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MAN HAS SEX WITH COW TO CURE CANCER
PEDAL CYCLIST KILLED ON SOESDYKE/LINDEN HIGHWAY
Wednesday June 5, 2021
LOST TO COVID
TEENS CAUGHT WITH STOLEN MOTORCYCLE AND HANDGUN
Wednesday June 5, 2021
LOST TO COVID
MAN HAS SEX WITH COW TO CURE CANCER
It was revealed that a farmer in Pomona Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, Region Two, was caught redhanded having sex with a cow on Monday. After the man’s arrest, he later confessed that he has cancer, and was advised that having sex with animals will cure his sickness. This, according to him, was also done with four calves. A farmer who believed cancer has been arrested He was arrested is that having sex with a and expected to be expected to be charged cow will cure him of charged. for his crime.
Guyanese in the Diaspora have erected a monument to those who lost their lives to COVID. The monument takes the form of a banner bearing the names of those who died
PEDAL CYCLIST KILLED ON SOESDYKE/LINDEN HIGHWAY
TEENS CAUGHT WITH STOLEN MOTORCYCLE AND HANDGUN The Soesdyke/Linden Highway has yet again claimed another life. This time that person has been identified as 48-yearold, Kumar Persaud, of Seventh Day Adventist Camp Site, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway. According to reports, 30-year-old Barbadian national, Tamica Prescod, at Loo Creek Public Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway hit Persaud off his pedal cycle and caused Two teenagers are now in custody following the discovery of a gun and ammunition after the two were allegedly caught with the weapon on a motorcycle. The police said that the two teens were caught with a one .38 Taurus revolver containing four .38 rounds of ammunition at South Ruimveldt Georgetown just around 16:30 hours on Monday. The interception took place after a motorcycle patrol ranks saw two identifiable men on a blue Honjue motorcycle CK 6414 on Tacuba Road, Tucville, Georgetown. As the patrol proceeded
to stop them the teens began to ride south on Tucville Turning Point and proceeded south into High Palm Drive, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown. The ranks gave chase and the teens were caught on High Palm Drive. A search was conducted on the 18-year-old whose name and particulars were provided and one .38 Taurus revolver containing four .38 rounds of ammunition were found in the crotch of his pants. A search was also carried out on the 16-yearold pillion rider whose particulars were also
provided but nothing evidential was found on him. The suspect was told of the offense committed and cautioned but he remained silent. They were both arrested and taken to East La Penitence Police Station with the firearm and ammunition. The motorcycle is also lodged at the East La Penitence Station. Further investigations revealed that the motorcycle was reportedly stolen on June 5, last at North Road at gunpoint by two identifiable males –one of whom was armed with a handgun.
his death. At the said that it was noted that Prescod was driving pickup GSS 7395 north along the western side of the road. Prescod claimed that the pedal cyclist who was in front of her made a sudden turn into her path. She added that she would have also pulled east to avoid a collision, but the left side front of the vehicle collided with the pedal cyclist despite
her effort. Persaud was struck off the bicycle and sustained severe injuries to his head and body; he was rushed in an unconscious state to the Diamond Hospital, East Bank Demerara by public-spirited citizens and the police, where he was pronounced dead. His body is at the Lyken Funeral Home awaiting an autopsy
TAXI DRIVER ROBBED OF CAR IN RASVILLE
A taxi driver is now counting his losses after he claimed that he was robbed by two men who hired him to take them home, Monday night. The victim, a 58-yearold man claimed that he was robbed of his silver-
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gray Toyota 212 bearing registration number PKK1580 valued at $800,000, One Samsung cellular phone valued at $35,000, and $8,000 in cash in Rasville, Georgetown around 23:00hrs. Inquiries disclosed that the victim uses the motorcar as a private hire and according to him, he was at Georgetown Public Hospital with the car when one of the men approached him and requested his service to go to Back School in West. The man then sat in the front passenger seat
and they proceeded to the location where on arrival the man placed a call and further requested to be taken to Rasville next to the New Guyana School. Upon arrival at the said location as the victim stopped the car, his accomplice appeared, placed a gun to his head, and demanded that he exit his motorcar which he did. The man with the gun then went into the driver’s seat and they both made good their escape. The cellular phone and cash mentioned were in the motor car’s middle pocket at the time
