Year: 2017

It may talk the talk, but the Government has not been walking the walk of social cohesion. This is according to a former Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), who believes that the Government has no serious intentions of re-establishing the ERC. He noted in a recent interview that the Social Cohesion Ministry has done a substandard job at facilitating the type of community level engagements needed to bring about true social cohesion. In light of this, he called for the ERC to be re-established. “That is why they…

Prisoners housed at the Camp Street Prison on Tuesday morning caused uproar at the penitentiary, demanding steak for breakfast. Reports are prison officials had to intervene after the inmates, comprising of those who recently escaped and were recaptured, began behaving disorderly while demanding steak instead of porridge for breakfast. Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels when contacted said t the situation at the prison was under control. “The escapees wanted steak for breakfast and it was not available,” he told this publication. In July, prisoners set fire to the penitentiary, raising…

A Venezuelan woman, who entered Guyana illegally, was busted, along with two others with an illegal firearm and ammunition at the Itaballi Police Checkpoint, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). Reports are that about 12:00h, ranks conducted a search on the vehicle in which the suspects were travelling and the items were found. As such, the three were arrested. Meanwhile, Police also reported that about 13:45h on Saturday, ranks were conducting a river patrol in the Mazaruni River when a 53-year-old miner of Fifth Avenue, Bartica was nabbed with a quantity of cannabis.…

Guyana’s First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, yesterday, joined with the First Ladies and Spouses of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), members of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) and First Ladies from other continents to commit “to mobilise resources so as to prioritize investments in women’s and youth’s health and in particular, the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls”. According to a release from the Ministry of the Presidency, Representatives of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations agencies, the private sector, philanthropists,…

A Police Constable on Saturday morning lost his life after a motorcycle which he was test driving crashed on the Unity Old Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD). Dead is Elroy Newton, 37, of Lot 70 Voorzig, Mahaicony, ECD, who was stationed at Transport Workshop, Eve Leary. Reports are that the accident occurred sometime around 19:30h while the officer was test driving motorcycle CE 4555. This publication was told that at the time of the accident, the Constable was proceeding north along Unity Old Road allegedly at a very fast rate.…

The Guyana Government is forging ahead with its plans to construct a new Demerara River crossing currently pegged at US$170M minus additional costs, such as for the mandatory accompanying road networks, but given the cost of the entire project, it is not feasible without the input of billions of dollars annually from the Government. This warning is encapsulated in the Feasibility Study which was commissioned by the Coalition Administration at a cost of in excess of G$150M. According to the consultants Lievense, “The Project is financially not viable without support…

A 38-year-old taxi driver was jailed and fined when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with trafficking in narcotics. Julius Watkins was jailed for four years and fined G$2.5 million on Tuesday when he admitted to Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, between September 12 and 15, he swallowed 114 pellets, which were laced with a total of 960 grams of cocaine. The father of four was nabbed as he attempted to board an outgoing flight to Canada after Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks noticed him acting in a suspicious…