Carnage on the streets
Dear Editor, One month has passed since Patrice Welcome was mowed down on Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt. Since then, many other commuters and pedestrians have shared the same fate. There is no indication that anything is being done to curb the slaughter on our highly congested roadways. Courtesy and care have been [...]
A Good Life, a Board of Inquiry (BOI) or a Missed Opportunity?
Dear Editor, I had three weeks to reflect on our national election results and I would like to share my views on the chance we gave up for ‘a good life’. Was it a Missed Opportunity? On the 28th November 2011, the electorate of Guyana was promised a ‘good life’ (APNU Manifesto, 2011) but [...]
A response to Peeping Tom
Dear Editor, Allow me space in your letter writer column to respond to the recent article of the 25th December edition, entitled “WHEN DIPLOMATS SPEAK, POLITICIANS RESPOND” written by your too scared to reveal himself columnist Peeping Tom but using the veil of anonymity, attacks public officers like myself with his arrogance and poisonous [...]
Unprofessional Turkeyen police rank
Dear Editor, I would like to express utter disgust with the unprofessional, selfish, and lackadaisical attitude of a police officer (name supplied) who was on duty at the Turkeyen Police Station on December 26, last, between the 18.30 hours and 20.00 hrs. I went to that station at 18.30 hrs on December 26 to inform [...]
Man shot in leg during robbery
A Christmas Eve night robbery at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, has left 57-year-old Trenton Benn, of Lot 19 Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The incident occurred at around 21:00hrs at his sister ’s home. According to Benn, his sister is a food [...]
Guyana’s oldest turns 111
By Leon Suseran Two years ago, she was featured in this newspaper on her 109th birth anniversary. Since then Kaieteur News has placed Mrs. Ismay Spooner, Guyana’s oldest living person, exactly where she deserves to be…on a pinnacle. This much appreciated and treasured senior citizen is truly a gem among us. Her gracing the pages [...]
Car owner suspects auto dealer made off with his vehicle
A Shirley Field-Ridley Square resident is trying to ascertain whether thieves made off with his car while he slept or whether he’s the victim of an unscrupulous auto dealer. Claudius London told Kaieteur News that he parked his grey Toyota Allion, PMM 2841, outside his home at around 04:15 hrs yesterday. But when [...]
Family pleads for runaway teen to return home
An Eccles family is pleading for the safe return of a 13-year-old who walked out of the house more than a week ago and has not been heard from since. According to reports, Akisha Williams left her parents’ Eccles, East Bank Demerara home on December 20, last, and never returned home. A close relative [...]
Insufficient cane caused Skeldon factory shortfall
- Agri Minister Ramsammy In a matter of days, government is expected to announce a new-look Chairman and Board of Directors for the country’s state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). Newly sworn-in Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, during a recent interview with Kaieteur News on the new administration’s plans for the industry, was upbeat over [...]
Boxing Day outing ends fatally for E’bo man
A Boxing Day outing turned deadly for a Henrietta, Essequibo Coast man, after he was struck from his motorcycle on the Windsor Castle Public Road. According to reports 38-year-old Gordon Coats, was pronounced dead while receiving treatment at the Leonora Cottage Hospital at around 22:00 hours on Monday. The dead man’s reputed wife Rastman [...]
Family furious after UK officials refuse to say if killer is illegal migrant
- man believed to be Guyanese (Daily Mail) United Kingdom – A murder victim’s family who want to know if the man who shot their son is in Britain legally have been refused the information – to protect the killer’s privacy. Wintworth and Lurline Deslandes are desperate to confirm suspicions that Saturday Hassan, believed to [...]
Cheekies, SAI donate to holiday newborns
Once again the Cheekies family at ANSA McAL Trading Limited kept up the annual tradition of supporting Guyanese mothers on Christmas Day. Mothers who gave birth at hospitals in Georgetown all received a “Bundle of Joy” hamper. Nigel Dodson, Brand Co-ordinator, ANSA McAL Trading Limited, in distributing the hampers said that it was his [...]
