Archive | February, 2012

Schoolboy stabbed to death in row over girl

Schoolboy stabbed to death in row over girl

- cops hunt teenage suspect A 17-year-old schoolboy attending private lessons was stabbed to death at around 18:30 hrs yesterday during a bitter confrontation with another student over a girl. Anfernee Bowman, of Lot 77 Robb Street, Bourda, was stabbed in the chest, abdomen and right thigh by an 18-year-old student shortly after he had left the [...] [...more]

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DPP has 10 days to explain Top Cop rape charge

DPP has 10 days to explain Top Cop rape charge

    -    Senior DPP attorney said to be godmother of complainant’s child Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has been given ten days to explain how Director of Public Prosecution – Shalimar Ali-Hack she arrived at her decision to recommend that a rape charge be instituted against Police Commissioner Henry Greene. A week ago, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang [...] [...more]

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Armed bandit shot in buttocks during dramatic chase

Armed bandit shot in buttocks during dramatic chase

A Campbellville businessman yesterday shot an armed bandit twice during Shot: Kevin Inniss at the hospital last night. a dramatic chase into Sophia. Injured and under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital is Kevin Inniss, 18, of Lot 123 ‘B’ Field, Sophia. According to the rice farmer, who asked not to be named, he was at home when [...] [...more]

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Education Ministry text book scam…Baksh: I was not involved in contract awards, payments

Education Ministry text book scam…Baksh: I was not involved in contract awards, payments

  Former Education Minister, Shaik Baksh, has distanced himself from what is turning out to be a major scam Former Education Minister, Shaik Baksh involving the ordering of text books. Yesterday, in a statement threatening Kaieteur News with possible legal action, Baksh who was not returned as a Minister or a Parliamentarian under the Donald Ramotar administration, also said [...] [...more]

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Police catch carjacker in the act, save driver

Police catch carjacker in the act, save driver

      Luck was on the side of a taxi driver when he ran into a police mobile patrol during an Orin Hubbard attempt to hijack his vehicle last night. Joel Williams, whose car is attached to Gems Taxi service, was already relieved of his day’s earning by the hijacker’s two accomplices and was being taken to the Kingston seawall [...] [...more]

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THE PEOPLE ARE BATTLE-FATIGUED

THE PEOPLE ARE BATTLE-FATIGUED

    Since the ascension of Mr. Donald Ramotar as the president of Guyana, there have been changes. But it is also clear that in a number of areas, these changes have not in the eyes of many members gone far enough. There have been more sincere engagements between the President and the main opposition parties. Political cooperation [...] [...more]

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Oxymoronically speaking

Oxymoronically speaking

The people that form the leadership of the Government of Guyana do not deserve to hold the high offices that they do. Their level of thinking brings disrespect and ridicule from society. There are times when the main actors in the PPP Government should shut their mouths and just stay quiet whenever the press or [...] [...more]

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Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald can’t get no rest

Dem boys seh…Uncle Donald can’t get no rest

      When he was alive Zakeer did like nuff stupidness. When he dead was de same stupidness. De people who burying he decide fuh hire a Rasta man fuh dig de grave. Dem boys see de man digging and sweating. At lunch time Zakeer relatives and friends guh  fuh check at de burial ground fuh see how [...] [...more]

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Counterfeiting and property infringements

Counterfeiting and property infringements

  Intellectual copyright is one of the things on which moist societies run. People in the performing arts make money because the rest of society pays for the stuff they produce. Indeed, it is common in the developing world that the governments, perhaps because of a paucity of funds for things other than development, would turn [...] [...more]

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UG needs more than media rhetoric

UG needs more than media rhetoric

    Dear Editor: I refer to Dr. Seelochan Beharry’s letter in the Kaieteur News of February 26, 2012. Let me say from the outset how restricted I feel sometimes in my role as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, largely due to the archaic statutory regulations that confront UG. Nevertheless, I am not a quitter. I returned to this [...] [...more]

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