Govt. backs out of forensic audit challenge
… says Auditor General refused approval The government has backed down from its own challenge for chartered accountant Christopher Ram and Kaieteur News to conduct a forensic audit into the construction of the US$12.5 M Enmore Packaging Plant. Its excuse is that the Auditor General has not given approval. “Please be advised that the Auditor [...]
Overseas-based Guyanese perishes in Bloomfield conflagration
Morgan Jagai, 63, an overseas-based Guyanese on Monday became the second person to die by fire within a week in Berbice when his two-storey wood and concrete house went up in flames at his Bloomfield, Corentyne residence. Jagai who lived alone in the building had only returned to Guyana from the United States a few [...]
C.N. Sharma, wife meet with President
Television station owner Chandra Narine Sharma and his wife, Savitri Singh, met with President Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday, to offer a “suitable explanation” for his broadcast of a commentary by Anthony Vieira. The meeting was in response to a letter from Office of the President informing C.N. Sharma and Savitri Singh of the need to report [...]
Officer-in-Charge placed under close arrest, relieved of duties
… New Amsterdam prisons escape The prison administration is set to reshuffle its senior officers following the recent escape of four inmates from the New Amsterdam Prison, prison sources confirmed yesterday. The Officer-in-Charge of the New Amsterdam Prison Superintendent Ashton Scott has been placed under close arrest and has been relieved of his command pending [...]
Batavia drug bust… Four of five suspects charged, other remains hospitalised
By Latoya Giles Four of the five persons caught in last Thursday’s drug bust at Batavia in the Cuyuni River were yesterday arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The four men, 41-year-old Deonarine Singh of Friendship, East Bank Demerara; 32-year-old Randolph ‘Fatboy’ Singh; 34-year-old Clyn Collier, of South Ruimveldt; and Garcia Luis Alberto, of Venezuela, [...]
Sophia murder suspect surrenders
A Sophia teenager wanted by police after reportedly stabbing his friend last week during a quarrel over cell phone credit, yesterday turned himself over to police, in the company of relatives and two Kaieteur News reporters. Marcellus Verbeke, 19, of 767 ‘C’ Field Sophia, who asked Senior Reporters Dale Andrews and Leonard Gildarie to be [...]
Dem boys seh… Rob-Bert and Bim Bim bluffing
Long time people use to bluff bad. Some people use to let off squibs to mek people believe that dem got deadly weapon. That is bluff. When people playing poker and dem have a bad hand dem does bluff and nuff time dem does get through. Well dem boys meet some real bluff, better than [...]
Plans on stream for new access road to Timehri Airport
- Ministry awaits Cabinet’s approval for multi-million- dollar project Almost a week ago the Ministry of Public Works accepted bids for the construction of a new access road to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. The bids came from Kares Inc., $688,505,750; Dipcon Engineering Services Ltd., $728,672,064; Courtney Benn Contracting Services Ltd., $726,444,350; Falcon Transportation [...]
Diamond cane-cutters to receive severance today
A total of 381 workers from the Diamond Estate are to be paid their severance today at the Diamond Secondary School, says Komal Chand, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU). The workers, 375 of them GAWU members, and the remainder from the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), [...]
Escape of prisoner to Suriname… Cops question senior rank of New Amsterdam constabulary
Police have detained a senior rank of the New Amsterdam Constabulary as investigations continue into the recent escape of prisoner Krishna Paul Doerga. Kaieteur News understands that the rank, an Assistant Superintendent, was detained about two days ago and is being questioned at the New Amsterdam Police Station. According to reports, investigations revealed that the [...]
Taxi driver drives off with passenger’s bag with $$$
- abandons vehicle minutes later In a strange twist of events, a taxi driver deliberately drove off with his passenger’s bag containing a significant sum of cash. The victim, Jermaine Anderson, a 36-year-old businessman, who operates in the interior, had hired the taxi, driven by one Andrew Caesar, on Sunday to take him to his [...]
Taxi driver barely survives armed robbery
Thirty-year-old taxi driver Ron VanSertima had what can only be called a lucky escape Sunday night. The father of two, who was still hospitalised yesterday afternoon, recounted how a normal pick up turned into a life and death experience. He said that shortly after midnight on Sunday he was flagged down by a couple on [...]
