2017 – Page 179 – Guyana Times International

Pregnant woman perishes in Berbice crash

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…driver claims he is unsure as to what led to accident A pregnant woman died on Monday evening at the New Amsterdam Hospital after the driver of the car in which she was traveling, lost control and slammed into a utility pole. The driver of the vehicle has since claimed that he is unsure as to what happened at the time of the accident. The accident occurred at Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) and has left another passenger hospitalised. The driver is currently assisting Police with the investigation.…

Shot robbery suspect granted G$150,000 bail

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Mark Anthony, the 18-year-old robbery suspect who was shot by Police during the course of a shootout, was on Tuesday granted bail when he reappeared before Magistrate Dylan Bess. It is alleged that on September 26, 2017 at Georgetown, Anthony discharged a loaded firearm at Police Officer Roger Pilgrim with the intent to maim, disfigure or to cause grievous bodily harm. The second charge stated that on the same day, at Laing Avenue, Georgetown, he robbed Tevin Williams of one i-Phone valued G$47,000 and one BlackBerry cellular phone valued G$20,000,…

Son allegedly chops father during heated argument at Pomeroon

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

A 33-year-old labourer of Jacklow, Upper Pomeroon River, is currently hospitalised at the Charity Oscar Joseph Hospital in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) after he was chopped by his son during an argument. Reports are the incident occurred at about 22:00h on Friday at their Jacklow, Upper Pomeroon home. Guyana Times International was told that the man, Andre Melville, was celebrating his birthday at home when his son, who is wanted by the Police, approached him and an argument ensued. The argument escalated and the younger Melville grabbed a cutlass and dealt…

I am having a nightmare and please do not wake me

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

I was having this dream that authoritarianism was about to be resurrected in my dear land of Guyana and I suddenly woke up. I am upset because I have to imagine what the full dream would have been, as opposed to just relying on memory. I am also upset because the leadership of the Coalition regime has penetrated my consciousness even when I am resting. But I have drawn solace from this dream because most of Guyana is suffering from a national nightmare analogous to what I have dreamt. This…

Nostalgia and movies

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

“HakunaMatata, ain’tno passing craze. It means no worries for the rest of your days” – Timon and Pumba, The Lion King We all have heroes and heroines from movies we saw as kids. Some of these movies we can re-watch and they take us back, even just for two hours, to that time, when things were so much simpler. Much of the appeal of those movies comes from the nostalgia accompanying our memories of when we first saw them, and what things were like back then. Movies and songs can…

Arrival Day

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Satiricus was feeling very chipper. After all, in addition to all the goodies that were usually circulated during the Christmas season, there were always the slew of Holidays. Which, this go around, had been increased by one extra day. He and the fellas were seated at their usual table at the back of the Back Street Bar, valiantly trying to counter the rain that just wouldn’t stop. “If people fight fire with fire,” he’d explained to Hari and Bungi when he’d suggested this retreat, “why not fight water with water…

Strategic move…

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…against Jagdeo The PNC-led coalition Government didn’t need the PPP to hold a Congress, or elections for the Central Committee, or for the General Secretary of the party that Bharat Jagdeo would emerge as the leader of the PPP by being the Opposition Leader and its General Secretary. The moment they filed their appeal in July 2015 to the “third term” ruling of Justice Ian Chang, the cat was out of the bag. They were running scared Jagdeo would run again! But they didn’t need political geniuses to figure that…

One people…

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…with Diaspora? One of the most significant outcomes of the first PNC regime was to inflate our Diaspora, where North America became “Region 11” with probably as many persons of Guyanese living there as “back home”. Seeing the important roles other diasporas played in the development of their countries of origin, successive regimes have attempted to duplicate that success here. Without much success. What gives? With the change of Government in 1992, a horde of ex-pats turned up to “help”. However, unlike other diasporas, they didn’t return with capital that’d…

Govt gets tough with squatters

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Junior Communities Minister Valerie Sharpe-Patterson has sounded a warning to persons who continue to squat on Government land, even though they were granted house lots by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA). The Minister, who has responsibility for the housing sector, told a Tuesday morning news conference that Government will be taking strict actions against those persons – actions as extreme as breaking down the squatters’ houses. She explained that some persons opted to rent out their legal house lots and live in squatter settlements. “There are a number…

Guyana to get own law school

January 16, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…under public/private partnership Guyanese law students will no longer have the opportunity to pursue their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) in Trinidad and Tobago as the agreement with the Council of Legal Education to facilitate this arrangement comes to an end next year. However a law school, to be named the JOF Haynes Law School of the Americas (JHLSA), will soon be established locally to accommodate students desirous of furthering their studies in the field of law. Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil…