$100,000 gift leads to siblings’ death
Early Friday morning, 23-year-old Ronald Singh, and his 18-year-old brother, Davendra, collected a large sum of cash from their dad and went on a drinking spree to celebrate the elder boy’s birthday. By 21:00 hrs that night they were both dead, their car crumpled “like a Pepsi tin can” after slamming headlong into a utility [...]
NIS gives senior citizen royal run around for pension
The services being offered by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) have once again been dubbed by another pensioner as “terribly disappointing”. Sixty-four-year-old Keith Nurse, a resident of Lot 37 La Retraite, West Bank of Demerara, is deeply troubled because of the treatment being meted out to him by the Klein/Pouderoyen office as it relates to [...]
Barbados’ Prime Minister, David Thompson is dead
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – Barbados was plunged into mourning yesterday following the death of Prime Minister David Thompson, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer after a prolonged battle. In a brief statement, his wife Mara said that Barbados has lost “its loyal son and faithful servant before he had the time to realise his life time [...]
Selfless tutor Blanche Duke is a ‘Special Person’
“Teaching is a springboard. If you are well rounded in teaching and you have got the foundation, you can fit into anything. You can provide the right guidance. You will make the desired impact.” By Rabindra Rooplall Why would one want to be a Teacher? It is an extremely demanding profession and the remuneration is [...]
Dem boys seh….Japarts mek people laugh and cry
De nuff thing does happen to mek people laugh. Two man decide that dem gun thief from a man who was going home. De man is a serving policeman. Dem mek a mistake. De police come quick and dem ketch one of dem. When dem put de man in de light dem find out that [...]
Govt., PNCR extend condolences to Barbadians
“On behalf of the government and people of Guyana and on my own personal behalf, I extend deepest sympathies to the Government and people of Barbados on the passing of the Honourable David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados.” This was the message dispatched to Freundel Stuart, the Acting Prime Minister of Barbados from President Bharrat [...]
Guyana’s weather is not unusual
The odd weather patterns that Guyanese have been observing for the better part of this year are apparently not that out of the ordinary, according to Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud. Persaud said that while the weather over this past year has been decidedly different from what is normally expected, the current weather patterns are [...]
New attorney at Law accepted to practise in Guyana
Another attorney at law has been admitted to practise at the Bar in Guyana. He is Rabindranauth Singh of 15, East Canfield, East Canje Berbice. Mr. Singh’s petition was presented by attorney at law Mursaline Bacchus before Justice Diana Insanally at the Berbice High Court. Singh attended the Cumberland Primary School before moving on to [...]
Poor diagnosis at New Amsterdam leads to woman’s death
A family from Number 19 Village, East Coast Berbice, is up in arms against the treatment meted out to their relative at the New Amsterdam Hospital leading to the woman’s death. They are calling on the relevant authorities to investigate the works of the New Amsterdam Hospital and for a revamp of the entire health [...]
Education is the answer but, what’s the question?
Asks Michael Benjamin His face was unshaven, his clothes threadbare and he stood just outside Fogarty’s, tin cup in hand pleading with passersby for a little help. Some people deposited coins while a few dropped twenty dollar notes. Some mischievous lads contributed little pebbles and one even gave him a bone that was sucked to [...]
GOING HOME
DIASPORA LOOKING IN… By Ralph Seeram Its one week before our trip to Guyana and the woman is still shopping. The woman goes into a shopping frenzy whenever we are going to Guyana. It’s worse than Christmas shopping. She has over three hundred pounds clothes, shoes, pocket books and anything that is needed in a [...]
City Hall is falling apart
For more than 120 years the Georgetown City Hall has been standing tall in the heart of the city. It has been hailed as an architectural masterpiece and a historical treasure. Yet as each year passes, the building falls further and further into disrepair with little or nothing done to halt the decline. Up until [...]
IAAF SA 10k storms Georgetown today
-D’Andrade, Forde, Morgan to lead locals The eighth edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) South American (SA) 10k Road Race will storm Georgetown today with an invasion of foreign athletes for what has easily become one of the biggest calendar events in the region. The Brazilians, who have always dominated the female [...]
