Children escape injuries as house crashes down
Three children, aged eight, five and fours years old escaped serious injuries on Saturday night, as they managed to run to safety before their house came crashing down in De Groot, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. The children’s mother, Pamela Harrinarine, told Kaieteur News yesterday that the house was leaning to one side for quiet a [...]
King, Vieira, Rahaman outstanding
Group 4 champion Andrew King obliterated the field to reign supreme as the second leg of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club National Race of Champions Meeting which ended yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit. King taking full advantage in the absence of Mark Vieira, crushed the opposition to record three wins from as [...]
Amateur boxers entertain Albouystown residents
The Harpy Eagles Boxing Club was transformed into a hive of activity yesterday afternoon when the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF), in association with several boxing enthusiasts, staged the second edition of what will now be a regular feature, of the Inter-Gym boxing championships. The tournament is a direct response to the outcries of boxers for [...]
Berbice triumph over Essequibo
Shemaine Campbell lashed an unbeaten 123 to pilot Berbice to an emphatic victory over Essequibo after the latter team won the toss and invited the former to take first strike, when play in the Senior Inter-County Female 50 overs cricket competition continued at the Police Sports Club Ground, yesterday morning. Campbell was supported with [...]
We must stop operating like boy scouts when it comes to the nation’s future
Dear Editor, Our leaders are running on the spot shouting from the top of their voices about REDD and low carbon initiatives wasting good money again; yet the one project that can make a difference in the lives of the Guyanese people in this area is silently being positioned for parking with the lame excuse [...]
The age of reason, common sense and truth will wipe out all traces of these two political ‘dinosaurs’
Dear Editor, The recent exchanges between Mr. Ramkarran and others, in the letter section, shows that these writers are all caught up in the past, especially Ramkarran. He claims that the PNC should apologise for its years in office and David Hinds has the nerve to criticise President Cheddi Jagan’s book, The West on Trial. [...]
Parents seeking transfers have the wrong perceptions – Minister Baksh
Candidates of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) drawn from out-of-town schools cannot be transferred to top city Secondary Schools if they have not acquired the requisite marks to do so. This notion was emphasised recently by Senior Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh. His remarks came in wake of several complaints made by some parents [...]
City Council and delinquent rate payers
Dear Editor, I have noticed in your paper of July 23rd, a notice from Mayor and City Council of Georgetown which identifies delinquent rate payers and a request for them to check with the city treasurer. Sir, there exist 34 North Road and King Street, 34 Robb and King Streets and 34 King Street. I [...]
Women need to fight back and maintain their dignity
Dear Editor, Permit me a few reflections on an article I read in the print media recently, coming from none other than a Caribbean legal mind. I think, Ms. Tracy Robinson, senior lecturer from the Law Faculty at UWI, adds dimension and purpose to the unheard voices of our women who suffer silently in the [...]
Corentyne chamber honours top performers
ALBION, CORENTYNE – Five of the top performers from Region Six, at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment, were honoured by the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce. The presentation was done during the opening ceremony of the Berbice Expo and Trade Fair on Friday at the Albion Sports Complex. The top five in East Berbice [...]
Shame on those sons who abuse their mothers
Dear Editor, Many years ago, I taught voluntarily at the David Rose School for the Handicapped and those children were adorably loving and kind. I spent from childhood to adulthood with a foster mother and we had shared a bond of mother and son although we were not biologically connected. Shame on the sons who [...]
West Canje to be permanently sealed
LOCABER, WEST CANJE – Rehabilitation work is to commence in the vicinity of a breach at Locaber in West Canje later this week. According to Region Six Chairman, Zulfikar Mustapha, a $5.4 million contract was recently awarded to B.K. International. The job is expected to wrap up within 10 weeks. The project would be monitored [...]
The delay in Local Government Elections helps the PPP
The recent suggestion that Local Government Elections may not be possible this year is a serious blow to local democracy and a lifeline to the main opposition, the Peoples National Congress Reform, now going through serious internal travails. Ironically, the ruling Peoples Progressive Party is likely to be extremely pleased by the delay. Had Local [...]
One of the most horrible moments of my life
Is Guyana a failed state? I believe it is. Mr. Jagdeo’s business-friends who are putting up tall buildings, would say no. One would like to think that these business people have a more than passing familiarity with political theory. When scholars describe a state as a failed country, they certainly do not use [...]
Land Court takes too long to address issues
Dear Editor, The Land Court on Brickdam is supposed to address concerns of land claims and processing of land titles, thus, the facilitating of Transports to land owners. Part of this operation, I would like to believe, is done at the Lands and Survey Department at D’Urban Backlands. I lived my early life at a [...]
An open letter to Commodore Gary Best
Dear Commodore Best, I am writing on a matter involving members of the Disciplined Forces, but before I would like to introduce myself in my various professional capacities. I am currently working under three projects which are: (a) JICA – A Guyana Human Securities Project funded by the Government of Japan that sets out to [...]
FOR OLD CHIMES SAKE
Hangin’ down from my window Those are my wind chimes Wind chimes Wind chimes (The Beach Boys) It started for me with the Wind Chimes of Loon. Not Kow Loon or even the Loon, the provincial bird of Ontario and the state bird of Minnesota, but some individually tuned metal tubes that together make [...]
Clothes and Identity
Clothes, they say, “maketh the man”, not to mention the woman. While man has been making clothes for quite a while (as far back as the Palaeolithic “caveman” duds) it is safe to say that in the beginning the reason was far more mundane than creating status for the wearer: “making the man”. The weather, [...]
Cops link new suspect to Health Ministry arson
- among two in custody Police have detained a Buxton man who was wanted in connection with several murders and say that he given them a statement that implicates him and others in the torching of the Ministry of Health building. Kaieteur News understands that the man, known as ‘Kurt’ or ‘Glasses’ was arrested around [...]
Fuel leak sparks fire at GPL Sophia Station
By Gary Eleazar Quick action by officials of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Sophia plant and the Guyana Fire Service yesterday averted disaster after spilt fuel ignited and severely damaging the exterior of a 1.5 megawatt generator set on lease from MACORP. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who was on the scene, told media operatives that [...]
PNCR urges Jagdeo to take note of former Liberian President’s trial
…says out of control security forces members allied to political directorate PNCR Leader, Robert Corbin yesterday at the party’s weekly press briefing, reminded media operatives of the party’s advocacy that inquiries be held into the allegations of beatings and torturing of citizens by elements of the security forces. “We did so because we believe that [...]
Cross bar kills 19-year-old porter
Hopefully the death of 19-year-old orphan, Rodrigue Mendonza, will cause the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in Parika to remove a cross bar from Butcher’s Street given the enormous troubles it has caused. On Monday last, the young man who works as a porter, went in to the street on a Canter truck and ducked the [...]
Three more swine flu cases confirmed
By Fareeza Haniff The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed three more cases of the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), from a batch of 37 specimens that have been tested so far in Trinidad. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, told Kaieteur News yesterday that 50 specimens were sent for testing and of that number; the Ministry [...]
A source of inspiration for ‘Generation Next’…
Reverend Raphael Massiah is a ‘Special Person’ “I believe the man in our country has to get back to his rightful position. You have got to present to our young male folk a template that is working. One that says you can do ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’, despite the chances of failure.” By Edison Jefford [...]
Man drops dead in hotel room
… police detain lover A 53-year-old taxi driver, Sheik Abdul Sharif, called ‘Sheriff’, of Good Hope East Bank Essequibo went into a hotel in Parika on Friday evening but never made it out alive. Reports are that the man went to the hotel with his 25 year-old lover and suffered a heart attack fueling speculations [...]
