Daily Archive: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Four policemen who allegedly attempted to obtain money from a man in a drug case were yesterday remanded to prison after making an appearance in the George-town Magistrate’s Court.

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Pepper cocaine suspect Reginald Rodrigues yesterday showed up at the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) with his lawyer and was last night in the Brickdam lock-ups preparing for further questioning today.

The badly decomposed body of a 33-year-old labourer who was missing since January 21 last was fished out of a canal at the Cotton Tree foreshore at around 9:30 am yesterday minus his head and left hand.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday urged the government to withdraw the nomination of Dr.

-probe launched The Police Office of Professional Responsibility has launched an investigation into why police witnesses in the Terrence Sugrim illegal arms and ammunition matter did not turn up in court, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says.

Doctors at the Georgetown hospital recently benefited from refresher training courses in several areas in a programme conducted with assistance from health personnel from the Emergency Department of the University of Vanderbilt Medical Centre.

The body of a man was yesterday discovered in his Cummings Lodge home and the police are awaiting a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death.

The police have taken a statement from the Enmore Primary School teacher who is accused of grabbing a student and slamming him into a window because the youngster stood observing  him and one of his colleagues arguing over a blackboard.

Owner of the HGP TV station, better known as Halagala, Terry Nelson-Fraser died on Monday afternoon at the Balwant Singh Hospital after suffering a massive heart attack.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has set up a high level panel to investigate the findings contained in the Auditor General-led report into the polar beer scam involving company employees and Fidelity Investments.

$1.6B has been allocated to the housing sector this year while $3.8B has been budgeted for the water sector.

$3.3B has been allocated for pensioners and $800m has been budgeted to meet targeted public assistance programmes this year.

$2.5B set aside for drugs, medical supplies $12.8B has been budgeted for the health sector this year with capital expenditure projected at $3B and current expenditure projected at $9.8B and this year should see construction of a new Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) In-patient facility at a cost of $1.1B.

Three ranks attached to the Turkeyen Police Station have been charged departmentally with negligence, over the brazen escape of a teenaged murder accused from their custody more than a week ago, Commander Balram Persaud said yesterday.

Two bandits on Monday night drove away with a businessman’s car containing $1.5M cash, minutes after the man exited it to make a deposit at a nearby commercial bank.

Four men and a woman are in police custody following two separate marijuana discoveries in Berbice on Monday.

By Rawle Toney Guyana’s ace striker Gregory “Jackie Chan” Richardson was impressive playing his first game for Toronto FC who  claimed a 2-1 win over the USA U-20 side Sunday last in Bradenton, Florida.

Latoya Conway Woolford, the Festival City beautician who was allegedly stabbed by her husband on Saturday afternoon and succumbed the following morning, died of kidney failure, relatives said.

Charlestown and Covent Garden Secondary remain undefeated By Rawle Toney Charlestown and Covent Garden Secondary are the only unbeaten teams so far in the Ministry of Sport Mashramani Schools Basketball Championship after securing respective wins on Monday.

Families discussing settlement The police file on the death of 32-year-old Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara resident, Daniel Damon has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for ad-vice, Commander of ‘D’ Divi-sion, Paulette Morrison says.

Dear Editor, I refer to letters written by Mr Ganesh Singh in the Stabroek News on Monday February 2, 2009 captioned ‘Why is it that TRIPS does not appear to be fully functional?’

– Sport Directors to meet this weekend By Rawle Toney Guyana will play host to the first leg of the 2009 Inter-Guiana games, according to Director of Sport Neil Kumar, who disclosed that his colleagues from French Guiana and Suriname will be in Guyana this weekend to begin the planning of the games.

Many of the streets in Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara are in a deplorable state.

Former Guyana opener Azeemul Haniff scored 95 runs to guide CLICO Preysal to a 109-run win over Barataria Ball Players in the Carib Sunday League Round of 16 at the National Cricket Centre in Couva on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Jim Holder would like us all to know he either lives in North America or has visited Niagara Falls by his comment “Niagara Falls has rails.”

The newly-elected body of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) is forging ahead with its plans for the development of cricket.

Minister within the Ministry of Education Dr Desrey Fox on Wednesday visited the St.

Dear Editor, The Indo-Guyanese community in NY lost two of the greatest classical traditional singers in the passing of Aunty Nylon and Aunty Margaret, phenomenal old timers who entertained tens of thousands on the Corentyne. 

The Police Sports Club (PSC) will be hosting a development meet on behalf of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) for Junior and Senior athletes on Friday at the Eve Leary Sports Complex ground, Kingston.

The Ministry of Housing and Water says it will develop another 331 house lots when it starts the third phase of the Bath Settlement programme under the second low-income programme.

A 19-year-old Parika, East Bank Essequibo farmer has been remanded to prison after appearing at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on a charge of carnally knowing a 14-year-old girl.

Dear Editor, I would like to draw to your attention one deliberate attempt by your newspaper, particularly Stabroek Business to continually use the editorial (captioned ‘Fidelity’ 6.2.09) to further tarnish the image of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in light of the report on the Customs/Fidelity probe.

Dear Editor, On 7.2.09 four friends and I were hanging out at a famous hot spot in New Amsterdam.

– H. T. Goranson is the Lead Scientist for Earl Research and was a Senior Scientist with the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

As he initiated his campaigning to get from his Senate seat to the Oval Office two or so years ago, preaching the gospel of change, President Obama could hardly have imagined that the domestic environment in which he would assume office would be so severe.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited donated 60 pairs of desks and benches to the Houston Community High School on Tuesday.

A 34-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a girl, who is under 15 years was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon will serve as chairman of the National Insurance Scheme Board until a new Board is appointed.

President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh has sent a congratulatory message to the newest member of the West Indies 5000-run club Ramnaresh Sarwan.