Presidential Guard called in on Kaieteur News reporter
- GPA calls action outlandish and despicable The Office of the President summoned a member of the Presidential Guard into a press briefing today in which Kaieteur New reporter Neil Marks sought to ask questions of Minister of Education Shaik Baksh in the ongoing “barber shop” scandal. The Guyana Press Association (GPA) said it was [...]
Minister Baksh lied
- Education Ministry approved $223M computer contract On Monday, the Ministry of Education issued the following statement. “The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board is the authority responsible for the evaluation and the award of contracts. Tenders are opened publicly, evaluated by a committee appointed by the board which makes reports and recommendations, and an [...]
‘I will be a ‘Yes Man’ to save TV station – – Chandra Narine Sharma
Embattled television station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, says that he is prepared to pull his popular, 20-year-old “Voice of the People” programme off the air, amidst continued pressure from government. The businessman and leader of the Justice For All Party (JFAP), Sharma also admitted that he lives in fear every day of being closed down [...]
Eight Presidential Guards, masked men invade and damage sand-loading facility
Eight members of the Presidential Guard and four civilians were arrested early yesterday morning as police probe the deliberate destruction of facilities at an East Bank Demerara sand-loading facility. The damage amounted to about $5M. According to reports, the Presidential Guards were acting as enforcers for a Brazilian national who is presently engaged in a [...]
Doctor on rape charge on $400,000 bail
Convicted sex felon Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud was yesterday released on bail in the Berbice High Court on the charge involving his alleged rape of a 13-year-old female cousin. Persaud, who was on remand, was placed on $400,000 bail when he appeared before Justice William Ramlal. But Justice Ramlal also ordered that the physician should have [...]
Ahmad expected to confess by Friday
US mortgage fraud investigation… – put up five buildings for US$2.5M bail Federal Agents in the United States have expressed quiet optimism that Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad will confess to mortgage fraud by this weekend. This was contained in recent court documents seen by this newspaper. Authorities in the US have subjected Ahmad to electronic [...]
Mother of three killed in hit-and-run
Police were last night searching for a hit-and-run driver who killed a mother of three and left a teenage girl with broken limbs after hitting them down near Crane, West Coast Demerara. Sources identified the dead woman as 26-year-old Kishrie Persaud, called Nanda, of Lot 10 Crane Old Road. The injured girl has been identified [...]
Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment
A child does tun out to be wha he parents train he to do. When dem tun adult dem and got to fend fuh demself, dem does tek directions from dem boss or from de leaders of de land. De people who thiefing tek dem guide from some leaders and some Ministers who does give [...]
Overwhelming requests to adopt infant
Newborn on Merriman’s Mall… The Child Care and Protection Agency says they have been overwhelmed with responses by the public for the adoption of the infant who was abandoned on the Merriman’s Mall a few weeks ago. However, according to Head of the Child Care and Protection Agency, Ms. Ann Greene, the child will remain [...]
Children escape as Parika home collapses
Three children escaped serious injury yesterday after their Parika backdam home came crashing down, shortly before dawn. Their mother, 31-year-old Quandasi Kingston is now calling for assistance as they have nowhere to go. Neighbours called Kaieteur News early yesterday morning to highlight the plight of the single-parent family. According to Kingston, she has been renting [...]
Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment
A child does tun out to be wha he parents train he to do. When dem tun adult dem and got to fend fuh demself, dem does tek directions from dem boss or from de leaders of de land. De people who thiefing tek dem guide from some leaders and some Ministers who does give [...]
Bandits hit Sophia family and contracting company
Up to press time police ranks were trying to locate a Kitty resident who reportedly orchestrated a robbery in the Sophia community on Monday night. Kaieteur News was told that home maker Dianne Fordyce and her daughter Shonette Mitchell were beaten about the body when four gunmen invaded their Lot 14 Plum Park, South Sophia [...]
