Businessman shoots masked bandit in yard
After being roused by barking dogs, Sufyan Mohammed, 36, a businessman of 25 Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara was confronted by a masked knife-wielding thief in his yard. He subsequently shot the thief in the left side shoulder. This happened during the wee hours of yesterday. The thief was identified as Raymond Mohamed, 36, of 19 [...]
Bartica-Puruni road a death trap for vehicles
…MMC commences repair works Mekdeci Machinery and Construction (MMC) yesterday began fixing impassable roads between Bartica and Puruni , even as miners and business persons complain of heavy losses and damage to their vehicles. The miners and business persons are also complaining that Mekdeci charges them for using the ferry even when they are not [...]
Masked gunmen ‘clean out’ Corentyne supermarket
Three armed bandits on Sunday night almost cleaned out a Clifton Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice supermarket after cutting through the roof in one of the county’s major heists so far this year. The men had earlier tied up watchman, Patrick Gomes, to ensure that their operation was unhindered. Kaieteur News understands that the supermarket is owned [...]
Regional Executive Officer to pay cost
… Dismissed Overseer saga The Region Six Democratic Council and its Regional Executive Officer, Badase Poonai, have so far failed to respond to court proceedings instituted in the Berbice High Court by dismissed overseer of the Ordnance Fortlands No38 Neighbourhood Democratic Council, Godfrey Evans. They were ordered to pay $10,000 cost when the matter came [...]
Teen disappears after leaving school
Sixteen-year-old Dawn Stanton has been missing since Saturday and relatives are appealing for information about her whereabouts. Stanton, also known as ‘Tafo’, lives with her grandparents at Sand Road, Soesdyke. She disappeared shortly after leaving classes at the Dookie Private School. According to a relative, some of the teen’s friends said that she left school [...]
Key EPA committee meeting scheduled for June
The First Meeting of the CARIFORUM-EU Trade and Development Committee will be convened on June 9, next, in Barbados. This was revealed by the Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and Head of the EPA Implementation Unit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Branford Isaacs. Isaacs is [...]
Health sector boosted with I-TECH training – Dr Ramsaran
Professionals within the public health sector are better poised to serve patients having been exposed to training offered by the International Training and Education Centre for Health, Guyana (I-TECH). I-TECH, on Friday, brought the curtains down on its programme which saw several young professionals gaining needed training and measures being put in place to enhance [...]
Woman returns to court for killing lesbian lover
Tiffany Clarke, 19, the teen accused of killing her lesbian lover last month, was yesterday further remanded to prison after she made her second court appearance before Magistrate Priya Beharry. Clarke, of 97 Hadfield Street, is accused of killing Senobia Haynes on February 26 at Robb Street. Clad in blue denim skirt and white jersey, [...]
Good Hope ferry operational but trucks at a disadvantage
Despite, the new Good-Hope ferry stelling being put into operation recently, truck owners are dissatisfied with the new arrangements under which they are currently consigned to operate. Frustrated trucks owners strongly argue that in their operation as trucker drivers, their toll loads have been reduced by half, from 16 tons, to nine tons for cargo. [...]
Police preparing report on Pakaraimas shooting death
- team returns from area Police are to prepare a report about their findings into February’s shooting death of Samson Jacob Aaron at Kurukubaru, Pakaraimas. Commander of E and F Division, Assistant Police Commissioner David Ramnarine, said that the team which had visited the area to conduct further investigations has returned. According to Commander Ramnarine, [...]
CANU intercepts 11kg coke in mailbag at CJIA
Agents from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit— CANU— have launched an intense probe into the discovery of 11 kilograms of cocaine in a mailbag at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. The drug was intercepted on Saturday around 13:30 hours. Reports reaching this newspaper indicated that a CANU Officer, who is attached to the C.J.I.A, [...]
Police nab drug smugglers at backtrack crossing
As police continue their battle against the drug traders who are using the backtrack route to Suriname, four more persons were held on Saturday after two were nabbed on Wednesday. According to information, around 15:00hrs that day, the police acting on information swooped down on one of the popular back track crossings at No 78 [...]
