Outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said Moses Nagamootoo “jumped ship” after losing his bid to lead the PPP/C to the polls and he told supporters that the former ruling party member did not deserve their respect.
A 20-year-old woman died last evening hours after she was struck down by a speeding motor car on the Annandale Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara.
Not a day passes that Nadira and Nandkissoon do not think about their son, Constable Vickram Singh who was gunned down under “questionable circumstances” while manning the entrance to the joint services scheme on July 2, 2010.
Fire of unknown origin yesterday morning gutted a two-storey home leaving in its wake an estimated $35 million in losses and a 68-year-old re-migrant and his tenant homeless.
Four months after the lifeless body of physically-challenged Abdul Azeem Haniff was found stuffed in his Mon Repos septic tank, the case has gone cold but remains open as the police have received information that he was linked to stolen property.
A 39-year-old mother of four was last Friday found with her throat slit at her Number 48 Village, Corentyne home and police have since detained her reputed husband.
CNS Channel 6 Programme Director Savitree Sharma yesterday denied bargaining for the four month suspension imposed on the station and accused President Bharrat Jadgeo of giving the public a false impression of her.
CNS Channel 6 will be off the air effective Monday at midnight after President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday handed broadcaster CN Sharma a four-month licence suspension as a sanction for a May 4, 2011 Anthony Vieira commentary in which there were damaging statements about Bishop Juan Edghill.
Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday ruled the 2008 McDougall Report inadmissible as evidence, but the defence later signalled its intention to have the author, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Gay Mc Dougall, testify via audio videoing.
Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said he could not verify that President Bharrat Jagdeo’s failure to set up an appeals tribunal to offer redress to aggrieved public servants most affected Afro-Guyanese, who make up the majority of the workers.
Better Hope resident Rosaline Lloyd was grazed by a bullet as she crept to shield her sleeping children, in the middle of a shootout between police and vandals early yesterday morning.
Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the racial connotations contained in the article that triggered President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit did not change his perception of the Head of State.
Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday admitted that government had rejected the contents of a feasibility report and eventually sited the Berbice River Bridge at Palmyra—a largely Indian-Guyanese populated village—but he denied that there was any attempt to deprive other areas as a result.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday testified that he was unaware of the criteria used to identify and select nominees for ambassadorial postings, and he admitted that some had no prior diplomatic experience.
A mother of seven was yesterday hacked to death at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway allegedly by her husband who dragged her body into bushes and covered it with grass.
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his decision to appoint Henry Greene as Police Commissioner was made after the US refused to provide information on a five-year probe, which it said tied Greene to drug trafficking.
Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday testified that a visiting UN expert on minorities produced an “inaccurate” report on Guyana, focusing more on Afro-Guyanese rather than the Amerindians, who he said have a bigger claim as a minority.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday faced scrutiny over President Bharrat Jagdeo’s apparent snub of two Afro-Guyanese for appointment as Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and his unwillingness to confirm another Afro-Guyanese as a Judge.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday continued to face questions over government appointments and contract awards as testimony in President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News and columnist Freddie Kissoon continued.
A mother of four is in a serious condition at a city hospital after she was allegedly shot twice in the shoulder by her husband during an argument at their Prashad Nagar home early yesterday morning.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.