Police corporal makes positive impact on Force
Perseverance, dedication and a strong sense of discipline, complemented by a firm belief in God are attributes that have seen a young police corporal being able to not only make a positive impression on his colleagues but to him also excelling academically. It was just a few years ago that Police Corporal 19936, Orlanzo [...]
Teens beaten after caught breaking into house
A severe beating has left a 15-year-old boy nursing serious injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he and an accomplice were caught red-handed trying to break into a Meadow Brook house. The teen who hails from D’Urban Backlands said he was handed over to police officers at around 10:00 hours on Monday, last, [...]
Noisy revelry affects Christmas Eve services
Christmas Eve services in New Amsterdam were heavily affected by noise and heavy music on Saturday evening. Main Street was blocked off from St Ann Street to St John Street and thousands of revelers lined the roadway imbibing and eating and having a good time, while loud music was being played. Midnight masses which [...]
Burnham once called on WPA leaders to make their wills
Any act that can incite others to kill or seriously injure someone can be considered part of a process of procurement for murder. This is a criminal offence. It is therefore the duty of the law enforcement agencies that are often quick to haul persons before the courts for seditious statements, to caution [...]
Two die in Kitty fire
– several homeless The Guyana Fire Service is currently carrying out investigations into a deadly blaze that left two persons dead yesterday morning at 38 Public Road, Kitty. Dead are Cyril Robinson, 90, and Alfred Stephens 17. The two who perished in the blaze were sleeping when the tragedy struck. Two houses were [...]
Labourer burnt to death in Corentyne fire
A Corentyne labourer perished in an early morning blaze yesterday. Dead is Hemadat Phurkokatam, 42, of Springlands, Corriverton. The man, who was the sole occupant of the building, was apparently asleep when the blaze began. According to reports out of the area, neighbours were aroused by the thick blanket of smoke emerging from [...]
GT&T Christmas Wishes…Teen surrenders house for $1M cash
Imagine holding in your hands a key which has a one in three chance of opening the door to a brand new home built by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company and partially furnished by Gizmos and Gadget. Now weigh that one in three chance mere hours before Christmas while at the same time being offered [...]
Two murdered in seperate incidents…Miner shot and killed
- suspect still at large A father of five was yesterday shot and killed after he was involved in a heated argument with another man at Enachu, Cuyuni, in Region Seven. Dead is Oscar De Roche, 43, of Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara. The man’s reputed wife, Ivy Orna, yesterday told Kaieteur News that [...]
Mc Doom businesswoman found murdered
A Mc Doom businesswoman was found dead in her place of business around 07:30 yesterday morning. Her body bore several stab wounds and her entire business and living quarters were ransacked. The dead woman, 45-year-old Karen Reid-Patterson, was the proprietor of Flavor Cool Off Restaurant and Bar. According to reports a woman who [...]
Five year old abducted, raped
A five-year-old girl of Betsy Ground, East Canje Berbice, has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the New Amsterdam Hospital in a critical condition after she was abducted out of her bed wrapped in a sheet and taken into the bushes on the bank of the Canje River and brutally raped [...]
Tsunami girl, 8, found after 7 years.
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said Friday she broke down in tears this week after tracking down her parents, who had long lost hope of finding her alive. The 15-year-old showed up in Aceh province’s hard-hit town of Meulaboh [...]
Christmas Cheer
If it is one thing that we can boast about in our small and often politically troubled country it is the surfeit of religious openness and acceptance that we have in our country. It might not be a commodity that we may be able to trade but it is no less valuable for that. [...]
Dem boys seh…Is a Blue Christmas fuh de Bees
Christmas is a time when people does share time wid dem family. People does stay home, dem don’t walk about. But dem boys seh that dem gun sorry fuh Big Rat this year. He got a big house and no family. Of course is a holiday and is no ordinary holiday but dem [...]
