Guyana Observer News

-denies causing woman’s death

The driver of the vehicle involved in the Wednesday morning accident that claimed the life of Kishana DaSilva was yesterday granted $2M bail, after pleading not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Keith King, 43, of Lamaha Gardens, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court. He is to return to court on June 11. Police had said that the fatal accident occurred around 2:40am on the Plaisance Roadway, East Coast Demerara. Investiga-tions revealed that the motor pick up, PKK 7778, driven by King, was reportedly travelling at a fast rate when it went into a pool of water that had accumulated on the roadway. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it struck the post and then crashed into a fence. The two women were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where Kishana was pronounced dead on arrival. Alana was treated and discharged. King, who had no visible injuries, was arrested but was taken to the hospital for medical attention the following day after he began complaining of chest pains. King was DaSilva’s fiancé. The trio and another person were returning to the city from Berbice, from where DaSilva originated. According to eyewitness accounts, a splinter of wood from the damaged post entered DaSilva’s lower back and exited through her shoulder. DaSilva, a former Kaieteur News reporter, was screaming for about ten minutes before she went silent, one witness said. Persons worked tirelessly for about 15 minutes to free her from the wrecked V8 Titan pick-up but by the time she was rushed to the hospital around 3:25 am, she was already dead.

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 By Freddie Kissoon

I called the Pegasus Hotel twice this week to speak to Shivnarine Chanderpaul but he was out. An arrangement was made on Wednesday for me to see him at the Stadium and at a practice session the next day. UG work and Labour Day commitments prevented me. I am still going to make an effort to see him. If not, a copy of this article will be sent to him to reach him before Sunday. The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has done a terrible, hideous injustice to Chanderpaul. The IAC has agreed to honour Chanderpaul’s contribution to East Indians of Guyana and will make a presentation to him at the National Park this Sunday. This is a gargantuan insult to a great Guyanese cricketer.

By Peeping Tom

The PPP knew all along about the major land deals that the PNC entered into.
They know that this information will establish beyond any doubt that that party only had a working class façade, but that upon closer examination was always deep in the clutches of the land-owning class. Land was given to the tillers but only small acreages that tied the small farmer to the land in a subsistence arrangement, never enough to make him the “real man.” The larger acreages were reserved for the rich, powerful and those with the connections. Thousands of acres were given away to the rich, acreages that were far too much land for any one man in a country with acute levels of poverty. Just before the PPP took office, the PNC gave a rice magnate thousands of acres of land. That was a controversial deal because there were persons even within the PNC- and Hammy can confirm this - who were opposed to that deal feeling that the amount of land was too much.

Yesterday, a Lance Corporal of the Guyana Police Force and a taxi driver were granted bail after being charged with receiving in excess of $6M worth in stolen excavator parts. Lance Corporal Heralall Seeram was first to appear before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that on Monday last (April 26) he received a stolen item (one Hydraulic pump valued at $3.5M), the property of Suresh Jagnandan. The charge was indictable and the accused was not required to plead. He was represented by Attorney Patrice Henry who in his bail application told the court that his client is currently a serving member of the Guyana Police Force and has made a significant contribution to that entity, more so to the court and its environs.

A senior executive of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union is asking the court to dismiss an action brought against himself and another executive by the Bauxite Company of Guyana, claiming that it is bad in law. The bauxite company had sued the two union executives, Acting General Secretary, Leslie Gonsalves and Carlton Sinclair last year, claiming that they had incited a workers’ strike action at Aroaima which caused the company to suffer financially. However, according to an affidavit filed by attorney-at-law Basil Williams in response to the company’s writ, on behalf of Gonsalves, the action should have been filed against the proper defendant which is the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU) and not its officers.