GCB moves to quash IMC decision
-seeks WICB intervention The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has moved to the High Court to nullify Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony’s decision to set up an Interim Management Committee (IMC) in its place, and has also apprised the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Kaieteur Sports understands that Lionel Jaikarran and [...]
Young Achievers of Guyana win in Suriname
Guyana’s top volleyball club, Young Achievers returned home from participating in an Inter Guiana’s Club Tournament last weekend as champions. The tournament which was hosted by Lyzecks Volleyball Club of Suriname saw four other clubs participating including Young Achievers (Guyana), Montjoly (Cayenne), Yellowbirds and Yelleco (Suriname). According to a release the playing format [...]
Fingered in piracy…Fishing official could face expulsion if found guilty
A senior official from the Upper Corentyne Fisherman’s Coop Society could be expelled from all fishing related activities if he is found to have been involved in the recent piracy attacks off the Corentyne Coast. The official was detained by police in Berbice after his boat was identified as the one used by pirates [...]
GPL’s fuel bill rises to a staggering $23B
– workers settle for 8% increase Workers of the country’s cash-strapped power company have settled for less than the salary increase they initially bargained for in order to stave off an increase in electricity bills, company and union official said yesterday. An estimated 600 workers of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) will [...]
Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief robbed after car is rammed
Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle, Mark Ramotar, was early Wednesday morning robbed at gunpoint by four men who cornered his vehicle into the concrete median at Agricola, East Bank Demerara. Ramotar told this publication that earlier Tuesday evening, he had attended a function and then returned to his office in Bel Air briefly. He [...]
US$80,000 in goods lost after boat heading from Suriname sinks
A boat with goods valued US$80,000 on the way to Guyana from Suriname sank Monday night in the Nickerie River, according to Suriname news. On the boat were peanut cheese, liquor, tomato paste, coffee, television and other electrical equipment. Besides the captain, there were three others, all Guyanese men. They were not wearing life [...]
Grove/Diamond NDC in trouble…Residents want garbage buildup cleared before Christmas
Residents of Diamond and Grove, East Bank Demerara, are worried over a growing garbage crisis and want authorities to do something about it before Christmas. Their concerns may be valid with an official close to the Grove/Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) disclosing that only recently the body resumed garbage collection in certain areas there. [...]
Archaeological find up Berbice River…Results awaited on possible 5,000 year-old human settlement
Groundbreaking archaeological discoveries have been made in Guyana in recent times. Local and United States (US) archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a whale, a giant porpoise and a rock fish, all of which could be about 10,000 years old. Another significant discovery is that of pottery, perhaps as old as 5,000 years, [...]
Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry
Police ranks are presently reviewing tapes from a security camera to identify two gunmen who robbed the “S & K Lumber Yard and General Store”, located at Blossom Scheme, Enmore South, East Coast Demerara. Reports are that around 08:30 yesterday morning, two men armed with guns entered the premises and began threatening customers and [...]
Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation
Following the announcement of the General and Regional Elections results on December 1st, the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has been calling for the resignation of Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, and Chief Executive Officer Gocool Boodhoo. “We will not let up on our call for Surujbally and Boodhoo resignation… no threat [...]
Lawyer moves for dismissal of Freddie Kissoon/Jagdeo libel case
-judge denies application Attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, yesterday asked that the libel suit which was brought against Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, by former President Bharrat Jagdeo be dismissed. Hughes was responding to appearing lawyer for Jagdeo, Sase Gunraj, who stood up before presiding judge, Brassington Reynolds, and said that he was on record to speak [...]
City Council announces rates and taxes increase for 2012
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced increases in residential and commercial rates and taxes in its draft 2012 Budget. There were no increases in rates and taxes since 1997, says Treasurer, Andrew Meredith. The official, during a press briefing yesterday at City Hall, disclosed that the proposed budget caters for increases in [...]
