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Grandma incensed at maternity death

The grandmother of 25-year-old Monica Carmichael, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon after a still-birth, last evening blamed negligence for her granddaughter’s death and called on the authorities to launch a full-fledged investigation.

Ralph Turpin

Re-migrants society aiding some 400

Some four hundred involuntary re-migrants are now registered with the Juncata Juvant Friendly Society less than four years after it came into existence and according to its Vice-President Donna Snagg, while it has been growing in membership, resources remain a challenge.

GTU demands withdrawal of action against teachers in Neesa probe

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is demanding that the Ministry of Education withdraw the letters of sanction it sent to Queen’s College (QC) teachers even as new information coming to light reveals that the QC Board was aware of the plight of murdered teenager Neesa Gopaul and had written several letters to the ministry about it.

Neesa Gopaul

Neesa probe recommends two firings, one demotion

– grandparents had sent children back over $$$ The team mandated by Minister       of Human Services, Priya Manickchand to investigate the handling of Neesa Gopaul’s case has recommended that two officers be fired and another demoted for their failure in adequately assisting the child who was brutally murdered after more than a year of abuse.

Fernando Garcia-Robles

Sex tourism growing in favoured destinations in Caribbean

-OAS security expert A number of Caribbean countries which are favoured tourist destinations are now the centre of a growing sex tourism industry, an Organisation of American States security expert said yesterday, and he also  warned about concerns that the Free Movement of Skilled Nationals in Caricom could result in increased human trafficking.

Dead: Godfrey Grootfaam

Two men executed on Stone Avenue

-were trailed by attackers One of the two men gunned down execution-style in Campbellville early last evening received a call on his cellular phone minutes before he was killed and relatives believe it was that which led to his death.

Sukree Boodram

Breakout: Former battered wife Sukree Boodram tells all in book

– hopes to help others gain strength to leave Sukree Boodram was just 15 years old when she met the person she considered to be the man of her dreams and she married him later, but the 21 years she spent with him were far from the paradise she dreamt of and in the end she was forced to run from a man whose abusive actions were fuelled by alcohol.

Onika Sinclair

Acid attack victim still seeking justice after four years

– tracks attacker to Trinidad Four years after she was brutally attacked with acid by the former reputed wife of her then boyfriend, Joann Lynch is still crying out for justice and she is accusing members of the Guyana Police Force of frustrating the process and “sending her round in circles” in her quest.

Irene Wright

Breast cancer survivors have positive attitudes to life

If ever there was a woman with a will to live and one that even when her strength is failing is willing to battle life and all that it throws at her it would be 65-year-old Irene Wright who refuses to let breast cancer, Parkinson’s disease and a swollen knee that has rendered her immobile keep her down.

Two boats stuck in one of the many grass ‘stop offs’ in the Canje Creek.

A boat ride to Baracara

I was excited about my trip as not only was I about to visit Baracara, a colourful community located in the Canje Creek, but I was also going to spend some quality time with my siblings, a rarity in recent times.

Businessman denies holding maid captive

–officials say labour laws breached While denying charges that he kept his maid against her will, the businessman yesterday admitted that the asked her young woman to rub his leg and later paid her as the service was not part of her job description.

 Michael Kellman

One to watch:Michael Kellman’s foot’s in the door

Twenty-five-year-old Michael Kellman is now getting a foot into the doorway, but he is bursting with confidence and is very serious when he says one day he would not only own his own company to market his products but would also have a school to teach young people “the world of arts.”

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