Doppler radar deemed ready
After almost seven months of delay and additionally millions spent, the Doppler Radar Tower was finally tested and deemed ready to serve Guyana and the Caribbean. The tower will be commissioned early October. At present, Dr. Jens Didszum, Product Manager, Hydrology and Sensor Data Processing, Germany; and Glendel De Souza, Science and Technology Officer of [...]
Ministry of Health Fire : US Southern Command offers assistance in investigation
- Dr Luncheon Head of the Presidential Secretariat yesterday confirmed to media operatives that the United States of America’s Southern Command has volunteered its services as it relates to the fire investigations of the burnt out historic building that housed the Ministry of Health. The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), located in Miami, Florida, is [...]
NBS still to come under Central Bank’s regulation
…legislation expected before Parliamentary recess – Dr Luncheon A senior official within the Bank of Guyana has confirmed that the bank is waiting to assume regulatory responsibility of the New Building Society. Central Bank Governor, Lawrence Williams, ever since April, had announced that the bank has already taken steps to bring NBS under its direct [...]
City Hall prepared to publish names of defaulting tax payers
Property owners within Agricola, North Ruimveldt, Kingston, Tucville, Lacytown and Wortmanville are significantly indebted to the Georgetown municipality as it relates to the payment of rates and taxes. And according to Public Relations Officer, Royston King, the city entity is in dire need of the outstanding funds. In a release issued on Wednesday he said [...]
Min. Ramsammy gets emotional at World AIDS Day launch
By Fareeza Haniff. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy was moves to tears when he recalled watching his Ministry being burnt to the ground one week ago. That destruction has left himself and numerous employees out of an office. During the launch of World AIDS Day 2009 at the International Convention Centre, yesterday, Minister Ramsammy [...]
Battered pensioner fears she could be killed by her son
Sixty-four-year-old Hemranie Ramphere had heard the story of a woman who died following a beating at the hands of her son. She also heard about the years of abuse the woman endured also at the hands of her son. Ramphere realised that she is in a similar situation and is fearful that she could be [...]
Guyanese cops 2nd place in CANTO Essay Competition
The Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisation (CANTO) held its third annual Telecommunication Information and Society Day – Essay Competition under the theme “Protecting Children in Cyberspace”, which saw the second place going to 17-year-old Guyanese, Dennis Heywood. The Richard Ishmael Secondary student was one of the more than 50 entries submitted from nine countries [...]
BIG MAN’S JOB IN LITTLE BOY’S HANDS
There is an old saying in Guyana. “You cannot put a little boy to do a big man’s job” What is being exposed each passing day in Guyana is the total inability of certain Ministers of the government to cope with the demands of governance. Many of them are being thrown into the deep end [...]
Mike’s Pharmacy softball cricket
Several teams register wins Blue Berry Hill Juniors, led by a top score of 21 from Gavin Morrison defeated Victory Valley Kings by 4 wickets, when play continued in the Under-15 category of the Mike’s Pharmacy 15 overs, country-wide, round hand softball cricket competition, organised by the Guyana Softball League. Victory Valley Kings batted first [...]
President’s X1 to play Celebrity as curtains lower on Blind Cricket competition
Administrators of the West Indies Blind Cricket Association (WICCB) will this morning bring the curtains down on just over a week of pulsating cricket action among blind cricketers, with a Twenty20 match between a selected side drawn from key members of the just concluded blind cricket championships, dubbed the President’s X1, and a Celebrity team [...]
Vieira leaving nothing to chance
- expresses thanks to sponsors Reigning motor bike champion Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira is leaving nothing to chance leading up to Sunday’s Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club ‘Race of Champions’ Meeting, at the South Dakota Circuit. Vieira, who allowed Kaieteur Sport a brief interview shortly before leaving for a practice session yesterday revealed that [...]
Netrockers take pole position with 4-0 win over Peacemakers
Netrockers assumed the top spot on the points table with an emphatic 4-0 win over Peacemakers on Wednesday afternoon, at the Bayrock ground, as play in the Stag B-League football tournament continued in the Bauxite Mining town of Linden. The win takes Netrockers to 8 points from four games (2 wins 2 draws) and two [...]
