Guyana Observer News

Police have detained a pregnant woman to determine whether her 38-year-old reputed husband killed himself or was brutally murdered. lvin Kissoon, a 38-year-old labourer of Lot 1928 Section ‘C’ Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, died at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre at around 01:30 hrs yesterday from stab wounds he reportedly sustained at his residence. While Kissoon’s reputed wife has alleged that he committed suicide, investigators suspect that someone else may have stabbed him during an altercation. olice are also said to be puzzled over other knife injuries on the victim’s body.

-probe underway on who authorized release

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has dissociated himself from a statement from his ministry purporting to have been delivered by him at a customs training course and a probe has been launched as to who was behind the document. According to a press release sent to the media yesterday from the email address the ministry usually uses, the comments were made at the Second Training Course for Customs Officers on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances Precursor Chemicals – Identification and Control which was held on Wednesday.

(Editor's Note: This is a perfect example of racism by the PPP regime)

- Public Service Commission asked to give just cause

The controversial non-appointment of Ms Genevieve Whyte-Nedd to the position of Chief Education Officer is currently engaging the attention of the High Court, and will no doubt become a history-making case. This newspaper understands that following an order by the Registrar, the Public Service Commission has been asked to give just cause why Whyte-Nedd has not been appointed to the position, despite the fact that she is suitably qualified and has applied repeatedly to the position. The Motion was presented since July 9, last, and had warranted a response from the Commission last Monday (August 9). According to reports reaching this newspaper, the Commission which is headed by Mr Ganga Persaud and has as its other members: Mr Carvil Duncan, Mr Cecil Seepersaud, Ms Vera Norton and Mr Desmond Hope, has since requested additional time to respond. The Commission has Mr Jaigobin Jaisingh as its secretary.

residents on edge

Several breaches in the defence along the East Bank of Demerara were pummelled by river water for the second day in a row as the effects of a spring tide continued yesterday. The authorities have advised residents living in vulnerable, low-lying and riverain and coastal communities especially those living close to sea and river defences to take the necessary precautions over the next few days as the spring tide will be effective until Sunday. According to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) Hydromet Department, the spring tide is forecast to peak at 5:14 am and 5:55 pm today at heights of 3.33m and 3.27m respectively.

 By Freddie Kissoon

One of Guyana’s most talented young lawyers that I predict will be a formidable name at the bar asked me last week if I think a certain person he named is a homosexual. My first reaction is that I couldn’t be bothered with who and who is homosexual. The world has changed 180 degrees from the time the great writer Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for homosexual behaviour and subsequently was ostracized by society. I do not hold and will not hold anything condemnatory of homosexuality. In the same vein, I will not rush to condemn prostitution.

It was an intimate setting. A private cocktail reception at the RFA
Gallery in Harlem set the tone for the New York launch of Guyana
Fashion Weekend. Designer Sonia Noel was the gracious host for the
reception where media, business people and fashionestas got a chance
to be up close and personal with Ms. Noel discussing Guyana Fashion
Weekend, posing for photo ops and sipping cocktails amidst the
fabulous art in this upscale gallery. Gallery Director and curator
Ms.Paula Coleman was on hand for the exclusive reception.
While the meet and greet grew well into the night, guests were in awe
of the footage of Guyana Fashion Weekend 2009 that played on the large
screen television in the gallery.

Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green yesterday said that he will see to it that the council  will be prudent in disposing of funds as it sees fit and “not as dictated by some oracle”. He was responding to reports that government had decided  to earmark its rates and taxes for the payment of garbage contractors. Green speaking from the chambers of City Hall said that he had met with Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall prior to the media briefing and from his understanding the minister was not telling him what to do with the rates and taxes  money.

Triumph, East Coast Demerara was rocked yesterday by the suicide of a popular poultry farmer just after he had chopped his 42-year-old wife leaving her in a critical condition. Subhash Chan Mohabir, 49, of 66-67 Agriculture Road died at the Georgetown Hospital around 5 pm, hours after he had consumed an unknown poison. The mother of his two children, Latchmin was still in the operating theatre up to press time last evening. Stabroek News understands that one of the woman’s hands was left hanging by the skin while the other has several deep chop wounds. She was also stabbed in the elbow.
Relatives and friends of the couple were puzzled as to what might have sparked the incident which occurred at 10:30 am. This newspaper has since learnt that Mohabir was in the habit of threatening his wife but she never made a report to the police.