Breaking News: Albouystown taxi driver gunned down
An Albouystown taxi driver was gunned down in front of his home at around 02:00 hrs today. Renee Williams, 25, of Lot 138 King Edward Street, Albouystown, was shot twice in the upper back by a lone, black-clothed man as he sat in his car with his wife. He died shortly after at the Georgetown [...]
Local police confident of capturing killer
Murder of T&T attorney’s daughter… Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brummel is confident that the suspect in the brutal murder of Nikita Ramischand, the daughter of Trinidad-based attorney, will be captured soon. Brummel confirmed that Immigration records show that that suspect, Ramesh Sookram, called ‘Alan’, entered Guyana. “Immigration records show that he came here…it [...]
Budget cuts threaten future Govt./Opposition ‘negotiations’
…Linden package, Pension increase to go ahead as planned By Gary Eleazar The recent budgetary cuts by the combined opposition will not in any way have a negative effect on the Old Age Pension increase recently committed to by Head of State Donald Ramotar, but will threaten future ‘negotiations’ between the government and [...]
DHB commuters face one hour delay
– operation to change hydraulic ramp ongoing Commuters traversing the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) are asked to exercise patience and to begin their journeys at least one hour earlier to accommodate the delay occasioned by the repairs being done on the structure. The bridge is closed to marine traffic to facilitate on going [...]
Ramotar lambastes opposition for budget cuts at Berbice business community meeting
– does not rule out snap elections, but hopes it is a last resort “We are not running a casino-type of operation…where two gang men sit around a table and say ‘I take this and you take that’.” BY LEON SUSERAN President Donald Ramotar has said that after lengthy and fruitful discussions with [...]
Man found dead at Versailles after being dumped from minibus
The police are seeking the assistance of the public to identify the body of a man who was found early yesterday morning on the Versailles Public Road West Bank Demerara. According to reports the man, who is of Amerindian descent. was found at around 08:00 hours yesterday morning. This publication was told that the man [...]
Dem boys seh….Geena and Hen See Hen con Guyana
Life in Guyana is like de wrestling people does see pun TV. It does look like real but nobody don’t get hurt. People does get some knock and don’t get a single bruise. Sometimes to mek things look li’l real dem does get some paint that look like blood. Well de opposition cut de budget [...]
Wolf’s Warriors canters into semis; Unstoppable, 4R Lioness & Rising Stars also advance
GT&T 10/10 quarterfinals On another pulsating day of class action, four teams marched closer to the championship games of the 3rd GT&T/Ministry of Culture Youth & Sport/Guyana Softball League nationwide 10/10 cricket competition. In the first set of quarterfinal matches played at the Everest Community Centre Ground, Camp Road, Georgetown, defending champion Wolf’s Warriors cantered [...]
Hinckson (105), George (5-55) shine for DCC
GCA’s Carib Beer, Friends of cricket 1st div cricket Jamal Hinckson stroked a polished century, while off-spinner Kevin George grabbed a five-wicket haul for host DCC in their drawn Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket two-day first division cricket encounter against Police which concluded yesterday. Hinckson’s 105 was supported by Cohen Ismond who made 70 and Jahron [...]
Young Star book quarter-final slot; Shieldstown also advance
NBS 2nd div. 40 over cricket No.70 Young Star and Shieldstown both won their last-16 playoff matches to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2011 New Building Society Second Division 40 over competition. In their playoffs against Kim-Il-Sung of Corriverton played at the No.70 Ground, No. 70 Young Star won the toss and batted first. [...]
Guyoil/Castrol Coaching programme off to highly successful start
The Guyoil/Castrol countywide Coaching programme organized by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) got off to a successful start with sessions at the Bush Lot and Blairmont Cricket Grounds on April 16 and 17 respectively. The sessions are conducted by Coaches Michael Hyles Franco, Julian Moore, Floyd Benjamin and Winston Smith and catered for youths from [...]
Heavy rain & water logged track postpones Bush Lot United Horserace meet
Heavy rainfall in the Berbice area which left the Bush Lot United Turf Club at Bush Lot West Coast Berbice waterlogged forced the organisers to postpone yesterday’s One day Horserace meet. Eight races were scheduled with over $3M on offer and some 60 horses entered. Along with Banks DIH, the other sponsors were Mohammed Shariff [...]
