Year: 2017

Sisters bound, robbed at gunpoint in home invasion

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Two sisters, a teacher and a United Nation’s employee, were in the wee hours of Thursday morning bound and held up at gunpoint by gunmen who then carted off with their valuables. The victims have been identified as Jacqueline Percival, 52, and Elizabeth Percival, 50, both of Lamaha Springs, Georgetown. According to reports received, the two sisters were asleep at around 02:00hrs when the incident occurred. The women who both reside in a flat concrete house were awakened by three men, two of whom were armed. Their hands were bound…

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Letter from the edge of oblivion

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Satiricus, as usual, when not at the Back Street in his leisure time, was in his hammock. And just as usual, fell asleep. This time as soon as he’d read his KFC party was going to write a letter to the Pee-an-See to renegotiate their Valentine Pre-Nuptial agreement, he’d wondered what his leader Nagga Man would write and suddenly here he was, reading the letter!! Dear Boss Man, As you know, next Feb 13, will be three years since we agreed to get hitched up on Valentine’s Day 2015 and…

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Parliamentary Chatrees and Chamaars

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Satiricus had a very rough week. A scandal a week from the Government benches he could handle, but a scandal a day? Jeez! Even though he was growing ticked off with his leaders Nagga Man and Rum Jhaat, the fellas were going to tear him to pieces at the Back Street Bar! He wasn’t disappointed. “Hey, Sato!! How de Chatree doin’ today, bai?” said Bungi effusively as he spied Satiricus heading to the table. “Ok…OK; could I have a beer first, at least?” replied Satiricus as he deftly slid into…

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Works to commence on Mazaruni, Georgetown prisons

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With approximately G$1.5 billion dedicated specially towards expansion and rehabilitation of the prison infrastructure, works are expected to commence in 2018 to expand the Mazaruni Prisons and rebuild the destroyed Georgetown Prisons. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Saturday told reporters that while he would have liked to have been allotted a larger sum for the ministry, he is nevertheless happy with the amount which is going to be directed into upgrading major prison infrastructure. The entire Security Sector received a total of G$30.7 billion from Budget 2018, of which…

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Kali: A foundation stone of NY Indian-Caribbean community passes on

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I was in New York over the past two weeks during which one of the foundation stones of the New York Queens based Indian Guyanese community – Ramesh Kallicharran -passed away. I had arrived in the City back in 1972 and having attended Brooklyn College, at a time when that Flatbush neighbourhood was transitioning from Jewish to West Indian. I ended up in the suburbs of North Jersey in the late 70’s, which was a more convenient commute to mid-Manhattan where I worked. Around the same time, the Indian Guyanese…

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Spank them…

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…for breaking the law? If there was any need for proof that Khemraj Ramjattan has become even less than a “Christmas blow-blow”, there is his threat to “spank” the policeman who disobeyed his charge to care for the new Chinese vehicles. Why should a police rank listen to a man who can’t even comment on the President’s unconstitutional intrusion into appointments to the Police Force, when he (Ramjattan) can’t even make a suggestion on deploying the Crime Chief!? First Ramjattan gushed as to how Blanhum was the best thing since…

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Govt to be blamed for ‘bungling’ the signing bonus

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Dear Editor, My initial thinking is that the coalition Government’s handling, if not bungling, of the signing bonus with ExxonMobil resulted from inexperience, if not incompetence, rather than a desire to be corrupt. Time may perhaps tell. However, no one can be blamed, other than the Government itself, for the widespread perception that corruption was the intent. That having been said, I am of the view, as has been evidenced by several letters and articles which I have previously written, that no stone should be left unturned in ensuring that…

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Armed bandits rob male sex workers

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Ranks on patrol duty Tuesday night arrested a suspect after he was found in possession of a motorcycle that was minutes before stolen from two male sex workers. Guyana Times International understands that the sex workers were seated on the motorcycle at the corner of Croal Street and Orange Walk, Georgetown when they were suddenly pounced upon by four armed males, who pulled up in a motor car. The bandits relieved the victims of their valuables, including the motorcycle and their cellphones. However, during their escape bid, one of the…

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Another example of authoritarianism by APNU-AFC Govt.

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Dear Editor, The use of force by the police on the opposition Members of Parliament during a Parliamentary session and the attempt by the police to forcefully remove the elected Member of Parliament for the opposition, Bishop Edghill, because he refused to comply with the Speaker’s order to leave the chamber of Parliament as he was merely seeking more time to question the government’s budget estimates will forever be remembered as a day of disgrace on our democracy and yet another example of authoritarianism by the APNU-AFC government. As a…

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Regional military to join forces against cyber criminals

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With the emerging threat that cybercrime poses, top regional security officials are looking at working together to secure the cyberspace of the Western Hemisphere against such attacks. Last week, Guyana hosted the 16th Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) – a forum sponsored by the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). It provided a platform for high ranking military officials from across the region to get together and discuss critical security issues. At a media round-table at the end of the two-day conference, Chief of SOUTHCOM, Admiral Kurt Tidd, told local reporters…

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