Vishnu Bisram’s role in NACTA
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to queries by Messrs. Freddie Kissoon and Anand Daljeet published in Kaieteur News about NACTA and the occupation of Mr. Bisram. Bisram is a licensed teacher in NYC. In order to obtain a teacher’s licence, one needs to pass a series of exams and have at a minimum [...]
The PPP strives on Indian ethnic security dilemma
Dear Editor, I respond to Freddie Kissoon’s, “A man and his dilemmas”(Kaieteur News 9-09-09) in which he labeled Rhyaan Shaw a side kick of Ravi Dev, painted the Indian ethnic security as a game invented by Dev, and pronounced that the PPP had been feverishly working on removing the basis the Indian ethnic security dilemma [...]
The use of prepaid meters
Dear Editor, I am a believer of technological advancement and its spill-off benefits. GPL’s use of prepaid meters would see the company achieving a few benefits apart from its use as a control mechanism against the theft of power. The use of prepaid meter would undoubtedly bring to GPL the following: – * Reduced operational [...]
The President should send his loyal subject to Siberia
Dear Editor, The time has come for Kwame McKoy to become Ambassador to Siberia. Mr. McKoy disclaims any knowledge or participation in the alleged sexual conversation, with a 15-year-old-boy. This situation can be resolved very easily. Mr. McKoy should publicly authorise his phone provider (mobile and land line) to release the telephone logs for the [...]
The only multi-racial party!
Dear Editor, I thank Boyo Ramsaroop for his letter, “Why I change from PPP to AFC” in Kaieteur News of Tuesday September 22, 2009. It was refreshing o hear the elderly gentleman share his story. It made pleasurable reading and I hope Mr. Ramsaroop shares more. Mr. Ramsaroop urged me to think again when I [...]
It remains the responsibility of GPO to ensure customers receive services paid for
Dear Editor, I have read the Guyana Post Office (GPO), Public Relations Officer Yoloskee Jarvis’ response/explanation: “Factors outside the control of Guyana Post Office can cause delays in mail delivery” (SN September 5th) gave, for causes of delay in mail delivery. Like other customers I too have experienced delivery failing not so long ago and [...]
Writing exams at home
Dear Editor, A wonderful announcement was just made that students from the Orealla community will be preparing to sit the CSEC 2010. This is indeed good news, especially that this month has been dedicated to Amerindians. Being aware that many rural communities are always at a disadvantage and face much tougher challenges, I don’t believe [...]
Banking scam
Rice is in trouble. Sugar is in trouble. Bauxite is in trouble. Forestry is in trouble. Remittances are in trouble. One would be forgiven, after digesting this litany, to conclude that the banking industry must also definitely be in trouble. After all, banks were invented to service the financial needs of the businesses of a [...]
IN THE GUYANA CORNER! SHONDELL ALFRED!!
NO “Mystery” after Saturday Night Her mother Ingrid is one hundred percent behind her and her boxing career. “After all”, declared Shondell Alfred, “She lived with a boxer, my father Cecil “Koker-Dog” Alfred who campaigned in Guyana’s ring during the fifties/sixties”. Shondell “Mystery Lady” Alfred was explaining one reason she has stuck to the ring-her [...]
Mauricio Pastrano arrives for ring date
Vows to knockout ‘Hurry Up’ Moore in the late rounds By Michael Benjamin “Estamos aquí para ganar!” (We are here to win) These were the words that emanated from the lips of former International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Organization (WBO) and International Boxing Association (IBA) bantamweight champion Mauricio Pastrano moments after he arrived in [...]
Pompey to be inducted into College Hall of Fame
Officially closes 2009 Track and Field Season Guyana’s national 400m record holder, Aliann Pompey will be inducted to the Manhattan College Track and Field Hall of Fame in November after being formally informed of the outstanding achievement recently in the United States. “My season is officially over, and I recently found out that on November [...]
No. 11/Bath Village win Norman Singh Memorial SC softball cricket
No. 11/Bath Village softball cricket team of West Coast Berbice played unbeaten to win the second edition of the Norman Singh Memorial Sports Club (NSMSC) inter village 8 overs softball cricket competition, which was played last Sunday at the NSMSC ground, No. 6 Bel Air West Coast Berbice. Six teams participated in the one day [...]
