Guyana to hire overseas teachers
Government has signaled its intentions to hire Maths and Science teachers from abroad and is even considering retaining those that are of retirement age. The surprise announcement was made by government spokesman, Dr. Roger Luncheon, yesterday during a post-Cabinet media briefing. The decision to go outside of Guyana to satisfy the aforementioned purpose speaks of [...]
Crippled granny bursts into tears after sentenced to four years
Crippled 65-year-old Maxine Batts, a United States citizen who was charged with cocaine possession, yesterday at approximately 15:01hrs changed her plea after being on remand for several weeks. Batts, who was represented by defence counsel Mark Waldron, told acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry through her lawyer that she wanted to change her plea. Hence, the [...]
Russell DeFreitas sentenced to life
NEW YORK—Russell DeFreitas, the convicted mastermind behind a plot to blow up aviation fuel tanks and a pipeline at John F. Kennedy International Airport was yesterday sentenced to life in prison. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had alleged that the 67-year-old Guyana-born former airport cargo worker, hoped to “cause major economic loss in the United States” [...]
Gunmen escape with millions after torching Linden RDC safe
Gunmen sometime before dawn yesterday torched a safe and escaped with $5.4 million in cash and a quantity of cheques from the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) office in Linden. According to Regional Chairman Mortimer Mingo, the guard told officials of the RDC and police that he was held and subdued by an individual armed with [...]
Dem boys seh…Kwame and Cocaine Granny got a lot in common
Is more than a year that Stella trying to meet a fellow columnist, Freddie. She call Uncle Freddie; she ask Uncle Adam to help she mek contact wid Uncle Freddie. When that fail she go to de Waterfalls boss man and ask he fuh arrange that she and Freddie meet. That and all fail. Dem [...]
Round Three of Regional 4-day cricket starts today
Guyana, Windward battle to stay in title race By Sean Devers in St Vincent in association with Digicel & Queensway At a venue where Guyana dismissed the Windward Islands for their lowest First Class total (54) in 1998, the South Americans battle the Islanders from today in the third round of the Regional Four-Day cricket [...]
DCB Inter Association U15 to bowl off soon
All Area Associations are being alerted to commence preparations of their respective Under-15 teams for the annual Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter Association competition which is scheduled to begin before the end of this month. According to a press release from PRO Rohan Sarjoo, the Competitions Committee will meet shortly to set the fixtures for [...]
Morgan out of National NACAC Cross Country Team
- cites recurring injury, reduced squad leaves today By Edison Jefford President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Police Sports Club Ground to improve the confidence of Guyana’s long distance running team ahead of their impending assignment in Trinidad. Boyce was forced to hold the [...]
Table Tennis returns to Ancient County with a bang
Differently Able Gibran Hussein is the champ; Minister & GTTA Boss impressed By Samuel Whyte Differently Able Table Tennis Wonder Gibran ‘Gibby’ Hussein defied the odds to defeat his Able rivals to win the Berbice Open Table Tennis tournament held by the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) to re-launch the sport in Berbice on Sunday [...]
Bulletin issued for Norton Street murder suspect
Almost a week after he allegedly stabbed his reputed wife Natalie Loncke to death, police have issued a wanted bulletin for Hubert Pilgrim. The bulletin was issued yesterday after police exhausted all avenues to capture the suspect who fled the Norton Street, Wortmanville apartment on Saturday night after stabbing Loncke, a nursery school teacher, during [...]
Medical practitioners weigh-in on drowning
Although it is alleged that she committed suicide by plunging off the Demerara Harbour Bridge in the wee hours of Tuesday, there are still some uncertainties surrounding the demise of Nalini De Agrella. According to reports, the 40-year-old woman who hailed from La Grange, West Bank Demerara, was the lone passenger in a vehicle her [...]
3rd Annual ‘Screw’ Richmond Schools Football Tournament launched
- Eight schools to participate The 3rd Annual Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Secondary Schools Football Tournament was officially launched yesterday, during a simple ceremony which was attended by members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), teachers and students of participating schools and the media, at the LEAP Head Office in Linden. Representing the LOC were Mayfield [...]
