Death toll rises to five
Homestretch Avenue accident… Pull Quote: “I will be channeling all my anger, all my pain to fight this road carnage….this nonsense has to stop…we cannot continue to lose our young people like this.”- Victim Peter Mc Clennon’s mother By Latoya Giles The death toll for the Homestretch Avenue accident rose to five yesterday with 17-year-old [...]
Police hunt Five Star bandits
Police are still combing the Five Star Backdam in the North West District (NWD) with the hope of capturing four bandits who attacked a group of Brazilian miners, in an early morning robbery on Monday, during which a man was shot. The wounded man, Brazilian Felix De Souza, is presently a patient at the Georgetown [...]
Mahaica Market tarmac estimated to cost $85M
Within a fortnight, the evaluation process is expected to be completed and the contract will be awarded for the construction of a new market tarmac at Mahaica. Yesterday the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) accepted bids in relation to the project. The old market will be torn down to facilitate the task which [...]
Missing Guyanese woman feared murdered in US
Police in Pembroke Pines, Florida in the United States are searching for a Guyana-born woman and evidence they gathered yesterday from a dumpsite suggests that she has been murdered. A report by CBS 4 Miami stated that Natalie Belmonte, who resides at 19331 NW 5th Street, was last seen returning to her home from a [...]
Dem boys seh…De Waterfalls paper don’t lie
De Waterfalls paper start up something fuh mek people comment pun wha dem read in de paper. Every article get a comment. Dem boys believe in free speech. One man seh that fuh all de criticism dem never see de Chronicle write anything that critical of de paper or de government. De Waterfalls paper ain’t [...]
Delta offering daily flights until mid-September
Delta Airlines is currently conducting daily flights direct from New York to Guyana, to cater for the influx of visitors during the busy August holidays. Speaking at press briefing at his South Road office on Monday, last, with Sales Manger of Delta Airlines Junior Horatio, Minister of Tourism Maniram Prashad said he is happy that [...]
Education Ministry works to boost TVET, ICT training for teachers
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Education made another significant step in the completion of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Enhancement Project. Funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the principal components of the project are the construction and outfitting of two technical institutes. There are also provisions for meeting the training [...]
Baksh confident Ministry’s MERD Unit working
Created out of the need for greater scrutiny and improvement of the sector, the Ministry of Education’s Monitoring Evaluation Reporting and Development (MERD) Unit is achieving its objectives, says Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh. He emphasized that the Unit was visionary on the part of the Ministry and is advancing the quality agenda which is [...]
Construction on reserve angers Kitty residents
Residents of South Railway Line, Kitty, are calling on the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Ministry of Local Government and other relevant authorities to investigate the building of a house on the reserve which they use to traverse. According to Rohan Samlall of 86, South Railway Line, Kitty, approximately one month ago, persons had begun [...]
The state media have become PPP mouthpieces – WPA
The Working People’s Alliance, one of the partners in A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has issued a call for “all fair minded Guyanese to boycott the Guyana Chronicle and to take with a barrel of salt the PPP political propaganda of the National Communications Network”. The call comes in the wake of what the [...]
Guyanese accredited with ITC’s Int’l Diploma in Supply Chain Management
Procurement Manager & Deputy Director of the Materials Management Unit, Ministry of Health, Malcolm Watkins, is the first local professional to earn the distinguished International Diploma in Supply Chain Management offered by the Geneva-based International Trade Centre (ITC). The significant achievement comes less than one year since the programme was launched in Guyana and well [...]
Argentine Navy Ship off to Venezuela
The Argentine Navy Sail Training Ship “Libertad” is now en route to Venezuela as it continues its historic voyage around South America after spending a three-day sojourn in Guyana. On Monday evening, the captain and crew were treated to a grand reception hosted at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, by Minister Luis Martino, Charge d’Affaires, Embassy [...]