Wednesday June 5, 2021
Canje man found dead in trench
The police are currently investigating the circumstances in which a 57-year-old labourer who left his home to fix his bicycle, turned up dead in
a trench with a left-wound to his eye. The dead man has been identified as Devanand Ramoutar, called Shorty, a laborer of Goed Bananen
Land, East Canje, Berbice. The incident occurred between Sunday, June 6, 2021, and Monday, June 7 in Goed Bananen Land East Canje, Berbice
According to a statement from the Police, Ramoutar might have drowned. His wife said that he is a constant alcohol consumer. He left his home about 14:30hrs on June 6 in Adelphi Village, East Canje, Berbice,to fix his bicycle and never returned. He had not returned by 18:30hrs so his wife made a search for him but failed to find him. That search however continued about 07:00hrs the next day with
other relatives. Subsequently, the now dead man’s bicycle was found by his son, leaning against a culvert about 12 feet off the Goed Bananen Land Public Road. The son also claimed that he did not search the area. About 09:30hrs the deceased’s wife went to the said culvert where she made checks and saw part of her husband’s shirt in a trench next to the said culvert and she immediately raised an
alarm. The body of Davenand Ramoutar was retrieved by police ranks who were summoned. Initial checks revealed a wound to the left eye of the deceased. The body was then escorted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body now lies in storage at Arokium Funeral Home awaiting PME.
Presently, IMF loans are on more generous terms than they used to be. For instance, financing for approved medium-term growth and development strategies could be secured with a repayment period of 14 years, a four-year moratorium, and an interest rate of one percent. Loans of this nature are not available from any other source. Of course, negotiating the best conditionalities is important. This is not the time to lay off public sector workers, especially in countries where employment in the private sector has declined disastrously because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IMF Executive Board and Management are aware of that and have adopted policies that are more open to supporting vulnerable groups than they were in the past. What is more, approval by the IMF to fund a programme opens the door to borrowing from other financial institutions, and to rescheduling debt with agencies such as the Paris Club. These institutions, including the Caribbean Development Bank, regard the imprimatur of the IMF as crucial in determining a country’s creditworthiness. In the present global economic crisis, 84
countries have already taken advantage of the IMF’s lending to the tune of US$109,594.38 million. Of those countries, eight are CARICOM states, namely: Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Lucia, and St Vincent, and the Grenadines which have borrowed US$842 million. Eleven Latin American countries, including Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, have borrowed US$66,677.46 million. Those, who argue against the IMF on ideological grounds, should have alternative sources of financing to propose. Either they must show a clear path to the capacity of their countries to recover and prosper from renewed and sustainable economic activity, or they must identify cheaper sources of borrowing with less strenuous terms. If they cannot identify such possibilities in a realistic way, then the only alternative to borrowing from the IMF is to leave their economies to languish, running out of money and failing to provide goods and services that their people expect. The current economic conditions, across the CARICOM states except for Guyana, and possibly
St Kitts-Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago, require pragmatism and practicality in recognising that working with the IMF has value. There is no shame in going to the IMF to borrow in the current climate. It is a necessity, particularly when other options have dried up. Further, the IMF is fulfilling the role for which it was created – to lend when other options are closed. The anti-IMF ideological argument is one that cuts off your nose to spite your face. It makes little sense. In the current crisis, political parties and others that try to discredit governments because they opt to borrow from the IMF, ignore two salient points. First, governments are not now constrained to approach the IMF because of any failed policies they pursued; they approach the IMF because the devastating effects of the pandemic forced them there. And, second, the IMF is a lender of last resort. Governments contract with the IMF because the economic circumstances of their countries are such that they must borrow to sustain their populations, and, in those conditions, were better than the institution that provides the cheapest lending.
