Contractor executed in cemetery
…car ditched in Sophia, nothing stolen By Leonard Gildarie A Friendship businessman was found dead yesterday morning in mysterious circumstances in the Le Repentir Cemetery with four suspected gunshot wounds, shortly after he was reported missing by worried family members. Dead is Carlos Persaud, called “Jason”, 31, of Lot 6 Ram’s Canefield Drive, Friendship, East [...]
Nanda Gopaul compensates injured woman, promises husband new car
Carifesta Avenue crash… Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Permanent Secretary (PS) Office of the President, Dr. Nanda Gopaul, has compensated the couple that owns the car he rammed into Friday night. Colin Loncke, the driver, told Kaieteur News yesterday that Gopaul has given monetary compensation to his wife, Jennifer, who was injured during the crash. According [...]
Jagdeo’s Babu John tirade a bit harsh
…but Freedom House maintains that PNC has blood on their hands – Ramotar Whilst conceding that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent attack on the Peoples National Congress Reform and that party’s Presidential Candidate Brigadier (rtd) David Granger may have been a bit harsh, Freedom House is fully behind the President. This is according to the People’s [...]
Retired teacher Pearl James is a ‘Special Person’
… Driven by a passion for reading “I tell them (parents) that reading is the foundation for all the subjects that they want their children to work hard on. I tell them that if you can read, you can learn your social studies… it’s the same with other subjects…you give yourself a gift when you [...]
Dem boys seh…Carifesta Avenue is de new car park
Nuff people decide that dem gun drive and park pun Carifesta Avenue when de night come. And all of dem betting that before three months pass dem gun get a new car plus compensation. Dem know that de man who does smash up car pun Carifesta Avenue always using that roadway because he watering hole [...]
Bush Lot Corentyne family reports bandit attack, end up in police custody
Bandits reportedly broke into a Bush Lot, Corentyne home, terrorised the occupants and carted off a large quantity of cash, jewelry and cellular phones on Friday evening. The couple, Yasmin and Roshan Abrahim, and their three children, were awakened by sounds from the kitchen. They said that one of the bandits pulled a knife on [...]
Aspiring biologist crowned Miss Guyana India Worldwide
… bomb scare fails to stop pageant Aspiring biologist and prolific dancer, Roshini Boodhoo, narrowly eased ahead in the competition from fiercely talented Shivanie Latchman to win the title of Miss India Worldwide early yesterday morning. And this was despite a bomb scare that threatened to cancel the event. Only three of the ten contestants [...]
Latchmin Gopal cops Best Teacher Award
Her commitment to educating the nation’s children saw Ms Latchmin Gopal of the Leonora Primary School, West Coast Demerara, being duly recognised with the Best Teacher of Region Three Award for 2010. The award was presented to her during the Teachers’ Award ceremony which was held at the National Cultural Centre last February. It was [...]
Used tyres will not be banned
- Minister Prashad Consequent to an announcement by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) of a proposal to ban the importation of used tyres into Guyana, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad, has assured that no such action will be taken. Briefing the media recently, the Minister stated that contrary to reports [...]
Disability Act empowers physically challenged
By Rabindra Rooplall “An employer shall not deny a person with a disability, on the basis of the disability, access to opportunities for employment including open employment.” This is according to the new Persons with Disability Act 2010 which was assented on November 2010. The Disability Act 2010 further states that every person with a [...]
PNC/R vows to challenge Prescription and Limitation bill
On Thursday, despite objections by all Opposition members of Parliament, the PPP passed the Title to Land (Prescription and Limitation) (Amendment) Bill 2011. According to PNC/R Member of Parliament Amna Ally, only the day before the Bill was passed that the Leader of the Opposition had written to both the Prime Minister and the Attorney [...]
UNASUR now a legal entity with Constitutive Treaty in force
…Foreign Affairs Ministers agree on Secretary General Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) on Friday last met in Quito, Ecuador to celebrate the entry into force of the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty and have agreed on an appointee for the post of Secretary General. With the Constitutive Treaty in place UNASUR is [...]
