Neesa Gopaul murder PI continues… Assistant Supt. Griffith testifies
Assistant Superintendent Denise Griffith was the latest person called to give evidence in chief as the preliminary inquiry (PI) against gym instructor Jarvis Small and Bibi Gopaul continued, yesterday. The two are accused of killing Gopaul’s daughter, 16-year-old Queen’s College student Neesa Gopaul between September 24 and October 2, at Madewini on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. [...]
Lawyers move to free man on death row for 15 years
Attorneys from the law firm Hughes, Fields and Stoby have moved to the court on behalf of condemned prisoner Lawrence Chan to have his sentence commuted to life. Chan, who has been on death row since 1995, is seeking an order that he be released immediately. He is claiming that being under the threat of [...]
NSA double gold medalist Nermala Sewdat rewarded by RHTY&SC cricket teams
Nineteen year-old Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) female cricketer Nermala Sewdat was honoured on Saturday last by her clubmates for her achievement of winning two gold and a bronze medal at the recently concluded Ministry of Education/Guyana Teachers Union National School Athletics Championships. Sewdat was duly recognised by members of the Rose [...]
Man missing after boat collision
A 52-year-old man is missing and feared dead following a boat collision in the Essequibo River at around 18:30 hrs on Wednesday. The missing man has been identified as Hammond Hing called ‘Chinee’, of Waraeena, Upper Bonasika Creek. A police press release stated that Hing was in a paddle boat near Bonasika Creek when a [...]
Perry and Scott named GDF’s Sportsman & Woman of the year
National athletes Rupert Perry and Ashanti Scott were named the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) sportsman and sportswoman of the year 2010 and were duly recognised and honored on Tuesday evening during the GDF’s Novices Bodybuilding Competition held at their Auditorium at Base Camp Ayanganna. Both Perry and Scott were among many other athletes rewarded for [...]
Miners express fresh fears over new measures for industry
- Advertisement warns of foreign threat to sovereignty As government considers new measures for the gold and diamond mining industry, a number of prominent players on Tuesday, last, called on President Bharat Jagdeo to rethink the move. In a full page ad in the Kaieteur News earlier this week, five miners maintained that the measures [...]
Rising Sun, Lions Clubs Fund raising horse race meet
Overwhelming support from cooperate entities for Sunday’s contest A number of Cooperate entities have come on board and have given their full support to help make the one day fund raising horserace meet organised by the Rising Sun Turf Club in collaboration with the Lions Cubs of Durban Park and the Central Demerara Lions Club [...]
Hinds (87*), Keirre Henry (4-7) spearhead NA Secondary to victory
The Ministry of Education/National Sports Commission/Guyana Cricket Board National Secondary School Under-15, 40-Over Cricket Competition continued in the Berbice/Mahaicony Districts. Hakeem Hinds slammed an unbeaten 87 with nine fours and 2 sixes to lead New Amsterdam Secondary School to 148 all out against Canje Secondary. Off-spinner Keirre Henry then took 4-7 which together with 3-11 [...]
Sugar strike over
- workers to be paid today Sugar workers, who were facing the very real prospects of not being paid wages and salaries, will be receiving their monies today, officials of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) assured yesterday. This comes even as news that a week-old strike has ended and at least one workers’ union has [...]
ERC to engage media, politicians in run-up to elections
It is the will of the people for the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to meet more, as well as key people in a bid to ensure peace and harmony persists even as National Elections, slated for next year, draw near. This disclosure was made recently by ERC Chairman Bishop Juan Edghill. He stated that politicians [...]
Prime Minister pledges support to K&S tourney
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds met with the Directors of the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation yesterday morning and pledged his support for Guyana’s premier knock-out tournament. Prime minister Hinds congratulated the organisers for the high level and professional manner in which the competition is conducted making a monetary donation and will also sponsor the Fair Play [...]
UNASUR to mull expulsion, other sanctions for ‘undemocratic regimes’
Less than two months after rebel forces threatened to topple his government, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa comes to Guyana today to enjoy widespread support from his South American counterparts as they look to enshrine democratic rule in the UNASUR bloc. The “democracy clause” could stipulate economic sanctions against countries with forced regimes and could also [...]
