BREAKING NEWS: Chateau Margot businessman killed by bandit
- One gunman killed, two others captured – Rural constable wounded A businessman is now dead, one of his attackers killed, another seriously wounded and another in police custody following a daring daylight robbery at Lot 18 Second Street Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara. Around 11:00 hours today Dennis Ramah was pronounced dead at the [...]
Senior GRA officers sent packing
… Cigarette smuggling scam At least four senior Customs officers have been given letters, ending their contracts with the Guyana Revenue Authority after they were implicated in a scam to evade taxes on a container of cigarettes. Kaieteur News understands that three of the officials, among them a supervisor at the Mandela Avenue warehouse of [...]
Life support could be turned off on Murray
The word from the household of the People’s National Congress Reform frontbencher, Winston Murray, is that the life support system could be turned off as early as tomorrow. A source said that this decision could be taken when Murray’s grandchildren arrive in the country from London some time today. Initially, Murray’s United Kingdom-based son was [...]
Killing of brother… Father confused, debates lawyer fees or funeral expenses
A father is trying to save his younger son from spending a lifetime in prison, after losing his elder boy to murder on Sunday night. Geoffrey Roberts is the father of Marlon Roberts, 21, who allegedly killed his elder brother, Gregory Roberts, on Sunday night during a quarrel over money. The father told Kaieteur News [...]
High Court action stalls C.N. Sharma witness tampering PI
The witness tampering charge against Chandra Narine Sharma and his five associates Ravi Mangar, Tyrone Ali, Mark Reid, Raywattie Ramsaywack and Doodnauth continued yesterday before Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond. As a result of the constitutional motion which was filed in the High Court against the Attorney General, the matter was adjourned to November 24, pending the [...]
One dead, four injured in mining pit accident
A miner was killed and four others injured on Monday at Upper Barama, after a tree fell on the pit in which they were working. While details are sketchy, a police official said that workers were clearing the area with an excavator when an uprooted tree fell on the men, killing one of them instantly. [...]
PNCR: Another despicable act to victimise outspoken media, citizens
… Freddie’s trench clearing fiasco The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has condemned a recent drainage clearing exercise, in which a trench in front of the home of newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon was skipped. “It is another despicable act of President Bharrat Jagdeo, acting through his agents, and part of the continuous victimisation of the [...]
Neesa Gopal saga continues… Teachers challenge new letters
The teachers who were sanctioned by the Ministry of Education in relation to the manner they dealt with the now dead Neesa Gopaul, said that they are not satisfied with the letter that followed their sanction letter. This newspaper was told that the three teachers received their letters on November 9 last and the content [...]
City men nabbed snatching in Berbice
…used old Georgetown trick Two thieves who attempted to rob a female employee of the ‘Stretch D Dollar’ store in New Amsterdam are now in police custody, after they were nabbed by public-spirited citizens who responded to the woman’s pleas for help after she refused to let go of the bag she was carrying. According [...]
Guyanese Jet company president guilty on most serious charge
… New Jersey Airport crash case The co-founders of a luxury charter jet company whose plane barreled off the runway at Teterboro Airport in 2005, injuring 14 people, were found guilty, yesterday, of conspiracy to violate federal aviation rules in a scheme to put profits ahead of safety. A jury of seven men and five [...]
Dem boy seh… Town trick don’t wuk in country
Robeson change he mouth again when dem boys ask he about de Freddie Kissoon incident. De other day he claim how de weeders in de canal did finish work and that dem didn’t get to complete de piece outside Freddie house. Yesterday he tell dem boys how he Ministry give out de wuk as job [...]
Linden municipal workers strike
Several workers of the Linden Mayor and Town Council, yesterday proceeded on a strike to protest what they perceive to be the unfair treatment of workers. They also protested the perpetual late payment of salaries, which they consider to be grossly inadequate. They have vowed to continue the strike action until these and other issues [...]