Lindon Wilburg to head Smith Memorial Church Men’s Guild
Lindon Wilburg was recently elected (unopposed) as President of the Smith Memorial Church Men’s Guild when that body held its elections. Floyd Scott will serve as Vice President. Performing the duties of Secretary is Winston Lynch; Charles Conway will function as the Treasurer with Sydney Retemyer as the Assistant Treasurer. The Committee Members are Albert [...]
From the Diaspora…IS THE PPP WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THE ELECTIONS
By Ralph Seeram A few articles ago I wrote about the possibility of the PPP losing the next elections. A key argument in that piece was the fact that there is going to be a new generation of voters who were born and grew up under the PPP administration. Some may have born a few [...]
OP says consultant threatens blackmail on Laptop project
A former senior manager on the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) is threatening to release “information” on the project unless he receives his severance pay, the Office of the President said yesterday. The Office of the President identified Mr Judson Lohmeyer as the person threatening to blackmail the project. Lohmeyer had resigned, the Office [...]
Police nab “wanted man” Sherwin Barrow
After months of eluding police, wanted man Sherwin Barrow has been captured. This newspaper was told that some time after noon on Friday, acting on information police swooped down on a house in North East La Penitence where they found Barrow. According to a police source Barrow is accused of several robberies under arms in [...]
Immigration TALK: Why is a Medical Exam required for a Green Card?
By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram When a foreign national is trying to immigrate to the United States or adjust his status in the United States, a medical examination is required. Many foreign nationals are unclear as to the purpose and scope of the medical examination. Medical examinations are necessary to verify good health and admissibility [...]
Newly resurfaced track will perk up performances- Boodhoo
President of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club Raj Boodhoo speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday expressed confidence that the repaving work currently being done at the South Dakota Circuit will be completed in time to stage the season opening Endurance Meet scheduled for March 21. Boodhoo said that the work which is being done [...]
Baby death at N/A Hospital sparks rage
An Adelphi, East Canje woman is claiming that her newborn baby boy died as a result of negligence of doctors and nurses at the New Amsterdam Hospital. Darshanie Budhoo says that she wants to air her matter so that the negligence of some doctors at this hospital can be stopped immediately before more such deaths [...]
OP stockpiling ammunitions
The Office of the President appears to be stockpiling ammunitions as is evidenced in a recent request by its Permanent Secretary Nanda Gopaul to the Chairman of the National Procurement and Tender Administration, Donald De Clou, for selective tendering. The ammunition is to complement the stock already in place at the Office of the President [...]
Battle of the Williams in YBG Challenge
- Saints remain unbeaten in U-16 Contest It was a titanic individual battle of the Williams yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on the second day of the Youth Basketball Guyana Challenge (YBG) when Saint Stanislaus College took on Cummings Lodge Secondary in the Under-16 competition. Saints’ Darroll Williams prevailed over his Cummings Lodge [...]
Milerock face Intermoengatope tonight at MSC
By Franklin Wilson Weeks of hard training will be tested this evening when Runner-up side in the GFF Super League, Milerock, makes their debut appearance in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Champions Cup with their first game of a home and away tie against Suriname’s Intermoengatope at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, Linden. Head [...]
Woakes’ hat-trick rocks woeful Guyana as hosts fall for 2nd lowest total in 66 years
By Sean Devers at Providence Twenty-two year old England Lions fast bowler Chris Woakes capitalized on ideal overcast conditions for seam bowling at the Providence Stadium to register a hat-trick as Guyana fell for 78 on the truncated second day of their rain-hit fifth round Regional Four-Day cricket match. When bad light stopped play at [...]
ESSEQUIBO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE IS TEN
A decade ago, the Essequibo Technical Institute, at Anna Regina, was established from a project by the Guyana Government, through the Ministry of Education. Work on the facility began in June, 2000. In observance of the institution’s tenth anniversary, the administrators hosted a career day fair on the lawns of the school. The career day [...]
“ICC CWC 2011 – Cricket’s Glorious Consistent Inconsistencies”
By Colin E. H. Croft “To see is to believe!” Yet, many of us do not believe what we have been seeing from those images in Japan, after its 8.9 earthquake, and the resulting tsunami. It is like Haiti and Sri Lanka combined. It also just goes to show that when nature barks, humanity should [...]
