Grenade kills one, injures 19
By Latoya Giles One person is dead and 19 are injured, including four-year-old boy, after a fragmented grenade exploded yesterday, in the Stabroek Market area in the shopping arcade that accommodates itinerant vendors especially at nights. Not far away is the Guyana Fire Station Headquarters yesterday morning. The dead man who goes by the alias [...]
Authorities demolish Stabroek stalls
- dead man might have been courier of grenade – Top Cop In the aftermath of the explosion in which one man died and 19 people were injured outside the Stabroek Market yesterday, law enforcement authorities swooped down on the area and forcibly dismantled several illegal stalls with the aim of eliminating the safe havens [...]
Dem boys seh… Is more hard guava season
When people seh that crowds is not a good thing nuff of dem boys does laugh. De other morning dem find out why. A man let off a grenade and de old, de young and de middle aged get hurt. Dem boys was quick to announce how de people been in a crowd, yes, but [...]
Mystery fire damages Guyhoc apartment
A mysterious fire around 14:30 hours yesterday shattered the New Year plans of a Walker Terrace, Guyhoc Park family. Although the blaze did not completely destroy the dwelling of the Davson family, it did significant damage to one of the two bedrooms as well as of their apartment to cause them severe discomfort. The fire [...]
Relatives concerned over man’s death at city hospital
More questions than answers have surfaced following what relatives have deemed the untimely demise of 33-year-old Elton Samuel Todd of 9 Stelling Road, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice. Among the questions that have arisen is how safe is the service being offered at some health facilities and how credible are the professionals that operate within these [...]
Stabroek News driver dies as car skids off East Bank Public Road
- Fourth road fatality recorded in five days A father of four has now added to the rapidly growing country’s road fatally figure for 2011. Forty-nine year-old Owen Anthony Elliot a driver employed by Stabroek News died while receiving treatment at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre around 04:00 hours yesterday. Reports are that Elliot was heading [...]
City Council concerned about deserted city properties
The Georgetown municipality is becoming increasingly concerned about the noticeable number of houses and empty lots that have apparently been deserted by their owners. This is according to Public Relations Officer, Royston King, who said that in some cases houses have been left to the mercies of the weather and to persons who have veered [...]
Former Caricom Secretary General awarded the OCC
Prime Minister of Grenada the Honourable Tillman Thomas assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community on New Year’s Day replacing Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica. In one of his first acts as Chairman of the Community, Prime Minister Thomas announced in his New Year’s Message that the Heads of Government had agreed to bestow [...]
Kuwait funds $25M school building at Meten Meer Zorg
A $25M school building funded by the Kuwait Zakaat House to the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) was officially commissioned at the Meten-Meer-Zorg West Islamic Academy, West Coast Demerara, yesterday. In attendance at the event were Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh; President of CIOG Fazeel Ferouz; Chief Executive Officer of the CIOG, Shaikh Moeenul [...]
Suspect surrenders, to face attempted murder charge today
… Cutlass beating of teacher Rudolph London, the man who allegedly beat his reputed wife, Shaunell Warwick into a state of unconsciousness on New Year’s Day, is to be charged with attempted murder. He surrendered to police yesterday. A senior police official said that London is being detained at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station and is [...]
Colin Jones’s lawyer repeats call for his client to be psychologically examine
Still with massive police shield in and around the courtroom, alleged self-confessed murderer Colin Jones along with his younger brother Jahfar Simpson and Randy Mars made yet another court appearance yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry. At yesterday’s hearing, lawyer for the three, George Thomas, reiterated the call for [...]
Suriname arrests Guyanese, seize guns, cars, millions
Suriname authorities on Monday arrested four men, including a Guyanese businessman, breaking up what has been described as a major drug ring operation. The businessman has been identified as a former policeman who was arrested in connection with a drug bust in the Mazaruni and who shot a Princes Street man in his mouth, causing [...]
