Stolen property seen as possible motive in unsolved ‘Panjax’ murder
Four months after the lifeless body of physically-challenged Abdul Azeem Haniff was found stuffed in his Mon Repos septic tank, the case has gone cold but remains open as the police have received information that he was linked to stolen property. This has led to the conclusion that the gruesome act might have been committed [...]
Reputed husband held over murder of Corentyne woman
A 39-year-old mother of four was last Friday found with her throat slit at her Number 48 Village, Corentyne home and police have since detained her reputed husband. Dead is Hansranie Sewdat. Her lifeless body was discovered by her nine-year-old daughter. Given the extent of the injury, the house was almost spotless and there were [...]
Sharma denies negotiating reduced suspension
CNS Channel 6 Programme Director Savitree Sharma yesterday denied bargaining for the four month suspension imposed on the station and accused President Bharrat Jadgeo of giving the public a false impression of her. Sharma along with her husband, broadcaster and politician CN Sharma, held a press conference in their Robb and Wellington Street studio to [...]
Sharma slapped with four-month ban
CNS Channel 6 will be off the air effective Monday at midnight after President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday handed broadcaster CN Sharma a four-month licence suspension as a sanction for a May 4, 2011 Anthony Vieira commentary in which there were damaging statements about Bishop Juan Edghill. The suspension was handed down following a scheduled one [...]
McDougall Report ruled inadmissible in Jagdeo $10M libel suit
Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday ruled the 2008 McDougall Report inadmissible as evidence, but the defence later signalled its intention to have the author, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Gay Mc Dougall, testify via audio videoing. The defence had sought to have the document admitted into evidence in the $10 million libel suit filed by
Luncheon unsure of majority affected by lack of public service tribunal
Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said he could not verify that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s failure to set up an appeals tribunal to offer redress to aggrieved public servants most affected Afro-Guyanese, who make up the majority of the workers. Luncheon, who is Head of the Presidential Secretariat, was at the time facing cross-examination by
Mother shot trying to protect children
Better Hope resident Rosaline Lloyd was grazed by a bullet as she crept to shield her sleeping children, in the middle of a shootout between police and vandals early yesterday morning. Lloyd, 43, was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital for the wound, which she sustained when police traded fire with three men who had [...]
‘King Kong’ article didn’t change opinion on Jagdeo
Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the racial connotations contained in the article that triggered President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit did not change his perception of the Head of State. Luncheon, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, continued testimony under cross examination in the case yesterday before Justice Brassington Reynolds. Jagdeo brought the libel suit [...]
No attempt to deprive villages in situating Berbice bridge
Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday admitted that government had rejected the contents of a feasibility report and eventually sited the Berbice River Bridge at Palmyra—a largely Indian-Guyanese populated village—but he denied that there was any attempt to deprive other areas as a result. In testimony under cross-examination in the $10 million libel case brought by President [...]
Luncheon blank on selection process for ambassadors
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday testified that he was unaware of the criteria used to identify and select nominees for ambassadorial postings, and he admitted that some had no prior diplomatic experience. He was at the time under cross-examination in the ongoing hearing in the $10 million libel case brought by [...]
Laluni mother hacked to death
A mother of seven was yesterday hacked to death at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway allegedly by her husband who dragged her body into bushes and covered it with grass. Tessa Romascindo, 35, had little chance of surviving the chops which included about six to the neck and at least five more to the [...]
US supplied no evidence against Greene -Jagdeo
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his decision to appoint Henry Greene as Police Commissioner was made after the US refused to provide information on a five-year probe, which it said tied Greene to drug trafficking. Classified diplomatic cables sent to Washington by former US Embassy Charge d’Affaires Michael Thomas, show that the US in [...]
UN report on Afro-Guyanese inaccurate -Luncheon tells libel hearing
Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday testified that a visiting UN expert on minorities produced an “inaccurate” report on Guyana, focusing more on Afro-Guyanese rather than the Amerindians, who he said have a bigger claim as a minority. Just before Head of the Presidential Secretariat Luncheon continued giving evidence under cross-examination, in the $10 million libel case [...]
Jagdeo’s DPP snubs, speeches on ‘past’ face scrutiny in libel suit
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday faced scrutiny over President Bharrat Jagdeo’s apparent snub of two Afro-Guyanese for appointment as Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and his unwillingness to confirm another Afro-Guyanese as a Judge. Luncheon, who continued to testify under cross-examination in the $10M libel case filed by Jagdeo against Kaieteur [...]
Luncheon faces grilling on appointments, contracts in Jagdeo libel case
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday continued to face questions over government appointments and contract awards as testimony in President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News and columnist Freddie Kissoon continued. Luncheon faced continuing cross-examination by defence attorney Nigel Hughes, after Justice Brassington Reynolds overruled objections made by Jagdeo’s lawyer, [...]