We remember Dr. Walter Rodney : “Those who cannot remember the past are...
FRIDAY 13th of June pierces human history with a deep, dark and deadly wound that would forever define the Guyanese nation. Today, Georgetown hosts an incisive judicial probing of that wound, focusing...
View ArticleSuffering under PNC 1 and 2 was equally horrible
I HAVE read with utter amusement about what two letter writers have deemed to be an apology by the PNC. It was published in both the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News, and sought to break down the...
View ArticleBCCI gives employees who are fathers tokens of appreciation
LAST Friday, the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) held a Father’s Day programme for fathers working with the company, and tokens of appreciation were given out to each father. This undertaking was...
View ArticlePNC… : A national occasion to rally and inspire
“ON Monday 16th June, 2014, Guyanese will once again observe the anniversary of the martyrdom of five (5) heroic sugar workers who sacrificed their lives in order that Guyanese workers, in general, and...
View ArticleMurder of Lusignan lad… : Perverting the course of justice charge likely for...
THE Guyana Police Force is looking to institute charges against the father of one of the two young men who confessed to strangling Dhanraj Latchman to death last Wednesday night in the Parika Backdam....
View ArticleFather’s Day ‘hit-and-run’ robs family of their dad
FIFTY-one-year-old Mustak Alli of 179 Robindra Street, Annandale South, East Coast Demerara was yesterday morning discovered dead on the Annandale Public Road, a short distance from his home. He had...
View ArticlePitbulls maul 11–year-old Linden boy : –two friends escape unhurt
ELEVEN-year-old Dequan Gordon of Linden was on Saturday night attacked by two pitbull dogs while going fishing with two friends. The incident reportedly occurred around 22:30hrs, just after the child...
View ArticleColombia votes… : Santos re-elected as president
JUAN Manuel Santos has won re-election in Colombia’s most dramatic presidential contest in years. Supporters of Mr. Santos celebrated victory by writing the word “peace” in the palm of their hands Mr...
View ArticleSooba: City Hall now in better financial position
LEGALLY appointed Town Clerk of Georgetown, Ms Carol Sooba, has declared that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is in a better financial position than it was before she took over the administrative...
View ArticleAlbouystown businesswoman found bound, murdered in her home
THE bound body of 65-year-old Sumintra Dinool was discovered among items in her ransacked two-bedroom home at Bar and Sussex Streets, Albuoystown, Georgetown early yesterday morning. She was found by...
View ArticlePrivate sector ‘fed up’ of Opposition’s shifting positions : –PSC Chair,...
HEAD of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Mr Ramesh Persaud, yesterday weighed in on the main Opposition’s dismissal of the importance of complying with the regulations set out by the Financial...
View Article15 homeless after mid-afternoon Campbellville fire
FIFTEEN persons representing three families were yesterday afternoon rendered homeless after a double flat house at 27 Delph Street Campbellville home went up in flames. A Section of the crowd at the...
View ArticleFriends detail plan to eliminate Dhanraj Latchman for his vehicle : –confess...
SEVENTEEN-year-old Dhanraj Latchman of 115 Lusignan, East Coast Demerara lost his life in the Parika Backdam, East Bank Essequibo, because two cousins, who had been friends of the teen – one of them...
View ArticleLabour Minister urges vigilance at Enmore Martyrs’ day observance
MINISTER of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul and other government officials yesterday morning joined with several executive members of the various trade unions and organisations to commemorate the 66th death...
View ArticleMissing medical report in Torrington file sent to the PCA : Police/GPHC...
THE Guyana Police Force has responded to an article first broken by this newspaper regarding the file for Junior Torrington which was sent to the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority. This...
View ArticleMurder of Lusignan teen car owner : Would-be buyer of stolen car to be state...
AN East Bank Essequibo man who was initially the person to purchase the hijacked car of 17-year-old Dhanraj Latchman from the two cousins who had killed him to obtain his car will not be charged with...
View ArticleMeadow Bank wharf murder trial : Prosecution closes case today: –Defence to...
PROSECUTRIX Mrs. Judith Mursalin is expected to close the case for the prosecution in the Fish Cleaning murder trial today, and the defence is expected to begin its case. Quaison Jones, called...
View ArticleBRHA targets East Berbice in third in series of geriatric clinics : –future...
A THIRTY-MEMBER team, led by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA), Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo, on Sunday conducted the third in a series of geriatric clinics across...
View ArticleProprietor of N/A Anjuman Orphanage refutes claims of sodomy taking place at...
MR. Abu Bakkar Mandal, the Canadian citizen who owns the Berbice Anjuman Orphanage at Lot 30 Philadelphia Street in New Amsterdam, has refuted allegations peddled in the Kaieteur Newspaper that a child...
View ArticleOld Kai: Chronicles of Guyana : The WICB is taking a rather long time
OLD KAI is still patiently awaiting the disclosure from the West Indies Cricket Board on what exactly it found so damning in the Cricket Administration Bill which led to its decision to withdraw the...
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