Mob attacks police at Windsor Forest
* four civilians shot, three cops injured * vehicles damaged, 17 detained By Michael Jordan At least four civilians, including a US-based Guyanese were shot last night and three police ranks injured after a mob of over 100 clashed with ranks at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara. Divisional Commander Balram Persaud told Kaieteur News today [...]
Guyanese held in Suriname drug bust
The Surinamese police intercepted more than 21 kilograms of cocaine on Sunday and of the five suspects arrested one is a Guyanese. The authorities seized 20 packs with a gross weight of 21.280 kg of cocaine and four vehicles. The action was carried out by the drug units of the Judicial Service of the Police [...]
Local banks closer to introducing single debit card terminal
Guyana’s move to reduce cash transactions is expected to clear a major hurdle within the next three months as local banks fast-track the introduction of a system to allow debits cards to use a single terminal. Chairman of the Guyana Association of Bankers, John Tracey, in an exclusive interview with Kaieteur News last week, also [...]
Guyanese to head Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute
Jimmy Smith has been appointed the new director general designate of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya. ILRI board chair Knut Hove made the announcement at the 35th meeting of the ILRI Board of Trustees, recently, to an afternoon gathering of ILRI staff, management and board. In his announcement, Hove said, ‘We [...]
CPCE student crowned Miss Bartica Regatta 2011
Last year she was a part of the audience and watched on as her younger sister, Annece Hicks, was crowned the Miss Regatta Queen 2010. This year 19-year-old Ava Hicks, a teacher in training at the Cyril Potter College of Education, was crowned Miss Bartica Regatta Queen 2011 by her sister. The first runner-up position [...]
Dem boys seh… Is de Easter giveaway
Everybody got dem own interest. Dem boys read how a judge in California uphold a decision that gay people got de right to marry. All dem gay celebrate till somebody find out that de judge heself gay. That is wha dem boys call self interest but wha de people claim is dishonesty. Now dem appealing [...]
Reporter fights off bandit
A bandit got more than he bargained for yesterday afternoon after he pounced on a Kaieteur News reporter yesterday afternoon. Some time after 17:00 hours Rabindra Rooplall was walking along High Street when he was attacked by a man who dealt him a blow to his head and proceeded to rob him. However thinking that [...]
Orlando Thom could face two indictable charges this week
Former national swimming champion turned gunman, Onan Orlando Thom, is likely to appear in court early this week on indictable charges that include abduction. Police have indicated that they are seeking further advice from the Director of Public Prosecution on the way forward with charges against the once most wanted man from the mining town [...]
Cane cutter succumbs, lover discharged from ICU
Sheniza Mangru, 23, of East Canefield East Canje, Berbice was on Sunday morning discharged from the Intensive Care Unit of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after being admitted with twelve stabs wounds about her body. The wounds were inflicted by her former lover who has since committed suicide. The deceased, Parbu Rattan, 29, resided at [...]
Development in Caribbean countries aimed at Millennium Development Goals
By Rabindra Rooplall The demographic profile of the Region is changing with the decline in both mortality and birth rates. According to United Nations (UN) estimates, by 2050, over 30 percent of the regional population will be over 60 years old, and if appropriate measures are not taken, population ageing will pose serious challenges to [...]
Takutu drilling fails to find commercial oil deposits
- Groundstar eyes another well Guyana’s hope to find oil in the Region Nine area has been dashed, at least for a while, with the a Canadian drilling company not achieving commercial success at the Apoteri K-2 Exploration Well, Takutu Basin. Groundstar Resources Limited said that it will be abandoning the well over the course [...]
Easter – the time of reawakening
By Rev Cornell Moss Throughout the biblical tradition, those called by God to proclaim His message, addressed their hearers exactly where they were. In the prophetic narrative, the prophets and seers used imageries unique to their context to proclaim ‘Thus says the Lord.’ Indeed the most powerful demonstration of contextualization is the Incarnation. In his [...]
Easter, the mother of all Christian festivals
Easter Sunday is the chief of all Christian festivals. It is the resurrection of Jesus Christ that brought Christianity to life. Easter is the greatest feast on the Christian calendar. It comes forty days after Lent would have begun and continues for fifty days, nearly two months! That is how much time is put to [...]
