Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Articles published on Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Staffer took nude photo of recaptured escapee with cell phone

Instructions were given to a prison staffer to take a nude picture of Royden Williams called `Smallie’ with his cellphone owing to the unavailability of the prison’s camera, according to Prison Director (ag) Gladwin Samuels who said yesterday that authorities are still working to ascertain how it was leaked to the public.

Jermaine Joseph

Police rank denies allowing escape of prisoner from GPHC

A police rank was yesterday granted self-bail after he denied allowing the escape of Melvor Jeffrey, the Agricola teenager who reportedly had been shot by police in Agricola during an operation It is alleged that Jermaine Joseph, 20, of West Coast Berbice, on July 19, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GHPC), being employed with the Guyana Police Force which had lawful custody of  Jeffrey, through negligence or carelessness, allowed Jeffrey to escape from lawful custody.

From left Jolyon Joseph, Victor Rutherford and Aubrey Gordon.

Joseph, Gordon perform creditably at World Masters cycling c/ships

After performing creditably at the recent International Cycling Union (UCI) World Masters Cycling championships in California, United States of America, Guyana’s two-man team of Jolyon Joseph and Aubrey Gordon performed is calling for financial assistance to assist them in their quest to bring honour and glory to the land of their birth.

Hinds’s letter compels an answer

Dear Editor, The letter by former PPP/C Prime Minister Sam Hinds published on October 8 in Sunday Stabroek  intended to refute ACDA’s claim that a conspiracy exists to hinder the empowerment of Afro-Guyanese, and which was sent to all the print media houses, compels an answer on the grounds of its erroneous opinions derived from ignorance.

T&T now CFU No.3 behind Haiti, Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Trinidad & Tobago’s emotional World Cup qualifying victory over the United States last Tuesday have propelled them to third in the Caribbean Football Union rankings after the release yesterday of the World Rankings by the sport’s world governing body.

The health fair in full swing (Banks DIH photo)

Banks DIH, ministry host community health fair

Residents of Ruimveldt and lower East Bank Demerara benefitted from medical services at a Community Health Fair hosted by Banks DIH Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) at Thirst Park Sports Club ground last Friday.

The Demico House vending strip

It serves no meaningful purpose to restate what, by now, are the well-known facts of the protracted saga of City Hall versus the growing army of pavement vendors who now populate most of the empty spaces in downtown Georgetown.