Articles published on Thursday, January 31, 2008
The creation of East Indian land settlement schemes in the late nineteenth century in colonial British Guiana was partly due to both the costly repatriation schemes and the cessation of re-indentureship at that juncture of our country’s history.
The hunter who is accused of shooting a cane harvester to death was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Reliance Court yesterday before Magistrate Geeta Chandan.
A man who allegedly used indecent language to and assaulted his wife was yesterday refused bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
A sunglasses vendor and his customer were on Tuesday brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of unlawfully assaulting each other.
A 20-year-old businessman who tried to get a customer off his premises was on Tuesday taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of unlawful assault.
None but the most inhuman would be unmoved by the slaughter of innocent villagers at Lusignan on bloody Saturday.
Insufficient facilities and deficient concentrated training camps are major hindrances to the development of national table tennis players.
The inner circuit of the National Park will be heated by whirring wheels this Saturday when racing cyclists compete in the Annual Mashramani Cycle meet sponsored by the National Sports Commission (NSC) from 9am.
Getting an early start and building on the momentum of the recently-concluded Kashif and Shanghai football tournament seems to be the prime motivation behind the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) launching its 2008 as early as Sunday.
Dear Sport Editor, Oops! They have done it again. And, this time we are not going to sit idly and help stretch the lethargic ineptitude perpetrated.
Dear Editor, In a matter of days three bold and murderous attacks occurred in Guyana.
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to comments made by home affairs minister, Clement Rohee, regarding the protests on the East Coast which have spread to West Berbice.
Dear Editor, It’s difficult to talk politics to families and communities mourning loved ones mowed down by a phenomenon that has become a staple in Guyana-political madness.
Dear Editor, It was heart wrenching to read the terrifying ordeal the families of Lusignan have had to go through in what is now being dubbed the `Lusignan massacre’.
Dear Editor, In the bloody aftermath of the Lusignan executions, the question must be asked: why Lusignan?
Dear Editor, My heart aches every time I remember what happened to the innocent people of Lusignan, on the east coast.
Dear Editor, As the entire Guyana shares in the pain and the horror of the community of Lusignan, one is left shocked by the lack of positive reaction from the Government in attempting to apprehend the criminals who perpetrated this heinous act against innocent victims.
Dear Editor, First of all, Stabroek News, as much as you are the vanguard of the free press and as much as you are in the forefront of the fight against police and military brutality (as you should be), I think that pretty soon there would be no one left in Guyana to fight for.
Dear Editor, I read Mr Bisram’s recent letter about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy.
Dear Editor, I am amazed that after such a brutal attack on innocent women and children in which 11 lives were flushed out Mafia style, our President is asking residents to form Community Policing Groups to protect themselves.
Dear Editor, Your editorial “Political Surprises” (08.01.24) is excellent showing the outstanding quality of editorial writers in your staff.
Dear Editor, I refer to the article in your issue of 24.
After two days of relative calm, unrest returned to the East Coast corridor yesterday and close to 200 angry residents were prevented from marching to the city to condemn Saturday’s massacre at Lusignan.
Two gunmen were reportedly last evening killed during an almost hour-long shoot-out with joint services ranks in the Buxton backlands.
A three-year-old girl was fatally shot at her Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt home yesterday, while she and her two-year-old brother were playing with a loaded gun that was left under a chair cushion by their father.
The bodies of the other ten persons who were slaughtered in the Lusignan attack on Saturday morning will be available for public viewing at the Lusignan tarmac from 1.30 pm today, following which some will be buried and the others cremated.
The police are looking for a minibus driver who may have assisted the missing Tenisha Morgan of Friendship, East Coast Demerara, in catching transportation at the Berbice bus park on the day she was last seen.
Trevor Kissoon also called Banister was on Tuesday placed on $75,000 bail for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Prem Lall on November 30 last year over a triangular love affair.
The charge of torture against the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is a serious accusation which needs to be cleared up as soon as possible, according to former President Mrs Janet Jagan.
The sixth Secondary Schools Drama Festival is billed for April this year at the Theatre Guild Playhouse which is now undergoing extensive renovations.
In the wake of the attack at Lusignan that left 11 dead and three injured and the death of a Guyana Defence Force soldier, government has declared today a national day of mourning.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday discharged the case against Rabindra Rooplall, who had been charged with the murder of a taxi-driver in 2002, after he found that there was no evidence against him.
The Guyana Defence Force in a press release has stated emphatically that wanted man Rondell Rawlins was never a member of the army.
The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association has condemned the brutal slaying of innocent children and their parents in the recent Lusignan attack and has appealed for peace.
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) in collaboration with the World Bank yesterday signed two contracts with international contractors for the construction of Water Treatment Plants (WTP) and the supply of water meters and boxes.
Two more Justices of Appeal were yesterday sworn in before President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 27-year-old Sophia resident, who went to visit a friend at Linden and died at the hospital after complaining of feeling unwell.
A 48-year-old man died when he lost control of the car that he was driving and crashed into a concrete post at Success, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning.
A 49-year-old Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara housewife was on Tuesday night robbed of cash and jewellery by a lone bandit, who fled leaving behind an unlicensed gun and some documents, after an alarm was raised.
CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington and staff of the Secretariat are urging the security forces here to move swiftly to bring to justice those responsible for the “atrocious and traumatic” slaying of 11 persons in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, last Saturday In a note to President Bharrat Jagdeo, condemning the killings, the Secretary-General said the “appalling crime
Referring to the brutal slaying of 11 persons, including five children, at Lusignan last Saturday morning, the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) said those in political office must be held responsible and urged the international community to stop being passive bystanders in a seemingly escalating national crisis.
Police arrested three men at Mahaica on Monday after a group of persons blocked the roadway at Lancaster with tyres and other obstacles, then set the material alight.
Very soon the old power grid at West Ruimveldt will be down and a new distribution network built for the area last year would be up and running.
Water supply to properties of the Mayor and City Council, including the municipal markets, is to be disconnected for outstanding water rates, the municipality disclosed in a release yesterday, citing information conveyed to the council by a Guyana Water Inc representative.
GT&T and Digicel yesterday jointly condemned last Saturday’s horrendous acts in the village of Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara and called for good sense to prevail.
Five days have passed since the brutal slaying of eleven persons at Tract A, Lusignan and even as the residents bid farewell to ten of the victims today, they are still dissatisfied with the response of the government and the armed forces to the incident so far.
Five days after the Lusignan massacre there has been no official word from Government or the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) regarding the release of records of calls reportedly made by residents shortly after the attack to three east coast police stations.
