Breaking News!!! Another woman killed
Within less than 24 hours yet another gruesome murder has been recorded, this time at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. Around 09:00 hours today 38 year-old Susilla Latchman, called ‘Devika’ of Lot 48 Garden of Eden was brutally chopped to death by her husband, 45 year-old Satichitanand Latchan. After chopping his wife, the man [...]
Doctor’s wife found dead in pool of blood
- head bashed in The wife of prominent physician, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, was found bludgeoned to death at around 16:30 hrs yesterday in the bottom flat of the couple’s Echilibar Villas, Campbellville home. Police said that the body of 58-year-old Sharanie Doobay, was lying in a pool of blood near the kitchen of the two-storey [...]
Sleeping children perish in blaze
Two small children left at home alone perished at around 06:15 hrs yesterday in a fire that destroyed their family’s shack at Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. Julius De Clou, six, and his four-year-old brother, Josiah, were reportedly asleep when the blaze – which is believed to have been caused by a lighted kerosene [...]
GuySuCo details US$12.5M expenditure on packaging plant
- invites KN, Chris Ram to conduct audit A Kaieteur News report which questioned the cost of the recently-commissioned US$12.5M sugar packaging plant at Enmore has come under attack from the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the government. Both the Ministry of Agriculture and GuySuCo issued separate statements, with Minister Robert Persaud inviting Kaieteur [...]
REO refutes claim that toilet cost $11.7M
- says money also spent on other projects Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Eight, Ishwar Dass, yesterday refuted the claim that the toilet which was on the front page of the KN edition dated May 15, 2011 and read that the facility was established at a cost of $11.7M, stating that the money did [...]
American gets four years for cocaine trafficking
A 29-year-old American citizen was yesterday jailed for four years and fined $30,000 by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Kerwin Dimmott, of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, had attempted to smuggle 2.14 kilogrammes of cocaine to his homeland on Sunday, last. He was [...]
Boy, 13, breaks neck while performing wrestling stunt
A 13-year-old student of Lower Corentyne Secondary School plunged to his death from a balcony after trying to imitate professional wrestlers on television. Cranston Bennett, of Liverpool Village, Corentyne, and his cousin were playing at home last Friday when the two became involved in mimicking wrestling moves from their favourite wrestlers. According to the boy’s [...]
Nurse charged, fined for disorderly behaviour
Nurse Midwife Elizabeth Austin, 37, of Lot 1 Sandvoort Village, West Canje, Berbice, was on Monday fined $10,000 or an alternative of 20 days imprisonment by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when she appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, and pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly behaviour. Austin was also charged with threatening behaviour to [...]
$688M being spent on 1,300m of sea defence
A total of $688M is being spent to construct 1,300 metres sea defence infrastructure in Leguan, Region Three as well as Brahn and Abary in Region Five, says Geoffrey Vaughn, Chief River and Sea Defence Officer of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications. Vaughn noted that the contractor, M&B Company, is currently executing rip-rap [...]
Rehman, Ajmal spin Pakistan to 196-run win as two-Test series ends 1-all
By Sean Devers in St Kitts In association with Digicel, Queensway & Leisure Inn In the sunshine of St Kitts the Pakistan spinners made merry on a last day pitch offering prodigious turn to level the two-Test Digicel series with an emphatic 196-run win against the West Indies 17 minutes before Lunch yesterday. Set a [...]
Alpha face Puerto Rico, Defence Force play Tempete FC today at Stadium
By Franklin Wilson All roads this evening leads to the Guyana national Stadium, Providence for what is anticipated to be two exciting semifinal games in the Caribbean Football Union Club Champions Cup. It is the biggest club tournament ever to be hosted on local shores featuring the top four club sides in the Caribbean. Home [...]
YBG launches NSBF extended version
- conferences established across Guyana With Digicel Guyana, Banks DIH Limited and the National Sport Commission affirming their support once again this year, Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) has been able to transform the National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF) into a mega-national event. The tournament was officially launched yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and [...]
Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira reigns supreme at Dover
Guyana’s Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira was in outstanding form as he raced to two first places and a second at the first leg of the Caribbean Motor racing Championship which was held on Monday at Dover Raceway in Jamaica. Vieira, who had expressed confidence ahead of the Championship, was in dominant mood as he gained [...]