Floodlights XI face Shatta-Ville tonight at National Park
The Wellman Master Cup nation-wide softball competition sponsored by Mikes Pharmacy continues tonight, with Floodlights XI taking on Shatta-Ville Seniors, at the National Park Tarmac, starting 18:30hrs in a 25 overs affair. Floodlights XI, fresh from two consecutive victories will be looking to continue their winning ways against the Shatta-Ville seniors of West Coast Demerara, [...]
Is this the way we get someone to plead guilty?
Dear Editor, In the Thursday’s (23-07-09) Kaieteur News, the story that caught me was, “Ministry’s fire suspect…BRUTALIZED – Troy Small had to be lifted out of the Alberttown Police Station yesterday (Wednesday).” I strongly thought that you are innocent until proven otherwise. Am I wrong? Is this the way we get someone to plead guilty? [...]
Power Stout Inter-Market tourney starts on Monday
Intense action expected at Thirst Park By Michael Benjamin After a three-year hiatus, the Inter-Market football competition is set to kick off at the Banks DIH, Thirst Park ground, with the opening ceremony, followed by two matches on Monday. The organisers are confident that the tournament, sponsored by Power Stout, would produce the usual excitement [...]
Smalta to sponsor 1st ‘Teach Them Young’ cycling meet
11 races to be contested The 32-riders currently participating in the 33rd Annual National Sports Commission (NSC) ‘Teach Them Young’ 8-week cycling clinic will have the opportunity to test what they have learnt after two weeks of training under coach, Hassan Mohamed M.S. Ansa Mcal Trading under their Smalta brand will sponsor tomorrow’s 11-race meet [...]
Everybody pumping and nuff money flowing
Guyana is de land of many waters and dem have nuff people who can swim but unless dem join a club, dem have to swim in de Blacka or in dem trench or in de river or in de sea. Well that dangerous suh de government decide that it gun mek somewhere fuh dem people [...]
Low level, self-serving corruption is endemic and accepted at many levels in Guyana
Dear Editor, The story which follows is one, which as a Guyanese living abroad, I have heard too may times before. After my father Judaman Seecoomar died in 2006, his collection of academic books, were shipped from the UK to be given to the University of Guyana, for use by Guyanese students, in accordance with [...]
Deadly trap, permanent prison
I hardly get time to look at television. The internet may kill television for those who follow world events. You miss something that the newscast carries and you can still get it on video on the internet. In Guyana, the situation is different. Many of the local programmes are not repeated. I seldom see those [...]
Canawaima Ferry Service seeks to boost travel
The Canawaima Ferry Service which transports passengers from Moleson Creek across the border to Suriname is looking to boost passenger travel. Over the years, the service has faced competition from “back-trackers” who prefer to go the illegal route, and faster. For the second time this year, the Service has launched a promotion designed to attract [...]
Can we help our poor minibus operators?
Dear Editor, I think it is time that minibus owners, start paying for the damages to road and loss of life in this country, and the degradation of morals in our society to say the least. The duty -free concessions should be removed and revenue earned to effect repairs to the road and paid-for seminars [...]
Sex threat irks miner, lands him in jail
A 35-year-old miner was yesterday remanded by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. It was alleged that Delroy Thompson, of Port Kaituma Canal Bank, on July 14 with the intent to maim, disfigure or cause grievous bodily harm, unlawfully wounded Samuel Tyson. He was not required to plead to the indictable [...]
Guyana lose to Barbados by 9 wickets
Guyana’s Under-19 cricketers suffered their second defeat of the TCL Regional 3-day cricket competition, losing to Barbados by 9 wickets in their 4th round encounter played at Jamalco, in Jamaica. Resuming on their overnight score of 95-4 with a lead of 49 and playing in overcast conditions, the Guyanese were sent packing for 145 at [...]
UN Expert’s Minority Report seriously flawed
Dear Editor, While I must congratulate The United Nations Expert on Minorities Gay McDougall on her recently released report on race relation in Guyana I would like to point out to the United Nations that in Guyana the population demographic is 43.5% Indian, 30.2% African, 16.7% Mixed, 9.2% Amerindians and 0.5% other, which the United [...]
Officials could lessen carbon emission by reducing their flights
Dear Editor, I opened my telephone bill yesterday (22-07-09) and was startled to find enclosed therewith a letter dated 25th June, 2009 on the letterhead of the Office of the President and signed by His Excellency. Reading the letter, I was relieved that it had nothing to do with the calls I was making, but [...]
