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Edwin Niles torture probe : murder charges for four Guyana prison officers

even the mad dogs at the Guyana Police Force can occasionally get it right. imagine that!
Kaieteur News: Police have implicated four prison officers, including two senior ranks, in the death of inmate Edwin Niles, and have recommended that they be charged with his murder.
One of the senior ranks is reportedly stationed at the Georgetown Prisons, [...]

Barbados runway lights loaned to Guyana ’stolen’

what if we told you that the airport lights Barbados loaned to Guyana have been stolen, would you believe us?
you better believe it. we hope the Bajans learned a valuable lesson. the Guyana govt and affiliated criminals do not give a shit about their own property much less someone else’s. DO NOT LEND THEM SHIT [...]

Bruce Golding & fellow Jamaican house negroes rejoicing over EPA

we’ve come to expect very little from the jamaican house negroes who’re hell bent on returing the entire caribbean to the plantation. don’t let the olympic results cloud your judgements, the sambos of jamaican politics have very little to do with that
JIS: The House of Representatives yesterday (Sept. 2), approved a resolution endorsing the decision [...]

Sami Al-Arian released by his american torturers

indybay: On Tuesday September 2nd, Palestinian professor and activist Sami Al-Arian was released from prison after more than five-and-a-half years behind bars. Immigration authorities released him on bail after they failed to explain his continued detention pending a trial for refusing to testify before a grand jury about a cluster of Muslim organizations in northern [...]

Guyana on the move - Tanesha De Souza drowns in a pit of shit

Stabroek News: The first day of her school life ended tragically yesterday for a nine-year-old girl, who lost the ability to speak years ago in an accident, when she fell into a pit latrine at the Santa Rosa Primary School, Moruca and drowned.
Tanesha De Souza of Santa Rosa Village was pronounced dead at the Kumaka [...]

Killers in our Midst - Norman Tewarie

The good dies and the sick goes to prison
As drug lords and war-lords vie for terrain
The Merchants of Bay & Wall streets smirk
Dry dust settles and hurt feelings subside
Its life in a zoo of the 21st century
read the rest here

Toilets not working - foreign delegates walkout of Carifesta

we’ve been reliably informed that the Trinidad and other foreign delegations finally had enough of toilets not working and water not running and have walked out of the Sophia Exhibition centre aka the grand market

Carifesta prayer request - over to you God, save Guyana PLEASE!

dear big man upstairs:
it’s been a while since we last got together. i’ve been well. you know me. you know how i does it. how about you? i hear you lookin a lot better these days. keep it up. ah stop drinking on tuesdays fallin on odd number days. anyways…
today is the opening of curryfesta [...]

Carifesta X boycotted by African opposition in Guyana

The Leadership of the PNCR, having reviewed the current situation in Guyana, has seen no reason to change its position on CARIFESTA X as outlined in its Press Statement on April 24, 2008 and subsequent statements on May 23, June 20 and July 4, 2008. Consequently, the PNCR will lend no credibility or legitimacy to [...]

Islamic Courts and al Shabaab control Kismayo Port in Somalia

KISMAYO, Somalia Aug 22 (Garowe Online) - Heavily-armed gunmen loyal to Somalia’s Islamic Courts movement have seized the strategic port of Kismayo, in the south of the country, reliable sources confirmed to Radio Garowe.
Abdi Bashi, a clan elder in Kismayo, told Radio Garowe during a Friday interview that the town is “calm and the bullets [...]

Carifesta opening ceremonies a Guyana low budget disaster

the opening ceremonies is one of the most low budget, disgraceful performances we’ve ever seen. where do we begin? the announcers talkin a set of scunt? the darkness of the stadium? the crackhead camera crew focussing all over the place? shakti string band bbq performance? the announcer pontificating on Surinamese and Guyanamese? the two lights [...]

Jagdeo is great, innovative & visionary all you Guyanese “sour pusses”

another gem that may one good day be a stone from truths & rights paper
daily fishwrap: Thanks to the innovativeness, vision and determination of our President Bharrat Jagdeo, we were able to be one of the successful hosts of Cricket World Cup despite the few “sour pusses” who pronounced otherwise.
Today the “sour pusses” have not [...]

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