Cell phone use by students in schools to be banned
Education Minister Shaik Baksh said he has noted with concern the recent upsurge of intolerable behaviour in schools and will soon implement several new measures to curb it including a ban on all cellular phones among the student population countrywide. “There is unacceptable behaviour in our school system some of which could be classified as [...]
Plans for registration, local govt polls ongoing
Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally says work is ongoing to develop plans for national registration and local government elections. According to a statement from the commission, Dr Surujbally also told the newly-appointed UN Resident Representative Aboubacry Tall that GECOM’s preparation of a comprehensive plan for the administering of local government polls was [...]
Gunman shoots Beacon clerk
A gunman yesterday shot and injured a clerk of the Beacon Foundation at its Quamina and Carmichael streets location. The shot man, Khemraj Sookdeo, was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was reported as being in a stable condition. Nothing was stolen as, according to reports, the man went looking for [...]
Spent shells link Lesbeholden, Canal No.2 attacks – police
Police yesterday said that some of the spent shells found in the wake of the brutal assault by gunmen on four households at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder on Monday matched those retrieved in a similar assault at Bel West, Canal #2 Polder, West Bank Demerara last year. One woman died in last year’s attack and [...]
Child injured as runaway minibus creates mayhem
A minibus driver last evening suffered at the hands of angry Albouystown residents after he lost control of the vehicle and it ripped away the front of one house, the entire eastern side of another and seriously injured a four-year- old child. Before all this damage, the vehicle, a route 40, bright yellow Kitty/ Campbellville [...]
Peter Morgan seized by US agents in T&T
In a dramatic swoop, US drug agents working with Trinidad authorities yesterday afternoon seized Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan at Piarco International Airport, just days after an indictment was unsealed in a New York court charging him with three counts of drug conspiracy. Morgan, an auto sales businessman and car racer, is to appear before a [...]
Conservation corner
Marine turtles spend their lives migrating great distances. They are born on sandy beaches, but whilst they are still quite young, they begin a long journey in search of a suitable place to feed and grow. Once they reach the age of sexual maturity they travel back to the beach where they were born to [...]
Challenging corporal punishment
Last week we began looking at children’s stages of development, as a way of understanding their behaviour to help in avoiding confrontations that result in the need for punishment. This week we continue to look at some behaviours that children exhibit at different ages and suggest responses. You can also read about child development to [...]
Stadium more or less ready for Super Eight matches
The Guyana National Stad-ium at Providence is basically ready for the Super Eight world cup matches at month end and the eight-acre parking lot would be completed in time. Although the works on the extension of the four-lane highway from the Demerara Harbour Bridge to the stadium would not be completed in time for Cricket [...]
US visa inquiry lines operating ‘regular’ hours
The United States Embassy says the visa inquiries telephone services at its Consular Section has resumed normal operating hours. In a press release, the embassy said the telephone inquiries unit, at 225-7965 and 225-7966 for questions related to visa matters, will be open for service from 8 am to 4 pm weekdays. Emergency American citizens’ [...]
Eleven Vitaras to be won in Shell promotion
Eleven Suzuki Grand Vitaras are up for grabs in Sol Guyana Inc Shell ‘Power Up and Win’ promotion which was launched on Thursday at the Bel Air Service station. This new promotion gives Shell customers across the region the chance to win a fully loaded Suzuki Grand Vitara when they spend over $2000 for Shell [...]
Inter Religious Television group elects Edghill chairman
The Inter Religious Television Channel recently elected persons to serve on its executive at a meeting hosted at the Bahai National Centre. The group, in a press release, said in keeping with President Bharrat Jagdeo’s direction that all religious bodies should participate in the project; invitations and press release were last month sent out encouraging [...]
Multi-purpose primary school opens at Whitewater
A school which houses a multi-purpose centre was recently commissioned at Whitewater to allow children from hinterland communities greater access to education, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release. GINA said the $8M Whitewater School, which was funded by the Social Impact Amelioration Programme, is a primary school which houses the centre [...]
‘Regie’ remanded over theft of plantains, eddoes
A man accused of stealing two big bunches of plantains and a bag of eddoes was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Reginald Thomas called ‘Regie’ of no fixed place of abode pleaded not guilty to a charge of simple larceny and was remanded to prison by Magistrate [...]
Karasabai honours Jagan’s memory
The Region Nine village Karasabai held a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the tenth death anniversary of President Cheddi Jagan. According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment Kellawan Lall, at the ceremony, which was hosted at a shrine the community erected in Jagan’s honour, said the government [...]