UG gets CDB grant
Last month the Caribbean Development Bank approved a grant to Guyana equivalent to US$250,000 for the technical assistance funding for the University of Guyana (UG). The Bank disclosed that the overall objective of this technical assistance project is to enhance UG’s capacity to carry out its day-to-day operations, and to enhance its capacity to effectively [...]
Teen forges exams certificate as Ministry steps up truancy campaign
With the rate of unemployment among early school leavers skyrocketing, many opt to indulge in illegal activities. For them the hope of finding a decent job becomes more and more dim. Just last week, a 19-year-old who was desperately in need of employment, supposedly decided to forge a Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) certificate purporting to [...]
Prince Charming is new star of the track with another thumping win
By Samuel Whyte Prince Charming owned by the P and P Syndicate and running out of the Colin Elcock Stable showed that its recent victories in the horseracing circle was no fluke and that it is the horse to beat when it scored another thumping victory to take the feature event when the Port Mourant [...]
Ezra Sue-Ho becomes first Macorp Open Men’s Singles winner
Ezra Sue-Ho etched his name in history as the first Macorp Open Men’s Singles winner as he outplayed number one seed Jeremy Miller to claim the title in front of a good crowd at the Pegasus Courts on Saturday evening last. Sue- Ho had a dream match as he repeatedly crunched forehand winners against Miller [...]
Wendell Meusa wins CCI Chess Tournament
- Suhai Feng is top Junior Wendell Meusa played unbeaten to win the first Caribbean Container Incorporated Chess Tournament based on the Progress tiebreaker system. Meusa secure five wins with two draws coming against National Champion Taffin Khan and Peirre Boucher. Boucher also secured five wins and two draws against Meusa and Shiv Nandalall to [...]
Moen Gafoor prevails as GASP stages Insurance Brokers Lien tourney
Moen Gafoor retained a rich vein of form to register 5 points and a positive spread of 459 to inscribe his name on the Insurance Brokers Lien trophy when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged that tournament the Malteenoes Sports Club, Thomas lands, Sunday afternoon last. Orlando Michael returned to the podium with [...]
Dave Young, Randy, Sean & Orin Belle are category champions
By Franklin Wilson in Bartica While the crowd was not as large as expected on a sunny and windy Easter Monday at the Golden Beach Circuit, Bartica, the 36th Annual Bartica Easter Regatta ended yesterday with many expressing happiness despite not attracting a mammoth crowd. Smiling broadly for sure were the respective category winners whose [...]
Kaieteur News reporter on Regional Radio team
Will broadcast remainder of the Pakistan series Kaieteur News’ Journalist Sean Devers has been selected on the Andrew Mason-led Line and Length Regional Radio broadcast team for the remainder of the Digicel home series between West Indies and Pakistan. Devers will be a part of the ball-by-ball commentary team describing the action in the 3rd [...]
Brathwaite, Alleyne hit tons for Windies in U-19 Test against Aussies
Centuries from Kraigg Brathwaite and Anthony Alleyne gave West Indies Under-19s a 76-run first-innings lead in their three-day match against Australia Under-19s in Dubai. With only a day to play, a draw is the most likely result, especially since Australia knocked 54 runs off the lead at the end of the day, but West Indies [...]
GCA U-15 cricket continues from tomorrow
The Brainstreet Under-15 Cricket Competition organized by the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) continues this week at various venues in the City. Five matches are scheduled for tomorrow while five more matches will be played on Thursday and Friday. The matches fixed for tomorrow are:- G.C.C vs G.Y.O at G.N.I.C Everest C.C vs DCC ‘B’ at [...]
What public mischief is Rohee talking about?
Dear Editor, I respond to Kaieteur News article, dated 21st April 2011 in connection with the refugee case in Canada. Clement Rohee is attacking me unjustly. I never made any allegations against him, the police or anyone to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. All I did was to represent my client based on [...]
Neither the PPP nor the PNC succeeded in improving people’s lives
Dear Editor, Having read the latest of Cheddi Jagan Jnr.’s increasingly frequent contributions to your letter columns (published Friday 22nd April), I was reminded of Ronald Regan’s simple rebuttal to a lengthy criticism from Walter Mondale back in 1984. He smiled, shrugged his shoulders and quipped, “He’s at it again”. Indeed Mr. Jagan has been [...]
