Month: October 2010

A father and son are currently fighting for their lives following a car crash along the Solomon Hochoy Highway.
Ganesh Sohan and his son Kevin crashed last evening while proceeding south along the Solomon Hochoy Highway.
Two other occupants of the car Sandra Khan and Nicholas Saunders are also nursing injuries.
According to police Sohan was driving his silver lancer shortly before seven o’clock last evening.
However upon reaching Francis Engineering he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the guard railing on the side of the road.

Trinidad and Tobago has captured its first set of medals at the 2010 edition of the Commonwealth Games.                                       
Shooters Roger Daniel and Rhodney Allen claimed bronze today, in the men’s 50 metres pistol pairs event. The medal was the first for T&T at the games currently being held in India.

Today October 5th, 2010 marks 18 years since the People’s Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) returned to office under the leadership of the Late President Cheddi Jagan. The party had campaigned under the theme “Dawn of a New Era- Restore Democracy”.
Over the 18 years the party had four Presidents Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Samuel Hinds, Janet Jagan and Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) joins with the United Nations and Teachers around the world in observing “World Teachers’ Day 2010” today. This global observance will see students, parents and activists around the world paying homage to all teachers for their contribution to the development of the minds of the country’s greatest assets – its children.
 

Another execution within 24 hours carries the number of people killed by gunmen to nine, over the past 3 weeks. The concern now is whether Guyana needs professional intervention. The local authorities may be lacking in both resources and investigative capabilities as it regards the sophistication in which these attacks are carried out. Sources close to the CID say that the victims in all these shootings may be loose ends or defaulters in a drug trade that has the society reeling from it’s effects.