Douglas contributes to basketball in Tiger Bay
Says it is the first of many more to come Former Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) President Chris Douglas is adamant that basketball needs corporate support if it is to rise to prominence after he gave a ball to the Tiger Bay community yesterday. Douglas said that the ball was just a “seed sown” since [...]
Horserace set for Anjue and Hamlet Park, Mahaicony October 4
Horseracing action goes to Mahaicony on the East Coast Demerara on Sunday October 4, when the Anjue and Hamlet Park racetrack, the only one in Demerara, stages a grand one day horserace meet at the club track at it Mahaicony Branch Road location. Eight races are listed on the day’s card with close to $3M [...]
Regal XI clash with Untouchable in Sanjay’s Jewellery softball tourney
Regal XI will collide with rivals Untouchable of Berbice in the first of the two games fixed for Sunday in the Sanjay’s Jewellery four-team softball knock-out cricket competition at the Guyana Softball, Windball and Cricket Association (GSW&CA) ground, Carifesta Avenue. This was disclosed yesterday following the drawing which was done at Sanjay’s new location at [...]
And the band played on: Kwame Mc Coy and elected dictatorship
To avoid getting into legal trouble, I will not make a definitive statement on the Kwame Mc Coy incident. I have heard the tape. The voice sounds like Mr. Mc Coy. Mr. Mc Coy says that it’s not his voice. At this stage, we don’t know what will emerge. But the allegations against Mr. Mc [...]
Floodlights XI win at Orealla
Last weekend’s Amerindian Heritage Month softball cricket match played at Orealla between Floodlights XI, Vishnu Superstore of Corriverton and Orealla was won by the Floodlights XI. In the first match Floodlights won the toss and batted making 169 for 8 in their allotted 20 overs with Dindial Lakhan top scoring with a brilliant 87 and [...]
Better was expected from our President
For a long time, the media and the public have been waiting on the President to hold a press conference. Ever since the revelations in the Robert Simels trial, both the media and the public were anxious to hear what was the President’s responses to these and a number of other issues, including the award [...]
What does Boyo Ramsaroop want?
Dear Editor, Boyo Ramsaroop who recently switched to the AFC needs to clarify for the reading public what exactly the PPP owes him. The gentleman apparently believes that because he served the party for a long time he should be entitled to some unnamed privilege(s). I very much doubt that this is what Dr. Jagan [...]
Deonarine’s unbeaten century puts Berbice ahead
- Lead Rest Team by 267 runs An unbroken 136-run fourth wicket partnership between centurion Narsingh Deonarine (101 not out) and Homchand Pooran (47 not out) gave Berbice the upper hand at the end of the second day’s play in their first round Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) 4-Day match against a Rest Team which is [...]
Heyliger’s 81 give Essequibo 1st innings points from Demerara
Sarwan leads visitors’ fight-back By Sean Devers in Essequibo In association with Bryden & Frenandes& Arabian Hotel Delon Heyliger fell 19 short of becoming only the 6th Essequibian to score a century at the senior level as Essequibo took first innings points from Demerara on the 2nd day of their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) 4-Day [...]
Jagdeo, Brown co-chair climate change forum
In an interview yesterday with Reuters in New York, President Bharrat Jagdeo touted Guyana’s Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) as a model that can provide solutions to many of the issues that have arisen in the negotiation of a new global climate change agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. “By Copenhagen, we can show a [...]
Newly-weds lose all in fire
Around 13:30 hrs yesterday afternoon, eight-year-old Phillip Smith ran out of his home to alert the neighbourhood of the flames he had seen in the back room of the house. Before long the house was destroyed. A villager, who lives close to the destroyed building, had seen the smoke and assumed that someone was [...]
Paint sample test results could take another month
Results of tests being conducted on samples of paint taken from the GDF Coast Guard vessel, RC 12, could take as long as next month to be obtained. The Police Forensic Laboratory is carrying out tests of the paint samples with the aim of establishing whether the GDF vessel is in any way linked to [...]
Kwame McCoy should be banished from public institutions – Ramjattan
Chairman of the Alliance For Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, says that his party unreservedly condemns the actions of Kwame McCoy. Mr Ramjattan said that he has heard the taped recording and is convinced that one of the speakers is McCoy. According to Ramjattan, the fact that McCoy was appointed to the Rights of the Child [...]
