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Jamaicans held with guns, bike in C/Lodge
Police yesterday seized an unlicensed gun and arrested three Jamaicans during a raid on a Cummings Lodge building. They also seized a CBR motorcycle. According to the police, around 17:15hrs, police ranks searched the Cummings Lodge building and found an unlicensed .45 Glock pistol, along with eight matching rounds and seventeen .38 bullets. The police [...]
US$12.5M Enmore packaging plant commissioned
- Guyana will earn 35% more than raw sugar A state of the art sugar packaging plant at Enmore is expected to earn Guyana up to 35 per cent more on exports, officials say. Up until the Guyana Sugar Corporation commissioned the Enmore Packaging Plant, yesterday, packaging was done on a limited scale at Blairmont—8,000 [...]
Dr Randy Persaud begs judge for a chance
Dr. Randy Persaud pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after New York prosecutors agreed to drop two other charges. He appeared in court two Saturdays ago. Persaud is the key figure linked to the Office of the President in Guyana and is said to be involved in government’s propaganda work. He was arrested on April 29, [...]
10 percent of newborn deaths can be avoided – Dr Jagdeo
Five million babies die at birth every year worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation. The WHO statistics were amplified yesterday by Dr Joe Jagdeo who since yesterday has been engaged in delivering lecture sessions to nurses. These sessions are aimed at improving nursing care. The sessions which come as part of the observance of [...]
UNASUR to expedite visa waiver for travel in South America
…Jagdeo praises unity of bloc as new Secretary General appointed Members states of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) have agreed to expedite the need for visas to travel within the continent, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday as he appointed a new Secretary General to run the bloc’s affairs. Career journalist and former Foreign [...]
President Jagdeo trots out economic blueprint
… GuySuCo’s political interference charge Government yesterday insisted that it will continue to offer “political support” to keep key ailing sectors alive. President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday made the statements during the commissioning of a US$12.5M ($2.5B) sugar packaging at Enmore that overtime Guyana hopes will bring better price for the struggling industry. In a clear [...]
Dem boyse seh… Randy tun round he name, and tun heself too
Two police go under cover till dem hide from demself. Dem lef de office as undercover cops and dem was driving in Albouystown when a gunman shoot at a car right behind dem. Dem boys believe that police can always protect dem but this was one set who couldn’t even protect demself. When dem hear [...]
Tutorial High School Student commits suicide
Yet another teenage suicide has been recorded. The latest victim was a 15-year-old fourth form student of the Tutorial High School. Dead is Amrita Mangal of 28 Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD). She succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Saturday morning at 09:20 am, less than 24-hours after ingesting an unidentified poisonous [...]
Bandits continue to target holidaying visitors
- attack two in one day What can the police do to stop the growing incidence of robberies committed on overseas-based Guyanese who are returning for a brief holiday in their homeland? It is as if the criminals are always outsmarting the law enforcement operatives who are sworn to protect and serve. And many who [...]
Kidney foundation gets charitable support
The efforts of Guyana’s recently introduced Kidney Foundation is poised to receive immense support from the Guyana Burn and Health Care Charitable Foundation Inc. of Canada. According to President of the Foundation, Mr Harry Harakh, so far the Foundation has donated dialysis machines towards the cause. Additionally, the Foundation has brought expert trainers to Guyana [...]
Taxi driver’s relatives devastated by his death
- eight-year-old daughter now an orphan Calvin Kellman was probably enjoying a wonderful dream when he was aroused by the sounds of persons calling out his name loudly after 2am yesterday. To say that he was livid would be an understatement, since he could not think of a reason for the interruption, especially at that [...]
Ambassador Albert Ramdin hospitalized
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, has been admitted to hospital in Paramaribo, where he was attending a conference of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD). Suriname’s Star News reported that Ramdin could have suffered an infection to the pancreas. His situation was listed as stable. [...]
