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 [...]
IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR KIDS
By the time this meets the press, it is hoped that the two teenagers who went missing recently at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, would have been found and are reunited with their families. Every second must be anxiety-filled for the relatives of these children. It can never be easy for a parent whose child has gone [...]
Third accused refused bail
In addition to the two persons who were charged in connection with the drug bust at John Fernandes Wharf, last week, and remanded to prison on Monday, Ola Pedro appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of unlawful drug trafficking. He was also refused bail. [...]
Buju Banton jailed for 10 years
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, sentenced Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton to 10 years in prison yesterday, the lowest sentence legally allowed for his role in a large cocaine trafficking deal in 2009. The 38-year-old Jamaican recording artist got a break when U.S. District Judge James S. Moody threw out [...]
Another cocaine courier busted en route to Suriname
Police at the border crossing location of Springlands, Berbice, continue to be the thorn in the side of couriers trying to smuggle drugs into the neighbouring Dutch-speaking Republic of Suriname. Yesterday the ranks busted another courier with a little over two kilograms of cocaine, which was concealed in a haversack. This is the latest in [...]
Three decades of current account imbalance just got worse
Dear Editor, Recent follow up discussions on how we in the Alliance for Change (AFC) will continue to prepare to correct the economic wrongs being perpetuated by the PPP Government have sharpened our focus on the large current account imbalances that the PPP continues to saddle us with and how we plan to definitively reduce [...]
Some may take the law into their own hands
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force never seems to dumbfound me. Wednesday night at 20:56hrs I received a cell call from a friend stating that he had been involved in a vehicular accident at Camp and Hadfield Streets, Stabroek. My friend was riding a motorcycle north along Camp Street when the driver of a hire [...]
Jinnah Ramahan is fossilised
Dear Mr. Editor, In response to Jinnah Rahaman’s letter of June 22, I must say that in all my years of political involvement in Guyana, I have never read such nonsense. But I excuse Rahaman’s ignorance in trying to “put words into my mouth” which I never stated. This man should pack it up and [...]
Supporting a national unity movement
MR. EDITOR, The JOPP has decided that they will form a partnership for national unity (APNU), to contest the upcoming elections. Already the partnership is being criticized in the media, by comedic and serious journalists and commentators. The smaller parties and groupings are being ridiculed, and the coalition, dismissed as a non factor against the [...]
Freddie wrong on Harbhajan-Symonds racial issue
DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to a comment by Mr. Freddie Kissoon (KN Apr 2, 2011) tying Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh (affectionately called Bhajji) to “a racist remark against Andrew Symonds, a mixed race player from Australia” in a Test match in Sydney in 2008.There is no place for racism and as such I applaud [...]
The GCB should submit itself to a thorough independent investigation
DEAR SIR, After reading Chetram Singh’s feeble response to the paid advertisement carried in the Kaieteur News of 17 June 2011, I am of the opinion that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) should be thoroughly investigated, especially in the wake of the FIFA corruption scandal and the very serious allegations of financial impropriety within the [...]
Diversifying for progress
That the Guyanese economy needs to be diversified is accepted by most commentators. We hope that during the upcoming (or ongoing) political campaign, we will be provided with detailed plans as to how the political parties plan on accomplishing this feat. The mainstays of our economy over the past century or so have remained the [...]
Teenagers kidnapped on highway
- police investigating The police are currently following up on reports about an abduction during which Alliance for Change member Michael Carrington’s 14-year-old daughter, Marissa Carrington, and her friend, Lishanna Mootoo, 16, were abducted at Yarrowkabra Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The disclosure was made yesterday by AFC’s Prime Ministerial candidate Sheila Holder. Kaieteur News understands that the [...]
Parliamentary body calls for police intervention
- unearths cases of corruption Areas of possible corruption and the refusal of current and former principal officers in government entities to comply with requests of the Public Affairs Committee caused the chairperson to recommend disciplinary action in some cases. In the 2007 and 2008 reports on the performance of Government ministries and other public [...]
Mc Doom E.B.D. home up in flames
Eleven persons from three families are homeless after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin destroyed a two-storey wooden building at Lot 25 First Street, Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara yesterday. The fire which was spotted shortly before 07:00 hours behind the gas station and the mosque in Mc Doom erupted in the lower [...]
Man jailed for chopping mother
Latchman Raghubeer, who was in the habit of harassing his parents for money to do what ever he wanted, ended up chopping his mother in her head. For that act he was jailed for six months on Wednesday by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court charged with [...]
Teacher’s killer captured in Suriname
Local police are in contact with their Surinamese counterparts to facilitate the return to Guyana of a man who is wanted for the murder of his reputed wife. The man, Hubert Pilgrim, is being held by Suriname authorities allegedly on assault charges. Police in a press release confirmed Pilgrim’s arrest in Suriname. “Through normal policing [...]
Teen recharged with mastermind for Linden murder
Twenty-three-year-old Lakeraj Fredericks and a 16-year-old yesterday appeared before Magistrate Anne McLennan jointly charged with the murder of Clifton Bonus, who was killed on June 4, in Linden. In a previous court appearance the teen alone was charged with Bonus’s murder. However, yesterday Prosecutor Deneshwar Nauth informed Magistrate Anne McLennan that he had received correspondence [...]
Dem boys seh… Clement is de next money factory
Wednesday was a big day pun de East Coast. Dem boys see protection like dem never see before. People deh in dem house and all of a sudden it look like if de whole police force come to visit de community. Then dem community police people come out too. When dem boys see all of [...]
Guyanese mechanic dies after falling from mango tree
Antigua (Antigua Observer)- A family has been plunged into mourning after one of its members, Kerwin Anthony Gomes, met an untimely death after falling from a mango tree in Villa Tuesday afternoon. The 38-year-old man of Jennings New Extension had just dropped off his fiancée and life partner for almost 20 years, Sandra Joseph, to [...]
City workers get paid
Some 200 Georgetown municipal workers finally received their salary for May yesterday, but not before a noisy protest in the compound where they denounced City Council administration, the Mayor, and even their union. Deliverance of this long overdue pay to the workers brings to an end another episode in the saga of continuous late payment, [...]
