Breaking News!!! US$5M cocaine bust at Bartica
- Venezuelan, four locals in custody Police have detained a Venezuelan and four Guyanese after intercepting a vessel with an estimated 204 kilograms (450 pounds) of cocaine at Batavia, an island located eight and a half kilometres (51/2miles) up the Cuyuni River. The cocaine (estimated street value US$5million) was found stashed in four large plastic [...]
Woman perishes in New Amsterdam fire
A 52-year-old woman was burnt to death in her Lot 30 Stanleytown home last evening. The woman, Hazel Johnson, was the sole occupant of the home at the time. She and some other occupants had been renting the premises from someone who resides overseas. Reports suggest that Johnson was visually impaired. Her remains were found [...]
Slain Linden man’s body recovered in gully
- suspected killer at large; two in Police custody The body of the Linden man who is said to have been shot to death over an argument with his boss over stolen ganja seeds was recovered late yesterday. The decomposing body of 21-year-old Clifton Bonus, called Motty, was pulled from the backlands of Linden next [...]
Region 9 flooding… Authorities grapple with relief efforts to far-flung villages
- trucks stuck for days on Lethem trail The rains have held up in the flood-stricken Region Nine with attention now concentrating in moving critical food and other supplies to isolated villages. According to Nigel Dharamlall, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government, who is helping to coordinate relief works from a base in [...]
Cell phone photo exposes two youths with illegal gun
- suspects were about to rob Chinese restaurant A photograph stored in a cellular phone led police to recover a .22 revolver which was to be used by two youths to carry out a robbery in the Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. The two youths, aged 19 and 16, confessed to police that they [...]
Delinquent Prison Officer returned to Guyana
Orlando Jaundoo, the prison officer who escorted fugitive convicted businessman, Krishna Paul Doerga, 52, out of the New Amsterdam prison compound at Penitentiary Walk, New Amsterdam, is back home and is in custody. Jaundoo, who was serving a three-year sentence for fraud, left with the prisoner under the pretext of having him repair a sewing [...]
Dem boys seh… Henry planning fuh lie
God does wuk in mysterious ways. De last time dem had de flood, de government spent millions of dollars digging drains and when dem done dem tun round and cuss people fuh blocking up de same drains dem dig. Dem share out money to people who had water up to dem ankle and to this [...]
Army mum on ranks arrested in ammunition bust
The Guyana Defence Force remained tightlipped on the arrest of two of its ranks by police after they were found in possession of a quantity of 7.62×39 ammunition, which is used in the AK-47 and M-70 assault rifles. The two ranks, who are attached to the GDF Coastguard, were held along with a civilian on [...]
City businessman tied up and robbed at Subryanville home
City businessman, Ishwar Chand, was on Tuesday evening tied up, beaten and robbed by two armed men at his Subryanville home. Reports are that the two gunmen pounced on him around 20:00 hours while he was parking his vehicle in his yard. This publication was told that after the men attacked Chand they forced him [...]
Flood woes hit Kwakwani residents
Panic has hit Region Ten as a number of homes in Kwakwani and surrounding areas have now become flooded. Heavy rainfalls persist causing the overtopping of the Berbice River to occur at some points. Reports are that the “Lamp Island” area is very low and is badly flooded as the water continues to rise daily. [...]
Prisons, Fire Service promotions
Donald Collins headed the list of Prison promotions when the new appointments were released yesterday. He was promoted to Senior Superintendent. Four ranks were also promoted within the Guyana Fire Service. The appointments date back to January 1, 2011 As Senior Superintendent of Prison Donald Collins As Superintendent of Prison Clement Fiedtkou and Linden Cornette [...]
Georgetown Hospital to open dialysis center
By Latoya Giles With the aim of bringing better health care to Guyanese, Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has said that his Ministry, working with a Canadian Charity Group, is to set up a Dialysis Center at the Georgetown Public Hospital and another on East Coast Demerara. On Tuesday, the Minister explained that they [...]
AFC visits State Department again
AFC Presidential Candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, has once again paid a visit to the US Department of State (DOS); this time on issues surrounding the impending 2011 National Elections. In a statement delivered at the party headquarters yesterday, Dr. Shameer Ally, a member of the New York/New Jersey Chapter of the AFC, spoke of some of [...]
Six residents claim property fraud after eviction
Six persons are now homeless after being forcefully evicted yesterday from a property they had occupied for the past 45 years at lot 36, Public Road Kitty. Two of the occupants who were left in charge of the house as caretakers by the proprietor who died, are claiming that the persons behind the eviction have [...]
Gov’t commits ‘long haul’ relief for flooded Rupununi
The government yesterday committed to long-term relief for Region Nine residents, especially those in Amerindian villages who have seen some of their homes washed away and their means of making a living drowned by continuing rainfall of the magnitude last seen in the 1980s. “The expectation from the forecast is that the relief efforts will [...]
Granger says Govt response to Lethem crisis slipshod
…volunteers his service to ease flood woes Presidential Candidate for the People’s National Congress Reform, David Granger, accompanied by a team that included Dr George Norton, yesterday visited the flood- affected community of Lethem. Granger, at an emergency press conference at Congress Place, Sophia, said that he and his team carried relief supplies and emergency [...]
Suicides worry Charity
There is a reportedly alarming number of suicides in Essequibo. Police reported that the most recent incident involved a 27-year-old mother of two, Sherena Smith. Mrs. Smith, who took her life around 8:30pm on Tuesday, hours before committing suicide, had an argument with her husband, Greg Smith, 34. The argument stemmed from Greg asking Sherena [...]
‘Despite challenges, union remains sound, intact’
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has warned that despite its challenges and the double standards in the country’s labour system, its foundation remains sound and intact. The union made the assertions in a message to celebrate its 88th anniversary. GPSU maintained that the sound and stable labour relations form the basis for Guyanese economic [...]
Blackouts bombard Berbicians
Berbicians are once again reeling from the humbug of constant power blackouts. It all began last Wednesday when the region was plagued by power outages. There was an average of about nine blackouts, each lasting about 90 minutes in most of Region Six. When contacted last week, Regional Manager of Guyana Power and Light Inc. [...]
Food supplies still to reach Rupununi flood victims – AFC
The Alliance for Change has stated that despite media reports to the contrary, food supplies have yet to reach residents of the Rupununi who have been seriously affected by the flooding in the region. At a press briefing, yesterday, the political party cited its source as AFC Member of Parliament, David Patterson, who has apparently [...]
Guyanese-born NY lawyer gets 5 years for $23M scheme
New York- A New York real estate attorney who pleaded guilty to his role in a US$23 million mortgage fraud scheme was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to five years in prison and ordered to repay $4.7 million in restitution. Prosecutors said that Queens, N.Y., attorney Cheddi Goberdhan, made hundreds of thousands of dollars from [...]
Sandiford starts the war as pugilists sign respective contracts for ProAm affair
Ray Sandiford may be fighting in his second professional bout but from all indications he is quickly learning the intricacies of the trade. Yesterday afternoon, when the boxers convened for the signing ceremony in the offices of Abdool and Abdools Insurance Brokers, Sandiford ensured he sat just next to his opponent for this month end [...]
Electors displaced at Linden
PNCR asks GECOM to investigate claim Elections Campaign Manager for the People’s National Congress, Attorney at law, Joseph Harmon, during a press briefing yesterday, said that the party has received reports that several members of the disciplined services who are regimented have not been registered and the heads of services have not made the necessary [...]
The issue of Preliminary Inquiry (PI) procedure
DEAR EDITOR, The points made by Judge Rabindra Rooplall in the article (Magistrates should conduct voir dire – Bar Association Review 2011, 5th June), raise the wider issue of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) procedure, its impact on the length of the pre-trial criminal process and the constitutional provision for a fair hearing within a reasonable [...]
GUYWID donate WK gloves and pad to Young Warriors CC
Guyanese Women in Development (GUYWID) recently made a timely donation of one pair of wicketkeeping pads and gloves to the Young Warriors Cricket Club of Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice. In making the presentation, President of the Organisation Mrs. Sharada Persaud said they {GUYWID} were very impressed with the facilities, which they used for a fundraiser [...]