Bauxite workers refuse to eat food from ‘Cockroach’ kitchen
… Four fired over complaints Four workers have been fired by the Bauxite Company of Guyana, after they were blamed for instigating the staff not to work after it was uncovered that a cockroach infestation and other concerns in the camp kitchen threatened the health of the workers. The Bauxite Company of Guyana is the [...]
Cush Construction Service denies involvement with Good Hope Bridge
Errol Cush has said that his construction company did not participate in the construction of the bridge at Good Hope; East Coast Demerara. This issue was highlighted on the front page of the Saturday edition of Kaieteur News. It was previously reported that Mr. Cush and Mr. De Souza partnered in the construction of the [...]
TSC demotes Bagotville HM
The teacher who headed Bagotville Primary School has been sanctioned by the Teaching Service Commission for things that she said were beyond her control. According to the Head teacher, Ms. Corina Bassant, on Thursday last she was issued with a letter from the TSC, informing her that she was being transferred to another school. Bassant [...]
GAWU: Sugar to fall far below 250,000 tonnes mark this year
The sugar company has agreed to review a proposed wage hike following a meeting yesterday in which the workers’ main union demanded a rethink. According to the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), it met yesterday for the ninth time this year to negotiate for a wage and salary increase with the Guyana Sugar [...]
Agricultural specialists reviewing regional policy
The multi-faceted role of agriculture as a main driver of the regional economy was underscored over the past two days, as experts in the field of agriculture and trade gathered in Georgetown to review the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Agricultural Policy (CAP). The Policy was created to assist CARICOM states in agricultural policy formulation, planning, implementation [...]
No word on hospital investigation into death of seven-year-old
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is yet to release any findings into investigations it said it had launched into the death of seven-year-old Quincy Softleigh Jr. The boy’s mother, Natasha Softleigh, had alleged that after leaving him with an oxygen tube attached to his body the night before, she returned to find the tube [...]
Ex-policewoman, others charged for unlicensed gun and ammo
Appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court were 37-year-old Simone Gibson of 1142 Section C Eccles, East Bank Demerara; 37-year-old Charles Wilkinson of 13 Area E Sophia, Georgetown; 64-year-old Lennox Waldron of Port Kaituma, North West District; and Dale Holland. They were charged with possession of a firearm, without [...]
Teacher arrested after lovers’ spat
A Georgetown teacher was on Sunday evening arrested by Police after she reportedly pulled a gun at her lover’s wife while they were at a newly opened bar at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara. According to reports reaching Kaieteur News, the 33-year-old teacher visited the bar Sunday evening to confront her lover’s wife, a [...]
Prison escapee returns to jail
Marvin Williams, 24, who was wounded by police after he attempted to escape from the Camp Street Prison, last Thursday, has been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Sunday and is now back in jail. Williams was shot twice; once in the left buttock and leg, while a stray bullet struck passerby Wayne Thomas, 25, [...]
Alleged iron thief granted $75,000 bail
Dwayne Game of Princes Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, was yesterday granted bail by (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry for pilfering three steel rods from the bridge of Stanley Troya. The man who was unrepresented pleaded not guilty and told the Magistrate that he is gainfully employed as a truck driver. According to the police report, the [...]
Guyanese watchman dies in fire
Trinidad and Tobago-A night watchman died in a fire on the compound of a Penal sawmill early Sunday morning. The charred remains of Dinesh Gudar, 33, a Guyanese, were found about 7 am by firemen from the Siparia Fire Station who responded to the report of a fire at Industrial Sawmilling Ltd., at Penal Rock [...]
Illegal fuel lands man in court
Fifty-year-old Harry Rajkumar of Lot 1 Timehri Dock, East Bank Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Providence Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charges of storing illegal petroleum and not having obtained the fuel from a licensed wholesaler or retailer. It is alleged that on May 4, Rajkumar had in his possession a [...]
Woman still unconscious a week after Canter truck hit her
A week after being struck by a Canter truck, Gretha Lewis, 60, of 243 Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia remains unconscious in the Georgetown Public Hospital. According to a friend who visited Lewis on Sunday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), it appears as if the woman would be left in a vegetative state, since she [...]