Why 84 countries are borrowing from the IMF
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College at the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own) In the wake of the economic damage done by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in every continent of the world have turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance. It is right that they have done so. The IMF exists to provide economic and financial support to countries when other options have been extinguished.
The pandemic brought countries to that situation in rapid time, particularly tourism-dependent countries which were the hardest hit. In some countries, there is an ideological resentment of the IMF. That resentment is based on past harsh conditionalities that the Fund included in the terms of its loans to countries already in desperate straits. That resentment should be re-evaluated. IMF conditionalities still exist, but they are more geared to recognizing the breathing space governments require to get their countries’ economies performing at an optimum level. The Fund wants to be repaid, so that, in turn, it can pay back the banks, governments, and institutions from which it borrows to supplement its lending resources. While the main source
for IMF loans on nonconcessional terms is provided by member countries, through their quota payments, the Fund also borrows money that it lends. Of the IMF’s current total resources for lending, amounting to about US$1 trillion, a significant portion is a money that must be repaid. If the IMF fails to service its loans, the entire world will lose an extremely important pillar of the global financial architecture, resulting in infectious economic instability and, eventually, political chaos and civil strife. Consequently, like any lender, the IMF has to make sure that borrowing countries will be able to repay. It sets terms – called conditionalities – to ensure that the best use is made by borrowers of the money they are advanced and that loans can be repaid.
Wednesday June 5, 2021
GTT LAUNCHES WHATSAPP BILLING FOR POSTPAID CUSTOMERS – company continues to look at new innovative ways to better serve Guyana
conveniently receive their monthly billing invoices via WhatsApp. GTT’s Product Marketing Coordinator, Diangelly Singh explained that the company has been working on new ways to provide customers with even more convenience to access their bills on time – and in their preferred format. “Our increasingly innovative solutions Postpaid customers of and Telegraph Company around billing, counter the Guyana Telephone (GTT) can now opt to the challenges that some
customers may face in not receiving their bills on time, for a range of reasons. Appreciating this challenge, the GTT team is committed to offering ongoing ease and billing access to our customers, and we hope that this new platform will prove helpful,” she said. Through this development, GTT customers can access their DSL, Blaze, Landline and mobile bills immediately after it is available on their
mobile phones via the WhatsApp medium. Singh further noted that in order to receive the bill via WhatsApp, customers must update their contact information with the company via gtt. gy/update5 “No matter what network you are on, once you register to receive the postpaid bill through this medium, we will ensure you receive your bill on time,” Singh reassured. Only recently, GTT
launched a new and improved MyGTT app that allows customers the convenience of accessing all their bills at the same time among other new features. “Options to ensure ontime billing and payments abound,” added Singh. She said that should customers need assistance in accessing the MyGTT app or establishing WhatsApp billing, they can simply contact GTT at 0488 or live chat for guidance.
ONE OF TWO SUSPECTED BANDITS CAPTURED IN QUEENSTOWN One of two alleged gun-toting bandits was caught after a high-speed chase in the Queenstown area, yesterday. Reports are that just after 15:00 hours, two men on a motorcycle were seen by two patrol cops on motorcycles also acting suspiciously. An approach by the cops saw the men quickly trying to escape from the attention of the police. The incident quickly turned into a high-speed chase. The two alleged bandits
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later crashed into a parked vehicle. The chase, however, did not end there, as the two men now took the chase to foot in the Queenstown area. In the process, the two men jumped several fences and fired several shots. Sometime later one of two men became stuck in a nearby fence and was apprehended. The other jumped into a hallway and later could not be found. Police searched for some time but turned up
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card or a negative COVID test result before gaining access to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre for Sittings of the National Assembly.
