Enmore, BOG, Finewood Marketing in winners’ row
Enmore XI, Bank of Guyana (BOG) and Finewood Marketing Inc. scored convincing victories, as the 2009 Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15-15 Tapeball cricket tournament got off to a flying start last weekend, at the GS&WCA ground on Carifesta Avenue. On Saturday, Enmore X1 crushed TDI Challengers by 68 runs. Batting first [...]
Football Federation to conduct Admin Courses
- Senior National League set for August latest In keeping with the requirements as mandated by FIFA Development Officer Keith Lok Loy, President of the Local Federation Colin Klass told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that just as what is happening in Jamaica presently, the local body will be conducting Administration Upgrade Courses shortly for clubs. Klass [...]
Fatal accident driver slapped with three additional charges
Fatal accident driver, Ashley Pieters, 27, was yesterday slapped with three additional charges when she appeared yesterday before Magistrate, Nyasha Williams-Hatmin. Pieters was yesterday charged for breach of insurance, unlicensed driving and failing to report an accident within 24 hours of its occurrence. On Monday she answered charges for dangerous driving thus causing the death [...]
Sinclair (67 & 3-35) helps Gibraltar/Courtland to victory
The 2009 Spready’s Bakery Under-19, 50-Over Cricket Competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board, continued recently and was highlighted by a number of outstanding performances. Highlighting the matches was the fine all-round performance of Kelon Sinclair of Gibraltar/Courtland who firstly, opening the batting against Big Star slammed 67, including 13 fours, which helped his team [...]
Public education crucial to addressing Swine Flu – CMO
There is no need for prophylaxis treatment in Guyana as it relates to the H1N1 virus, commonly called the Swine Flu. But according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud, there is dire need to educate the public so that people could better deal with information about the virus in the local context. His remarks [...]
NA United, Cougars, Pistons United register wins
An Adrian Adams double led New Amsterdam United (NAU) to yet another win in the feature game of a double-header on Sunday last, at Burnham Park, when play in the Berbice Football Association/Coca Cola senior league continued. New Amsterdam blasted their way to a 4-1 win over former champions, West Coast based Monedderlust. In the [...]
Traffic ranks identified to administer breathalyzer
…list of names sent to Top Cop Traffic Chief Neil Semple has confirmed that he has submitted the list of the names of traffic ranks who will be trained to administer the breathalyzer tests that have been catered for in the new legislation. The names have been submitted to the Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, [...]
Battleship GDF Essequibo engines for $130m overhaul
…Brazilian engineering firm contracted (By Mondale Smith) If all goes well the Guyana/Brazil bilateral co-operation could become even more fruitful with the signing of a bilateral defence co-operation agreement before year end. As a precursor, the way to other forms of naval engineering co-operation has been further cleared through the signing of an agreement for [...]
Caribbean Games would have united athletes
US-based athletes were hoping to meet locals By Edison Jefford Aliann Pompey is enjoying the form of her life after exceptional performances at the Rio Grand Prix in Brazil and the Millrose Games, which made the Guyanese athlete a definite Caribbean Games 400m gold medal prospect. Pompey was not only anticipating the competition and rivalries [...]
‘GLAMOROUS’ set to sizzle at Princess Buddy’s Hotel
-finals of Guyana Model Search & Stylist Designers portfolio ready to explode The buzz is everywhere about the ‘electric’ launch of the Guyana Model Search and Stylist Designers portfolio that kicked off at Duke Lodge., Kingston on Saturday last. From all accounts, it appears as if this time around Guyanese veteran designer, Sonia Noel and [...]
Doppler radar tower still to be tested
Several months after the Doppler radar tower was schedule to be completed, it is now being touted to become operational within a month. It will take another month before testing at the facility will commence, according to officials. On Saturday, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, visited the yet to be completed structure and assured that [...]
Telecommunications Union expresses concern over PUC statements
The Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers’ Union (GPTWU) has assured its membership that it will not stand idly by and allow hindrances to be placed in the path of the employees which the union represents in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T). The union’s comments are as a result of the ongoing feud between [...]
