The five-year-old girl who was brutalised by her foster parents is still hospitalised at the West Demerara Regional Hospital, Best Village.
The five-year-old displays a cut she received on her arm from the beating.
According to sources, the foster parents have been charged with Child Abuse and are set to attend the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday. [...] [...more]
Dear Editor,
I refer to a deeply troubling article from Churamanie Bissundyal published in Kaieteur News under the title, “Are the ministers, advisors, and ambassadors of this naked king the same species and purpose of filth?’ (Kaieteur News, 28-05-10).
The article has done nothing but lowered the level of conversation in this nation. It is at once [...] [...more]
Dear Editor,
Marital home is a woman’s sanctuary from a world where so much evil and wrongs transgress life.
It’s a place where love, peace and happiness should reign and her chosen partner, in life, her protector who is supposed to sustain her needs – emotionally, physically and materially, for the married vows taken in front of [...] [...more]
Acting on “tip off”, ranks from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit on Friday night intercepted nearly three kilos of pure compressed cocaine destined for Jamaica.
Kaieteur News was told that the ranks arrived at a city wharf around 11:40 pm on Friday.
A subsequent search of the container vessel revealed two packets of cocaine. This publication was [...] [...more]
By Rabindra Rooplall
Relatives of inmates at the Camp Street Prison are peeved at the treatment meted out to them and their relatives who are incarcerated within the Prison.
According to Sabrina Persaud, she was harassed on many occasions by prison officials when she went to visit her reputed husband.
The Camp Street Prison
This was especially so [...] [...more]
Dear Editor,
Maybe it was due to lack of space in your newspaper but our Independence message to the people of Guyana that was sent to your newspaper was not published – not even in Wednesday’s (26-05-10) newspaper as we had hoped.
However, the celebration has passed but the time has not passed for wishing all Guyanese [...] [...more]
By PAUL NELSON
SCHENECTADY
— A Vale neighbourhood home of suspects in the recent killing of a Guyanese man had a cache of weapons — and an attic “sniper’s nest” set up to defend against a retaliatory attack — when police raided the place, a prosecutor said Friday.
Two cops investigating the killing of Ganesh Ramgoolam were shot [...] [...more]
The Le Repentir mortuary has been in a state of disrepair for more than four years and to date the Mayor and City Council is yet to decide on the way forward.
During mid last year, the City Council opened a bidding process with the hope of getting any private entity to take over the mortuary [...] [...more]
Dear Editor,
The Five-Party People’s Partnership won a unique and historic landslide victory as Trinidad & Tobago elected its first female Prime Minister.
The landslide victory is testimony to the fact that democracy works within a multiethnic and multiracial society. Kamal Persad-Bissessar’s United National Congress’ (UNC) alliance with Dr. Winston Dookeran’s Congress of the People (COP) and [...] [...more]
Fifty-five-year-old Justin John stood in the docks of Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire’s Court Room in the High Court on Thursday and muttered in what little English he knows that none of his family comes to visit him and that he doesn’t have a lawyer.
That day marked seven years since John, a South Rupununi resident, has been [...] [...more]