Guyana Times

Three days after being struck while performing duties at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, a traffic officer succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Dead is 25-year-old Kelvin La Fleur, of Demerara Road, Lamaha Springs, Georgetown. At the time of his demise, he was attached to the Providence Police Station. According to reported received, the traffic rank who served at...

– accused of discrimination and targeting Amerindians Over 1200 residents of Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) have petitioned President David Granger, calling for the removal of Regional Executive Officer Carl Parker who they accused of discriminatory practices and “unprofessional misconduct.” The petition, dated Monday, April 11, 2016, was sent to President David Granger on Wednesday April 13, 2016, and copied to...

Chief Education Officer (CEO), of the Education Ministry Olato Sam said there is “nothing sinister” in the Ministry’s move to change the format of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations to include a requirement for the students to write their names on the examination paper. Since publicly announcing the new requirement, the Ministry and Government have come in for...

Dear Editor, Now that Nagamootoo is exclusively Prime Minister of Information and not permitted to chair cabinet meetings, promised under the Cummingsburg Accord, has he moved up a notch? Subsequent to the PNC-AFC coalition’s 2015 ascendency to government, Raphael Trotman was named as Minister for Governance in David “Nassau” Granger’s Office of the President. Later he was promoted as...

Chairman of the Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Berbice) Education Committee Denise Belgrave said there is need for additional road safety education to be imparted to the Region’s students. According to Belgrave, this is one of the recommendations brought to the fore at a recent committee meeting. She noted that generally, students have been observed using the roadways in a haphazard...

Dear Editor, It was saddening to hear of GuySuCo’s decision to end the operations at LBI Estate. From what I understand a number of departments including the Field Workshop would be closed and its tasks discharged from the workshop at Enmore Estate. I do not think this is a wise move by GuySuCo. Given the distance between Enmore and LBI...

Deadly Prison Riot As the Commission of Inquiry continues into the deadly Camp Street Prison fire, A Division Commander Clifton Hicken has revealed that whenever police seize certain items from inmates, they are returned to the Guyana Prison Service. In his testimony to Commissioners on Thursday, Commander Hicken stated that police ranks would normally search for “arms and ammunition” and...

Dear Editor, I take serious offence with the headlines in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News of Friday, 15 April 2016, deeming Minister Harmon’s recent issue with GRA as interference. It seems that both of these dailies have lost their balance and are both bent on character assassination of Minister Joseph Harmon. One also gets the impression that neither of these...

Dear Editor, During the period that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) was in Government, the then A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Opposition, including most of the private media, launched a sustained and massive misinformation campaign against the then Administration, accusing it of corruption and racial discrimination. This malicious act was done without any substantial evidence, but with...

Dear Editor, It is with sheer repugnance that I read once again in the Wednesday 13 April, 2016 edition of Kaieteur News regurgitating lies and half-truths to manufacture an article captioned “GFC officials are as guilty as their former political bosses for corruption — WPA Executive Member”. I am also of the belief that Dr David Hinds, executive member of...