Pensioners’ subsidy for Water Service needs to be registered
– GWI Guyana Water Incorporated, GWI, is advising old aged pensioners (65 and older) that through the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security there is a subsidy for eligible GWI customers for payments of their bills. However, there needs to be registration by beneficiaries. According to GWI, customers of Georgetown are granted [...]
Corbin gets ready to relinquish PNCR top post
– Granger, Greenidge set to go head-to-head for leadership “the party (PNCR) must have at every level, fresh and talented young faces representing every shade of Guyana’s life in the leadership of the party at both the local and national levels” – Robert Corbin By Gary Eleazar The Peoples National Congress Reform [...]
Recovering $6B from CLICO, political will, critical to NIS survival
- Chartered Accountant By Gary Eleazar This past week, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, who also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) announced that there will be a move to amend legislation with a view to bringing additional contributors to the [...]
Teen in Cemetery Road bridge accident succumbs
The teenage boy who was injured in Saturday night’s Cemetery Road Bridge mishap has died. Elbert Thorne, of Grove, East bank Demerara, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation shortly after midnight yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that he had sustained head injuries, and water had entered his lungs after he was trapped in [...]
Driver killed after car slams into truck
An East Bank Demerara (EBD) taxi driver was killed early yesterday morning after being pinned inside of his car for hours following an accident along the Friendship Public Road. Dead is 30-year-old Richard Smith of Lot 57 Old Road, Craig, EBD, who was returning from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, where [...]
Police baffled by recent murders
The month of May 2012 is only six days old and the police murder statistics are threatening to hitch a ride on the runaway train. Already, three brazen murders are engaging their attention and if one were to follow the trend from last month, they seem certainly headed for the cold case file. [...]
Couple makes emotional plea to President for new EBB road
BY LEON SUSERAN In getting to the Indian Immigration Heritage site at Plantation Highbury, along the Eastern Banks of the Berbice River, President Donald Ramotar, on Saturday, had to pass along the treacherous and pot- holed-ridden East Bank Berbice Public Road. The 25-mile stretch of road begins from Tacama Turn, Stanleytown, New Amsterdam [...]
Speaker mulls allowing Citizens the “right of reply” in Parliament
By Zena Henry Regular citizens may soon have a voice in the National Assembly as Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman, at a recently held parliamentary meeting, promised to consider granting ordinary persons the “right of reply”. This implementation, the Speaker said, will provide for citizens to get a fair chance at [...]
Plea bargaining law “underutilized”
– Attorney General Almost four years after the plea bargaining legislation was passed in the National Assembly, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said it is being underutilized. “The law is being used, but in my humble view it is a facility which is underutilized,” the AG told Kaieteur News during a brief telephone interview. [...]
The funds held by NICIL are not required to be placed into the Consolidated Fund
No doubt with the intention of diverting attention from its unpardonable cuts to the 2012 Budget, the Alliance for Change (AFC) in full theatrical mood is attempting to shift the blame for its anti-development agenda towards the government. Having been the prime mover behind slicing 21 billion dollars off the national Budget, the [...]
WHAT GOES UP…
It is said that the reason so many people buy BMWs is that it is the only vehicle brand name they can spell. Some wits then play with the initials and you get “Brings Me Women”, “Bavarian Murder Weapon” and “Big Money Waste”. However, BMW as “Beautiful Mechanical Wonder” and “Best Motorbike Worldwide” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