Granger to meet country’s business leaders
- to outline PNCR plans Presidential Candidate of the People’s National Congress/Reform, Brigadier (rtd), David Granger, is to make his case tomorrow before top leaders of the business community. According to the host, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Brig. Granger is the second of a three-part discourse with the three Presidential Candidates. The [...]
Man shot in Albouystown after altercation
Gunshots rang at the corner of James and Hunter Streets, Albouystown yesterday after a lone gunman shot Neshak Bazilio in the chest and escaped. The injured Bazilio was rushed to Woodlands Hospital where he was admitted. According to reports, Neshak Bazilio, who was travelling in Toyota Corolla HA, 7638 with his girlfriend, stopped in James [...]
Blind Awareness Month to accommodate ‘chain of canes’ around Public Buildings
May has been designated Blindness Awareness Month and the Guyana Society for the Blind and the Guyana Blind Cricket Association are collaborating to host a series of activities to celebrate the month. During the month the two organisations will be hosting a series of activities including, an outreach programme in Linden, a domino competition slated [...]
Claims and Objections exercise begins
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday commenced conducting the mandatory Claims and Objections exercise regarding entries on the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) for the upcoming general and regional elections. The exercise will conclude on June 12, next. The qualifying date for determining persons who would be 18 years or over, and therefore eligible to [...]
OLPF Public Interface Readies … Govt releases application forms
The One Laptop Per Family programme has entered the critical phase that will see the Project Unit aggressively interacting with the public, as the much anticipated application form is released. The Regional Democratic Councils and the general offices of the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Ten and Bartica, were [...]
Forty road deaths this far in 2011
As three more deaths recorded in 24 hours The Guyana Police Force Traffic Department has recorded 40 fatalities thus far for the year. Statistics also revealed that the number includes one child. This number is three more than for the corresponding period last year. However, two children had died during that period. And over the [...]
Driver was speeding
… Vryheid’s Lust four-vehicle crash Police have arrested a man who drove his vehicle in such a dangerous manner on Sunday night that he caused a four- vehicle smash up, which left 46-year old Thajram Singh dead. Singh was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was rushed minutes after the car hit [...]
Police Force fuel waste doesn’t add up
…$320M allocated, millions more than last year’s budget By Rabindra Rooplall With the escalation and fluctuation in fuel prices, it appears as if the Guyana Police Force (GPF) will be rapidly using up the $320M allocated for fuel and lubricants in this year’s 2011 budget. This amount has been the highest allocation for fuel and [...]
Driver to be charged with dangerous driving
… Sisters Village accident The driver involved in an accident that claimed the life of seven-year-old Althea Clement Sunday evening in Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, is to be charged this week with causing death by dangerous driving. According to reports, Frederick Clement, the dead girl’s father, was walking with his daughter in Sisters Village [...]
Griffith, Barrington hit fifties against Pakistan
By Sean Devers Former West Indies under-19 opener Trevon Griffith and his opening partner Shemroy Barrington both scored half-centuries for Guyana against Pakistan at Bourda yesterday on the final day of their two-day match, while Test left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul contributed a patient 44 in the drawn match. When rain ended the contest at 16:32hrs, Guyana [...]
Samuels smashes ‘double’ in Windies practice match
Marlon Samuels smashed a pugnacious double century as Brendon Nash’s team reached 395-8 in reply to Daren Sammy’s X1 310-5 declared when their two-day practice match ended at the DCC ground in Georgetown yesterday. The 30-year-old Samuels clobbered 26 fours and 12 sixes on the small ground in his 213 from 207 minutes and 164 [...]
Armed bandits attack Giddings pawnshop
Two armed bandits, on foot, robbed Giddings Payday pawn shop in Grove, East Bank Demerara of almost $100,000 in cash and a quantity of jewellery, yesterday. According to reports, at 9:15 hours two men, who were armed with handguns, entered the business establishment and stuck up the male supervisor who was the lone staff at [...]
