High global gold prices force OMAI mines to reopen
… Canadian company acquires prospecting rights In a release from the Mahdia Gold Corp on Monday last, the Canadian company revealed that they have been “awarded the world class Omai goldmine by the Guyana Government.” The release states that “Mahdia Gold Corporation has officially acquired the renowned Omai gold property”. The release added that the [...]
Olive Ridley turtle returned to sea after intense treatment -prognosis very dim
The Olive Ridley sea turtle that was rescued by a speedboat operator in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market at the mooring point for vessels mid-May month was yesterday returned to its natural environment in the Atlantic Ocean. The turtle when found, was thought to have had a hook in its mouth. This was not [...]
Doctor’s slain wife cremated
Yesterday following a private viewing and ceremony according to Hindu rites, and a public viewing and tribute at a relative’s home in Prashad Nagar, Shewraney Doobay was cremated. Some time after 8:00 hours yesterday, the woman’s body arrived at her Echilibar Villas home, where a handful of relatives gathered inside of the house for a [...]
Kingston fire victims resist eviction
…block site clearing equipment Morris Sookhoo, the man claiming ownership of the destroyed Barrack and High Streets property, and the remaining residents, yesterday morning got into a fierce showdown after the man attempted to clear out the property. A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the building on Easter Monday, leaving approximately 70 persons including [...]
Leading artist and anthropologist George Simon, A.A. is a ‘Special Person’
“My work is now concentrated on drawing attention to the indigenous people and how they have lived with the environment in mind. I hope this will lead to a general acceptance that man is related to the environment; that the environment is not just bland, but is full of life and has deep meaning.” By [...]
Dem boys seh…Bar-Rat eat wid a Congo man
Dem got a folk song “Me nah dead and dem ah pick me bones”. De police force ban de song. De choir use to sing it when dem had concert but since Henry de Yellow get sick and dem boys line up to tek de wuk he get vex. De man come off he sick [...]
Building your home? Tiling, PVC ceilings and ‘International Building Expo Two’
This week has been an eventful one in many ways as far as housing is concerned. On Friday, last, the government launched its second ‘International Building Expo’ at the National Stadium. If we are to judge from last year’s success what this year should be like, then it will be the show of the year [...]
Company says GM not guilty of racism, threatening behaviour
RUSAL’s ‘spade beating’ allegations… A special team appointed by RUSAL headquarters in Russia to probe allegations that a General Manager used a spade to threaten workers at the Aroaima site on May 8, has cleared him. According to a release from RUSAL and its local subsidiary, Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), Ruslan Volokhov, on [...]
Robbery accused pleads guilty
Girlfriend, deportee and other man placed on bail Robbery accused Leroy Moore, 22, of Rose Hall Town who was recently nabbed with stolen booty taken from the Highest Grade Boutique and Wash Bay pleaded guilty to the charge of Break and Enter and Larceny when he appeared at the Albion Magistrate court on Friday. Magistrate [...]
Guyanese nabbed at CJIA with cocaine in shoes
A Guyanese woman is currently in custody assisting with investigations following the discovery of cocaine on her person while attempting to board a flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. Reports are that around 03:15 hours yesterday ranks from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit intercepted the woman while she was about to board a [...]
Magistrates should conduct voir dire
- Bar Association review 2011 By Rabindra Rooplall With all the arguments being advanced about the relevance of Magistrates conducting voir dire (trial within a trial), an article in the most recent bar association review states that a Magistrate should hold an inquiry to determine the admissibility of certain confessions during a high profile Preliminary [...]
30, 000 OLPF applications received, more to be received
An estimated 30,000 families have applied for laptops under the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh, said Friday, and announced that applications would be reopened with the decision to seek new bids for the supply of the laptops. The government has decided not to accept any of the original [...]
Bar Association launches New Guyana Bar Review 2011
The local Bar Association launched the fourth edition of the New Guyana Bar review at the Georgetown Club Friday. The launch attracted Chief Justice Ian Chang, former presidents of the Bar Association Kashir Khan and Teni Housty, along with present president of the association Timothy Jonas. There were also other members of the Guyana Bar [...]
