Dear Editor, This A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition Government has been most sinister, deceptive and vindictive, as it relates to their blatant default regarding promised and expected performance of constitutional obligations. President Granger and his Ministers continue to employ manipulative tactics, which consistently politically interfere in the functionality of constitutional agencies which ought to be autonomous and impartial. The deliberate manipulations by APNU/AFC cohorts are being effected not only through delays in establishment, but also efforts to contaminate and suppress by: restraining resources, placement of political…
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Suspect confesses to killing Corentyne labourer
Following the gruesome murder of a Corentyne labourer late Saturday night, Police have arrested one of the suspects who has since confessed to the crime. They are currently seeking his brother, who is believed to have fled the country. The suspect goes by the nickname “Saltfish”. Reports are the duo killed Anand Sookram, also called “Radesh” and “Halfway” at his Lot 50 Friendship, Corentyne, Berbice home on Saturday evening. The 42-year-old labourer’s body was discovered in a pool of blood on his bed about 07:30h on Sunday with his throat…
Read MorePresident Trump is America’s second-most admired man, poll finds
Acting under Article 188 (1) (a) of the Constitution of Guyana, which states that the President has the power to grant any person concerned in, or convicted of, any offence under the laws of Guyana, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful condition, President David Granger has ordered the release of eight students from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) so that they can be re-integrated into their families. In addition, the Head of State has pardoned five females from the New Amsterdam Prisons under Articles 188, 189 and 190…
Read MoreAn objective analysis is needed of Guyana’s social, economic, political well-being
Dear Editor, Every end of year many people take stock of their lives and make resolutions to do better in the New Year. What we also need to do is to take stock of the Guyanese nation over the last 50 years and see where we can do better. In this regard, I call for a re-evaluation of Guyana’s social, economic and political well-being over the last 50 years. Instead of just analysing the performance of a People’s National Congress Government vs a People’s Progressive Party Government, we need to…
Read MoreSuspect in stabbing death of Sophia man to be arraigned soon
A 34-year-old father of one is now dead after he was repeatedly stabbed on Christmas Day after ‘hailing up’ residents of C Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Celwyn Alleyne, also called “Marcus”, formerly of Lot 936 C Field Sophia and of 1342 Cummings Park, E Field, Sophia, was stabbed several times by the suspect, “Spoonhead”, a known character in the community. The dead man’s girlfriend, Nalydiah Henry was also stabbed a few times – once to her neck, head, right shoulder and back. According to the Police, the incident occurred about…
Read MorePSC distributes gifts to children of laid-off sugar workers at Skeldon
The Private Sector Commission (PSC), less than two weeks ago, commenced a toy drive aimed at bringing a touch of Christmas cheer to the worst off of the children of laid-off sugar workers in the Skeldon community. This drive, at the insistence of members, expanded to become a major toy and hamper drive with members giving generously towards the effort. The Commission now plans to extend the hamper drive to the worst-off families of the other sugar estates, beginning with Wales this week. According to the Commission, “the Skeldon workers…
Read MoreNew Yorkers urged to prepare for bitterly cold temperatures
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has urged all New Yorkers to take precautions against dangerously cold weather that will be affecting the entire state until January 2. Southern and western areas in the North Country will be experiencing dangerously cold wind chills through at least Thursday night where wind chill temperatures could reach -15 to -25 below zero with some areas of the southern Adirondacks reaching as low as -40 below zero. Temperatures in Long Island and New York City are forecast to be 15 to 20 degrees below…
Read MoreHighway to Brazil
Last week, the Government of Guyana announced grandly: “Construction of the Linden-Lethem road is closer, following the signing of a Complementary Agreement to the Memorandum of Understanding between Guyana and Brazil which created the “Guyana-Brazil Joint Commission to Develop Infrastructure Projects”. Guyanese have heard about a highway to Brazil being built for so long, its origins have been shrouded in the mists of antiquity. There was, of course, the “cow trail” that had been hacked from the Rupununi to Georgetown in the early decades of the last century, to bring…
Read MoreBan on public smoking takes full effect in Guyana
Amidst much contention, the coalition Government pushed through a Tobacco Control Bill in July of 2017. Now the grace period, which was supposed to be used by health officials to launch an aggressive awareness campaign to familiarise the general public with the new laws, has expired. An order was signed by Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence and dubbed the ‘Tobacco Control (Commencement) Order 2017’. It declares that the Tobacco Control Act will henceforth come into operation. The Tobacco Control (Commencement) Order 2017 is retroactive, thus it takes effect from a…
Read More2 jailed for robbing church members at gunpoint
Former murder suspect in the Laing Avenue shooting, Negus Lamaizon and his alleged accomplice, Corinth Taylor, made their final court appearance on Wednesday before Magistrate Dylan Bess at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts as their robbery trial closed with a guilty verdict. In April last, the two were arraigned before the court and remanded to prison for robbing four church members at gunpoint when they crashed a farewell party on Regent Road in Georgetown. They had denied the allegation and were remanded to prison. On Wednesday, the Magistrate declared that the…
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