QC better last year’s performance at Barbados Relay Fair
One of Guyana’s premier secondary institutions, Queens College topped their 2010 performance at the Barbados Relay Fair when their Girls’ Team finished ninth of 31 schools while their Boys’ Team was sixth of 36 schools overall in the annual competition. The performance of the QC team in the competition this year was better than last [...]
‘Fat Boy’ gets 8 years for killing brother
By Latoya Giles “I can’t ever remember a defendant coming before me and saying prison has actually been beneficial to him,” said Justice Winston Patterson, minutes before he sentenced Taijpaul Nankishore called ‘Fat Boy’ who pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The defendant was accused of killing his brother Seepaul Nankishore, on May 7, 2008. Taijpaul Nankishore [...]
Taxi driver murder trial continues
As the murder trial for Shawn Richardson continued before Madame Justice Dawn Gregory, two more policemen took to the witness box yesterday. Richardson is accused of killing Enterprise taxi driver Vivekanand Nandalall between October 2003 and March 2004. State Prosecutors Konyo Sandiford and Judith Gildharie-Mursalin are presenting the case. Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Paul [...]
Former First Lady Joyce Hoyte to be interred today
Former First Lady Joyce Hoyte will be interred today following a funeral service at St Andrews Kirk in Georgetown. There will be a private viewing for the family at the Lyken Funeral Parlour after which the body will be taken to the church. There will be the public viewing from 14:00 hrs and the service [...]
Four juveniles to face robbery,burglary charges
Four juveniles are to appear in court today in connection with a string of burglaries in Grove Housing Scheme and a robbery in the neighbouring Diamond New Scheme. Kaieteur News understands that the youths have been implicated in three robberies and four incidents of break and enter. They were reportedly picked out in identification parades. [...]
Our youth are looking to us to lead from the front
Dear Editor, It is always troubling when one reads the newspapers and hears of so many murders – friend against friend, son against father, brother against brother, spouse against spouse, and on and on it goes. I was particularly disturbed when I read the incident of the school boy who was cruelly beaten by his [...]
Who knows what tomorrow’s ‘nancy story’ will be?
Dear Editor, The PPP seems to be failing in their usual tactics of Dismiss, Deny and Delay these days and credit must be given to the press and the public who continue to ask more and more questions. Now let me break down the scenario for us here:- Minister makes a mistake in parliament stating [...]
Health Ministry refutes articles, explains disparity in tenders
Emphasising the notion that it supports and promotes the right to citizens to know and have access to information, the Ministry of Health in a statement issued yesterday refuted two recent articles published by this newspaper. The articles published yesterday and the previous day, were focused on the tendering process as it relates to medical [...]
Millions are without medicine that costs cents – Health Minister
Globally there are between 500 million and one billion people who have absolutely no access to essential medicines. This is according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who revealed recently that “health conditions that can be cured are even today killing people around the world simply because they are not in receipt of medicines [...]
Carl Greenidge may be the best PNCR candidate
Dear Editor, As I listen to the news, read the papers and engage in conservation as we gear for regional and national elections later in the year, I am very concerned about the number of eligible voters who have not been registered for one reason or another. I am following with great intensity the presidential [...]
Bartica gearing up for historic Carib Flood Light T20 tourney
Eight teams to battle from March 5 @ Bartica Centre Gr. History will be created when for the first time a Twenty20 Cricket Tournament is held under lights in Bartica that will feature eight teams from the Essequibo Region. D&C Promotions (Deon Ferrier and Charles Jones) in conjunction with the Bartica Cricket Committee (BCC) are [...]
Missing mechanic’s body recovered
The body of Courtney Apple, the mechanic who was feared drowned, was yesterday morning recovered near Echarak Falls on the Potaro River. Apple went missing last Monday following a boat accident in the vicinity. Relatives disclosed that the 41 year-old had left the “Backdam” with a cousin and was heading to a community near the [...]
Beware of those who seek to divide the Christian community
Dear Editor, I issue the following statement in response to letters penned by Roger Williams and printed in the Kaieteur News on February 17 and by Ms. Patricia Gonzalez printed in the Kaieteur News on February 6, 2011. The letters were in every respect mischievous, dishonest, untruthful, and designed to discredit me as a Christian [...]