Barama aims at 2,400 cubic metres monthly – ITTO
The organisation says the Company has also committed itself to working closely with the government to ensure that it maintains compliance with all forest sector policies and the objective of value-added processing. When BCL announced the restart of operations, company representatives indicated that they had been working hard to restore plywood production so as to [...]
Three million ounces of gold without a profit
Dear Editor, I refer to an article in the Kaieteur News of July 1, 2011 authored by “Peeping Tom.” It is a most unfortunate if not biased article at a time when Guyana hopes to capitalize and maximize its earnings from its natural resources — particularly gold. Besides the value of exploiting ones natural resources, [...]
No apologies for City Hall’s restoration – Mayor Green
Though, the City Council is cash-strapped, His Worship the Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, says he has no apologies for utilising part of Government’s $20M subvention in the much-needed restoration of City Hall. “City Hall is vital to our cultural sustenance in Georgetown, and I have no apologies for using the money to restore the [...]
COPA can provide a charter service
Dear Editor, I agree with Ray Chikrie (KN Jul 19) endorsing the air service being provided by Panama’s COPA airlines. COPA has been a successful airline expanding service to every major Latin city as well as major cities in the US and Toronto. It flies to Trinidad from where many Guyanese connect to Panama for [...]
Third phase of Neonatal ICU Training Prog. ends tomorrow
As part of the continuing activities associated with the implementation of the Magnet Hospital Initiative, PAHO/WHO is currently facilitating the third phase of training for nurses of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The Magnet Hospital Initiative arose from a visit by Dr. Una Reid, a Consultant contracted by [...]
A most unprofessional response
Dear Editor: On Thursday, June 23, one Mr. Rafiq Khan, unhappy with the service at the GRA, chose to pen a letter, which one could say was a tad harsh in his description, (What is the rationale behind the bureaucratic nonsense at the GRA?, SN) about his frustrating experience. His experience was similar to a [...]
Reopening the claims and objections enhances the electoral process
Dear Editor, I am baffled by the logic of the opposition parties, namely APNU and WPA in the position taken that “the need to reopen another round of the Claims and Objections is pregnant with the possibility of irreparable danger to the integrity of the final voters list”. One would have thought that the inclusion [...]
Robbery accused remanded
Marlon Mars, who allegedly committed robbery with aggravation, was yesterday remanded to prison. He was not required to plead to the indictable charge. Mars appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where he was told that the police are alleging that on July 14 at Ketley Street, Charlestown, he robbed Nicolas Seenarine [...]
Shocking electricity costs
The continuing travails of Synergy, with the road to Amaila Falls, do little to allay fears about the entire hydroelectricity project. We still do not have a firm handle on the overall cost of the actual hydro-electrical generation and transmission components, so that boasts about lowering our electricity bill remains just that – talk. In [...]
Kaieteur News must be more responsible to victims
Dear Editor, I will begin this letter by saying this, “With great power comes much responsibility.” This quote, I am sure, is a familiar one, and its relevance will be made clear later on in my letter. I am a 24 year old US-based Guyanese and a recent college graduate with a degree in journalism. [...]
TOUGH CHOICES IN AN ELECTION YEAR
Every decision cannot be based purely on economics, for if this were the case, decisions which can save human lives would result in sacrificing such lives for the sake of economics. There are thousands of motor vehicles in Guyana and only a limited number of police stations at which certificates of fitness are issued. Considering [...]
Passengers must take the blame for the Homestretch Avenue tragedy
Dear Editor, I returned from Monday’s accident scene on Homestretch Avenue with a fury that kept growing as the death toll kept climbing. Most of my initial rage was directed at the driver who took five lives while escaping with hardly a scratch; this driver who had the temerity to tell me at the scene [...]
Neesa Gopaul murder PI continues
The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of 16-year-old Queen’s College student, Neesa Lalita Gopaul, continued yesterday with Corporal Floyd Hosanna being cross-examined by Attorney at Law Vic Puran. Hosanna had previously testified about certain events leading up to the arrest of the two defendants, Jarvis Small and Bibi Gopaul. The matter is being heard [...]