Calls for the Media Monitoring Unit to be resuscitated
- GECOM Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), on Thursday appealed to members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to call for the resuscitation of the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU), which was disbanded for no known reason. According to the GECOM Chairman, since the establishment of the MMU there was no [...]
CDB helps 25 Guyanese contractors be more competitive
Some 25 small contractors graduated from a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) coordinated Computerised Job Estimation Tool Workshop on Friday, and Guyana joined seven other CDB borrowing member countries in hosting this course. This four-day training exercise taught these contractors how to utilise computer software programmes to accurately work out estimates for contracts on infrastructural projects [...]
From the Diaspora…IS POWER SHARING A SOLUTION TO RACIAL UNITY?
By Ralph Seeram With general elections coming up in a few months there is much talk of “shared governance” coming from certain quarters. Foremost leading this charge is David Hinds. A few writers have jumped into the fray, offering their take on the subject, leaving me confused as to what is the real purpose of [...]
FOUR IN LINE TO SUCCEED HENRY GREENE
Police Commissioner Henry Greene is back on the job after overcoming medical complications. But it is anyone’s guess how long Greene will remain in the position. There is a lot of speculation as to who his successor will be, especially since no Deputy Commissioner of police has been appointed within recent times. The last to [...]
Man killed on Vryheid’s Lust Public Road
A route 44 minibus driver is currently in police custody following the death of a 67-year-old man who was struck down on the Vryheid’s Lust Public Road. Around 22:30 hours on Friday, 67-year-old Partab Surujdin was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The man had already crossed the road with his bicycle [...]
Guyana-born financier in US$3B offer to bail CLICO
Trinidad and Tobago (TTnewsday)- Questions are being raised about the authenticity of a US$3B proposal from a Guyana-born, Hong Kong-based financier to help solve the problems at CLICO, according to CL Financial Group chairman, Gerald Yetming. CL Financial is the parent conglomerate of CLICO. Speaking with reporters at CL Financial’s offices in Maraval on Friday, [...]
Jagdeo named roving ambassador for forest basins
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) – Leaders from the world’s three largest forest basins said they would work together to tackle deforestation, on the final day of a weeklong conference, in Brazzaville. Heads of state and ministers from countries in the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong basins signed a declaration recognising the need to protect their forests in the [...]
Did we miss an opportunity to alter the existing scenario in sport?
By Rawle Welch The brag that has emanated from various quarters about the progress sport has made in Guyana and it being the vehicle for social and economic transformation among our youths has to be viewed as mere talk and nothing else when one considers the seriousness in which other countries within the Caribbean are [...]
Donald Trotman’s poetry collection to be launched Thursday
The National Gallery of Art will be launching a new book of poetry, ‘Forest Leaves’, by Donald Trotman, at Castellani House, its Vlissengen Road, Georgetown premises this Thursday. Subtitled ‘an Autobiographical Collection of Poems’, it includes the poet’s earliest writings of 1948 to his most recent in 2011. The author describes them as expressing ‘for [...]
Grass Root Football Academy founder pleased with progress
Hopes to hold another Pee Wee tourney this year By Sean Devers According to President and organiser of the Kingston Grassroots Soccer Academy (KGSA), United States based Guyanese Junior Forrester, the intention of the local ‘Football school’ is to provide the opportunity for talented young Footballers who might otherwise fall through the cracks before they [...]
New media, technologies pave way for the future of HIV prevention
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Stellenbosch University have brought together technology leaders, AIDS activists, social media experts and young people to discuss how social media and mobile technologies can be leveraged for HIV prevention. The event, which is taking place at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, is being held to [...]
West Indies v India – “Youth is not always wasted on the young”
Colin E. H. Croft If you live in Trinidad & Tobago, this weekend could be sweet sorrow, even if there is an unlikely West Indies sweep; winning all games scheduled for Queen’s Park Oval. That should, at least, up the spirits! The let-down would come as one realizes, and accepts, that Sachin Tendulkar and Chris [...]
