Breaking News!!! Headmistress dies in Homestretch Avenue bus crash
Coretta Benjamin, 40, the headmistress of J.E. Burnham Primary School, died in horrific bus crash this evening on Homestretch Avenue. She was heading home. Four children, Renisha Benjamin and Prazel Paul, both eight years old, as well as a nine-year-old and a ten-year-old are all critical in the Georgetown Public Hospital. According to reports, the [...]
Policeman killed while investigating accident
A police officer from the Tactical Service Unit (TSU) was run over by a truck driver at Bartica yesterday morning while investigating an earlier accident at the scene where he met his death. Dead is Police Constable Delian Forde, who was hit by a truck at around 03:00 hrs, near the Third Avenue and Sixth [...]
Man brutally chopped by stepfather
By Trevona Weekes An alarming sound of screams brought neighbours out of their homes at about 09:30hrs yesterday in the Mocha Housing Scheme. They were in total shock when a 61-year-old man and his step-son were engaged in an argument that led to a fight and ended in a brutal chopping. The victim, Roy Sanders, [...]
Dying child gave horror story of sexual abuse
- but alleged molester still walks free It was just a few weeks ago that a dying nine-year-old girl alleged that a relative had molested her and three other siblings, and a community is up in arms because the alleged culprit is still walking free. The girl was admitted to hospital for suspected poisoning and [...]
Ten murders in 17 days
July is turning out to be a particularly violent month. Ten people, including two children, have been murdered within a 17-day span. All of the deaths are believed to have been triggered by disputes. Three of the murders occurred in E and F Division, another three in C Division; two in G Division, and one [...]
Dem boys seh…Government must do de due diligence
In school dem teacher does check out which pupil can write exams, not dem exams dem does write to pass from one class to another, but dem exams that outside people does mark. When people join de army dem does have to go through a test. De army got to check to see if dem [...]
Guyana Medical Watch visits Essequibo
As part of their annual humanitarian outreach programme, the non-Government organisation, the Guyana Watch Inc. has extended their services to the county of Essequibo. The team which comprised twelve doctors and 13 support staff, attended to Essequibians at the Cotton Field Secondary School yesterday. Speaking to Kaieteur News, president of the Guyana Medical Watch Inc, [...]
Families tussle over baby following teen mom’s death
- case still before Medical Council The Guyana Medical Council is still investigating the death of Joanne Peters, the 17-year-old who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in March after delivering a baby boy. Kaieteur News was told by an official from the Council that the medical body will only comment on the matter [...]
Food production output needed to avert crisis
Food prices have soared to record heights and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world, Worldwatch Institute’s recently released report, State of the World 2011stated. Innovations that nourish the planet shows that diversifying food production to include local and indigenous [...]
Bartica Top Grade Six performer rewarded
Bartica’s top performer at this year’s Grade Six Assessment was recently rewarded for her efforts. Eleven year old Shania Wilson of St. Anthony’s Primary School secured a place at St. Stanislaus College. Shania was presented with a laptop computer from the School’s Old Students Association. This initiative began last year when the Association rewarded the [...]
Pensioner critical after Durban Street accident
Sixty-two year old Eustace Rodrigues was battling for his life yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being struck by a car on Durban Street. Reports are that Rodrigues left his home around 06:45 hrs yesterday to purchase some items at the market. While riding his pedal [...]
Russian businesses interested in investing in Guyana – GCCI
- areas of exploration are gold mining, Linden-Lethem road modernization, development of hydropower and aquaculture sectors among others Russian businesses have expressed an interest in trading and investing in Guyana, according to Russian Ambassador to Guyana Nikolay Smirnov. During a recent courtesy call to President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Komal [...]
Clinical Sciences building at a GPHC rehabilitated
Young doctors on their internship and medical students of the University of Guyana Medical School will now be able to take classes or just relax between rounds in their newly renovated facility. The University of Guyana’s Clinical Sciences Complex located in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) compound was recently renovated and refurbished. The works [...]
