A four-month-old baby is now fatherless as his mother grieves the loss of her husband following an accident along the East Coast Demerara (ECD) roadway. Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited employee, 31-year-old David Matthew Headly was killed around 05:00h on Sunday when the car he was driving slammed into a bridge rail at Felicity, ECD. Headly, who hailed from Lot 370 Powise Close, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown, was reportedly one of the key officers in the technological overhaul of the bank. Reports are that the now dead man’s motor vehicle (PRR…
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Revised list of electors to be ready by early January, says GECOM PRO
By Jarryl Bryan With the completion of Claims and Objections, it is possible that the Revised List of Electors (RLE) that will largely determine who can vote in the upcoming General and Regional Elections could be ready by next month or early in January. This is according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward, who was asked if an RLE could be completed before January considering GECOM’s processes. “It’s possible. I would say by late December, very early January (2020), it should be completed,” Ward said,…
Read MoreWorld Children’s Day – For every child, every right
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children’s welfare. November 20th is an important date as it is the date in 1959 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since 1990, World Children’s Day also marks the anniversary…
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…in local content Your Eyewitness has seen the future…and it ain’t nice. For us Guyanese, that is. Last week, he forgot that the GIPEX oil and gas event organised by Raphael Trotman’s daughter was going on, so he ambled over to the Marriott to grab a quick bite for lunch. And as he entered – or TRIED to enter – the restaurant, for the first time in his life, he felt he was a stranger in a strange land. The place was overrun with foreigners…all speaking in tongues, but with…
Read More“I don’t regret giving up so much to be a foster mother” – Shenny Bastoo
By Lakhram Bhagirat When one takes the decision to become a foster parent, they are committing to going all in. They are making an investment in the lives of the children who may come under their care. They are promising to love those children as they would their own and they are committing to providing the best possible quality of life. Children in the system are more often broken and they need fixing. They need to be told that they are worthy of being cared for and worthy of all…
Read MoreHarris Paints employee remanded on G$7.7M robbery on store
A Harris Paints employee accused of robbing his colleagues of G$7.7 million belonging to the company was on Monday remanded to prison. Tarquinn Atkins, of B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts slapped with a robbery under arms charge. The 22-year-old man denied that on November 16, 2019, at Lot 3-5 Water Street, Georgetown, while being in the company of others and armed with guns, he robbed Ginell Williams of G$7.7 million, property of Harris Paints Limited. According to the prosecutor’s case,…
Read MoreTeen finds decomposed remains of friend at Hague home
A teenager received the shock of his life when he decided to visit his friend’s Hague, West Coast Demerara (WCD) residence early Tuesday morning after not hearing from him for a while, only to discover his decomposed remains inside the bottom flat of the two-storeyed house. Dead is 54-year-old Eric Ghansham, called “Cook Soup”, who is said to have been the only occupant of the home. This newspaper was told that the dead man repaired bicycles. When contacted, Police Commander of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), Assistant Police Commissioner, Simon…
Read MoreJamaican man in Bronx found innocent of mom’s 1989 murder
Reprinted from Jamaica Star Huwe Burton was only 16 when he was arrested and charged with the 1989 murder of his Jamaican mother Keziah Burton. Huwe got home from school on January 3, and found her lying in a pool of blood. She had stab wounds to the neck and a telephone cord wrapped around her wrist. He called the police to report what happened. Two days later, police interrogated him for three hours. He said he was forced to confess to the murder. A jury convicted Burton on September…
Read MoreOnly 40 of 250 companies at GIPEX were local
The Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit and Exhibition (GIPEX) 2019 has come and gone, with hundreds participating and partnerships being formed. According to the organisers, however, approximately 40 of the 250 companies that participated are Guyanese, something that they are looking to improve next year. This figure was provided by Chief Executive Officer of Sagacity Incorporated, Chris Chapwanya, who noted that there were some companies that, having participated in 2018’s GIPEX event, returned to provide a progress report. The event was organised by Valiant Business Media. It’s Chief Executive Officer…
Read More“Not me” – Norton says not responsible for removal of Rodney’s name from National Archives building
Following news that the Walter Rodney Archives was renamed the National Archives, Social Cohesion Minister Dr George Norton, under whose purview the archives falls, has distanced himself from removal of the renowned scholar’s name. Norton was asked by this publication about the development, which has left the party Rodney headed, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), seeking answers; and he has claimed that he was out of the jurisdiction at the time, and had nothing to do with the decision. According to the minister, he will seek answers, but for now…
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