Zoisa Fraser

Story and photos by Zoisa Fraser As night steps in, Port Kaituma (PK) Central comes alive as miners and residents converge after a hard day’s work to relax, share news, party, eat and drink.

The government and Region 10 officials yesterday reached an agreement on the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the technical team that will review the electricity issue in Linden but its composition is yet to be decided.

Last month Stabroek News visited the Port Kaituma area which is commonly referred to as the gateway to the North West District.

At the crowded Port Kaituma central, the gateway to the goldfields of the North West District of Region One, one-time city traders—including many single-mothers—are now looking for their big breaks.

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden shooting was presented to the National Assembly last evening but it could be some time yet before the Commission begins to probe the shooting which left three persons dead as the composition and other factors are still to be decided.

Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell yesterday assured that a full-scale investigation is ongoing to determine responsibility for the fatal shooting of three protestors at Linden last Wednesday, even as residents locked off the township to vehicular traffic as they continued to protest against higher electricity tariffs.

The provision of school lunches has driven up attendance rates as well as raised performance and attentiveness in the hinterland, where an improvement in the overall nutritional diet of the more than 16,000 children benefiting has also been noticed, according to a recent World Bank assisted study.

Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh yesterday admonished magistrates to handle domestic violence cases in a timely manner to save lives, while emphasising that the key objectives of the court are to help improve victim safety and enhance offender accountability.

Randy Morris, a suspect in numerous armed robberies, was yesterday shot dead following a daring gunpoint attempted robbery in Regent Street and a dramatic chase through several streets.

For the relatives of Tiab Gafoor, who was brutally stabbed to death in 2000, when he was just 9 years old, the recent freeing of the duo convicted of his murder by the Court of Appeal has left them feeling as though the justice system has failed them, but they are prepared to take the case to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

An elderly Chateau Margot resident shot himself dead with a shotgun yesterday, shortly after firing at his daughter and trying to break into the apartment where she hid from him.

Three miners were doused with gasoline and almost set on fire during the raid by an armed gang on a mining camp at Issano on Sunday.

On May 9th, when Nathan Samuel James’ unmanned boat was found drifting in the Pomeroon River, the visible damage on the vessel led his family to believe that it had been hit by another vessel and he fell overboard and drowned.

A 42-year-old porkknocker was yesterday shot dead by police shortly after he chopped two policemen, who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at his Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo home.

A police constable was shot numerous times with arrows, chopped in the head and beaten at Monkey Mountain, Region Eight on Wednesday following the arrest of a suspect with a gun and suspected cannabis.

Jason Abdulla, a contracted Government Information Agency (GINA) employee stationed at the Office of the President (OP), testified yesterday that over the last few weeks he had been tasked with compiling articles written by columnist Freddie Kissoon in the Kaieteur News about former president Bharrat Jagdeo and the government.

A 56-year-old mother of six was yesterday morning found dead at a shop located at Waiakabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway and the police suspect that she was raped and murdered.

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday threw out the action brought by government to challenge the numerical make up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection, saying that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter since there was no evidence of a constitutional breach.

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday said that pressure would be kept on government to ensure a good life for all citizens, while defending the recent budget cuts as a move to end executive lawlessness and reduce the cost of living.

In a rotting Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara shack, Rickford McKenzie spends most of his good days in a chair in front of the television.