Parents plead for their safe return
‘Abducted’ teens… The parents of 16-year-old Lashawn Mootoo and 14-year-old Marissa Carrington yesterday pleaded for their children’s safe return, after a nine-hour search yielded no trace of the two friends who were allegedly kidnapped last Tuesday night at Yarrowkabra. Marissa’s father, Michael Carrington, told Kaieteur News that a search party, consisting of joint services personnel [...]
Cousins, 12, and five, crushed by fuel tanker
A horrific accident on the One Mile Public Road, Wismar, shortly after noon yesterday, has left two children dead, and an entire family and community in a state of shock. Dead are five-year-old Akeela Samuels of One Mile Nursery School, and her 12-year-old cousin Shaka Anthony, a first form student of Mackenzie High School. The [...]
Skeldon’s 5.5MW Wartsila plant collapses
- executives silenced with “gag order” – AFC The 5.5MegaWatt (MW) Wartsila plant at GuySuCo’s Skeldon co-generation facility has “collapsed”. So says Khemraj Ramjattan, Alliance For Change, Presidential Candidate. Ramjattan said that the incident occurred several days ago but is being kept under wraps. He said that the blackout on the incident is the result [...]
Dem boys seh…Check fuh you property at de Deeds Registry
People get dumb. Some can’t talk and who can talk frighten fuh talk, and some can’t even think bout opening dem mouth. Bar-Rat gag Henry de Yellow a long time ago. Now Henry gag he commanders. Some trying fuh talk in new ways. Dem letting out gas in Morse code and dem ain’t belching. In [...]
Govt. reopens bids for laptop supply
One Laptop Per Family project… After a week-long delay to fine-tune details, Government has restarted advertisements for the supply of laptops for its ambitious One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, formally announced last week that the new call for bids would have gone out last Friday, and [...]
UN Report: Marijuana most popular illicit substance in region
- strong concerns over increasing abuse of synthetic drugs The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has expressed strong concern about a surge of so-called “synthetic” drugs from Southeast Asia, in its 2011 report. The report also said that cannabis remains the most widely produced and consumed illicit substance globally. With the cocaine [...]
Framework for Int’l Centre for Biodiversity Research assumes form
After three days of intense consultations the International Centre for Biodiversity Research and Low Carbon Development is beginning to assume form. Initially, the Centre was part of the University of Guyana’s Strategic Plan, it also shares a spot in the Government’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) as one of the seven priority areas for proposed [...]
Police yet to positively identify victim
Body at Mahdia… Police sources yesterday said that the man who was stabbed in the neck may not be missing South Ruimveldt resident Steve Caesar. The police had reported that they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, so far identified as “Steve”, which occurred about 13:30 hrs Tuesday. According to sources [...]
GWI’s $850 “Coastal 2011 Programme” takes shape
- 60,000 customers to benefit from enhanced service Five thousand (5000) residents of Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast, will experience improved levels of service from a new well station to be drilled at Onderneeming Scheme Phase Two, and the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has commenced work on a massive Government-funded programme estimated at $850 million. The plan [...]
Neesa Gopaul murder PI continues
When the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College student, Neesa Lalita Gopaul, continued yesterday, Ashram Tewari, was called to give evidence in chief yesterday. Tewari testified about certain events leading up to the arrest of the two defendants, Jarvis Small and Bibi Gopaul. Small, who is a gym instructor and Gopaul, [...]
UG gets US$10M from World Bank
… to help finance Science and Tech project The World Bank yesterday granted approval for a US$10M credit to the University of Guyana which will be paid out over a period of five years. According to a release issued by the institution’s local office, the World Bank’s Executive Board approved the credit to help finance [...]
Frustrated city workers given little encouragement
…as meeting with Council, Union provides more heartache By George Alleyne Over 250 City Council workers gathered in the meeting room of City Hall yesterday to thrash out issues relating to their late salaries and were told not to expect their June pay “before the 10th of July”. This information came one day after some [...]
Guyanese juror faces jail time for attempted bribery
- offered to “fix” verdict Investigators on Long Island said they busted a greedy Guyanese juror trying to bribe the victim’s family, hoping to get a huge chunk of cash to “fix” the verdict. Judge Dana Winslow was overseeing the proceedings in the State Supreme Court on May 14, when flabbergasted jurors watched court officers [...]
