Man paralysed from his waist down after fall from verandah
- at Kako, Upper Mazaruni FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Wilton Williams of Kakao Village, Upper Mazaruni in Region 7 fell from a verandah one Friday night two weeks ago, and is in critical condition in the...
View ArticleMeadow Brook man jailed for chopping sister’s ‘ex’ : –after rallying to her...
MAGISTRATE Faith McGusty yesterday sentenced a 30-year-old man to seven months in prison after he was found guilty of wounding his sister’s ex-boyfriend after the couple had a misunderstanding. Darrel...
View ArticleOne in quartet on ganja charge jailed after pleading guilty : –brother, two...
FOUR men who were allegedly caught with cannabis sativa were brought before Magistrate Faith McGusty yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. One of the four men, 25-year-old Rohan Singh of Lot...
View ArticleBraithwaite’s alteration of offensive words puts him in disrepute
THIS is in further response to Barrington Braithwaite’s racist rants in the Kaieteur News. Out of the usual race armory of Guyanese racial exchanges usually attributed to misunderstood poverty,...
View ArticleScotiabank is hard to reach
I WISH to give credit to the fact that Scotia is one of the largest Banks in the world and known for excellent service, mostly in foreign countries. As a customer, albeit to a small level, I wish to...
View ArticleGardens and art galleries should be built in other two Counties
PARKED at the entrance of the Promenade Gardens was a set of buses from Berbice that had transported schoolchildren from that County to behold the beauty and splendor of the garden. On the face of...
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Fire ravages top flat of popular Industry supermarket
A FIRE of as yet unknown origin yesterday ravaged the top flat of “The Market Place” supermarket on Fifth Street, Industry, East Coast Demerara. Industry residents at the scene of the fire yesterday...
View ArticleFollowing combined Opposition budget cut… : Luncheon assures OP staffers of...
THE agony of those who have been affected by the lack of funding for Programme One in the Office of the President (OP) would soon end and workers can anticipate payments soon, Cabinet Secretary Dr....
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Teenage girl knifed to death in Berbice murder/suicide
JUST days before her 15th birthday, schoolgirl Tamesha La Toya Adams, called ‘Toya’, was knifed to death aback the home of her adoptive parents at Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice. She would have...
View ArticleSpecial Report of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry by Shaun Michael...
EX-ARMY Chief, Major General Norman McLean, yesterday named Brigadier David Granger as an Army Officer in liaison with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) when the police investigated former Army Sergeant...
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Guyana to benefit from EU-funded Agriculture Policy Programme : - project...
A PROJECT Management Unit (PMU) will serve as the overall management and monitoring unit of the recently launched European Union (EU) funded Agriculture Policy Programme (APP) for CARIFORUM...
View ArticleDirect Answers from Wayne and Tamara : Eggshells
I work for an airline in an onboard leadership position. A few months ago a customer complained about a crew member. I dealt with it on the spot and it seemed fine. A month later I received an email...
View ArticlePreserving our literary heritage by Petamber Persaud : Lest we forget our...
The Independence History of Guyana may not be as storybook colourful and gory as the independence struggles of other countries, but it is nonetheless as intriguing and glorious as others. Therefore it...
View ArticleApple Unveils iOS 8 : The Biggest Release since the Launch of the App Store
Apple last Monday unveiled iOS 8, giving users’ incredible new features and developers the tools to create amazing new apps. iOS 8 delivers a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience,...
View ArticleCOMPOSTING (Part II)
HOW DO I COMPOST? There are two basic styles of composting: 1) Single Batch where materials are added all at once to form a pile. This method provides the most efficient, quickest results, and 2) the...
View ArticleGuilty of Roguery & Vagabondage, says Magistrate : Full Court affirms...
IN 1968, Charles Singh , the appellant and two other men who were caught under the floor of a woman’s bedroom in the process of stripping themselves of clothing and donning masks, were charged with...
View ArticleMARKS OF FEAR by Neil Primus
There was tension and fear circulating in the village. Small children and teenagers were getting sick. Each of them had strange marks on their bodies. Villagers felt sure that they were falling prey to...
View ArticleClonel Boston : Serving WAD with a passion for social work
A FORMER senior library assistant at the University of Guyana (UG) and a proud resident of Buxton Village on the East Coast Demerara, Clonel Samuels-Boston now serves as Coordinator of Women Across...
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Dr. Chaitram Singh, the man with a story
Award winning author Dr. Chaitram Singh is more than just a Guyanese writer who won in category of Best First Book of Fiction at the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature. The US based Guyanese whose...
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Sonia Noel and crew… : Poised to launch 2nd edition of Makin’ Style
Exciting fashion week coverage, interviews with awe-inspiring, Broadway performers and a tribute to a phenomenal woman are some of the articles you can expect to get from Sonia Noel’s Makin’ Style...
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