ten over the past two days participated in a Sexual and Domestic Violence protocols training workshop, which was funded by the USAID Governance Enhancement Project in collaboration with UNFPA and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security. Facilitators were Vidyaratha Kissoon of Help and Shelter, and Abbas Mancey, [...]
Kidney patient seeks assistance for transplant
Vishudyal Persaud, 58, of 14 Third Street, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, after being diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney disease and chronic renal failure, is appealing to the public for assistance to secure funds to travel to India for a kidney transplant. According to Persaud, he first discovered he had problems with his kidney a decade ago, [...]
Players need support to achieve
- So says ‘Golden Jaguar’ Chris Nurse By Franklin Wilson The imminent friendly international clash between Guyana’s flagship male team the ‘Golden Jaguars’ against their Trinidad and Tobago rivals the ‘Soca Warriors’ will feature a number of prominent overseas footballers representing the Golden Arrowhead in one of the biggest international games of recent times. This [...]