Courts provide corporate funds for ‘The Rampage’
It will be 46 rounds of ‘don’t you dare miss it’ fistic fury when officials of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stage a boxing card dubbed ‘The Rampage’ this Saturday May 28 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH). Already, the corporate support is pouring in and less than twenty four hours after [...]
FIBA Level I Coaching Clinic jumps off
- Yassin urges coaches to spread knowledge Former National Basketball Association (NBA) Assistant Coach, Tom Newell officially bounced off his weeklong FIBA Level I Coaching Clinic yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with coaches from Linden, Georgetown, Berbice and Kwakwani participating. The event, which will see the participants gaining FIBA Level I coaching status [...]
Alpha officials attend CONCACAF Champions League conference
Alpha Football Club officials Steve Ninvalle and Gavin Brown attended the CONCACAF Champions League Conference in Miami on Monday and Tuesday of this week ahead of this week’s CFU tournament’s latter stage. The conference was aimed at bringing the teams involved in the Champions League and those on the verge of qualifying up to speed [...]
Masters’ Independence Football starts tomorrow
The 45th Anniversary Masters Football Tournament Independence Cup commences tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground where 12 teams will be launching their campaigns for cash prizes and trophies that are up for grabs. Participating teams include Linden, Masters Berbice, East Coast, GFC Pele, Huston All-Stars, Santos, Thomas United, Plaisance, Western Tigers, Brazilian Embassy [...]
COTED confab produces satisfactory results
Responding to calls for speedier action on matters related to Caricom integration, and for firm decisions on issues at hand, regional trade ministers ended their recent meeting with a number of agenda items being satisfactorily addressed. Caricom’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) convened its 32nd meeting last Thursday and Friday in Guyana at [...]
GuySuCo moves to compensate dead man’s family
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will be moving to compensate the family of factory worker, Jainarine ‘Derrick’ Singh, who died Monday after an explosion at the Enmore site. GuySuCo will also be covering the funeral expense of Singh, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, said yesterday. The official made the announcement hours after he visited the [...]
President’s/Jefford Track Classic has evolved
By Rawle Welch Just as they had promised during the staging of the inaugural President’s /Jefford Track Classic to make this year’s edition bigger and better, Organisers of the event held true to their word and what fans witnessed last Sunday was overwhelming evidence of the Meet’s evolution. The two principals tasked with organising the [...]
GT&T continues its support of Alika Morgan
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has continued its long-standing relationship with Alika Morgan, Guyana’s outstanding long-distance runner. It is an association that started when the athlete was just 16 years old. She is coached and groomed by Mr. Leslie and Mrs. Avril Blacks. At a simple handing over ceremony that took place at [...]
GT&T, ACDA team up to launch outstanding Afro-Guyanese competition
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has teamed up with the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) to highlight outstanding Guyanese of African descent. During the next 10 weeks, leading up to Emancipation Day on August 1, the telephone company will be giving away cash prizes. On Monday, GT&T’s Chief Executive Officer, Yog Mahadeo, [...]
Concentration lapses almost cost us, lots of work to do – Hercules
Head Coach of the ‘Golden Jaguars’ Collie Hercules was not too happy with the performance of his charges despite their two-game victory against Barbados in their two home games of a 4-game International Friendly series. Guyana won the second game 3-2 having to erase a 2-goal deficit at the Guyana National Stadium on Sunday evening. [...]
Fierce rivalry anticipated as GASP stages Independence Open competition
While the nation celebrates the 45th Independence Day in reverence, contemplating the strides made by this country during those years, top scrabble players would be vying for honours when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages the annual Independence Open competition, this Thursday at the Malteenoes Sports Club Pavilion. Whereas before, choosing a winner [...]
Region’s ICT officials meet in Grenada
Officials with responsibility for information and communication technology yesterday began a two-day meeting in Grenada to tackle a comprehensive agenda in preparation for a ministerial meeting on Friday. This meeting of officials of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) is preliminary to the Friday forum at which they will gather with Caricom Trade [...]
