2012 Budget to be approved with no cuts
…$4.5B CJIA airport expansion money approved unchallenged By Gary Eleazar With just three days remaining for the Combined Opposition to make any cuts to the $192.8B 2011 Budget, all indications point to the estimates being approved without changes. This is according to a very senior official involved in the negotiations and affiliated [...]
Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling in danger of collapsing
– Demerara Speedboat Association Vice President Persons who use the Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara (WBD) stelling say that they risk serious injury because of the deplorable state of the structure. Vice President of the Demerara Speedboat Association, Lancelot Moseley fears that the rotting and unstable structure may even collapse, resulting in fatalities. Mosley [...]
Miner chopped to death in Puruni Backdam
- suspect held Police have detained a man following the hacking to death of a 29 year-old miner at Chinese Creek, Puruni. According to reports, 29 year-old Travis De Souza of 13 Section ‘C’ Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara died at his mining camp early Saturday morning after being chopped about his body by four [...]
Guyanese couple in murder/suicide
A heated argument between a Guyanese escalated into a murder/suicide on Saturday at St. Maarten. SMN News identified the female as Cheryl Withrite, 52, a Burger King employee. Police Spokesman Richard Henson said police found the woman dead inside her apartment above Tire Max, which is across from Flourish Supermarket, while the man was found [...]
Bio-fuel MoU…Ansa McCal approached Govt. for ‘non-financial’ support
- Dr. Ramsammy By Gary Eleazar The Ansa McCal Group of Companies had approached the Government of Guyana to solicit non financial support for the establishment of a sugar cane based ethanol plant. This is according to Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy who during this week’s Parliamentary Sessions responded to A Partnership for National [...]
Dem boys seh…Jagdeo tek all he benefits before he lef office
Bright and early Sunday morning some people went in de market looking fuh cheese. There was a shortage. People walk up and down and couldn’t find any till one boy tell dem that dem got to go to dem Minister house because he hear de Waterfalls boss man telling everybody how dem Minister got all [...]
Four men in Robb St. murder to get trial date today
A date for the commencement of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the death of 72- year-old Robb Street resident Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris is expected to be given today to the four men who are accused of assassinating the elderly woman in her home on June 30, 2011. Orin Hinds, 35, of Burnham Boulevard, Mocha, East Bank [...]
GT&T 10/10 nationwide softball quarterfinals decided
- Wolf’s Warriors, Speed Boat Sp. Club, Mike’s Wellwoman & Rising Star X1 through A punishing 1.5 overs which yielded some 47 runs, propelled defending champions Wolf’s Warriors into the quarterfinals of the 3rd GT&T 10/10 nationwide softball cricket competition which saw Super-16-Round action ending yesterday at the Everest Cricket Club, Ground, Camp Road. On [...]
Risk-free Aussies go for kill against Windies
AFP – Australia coach Mickey Arthur vowed his team will go for the West Indies’ jugular in the third and final Test even if their full throttle assault backfires. Australia have already ensured they will keep the Frank Worrell Trophy they have held for two decades after winning the first Test in Barbados and then seeing the [...]
James halts Bollers charge to storm to 400m win
AAG National Youth, Junior & Senior Championship By Juanita Hooper Running Brave (RB) star athlete, Stephan James reminded University of Guyana’s athlete, Elton Bollers who alienated himself from James and Chavez Ageday in the 200m finals on Saturday that he was the best junior quarter-miler when he stormed his way to win the boys under-20 [...]
Looks like a Western Tigers vs. Fruta Conquerors clash in Mayor’s Cup final
The final and third place playoff in the Mayor’s Cup Annual Knockout Inter-Ward football fiesta will be played on Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground. The final has all the appearance of a Western Tigers versus Fruta Conquerors clash based on the players representing the respective teams, West Ruimveldt and Wortmanville, in the [...]
Team with best record from preliminary phase sent packing
‘Guinness Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Football Tournament It was a case of a ‘bridge too far’ for Commacka United, the only team to have won all their preliminary matches prior to their encounter with a determined and focused Rough and Rugged unit who they faced in the Round of 16 in this year’s Linden [...]
LTI to clash with LFS while ‘Multi’ faces MHS in today’s semi-finals
After a round of intriguing contest and upsets, the 8th Victory Valley Royals School’s basketball championship is down to its final four teams. In today’s semi-finals, the Linden Technical Institute (LTI) will play Linden Foundation Secondary (LFS) in the first game at 14:30 hours, while game two brings together defending champions Mackenzie High School (MHS) [...]
