Weights used to submerge body, linked to stepfather
Three days after residents of Madewini made the gruesome discovery of Neesa Gopaul’s body in a suitcase, police returned to the scene yesterday and removed a length of rope tied to two locally made dumb-bells. The dumb-bells were attached to the suitcase by a length of rope. Initially police were working on the theory that [...]
Two executed on Stone Avenue
Another execution style killing rocked the city last night, sending residents of Campbellville Housing Scheme into a state of panic and police investigators into overdrive. This time two men died. Following a fusillade of bullets, Patrick Goodluck of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, and North Sophia, a father of three, lay dead in his car while [...]
Authorities failed to act as victim cried for help
… QC student’s headless body Yesterday as news of the death of 16-year-old Neesa Gopaul spread, her colleagues and a teacher of Queen’s College were furious, saying that had the authorities done more she would have been alive. Some of the student’s classmates asked that the school fly the flag at half-mast to show their [...]
Wismar man found dead with gunshot wound
A Wismar, Linden man was yesterday found at Seven Miles Ituni road, with what appeared to be a gunshot wound and other marks of violence about the body. The man reportedly had dwelling places at both Nottinghamshire, Demerara River and Victory Valley at Wismar. The discovery was made early yesterday. The body was subsequently taken [...]
GT&T explains payment to OP
- money less than $1M US over ten years Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ltd. (GT&T), Yog Mahadeo, yesterday confirmed that the Company makes a mandatory payment of 0.1 per cent of its annual gross revenues to the Office of the President (OP). Mahadeo said that the money is not [...]
People collecting money under false pretence
Some organisations look like if dem only deh fuh show. Dem have fancy names and dem can’t do de wuk. Imagine people complain how dem getting torment and de people who dem complain to does tell dem to go home and patch up de story. De sad part is that instead of de people patching [...]
Last batch of emergency ARVs arrives
The last batch of emergency HIV medication was expected to arrive yesterday as part of the efforts to ensure that the local health sector has an adequate supply of drugs for persons requiring a combination antiretroviral treatment. The emergency supply, this newspaper understands, was sourced by the International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) and has a total [...]
Man drowns while looting beached Banks DIH boat
Getting a “free drink” proved costly for Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, resident Franklyn Andries, 36, after he drowned while looting a beached Banks DIH cargo vessel. The dead man’s father, Tyrone Andries, yesterday told this newspaper that he received a telephone shortly after 06:00 hrs yesterday informing him about the death. He said that he [...]
STARR Computers – leaders in energy saving computers and renewable energy
- Solar air-conditioning in the pipeline By Rabindra Rooplall STARR Computers Inc. (STARR) has taken up the challenge in Guyana to promote Alternative Energy and to play its part in helping to save the earth and create new employment opportunities. This is one of the entities that is controlling a booth at GuyExpo. It is [...]
PPP says Guyana has been transformed since Oct. 5, 1992
The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says that Guyana has been transformed since the holding of the first free and fair elections on October 5, 1992. “In every area, we have made great progress. Our economy has recovered and today we have one of the best economic situations in the region. In the process, we [...]
12 injured in multiple vehicle smash-up at Good Hope
Twelve persons were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) just after noon yesterday with injuries they sustained in a three-vehicle collision at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara. The accident involved a minibus, a pickup, a parked car and two bicycles. Among the injured are Shonella Warren, 19, of 98 North Melanie Damishana, with [...]
Two arrested for causing death
Mohan Moniram, of Hampton Court, and Bharrat Persaud, of Windsor Castle, Essequibo Coast, two drivers, will remain in police custody to assist with further investigations into two separate road accidents over the weekend. The first accident which involved Moniram, police said was fatal. The victim was his older brother, Ajadia Moniram, a\k Boya or Buggie, [...]
