Elderly ‘trunker’ refused bail
A KNOWN elderly “trunker” appeared Tuesday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and was remanded for breaking and entering a car with intent to commit a felony.Walter Campbell, 60, of Lot 18...
View ArticleTV personality accused of stealing money from clients’ accounts
TELEVISION personality, Kirk Adrian Clarke appeared Tuesday before city Magistrate Ann McLennan, pleaded not guilty to allegedly stealing money from two Republic Bank accounts, and was granted bail in...
View ArticleBermuda national jailed, fined $1.48M for drug trafficking
BERMUDA national, Njela Fublar, 23, was on Tuesday fined in excess of $1.48M and was sentenced to four years imprisonment by city Magistrate Ann McLennan on a drug- trafficking charge. Fublar pleaded...
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Employer allegedly shoots miner for accepting other job
RELATIVES of a 42-year-old man are counting on police investigators to apprehend and bring to justice a man whom they said cold-bloodedly shot and killed their relative after an incident at No Man’s...
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Montrose fisherman missing at sea since Wednesday
FORTY-YEAR-OLD fisherman, Sadeia Santora, called ‘Old Dog’, of Montrose, and a father of four, has been missing since Wednesday when he reportedly fell from a fishing trawler in the Atlantic Ocean...
View ArticleCriminal charge of Police Officer dismissed for want of prosecution
IN 1957, Sergeant Bollers of the British Guiana Police Force had a charge laid against him for fraudulent conversion dismissed for want of prosecution. Consequent to that, Bollers was then charged with...
View ArticleWhy His Kids Are Furious Their Father Remarried
Counting Chickens My husband and I recently married. We share the same ideals, political views and interests, and we have an incredible relationship and wonderful marriage. We’ve talked about what a...
View ArticleMICROSOFT WINDOWS HISTORY: A 30-YEAR TIMELINE
Three decades ago, Microsoft introduced the Windows operating system, and though there have been some stumbles throughout its evolution, the technological changes it brought forth have been...
View ArticlePreserving Our Literary Heritage : Men Who Contributed To Our Literary Heritage
Two major events supplied impetus for compiling this article. Those two events are namely the announcement of the Guyana Prize for Literature and the just concluded Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2015. The...
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Meet the young and ambitious Ameer Henry
“When you wake up, you can do two things. You either go back to sleep and keep dreaming or you wake up and follow your dreams. I prefer to wake up and follow my dreams.” “When you wake up, you can do...
View ArticleTriumph Village: a bustle of festive frolicking, as residents glow despite...
This village was certainly the bomb… I will not hesitate to declare that my experience while visiting there was pure heaven… The rich camaraderie between residents was certainly refreshing, not to...
View ArticleGRANGER’S BIG SURPRISE FOR MAY 11 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN
IN Party politics, as the saying goes, all things are possible. Even so, it appears that ahead of the coming May 11 national elections, leader of the main PNCR and chairman of APNU, Mr. David Granger,...
View ArticleFalling gold prices responsible for reduced foreign exchange reserves
JUST last week, in one of those moments of intense clarity that tend to precede the not so clear haze of the Friday evening after-work lime, I was consumed in a deeply philosophical discussion on...
View ArticleAFC is very comfortable being APNU’s poodle
MAKE no mistake about it. The big difference between the 2011 and the 2015 election is that the AFC and APNU/PNCR will end the deception of being separate with distinct options for the people of...
View ArticleUSA-CUBA CHALLENGES AND A SAD ‘DANCING’ OVER CCJ
IN today’s column I wish to focus on two issues known to have continuing interest to member states of our Caribbean Community: First, the unravelling of initiatives between the United States of America...
View ArticleBandits invade Corentyne farmer’s home, cart off cash, jewellery
DURING the wee hours of Friday morning, three armed bandits invaded the home of the Rahomats at Kildonan Village, Corentyne, Berbice and stole cash, gold jewellery and cellular phones....
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In Region 3… : Colourful performances the order of the day Wednesday : –as...
DAY Two of the Region 3 (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara) Department of Education’s Children’s Mashramani Competition saw Nursery School children across the West Coast and West Bank of Demerara give...
View ArticleSeventy-five persons now proud home owners at Perseverance : -as Gov’t...
THE Ministry of Housing continues its aggressive drive to make home owners of Guyanese, and some 75 persons are now experiencing the exhilaration of being proud home owners under the Turn Key 1000...
View ArticleAFC’s ignorance of basic economics underscored : -Ministry of Finance...
RECENT pronouncements by the Alliance For Change (AFC), on the matter of Guyana’s international reserves, are indicative of a “worrying lack of basic knowledge of macroeconomic accounts, of the...
View ArticleGGMC clarifies CH&PA loan issue
THE Guyana Geology and Mines Commission has noted the recent comments in relation to the just concluded Loan Agreement with CHPA and wish to advise that the GGMC Act No. 9 of 1979 is an Act that...
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