Guyana Observer News

 By Stella Ramsaroop

I once heard a woman say she allows her daughter to explore the not-so-nice aspects of her personality. With wisdom, the mother said it is important to have that stronger side of us – as well as the nice, well-mannered side – since the world can be cruel at times. Although I never thought to teach my girls this lesson in an overt manner, I could not agree with this lady more. There are times in life when we need to have a thicker skin and be a little stronger, because if we were anything less, life would chew us up and spit us out. As women, we have been told our entire lives that we are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” So we try to live up to that notion and in the process we can get walked all over. Some women even submit to abusive relationships because they have never been taught to stand up for themselves. If we teach our daughters to always play nice, what happens when they are confronted with real life? Real life can be so tough sometimes and it takes a tough woman to handle tough times. As parents we go to great lengths to teach our daughters to be good little girls, but does that instruction alone give them what they need to function effectively in today’s world?

Dear Editor,

Once again city council is in the limelight, this time over allegations that the city treasurer took a bribe from a supplier. Mr. Hamilton Green used that opportunity to appear on television to say what he said and did not say about the council. When will it end? Ask the mayor. He will blame everyone else except himself. My answer to that is simple. Things will continue as they are until Green goes his way and give competent persons an opportunity to make a more meaningful contribution to the city. To me this is an indictment against the poor leadership of Mr. Hamilton Green. This gentleman has been the Mayor of Georgetown for over 14 years. He has fought tooth and nail to stay in that position. His foremost achievement has been the dismissal of black senior officers who are independent in thought and action and are not loyal to him. It is an old political tactic used by myopic politicians, who believe that they own the minds and souls of people, who work with them and that they alone were responsible for their very existence. Green is wrong.

Dear Sir,

President of Alpha United, Mr. Odinga Lumumba, who continues to display his arrogance as a “badge of honor” in relation to the coordination and successful staging of a football tournament have once more bitten off more than he can chew, by publicly advocating “the Co-Directors of the Annual Kashif & Shanghai Knockout tournament should increase the winner’s prize money to four million and give each team a preparation fee of $400,000 each”. Sir, this is based on the fact that the advocate had indicated in the publication of your newspaper (21/11/10) that the organisers had received over $35,000,000 in sponsorship from corporate Guyana”, even going a step further in naming companies and the amount they have contributed. A claim that was labeled as “untrue” by the organisers in the following day’s publication of your newspaper.

 (In photo: Chandrawattie and her husband Balram Tiwari in happier times)

Chandrawattie Dindial, of Ruby Parika, East Bank Essequibo, yesterday reported that her husband, Balram Tiwari, with whom she has an infant child, on Wednesday took off with her 15-year-old sister. Chandrawattie Dindial told Kaieteur News that she and her husband, who is a farmer, reside at Ruby Parika but would sometimes travel to 84 East Meten-meer-Zorg where her parents live. She said that they would do this at the invitation of her father who would be away for extended periods working in the interior. She said that this would be the time when her husband and sister would interact.
She said that her mother had mentioned to her that her sister, as of recent, has been behaving strangely. However, she did not read much into this. She said that her marriage was not troubled, and thus she found her husband’s behaviour disgraceful. She said that it is her mother’s support that is comforting her in times of emotional fatigue. Chandrawatiie told Kaieteur News that her sister attends school at Vergenoegen and lives with her parents.  She said that since the disappearance of her husband and sister, they have been constantly calling her with insults. She said that whenever they call her, she would hear the sound and activity of poultry in the background. This, she asserted, may be instrumental, in the police search for the two. She said that she has reported this matter to the police who have encouraged her to keep enquiring into the location of the two.
She told Kaieteur News that her father in law, Vishnu Tiwari, may have instigated her husband’s disappearance by gifting him $100,000. She said that he also attempted to prevent her from entering her Ruby home.

 Christmas coming. Dem boys sit down outside de betting shop and dem was saying how de place dull; how it ain’t looking like Christmas in de air. But by weekend, everybody smiling because de street busy. People get pay and dem start fuh shop. But wha got dem boys worried is how some people complaining that dem don’t have money yet people buying cars like if dem buying bicycles. Everybody at de place wheh Khurshid wukking smiling because wid de sales everybody gun get a bonus. What nuff of dem don’t understand is that de big ones done got an eye pun de same money and everybody know that de big ones got to get dem share before anybody can get anything—even de government. That is why dem Ministry don’t have no Christmas party this year. De money ain’t come from GRA yet. And dem boys seh that dem notice that GPL trying fuh mek sure people get lights. Dem storing fuel but dem leffing all de posts that fall. When dem boys ask de crew why that happening de same crew tell dem that people can’t do two things at de same time. Dem can’t supply lights and maintain de system at de same time.
Talk half. Lef half.

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- Detectives take statement

A Port Kaituma man is a patient of the Georgetown Hospital where he underwent surgery for internal injuries which he reportedly sustained at the hands of two police officers following a complaint by two women.Warren Welcome, 31, said that a terrible beating by police has left him in excruciating pain and he had to get “his belly bus to fix a hole …  through which fluid was leaking”. Yesterday he called for a thorough investigation at the end of which the ranks; one of whom he identified by name, should be punished. Divisional Police Commander David Ramnarine told this newspaper that the alleged victim of the assault was visited by two detectives yesterday afternoon. The Assistant Commissioner said that the ranks recorded the information and an investigation will be launched into the matter. Speaking to Stabroek News, Welcome said that on Saturday night he was at the Harris Disco in Port Kaituma speaking to a young lady when a woman came up and tried to break up the conversation. The man said that he objected to what the woman was trying to do, cursing her in the process. He said that he later went into the disco where he started dancing with someone and the same woman came up and continued her behaviour. Welcome said that the woman was later joined by another and they started troubling him.

During the exchange, he said he again cursed. According to Welcome, the two women made a report to the police who were nearby and the ranks collected him from the Disco. The injured man insisted that he was not intoxicated and walked “good good”. He said that as they neared the police station, the constable (name given) started cuffing him up while shouting “yall does wan people kill yall or what?” He said that the other ranks threw “one one cuff”. The beating he said continued for about three minutes during which he sustained close range cuffs to his belly and face, after which he was thrown into the lock ups.