Four rescued after squall overturns boat
Four men narrowly escaped drowning on Thursday after a boat powered by a 200 horsepower engine toppled over in the Essequibo River during a squall. The boat which is the property of the Region Two Administration, was heading from the wharf at Parika to Supernaam, before finally making its way to the compound of the [...]
‘Fip’ deemed hopelessly behind schedule since April
…Luncheon says delay will not hamper financial closure for Hydro project With the US$15.4M Amaila Falls Road project which was handed to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall and Synergy Holdings Inc being delayed by several months Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon is still insisting that financial closure for the Hydro Electric Project will not [...]
Seven charged in Western Union heist
-four refused bail Seven persons were charged yesterday in connection with last Wednesday’s 10M heist at a Church Street Western Union outlet. Four of the accused were remanded, while the remaining three were placed on $250,000 each on charges of robbery under arms. The accused persons, including one female, were fingered for the alleged [...]
Probation report blames education system failure for teen’s incarceration
Guyana is quickly becoming a country where officials do as they please without consideration for the consequences. That was the summation of a Probation Report which was recently presented in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court with respect to a 16-year-old boy who was facing several misdemeanor charges. According to the report, the Edinburgh, [...]
Fire destroys another East Canje home
Just as firefighters were replacing their hoses after fighting one fire yesterday morning in Betsy Ground East Canje, they were summoned to another inferno in the same district. This second blaze has left 10 homeless. A two-storey wooden building at Lot 8 Cinema Street, Reliance Settlement, was razed to the ground when Fire suspected [...]
Housewife wins car as Christmas gift
Christmas will be a wonderful occasion for 49-year-old Bhagwandai Gangadeen, a housewife and mother of two, who is now the proud owner of a brand new car which she won in a competition hosted by Ansa McAl Limited. Gangadeen, who hails from Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WCD) secured the grand prize after participating [...]
Back in place
Workers hoisting the Christmas tree at Rahaman’s Park back in place, after high winds on Thursday night brought the structure down
Prison Fellowship holds Xmas party for children of inmates
Prison Fellowship Guyana in collaboration with Guyana Prison Service yesterday held a Christmas get together for children whose fathers are incarcerated. The event was held at the Prison Officers’ Club on Camp Street. Reverend Fay Clarke who is a Superintendent and Chaplin of Prisons, said the Prison Fellowship hopes to make the occasion an [...]
Canal No 2 Polder Senior Citizens feted at Christmas
The tenth Canal Senior Citizens Christmas Party was recently held at the Kawall Primary School. Over 450 Senior Citizens were treated with meals and entertainment, food hampers, and monetary donations. The citizens were loud in their praise to Mr. Harrinarine (Brother Harry) and his team who had been organizing these events with the support of [...]
Mon Repos neighbours in land dispute
Two Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara residents are at “war” over approximately 1000 square feet of land. According to Harry Sankar, he resides at 120 Mon Repos EBD and since 2006 one of his neighbours has been occupying about 1000 square feet of his land which he had paid for and for which [...]
Thief asks magistrate for jail time
While some detainees were pleading to be placed on bail for the Christmas season, one prisoner asked the magistrate for a jail sentence instead. Forty-three year old Balkarran Persaud of 108 Cane Grove Housing Scheme pleaded guilty to a charge of simple larceny while claiming he did not intentionally steal the article, but needed to [...]
Agricola man shot after fleeing from police
A man was shot in the right arm in Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD) yesterday after police tried to apprehend the man, after they suspected him to have had marijuana in his possession. The man was identified as Terence John of 89, Second Street, Agricola EBD. He was taken to the [...]
Children’s Convalescent Home gets Christmas treat
Staff of Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Life Insurance Group of Companies (GTM) took the initiative to make Christmas happen for the little ones at the Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home located at D’Urban Backlands, by donating gifts and party bags. The donation was done under the theme “putting a smile on the face of [...]
Christmas in Tiger Bay
Residents in Rosemary Lane (Tiger Bay), Georgetown yesterday received gifts and hampers worth $400,000 from Gift Land Office Max. The handing over was done at the Community Center in Tiger Bay. The presentation made yesterday marked the second year the company has been giving back to the less fortunate. According to the Human [...]
Man sleeps in bed with murdered reputed wife
A 21-year old man was arrested after he was found lying in a bed yesterday morning with the nude body of his reputed wife, whom he had allegedly murdered hours earlier. The 20-year old woman, cane juice vendor and mother of one, Madhuri Padumdeo was discovered dead with a piece of rope tied tightly around [...]
Country loses billions in revenues…GRA going after big contractors, businesses in 2012
-KFC, other companies targeted in crackdown “It is barefaced what some of these businesses are doing…thinking that they are untouchable. Some are masquerading as charities but they are really culprits and criminals” – Sattaur. The state’s tax agency, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), is getting ready to go after several prominent companies which have [...]
A New Wind
There seems to be a new wind blowing through Guyana; a fresh wind and for now, a pleasant wind. It is too early, much too early to pronounce definitively on its temporality: there is the folk caution that “new brooms sweep clean” that must be heeded. But we would be remiss if we [...]
Ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities
In living with power every day, the mind must reach a saturation point with men and women whose words are flaky, voices are unfriendly, styles are inelegant and personalities are pretentious. The mind revolts at the ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities. For nineteen years we endured Sam Hinds. For nineteen years we stomached Clement [...]
ENCOURAGING!
The President of Guyana has started his presidency on an encouraging note. He has extended an olive branch to the opposition, agreed for consultations with them on the Budget, set up a team to review the Value Added Tax and has sent a signal that no one was above the law. He also [...]
Dem boys seh…Dem gun get wuk one by one
Dem got a song at Christmas time ‘Wuk dem one by one, wuk dem two by two’ and so on. All dem contractors getting expose one by one. Under de big Rat dem been ah wuk de nation two by two and even three by three. But dem boys seh that sweetness never [...]
Bisram’s Poll on Target
Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram’s poll was on target and not wrong as stated by Mr. Chris Ram who conducted a detailed disaggregated analysis of the findings simply to prove the poll is incorrect in “Bisram must review his polling methods” (KN Dec 9). I welcome any analysis and recommendations on how to improve or institutionalize [...]
GECOM seeks to educate Freddie Kissoon
Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) deliberately disregarded Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s first accusation against the Commission on the issue of its response to the People’s Progressive Party’s request for recounts. Optimistically, we had hoped that Mr. Kissoon, as a person who would be familiar with scholarly research, would have educated himself about the [...]
Correcting Peeping Tom
Dear Mr. Editor, Kindly direct this letter to Mr. Peeping Tom. Dear Mr. Peeping Tom, I am an admirer of your writings. On most occasions I find you to be objective and you do call a spade a spade, especially on the political scene. However, I have to take issue with one of your [...]
UG Library offers unreliable service
Dear Editor, As a first year student at the University of Guyana, I believe that the library system is very atrocious. On a normal day a student has to wait several hours before paid photocopies could be collected. It is in very rare circumstances that copies could be collected in at least fifteen to [...]
Recycling and reshuffling
Dear Editor, One of the reasons given for the bunch of recycled and reshuffled Ministers in the present Cabinet is that the President’s choice is limited to the PPP/C list of candidates. The million dollar question is, why limit yourself only to the PPP list? Those who have ears to hear and eyes to [...]