Victims of groupthink
I wrote a few columns ago that I intend to answer some of the questions I encounter from my readers. I began that policy with an essay on why Moses Nagamootoo failed to attract support from PPP leaders he would have shared thirty-year relations with. Quite a large number out there is interested in knowing [...]
IRAN WILL RESIST
If you listen and look at only the BBC and CNN you may be tempted to believe that Iran is in the throes of an Orange Revolution. Thank goodness, however, that Al Jazeera is around and allows far more balanced coverage of what is taking place in that country. But even so, Al Jazeera has [...]
Cabinet breached the law
- Parliamentary Committee Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Hydar Ally, along with a team of officials from that Ministry yesterday appeared before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee to submit to scrutiny and to offer explanations for discrepancies highlighted in the 2006 Auditor General’s report. One of the issues that featured prominently was the [...]
Crippled for life
- by car driven by unlicenced 16-yr-old A 47-year old woman from Alexander Village, Greater Georgetown, may be crippled for life after she was struck down by a car driven by a 16-year old unlicenced driver. Lilowtie Persaud, of 194 Fourth Street, Alexander Village, is now confined to the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown [...]
Police bust sex ring
Girls aged 12, 13, among five arrested (By Mondale Smith) After countless reports to this publication from neighbours about a Guyhoc house being used as the venue for a sex ring involving underaged school girls, yesterday the police became involved and five persons were arrested. Three were schoolgirls, aged 12, 13 and 19, while the [...]
Open koker floods Blankenburg, hurts poultry rearer
A koker left open Sunday night caused untold hardships for some residents of Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara. Early yesterday morning, one of them, a poultry farmer named Nazmoon Khan, rushed to save her chickens. She said that it was about 02:00 hours when she heard her chickens making a lot of noise so she grabbed [...]
Kwame McCoy denies comment on Jagdeo’s overseas visits
President’s Press Liaison Officer, Kwame McCoy, has denied comments attributed to him in an article captioned, “We don’t have to announce all of Jagdeo’s trips.” He said that the article “is completely misleading and it would appear as though my comments were deliberately twisted, which highlights a trend over the last few months.” Over the [...]
Miss Guyana Universe ready and waiting…
The fifteen delegates of this year’s Miss Guyana Universe Pageant were recently sashed at the Umana Yana, at an affair that was graced with high class fashion, glamour and serene elegance. At the function, the girls were officially introduced to sponsors, the media, and would-be sponsors. Reigning Miss Guyana Universe, Meleesa Payne, was also in [...]
Linden one-stop shop was transparent – Irfaan Ali
Housing Ministry is prepared to investigate authenticity of applicants’ information The Ministry of Housing and Water is prepared to address reports that suggest that people living overseas have received house lots and that spouses have benefited from separate allocations. Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, made this disclosure in response to an article published [...]
US$27M to be spent on low income settlement programme
Approximately 20,000 temporary jobs will be created when the second round of the Low Income Settlement programme gets on stream. The venture, which represents sustained collaboration between the Government of Guyana and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), was launched yesterday at the Regency Suites/Hotel, Hadfield Street, Georgetown. The programme is being funded by the bank [...]
What is domestic violence?
Dear Editor, I have been watching the news on television and reading about domestic violence in our country which I found very interesting. I heard our President calling on the religious leaders and organisations to help fight this atrocious act that is presently destroying the moral fabric in our society. Domestic violence is not a [...]
Quicksilver theft lands two in court
Two former employees from K&B Mining Company were yesterday placed on $200,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson. Bishram Samaroo, 18, of 334 Section ‘B’ Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, and Steven Marks, 22, of 88 Atlantic Ville East Coast Demerara, pleaded not guilty to stealing 235 lbs of mercury (quicksilver), valuing $1.7M, property [...]
It pains me to see the rapid decline of President’s College
Dear Editor, I was one of the fortunate 72 admitted to President’s College (PC) in 1985 and am forever grateful to the teachers and staff, who guided us through those formative years. But times have changed and PC is sailing on like a rudderless ship. There are a few things that we must come to [...]
