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Cops comb East Coast locations

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As the hours tick by, relatives of a young doctor and his girlfriend are becoming anxious over their fate, and efforts to locate them intensified yesterday. They still have no clue where the couple...

Huge turnout bids farewell to Cuban doctor

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– body leaves for Cuba today A heavy atmosphere pervaded the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday, as friends, family and loved ones of Dr Ricardo Beaza Corrizon convened to bid...

Road fatalities lowest in 39 years – police

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The Guyana Police Force yesterday released the traffic statistics for 2008, and noted that last year represented a “significant achievement and marked improvement in the area of traffic...

Passenger shoots conductor after snatching cash

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A 36-year-old minibus conductor was shot in the abdomen at around 15:10 hrs yesterday during a robbery attempt on the Eccles, East Coast Demerara public road. Police said that Lalbachan Gobin, of...

Cop, colleague terrorise President Jagdeo and party

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Ever since the Arab threw his shoes at President George Bush, many others seem to be getting ideas. According to Police Superintendent Lawrence Kissoon, the “fire crackers” were thrown into the...

Lay magistrates not the answer – AFC

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Chairman of the Alliance For Change, attorney-at-law Khemraj Ramjattan, is contending that Guyana does not need lay magistrates. Instead, trained lawyers need to be appointed to fill the positions....

Death Row prisoner stabbed by fellow inmate

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Prison officials are probing an incident at the Camp Street penitentiary in which Death Row inmate Noel Thomas was stabbed with an improvised ice pick. Reports state that Thomas was stabbed in the...

Mechanic reportedly terrorises sister, niece

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Clayton Waddy, 56, of 421 North East La Penitence, yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to face charges of threatening behaviour and several counts of assault. On...

Call in the Police! Seriously?

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Call in the Police! Seriously? Wasn’t it President Bharrat Jagdeo who, a year ago, told young Guyanese to use Facebook to promote Guyana, as he didn’t have the money to do it? From...

15-year-old is first road fatality

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A 15-year-old Pomeroon lad was killed on the Number 10 Public Road, West Coast Berbice, after he was struck down by a car that was allegedly speeding. He has become the country’s first reported...

Police/CANU granted extension in High Court

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Yesterday, members of the Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit moved to the High Court, seeking an extension to keep Nymrod Singh in custody, as they continue their investigations....

Red Cross aids GWI flood preparedness plan

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The efforts of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Flood Preparedness Committee were boosted yesterday with an assured Red Cross Society endowment of more than 4,000 jerry cans. At a simple ceremony,...

Spurned lover douses woman with acid

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Forty-four-year-old Angela Wilson, of Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital, nursing third degree burns to her upper body after being doused with a corrosive...

Despite positive assurances, students forced to return home, due to flooded schools

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Schools were reopened yesterday, and Education Minister Shaik Baksh had assured parents and teachers that, despite the heavy showers of rain over the past few days, schools would not have been...

Guyana team wing out for Grenada today

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‘Batting is our strength ’- Skipper Dowlin By Sean Devers Guyana, hunting their first regional first-class title since 2002, begin their 2009 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) four-day cricket...

WICB coaching accreditation sessions begins at Stadium

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The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Level 1 coaching accreditation course began yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium with both theoretical and practical sessions. Guyana Cricket Board...

Rugby West Indies loose in semi-finals of Punta del Este tourney

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Rugby West Indies Select Team, having played their way into the Semi-final of the Shield (Estimulo) Round of the Punta del Este Seven-A-Side tournament in Uruguay by defeating Carrasco Polo,...

NDIA seeks police help to protect infrastructure

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The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority is seeking the assistance of the Guyana Police Force to protect drainage infrastructure along the East Coast of Demerara. In a letter sent to Commander...

Jacobs returns after terminating ABIIT scholarship

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financial constraints cited as main reason By Edison Jefford Her dream was to always reap due rewards from years of sacrifice and hard work behind local female basketball but when that time came,...

GFF to employ Head Coach by February – GS

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By Franklin Wilson With the departure of Technical Director Jamaal Shabazz, who served Guyana’s Football diligently for a number of years, General Secretary of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)...

RHTY&SC enjoys thriving 2008

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2008 was a highly successful year for the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) according to Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster in his end of year report to the media. Foster said the...

GFA did well, what are the others doing?

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By Franklin Wilson The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) stands like a beacon above their other counterparts under the umbrella of the Guyana Football Federation when it comes to the organising...

Analysing some “achievements” in 2008

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The Government leaders, their supporters and those enriched by the sixteen years of rule, constantly lament the absence of praise for State achievements. We in the media are incessantly bombarded...

AN EMINMENT CITIZENS GROUP

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The PNCR is no longer in the streets creating havoc. There is no longer a tempestuous political climate with power-hungry opposition supporters claiming, quite falsely, that their votes were stolen....

The stray dog nuisance in Guyana

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Dear Editor, At present, there are many stray dogs roaming the streets of Guyana. These animals sometimes race after pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and motor vehicles, barking and snarling....

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more