National TT Team competing in tri-nation tourney in Suriname
Guyana’s national table tennis team is currently competing against Suriname and French Guiana in a tri-nation tournament in Suriname after departing Thursday. Edinho Lewis; Nigel Bryan; Joel Alleyne; Hewley Griffith; Denzel Duff; Brando Baldie; Jamal Duff; Sunil Logan; Stephan Corlette with Natalie Cummings, the lone female player, comprised the national team that left for the [...]
Sacked Magistrate sues over dismissal
Former Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton, in a writs of Certiorari and Mandamus which was filed yesterday before Justice Dianne Insanally, is claiming that she was not afforded due process or a fair hearing when she met with Chancellor Carl Singh (ag) and Mr. Ganga Persaud. The motion was filed by Attorney at law Nigel Hughes. Hamilton [...]
Explosion precedes mystery fire at Leonora
…completely guts top storey A fire of unknown origin has left a Leonora, West Coast Demerara family homeless after their two-storey wooden house was destroyed yesterday afternoon. Toolsieram Hurry, the patriarch of the family, said that he was not at home when the fire started. Hurry said that he was taking a relative to the [...]
LRO employee fingered in car theft
Police on the lower East Coast of Demerara are currently looking for an officer attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority licence office who has been finger in the theft of a Toyota Allion car. The owner of the car, Zamar Alli Hussain, of Atlantic Gardens said that on Wednesday evening he parked his car on [...]
US$1M medical center being stymied by M&CC – says CIOG President
Plans by the Central Islamic Organisation Guyana (CIOG) to implement a US$1M medical centre that will also accommodate a dialysis centre, are being stymied by officials of the Mayor and City Council. President of the CIOG, Fazeel Ferouz, said that after months of the royal run around by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to [...]
Dem boys seh…Rob-bert and Khurshid grumbling
Whenever de rain fall Rob-bert does happy. Is only then he does get a chance to walk about and pretend that he wukking. Is only then he does get a chance to peep at dem pump like if he know wha going on and then he watch dem drain how de water flowing and then [...]
Toddler undergoes surgery, slowly recovering
Three-year-old toddler, Amanda Sankar, is slowly recovering from a surgery she underwent to repair a fractured skull which she sustained as a result of a fall from the upper flat of her parents’ two-storey house at 23 David Rose Housing Scheme, Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara on Wednesday. Due to the fall Sankar suffered a [...]
Hundreds attend Lions Club Career Fair
A few hundred students turned up at the Girl Guides Association building yesterday to participate in the Lions Club of D’Urban Park’s annual ‘Career Fair”. This career fair is held annually to offer guidance and to provide information to students in secondary schools. This year’s Project Co-ordinator for the Lions Club of D’Urban Park, Jocelyn [...]
Beware of house lot scam artists – Police Force
- Four persons lodge reports for this year Members of the public are being advised to be aware of scam artists that pretend to be in a position to sell properties while using a false identity to pose as the owner in a bid to defraud potential buyers, according to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) [...]
Georgetown Chamber calls for more fire prevention
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry in light of the recent spate of fires both in the urban and the rural areas, has come out in condemnation and is urging stakeholders to adhere to the relevant fire safety regulations. The Chamber said that it has been working closely with the Fire Advisory Board (FAB) [...]
Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst OJ U-15 League kicks off today
The inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 League for City teams is expected to finally get off the mark today at the Georgetown Football Club Ground with four matches. The action which was to have started two weeks ago had to be put on hold due to excessive rainfall which affected other disciplines including [...]
Morgan and Barker powers to gold on day one
Randolph Morgan of Body Max Gym copped gold in the 82.5kg / 83.0kg weight class while the lone female on the team Dawn Barker of Upper Demerara Barbel Club claimed gold in the 90.0kg / 84.0+kg category. Barker who became the first and only female to squat over 400lbs achieved 501lbs yesterday in the Cayman [...]
Essequibo employer beats worker with cutlass
Oma Persaud, a poor housewife, of La’Resource Village, Essequibo Coast, is pleading with the relevant authorities for some sort of justice after her husband was beaten severely by his employer. The distraught woman related her story to this newspaper. According to Mrs. Persaud, she said her husband, 54-year-old Sohan Persaud, a labourer, sustained severe injuries [...]
