Government owes GECOM millions
Government is yet to pay millions of dollars owed to the Guyana Elections Commission—GECOM —for contractual services that were procured by the entity in preparations for Local Government Election. One Berbician said that she provided catering services to GECOM, and is owed $300,000 over several months, and is in need for her money. Several persons [...]
Soesdyke/Linden Highway death trap
Neglect is leading to the further destruction of the Soesdyke/Linden Highway in the vicinity of Yarrowcabra. The area by the Pump Road in the vicinity of Skylark, a tourist resort that once existed there, is the worst affected. Residents say that the destruction is such that each day a piece of the highway simply collapses. [...]
Bauxite Union threatens to halt export shipments
….cites stalled wages negotiations The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has issued a five-day ultimatum to Oldendorff Carrier that it would proceed on industrial action if the company refuses to come to the bargaining table with an appropriate proposal. The ultimatum expires on Monday and the notice was duly issued consistent with Article [...]
Hans Barrow suffers bandits attack in Republic Park
Two gun toting bandits gained access to the home of Managing Director of Insurance Brokers Guyana Limited, Hans Barrow, last evening, and relieved him of jewellery and his Blackberry cellular phone. Barrow, who lives at 227, Barrow, Street, Republic Park, East Bank Demerara, said that it was 19:45hrs and he was on his cell phone [...]
Dem Boys Seh… Robeson meet he meter
Gun ain’t you mattie. Robeson is a man who tell de world that he ain’t frighten nobody and once dem deh pun de reserve he will come to dem wid he hammer. And he bruck up nuff things. People cry when de man smash dem stall, when he demolish de shops dem had at de [...]
PNCR wants probe extended to GNCB
… PPP cohorts pillaged the bank – Carberry “When will (President Bharrat Jagdeo) authorise a full independent investigation of the apparent mismanagement, malfeasance and downright illegalities which contributed to the demise of CLICO (Guyana)?” This was asked by People’s National Congress Reform Chief Whip, Lance Carberry, during his party’s weekly media briefing, yesterday. “In his [...]
Associate detained for insurance supervisor’s murder
Police have detained a suspect in connection with the murder of Hand In Hand Insurance supervisor, Dexter Gaspar, some two weeks after his bound and stabbed remains were found in his North Ruimveldt home. A police official said that the man, who has been in custody since Wednesday, is a friend of Gaspar’s, and was [...]
Jagdeo spearheads panel discussion
President Bharrat Jagdeo, was part of the five-member panel discussing ‘Investing in the world’s forests’, at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting, in New York on Thursday . The other panelists were Wangari Maathai, Founder and Chair, The Green Belt Movement; Kuntoro Mangkusubroto: Minister and Head, Presidential Unit for Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Government of Indonesia, [...]
Guyana to Host CXC Students’ Forum
Utilising Information Technology the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in conjunction with the Ministry of Education in Guyana will host a Students’ Forum on Wednesday in Guyana. The forum will be held at the Queen’s College auditorium in Georgetown and is set to commence at 10:00 hours. The Ministry of Education in Guyana has arranged for [...]
Countries rush to acquire Africanised bees to maintain food security
“If all the bees were to die, mankind only have four more years to live on the earth,” according to apiarist, Linden Stewart. According to him it has been deduced that bees are one of the major links between those who grow the food and those who eat the food. And because of pollination, Stewart [...]
Cops using CSI-style techniques to solve bank employee’s murder
- fabric under car to be tested for bloodstains Ranks from the Police Forensic Laboratory will employ techniques similar to their fictional counterparts in the popular CSI television series in their bid to solve the murder of bank employee Sheema Mangar. They are trying to ascertain whether a piece of fabric from under a car [...]
Duo remanded for Cummings Lodge robbery
The two men who were caught on Wednesday hiding in a trench at Cummings Lodge after they attacked and robbed a family in the area, have been remanded to prison. The two men, Devon Marks and Kelvin Critchlow, made their appearance yesterday at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Judy Latchman. The two men were [...]
