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All CLICO claims guaranteed

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– Jagdeo Persons who have insurance policies at Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) are asked to continue paying their premiums. President Bharrat Jagdeo repeated this yesterday. The Head...

Water well erupts during drilling, blocks roadway with silt

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Pandemonium broke out in Third Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday after a partly-completed well in a resident’s yard spewed a fountain of mud more than 40 feet into the air and blocked a...

Torture victim reports matter

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– army remains mum One of the victims of the alleged torture at the hands of the Joint Services during last Saturday’s raid that netted $20M worth of cocaine on Wakenaam, has made a formal...

Hand-in-Hand Trust ‘closely monitoring $5B overseas investment’

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…CEO insists company can withstand complete loss to Stanford Investment By Gary Eleazar In light of the impairment of a $822M Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation (HIHTC) deposit as a result of the...

Record proves investments in Bahamas

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CLICO takeover… – President Jagdeo By Tusika Martin Guyana has an audit trail and records of its investments in Colonial Life and Insurance Company (CLICO) Bahamas, President Bharrat Jagdeo...

Wakenaam residents on high alert for reprisals

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$20M cocaine seizure… Residents on the island of Wakenaam are on high alert to prevent any possible reprisals for the seizure of 50 kilograms of cocaine by the Joint Services. Divisional Commander...

MY LAST LAP WITH CHEDDI JAGAN

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Fragments from Memory By Moses V. Nagamootoo On Friday, February 14, 1997 (Valentine’s Day), Cheddi Jagan suffered a fatal heart attack. He battled heroically in hospital for twenty-one days,...

Sugar loving seaman granted bail

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Rakesh Gorrahoo, 35, of 172 Kingston, Corriverton, was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that on February 25, last, he stole 35 bags of...

Judge admits caution statement

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Better Hope murder trial… Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday admitted the caution statement of Richard Reid, called “Bully Boy”, who is on trial for the 2002 murder of Michael...

US-based Guyanese believed to have fled to Guyana

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– charged with harming infant, first-degree assault Rohan Ganesh, a 19-year-old United States-based Guyanese man, from Schenectady, New York, who had been charged with violently shaking his...

US-based Guyanese believed to have fled to Guyana

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– charged with harming infant, first-degree assault Rohan Ganesh, a 19-year-old United States-based Guyanese man, from Schenectady, New York, who had been charged with violently shaking his...

Guyanese women busted with cocaine en route to Africa

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Two Guyanese women, travelling separately, have been nabbed en route to different parts of Africa, with a quantity of cocaine. This information was relayed to the Guyana Police Force by the...

NLE holds meeting with Georgetown clubs

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– discusses rules ahead of Friday’s ‘jump ball’ By Edison Jefford Georgetown’s top seeded basketball clubs had the opportunity to vent their discrepancies with the administration of the...

The Battersea Bomber may yet win that world title

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By Michael Benjamin Even though he is Guyanese, Howard Eastman spent the majority of his boxing life practicing his trade in the United Kingdom. “The Battersea Bomber” as he is known...

RHTYSC cricket teams’ honours five retired senior teachers

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Five retired educators, with a combined total of 185 years of teaching experience, were honoured recently by the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) at the...

Surujpaul leads E’bo to victory against Berbice at Anna Regina

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Essequibo defeated Berbice by 61 runs in the third round of the Castrol U-15 Inter-County 50 overs cricket competition played yesterday at the Anna Regina Ground on the Essequibo Coast. Berbice won...

High investor-interest in Guyana at international aquaculture show

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Representatives of the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) were recently in Seattle, Washington to attend Aquaculture America 2009, where leading professionals in the field pointed to...

All is not well at the Kintyre/Borlam NDC

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SEAWELL, CORENTYNE – All is not well with residents of the Kintyre/Borlam Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and their councillors. There appears to be a communication problem as was...

Khan smashes 68 for MMZ Sports Club

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By Sean Devers The 2008 Barakat Brothers 20/20 cricket competition in West Demerara continued over the weekend with three matches. At Meten-Meer-Zorg West, hosts Meten-Meer-Zorg Sports Club ‘A’,...

Love-seeking man lands in jail for drugs

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Jermaine Haywood, 28, of Lot 1 Grove Housing Scheme, who was charged for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, will have to remain in jail until Friday. The accused on February 25...

Scotsburg & Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’ to play final

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Scotsburg Cricket Club of Corriverton hammered Rose Hall Canje by 60 runs in the lone semi-final of the Gilgeous Pawn Shop under-19 twenty20 cricket competition and will face Rose Hall Pepsi ‘A’...

Maintenance of Number 63 Beach lacking

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Maintenance and upgrade of the facilities at the No.63 beach on the Corentyne Coast – long pointed to as a major tourism hotspot for development – is severely lacking despite promises by...

GCB congratulates Sarwan

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The Guyana Cricket Board congratulated Guyanese Ramnaresh Sarwan for his impressive double century performance in the just concluded test match against England in Barbados. Here is the full text of...

Linden farmer accuses Govt official of assault, misappropriation

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“Imagine I turn up at the Lands and Survey Commission Office to make queries about my land title, and instead of a favourable answer, I was physically manhandled, thrown to the ground, and...

‘Obama youths’ assist Habitat home partner

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It was a fulfilling experience last Saturday when the youths of the Obama Youth Organisation offered their time and energies towards the construction of a home for a Habitat for Humanity Inc. home...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more