Articles published on Monday, January 5, 2009
Pepper sauce, furniture probes intensifying Most of the cocaine being exported from Guyana is likely coming from Venezuela via the Pomeroon, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) says and the nexus between that trade and gun-running is increasingly clear, sources say.
A brief respite from flooding for Dochfour, East Coast Demerara residents ended Saturday, as heavy rains that afternoon and early yesterday swamped the area, though not as badly as before.
When Mark Thomas called ‘Kerzorkee’, one of the three ‘death squad’ accused, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital weeks after he was rushed to that institution there were reverberations in many parts of the country.
The decomposed body of a 46-year-old man was yesterday discovered in a clump of bushes in the Stanleytown backdam on the West Bank Demerara.
Several to remain closed due to flooding Several public schools which were affected by the recent heavy rainfall will not reopen today, according to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it stands ready to pursue its parliamentary agenda and called on the public to support its reform initiatives as it shapes a united Guyana.
-following prison escape bid Following an investigation into last Sunday’s attempted escape from the Camp Street prison by six high-profile prisoners, with one making it as far as Rasville, one prison officer has been interdicted from duty while lights have been placed around the capital division from which the men escaped.
-survey finds The government won high marks for its forest initiative and the hosting of Carifesta but got the thumbs down over wiretapping legislation and its handling of torture claims, a recent survey conducted by the accounting firm Ram and McRae shows.
The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary/ Agricultural-Development-Authority (MMA/ADA) is closely monitoring the situation in the Abary, Mahaicony and Mahaica Creeks in the wake of the heavy rainfall and the emergency discharge from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) which have resulted in rising levels in the creeks.
A taxi driver was robbed of his car at knife-point by two men who hired him on Saturday at Bel Air.
Journalists and government officials were yesterday treated to a brunch by President Bharrat Jagdeo at State House, Main Street, Georgetown.
A 31-year-old man was shot just before midnight on Old Year’s Night by someone he reportedly had an argument with over narcotics, according to a release from the police.
Dear Editor, I commend the forthrightness of Leader of the Opposition PNC, Mr.
Dear Editor, While I am sympathetic to Ms McAlmont’s clearly-implied agenda in ‘History this week’(‘Valerie Hart: The Woman at the Heart of the Rupununi Uprising,’ SN 1.1.09) I find it distasteful that the 40th anniversary of my father’s demise has been used as the occasion to champion the political and leadership skills of the woman who is an unquestioned accessory to that murder.
Dear Editor, I am totally fed-up with the serious drainage situation in Golden Grove Village on the East Coast of Demerara.
Dear Editor, Supporters of the PNC need to be more worried than comforted by Mr Robert Corbin’s new interest in shared governance.
The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) has extended congratulations to police commissioner Henry Greene on his appointment.
Shock win They had promised before leaving these shores to participate in XX edition of the Punta Del Este International Seven-a-side rugby tournament that they could translate good performances into wins.
Dear Editor, Mr Emile Mervin’s letter which was published in the Kaieteur News on December 25, 2008, is a welcome and instructive intervention in the renewed public debate on the issue of shared governance in Guyana.
Two men were each sentenced to three years imprisonment when they appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on various charges including possession of drugs for trafficking on Monday.
American Citizen Services Installment 73 Q: I am a U.S. citizen but do not have a U.S.
President of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) and vice-president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Alvin Johnson is undecided whether he will contest the presidency of the GCB on January 25.
Expectations for the New Year This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their expectations for themselves in the New Year and what they expect the Government to do for the country in the 2009.
Dear Editor, By now even Stevie Wonder can see the government’s commitment to destroy the Guyana Trades Union Congress (TUC).
A father of five who allegedly received a stolen television from a man was granted bail on Friday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, It appears that the PNC is again headed for yet another leader showdown.
– court hears “When he pick up meh money-bag … I run behind he foh it” stated Alicia James who says she had $25,000 in cash and a canvas bag stolen from her stall by Glenn Corbin while she was attempting to sell him a cigarette.
IT was a finale that put the maxim the right way round for a change.
Afro-Guyanese and Rice By Wazir Mohammed Wazir Mohamed spent the formative years of his life as a community and political worker, and is engaged in academic research to find answers to Guyana’s seemingly intractable ethnic dilemma.
In whole page advertisements last week, the government has sought to defend its performance in relation to the floods that have rolled up and down the coast since the start of December.
by Marcel de Haas (Marcel de Haas is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael)THE HAGUE – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost half the world’s population, several members own nuclear weapons, many are big energy suppliers, and it includes some of the world’s fastest growing economies.
By Eion Jardine The sport of boxing is filled with fascinating and dramatic human interest stories that reveal the essence of what boxing is all about character, endurance, strength, speed and above all, brains.
Three Venezuelans who had entered Guyana illegally were ordered to pay a fine of $30, 000 each when they appeared on Tuesday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, With reference to the letter by Mr RJ Eleazar captioned ‘Do we really need lay magistrates?’