WICB offers to meet with Gayle to end standoff
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has written to Chris Gayle, stating it remains available to meet and resolve the latest impasse over his exclusion from the national team. Gayle wasn’t picked for the series against India owing to differences with the board, including over a widely-publicised radio interview with KLAS Sports where he strongly [...]
Kares Engineering tapeball cricket tourney registration close Sunday
- Over 800 teams registered The forms are in, the grouping stage has begun and all that remains is to … play for the glory. The Kares Ten10 Tapeball Tournament registration deadline is set for Sunday June 26 and to date there has been over 800 entries. Managing Director of Kares Engineering, Mr. Radesh Rameshwar [...]
Digicel football rolls on
Guyana Educational Institute, New Campbellville Secondary, Tucville and New Amsterdam Technical Institute were among the latest winners as play in the inaugural Digicel-sponsored Nationwide Schools Football Competition continued, at various venues across the country. In Georgetown, Guyana Educational Institute beat Queen’s College by a 2-1 margin. New Campbellville Secondary then prevailed 4-3 on penalty kicks [...]
Top chess players in action as Chess Federation stages rapid chess tournament tourney
The cream of the crop will battle for top honours when the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) presents a one-day rapid tournament at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club, 1 Hadfield St. Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown on Sunday June 26 next. In what is expected to be a tournament of riveting rivalry between players the likes of national champion, Taffin [...]
Questions galore in June ProAm Boxing card tonight
Can Mark Austin Replicate A Revlon Lake Victory? Asks Michael Benjamin Boxing buffs attempts to employ strategies of rationalization have oft time proven discouraging since like cricket boxing matches could be highly irrational and unpredictable. A classical case in point is highlighted when one examines the Sugar Ray Leonard/Thomas Hearns world championship bout and juxtaposes [...]
National coach promises improved fights from amateur boxers in 15th ProAm card
When the first bell sounds to signal the start of the amateur segment of the 15th edition of the ProAm boxing cards tonight, boxing fans can be assured of much improved fights, if the prognosis of their national coach, Terrence Poole, is to be believed. Mr. Poole assured the press that the respective boxers have [...]
Dellon Harlequin is new Mr. Total Fitness king; Michelle Bowen cops Ms. Best Legs
By Franklin Wilson Dellon Harlequin was declared Mr. Total Fitness Mania on Saturday evening last when Fitness Express/Total Fitness Mania 2 came off at the Diamond Community Centre. Harlequin, who also won the Over-174lb Senior Heavyweight category, was an easy winner in the overall contest, flexing his well chiseled body and toned muscles to the [...]
Windies slump to defeat with almost 5 sessions to spare
As India win back-to-back Tests in Jamaica By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Digicel, Queensway, Western Union and Jamaica Pegasus Despite a couple of cameos from their tail enders West indies crashed to only their fifth defeat against India on home soil when they lost the first Test by 63 runs yesterday at [...]
Chanderpaul signs for Warwickshire
Guyanese to depart immediately after India series By Sean Devers in Jamaica Veteran Guyanese left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul will depart the Caribbean immediately after India series next month for England to fulfill a contract with County side Warwickshire. The left-hander, who played the first of his 131 Tests in 1994 against England on his home ground [...]
Audito McCalman is Total Fitness Gym Biggest Loser
Total Fitness Gym for the second successive year in an effort to encourage gym members and members of the public to inculcate fitness and healthy living as a positive habit, successfully staged the second edition of the Biggest Loser contest, the final held last Sunday evening at the Diamond Community Centre. This year it was [...]
High Court overturns “excessive” $1.2M bail for money borrower
A Montrose man, placed on $1.2M bail on a fraud charge, had that slashed to $20,000 after his lawyers turned to the High Court claiming that it was excessive. Attorney-at-law, Euclin Gomes of Nandlall and Associates, successfully argued that 30-year-old Ravindra Persaud should not have been charged criminally since the matter was a civil one. [...]
A photographic reason why elected dictatorship in Guyana grew
In another forum, I penned an essay as a response to a letter in both independent dailies titled, “People should speak out against the wrong doings they witness…” signed by Mr. Vidyaratha Kissoon (no relation) and Ms. Sherlina Nageer. In my opinion piece, I said I have been around a long time and have never [...]