The fight to reduce diabetic foot diseases
Reginald Yearwood, 63, who has been a victim of diabetes for twelve years, has had his leg amputated. He said that he had not been complying with his treatment and so lost the limb. When a reporter met him at the foot care clinic at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre recently, he was treating the [...]
Stolen Cell phone lands woman in court
Althea Isaacs, 24, of Lot 41 Annandale Housing Scheme was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail, when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of simple larceny. It is alleged on September 20, last she received a touch screen cell phone valued $200,000, from an [...]
Authorities grapple with ways to “sex” up agriculture
…brain drain hurting sector badly, farmers getting old Guyana is suffering a serious problem of “brain drain” with specialists in the agricultural sector and the shortage is in a sore need to be gapped in hurry. This was the grim message to scores of students who gathered yesterday at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), [...]
Rajkishore Mangal – an educationist who contributed a lot
… On World Teachers’ Day As another World Teachers’ Day is celebrated today the spotlight is on veteran educator in the Berbice area, Rajkishore Mangal, MS, who spent close to half a century in the teaching profession. He has retired. Mr Mangal attended the Berbice Educational Institute (BEI) in 1954. After writing the final exams, [...]
C/wealth boxers make weight, go into action from today
Ninvalle to run for C/wealth Federation VP post Guyana’s boxers at the Commonwealth Games currently underway in Delhi, India, will get into action starting tomorrow after comfortably making weight and passing the required medical tests. President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle, told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that all three fighters, Devon Boatswain, Cleon [...]
Windies’ stars may face Big Bash ban
According to the Age Newspaper in Australia, star West Indian trio Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo are likely to be banned from the Big Bash if they attempt to come to Australia without the permission of the West Indies Cricket Board. All three players have rejected contracts from the WICB, seemingly because of [...]
Supermarkets join fight against HIV
The local health sector’s fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is at a very important juncture. According to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana is gearing for elimination rather than just merely a reduction of the dreaded disease. He boasted that this country has over the years done a tremendous job in highlighting [...]
Moses gets opportunity to avenge only loss
Ever since she has begun fighting as a professional boxer, Mandessa Moses has made quite an impression, defeating all comers. She would have had an impeccable record had it not been for a Trinidadian by the name of Wendy Allen who defeated her when the two met in Trinidad and Tobago in her debut bout. [...]
Groovy Soca Monarch competition to jumpstart Mash 2011
Brewery giant Banks DIH yesterday made an early start to Mashramani celebrations with the launch of the first ever Groovy Soca Monarch competition. The company insists the event is not meant to overshadow the Soca monarch competition put on by rival beer company Ansa McAl. Director of the competition, Sean Bhola, explained that Groovy soca [...]
Linden electricity workers out on a limb
…we do jobs that are life threatening with no risk allowance Climbing electrical power posts and disconnecting power lines are just two of the life risking duties linesmen at the Linden Electricity Company Incorporation (LECI) conduct every day. Nearly two dozen of those men took to the streets and protested for two days for an [...]
Puerto Rico 3 Anguilla 1; Cayman Islands 1 St. Martin 1
Watched by a partisan crowd, hosts and favourites of the Digicel Caribbean Cup (DCC) Group A got off to a winning start. Although dominating possession throughout they did stutter a bit in the second half and gave their fans some nervous moments when the score was at 2-1. Indeed the Anguilla team expressed their disappointment in [...]
Bubbly Boyz depart – Under-20s confident of doing well in Guyana
Jamaica’s Under-20 footballers left the island yesterday for Guyana for the second phase of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifiers. Following the team’s final training session before departing at Collie Smith Drive, team manager Roy Simpson was confident the Boyz would top the CFU qualifying group even as the prevailing bad weather severely disrupted their final [...]
GTTA Schools’ Project for implementation
Strategic Plan is priority Following what was described as a “productive meeting” between the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), another such forum was held at the National Sports Commission (NSC) level to advance a Strategic Plan.The President, Henry Greene and Executive of the GTTA had met with [...]
