Silence is sometimes a defence
There is an interesting thing about some people. When they are caught out in deception they then seek to suggest that they were misunderstood or that their remarks were deliberately distorted. Sometimes, the person would do the safest thing and remain quiet until the entire episode blows over. There was the case of the Amaila [...]
Office of the President now admits to laptop purchases
… Laptop flip-flop 2 The Office of the President, in its continued attempt to accuse Kaieteur News of distortion regarding laptop purchases, has once again flip-flopped on information that it has already publicly put out. After vehemently denying that it had bought 20 Lenovo laptops, the Office of the President now admits that it did. [...]
FOI Legislation… PM fails to honour agreement to Parliament
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has failed to maintain a declaration to the Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran as well as to Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, and Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman, when he announced a new deadline for the Government Access to Information Bill. Hinds, by way of letter in [...]
Kaieteur News is winning calypso
Last Wednesday 10-year-old Daniel Fanfare, of the Coomacka Primary School went on a public stage for the first time, to sing calypso. But Daniel said he was not nervous–he was confident. He had a feeling about the song–a feeling that it was a winning song. Today Daniel proudly asserts that he was adjudged winner in [...]
Tender to be advertised for the closing of Le Repentir dump site
The final closing of the Le Repentir dumpsite will take longer than expected as the work will now have to be tendered out. This is according to Government Engineer, Walter Willis, who met with members of the media yesterday. According to Willis, given the fact that some closed cells had to be reopened due to [...]
Mechanic killed in smash-up
…he worked on dead drag racer’s vehicle Less than 24 hours later yet another road fatality has been recorded bringing the figure to an alarming 17 deaths resulting from 17 accidents this year. Just after noon, yesterday, 50-year-old Errol Gonsalves was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Center. Reports are that the man [...]
Guyanese feared dead as two drown in T&T mishap
AN EARLY morning lime aboard a pirogue off Indian Bay in Chaguaramas ended in tragedy early Sunday morning when the pirogue overturned and two persons drowned while another is missing and feared drowned. Two bodies were recovered and up to late yesterday members of the TT Coast Guard (TTCG) were still searching for the third [...]
Dem boys seh… Me nah wuk at de big Affice
Children does lie when dem know that dem gun get licks. Big people different. Dem does lie when dem know that jail door a wait fuh dem. Some of dem does get confronted by de truth and dem does still lie because dem believe that somehow or de other de lie gun overshadow de truth. [...]
Drag racing victims drowned
- alcohol consumption detected during post mortem Post mortems performed yesterday on drag-racing champion, Raymond Ally, and Jermaine Frank confirmed that the friends died from drowning after they were trapped in Ally’s submerged car. The post mortems also revealed that the young men had consumed alcohol some time before the tragedy. Kaieteur News understands that [...]
Anna Regina vendors protest 14% hike in stall rentals
Irate vendors are questioning the implementation of the decision, taken by councillors of the Anna Regina Town Council, to increase stall rentals by 14 per cent. Vendors who said that the rate is retroactive to last Saturday are also contending that they were not formally informed by the market clerk as to the new increased [...]
Magistrate finds Prosecutor lying to court
The question of the Guyana Police Force really having the interest of serving justice to society at large is repeatedly asked. Those who were fortunate in the Chief Magistrate’s Court, last week, are no closer to answering any such question. As usual the court orderly called the name of a defendant who was charged by [...]
Bandits snatch $2.6M after trailing victim from bank
Despite the many arrangements put in place to protect bank customers, bandits continue to wreak havoc by tracking them and robbing them of millions of dollars, using the most ingenuous ways. The latest victims were a city business couple who were trailed all the way from the Camp Street Branch of Republic Bank to Eping [...]
Repairs commence on Cyril Potter College’s roof
One day after high winds destroyed the roof of the building that houses the library of the Cyril Potter College of Education; the Education Ministry in a statement yesterday said that substandard work cannot be blamed for the incident. The Ministry in a statement, yesterday, explained that what was reported by the Ministry yesterday cannot [...]