Caribbean Container Inc. sponsors Jnr FIDE Rating Chess Tourney
Six unrated junior chess players will challenge four of their senior counterparts for FIDE (World Chess Federation) ratings in the Caribbean Container Inc. (C.C.I.) sponsored FIDE rating tournament which begins next weekend at Olympic House, Kingston. The junior participants took part in the 2011 National Junior Chess Championship. They are current National Junior Champion Hai [...]
BCB and Berbice Chamber Million-dollar 20/20 cricket tournament launched
The collaborative effort between the Berbice Cricket Board and the Berbice Chamber of Commerce was taken a step further with the launching of the joint 20/20 cricket initiative, which is scheduled to be held on 26th May Independence Day at the Albion Sports complex. The tournament will be played under the theme “Celebrating Guyana Struggles, [...]
Car disappears outside city bank
A white Premio (PNN 3547) was stolen from in front of Scotia Bank on Robb Street, Georgetown early Saturday morning, 15 minutes after the owner parked it there. The owner, Mohamed Shazam Isfehani of Alberttown, Georgetown said that around 08:45 hrs on Saturday, he parked his car in front of the Bank. He returned 15 [...]
Clients, attorneys, judges dead, but High Court cases still pending
- over 6,000 backlog matters There are approximately 6000 backlog cases in the High Court, including matters in which the judges, attorneys or clients have died. Some go back to ten years and are still to be heard. “In some cases that go ten years back…the lawyer, the client and even judge are deceased….but the [...]
Victim rebuilds, still awaiting GPL response on compensation
Stabroek Bazaar fire… Almost three weeks after fire of suspected electrical origin gutted her stall, Chandroutie Dass is still awaiting word from the Guyana Power and Light Company. Dass told this publication yesterday that a team from the utility company visited her Stabroek Bazaar stall, removed the burnt out [...]
Motorcyclist killed in crash with ‘drunk’ driver
A thirty five year old motorcyclist was killed after he was struck down by a drunk driver, on the Grove, East Bank Demerara public road shortly after midnight yesterday. Father of three, Rodwell Mercurius, of Lot 59 Friendship, EBD was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Center. The police have arrested [...]
High Court Injunction stalls function of GTU executives
Execution of duties by Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) newly elected Central Executive Officers is stalled because the High Court approved an interim injunction filed by three union members. The Ex-parte application for Interim Injunction was filed by Milne Seymour, Raelene Phillips and Selwyn Seymour. Milne Seymour was one of the nominees for Union [...]
Local writer calls for massive investment in arts and culture
“It will make money for Guyana; it will help to define Guyana, but it needs participation from the Government, but the government must have guidance from the arts community and not from political appointees.” -Barrington Braithwaite Writer, artist and folklorist Barrington Braithwaite is calling on Government to make massive [...]
LINDEN SHOULD HAVE BY NOW BEEN THE INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL OF THE CARIBBEAN
Linden is one lucky community. Imagine having to pay $15 per KWH for electricity while the rest of the country is burdened with tariffs that are three and one half times this amount. Not many Guyanese were aware of this discrepancy in the cost of electricity between Linden and the rest of the country. [...]
COMEDY IN A MYNAH
Today I left the village post office and a really muddy scrawny chicken shot across the road narrowly escaping being dinner and then returned almost faster when it ran into a cat. Why did he do that? Because he was a dirty-double crosser, that’s why. That is also the reason for calling a missing [...]
APNU/PNC’s betrayal of the AFC will backfire spectacularly
Dear Editor, APNU/PNC and the AFC exhibited their full political naivete and inability to comprehend the Machiavellian complex that operates within the PPP. The PPP may be overrun by incompetent dunces and corrupt pilferers but there is one area this party still dominates the political sphere in; machiavellianism, cunning and chicanery. When it comes to [...]
Linden folks eat, sleep and breathe dust
Dear Editor, A letter in the Stabroek News publication of March 15th 2012: “BOSAI’s proposed expansion should be viewed with concern given its history of environmental non-compliance”, by Charles P. Ceres has once again raised many serious concerns and questions, shedding further light on the ubiquitous age old dust nuisance that is a main characteristic [...]
