These four men brought bitterness, misery and impoverishment
Dear Mr. Editor, From the presidencies of Mr. C. B Jagan to Mr. B. Jagdeo, the PPP had numerous opportunities to change the Burnhamite constitution. Every PPP President has exercised the power and dictatorial impositions afforded by the Burnhamite constitution on every government related entity. Most PPPites do not think that this rule [...]
Electrocution of five-year-old…GPL completes preliminary investigation
-victim’s family contacts attorney The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has completed a preliminary investigation into the circumstances surrounding Wednesday’s electrocution of five-year-old Antuane Lovelle. Meanwhile, the dead lad’s parents have contacted a prominent attorney with the aim of taking legal action against the company that it blames for the tragedy. GPL’s Chief Executive [...]
Parked Toyota Allion vanishes
The owner of a grey Toyota Allion is seeking the help of the public to locate his car, which vanished mysteriously while it was left locked and parked in Robb Street yesterday. Jevon Samsodin’s bad luck began yesterday when he rented his car, PNN 1202 to Gavin Baksh, of Friendship, East Bank Demerara. [...]
TCL local market demands grow by 30 %
With the current infrastructure boom Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Guyana Incorporated (TGI) has seen a 30 percent growth in demand over the last year. Today, because of that growth TCL now controls about 70 per cent of the local cement market. Back in 2009, TCL along with TGI filed a lawsuit against the [...]
OMAI Boneyard miners protest GGMC
-Miners will not be granted a third extension – GGMC Head Yesterday, a group of miners who have been operating in the OMAI area at a place called Boneyard, protested the office of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), calling on the entity to grant them a fourth extension to mine in [...]
Corentyne girl, 15 runs off with teenage lover
A 15- year- old Fourth Form student of the Tagore Secondary School on the Corentyne ran away from home on Christmas Eve day for the second time this year, presumably with her 18- year- old lover, who resides just a few blocks from her. Meenawattie ‘Devanie’ Oudit clandestinely left her grandmother’s house shortly after [...]
Underage Corentyne found in secret brothel hours after going missing
A family on the Upper Corentyne area is perturbed at the actions of three girls (two of whom are underaged) which resulted in the girls being taken by three men to a house in the back of the village and was possibly violated. According to the girls’ grandmother, their ages are 17, 15; and their [...]
Kitty Public Road fire… Investigators looking for possible arson suspect
Investigators are yet to determine what actually caused the blaze at Public Road Kitty on Christmas Eve Morning. Kaieteur News was told that investigators from the Guyana Fire Service along with the police are working to locate a man believed to be a prime suspect who escaped the inferno. According to police sources, [...]
Education CEO urges speedy implementation of policies
“There is an overriding recognition now that our students in our schools, every single one of them, have to be at the forefront of all of our initiatives and at a greater level than they have ever been.” This is the conviction of Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, who recently told educators that the Ministry [...]
Residents differ on demolition of old psychiatric hospital
The two historic buildings which stands tall in front of the new National Psychiatric Hospital, located in Fort Canje, Berbice, has now become the main source of spreading stigma about the institution- according to residents of New Amsterdam and Fort Canje. Kaieteur News was fortunate enough to meet overseas-based Guyanese, Anita Rai; she claims to [...]
Germany releasing $1.3B for Kaieteur Park, Shell Beach protection
-regulatory body will also be established Guyana’s move to declare several areas as protected zones is paying off with Germany yesterday announcing its intentions to release 5M Euros ($1.3B) to help establish a Protected Areas Commission and a Trust Fund. The areas, particularly Kaieteur National Park and the Shell Beach Protected Area, are to benefit [...]
Post Offices will not become obsolete – PRO
Over the years persons have shied away from using the traditional post office method of sending mails. The increase availability and convenience of internet (e-mails), instant messaging and constant updates would cause one to deem the two or three day mailing option primitive. But according to Public Relations Officer for the General Post [...]