Surinamese among two remanded on drug charge
Two men, one of them a Surinamese national, were on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Krisendat Persaud when they appeared before him at the Springlands Magistrate’s court on the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. The men Errol Bristol, 39, of 44 Savannah Park Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, and Dennis [...]
Suspect held in Arangoy murder
Following intensive investigations, police have detained a suspect in last Friday night’s stabbing death of a man in the Arangoy, Cuyuni River mining district, Region Seven. The dead man has been identified as Dexter Small, called ‘Tall Man, of Belladrum, West Coast Berbice. Police confirmed that he was involved in an argument with the suspect [...]
Classical presentation envisaged as ‘Oldies are Goldies’ returns
They say time flies when one is enjoying himself and though it’s merely 12 months ago, it seems an eternity since Hector Stoute last staged ‘Oldies are Goldies,’ a show where Guyana’s best singers and entertainers extol themselves, providing high class entertainment for lovers of this genre of music. Yes, it’s here once again and [...]
Missing deaf and dumb man located in Suriname
Relatives of a deaf/mute who had gone missing have reported that he has since been found, thanks to information published in Kaieteur News. Paul Wilson, of 48 Plantain Walk, Triumph, East Coast Demerara went missing two weeks ago. After a report was carried in Kaieteur News Sunday, a man who recalled seeing Wilson on the [...]
Dylan Fields wins recorded shoot at Timehri
National Fullbore vice captain Dylan Fields won Sunday’s Recorded Shoot at the Timehri Rifle ranges dropping only two points out of a possible 105 points in sunny conditions with winds at times gusting and varying in speed directions. Fields recorded 103 points with six V-bulls with scores of 34.0 at 300 yards, a possible 35.4 [...]
GTM, Hand- in- Hand ensures that GMR&SC OK
The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) continues to enjoy the generosity of corporate Guyana when two more entities came on board recently to add their support to the fraternity. The latest companies to do so were Guyana & Trinidad Mutual (GTM) and Hand in Hand Insurance Co. that presented cheques for undisclosed sums [...]
Ryan Crawford Memorial horserace meet pushed back
The inclement weather has forced the organisers of the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities (RCMTC&SF) one day horserace meet to push back the activity by one week. According to information from the club, although the venue and the track which is considered one of the best in the country was ready for [...]
Kevin Edwards and Kerwin Clarke capture overall titles
By Franklin Wilson Kevin Edwards of Winderoju Gym, Berbice and Kerwin Clarke captured the respective Intermediate and Novice overall crowns when the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation held their first competition for the year 2011 on Sunday Night at the National Cultural Centre. Despite not having a packed audience and a few glitches with [...]
Cocaine and fascism in Guyana
The Americans’ attitude to the Guyana Government continues to be perplexing, strange and bizarre. In all countries in the world today, there is a paper trail in the bureaucracy. As far back as the 1930s, Nazi Germany kept a meticulous bureaucratic system. On the battle front, a soldier had to sign three sets of paper [...]
Dr. Henry Jeffrey responds to Freddie Kissoon
Dear Editor, When a person who writes an article every day refers to one who writes a letter about every three weeks as writing “at a frenetic pace,” there must be something very wrong with his grasp of reality (Freddie Kissoon’s: “The Jeffrey syndrome:” KN:26/03/11). This simple statement exemplifies a distorted mindset that becomes even [...]
Mr. Corbin should remove himself from the political scene
Dear Editor, This is an open letter to all PNCR members. It is time that you folks get together and tell Mr. Robert Corbin that it is time for him to disappear from the political scene. If he continues to keep himself in the spotlight, it will only prove detrimental to Mr. Granger’s chances of [...]
Jesus is watching!
A man decided to park his car in a yard, his yard. While he did not live there, he owned the property and therefore had the right to park his vehicle in the space available. Since he was not living there and therefore could not be around to have a steady eye on the car, [...]
Deceptions and more deceptions
Dear Editor, I am morally bound to respond to the deceptions pounded out in the letter by Prem Misir, “The test of Obama’s soft diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa.” Mr. Editor, his letter cannot go unanswered because of its many inconsistencies designed to deceive the largest section of Guyanese who are the [...]
