Cops recover booty from Leonora market robbery
- third bandit nabbed, shot accomplice hospitalised Three persons are currently in police custody following Saturday’s daring robbery at the Leonora Market. Initially only two persons were held but a source said that due to diligent police investigations a third accomplice was arrested yesterday. According to a source, police ranks are also expected to scour [...]
Child Protection officials overwhelmed with hundreds of cases
- Neesa’s case with agency for over a year Some members of the Child Care and Protection Unit at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security are insisting that their supervisors knew the officer who was handling the case was unable to contact the troubled teen. The 19 child protection officers each have a [...]
Pregnant Guyanese woman found burnt to death in car
- New York authorities suspect foul play The news of -22-year old US based Guyanese Omadevi Megbarran-Saran’s mysterious death on Saturday has left her family both shocked and confused. At approximately 4:20am on Saturday morning police were called to the corner of Jamaica Avenue and 130th Street when passersby reported a car on fire at [...]
Education Minister slams extra lessons
- unnecessary if school system is working “A culture has developed, whereby, extra lessons are actually being forced in a very subtle way on students in our school system,” said Minister of Education Shaik Baksh. According to the Minister, this development is not only unacceptable but is in fact an unnecessary move. “I do not [...]
Jamaica beat Guyana 2-0 to advance to CONCACAF final
Grenada 7 USVI 0 By Franklin Wilson Jamaica’s Junior ‘Reggae Boyz’ have booked their place in the CONCACAF final round of qualifying for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup following their 2-0 win over Guyana’s Junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ at the Guyana National Stadium Providence, last night. The win for the Jamaicans ensured they won the group [...]
Mon Repos man shot in late night robbery
Mon Repos resident Stephen Ramahlo was last night nursing two gunshot wounds to his legs and police were hunting three suspects following a late night home invasion at Lot 139 fourth Street Martyrsville, Mon Repos. Ramalo was reportedly shot at around 23:00 hrs after he fought with the robbers. His wife, Carmen Persaud, who was [...]
Dick spearheads GNIC to Haier Cup title
By Sean Devers David Dick blasted 5 fours and five sixes in an attacking 63-ball 77 while National under-19 Skipper Dexter Solomon smashed an unbeaten 37 from just 37 as GNIC whipped hosts DCC by 66 runs in yesterday’s final of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GAC) Haier Cup 40-over 2nd division cricket competition. The belligerent [...]
Dem boys seh….CLICO gun pay bonus
CLICO paying out money and people going to collect and end up cussing. It start wid dem who got life policy. One woman collect less than one premium and she claim how CLICO shut down but it still thiefing. She claim how Bharrat tell dem that dem gun get back all de money dem pay. [...]
No objections as long as money is placed in Govt. Coffers
GT&T mandatory payment to OP… – Carberry The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) has no objections to payments being made by the Guyana Telephone and Telephone Company directly to the Office of the President as long as the money finds its way into the Consolidated Fund. This is according to Chief Whip of the PNCR, [...]
Berbice retain El Dorado title despite Barnwell’s shot-filled century
By Sean Devers Berbice continued their dominance at the senior inter-county level by retaining their El Dorado 50-over cricket title with a 5-wicket win against arch rivals Demerara in Saturday’s final at the Guyana National Stadium. Slow bowler Royston Crandon grabbed 5-33 from 8 overs and got support from leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo (3-24 from 8.5) [...]
Ian ‘Dumb Boy’ Jackson turns in scorcher to take feature event
Eon ‘Dumb Boy’ Jackson rode a blistering race to capture the honours in the feature attraction over 25 laps when the Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club staged a track meeting at the Everest Cricket Ground, yesterday afternoon. In the process he carted off more than fifteen thousand dollars, awarded for the prime prizes plus bragging rights [...]
Caribbean records high sexual violence against women – UNIFEM
- Low conviction rate cited Sexual violence against women is high across the Caribbean, with all CARICOM countries showing higher than the global average per capita rates. This is according to United Nation Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). UNIFEM disclosed that crisis centres report significant under-reporting of all forms of sexual violence as victims lack [...]