Mid-city garbage pile-up causes concern
In Wellington Street, between Charlotte Street and South Road, there is an almost unmanageable heap of garbage piled up on a daily basis. This, according to residents of the mid-city area, would often result from the numerous persons from “all over” disposing of their refuse at the location. The smelly heap attracts mosquitoes, flies and [...]
US Professor urges media to be more pluralistic
American Professor David Lublin, who is currently visiting Guyana as a guest speaker for the American Embassy’s series on “Democracy and the Role of Free, Fair, and Transparent Elections in the Nation Building Process,” has urged the media to be more pluralistic in their reporting. The professor expressed this notion during a press briefing yesterday [...]
Cowards hide behind anonymity
DEAR EDITOR, We are in the rapidly changing age of technology as proven in the changes of the forms of communication that we are utilizing at present. We used to express our views in the form of oration and writing. Those forms were what we now see as slow and inefficient as compared to online [...]
Troubling events are occurring
DEAR EDITOR, It is time for the Guyanese people to rise and take note of what is happening to their rights of free expression and the public right to be informed. Recent events are troubling, and present a multiplying and grave danger for the free press in Guyana. First, Mr.C N Sharma informed the moderators [...]
Man arrested in connection with Five Star robbery
On Monday, Police arrested a man whom they believed was linked to last week Monday’s robbery at Five Star Backdam, North West District, which left one man nursing a gunshot injury. Reports are that the man was arrested at the Port Kaituma landing. Brazilian miner Felix De Souza was shot in the neck after four [...]
When a policeman disregarded his appearance
Dear Editor, It was the 18th of July, 2011 shortly after 19:00 hrs 7pm. I was sitting outside the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, with a friend because her son was taking oxygen in the asthma room. I was observing the quiet atmosphere and the passersby. Suddenly the surroundings erupted into [...]
Third party insurance for speedboats to be mandatory – Maritime Official
Passengers who lost their luggage and valuables during Sunday’s speedboat mishap along the Parika to Supenaam route are unlikely to be compensated. According to Stephen Thomas, Director Maritime Safety, Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), the body would be pressuring the vessel’s owner to compensate the passengers. However, the owner is not obligated to do so since [...]
Transportation woes for West Demerara folk
Dear Editor I’m writing to highlight the plight of the people living on West Bank Demerara who depend on the route 31 minibuses (Wales to Georgetown) to get to and from work. It has now become a trend for commuters to have to wait for hours before they can join a bus to get to [...]
The death of a church heralds much worse, or does it?
Dear Editor, As an outsider looking in at the literal tearing down of a place of worship, the St Barnabas Church in Georgetown, I am extremely appalled at this situation to say the least. Churches, especially our Catholic and Anglican churches, are blessed and consecrated by the local Bishop. No house of God should ever [...]
Some like it hot
The U.N.’s Framework Conference on Climate Change held two weeks of negotiations in Bonn, Germany last month, to plan the agenda for the major climate summit in Durban, South Africa, at the end of the year. These talks basically set the stage for whatever global agreement will replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires next year. [...]
FRIENDLIER LAWS ARE NEEDED
Forty years ago, there was a good chance that if a traffic cop stopped you on the road for some minor infraction, there was a seventy-five per cent chance that he would give you a friendly warning and send you on your way. Today, there is a seventy per cent chance that a traffic cop [...]
Kudos for the AFC
Dear Editor, The debate and influence pedaling measures are out in full measure of who is winning the battle for the minds of the rational Guyanese voter in the forthcoming General and Regional Elections. Vishnu Bisram is working to justify his thirty pieces of silver by concocting a so called poll that he can’t get [...]
Access to Info Bill will create re-vamped version of GINA – GHRA
Several weeks ago the Access to Information Bill No. 10 of 2011, was tabled in the National Assembly. That Bill is now in the Special Select Committee phase where the comments of concerned and interested individuals have been invited. The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has decided to take advantage of this opportunity to air [...]
