Tortured teen seeks in excess of $25 million compensation
Attorneys-at Law Khemraj Ramjattan and Neil Persram will today file an affidavit in the courts on behalf of Twyon Thomas, the teenager who was tortured at the Leonora Police Station in October last year.
The attorneys are seeking in excess of $25M in compensation on Thomas’ behalf.
The lawsuit names as respondents the Attorney General of Guyana, [...]
Unauthorised driver crashes CANU vehicle
An early morning accident has left one Customs Anti Narcotics Unit Rank and another man with minor injuries after the vehicle they were in turned turtle on the Soesdyke Public Road.
This newspaper was told that the incident occurred sometime around 05:00 hours yesterday. Reports are that the vehicle had earlier in the morning transported Head [...]
Remand prisoners stage riot
By Latoya Giles
Just two days after two inmates at the Georgetown Prisons died violently, the inmates in the Capital Section of the facility went into an uproar early yesterday morning, protesting the fact that the dormitory was without water for a number of days.
Kaieteur News understands that the prisoners asked a prison official for [...]
Linden operating theatre now functional
– Ramsammy
Health Minister, Leslie Ramsammy, is strongly denying claims that the Linden Hospital main operating theater is non-functional. Sources at the Linden Hospital had told Kaieteur News that the operating theater was not functioning and that patients who had to do simple surgeries had to be transferred to the Georgetown Hospital.
But yesterday, the Health [...]
Wales Community High School overcrowded
Parents of children who attend the Wales Community High School on the West Bank of Demerara are frustrated at what they say is confusion at the School, which approximately has 1,300 children in attendance.
According to Nicola Brown, whose son attends the school, which is expected to be renamed Wales Secondary School, some children attend classes [...]
Sewer System abuse a source of concern
- big businesses to be scrutinised
No amount of investment will give value for money unless the system is used for all intent and purpose and this offers a unique challenge for the sewerage system managers at GWI.
As works on the 24 pump stations continue, items such as sewing machines and engine blocks and in [...]
Debate for Allied Health Professionals Bill likely by March
Although it is currently with the Special Select Committee, the Allied Health Professionals Bill is likely to be up for debate by next month. This is according to an optimistic Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy who related that a report is expected from the Committee which has already examined the draft Bill at a meeting [...]
Don’t mix Phagwah with alcohol - IAC
The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) is supporting the call by the Hindu Community of Guyana for the festival of Holi (Phagwah) to maintain its sacred form and be respected.
The IAC has noted that over the last few years, some entertainment promoters use Phagwah to encourage undesirable practices and have associated the sale of alcohol with [...]
NAMILCO examines possibility of exporting flour to Brazil
Despite the many challenges in the local flour industry, over the past 16 years there has never been a shortage.
This is according to General Manager of National Milling Company, Bert Sukhai. Sukhai, in a recent interview, stated that the many successes over the years are as a result of strategic planning.
He said that his company [...]
Debate for Allied Health Professionals Bill likely by March
Although it is currently with the Special Select Committee, the Allied Health Professionals Bill is likely to be up for debate by next month. This is according to an optimistic Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy who related that a report is expected from the Committee which has already examined the draft Bill at a meeting [...]
Island Princess returns today
The ill-fated cargo vessel Island Princess is due in Guyana today.
Its owner, Errol Prince, told Kaieteur News that the vessel was finally released on Thursday after police officials here contacted their counterparts in Grenada.
The vessel set sail from Grenada on Friday and is expected to reach Guyana sometime in the evening today.
Mr. Prince said that [...]
Four refrigerated truck, five containers for farmers
Venezuela finances key agri project:
Farmers facing severe transportation constraints to ship their produce will see their plight eased considerably as government yesterday signed an agreement for the purchase of four refrigerated trucks and five refrigerated containers.
The $66M contract was signed Wednesday by Nizam Hassan, General Manager of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (New GMC) and [...]
