2009 will see improvement in the sport – BFA boss, Keith O’Jeer
Discipline and stronger youth focus, lead areas By Franklin Wilson While 2008 brought with it its fair share of challenges, Berbice Football Association (BFA) President Keith O’Jeer proudly states that this year his association will be aiming for great improvement in every area, on and off the field. And while the current [...]
La Rose ready to play pivotal role for WI team
- much healthier now after knee injury By Rawle Welch Guyana and West Indies selectee Albert La Rose told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that he expects to be fully fit for the IRB’s Sevens World Series in Hong Kong from March 27-29.
Horatio, Morgan wins respective categories
AAG Cross–Country Race National athletes, Dennis Horatio and Alika Morgan won the male and female categories respectively yesterday when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) held its season–opening Cross–Country race at Kuru Kururu. Horatio, representing Progressive Youth Club, clocked 19:27.92 that made him the first athlete to cross the finish line while Rising Stars [...]
D’Andrade places seventh in Trinidad Marathon
– bettered last year’s performance, misses record By Edison Jefford In a star–studded field of regional and international athletes, local distance champ, Lionel D’Andrade finished seventh overall and bettered last year’s performance in the CLICO Trinidad and Tobago International Marathon. D’Andrade, who had to compete with defending champion Simon Sawe, Trinidad record holder, Ronnie Holassie [...]
Panday not keen on extending cricket administration career
Promises to still help areas which supported him for elections After losing 15-12 to Chetram Singh in the race for the Guyana Cricket Board Presidency yesterday, Bish Panday admitted that he was deeply disappointed with the results but stressed that he was not bitter with anyone. “I have served cricket for many years and I [...]
Only 11% of Guyanese babies are breast fed – UNICEF
Representative for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Johannes Wedenig, has noted that only 11 percent of children under six months of age are exclusively breastfed in Guyana, as there is a lack of clear policies on micronutrient fortification of foods. At the launching of the State of the World’s Children Report 2009, Wedenig explained [...]
Drug rehab programmes to be established in Berbice
Rehabilitation programmes for substance abusers will be established at the New Amsterdam, Port Mourant and Skeldon Hospitals during the course of next month. Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, at a press conference on Saturday, said that these programmes will be managed by public health workers and volunteers from non governmental organizations (NGO’s). “The NGO’s will [...]
Cattle wreak havoc on rice crop
BENGAL, CORENTYNE — As cattle continue to wreak havoc with the rice crop in some cultivated areas, the President of the Guyana Rice Producers Association, Leekha Rambrich, is appealing to farmers to keep their cattle away from rice growing areas. Recently, farmers within the Number Fifty-Two/Seventy-Four area and Black Bush Polder complained of some extent [...]
Broadcasting of the sittings of the National Assembly is critical to deepening democracy
Dear Editor, The reasons advanced by the Government for denying Guyanese the opportunity to witness live unedited proceedings in the Parliament are far from satisfactory. The motion brought by the PNCR was unashamedly vetoed by the Government, who raked up all kinds of murky reasons as to why Guyanese should not have the right to [...]
Region Six reviews 2008 work programme
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Region Six Chairman, Zulfikar Mustapha, is optimistic that 2009 would be the year to unwrap the potential of East Berbice/Corentyne. He is optimistic that the opening of the Berbice River Bridge would serve as a catalyst for development, along with other efforts of the government of the day. Mr. Mustapha pointed [...]
The character of the GHRA is exposed in its posturing
Dear Editor, It is not surprising to have seen a statement by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) regarding the state of preparedness and several null allegations against the Government and other agencies. It was disappointing to know that the GHRA is criticising the valiant efforts of thousands of hard working Guyanese who have worked [...]
Robert Corbin is a tried and tested soldier
I have not written anything about the developments within the PNCR, because there was nothing to write about. Unlike many who are of the view that the PNCR is withering away because of the departure and resignations of a number of its leaders, I feel that this attrition can actually be helpful to the party, [...]
