Oluatoyin Alleyne

–Jagdeo rescinds dismissals, to meet them shortly Almost a week off the job, striking air traffic controllers returned to work yesterday after a promise by President Bharrat Jagdeo to meet them in “a week’s time”.

– hopes air traffic controllers return Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said yesterday that he did not believe government had reached the point of firing the striking aircraft traffic controllers, though Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn maintained that they would be sacked for not turning up.

Air traffic controllers defiant Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn yesterday issued an ultimatum to striking air traffic controllers to immediately return to their jobs or be considered voluntarily separated but at press time last night the workers were refusing to budge until outstanding wage and other issues are addressed.

Doctors yesterday successfully performed a second kidney transplant here and up to press time the 47-year-old recipient and his daughter who donated the kidney were recovering in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

A 47-year-old ex-army officer is the next kidney transplant patient and according to a source close to his family he will receive a kidney from his 25-year-old daughter.

– family calls for assailants arrest The family of a 29-year-old man, who was badly beaten after being accused of stealing a hammer and a water pump, is questioning why the police have not arrested the couple reportedly responsible for brutalising him last Monday evening.

Another prisoner has escaped; this time from in front of the Camp Street prison, where he was at work, sprucing up its environs.

A Trinidadian may be involved in the multi-million-dollar fraud committed at Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd and more staffers are expected to be sent home as the investigation continues.

Months after a fraud of almost $900,000 was discovered in the Pensions Department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) no one has been placed before the court although all the evidence reportedly points to the involvement of four former employees.

Three gun and cutlass-wielding men yesterday morning shot and killed a Mahaicony coconut estate caretaker and assaulted his wife in front of their one-year-old son before escaping with a shotgun, cash and jewellery.

-Youth Minister reveals One of the two major companies producing alcohol here will soon be introducing a “very active programme” to promote “sensible drinking,” according to Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony.

The details of four dead pensioners were used to perpetrate fraud amounting to almost $900,000 in the Pensions Department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) which has seen some 18 employees being sent home, a senior source in the institution said yesterday.

Once a household name in Guyana, Olive Gopaul is rarely seen on television today, except for when she announces the winning numbers for the Guyana Lottery Company.

Money collected  for the dead Fourteen employees of the pension department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Brickdam office were yesterday sent home as investigations intensify into the discovery of a fraud in that department.

Shonnet Moore has come a long way from the bright-eyed schoolgirl who was crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen at age 18.

‘Narcotics violation’ deportee now heads reintegration agency Donna Snagg committed a “narcotics violation” in the United States, the country she had called home for 20 years, and was deported back to Guyana where she had to overcome deprivation and despair.

`I, Phillip Bynoe, was guilty of trying to solve Guyana’s problems through antagonistic approaches and that was wrong’ Pardoned treason accused Phillip Bynoe yesterday admitted that he used the “wrong approach” in attempting to solve the country’s problems and has vowed to use his energy, “God-given talent and intelligence” to work with like-minded persons to ensure that Guyana emerges a better country.

one of a kind There are many adjectives that can be used to describe Donna Ramsammy-James, but accomplished just about covers it, when one considers the wealth of experience and variety she has brought to the designing industry in Guyana.

American, Canadian companies continue search for missing aircraft Hope is still alive for the rescue of the three men on board the US chartered aircraft that went missing more than two weeks ago, as the two companies for which the men work have vowed to continue searching the interior location where the plane went missing with no “end date” in sight.

Guyana’s alcohol problem persists Manickchand: Producers have to get on board The stories may have different characters but the plots remain the same: a man, a woman or a child is the victim of a senseless act of violence, the result of someone who has had too much to drink.