Another vehicular smash up…
The two cars involved in the smash up at Meten-Meer Zorg, West Coast Demerara, Saturday, were heading in opposite directions when one turned across the other.
Both drivers claimed to have been in the right. Nevertheless, they both suffered injuries and were rushed to the nearby hospital for treatment and sent away.
ELECTIONS BUDGET
Today is Budget Day, a day that holds more significance for the contracting class than it does for the working class whose only fears today will be whether the government will continue to subsidize water and electricity.
It is a sad indictment of the government that years after it entered into a structural adjustment program which [...]
Mr. Speakaah! I beg to diffah!
Today is Parliament. The ruling party that has been in power for seventeen years will present its 2010 budget. It has been compiled without consultations and this has been the pattern over the years. And if there were, it would be of the biological type – “We spoke to you, therefore we consulted you.” Before [...]
FOR WHOM THE BALL TOLLS
“Biting the bullet” is not merely a physical act but also has metaphysical consequences. In the old days when a wounded soldier was undergoing surgery under battlefield conditions, and there was no anesthetic around, the soldier was given a bullet to bite on as a way of dealing with the pain.
In general usage the term [...]
600 million lack toilets in India
MUMBAI: No one would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing motorists.
But in terms of public toilet provision, the family is well-served compared with other areas, with an adequate communal block a [...]
Deliberate attempt to stymie prosecution of PM, Housing Minister afoot
…as Ramjattan says Hansard still not available
Attorney at Law Khemraj Ramjattan, who is also the Chairman of the Alliance For Change, says that there seems to be a deliberate attempt to stymie his attempt to prosecute Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali.
Ramjattan said that he is currently awaiting the Parliamentary [...]
GuySuCo braces for another year of losses
…CEO predicts return to profitability by end of 2012
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) operated at a loss in 2009, but significantly less than the previous year, and is staring at another year of losses. In fact, the company is not expected to return to profitability until the end of 2012.
This is according to Chief Executive [...]
Guyanese priest faces sex charge in U.S.
LA CROSSE, Wis. - A visiting Catholic priest is expected to be charged next week with sexually assaulting a local woman he was counseling through a divorce.
The 47-year-old woman told investigators the Rev. Edmund Donkor-Baine in August forced her to touch his genitals and grabbed her breast, both through clothing, while the pair talked inside [...]
Town Clerk, City Treasurer fired
…as Commission’s recommendations accepted
Two senior officials of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) who were sent on leave in July last year have been dismissed by government, in keeping with the recommendations of a Commission of Inquiry.
Minister of Local Government, Kellawan Lall, in a statement yesterday said that he was abiding with the [...]
Wife on trial for Prison Supt’s murder
The High Court trial of Michele Skeete, who is accused of murdering her reputed husband, 48-year-old Superintendent of Prisons, Lincoln Gilead, in May 2006, commenced on Wednesday last in the Berbice High Court before Justice Winston Patterson and a mixed jury.
The trial was put off from its scheduled Tuesday commencement upon a request by attorney [...]
Government slams Reuters uranium report
…chides entity for basing article on Trotman’s comments
The Guyana Government yesterday in a statement to the media deplored what it called the misleading report under the headline ’’Guyana opposition slams Iran uranium deal’’ by the Reuters news agency issued on Wednesday last.
The article was prepared by its Guyana correspondent Neil Marks.
According to the Guyana Government, [...]
Security guard charged with manslaughter
A 23-year-old security guard attached to the MMC security firm was yesterday charged with manslaughter after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Romeo Jones, 23, of Durban and Breda Streets, was not required to plead to the indictable charge of manslaughter which stated that he unlawfully killed Kwesi D’Andrade [...]
CARICOM looks to enhance presence in Haiti
CARICOM is in the process of sorting out how it will enhance its presence in its earthquake-hit member state of Haiti, through a specially appointed group of individuals and various other regional organisations.
Ambassador Colin Granderson, who has responsibility for Foreign and Community Relations and now holding down the fort as head man for the mobilisation [...]
