The opposition political parties are wasting time
Dear Editor, It is amazing how the media happen to be leading the actions of the political parties. I am a Guyanese and I expect people to say that I an outside looking in. However, newspapers all over the world operate in the same way. Two local media houses thought it interesting and important enough [...]
Back to School
After the obligatory confusion that accompanies even the most innocuous announcement by our government bureaucracy, our children were spared the ignominy of going to school in August when it was finally decided that school would reopen on September 1st, – a Tuesday. So this means that parents have an extra day to get the apples [...]
UNASUR pushes forward with continental integration
…as leaders express unease over Colombia-US military pact By Odeen Ishmael The inauguration of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador coincided with the holding of the third regular presidential summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in Quito on August 10. In the days preceding this meeting, speculation was rife that the recent agreement [...]
KAMARANG
Day Three The cops came about an hour after Sealey entered the Jaguar’s Den. He was sitting by the bar, watching Alvin Benn sweep a number of beetles and cigarette butts into a spade. “Beetles like flipping rain last night,” he grumbled to no one in particular as he headed to the dustbin. Sealey glanced [...]
National Library Centenary, part 4
By Petamber Persaud When last have you played such folk games like ‘farmer in the dell’, ‘coloured girl in the ring’, ‘in and out the bluebells’, ‘wah? who seh wah?’, ‘chi chi, bum bum’, ‘Jane and Louisa’? Forgive me if I sprung that at you, out of the blues. Have you seen such games in [...]
The Baccoo speaks
There is no end to the motor violence and once more there is going to be a deadly crash. The young drivers are going to be under the influence and the police are going to become really angry. At the same time the police are going to bust some of their own who are in [...]
The UN: Small States interests and support for Finland
By Sir Ronald Sanders Small countries, such as those in the Caribbean, depend upon an efficient and well balanced Security Council at the United Nations to help to safeguard them from adventures by larger and more powerful states. For this reason, Caribbean countries cannot afford not to take candidatures for membership of the Security Council [...]
Disciplined Forces: Beyond Cosmetic “Reform”
The barefaced and contemptible murder and robbery of Dweive Kant Ramdass perpetrated by members of the GDF, followed by the equally outrageous and despicable robbery committed by members of the Police Force deployed to apprehend the accomplices escaping with the loot has stirred almost unanimous outrage in the Guyanese public. The groundswell of demands that [...]
DE PEEPING AND DE SEEING
Everybody Peeping and dem seeing all de thiefing, Everybody Peeping and dem noticing how dem hiding And dem dodging and confusing And de helicopter coming fuh do some more peeping Because soldier strangling and dem police tekking because dem too ah see de thiefing. Everybody peeping and dem seeing how dem accusing Kaieteur News of [...]
Interesting Creatures… The Catfish
Catfish (order Siluriformes) are a diverse group of bony fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat’s whiskers, catfish range in size and behaviour from the heaviest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and [...]
Who needs this embarrassment?
By Adam Harris One of the moist embarrassing things to happen to a traveller is to go to the airport, bid farewell to relatives and friends, even if temporarily and then get detained and even denied the opportunity to fly. One of my daughters suffered this ignominy just over a decade ago. She was granted [...]
The man who fell off the earth
By Michael Jordan If you find this headline misleading, or if you think it’s sensational, then it probably is. But this is exactly what seems to have happened to this 67-year-old man with the strange name that I’m writing about. He hasn’t been spotted anywhere. His body hasn’t been found. He seems to have literally [...]
Statements of another mind
Each day as the Government of Guyana’s leading decision-makers say the most shocking things that insult the people of this country and damage the psyche of this nation, I think of what lies inside the mind of the human being. I studied Sigmund Freud extensively, but no philosopher from the early Greek period in ancient [...]
The Catfish
Catfish (order Siluriformes) are a diverse group of bony fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat’s whiskers, catfish range in size and behaviour from the heaviest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and [...]
The Administration must be held accountable for the atrocities of the security forces
For many years the opinion leaders in our society have been forewarning of the impending disintegration within the security forces. These organisations, which are established to offer protection and service to the people, have become enemies of the people, and this administration is guilty of turning a blind eye to the countless atrocities that have [...]
MURDERED GRANNY, 80, FOUND NUDE, TIED TO BED
The nude, bound and gagged body of an 80-year-old woman was found shortly after 19:00 hrs last night in the Lot 66 Independence Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara home in which she had lived alone. Relatives said that Kharpattie Shivnauth was found with her hands and left foot tied to her bed with pieces [...]
Taxi driver mudered
When 72-year-old Mohammed Nazir Khan, a hard-working taxi driver, did not return home as he should have on Thursday evening, his 62 year-old wife, Sursattie understandably became worried, but was never expecting the news she was awoken to early yesterday morning – that of the brutal death of her husband. Reports are that the man’s [...]
Bandits flee roadblock, nabbed by villagers
- bag with $millions recovered A substantial sum of cash, allegedly several millions, was recovered from three suspected bandits following a lively chase and manhunt on the foreshore of Weldaad Village, West Coast Berbice, late yesterday afternoon. Public spirited residents of the village chased the men and flushed them out of their hiding places in [...]
Resuced from burial ground – kinapper captured hours later
After three weeks of unbearable anxiety and uncertainty about her 4-year-old daughter’s whereabouts, a Leonora, West Coast Demerara mother was yesterday able to breathe a sigh of relief. However, the relief came as a result of a strange twist of events which saw the woman venturing to the Leonora Police Station to clear her name [...]
‘Concerned citizens’, PNCR picketers clash outside Congress Place
A group of just over a dozen persons calling themselves ‘concerned citizens’ was yesterday evicted from the roadway just outside the People’s National Congress Reform headquarters at Congress Place Sophia. When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, there were picketers on both sides of the roadway as the PNCR picketers were just outside of the [...]
GTUC aims to ‘reverse decline into failed state’
Acting General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Norris Witter yesterday announced the union’s plans to confront the Government of Guyana in a bid to reverse what it calls the decline of Guyana into a failed state. Witter informed media operatives that in keeping with the mandate given to the GTUC at the [...]
RUSAL sues union leaders- cites $$M strike losses
The Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI), the local subsidiary of Russian aluminum giant, United Company RUSAL, has instituted legal action against the leaders of the union representing workers and is seeking significant damages. The centre of the legal action is a strike called by workers in late May this year. The workers went on [...]
Persaud now wants comprehensive audit of agri projects
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has written Auditor General Deodat Sharma requesting his role in carrying out additional comprehensive audits of ongoing projects. In an August 28 letter to the Auditor General, released to the media, Persaud told Sharma “it is imperative that we get full value from all of our projects if we are [...]
IDB gives US$6,500 to Women Artists’ Association
The Guyana Women Artists’ Association (GWAA) will receive a grant of $US 6,500 to fund a project entitled ‘Art: Remembering and preserving our Heritage.’ The objective of this project is to stimulate interest in visual arts and encourage creative efforts through sharing of ideas in the form of seminars, workshops, exhibitions and publications. Yesterday, the [...]
Shondell Alfred intensifies preparations for world title encounter
By Michael Benjamin The bout is approximately four weeks away but local women’s bantamweight champion, Shondell Alfred, has already commenced sparring sessions as she aspires to be the second local female boxer, following Gwendolyn O’Neil’s victory over Kathy Rivers for the Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) light/heavyweight title, to win a world title for Guyana. [...]