Female vendor’s alleged killer still on the run
Anastasia Gordon, the sister of murdered market vendor, Letuica Rodriguez called “Mama or Samantha” is now bemoaning the police in what she calls their “lazy attitude” in finding her sister’s killer. The woman yesterday told Kaieteur News that she is yet to get an update on her sister’s murder from the police. She explained that [...]
Guyana’s Rifle Shooters soldier on as they hunt medals
Day two of the Commonwealth Fullbore shooting championship saw Guyana still on the hunt. In the pairs over 500yards they dropped one point to be 5 off the lead. In the individual competition, Ransford Goodluck dropped 1 point and Mahendra Persaud 3. There are still three days of shooting to go and the experienced Guyanese [...]
Katabuli Bridge is still in a dilapidated state despite several rectification works
A few years ago, approximately G$14 million was allocated for the reconstruction of the Katabuli Bridge in Linden, Region 10. At first, the project started with replacing the aged structure, but saw the creek which the previous bridge was built over, being diverted. This move caused numerous complications at the site angering residents, who use [...]
Encouraging signs at Skeldon Estate
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Inc. yesterday expressed optimism at meeting the second crop production target for this year. According to the Corporation, there are some encouraging signs for the sugar industry and drew reference to the fact that for the second consecutive week, the Skeldon estate achieved the weekly production target of sugar produced. [...]
Seventh Day Adventist Church awards Pathfinders
The Plaisance Seventh Day Adventist Church on Saturday hosted the Mount Sinai Pathfinder Day event to award Pathfinders who had shown attributes of a “good Christian” and worked hard throughout the nine-month year of the organization’s calendar. The event was held under the theme “Prepare ye the way, behold he come”. According to ‘director Andel’, [...]
Adams wins Vish Trading Golf tourney
Carlos Adams returned to winner’s row in capturing the Parbhudial “Speedy” Ramdial Memorial Medal Play tournament last Saturday at the Lusignan golf Club. In ideal conditions for golf, Adams won in convincing fashion recording a net 67 from a gross 95 playing off a 28 handicap. Bholaram Deo continued his impressive form to capture the [...]
Sea dam breach in Tucber
TUCBER PARK, NEW AMSTERDAM – Some residents in the Tucber Park area are concerned about a breach on the sea dam between the First Koker and Back Koker, and hope that the authorities seal it soon. Last Wednesday those living in the street parallel to the Canje River got a scare when water was heard [...]
Qualfon worker dies after complaining of feeling ill
Some employees of Qualfon Guyana INC. located at Lot 64 Republic Road Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara are contending that the negligence of their employers, contributed to the death of former employee Darshanie Matadin. Matadin, 24, formerly of Lot 86, Sixth Street, La Bonne Intention succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) on Thursday, after complaining [...]
Lall, Rahaman headline Team CAMS for November Meet
Kem Lall, Kemal Rahaman, John Joseph, Kawall Deosarran and Sanjay Sewsankar are among a strong line-up of drivers who will represent USA-based Team CAMS at the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club organised November 7 Championship which is scheduled to be held, at the South Dakota Circuit. Lall, who is no stranger to Guyana, is [...]
Govt. official calls for probe of Rose Hall IMC
ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – A Government Official is calling for an investigation into the daily operations of the Rose Hall Interim Management Committee (IMC). The spokesperson noted that based on the statutory minutes for July 2010; there are breaches in the financial regulations. “The accounting system is poor and has lots of breaches. The [...]
CSEC students being limited to eight subjects
- But there will be some exceptions says Minister Baksh Although there may be some exceptions, the Ministry of Education is on a mission to limit the number of subjects that students will be allowed to write at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination. It is expected that students will write no more than [...]
Rose Hall Town to install street lights
ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Chairman of the Rose Hall Interim Management Committee (IMC) Bhadenauth Somrah said that the town is soon to receive street lights. He indicated that his IMC is now in discussion with officials from the Guyana Power and Light about the installation and a payment plan. This pilot programme would be [...]
‘Golden Jaguars’ leave for Suriname today; confident of winning Group C
The ‘Golden Jaguars’ will leave Guyana today for Suriname where they will take on the host country, St. Lucia and the Netherlands Antilles in Group C of the Digicel Caribbean Cup (DCC) 2010 at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium from Wednesday. In their final warm up game at the MSC on Sunday evening against Linden, the [...]
