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  • Bush Lot woman electrocuted

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 57 Comments

    Bush Lot woman electrocuted

    A 24-year-old mother of two was electrocuted around 2 pm yesterday while reconnecting her refrigerator.
    Juliet Mohabir of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, who would have celebrated her third wedding anniversary today, met her demise after she tried to connect the refrigerator plug while her hands …

  • Caribbean Airlines cancels flight after computer on plane malfunctions

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 19 Comments

    Some one hundred and fifteen passengers were seriously inconvenienced and forced to remain in Guyana yesterday, after a Caribbean Airlines flight was grounded owing to the malfunction of a computer on board the plane.
    General Manager of Caribbean Airlines, South America, Carlton DeFour told Stabroek News …

  • Woman shot in chest by spurned lover

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 34 Comments

    Woman shot in chest by spurned lover

    Doctors veto surgery, mother says
    Medical personnel yesterday decided against removing the bullet lodged in the chest of the young woman who was shot by an ex-boyfriend on Tuesday night, telling her relatives that the surgery could leave her paralysed.
    “This ain’t mek no sense,” Sophia Pitman …

  • Neal and Massy, Agri Ministry partner on demonstration farm

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

    Neal and Massy, Agri Ministry partner on demonstration farm

    The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with Neal and Massy yesterday held a commemoration ceremony for a modern demonstration farm and training facility at Mon Repos. Neal and Massy donated $13M to the project, which is expected to be fully completed within the next five …

  • Operation Continuing Promise

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

    Operation Continuing Promise

    Port Kaituma outreach attracts hundreds
    In the humid jungle heat of Port Kaituma, residents clustered to receive medical attention, some having travelled many hours over rough terrain to benefit from the US medical mission ‘Continuing Promise 2008’.
    Schoolchildren eagerly wait to greet Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who …

  • Killers’ trails go cold

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 6 Comments

    Killers’ trails go cold

    The trails have gone cold in the investigations of two recent execution-style killings, despite a number of arrests.
    Police suspect that the murder of clothes vendor Raphael Piggott two weeks ago was drug-related, while they are yet to establish a motive behind last month’s killing of …

  • Sugar Cake Girls song irritated drink mates

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 34 Comments

    - battered man recalls
    The 26-year-old man who was beaten by his drinking-mates last Sunday just after 17:00 hours at a saloon at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara, said yesterday that he had finally remembered the song that irritated the men. Speaking from his hospital bed …

  • Young people must be heard on HFLE strategies – COHSOD

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    The voices of young people need to be heard and taken seriously in making plans and implementing strategies to deal with issues surrounding Health and Family Life Education (HFLE), delegates at the 17th meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) agreed on …

  • Man stabbed over claim he relieved himself on farm

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 24 Comments

    “De man holla that I urine on he farm and then he run towards me and stab me,” said Samuel Duncan, who was stabbed in the chest and abdomen just after 17:00 hrs on Monday at Guyhoc Park.
    Duncan, 26, of ‘E’ Field, Sophia was surrounded …

  • Sign of the Times

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Sign of the Times

    Sign of the times? The former Strand Cinema is in the process of being converted to a church and is undergoing a facelift as seen in this Jules Gibson photo taken yesterday.

  • Relatives still searching for missing Bush Lot driver

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Relatives still searching for missing Bush Lot driver

    Relatives still searching for missing Bush Lot driverRelatives of missing Bush Lot truck driver Rajnarine Hukumchand said persons claimed to have seen the man in Mahaica, though a search has since proved futile.
    Rajnarine Hukumchand
    According to the man’s brother Shurlan Hukumchand he received a call …

  • French Guiana murder

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 6 Comments

    French Guiana murder

    Suspect-brother eludes cops
    An autopsy of the remains of Troy James, the Guyanese man who was gunned down in French Guiana two weeks ago, will be conducted next Tuesday, while the French police continue to search for his older brother who they suspect inflicted the fatal …

  • Holiday Police

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Holiday Police

    Holiday police: Ranks deployed on Regent Street yesterday as the Guyana Police Force boosts up its presence on the streets for the holiday season. (Photo by Jules Gibson)

  • Body in Soesdyke cemetery

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment

    Man died as a result of brain haemorrhage - PM
    A post-mortem examination performed on Rickford Barker, the man whose battered body was found in a cemetery at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara last Saturday has revealed that he died as a result of brain haemorrhage.
    A …

  • 48th Annual National Schools’ C/ships…

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    48th Annual National Schools’ C/ships…

    Rain delays morning start on second day
    By Kizan Brumell
    After a grand opening ceremony of the 48th Annual National Schools’ Track and Field Cycling and Swimming Championships at the floodlit Mackenzie Sports Club ground on Tuesday evening,  a horrid change of weather delayed the start of …

  • Woman’s body found floating in Berbice River

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

    The body of an unidentified woman was discovered floating in the Berbice River just about 6.45 pm yesterday.
    Police, in a press release said that they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the woman, who is of East Indian descent.
    The body was found floating …

  • Guyana win final preliminary game against Canada

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Guyana win final preliminary game against Canada

    By Calvin Roberts
    Steven Jacobs scored an unbeaten, maiden half century as Guyana defeated Canada by seven wickets in their final preliminary round match of the 2008 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s Cup limited overs competition at the National Stadium yesterday.
    Sunil Dhaniram on the …

  • Two Million Christmas Dreams

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Two Million Christmas Dreams

    Two million Christmas dreams: Quinsie Parke (left) has become yet another winner in furniture giant, Courts ‘Stash of Cash’ promotion. He collects the symbolic cheque of $2M from Courts Country Manager, Lester Alvis (right) yesterday.

  • The proposed sexual offences legislation is not free of faults

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 4 Comments

    Dear Editor,
    Among the many good initiatives for which this administration would be remembered we have to note the updating of the laws relating to Amerindians, and now, the modernisation of the sexual offences legislation.
    The existing situation is frightening. Half of the young women in the …

  • Leewards romp into semis with emphatic win over Windwards

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Leewards romp into semis with emphatic win over Windwards

    By Ravendra Kishore
    On an Uitvlugt Community Development centre ground suited for spin bowling the Leeward Islands overwhelmed the Windward Island to secure their semi-finals spot and send their opponents packing.
    Batting first, the Leewards were all out for 172 in 48.4 overs.
    However their bowlers put a …

  • Alot like Christmas

    By Staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

    Alot like Christmas

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: And you know that the season has begun when Water Street Department store, Fogarty’s puts out its giant tree and manger scene. (Photo by Jules Gibson)