Month: May 2018

“Speak out and get out”

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…Minister Broomes urges victims of domestic violence Minister within the Natural Resources Ministry, Simona Broomes has issued an urgent call to women in domestic violence situations to “speak out and get out”, noting that often times, as is being shown, the abuse ends in death. The Minister, currently assigned to undertaking development activities in Linden, made the call on Friday, after visiting 38-year-old Onika Kingston who was seriously burnt about her body with hot rice water by her reputed husband, Leslie Woolford on Thursday. Kingston, of Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, remains…

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Bridging of Kurupukari River to commence soon – Patterson

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One year after it was announced that the Kurupukari ferry crossing will be bridged, Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson has said works will commence soon. The construction of a new single or dual lane fixed bridge – approximately 600 meters long – at the Kurupukari ferry crossing, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) will soon commence. According to Minister Patterson, systems are already in place and works should begin soon. Currently persons travelling the Linden/Lethem trail have to cross the Essequibo River, at Kurupukari, by a privately-operated pontoon service. Kurupukari Village is located…

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2 dead in Linden Highway collision

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…1 hospitalised A Police Corporal and a former athlete lost their lives tragically on Tuesday morning when the motor car in which they were travelling slammed into a lorry on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. Dead are Theon Hope, 24, of Lamaha Park, Georgetown; a Police Corporal, who was stationed at Eve Leary and 25-year-old Quason Anthony, a former athlete of Lot 8366 Bent Street, Georgetown. According to reports, both men, along with two others including the driver of motor car PNN 1278, Rishawn Pierre, 23, of D’Urban Street, Lodge, were proceeding…

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Preserving our literary heritage

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– Guyana’s Linguistic Heritage by Petamber Persaud (excerpt of an interview with Harry Hergash, Georgetown, Guyana, September 2013. Hergash was among the first batch of students of the University of Guyana. He was taught Hindi by his parents then studied the language at the Hindu College, Cove and John. Hergash’s publications include, ‘A Collection of Indian-Guyanese Words & Phrases and their meanings’) PP I’d like to start this discourse by quoting a few words of commendation by Harry Persaud and cited in the book: ‘Words are essential symbols expressing multiple…

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QC students call for major rehabilitation of school

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Students and teachers of Guyana’s premier learning high school are contending that some of the school’s facilities are in a deplorable state. Queen’s College (QC), a prominent learning institution, which churns out outstanding students at the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) examinations, is said to be in need of a facelift to its archaic structures. Guyana Times International was informed that some of the structural components of the institution require rehabilitations so as to make it conducive for academic purposes. Presently, one of the main concerns is the condition of…

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Addressing domestic violence

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Within the last four months alone, seven women have been killed by their partners in what can only be described as monstrous acts, while three more unfortunate victims were brutalised at the hands of their partners. Recent statistics point to a disturbing reality: incidents of domestic violence by an intimate partner in Guyana rose from 74.8 percent in 2011 to 89 percent in 2017, with females accounting for upward of 80 percent of the victims. The highest number of these crimes occurs in Region Three, Essequibo Coast and Islands; Region…

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Labour’s lost…

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…love No…your Eyewitness didn’t mix up the Bard’s play, “Love’s labours’ lost”. That had to do with a king and his three friends who decide to focus on their studies and not to get distracted with “love”. But being yesterday was “Labour Day”, he decided to reflect on the heady days of yore when Labour was strenuously wooed by the politicians. And why today, they barely rate a second glance. In case you’ve forgotten, dear reader, the very existence of our country is due to “LABOUR”. And yes, it should…

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Top Cop post: ‘I’m prepared and ready if called upon to serve’ – Williams

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Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner Paul Williams has expressed confidence in taking up the most senior job within the Guyana Police Force, saying that he is prepared and ready if given the chance to serve as the next Police Commissioner. Williams told a media conference on Monday that he believed he was qualified and capable. He was responding to questions posed to him by the media. Williams was one of the eight persons who were recently interviewed for the position, following the retirement of Seelall Persaud. “I’m ready for any position.…

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The promised “Good Life”

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The PNC-led APNU/AFC coalition Government is now well past the halfway point of its term of office, in which it promised to deliver “the good life” to the citizens of Guyana. Sadly, by its own measure, that promise has receded even further under this regime, which is characterised more than anything else by the disjoint between its rhetoric and its actions. The rhetoric for achieving the “good life” was captured in its “joint manifesto”, in which the goals were stated right up front. It began with the need for “healing…

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Jagan and WI Pan Africanism

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We noted CLR James saw Cheddi Jagan’s vacillation, in 1958, and refusal to clearly state his personal position – as the leader of the PPP — on the WI Federation as trying to have it both ways: maintaining the support of his mainly Indian base while signalling he was “principled” for not accepting a toothless British WI Federation. In his 1956 address to his rump PPP, he accepted Burnham had taken most African support after the 1955 split. But we want to suggest Jagan’s seeming vacillation arose out of his…

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