Year: 2018

AFC Councillor lands in trouble again

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…to spend 18 months behind bars for wounding cousin Embattled Alliance For Change (AFC) Councillor, Abel Seetaram, who was last month found guilty of feloniously wounding his cousin following a drinking spree, was on Wednesday jailed for 18 months. The 36-year-old of Lot 121 B Woodley Park Village, West Coast Berbice had initially denied the allegation when he appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court in January last. He was found guilty of wounding Netram Rabindranauth, 54, of Lot 64 Woodley Park Village on January 21,…

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Man who threatened to bomb stores in Guyana charged for inciting terror

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The Parika, East Bank Essequibo man who had been residing in Venezuela and who had threatened to bomb several stores in Guyana in a Facebook post was on Monday slapped with an inciting public terror charge. Shaim Wazir Nazir, 23, who at the time of making the post was living at Parika Backdam, stood before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. He denied that between June 1 and June 3, 2018 at Parika Backdam, with intent to cause public terror, he wrote in a Facebook post: “Essequibo…

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Cappo the contractor

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Satiricus was astounded, to say the least. He had known Cappo from childhood when they literally sat on the same bench in “Lil ABC”. So he was very familiar with Cappo’s “school name” – which the teacher said was his “given name”. And here the name was; staring out at him from the list Vexxon had provided of their local contractors so they could fulfil their “local content’ requirement. Cappo, a Vexxon contractor?? This Satiricus had to find out about!! “So how come you didn’t tell us you’re a big-time…

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‘It’s not about race, it’s about fairness’

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… Jagdeo says as storm brews over GECOM hiring process Following claims of employment discrimination, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it intends to continue their monitoring of the ethnic composition at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and “expose every breach at the entity, so as to ensure free and fair future elections.” “We will continue watching the issue. We will keep watching it because we believe that that Elections Commission has a critical role to play in the future and we intend to expose every single breach that could…

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Crackdown announced on fake IDs, underage drinking in NY

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…during concert summer season New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that investigators from the Department of Motor Vehicles along with the State Liquor Authority, State Park Police and local law enforcement are cracking down on underage drinking and the use of fake IDs at venues across the state. According to a media release from the Governor’s office, since May, DMV has made 78 arrests during five investigations under its Operation Prevent campaign, an ongoing effort to curtail underage drinking that is once again in full swing as the…

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‘I’ve always wanted to help others’

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…says Guyana-born NYPD officer A Guyanese woman who migrated to the USA at the age of 16, and joined the NYPD six years after moving to America, has been entered into the Hall of Fame at her former college. The woman, Rhonda O’Reilly-Bovell, a married mother of two daughters, has been inducted into the Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame on May 4, 2018. O’Reilly-Bovell is currently the commanding officer of the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and is also president of the Guyanese American Law…

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‘I can’t wait to get started’

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The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has announced the appointment of former Jamaican international and UEFA Pro Licence holder Michael Johnson as the new Head Coach of the Guyana men’s national football team. With the UEFA Pro Licence and the League Managers Association Diploma in Football Management, Johnson is the most qualified national coach in the history of the Golden Jaguars. The 44-year-old British national brings a wealth of professional coaching and playing experience to the role, alongside sparkling recommendations from the English Football Association, former England Manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and…

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Man to spend 22 years behind bars for drowning wife in bucket

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Thirty-five-year-old Vindra Siriram, who was last month found guilty of killing his wife, Shelly Ann Persaud, four years ago, will spend the next 22 years in prison for submerging her head in a five-gallon bucket of water. Justice James Bovell-Drakes, who handed down the sentence at the High Court on Monday, encouraged the convicted husband to re-evaluate his conduct to be a better member of society. The woman’s lifeless body was found at the couple’s Friendship, East Bank Demerara home on June 10, 2014. The couple shared three children who…

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Silent service leads Amanda Richards to a Medal of Service

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Many of us would have come a breathtaking photograph by Amanda Richards but not many of us know who Amanda Raichards is. It is that way because she is not the type of person who would be in your face and prefers to perform “silent service” without any expectation. With personality and humbleness, one could only imagine what went through her mind when she first saw her name on the list of National Awarders for 2018 or when the calls came in and every time a congratulatory post appeared on…

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Mae’s formally apologises to Indigenous child, parents

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Amid public outrage after the Mae’s Schools child was told his Indigenous cultural outfit was “inappropriate”, the school’s administration has issued an apology to the child and his parents to resolve the issue. The two parties were involved in a third discussion on Wednesday, and the Director of the institution, Stacey French, issued her apology to the parents of Joshua Chacon – Karen Small and Jason Chacon, among a gathering of officials from the Education Ministry and the Social Cohesion Department. In making her apology, French stated that ultimately what…

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