Wakapao residents may not be allowed to vote
Many residents within the Amerindian community of Wakapoa, in the Lower Pomeroon River, recently expressed concern at not being in receipt of birth certificates. As a result they do not have an identification card. They say that they may not be able to vote in the upcoming general elections. More concerns further linger around the [...]
Man has sex with home alone first form lover
Amdat Persaud, 20, a labourer of Lot 26 King Street, Williamsburg, Corentyne was remanded by Magistrate Fabio Azore when he appeared before her at the Albion Magistrate’s Court on a charge of rape. Prosecutor, Inspector Satrohan Dayaram, told the court that the victim is a first form student who lives with her single-parent father. He [...]
Another fishing vessel attacked on high sea
A crew of six is thankful to be alive. Its members were attacked on the high seas off the North West District. Owner of the vessel, Dhanaram Kadiwall, said that pirates attacked his boat the ‘Invincible One’ on Friday. According to Kadiwall, the boat left the Ruimveldt foreshore on May 6 last and was scheduled [...]
15-year-old school dropout a victim of poverty
Delene Thomas, 15, of Wakapoa, should be in school, but due to a prevailing financial crisis currently facing her family, she has had to drop out of school to assist her mother. There are five other children in the home. Delene, the eldest has not been going to school for the past three years, ever [...]
Young writer launches money book
There were far more children than adults in the audience and a balance across the age divide on the programme as Sharryn Dawson’s Money Basics for Kids: Financial Literacy for Children was launched last Wednesday. It was made clear that the book, which is subtitled ‘Your child’s guide to understanding money and entrepreneurship’, is also [...]
Bold new AIDS targets set for 2015
NEW YORK/GENEVA, —The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed the bold new targets set by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS which concluded in New York last Friday. Countries agreed to advance efforts towards reducing sexual transmission of HIV and halving HIV infection among people [...]
Guyanese teen’s death being ruled as drug overdose
Midland, US (www.mlive.com) — Midland police officials are continuing their investigation into the death of a 19-year-old Guyanese-born man. Lt. Gregory H. Kramer said police believe Alvin Persaud died of a drug overdose. “In any investigation, especially when someone passes away, we wrap up all the loose ends to ensure that we have reached a [...]
Relatives dissatisfied with “sloppy investigation” into taxi driver’s murder
… N/A Taxi driver murder The relatives of former J&N Taxi Driver in New Amsterdam, Trevor Kissoon, want the law enforcement officials to stop the ‘pussyfooting’ and get to the bottom of the man’s murder once and for all. On June 10, last year, Kissoon’s battered body was found by police in a canal at [...]
Garden of Eden miner died of punctured spleen and kidney
The Garden of Eden miner, 22-year-old Vernon Ronaldo, who was stabbed to death by a friend at a house at Garden of Eden died as a result of a perforated spleen and kidney. This is according to a post mortem examination performed by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Mortuary. [...]
Overzealous cop shoots at construction workers
Police are investigating an incident involving one of its ranks who probably thought that he was doing a good when he opened fire on two construction workers whom he apparently mistook for bandits. Fortunately none of the two men, Desmond Cort, 33, of Pike Street, North Sophia and Christopher Ram, 30, of Better Hope, East [...]
WPA remembers Walter Rodney 31 years later
Thirty-one years after Walter Rodney was assassinated “there is nothing here (in Guyana) that he fought for, says Andaiye, Member of the Friends of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee. Walter Rodney died in a bomb blast on June 13, 1980. At the time he was outside the Georgetown Prison on John Street, Werk-en-Rust. Bridging the [...]
Maintenance works ongoing at Pirara, Meritizero
Maintenance works are currently being executed at Pirara and Meritizero on the Linden to Lethem Road, says Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn. Owing to continuous rainfall in the hinterland region and the backing up of the Rio Branco the Linden to Lethem Road deteriorated in some sections. Vital structures such as culverts and [...]
Warring, listless Council leaves GT broke, messy
Many workers still without May salaries A laminated photo of St Vincent and the Grenadines hangs on the beautiful lacquered walls in Council Chambers of City Hall. You would think someone has aspirations to make Georgetown as beautiful one day; but not this Mayor and City Council. It’s the regular statutory meeting. You’d think that [...]