Saturday June 5, 2021
INDEPENDENCE 55 YEARS LATE
ADAM’s Notebook The people of Guyana woke up to the 55th anniversary of its independence on Wednesday. For most of the population this country became independent a very long time ago. Most of the people living on this land were not born so they don’t know anything about singing “God Save the Queen’ and waving the Union Jack. In fact, if one were to do a random quiz on the streets, less than 20 per cent of the people questioned would say what the Union Jack is. The few who were around would remember the visit by the Queen in February 1966. There was a big fair on what was then the BGCC ground. That is the ground adjoining the Queen’s College ground to the east. The Queen’s sister came to this country in 1962. What is now the National Park was the Queen Elizabeth Park. Many Georgetown people back then knew it as the golf ground. Go into the National Assembly and ask the members of Parliament to tell you something
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about their experience on Independence Day 1966. Very few would be able to. Robeson Benn, Juan Edghill, Joe Harmon, Gail Teixeira, and perhaps Khemraj Ramjattan would have some vague recollection. Bharrat Jagdeo would have none. In the run up to 1966, some of the ordinary people were afraid. They had grown up eating what the British sent to the colony. Some planted crops but for the greater part they fell in love with Irish or English potatoes—today we eat potatoes from Idaho in the United States. Canned sardines, salted fish or saltfish, apples which we called iceapples, grapes, walnuts and the likes still adorn our tables. Such was our dependence on these things. Salt beef and salt pork were imported. Today they are integral to the cook-up. Although one must say that we make our own salt fish, salt beef and salt pork. People nearly died when wheat flour was banned and when split peas was restricted. These are still imported products,
foisted on us by the colonial masters prior to independence. Most people would not know that the potato from those days were a far cry from the potatoes of today. They were harder and took an eternity to cook. That was because they had to be preserved in order to be shipped over long distances. It was the same with the split peas. People were also uncertain about the future. Most of the older folk felt that the colonial master was needed to manage just about everything. The Guyanese never realized that they were the ones doing the work under the supervision of the colonial master. There was a time before independence when people of African ancestry and those of Indian ancestry could not go to certain places. The Georgetown Club, Colgrain House, Watooka Club in Linden, the estate houses on the various sugar estates were just a few. There was segregation in sports. We had East Indian Cricket Club (later Everest), and
Chinese Cricket Club (later Cosmos). We also had Indian Educational Trust College. Guyana was Guyana. Today people complain about infrastructure. In the pre-independence days the road from Crane, West Coast Demerara, was burnt brick—not laterite-- all the way to Parika. After Boeraserie people had to put their vehicles on trains to reach Parika. On the East Coast, once one passed Ogle, the road was burnt brick and laterite. People made money burning logs to make bricks for the road. The locals worked side by side but they harboured a distrust of each other, instilled by the first rulers. If someone or something looks different it should be carefully examined or avoided. There were deep wounds. In the days
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before Independence Guyanese waged a bitter civil war among themselves. They killed anyone who looked different; they destroyed property. Some people swapped homes. For two years the murder rate was higher than it could ever be today. People died by the dozens. They were clubbed to death or brutally chopped. Those were the conditions under which Guyana became independent. There is a saying that time heals all wounds. It has not healed the wounds in Guyana. Some of us watched squatter settlements grow up where there are now permanent and fancy homes. The squatters were the displaced residents from the villages. Segregation is still rife. There are villages of predominantly one ethnic
group. Georgetown is considered the melting pot but any inspection would reveal the gaps. Prior to independence people of African ancestry mimicked the colonial master. He became the teacher, the policeman, the post master and the engineer. He was also the doctor and the lawyer. The people of Indian ancestry also became the doctor, the teacher and the lawyer but overwhelmingly they tilled the land and made millions of dollars. They continue to be the farmers in predominant numbers. The sun will rise on Guyana 55 years after independence. Those who know where to look will see the scars of the violence of 55 years ago. There are many in Georgetown. And the scarred relationship between the people also remains.
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