Police call on piracy victims to identify recovered items
Police are calling on victims of piracy attacks to come forward and identify several items which were recovered in an ongoing operation following the recent attacks on the Corentyne River. The items including which are suspected to have been looted during attacks on fishermen are being held at police stations at Springlands and New [...]
300 million children exploited as child labourers-WHO
International Labour Organization (ILO) survey has revealed some shocking statistics, with an estimated 300 million children being exploited regularly in the form of child labour. To worsen the fact, around 200 million children are compelled to work in perilous environment with the least safety norms in places like mines or factories, or in [...]
Corentyne man jailed in absence
Sohan Busjit, 20, of Liverpool Village, Corentyne will have to spend the next 18 months in jail, if he is caught. He was found guilty by magistrate Fabio Azore at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on a charge of unlawful and malicious damage to property. He is accused of damaging his stepfather’s [...]
Sophia murder accused remanded until next year
Twenty- one year old Michael Persaud, who is accused of murdering his reputed wife, was yesterday remanded to jail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. The man, who allegedly killed 20-year old Madhuri Padumdeo, was not required to plead to the indictable offence at his first court appearance. He is expected back [...]
61-year-old jail for three years for falsely selling property
A Kuru Kururu man who pocketed $6M for selling a Subryanville home belonging to somebody else has been jailed for three years. Sixty-one year old Ray Ferriera appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez, charged with the offence of obtaining by false pretence. He was found guilty after the 15-month long trial concluded on Wednesday [...]
Faulty GPL wire electrocutes boy 5
Tragedy struck yesterday evening, shattering the New Year’s plans of a Craig, East Bank Demerara family following the electrocution of a five-year-old boy. Antuane Lovelle was pronounced dead at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre around 18:00 hours, minutes after he stepped on a severed live electrical wire in his yard at 334 Craig. While his parents, [...]
Two tins of milk cost woman $100,000
– magistrate tells shoplifter – I remember you An East La Penitence woman, known for her shoplifting exploits, was yesterday fined $100,000 for stealing two tins of milk over a year ago. Sandra Williams was charged jointly with Amanda Duncan and the accusation was that the two shoplifted two tins of 1800 grams [...]
The present, the future and the return to the theme of the past
Citizens do not pay the same attention to the media at the end of year holiday season as they do during the year. I guess that is only natural. So during the Christmas fever, the PPP issued a statement that when looked at from any angle is oxymoronically comical and frightening and unfortunately it [...]
Guyana needs a rail service
Not yet ten years ago, there was talk that Guyana would resurrect the railroad along coastal Guyana. Indeed, this country had the first railway on the South American continent. We scrapped it when oil became a cheap commodity. Never in our wildest dreams did we expect that oil would have been the devil it is [...]
SOME MEDIA PRACTITIONERS CANNOT CHANGE
One of the lame excuses that defenders of private media bias like to make is that this bias is a natural reaction to the state media partisanship. This is another way of saying that because the state media is imbalanced, this justifies the private media being equally lopsided. For many years in Guyana, the [...]
Dem boys seh…Bar Rat can’t sleep
Night mek fuh sleep but some people can’t sleep. That does happen when people frighten or when dem got children who sick or when dem got stress. Mitta Sharma couldn’t sleep because he had nuff things hanging over he head. Dem boys seh that he did frighten when Bar-Rat promise to revoke he television licence. [...]
Our President is off to a great start
Dear Editor, For those who were led to believe that Donald Ramotar could not win the Presidency, they were wrong. For those who believed that he would govern in the shadow of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, they are equally wrong. And for those politicians, political pundits and hate-mongers who tried to destroy the [...]
A very fertile field for sidebar comment
Dear Editor, I am informed that sports journalists do not always write on the conduct and outcomes of the particular sport of their interest. On occasions they present to their readers views on issues related to the sport. What they produce are referred to as “sidebars”. Were that concept to be applied to [...]