Tourism and hospitality industry poised for improvement through partnership
With the aim of teaching individuals involved in the tourism sector the importance of packaging and product distribution, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday, last, held a workshop at the Regency Suites, Hadfield Street, Georgetown. The workshop came as part of the activities to mark Tourism Awareness [...]
Health Ministry unveils treatment guidelines
With the intent of improving primary health care in the public health system, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday unveiled a document comprising Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs). This is the first such publication to be produced by the Ministry and it is expected that [...]
Alleged Guyanese wife-killer captured in French Guiana
French Guiana authorities have captured a Guyanese man who is wanted here for allegedly murdering his reputed wife, Okemo Todd, almost nine months ago. Police officials confirmed yesterday that the suspect, 24-year-old Charles Rawlins, was arrested in the French territory and has since been deported. No wanted bulletin was ever issued here for Rawlins, but [...]
Alleged citrus thief remanded
Samuel Dennis of Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Geeta Chandan–Edmond for the offences of break and enter and larceny. The accused, who was unrepresented, pleaded not guilty to both charges. It is alleged that between Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd November, the defendant broke into a greens stall in [...]
Drug addict gets three years
Thirty-nine year-old Sharon Monplaisir, of Saint John Street, New Amsterdam, who was caught with a tube filled with cocaine concealed in her vagina, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when she appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court. The woman had pleaded guilty a week earlier and sentencing was [...]
Whither UNASUR?
It may appear to be a tad premature to speculate on the future of this noble vision – UNASUR, in effect a United States of South America – so early in the day. But for a nation that took a lead in trying to cobble together a more lasting union with our West Indian neighbours [...]
THE EMPLOYERS CALL THE SHOTS
There is a false assumption in society that being lettered means being qualified. Or in other words being certified translates to being qualified. A great many persons are being certified. Just last week, the University of Guyana, graduated a few hundred students, some of whom may be on the job market seeking employment. But does [...]
Motor racing deserves much more Govt. investment
Dear Editor, I read the letter, “GMR&SC should return the $40M,” by Name and address supplied (SN 11-24-10). The writer made three arguments which I would like to rebut. He/she wrote, “Drive around the country and one will see miles of minor roads in terrible condition.” It was also written, “Surely the race track must [...]
Caribbean MPs discuss trade issues
- Lance Carberry represents Guyana Should Members of Parliament bother themselves with the intricacies of trade policy? Should they bother understanding the terminologies and concepts underpinning international trade negotiations? Is it part of their responsibilities to know all these issues? And of what value is it to their constituencies, anyway? These and many other questions [...]
Arrested schoolboys say ‘victim’ is the ‘culprit’
The three schoolboys who were taken into custody by police and featured on this newspaper’s front page of the Kaieteur News yesterday for an alleged snatch-and-run have told the police that the boy who is saying he is the victim, is the actual culprit. The latter was also taken into custody. According to one of [...]
Do the visiting UNASUR leaders know about tropical fascism in Guyana?
I know; I absolutely know that visiting leaders in any country read the newspapers of the territory in which they are guests. They read to assess the particular event that brought them there in the first place. There is no exception to this rule. Whether in sports, war or politics, foreign leaders as guests in [...]
Carib/Pepsi T20 to bowl off at providence next Friday
By Sean Devers Shawn DeSouza, the attacking GNIC batsman who had a wonderful season for the Sweet Revenge Club in Trinidad this year is the only new comer selected in a depleted Demerara team for the Guyana Cricket Board’s Carib/Pepsi four-team T20 cricket tournament which starts next Friday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence. The [...]
Guyana needs a National Front Govt.
Dear Editor, After 28 years of PNC rule and 18 (so far) of PPP/C government, Guyana is in dire need of a government that is truly representative of its diversity — specifically its various races. It is a farce to boast that Guyana is a nation of six races, when only one dominates and others [...]