Farmers could get $5,000 per bag paddy in coming crop
- Agri Ministry Rice price is expected to climb, at least for farmers, in the coming crop, as the U.S. planted less than it did since 1989, just as global demand surpasses production for the first time in four years. Prices in December recorded a 12 per cent increase on the world market. According to [...]
City Hall examines measures to combat climate change
With the effects of climate change bearing down on a global scale, City Hall has been seriously contemplating measures to safeguard Georgetown against the potential effects of the environmental phenomenon. At a recent statutory meeting, this issue was listed on the municipal agenda for attention. At that very forum a concept report detailing measures that [...]
CANU declines to prosecute drug accused
Sibby Sancho, of 215 David Street, Kitty, Georgetown, dropped her face into her hands in excitement after acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry informed her that the Customs Anti Narcotics Unite (CANU) had decided to withdraw the charges of possession of cocaine and marijuana against her. The woman was arrested along with Dale Thomas by CANU [...]
Taxi driver severely burnt one day after birthday
Forty-six-year-old Andrew Sultan of 14 Jamoon Drive Meadow Brook, is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Burns Care unit. He sustained severe burns to his entire upper left side whilst cooking. According to reports reaching this publication, the man sustained his injuries yesterday around 12:30 hrs. Sources disclosed that Sultan, who is a [...]
Cop’s lost weapon still not recovered
A week after a policeman lost his weapon, investigators are still trying to figure out how it happened. The policeman claimed that he was riding his motorcycle on patrol duties when he fell off and lost his .38 revolver. The police arrested and questioned several persons including a drug addict who reportedly assisted the cop [...]
Shot bandit appears in court
Robin Akeem Holder appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to four charges ranging from robbery under arms to unlawful possession of gun and ammunition. Holder was represented by defence counsel George Thomas. The accused was not required to plead to the two counts of robbery under arms. But he professed his innocence [...]
Health Ministry to direct $100M to cancer medicines
The procurement of cancer medicines is expected to attract $100M this year, representing a massive endowment towards the fight against cancer which has for the past 10 years received nothing from the Ministry of Health’s budgetary allocation. This move, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy “is a Herculean effort…going towards cancer medicines this [...]
Little kids take on big issues at Mash competition
They might be in nursery school, only now taking steps towards learning to read and write, but those in the Mashramani dramatic poetry competition yesterday showed that they could take on big issues – from domestic violence to the health crisis created by a poorly managed dumpsite. None of them did it better than Toshana [...]
‘Lunch bag’ thief caught by police patrol
A man is currently in police custody after he attacked a sales clerk who was about to enter his place of employment, Narine’s Trading, Regent Road, Bourda, yesterday morning. According to reports, 51 year-old Mathura Narine was about to enter the store when he was confronted by a gunman. The armed man discharged a round [...]
Witch hunt is over, wanted man surrenders
Wanted man Clifton Ramcharran, called Witch, 38, of Number Two Village East Canje, Berbice who escaped from the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court last Monday is back in custody. The man who is a regular offender had escaped from the New Amsterdam Magistrate court which was being conducted by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo. He used a commotion [...]
Dismissed Overseer High Court Matter… Defendants a no-show
The defendants in the High Court matter with dismissed East Canje Overseer, Godfrey Evans, did not show up at the New Amsterdam High Court last Friday. Justice Roxanne George- Wiltshire had given the defendants, Regional Chairman of Region Six, Zulfikar Mustapha, and Regional Executive Officer Bhadase Poonai, until last Friday to say why their decision [...]
Kuru Kuru man gets four years for marijuana cultivating
After leaving his home at Kuru Kuru College area yesterday morning, little did Derick Persaud know that he would not be returning there until the next four years. Persaud was found guilty by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for cultivating marijuana. On March 25, 2009, at a proximately 12:15 hrs, [...]