Redjet gets access to fly into Trinidad
After several months of uncertainty, regional air carrier Barbadian low-cost airline REDjet has been given the green light to fly into Trinidad and Tobago. Sources close to the REDjet have confirmed that the low-budget carrier would touch down at Piarco International Airport within the next few days. Reports out of the twin-island republic stated that [...]
St. Barnabas holds final service
Emotional moment for churchgoers as… The St Barnabas Church yesterday held its Thanksgiving Service and deconsecration ceremony, just weeks after the building was reportedly sold for a whopping $500M to businessman Alfro Alphonso. Deconsecration is the act of removing a religious blessing from something that had been previously consecrated by a minister or priest of [...]
Family pleads with cops to probe slaughter of dog
An East Coast Demerara family is calling on the police to investigate the heinous manner in which a group of neighbours killed their family pet. Shalini Singh and Pradeep Lall, of Lot 45 Dasrath Street Beterverwagting, ECD, have accused a neighbour of chopping their dog to death. According to Shalini, she received a telephone call [...]
CDC’s crucial in ensuring community projects implemented
- Finance Minister Minister of Finance Ashni Singh and Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday joined members of the Community Development Council (CDC) of Region Four at its Annual Conference at the Diamond Secondary School. Held under the theme “Uniting Communities Across Guyana,” the conference was attended by over forty CDCs in the region including [...]
GTI crowned inaugural champs
- NATI claim third place Clearly the more superior team both tactically and technically GTI saved the best for last as they easily defeated Christianburg / Wismar 5-3 in the final to become the inaugural champions of the Digicel sponsored Nationwide Schools Football Competition which ended yesterday, at the GCC ground. Playing a more compact [...]
Mocha Arcadia All Stars are East Bank champs
By Franklin Wilson Mocha Arcadia All Stars emerged as the best GT&T FastBall team on the East Bank of Demerara when they turned back the challenge of home team Grove in the Zone final yesterday at the Grove Community Centre Ground. Following contrasting semifinals wins; the two teams entertained the large colourful crowd with some [...]
Ogle-Thomas leads from the front as Demerara take 4th female cricket title
Berbice were stupendous in the field and their bowlers were impressive but they depend almost exclusively on their dynamic 18-year-old Skipper Shamaine Campbelle with the bat. Once she suffered a rare failure yesterday at the Police ground in the deciding final round match in the senior Inter County 50-overs competition, Berbice lost by 33 runs [...]
Guyana hunt 13th three-day title as Regional U-19 cricket begins here today
By Sean Devers The 2011 Regional under-19 three-day cricket tournament commences today in Guyana with three matches and host Guyana, the competition’s most successful team, hunt their 13th title since their first in 1974. Although Guyana won the first ever Regional youth tournament in 1968 in Barbados, that was an under-21 series, while the next [...]
Guyana names team for CBC Championships
-Trinidad-based, Ifill omitted By Edison Jefford Guyana has named its representative team for the upcoming Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships in keeping with yesterday’s deadline for team submissions. The local unit was named without Trinidad and Tobago-based Andrew Ifill. Ifill, who reportedly revealed that he was available for the championships, was omitted based on some [...]
Hikers Juniors for three week stint with Queen’s Park
The Hikers Hockey Club, junior development programme realized one of it’s main goals last week, when it partnered with Queen’s Park Hockey Club of Trinidad & Tobago to enable two of it’s most promising young players to compete in the Trinidad & Tobago outdoor leagues. Extended overseas stints with foreign clubs was one of the [...]
Rice sector achieves record export earnings in 2010 – GRDB
Despite being what officials have termed a “year of many challenges”, 2010 still ended with the rice industry setting record figures in exports and earnings. At the end of 2010, the production in the sector was the second highest ever recorded. The figure for production stood at 556.195mt. The export figures stand at 336,313mt and [...]
Accused offers $1M to dead girl’s family
Mahendra ‘Bangat’ Ramanan, 36, of Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice re-appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court last Monday. He was facing three charges which resulted in the death of nine- year- old Jaswattie Ramnauth and severe injuries to her brother, Vijai Ramnauth, who were both struck down on the [...]
