$501M for Competitive Programme
The activities planned for 2009 under the Competitiveness Programme include continuing the process of telecommunications reform, conducting a feasibility study on expanding shipping capacity, implementing a monitoring and evaluation system for the National Competitiveness Strategy (NCS), and continuing the process to modernise the Guyana Deeds Registry. This is according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and [...]
Girvan’s Cuba
No one can deny that Caribbean economist, Norman Girvan, is a learned professor. He is a formidable economist and a scholar of regional fame. But like all human beings, he has his inexplicable moments. This is life. The strange things that people do that defy logic or are hard to understand will forever be present [...]
PRESERVING OUR HISTORIC MEMORY
I have once again been embarrassed by my country. A Minister within the Foreign Ministry of Canada was in Guyana and when he turned up at State House to meet with our President, he along with his delegation was seated but there was no visible presence of any other Guyanese to keep the delegation’s company [...]
Simmons’ unbeaten 148 rallies T&T to 279-3 on truncated opening day
By Sean Devers Lendl Simmons continued his prolific form this season with a magnificent unbeaten 148 at the Guyana National Stadium to see Trinidad and Tobago to 279-3 on a truncated opening day of their seventh round WICB regional four-day cricket fixture against Guyana yesterday. Simmons reached the boundary 17 times and cleared it twice [...]
‘Next Level’ basketball officially jumps off
- Kings come in at eight from Linden By Edison Jefford “They are back with a bang and we hope it is a bang because I think basketball fans and enthusiasts in Guyana look forward to good basketball that includes a high level of play, decent discipline and good team performances”. Those were the opening [...]
The importance of medical checks in sports
Dear Editor: Fitness and good health are terms which can be readily associated with sport. Recreational Sport can do much to contribute to good health and fitness, and the association between the sport, health and fitness can do much to persuade Government to provide facilities for the playing of Sport. For the top level and [...]
Kitty Market a risk to life and limb — says Commissioner of Inquiry
The Kitty Market was regarded as a ‘risk to life and limb’ on Thursday by Commissioner of Inquiry, Keith Burrowes, when he visited the dilapidated facility among several others to get a first-hand look at their revenue collection integrity. Burrowes, who is tasked with investigating financial irregularities and mismanagement at the Georgetown municipality that were [...]
Unbeaten Georgetown hammer East Coast by 10 wickets
W/Demerara beat E/Bank by 2 wickets in rain hit match By Sean Devers Defending champions Georgetown, the best prepared and most efficient of the four teams in the Nalico/Nafico Demerara Cricket Board Inter-Association 50-overs under-15 cricket competition, maintained their unbeaten record, while West Demerara registered their first win in second round action yesterday. Georgetown, who [...]
GRA withdraws VAT claim on Linden electricity supplies
A protest march called by the members and management of the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL), to demonstrate their rejection of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s demand for VAT on the electricity supply to Wismar residents, was abruptly halted on Thursday morning. The protest, which drew a crowd of peeved residents, commenced at LUSCSL’s [...]
Stolen milk lands man in hot water
Mark Griffith, 30, of 169 Campbell Street, Albouystown, was asked to pay $25,000 or serve nine months in jail for stealing a bale of full-cream powdered milk from Kissoon Sookwah. He pleaded guilty to the offence. The sentence was imposed by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. The theft [...]
ABS 40 overs Division One KO starts tomorrow
The first ever Associated Business Services 40 Overs first division cricket tournament in the Ancient County bowls off tomorrow with six matches across Berbice. Young Warriors clash with Skeldon Community Centre at Cumberland, Albion host West Berbice, Kildonan travel to the Area “H” Ground to play Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar, Bermine and Police [...]
Alpha encampment set for next week
As preparations for CFU Club Championship intensify By Franklin Wilson President of the Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba disclosed yesterday at a press briefing that the team will commence a 3-week period of encampment from next week as preparations for the Caribbean Football Union’s Club Champions Cup intensifies. The location of the camp site [...]
Monitoring of forest resources a priority in 2009 – Agri Minister
… 50 new forest rangers recruited Monitoring and compliance within forestry concessions will continue to be a priority in 2009 with 50 new forest rangers being recruited, Minister of Agriculture with responsibility for Forestry, Robert Persaud, told the National Assembly on Thursday. Each large concession will have a minimum of two officers to monitor harvesting [...]