NCBL to storm Guyana
By Edison Jefford In an effort to create more awareness and regenerate interest in local basketball, the minds that are responsible for the super-successful Inter-Ward Basketball Championships, will be launching the National Community Basketball League (NCBL). Speaking to Kaieteur Sport yesterday, the Coordinators, Kwame Mentore and Robert “Bobby” Cadogan, indicated that the League will be [...]
Cabinet gives green light for 21 contracts
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, on Thursday has advised that Cabinet on Tuesday, last, offered its “no objection” to 21 contracts in the Public Works and Housing and Water Sectors. For the Public Works Sector, $19.4M was granted for the execution of slope protection works at Johanna Cecilia on the [...]
Chanderpaul No. 1 Test batsman after three years
ESPNcricinfo- West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has regained the No.1 ranking for Test batsmen after nearly three years. Chanderpaul was the leading run-scorer in the recently concluded home Test series against Australia with 346 runs at an average of 86.50. Australia, after winning the series 2-0, moved up to No. 3 in the ICC Test [...]
President hails Catholics’ contribution to Guyana’s advancement
Linden Town Day overseas visitors beaten by police
Irate relatives of two overseas-based Lindeners, who were early Friday morning brutalized by ranks attached to the Mackenzie Police Station, are calling for action to be taken against the perpetrators who they claimed operate as though they are in the ‘wild, wild west’. According to reports, the two men, 34-year old Tyrone Evans [...]
Life in prison for those who rape mentally challenged persons
According to the World Health Organisation, persons with mental disorders are stigmatized and are subject to neglect and abuse, a state of affairs which has been recognised the world over, Guyana being no exception. It has however been embraced by many, that persons afflicted with mental disorders can in no way be regarded [...]
Women Miners’ Assoc. to be educated on laws governing sexual crimes
– Organization calls for Ministry’s staff to be more dedicated The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will be training members of Guyana Women Miners’ Organization to effectively deal with victims of sexual crimes in keeping with the law. This workshop will be conducted next Thursday, two weeks after the organization helped [...]
Wife suspicious of accident reports
Dead motorcyclist… The wife of motorcyclist Yudashram Dookhie, who was killed in Thursday night’s horrific crash on Vlissengen Road, is refuting claims that her husband rode into a truck. The woman has formed her belief after examining her husband’s motorcycle. According to the woman the motorcycle headlight was “untouched”. When Kaieteur News [...]
DDL record 1.5B profit for 2011
– performance credited to the state of the art bottling line Beverage giant, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and its subsidiaries recorded an after tax profit of $1.5 billion and a growth of 4.2 per cent in 2011. This was disclosed at the company’s Annual General Meeting last Friday where shareholders met at the [...]
More vehicular assault on public property
Traffic along the East Bank of Demerara in the vicinity of Houston grounded to a crawl yesterday morning when this grey Premio, bearing the license plate PNN 7896 ran off the road at Rahaman’s turn, severing a utility pole and downing another. Eyewitnesses said the driver and occupants exited the smashed vehicle, entered another car [...]
THE STATE MEDIA IS CHANGING
One the ironies of the recent cuts on the state-owned television, radio and government information service was that it took place at a time when the very opposition which had for years been complaining about the partisanship of the state media, were actually benefiting from unprecedented coverage. During the Budget debate, it was [...]
IT’S CRUNCH TIME
One of the lessons I learned relatively late in life is that we should keep our words soft and sweet. You never know when you have to eat them. All of us Caribbean people, maybe because of our history of slavery and indentureship, tend to be negative instead of positive, dishing out blame [...]
Guyana-born EU accountant dies while returning home from overseas assignment
What seemed like another business trip for a South Ruimveldt Gardens accountant has turned into an unforgettable experience for his family. European Union Project Accountant, Ian Jordan, 53, was scheduled to be in Guyana with his wife and two children. However he died in St Lucia yesterday morning, while on a flight back home from [...]
