Drugs purchase scandal continues…Govt. pays $8,000 for $600 injection
- also buys $1,600 aspirin for $2,700 One day after government came out in defence of reports that it purchased an $80 anti-fungal cream for $1,909 per tube, there are now more shocking details of how one contraceptive was bought at an exorbitant $8,000 for one vial. The injection, Depo Provera, is retailed and available [...]
Deplorable road condition sparks protest in Linden
…nurses fall on road with alarming frequency Nurses and auxiliary staff of the Linden Hospital Complex, yesterday downed tools for several hours and formed a human barricade to block traffic along Casaurina Drive, to protest the deplorable condition of the road. “Enough is enough,” many of them shouted. They collectively vowed to continue the protest [...]
Boat mishap in Puruni, three missing
Three miners are missing and feared drowned after a boat they were travelling in overturned around 07:00 hrs yesterday in the Puruni River, located in Middle Mazaruni. One of the missing men is believed to be George Bowman, a 35-year-old miner of Lot 535 Section ‘B’ South Sophia. Police are still trying to [...]
IPA demands answers on disqualification to supply medical drugs
Head of International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA), Lloyd Singh, says that his company is only given medical supply contracts when the government has to measure up to the transparency requirements of international donors. Otherwise, Singh said his company is denied supply contracts and without any explanation. In a heated dispute, the supplier is denying [...]
Pest Control Plus owner laid to rest… Police detain businessman
Police have detained a city businessman in connection with the execution-style killing of Pest Control Plus owner Mohamed Salahudeen Bacchus Baksh. An official explained that the businessman was taken into custody yesterday. He has reportedly denied any involvement in Baksh’s slaying and has given detectives an alibi for his movements at the time of the [...]
Is Bharrat Jagdeo ignorant, naïve or just deceptive?
When the mind refuses to see reality it stagnates. It locks itself up in a warped time zone. When actual events relentlessly force themselves on such a mind, it is inevitably too late. Such a narrow psychology is immensely destructive when it comes to heads of importantly large national or international institutions, Prime [...]
Dem boys seh…De Health Ministry B fuh Kwame de nation
There is a saying. It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open you mouth and remove all doubts. Dem boys got dem own one. It is better to let people think you are a thief than to open you mouth and confirm you is a thief. That is [...]
Corruption has Donald Ramotar cornered
Over time the people of this country have been hearing about their corrupt government. For example, there was talk that Forbes Burnham had stolen so much money that he was the fifth richest person in the world. The accusers quoted Forbes Magazine. Those were the days when information contained in foreign magazines was not readily [...]
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
The latest explanation by the opposition for not supporting a financial paper submitted by the government for expenditure made from the Contingency Fund for 2011, was that it was the same document that was submitted before. In this context one has to ask: just what variations did the opposition expect? Obviously, the government cannot vary [...]
Let’s bring the gravy train of corruption to a screeching halt now!
DEAR EDITOR, In response to SN’s scathing editorial, “CHEC,” (June 18), I couldn’t help noting the writer’s recognition of the Jagdeo regime’s failure to exercise due diligence before secretly signing with the Chinese government-owned Chinese Harbour and Engineering Corporation (CHEC) for the US$138M expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). That failure was in [...]
Robert Corbin has demonstrated sober leadership
DEAR EDITOR, Since Mr. Robert Corbin has announced his intention not to seek re-election to serve as leader of the PNCR, there has emerged all kinds of pundits, real or fictional, who have begun to occupy letter sections of the local news papers to pedal all kinds raison raison d’être as to Mr. Corbin’s [...]
June – A significant month in Guyana’s political calendar
DEAR EDITOR, The month of June is significant in the political calendar of Guyana. It is the month in which five sugar workers were brutally shot to death by colonial police for having dared to stand up for their rights. It is also the month in which Walter Rodney was assassinated for having dared to [...]
A call to duty
DEAR EDITOR, The winds of change are enveloping the entire planet – first and third world countries alike. Dishonesty and corruption are implicated in many instances. In our own context, only a moron will fail to grasp the significance of it all. Incompetence, bribery, corruption, injustice, you name it, are some of the issues [...]