AFC insists on Nagamootoo as new House Speaker
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is adamant that Moses Nagamootoo is perfect for the post of Speaker of the National Assembly. This was expressed by Chairman of the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan, during the party’s weekly press conference at their Fourth Street, Campbellville, headquarters yesterday. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is recommending Senior Counsel, Ralph [...]
Brazilian Governor who spoke on PPP platform ousted for campaign violation
Jose de Anchieta Junior, Governor of the State of Roraima, Brazil, has reportedly been ordered to vacate his post by an electoral court in the Portuguese speaking South American country. His crime was violating campaign law. An official for Roraima state’s electoral court said Governor de Anchieta Junior and Deputy Governor Chico Rodrigues [...]
Accused in Berbice ‘scissors’ murder remanded
A man who allegedly used a pair of scissors to stab another Berbice man to death has been charged with murder. Ronald Fraser, 22, called ‘Alay’, of Liverpool Village, Corentyne, Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Fabio Azore at the Whim Magistrate Court. He is accused of murdering Quacy Gray, 26, of Lot 20 Manchester Village, [...]
Absent witness forces adjournment in Colin Jones PI
Even after being warned by the court that the high profile case against Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Basil Morgan, Anthony Watson and Jahfar Sampson was one of great priority, police witness Sergeant Burnett was still absent yesterday. The man, who was ordered to appear before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry, by his [...]
Fleeing motorcycle accident victim remanded for gun possession
Fredrick Boyce, 27, who crashed his motorcycle after he allegedly fled from police, has been charged with the illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, has also ordered an investigation into allegations that the man was beaten by police. He appeared in court yesterday with a swollen eye, bruised lips [...]
Brawl over woman ends in murder
The spate of violence in the hinterland escalated yesterday with the stabbing to death of 25-year-old Jermaine Mc Kenzie at an interior shop at Blue Mountain Mazaruni. Mc Kenzie, of Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, was reportedly slain during an argument over a woman. According to eyewitness reports, two men were talking to [...]
Liberalisation row…GT&T challenges Digicel to release its financials
The debate over liberalisation of the telecommunication industry has revved up once again with the two giants’ Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Digicel (Guyana) trading blows. Yesterday, GT&T called on Digicel to make public its financial statements that would corroborate claims that GT&T’s supposed monopoly on international calls is hurting the entity. Chief [...]
Memorial service held for AFC stalwart Sheila Holder
Late Parliamentarian and founding member of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Sheila Holder, was yesterday eulogized when family members and friends assembled at St. George’s Cathedral, Georgetown, to reflect on her life’s works. Those in attendance included AFC leaders Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan; APNU Leader David Granger; Former First Lady Varshnie Singh; Minister of [...]
Top Cop finally on leave from today
Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene has finally proceeded on leave to facilitate an investigation into allegations of rape made against him by a 34-year old woman. In Greene’s absence, Assistant Commissioner Leroy Brumell is now the man in charge. There was some confusion over the weekend as to who was in charge of the [...]
Fishermen’s Co-op official held in piracy probe
- His boat identified by victims Police in Berbice have detained a senior official of the Upper Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-op Society as they investigate his alleged involvement in a recent act of piracy in that area. The man was arrested after he was fingered as being the mastermind of the attacks by suspects [...]
APNU unveils list of MPs
A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) has identified its candidates for the National Assembly and the Regional Democratic Councils, following the official declaration of results for recently held General and Regional Elections. Among the candidates identified for the National Assembly are Sydney Allicock of the Guyana Action Party (GAP); businessman Ronald Bulkan; Economist, Carl [...]
Live not the lie
Vaclav Havel, who ushered in the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, ending four decades of communist totalitarian rule, died last Sunday. His death was not much remarked on in our country, but it should have been. Havel’s iconoclastic, but powerfully evocative, analyses on the bases of dictatorial rule offered a beacon of hope to [...]
The vibes are flowing in opposite directions
If you have followed my articles in KN over the past decade, you would know that I died many times after picking up the newspapers and reading some of the most ridiculous things to come out of the mouths of certain Guyanese. Sunday, I died again. I read the Rickey Singh column and thought that [...]
