Guyana Observer News

A mid-afternoon accident on the Linden/Soesdyke High-way yesterday left one person dead and several nursing injuries following a head-on collision between a car and a pick-up.  Dead is 19-year-old Amelia’s Ward resident Tiffany Henville. Those who sustained injuries are 17-year–old Jamaal Assannah, his sister 24-year-old Alicia Assannah-Barry, 4-year old Shaunica Goodridge and Quincy Dundas who was driving the car at the time of the accident. The deceased and the injured were all occupants of the car. Jamal sustained cuts and bruises about his body and a gaping wound to his right leg, his sister Alicia sustained cuts and bruises about her body while her daughter, Shaunica sustained several cuts to parts of her body including to her legs and her face. The driver of the car sustained minor injuries and according to reports, Henville died on the way to the hospital.

Kitty Market has long been an eyesore and a threat to life and limbs of those who ply their trade as well as passersby to the point that it was deemed derelict by many. Yet it remains untouched. But if all goes well it may soon take on a different angle.
City Mayor Hamilton Green said that the Georgetown City Council took a decision to advertise the market for tender and that process has been completed.

- violent students with ‘rambo’ knives, ice-picks terrorise teachers

Armed with ‘Rambo’ knives, ice-picks and an assortment of sharpened implements, violent students are holding some city schools under siege and parents and teachers fear that someone will be killed or seriously hurt if Ministry of Education officials continue to ignore the situation. The student-on-student attacks escalated last week with reports of at least three students being stabbed during confrontations at schools. The attackers and victims are between 12 and 15 years old. There was also the case of a student who was nabbed with a firearm in his bag during school hours. Two Fridays ago, 15-year-old Robert Daniels of Tutorial High School had to be hospitalised after being stabbed in the back with an ice-pick and struck on the forehead with a piece of wood. That incident occurred when other students were gathered in the school’s auditorium for a farewell ceremony for a school official.

Valentine come and gone and some people suddenly know how lonely life can be. Bharrat sit at home and de only flower he get was from Kwame. Dem had some gyal who did want to go and sport wid he because nuff drinks does share. Bharrat don’t have to pay. However, dem gyal frighten de security guard suh dem keep dem distance. Uncle Adam didn’t even get a flower but he get some text message and some phone call. He even get a promise that if he behave heself he gun get some company next year. But dem had nuff lonely people. Khurshid sit down and look through he window whole day hoping that some neighbour would come over. He still waiting. Bharat Dindyal had to watch de GPL station and all de watch he watch dem still had blackout.

A house was completely destroyed by fire while another was badly damaged yesterday and residents believe that had the response by the fire service been more timely the fire could have been contained to only one flat. The house of Paul and Sheila Hubbert of 21 Punt Trench and Hill Street, Albouystown went up in flames some time around 2pm and the couple were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital after they sustained injuries in their haste to escape the fire. When Stabroek News arrived at the scene around 2.40pm, a large crowd had gathered, and furniture and other appliances were in the road. The street was barricaded and three fire engines were at the site, one a house away and two further up where they were pumping water from the Sussex Street Canal.

By Christopher Ram

Ram & McRae in its Budget Focus 2010 drew attention to one example of the subversive manner in which funds constitutionally due to the Consolidated Fund are diverted into a government owned company with the impressive sounding name of National Industrial Commercial and Investment Ltd (NICIL). The steps are as follows: 1. “vest” into this company assets belonging to the state; 2. have the company sell those assets; 3. use the money thus received for unconnected purposes, without authority or oversight; 4. pay any chicken feed balance as dividends into the Consolidated Fund. The company can even divert sewage. It financed the multi-million dollar sewage diversion for the Kingston phantom hotel project that refuses to go away. In 2007, it also used $5,000,000 of Lotto funds generously made available to it by President Jagdeo, to “support public viewing of FIFA [2006] World Cup Football.”

 By Freddie Kissoon

I pay my taxes. I have only worked in one place my whole life in Guyana – UG. My wife and I took our life’s savings and I bought a house only three years ago. That means I bought a house in my 20th year of working at UG. My car, a Toyota RAV 4, would never have been driven if I didn’t get it duty free. Not satisfied that I pay my income tax, the GRA wrote Kaieteur News twice demanding to know if I am paid and how much. Then it commanded that I file property tax for the past eight years. So I am a taxpayer who should have a right to decide how my government behaves because it uses my tax dollar. Why should hundreds of thousands of persons outside of this country (I don’t care if they are Guyana-born or Caribbean citizens) who have not blessed this country with a cent towards UG’s restoration, school rehabilitation, hospital reconstruction, road repair, agricultural development, decide who become our lawmakers?

Federal authorities in New York knew former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) major David Clarke was into drug trafficking since early 2005 – almost one year before he was indicted – according to court documents which revealed that his name came up repeatedly during court proceedings involving his wife and his brother. On April 5, 2005 Leslyn Camacho, who was named as Clarke’s wife, Hubert Clarke called ‘Dun Dun’ and Hubert’s girlfriend Shelly McQune were among some 22 persons who were charged with conspiracy to traffic in narcotics from Guyana to New York when authorities busted a drug ring operated by Sherwin Lilly also known as ‘Nigel Chester’ and ‘Huey’.