The Preamble of a Constitution can no longer be ignored or brushed aside
DEAR EDITOR, The days when the Preamble of a Constitution could be ignored or brushed aside are over. The attitude it seems has prevailed in places from time to time. The present Preamble of the Guyana Constitution deserves to be read again and again. It was enacted at a time when a Constitutional Reform [...]
Covent Garden crushes APS
-Houston stuns Mercy Wing Covent Garden registered the largest margin of victory so far in this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition after inflicting an 18-1 drubbing on Academy of Professional Studies (APS) in their encounter yesterday, at the Grove Community Centre ground. In the other game scheduled in the East Bank Demerara Zone [...]
Sombre atmosphere as England hunt series
The one-day series continues at The Oval today, overshadowed by the death of Tom Maynard, the Surrey batsman, yesterday. Maynard had been tipped to appear at full England level and many of the current squad expressed their dismay at the news. Jade Dernbach, the Surrey pace bowler, has been given compassionate leave from the squad [...]
Another one bites the dust
-Plaisance reaches first Final Four By Edison Jefford First it was Albouystown/Charlestown, then it was North Ruimveldt, and now it’s the super-strong Wortmanville/Werk-En-Rust that has exited the 2012 National Community Basketball League (NCBL) after a heartbreaking loss in the quarterfinals Sunday night. Albouystown, North Ruimveldt and Wortmanville have all been to the semi-final and final [...]
LIVEWIRE makes donation to Coomacka CDC
– several sport activities for Weekend Festival Coordinator of the upcoming Coomacka Weekend Festival, LIVEWIRE Productions on Sunday presented some Mercury vapour lamps to the village’s Community Development Council (CDC) ahead of the upcoming CARICOM Weekend event. The donation from LIVEWIRE Productions followed a request from President of the Coomacka CDC, Allister Fraser for [...]
We are undeserving of that elusive Olympic gold medal
Says Michael Benjamin Whosoever coined the old adage about putting all of one’s eggs in one basket would have felt exonerated after Imran ‘Magic’ Khan, Guyana’s key hope for a medal at the impending London Olympics, lost his fight to Argentina’s Alberto Melian at the Olympic Box-off in Brazil recently. Several other boxers [...]
Unknown Bollers is known
- records fastest 200m time oversea for local based junior athlete Royal Youth Movement (RYM) athlete, Elton Bollers of the University of Guyana (UG) has been improving tremendously in his athletic career that he resumed earlier in the year. The nineteen years old athlete, who was in the silhouette for quite a number of years [...]
BCB contributes to Devers’ medical expenses
Ex-Berbice cricketer to return to Brain Surgeon next month International Cricket broadcaster Sean Devers has received a contribution of $50,000 towards his medical bills (MRI images) from the Berbice Cricket Board from its recently held Independence Cup T20 tournament at Albion. A sports Journalist with the Kaieteur News, Devers was diagnosed with a Level [...]
Proper labelling of drugs in English pivotal – Govt. Analyst
- Department to remove items from supermarkets, retailers who have information not displayed in English The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department (GA/FDD) will be removing from the shelves of supermarkets and other retail levels all food, human and veterinary drugs, cosmetic and medical device where the information is not properly displayed in English. Furthermore, the [...]
Police lab will do forensic DNA testing
- Barbadian and French specialists to train locals The soon to be completed police forensic laboratory at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus will definitely have the capabilities to do DNA testing for forensic purposes. This was disclosed by Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, who told the media that the administration has obtained [...]
Rohee defends acquisition of $37M water cannon
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has defended Government’s acquisition of a water cannon, dismissing assertions that it might have been a case of misplaced priority. The Minister was speaking to reporters following a public demonstration of how the equipment works. The location chosen was near the Manatee Pond in the National Park yesterday afternoon. [...]
Hundreds rush to meet registration deadline
As the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday prepared to wrap up its registration process, scores of unregistered persons, both young and old, flooded locations all across the country, for their last minute registrations. Although the lines moved at a sluggish pace, many were prepared to wait out of fear that they might be [...]