Lima man died of perforated heart
Sixty-year-old Dennis Braithwaite, a/k Brown, or Barber Man, formerly of Georgetown and also of Lima Village, Essequibo Coast, died as a result of shock and hemorrhage, due to a stab wound to the heart. The autopsy was performed by Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Friday morning. Braithwaite died at his [...]
UG students arrested for firecracker explosion on campus
Two first-year University of Guyana (UG) Faculty of Technology students were yesterday arrested in connection with igniting a firecracker on the Turkeyen campus, which resulted in panic among those on the location, and are now likely to face charges of illegal possession of explosives and causing public terror. The incident is said occurred between the [...]
‘Slant Eye’ charged with New Year’s Day murder
Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo yesterday remanded Delroy James, called ‘Slant Eye’, 25, of Patrick Dam, Angoy’s Avenue when he appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court charged with Murder. James is accused of murdering Sean Craig, 28, called ‘Pigman’ of 57 Stanleytown on Saturday January 1, last at Lot 45 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. It is [...]
GuySuCo Corentyne employees get ICT centre
The Ministry of Agriculture, with support from President Bharrat Jagdeo, launched a Computer Skills Training Programme and Computer Centre at the Albion Sports Complex yesterday. The initiative is expected to see on-site training of sugar workers and their immediate families in the quest by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to empower its employees while making [...]
Residents accuse NDC Chairman of squatting
Some residents of the Grove Diamond Housing Scheme are complaining that Chairman of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council, Omar Khan, is squatting. They have since written to President Bharrat Jagdeo, PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar, as well as the Housing Minister Irfaan Ali, in a bid to correct the situation. “The said land was to build [...]
Man inflicts grievous bodily harm on sister
Roy Cassias, of 228 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Zoe‘ Cassias, his sister. Roy who pleaded guilty was unrepresented. The police are alleging that on January 3, at East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, Roy and his sibling were involved in an argument over a [...]
Forest exports in 2010 earn US$6M more than previous year
Forest exports last year earned US$51M, some US$6M ($1.2B) more than 2009. this represented an increase of 13 per cent, the Ministry of Agriculture has announced. In a year in which Government was aggressively pushing for less log exports and more value-added products, forest produce exports were 170,058 cubic meters over the budgeted amount by [...]
Gunmen rob parent at Tuschen Primary school
-One suspect nabbed One man is currently in police custody assisting with investigations following an armed robbery committed on a parent at the Tuschen Primary School. Reports are that the incident occurred some time around noon yesterday in the lower flat of the school in full view of students. The woman, Parandai Ramroop, was relieved [...]
No practice matches for Guyana team due to rain & unavailability of Stadium
By Sean Devers Guyana will begin the defence of their Caribbean T20 cricket title on Monday against Jamaica in Antigua without the planned practice matches this week. The Ramnaresh Sarwan led team which has lost 5 of its 15 T20 matches including four defeats in last year’s Champions League in South Africa, played two matches [...]
Dr. Blackman birthday 7-a-side football finals re-fixed for Saturday
Due to the inclement weather last weekend the finals of the Dr. Noel Blackman birthday 7-a-side football tournament will be played on Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground, Bourda. Coordinator Lennox Arthur had indicated that the remaining 12 teams from a total 36 who had started the competition, will ‘duke it out’ in [...]
Carl Greenidge lashes out at critics
“…the harassment by this Government has been a constant and relentless feature of my life since 1992” “In light of what has taken place over the last few weeks, it is rather ironic that in my tribute to Winston Murray, I mentioned the difficulties he and I faced as politicians, especially as regards being misunderstood [...]
The indiscipline continues
The year is a mere six days old and already there have been more accidents that one can imagine. The number of these accidents appears to be more for this period than for any similar period in recent times. Early New Year’s morning a man became the first road fatality when he rode into a [...]
AFC chides NCN for not airing party’s New Year’s message
The Alliance For Change yesterday condemned the political machinations of the National Communications Network’s (NCN) administration, as reflected in the recent decision taken not to air the Party’s New Year message just after midnight on January 1, 2011. As before, when similar decisions were taken to deny the AFC the right to access the state’s [...]
