Kitty, Wortmanville join winner’s row
By Edison Jefford There is no doubt that the current Inter-Ward Basketball Championships is heading in the direction of a few colossal quarter-final games as the tournament’s leading teams are not leaving anything to chance in the first round. Wortmanville and Kitty ensured that they joined their championship counterparts, North and Lodge in the ‘Super–Eight’ [...]
BBCFC Power-lifting C/Ships set of for August 23
The Briswood Barbell Club and Fitness Centre (BBCFC) will hold its 10th annual Power-lifting Championships at the Mackenzie Sports Club, in Linden on August 23. As preparations for the much anticipated event intensify, Farfan and Mendes yesterday chipped in with the donation of two STIHL bags at a simple presentation at the company’s Urquhart Street, [...]
Businesses entities assist powerlifters
Faced with a shortfall of cash to represent Guyana at the 3rd Annual Caribbean Islands Bench Press and Powerlifting Championships set for Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands from May 14–16, three local business entities have come to the rescue with financial assistance to the Guyana team. Western Union, Rip X Energy Drink and [...]
GuySuCo makes one-off payment to workers
The 2.1 percent one-off payment to workers at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) was paid with the Annual Production Incentive (API) still outstanding. This API, which amounts to 3.79 days payment, is expected to be paid by September. Last year, arbitration ruled that GuySuCo must pay $1.3B to its workers after the wages dispute between [...]
GECOM finalising NRR
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday said that it is currently finalising the National Register of Registrants to be used as the basis for the conduct of a Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise as a prerequisite for the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) to be held possibly later this year. During the Claims and [...]
Local athletes gear up for Independence Triathlon
Local athletes will vie for honours when the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports, in collaboration with the National Sports Commission, stages the 2009 Independence Anniversary Triathlon Race on Sunday May 17. Event Coordinator, Ms Stephanie Fraser disclosed that this year’s action would be held in Region 3. The action commences with a 5km swim [...]
Collection of rates and taxes costly to City Hall
Intensified efforts to boost the revenue base of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) through the collections of rates and taxes have been costing the municipality more than it can afford. This notion was highlighted yesterday at the municipal statutory meeting. Councillor Patricia Chase-Green, in expressing concern about the situation questioned, said that [...]
Female Football League set for 3rd quarter
The embarrassment suffered by a female football team that represented Guyana during the recently staged Inter-Guianas Games managed to stir some amount of controversy, as to who should take the blame for the poor performance by the lasses. The margin of defeats in both matches against French Guiana and Suriname was so noticeable that sections [...]
Four escape from NOC, two recaptured
On Sunday last, four inmates from the New Opportunity Corps on the Essequibo Coast escaped. The escapees are Barrington Cambridge, 15, Prince Pickery, 16, Errol Johnson, 16, and Clairmont Wilson, 16. According to reports the four fled the facility some time between 16:00 and 17:00 hours. The inmates were serving time at the correctional facility [...]
Cindy Johnson was a highlight at the Caricom B/ball C/ship
Overseas-based Cindy Johnson AKA ‘CJ’ took the 2000 Caricom Basketball Championship in Barbados by storm although Guyana females finished last. Johnson’s performance was phenomenal. The unstoppable guard scored a game high 19 points in a losing cause against the USVI against Barbados. She again top scored with 13 points but the results was the same. [...]
PNC in power will be just as bad for Guyana as the PPP
Dear Editor, Happy belated Mother’s Day! I wish all mothers everything they wish for themselves and their families. Mothers Day should be a day of thanks and honest reflection. Thanks for the daily sacrifices mothers make. Thanks for their unconditional love. Everyone should also be thankful for Mother Earth and all the sustenance she provides [...]
Jamaican woman held with cocaine
Another foreign national has been nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, trying to smuggle out cocaine. This time, a Jamaican woman was held with 2.2 kilograms of the drug while being an outgoing passenger at about 05:10 hours yesterday. The drug, which was concealed in the woman’s suitcase, was found by ranks from [...]
Mervin’s misleading evaluation of the Jagdeo Administration
Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Emile Mervin’s letter of April 27, 2009 in the SN, with the caption ‘The President should think about redeeming his legacy.’ SN provides huge space to Mr. Mervin’s letter that lacks an evidentiary base; Mr. Mervin nitpicks about President Jagdeo’s broken promises, but without a word about what these [...]
Bisram should examine which groups in Guyana and the world had their sovereign right and freedom forcibly taken away
Dear Editor, I have taken to ignoring the many deceptive and deliberate attempts to dumb down the horror of the Atlantic Slave trade involving Africans to something that was common to all groups, and to all hemispheres in this world. But this latest effort by Vishnu Bisram is so blatantly obvious, so insultingly facetious, it [...]
No compromising of compliance in forestry sector – Minister Persaud
There will be no compromising on the issue of compliance within the forestry sector, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, told stakeholders yesterday during the Forest Product Development and Marketing (FPDM) Council stakeholders’ forum. He said that while there is great expectation of the FPDM it is expected that these will transform the sector aiming at [...]
Nurses: Stalwart healthcare providers
Dear Editor, Observing Nurse’s Week has been an annual pleasure for me over the past 50 years. Fifty-two years ago I made personal contact with two nurses in England when I underwent a Tonsillectomy. T.L.C. was dispensed to me by these two angels, perhaps the progeny of Florence Nightingale. Oh yes, I do indeed hear [...]
CARICOM official wants better work environment for the Region’s police
Assistant Secretary-General of the CARICOM Secretariat Dr. Edward Greene has called on Caribbean Governments to pay greater attention to the conditions under which police officers across the region are expected to function. A release from the secretariat stated that while acknowledging that some Caribbean governments had made considerable efforts to facilitate effective policing by upgrading [...]
Mae’s expulsion of student
Dear editor, It is with disgust I read of the expulsion of a student at Mae’e school because of the use of a cell phone. No education ministry in any democratic country would allow this to happen. That the Ministry of Education allows this is gross disrespect to the people of Guyana and total incompetence [...]
School kids do not need cell phones
I see no reason why any schoolchild should have need for a cellular phone while in school. For what possible reason does a child need a cell phone while in school? Over the past few days I have been soliciting the views of children as to the need for this device. Most of the children [...]
Why doesn’t Rickey Singh come home to Guyana?
During the seventies, when I was a UG student, I pointed out a criticism that was made against Professor Clive Thomas. I was young and radical and wanted to fight all the time. So I told Dr. Thomas he must reply. With his characteristic smile, he said that it is not everything you reply to; [...]
Team Obama: Clueless
Like all clichés, the one about America sneezing and the rest of the world catching a cold contains more than just a grain of truth. This importance of the US for global health arises primarily from the size of its economy, which provides a market for a great big chunk of the world’s production. A [...]
LBI Cricket facility should be ready by November
GCB still owed US$90,000 by Stanford – Singh Now that all of the paperwork problems which delayed the start of the construction of the LBI Guyana Cricket Board Hostel, training Gym and indoor practice facility is out of the way, President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh says the project should be fully [...]