Man remanded to prison for “knife point” robbery
Magistrate Priya Beharry on Thursday denied bail to a man accused of relieving two persons of articles valuing over $300,000. The man, Stephen Piggott, while armed with a knife, is accused of robbing Shawn Rahmaya and Abena Jago of their valuables on September 22, last. Police Prosecutor Stephen Telford told the court that on the [...]
MRL inks draft agreement for second rice crop through GRDB
The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has partnered with Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) in a draft agreement that could bring some relief to rice farmers in Regions Two and Six. Signed on Wednesday, the agreement sees MRL supplying paddy to Venezuela from purchases made in Regions Two and Six. According to the contract, purchasing should [...]
Week of activities planned to address challenges of the deaf
A week-long list of activities has been planned to observe Deaf Awareness Week and organizers hope these will help to address challenges facing the deaf in Guyana. The week begins tomorrow. There are an estimated 9,000 deaf persons in Guyana, and they face the same stigma and discrimination other persons with disabilities face, such as [...]
Security guard pulled from Sophia trench
Residents of 13th Field, ‘B’ Field Sophia on Thursday stumbled upon the body of 45-year-old Mark Anthony Johnson. According to reports the man’s body was found face down in the trench leading to his home. The discovery was made some time around 06:00 hours. One resident of the area told this newspaper that the man [...]
Gold hits US$1,300 an ounce
- GGDMA urges miners to sell more gold As the gold price hits US$1,300 an ounce, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling on miners throughout Guyana to increase their gold declarations and production. Executive Director of the GGDMA, Mr. Edward Shields, said, yesterday, that he hopes that miners will take full [...]
GRCS certifies First Aid Trainees in Bartica
The Guyana Red Cross Society certified 21 residents of Bartica and surrounding areas, resulting in an increased number of persons in Region Seven, now certified in Red Cross Standard First Aid. The event was held from September 17 to September 19 at the Lions Den, Second Avenue, Bartica. According to Communications Assistant of the Guyana [...]
Celebrity basketball returns under Roc Nation
By Edison Jefford It was huge earlier this year and now it proposes to be even bigger with new entertainment group Roc Nation planning to rock the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall on October 9 with a night of celebrity basketball that has been justly themed “The Road to the IGG”. The Inter-Guiana Games’ (IGG) basketball [...]
Health Ministry launched debating competition
- Aims at raising awareness on dangers of tobacco and alcohol With the aim of sensitising in-school youths to the dangers associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol, the Ministry of Health‘s Adolescent and Youth Health and Wellness Unit yesterday launched a National Secondary Schools Tobacco and Alcohol debating competition. Under the theme ‘Think [...]
Driver caught, minibus found at Enmore mechanic shop
Police yesterday went to a mechanic shop at Enmore, East Coast Demerara and found a minibus believed to have been involved in the accident that killed Buxtonian, Biko Edwards.. This newspaper was told that the minibus was found but the driver was not there. But information then led rank to a house at Lusignan where [...]
BCB contributes financially to West Indies female players
“The Berbice Cricket Board is proud of each one of you and we are confident that you would make your family, Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies proud. The facts that the three female Berbicians are the only Guyanese on the West Indies Team speak volumes of the high level of cricket in Berbice”. Those [...]
“Guyanese Girls Gone Wild’ video prompts gun seizure
The manager of Joseph’s Record Bar, Shabbir Baksh, is one step closer to receiving his firearm along with its licence to legally use it given that the Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang and Justice Rishi Persaud, quashed an order by the Divisional Commander Leron Brummell. Assistant Commissioner Brummell must return Baksh’s firearm and licence or [...]
Fuel truck driver dies after Mahdia fire
After battling for his life for the past 24 days, 24-year-old Gopaul Basmattie succumbed to complications after he was severely burnt in a fire that broke out at Boodhoo’s General Store, Mahdia, Potaro. Reports are that on September 1 last workers of the Boodhoo’s General store in Mahdia were pumping out fuel from a tanker [...]
Scorpions have won the battle
- but can they win the war? Beepat’s Scorpions will go into tonight’s initial Division III game of the Pepsi Street Series with much confidence after dropping only one game to Melanie Patriots on their way to winning what has been a competitive Georgetown sub-association League. They have won the battle now it is about [...]