Sarwan is valuable to Windies team
Says former Test batman Maurice Foster By Sean Devers in Jamaica The outrageous sacking of experienced West Indies middle order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan from the West Indies cricket team has ignited lots of debate around the region as the Caribbean side prepares to tour Sri Lanka next month. Sixty-seven year-old former Jamaica and West Indies [...]
Boxing Board President, Top promoter issues call for boxers’ return
Head of the People’s Syndicate Promotions Keith Bazilio has issued an impassioned plea to the boxers that have recently defected to the United States of America to return home before it is too late. He feels that there is still some time to repair the damage caused by their actions while the issue is in [...]
Rising Sun Rodeo one week away and more businesses coming on Board
Samuel Whyte With just over one week away from Rodeo time more businesses are coming on board and have joined with the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee as they seek to get their names associated with the event, which is the only one of its kind on the coast. The date is Sunday October 31 and [...]
Digicel dispatches aid plane to Haiti to assist with cholera outbreak
KINGSTON, JAMAICA. Digicel, on Friday, dispatched a plane loaded with vital relief supplies to assist the people of Haiti. With a cholera outbreak in the central part of the country which has so far claimed the lives of some 142 people – and with a further 1,500 cases to date of people suffering from severe [...]
Guysuco thump Media XI to win Softball cricket competition in Berbice
Guysuco defeated the Berbice Media eleven by seven wickets to win the 10/10 softball cricket competition when the inaugural Berbice Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with other Corporate Business entities in Berbice held a day of sport and fun day. The final of the cricket competition which was held over from last week due to [...]
Why waste resources on deportee monitoring?
- domestic criminals are creating more problems While Guyana, like some of its CARICOM counterparts, maintains a policy of monitoring criminal deportees, there is emerging evidence that the forced re-migrants’ involvement in criminal activities is declining. Local police officials, while not entirely in favour of scrapping the initiative of monitoring deportees, believe that the focus [...]
Floodlights defeat Ministry of Sports, Wellwoman beat Lusignan Street Warriors
Last Friday night at the MCY&S Ground on Carifesta Ave. Floodlights defeated Ministry of Sports in a thrilling 25 overs softball match. Ministry of Sports urged by their cheer leaders batted first and made a challenging 181 for 8 off 25 overs. Bashir Khan top scored with 58, Kamal Khan 33 and Patrick Stewart 32. [...]
Man hides under fish ice box, recognises engine robbers
Two men from Fisherman Quarters, Better Hope, were nabbed yesterday after they decided to steal two boat engines but were seen by a watchman. The men were found with one of the engines at a home after police conducted a raid. According to reports yesterday, on Friday night a group of men used a small [...]
Family refutes accusations, says boy was attacked
A Craig family has refuted accusations that its members invaded a private school last Wednesday. They said that the officials at educational facility handled the matter badly. As a matter of fact, the father of the 11-year-old student said that his son suffered injuries after he was surrounded by a group of other students at [...]
Excitement anticipated at Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club Meet today
With four million reasons (dollars) and trophies at stake action today promises to be full of exciting races when the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in collaboration with Jumbo Jet Auto Sales hosts a grand one day horseracing meeting at the Bel Air Number 6 Village, West Coast Berbice racetrack. Some of the leading racehorses [...]
Policeman robbed by police officer’s son
… Oops! Wrong Target Two robbers who decided that their target was an easy mark, found out that it was not such a good idea, since their victim turned out to be an off-duty policeman. To compound matters, the incident took place a few hundred yards from the Grove Police Station. One of the bandits [...]
Humphrey’s Bakery & Farm Products hands over contribution
Humphrey’s Bakery & Farm Products located at Ketley Street, Charlestown on Thursday handed over a cheque to the organisers of the Troy Humphrey/Sammy Barker Memorial cycling Meet set for next Sunday in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden. Melanie Humphrey-Berkley handed over the cheque to President of the Roraima Bikers Club (RBC) Brian Allen in [...]