Guyana’s sugar industry set for take-off with new management changes
Dear Editor, Everyone is talking about what is happening in the sugar industry, and even moreso, the son of the late Dr. Jagan, Cheddi (Joey) Jagan Jr., in a recent letter in the SN, on 24th January, 2009, jumped on the bandwagon to further criticise the work of the Government. As a citizen of this [...]
Postal services to return to Paramakatoi
The residents of Paramakatoi have reason to celebrate: reports reaching Kaieteur News have said that the Guyana Post Office (GPO) will be resuming service to Paramakatoi shortly. For unexplained reasons, the delivery of mail to Paramakatoi had been stopped since last April, despite the numerous aircraft which travel into that area on a regular basis, [...]
Suspect’s fingerprints found in murdered pensioner’s home
- charges likely Fingerprints found in the home of the late Hector Marshall appear to link a prime suspect to the murder of that South Ruimveldt pensioner. Kaieteur News understands that the fingerprints match those of a man who has been in police custody since Thursday. Charges appear likely shortly. The same suspect was charged, [...]
Vital information on soil irrigation for rice farmers
Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on an article entitled “Farmers requesting irrigation water despite high water level”, Guyana Chronicle, January 24th 2009. Although average rainfall in Guyana may be adequate for the needs of the rice crop, rain comes irregularly and dry spells are frequent, such that successful cultivation of two rice crops [...]
This is a national scandal that should scare all citizens
What I am about to write on I have incontrovertible proof of. I am writing on a national scandal that should galvanize the Government of Guyana to act with immediate haste. This disgrace should scare every citizen, because none of us is exempt from this evil, and evil is the most appropriate word to describe [...]
SPEAK THE SPEECH
Hamlet: Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,/ trippingly on the tongue;/… Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your/ tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this/ special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.” William Shakespeare [...]
A tribute to two heroes
Dear Editor The recent passing to the great beyond of two very endearing elders of the Muslim community in Guyana heralds a bitter-sweet tribute on their behalf. Ayube Hamid and Shafeeq Khan were leaders, both in the public domain and the religious arena, known equally in the mainstream Guyanese households as darlings of God and [...]
59-year-old nabbed with cocaine at airport
By Latoya Giles A fifty-nine-year-old citizen of the United States of America is presently in police custody after a quantity of cocaine was discovered in her hand luggage. The incident occurred at around 08:45 hrs yesterday, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, as the woman was about to board a flight back to her homeland. [...]
Deliberations at Davos
One has to hand it to President Jagdeo; he’s always on the go trying to drum up support for Guyana’s development — economic or otherwise. While there are no official figures, we are sure that the President has clocked in more frequent-flyer miles than any of his predecessors. Just back from his visit to North [...]
Canadian visa scam…More victims surface
“I gat a contact in the High Commissioner Office in Trinidad” – Con man tells them As news of a big Canadian visa racket spreads, more Guyanese have come forward to disclose how they were fleeced of thousands of Canadian dollars by an Immigration Consultant and his local accomplice. Yesterday, five more persons reported that [...]
BK International denies contaminating GPL $40M fuel
Yesterday, in response to an article that appeared in that day’s issue of Kaieteur News, BK International Inc. released a press statement to the media contending that it is too early to lay the blame on anyone for the delivery of some $40M worth of contaminated fuel to Essequibo Coast. According to the company, it [...]
Owner, wife, grand kids perish in N/A fire
By Melissa Johnson CHARLOTTE STREET, NEW AMSTERDAM – Well known businessman Ivor Persaud; his wife, Parbattie Persaud, and two grandchildren were burnt to death in an early morning fire at their home at Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam. Persaud, 69, the proprietor of the Persuades Funeral Home; his wife, Parasite, called ‘Patsy’, 60, proprietress of the [...]
Ramsammy to call in police on bogus nursing school
By Sharmain Cornette The Ministry of Health is prepared to take legal action against a ‘so called’ professional nursing school which, according to complaints, may be swindling unsuspecting clients out of thousands of dollars. Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy made this disclosure yesterday when he hosted a press conference at the Health Ministry’s [...]
