Guyana Times

…attacked family during party A well-known bandit was on Sunday evening shot dead, while one man was injured following a home invasion at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Dead is Raphael Armstrong, 32, also called “Scar”, formerly of Friendship, East Bank Demerara and of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The injured man is Adrian Mohar, 24, of Yarrowkabra. He has been admitted to the Georgetown...

Censorship of State media – baffled by stance of the GPA to write President Granger BY EDWARD LAYNE As confusion continues to rage over allegations Government ministers and other officials, including Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Director of Public Information (DPI) Imran Khan constant meddling in the works of the state media entities, the Office of the Prime Minister on Monday came...

Public Health Minister, Dr George Norton has expressed his disappointment over the work ethic of doctors and nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) maternity ward after learning of a mother’s tragedy at the facility. The mother who is still a patient at the maternity ward, along with her newborn, disclosed that the nurses had taken a blood sample...

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is moving to complete the D’urban Park Development Project in time for the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations. Army personnel are now on site to help turn the project into a reality. Fifteen soldiers on Monday turned out at D’urban Park and will be lending support to MPI’s Special Projects Unit (SPU) for the duration of...

CANU’s CoI Amidst criticism of its establishment, the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of corruption at the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Monday heard the testimony of self-confessed drug lord Barry Dataram. Dataram appeared unrepresented before single Commissioner, Retired Brigadier Bruce Lovell at the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of the Public Service Office on Vlissengen Road. The inquiry heard of allegations...

...of the sycophant The State-owned Chronic’s been under the gun recently. Part of the reason is its obvious misapprehension it’s actually “Government-owned”. And consequently had to be the handmaiden of the Minister of Information. Of course, we all know that a “handmaiden” was originally a servant of a Biblical wife who “offered out” the servant for her husband “to...

A taxi driver was on Monday remanded to prison after being arraigned with the murder of Simone Hackett, whose body was found in a trench at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, with several stab wounds. Ranachal Singh, 31, of Lot 7 Good Faith, Mahaicony, was not required to plead to the charge which stated that between April 16 and 19, at...

A Kitty, Georgetown, man was on Monday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on him in what appears to be an attempted execution. The injured man was identified as Donald McKenzie called “Baje”, 24, of Stanley Place, Kitty. Eyewitnesses say about 08:30h McKenzie, along with several other men, were standing outside...

Persistent in its claims that media censorship was virtually nonexistent during its tenure in office, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday strongly criticised the current Administration for engaging in such practices, particularly in suppressing the voice of the parliamentary Opposition. “Press censorship is being driven from the Office of the Prime Minister in particular and the Ministry of the...

I am delighted to read in the Guyana Times that the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) from 52-74 Village in Upper Corentyne, Region Six is up and running. A new 18-member Council was sworn in to manage the local affairs of about 25 villages, estimated to have around 50,000 inhabitants. These villages are the rice belt of Guyana. Except...