Labour Ministry sides with injured seaman
The Labour Department will be ‘standing firmly’ in support of disabled seaman, Russell Cornelius, who lost both of his legs last month while working on a trawler that is operated by Noble House Seafoods. This is according to Labour Minister, Minister Manzoor Nadir, who in an interview with Kaieteur News said that the investigations are [...]
ACP- EU Parliamentary Meeting opens in Guyana next week
European, Caribbean and African parliamentarians will gather in Guyana next week for the third regional meeting of the ACP-EU Parliamentary Meeting. The four-day meeting starts on Tuesday, to be followed by a formal opening ceremony on Wednesday. Topping the agenda will be the recent Economic Partnership Agreement that the Caribbean signed with Europe, the global [...]
Chest Society moves to expand aid to TB victims
As part of its efforts to render assistance to the less fortunate of the society, the Guyana Chest Society, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has been offering support to scores of persons, primarily those co-infected with Tuberculosis and HIV. However, with additional assistance whether in cash or kind, Secretary of the entity, Romona Persaud, is optimistic [...]
Powell, Edwards relieved Antigua’s headaches
-WI team rescue WICB By Rawle Welch The determined performance by the eleven players that represented West Indies in the Third Test which ended on Thursday must have relieved the migraine headaches that many Antiguans and West Indians felt throughout one of the most haunting weeks in our cricket history. Beginning on Friday, February 13 [...]
Six of one, half dozen of the other
Dear Editor, There is a saying that you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time. This saying is relevant to John Da Silva’s letter “Guyana is no state of decay” (KN 13/2/2009). While in opposition the PPP complained that the PNC government sold out [...]
The “naysayers” have not done their homework
Dear Editor, In the recently prepared National Budget 2009, there have been a number of “naysayers” who said that the economy could not grow last year (2008) much less grow this year (2009) as there have been contractions in the amount of minerals and food (principally sugar and rice) produced. Many people understand that we can sell 1000 [...]
Snackette operator claims discrimination
For the past 15 years, Mohammed Jamat popularly known as ‘Billygoat’ has been operating his snackette in Meten–Meer–Zorg, only to have it broken down by the Region Three authorities as part of the government’s plan to remove persons vending on the reserves. The man noted that a few years ago he was told by the [...]
120 graduate from EU-sponsored programme with life skills
Some 120 participants in the five-month Technical Assistance Training Programme sponsored by the European Union (EU)/Low Income Housing Programme (LIHP) graduated yesterday. The EU/LIHP was launched in 2004 between the Government of Guyana and the EU in Guyana to support the Low Income Housing Sector. Team Leader of the EU/LIHP, Bernhard Weiss, gave a short [...]
The EPA is now a fact of life
Dear Editor, In May 2008, I gave a presentation entitled “The Cariforum-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement: A Work in Progress” to the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Foreign Relations, and followed this with a similar presentation to a Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry seminar on EPA implementation in June 2008. At both places and elsewhere, I [...]
Glaring discrepancies
The economic projections in the January 2009 report on Guyana by the Economic Intelligence Unit are far different from those of the Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh in his 2009 Budget. According to the report, following estimated real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 4.6 per cent in 2008, the EIU expects economic growth to [...]
Suspects in $1.8M Bartica heist remanded
- stolen money recovered, third suspect sought Two men were remanded to prison yesterday in connection with last Tuesday night’s $1.8M robbery at the home of Bartica gold trader, Suraj Hansraj. Orin David, 24, of First Alley, Wismar, and Marlon Hicks, 30, of Hadfield Street, Lodge, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with [...]
E’bo Islands defeat E’bo Coast & West Dem
Essequibo Islands defeated Essequibo Coast and Pomeroon and West Coast Demerara by 8 runs and 2 wickets respectively in the Ministry of Education, Guyana Teachers Union, National Sports Commission and the Guyana Cricket Board national schools under-15 limited overs cricket competition. Last Monday at the Anna Regina centre ground the islanders batted first and made [...]