South Ruimveldt Primary student wins local Kiddy Cricket Mascot Competition
South Ruimveldt Primary School student, eight-year-old, Runako Williams was yesterday presented with his prize after winning the local Kiddy Cricket Mascot presentation, beating out 144 entries from 17 schools around the country. Williams won a Nintendo DS while 11-year-old Kayshav Tewari of Valmiki Vidyalaya Primary School placed second to win himself a MP3 Player. South [...]
Bad road restricts visit to Linden Hospital
The road outside the state of the art Linden Hospital Complex is in such a deplorable condition at present, that several residents of the mining town are of the view that it would not be long before long boots become a prerequisite for anyone wishing to enter the compound. And the current rainy weather has [...]
Homeowners $30,000 lands habitual thief in trouble
Safaraj Azeez 30, found himself before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of break and enter. On March 21, last, in Georgetown the defendant allegedly broke into the dwelling house of Nazeem Ishmael and made good his escape with $30,000. The unrepresented Azeez pleaded guilty. The [...]
Scholarship in honour of eminent Berbician
The Leartis V.R Patterson Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of an eminent Berbician and past educator formerly of Nurney, Corentyne, was established by another profound Berbician scholar, Dr. Randolph Estwick M.S.C., M.D, FACP. For the second year, the fund is offering a scholarship to a Berbician pursuing a programme in Education for the 2010-2011 Academic [...]
The Jeffrey syndrome
In 1992, Dr. Henry Jeffrey became a Minister in the PPP Government. He held senior portfolios in that regime for seventeen years. I remind readers that seventeen by world standards is a long time for a Minister of government. After a disagreement with his President over the EPA between Caricom and the European Union, Mr. [...]
GFF hosts Women’s trials
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will be holding trials for the female team (Local Lady Jags) today and tomorrow at the GFC Ground commencing at 15:00hrs and 07:00hrs respectively. According to a GFF release, the trials will be used to select a team to travel to Suriname from Thursday April 21 – 26 to engage the [...]
Giftland Office Max & Interline Fitness Gym donate
Giftland Office Max and Interline Fitness Gym have both made contributions to the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) ahead of their annual Novice and Intermediate Championships set for the National Cultural Centre tomorrow evening. Giftland Office Max Marketing Manager Compton Bobb handed over a cheque to federation President Fiona Harris which covers [...]
GPHC reports success with Emergency Medicine residency programme
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is reporting a successful emergency medicine residency programme. Under the programme, teaching staff of Vanderbilt University train local doctors in emergency medicine over a three-year period. The programme outline is approved by the University of Guyana and upon completion of the programme, the doctors gain a Masters in Emergency [...]
Guyana ink deal to reopen Manganese mining at Matthews Ridge
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh, who is the new Chairman for the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, and Executive Chairman of Reunion Manganese Incorporated, David Fennel, on Thursday evening, signed a mining agreement geared to reopening manganese mining at Matthews Ridge. The 25-year agreement for the mining operation is deemed to [...]
KLM Basketball Extravaganza
More than just a game for Ravens – Coach Tonight, basketball fans and players will converge at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Basketball Extravaganza, where Ravens will take on a Georgetown All-Star and the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Elite squad is down to face the Ravens Junior squad. The inaugural [...]
State Prosecutors, Police Prosecutors undergo specialised training
State Prosecutors from the Chambers of the Directors of Public Prosecutions and senior investigating ranks as well as Police Prosecutors from the Guyana Police Force are ending a two-day training workshop being held at the Regency Hotel, today. The training is under the sponsorship of the Modernization of the Justice Administration System project (MJAS). This [...]
Excitement grows as battle for semi-final spots heigthens
Football fans, relieved that the rains have abated, are expected to turn out in their droves when the excitement continues in the Mayor’s Cup football extravaganza tomorrow evening with an exciting double header. Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United would go head to head with Santos FC in the supporting match to Pele FC and Rhythm Squad [...]
