Wendell Meusa/Sham Khan assume lead in National Chess Qualification tourney
Wendell Meusa bounced back from a second round defeat to Learie Webster and defeated both Khans, David and Taffin, to assume the lead when play in the National Chess Qualification tournament continued at the Keishar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street, Georgetown, Sunday morning last. Former junior champion, Taffin Khan, who had earlier led the points standing, [...]
Leon Belony changes dynamics of scrabble winners
Carts off Open championships Leon Belony bounced back from a 75 spread loss to James Krakowsky to cart off the honours when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged the GASP Open at the Courts Sports Club, Main Street Sunday morning last. Belony finished the day with 5 games and a positive spread of [...]
Ming captures Torginol Paints Golf title
Colin Ming emerged winner of the Torginol Paints sponsored Stableford Golf Tournament played Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club on the East Coast of Demerara. Ming playing off a 9 handicap recorded 36 points to claim the top prize up at stake. In second position was Patrick Prashad (5 handicap) with 35 points while third [...]
Kings, Buxton play to 1-1 stalemate
Buxton denied Super League ascendancy Victoria Kings denied Buxton United any form of ascendancy in the point standing of the Guyana Football Federation and FIFA Super League Football tournament when the “Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF” event continued. Second half goals from Buxton’s Eson Hamer in the 78th minute and Victoria Kings Orin Elias in [...]
Warren Cameron prevails in Home Affairs King Domino competition
Warren Cameron won 12 games as opposed to seven by Anthony Niles and six by Kevin Allen’s to cart off the honours when the Ministry of Home Affairs staged the King Domino competition at the Police Sports Club Pavilion, Friday September 25 last. Cameron forms a part of the Ministry’s driving pool while Niles works [...]
Guyanese to participate at Para Pan American TT c/ships
Differently able table tennis player Gibran Hussein left Guyana last Saturday to participate in the Para Pan American Championships which is being held in Venezuela. Hussein, who has a severed left hand is a very capable tennis player and has been involved in the sport for sometime. Rated among the top players in the county [...]
GDF target Joint Services Championships
- takes early lead with 10k Road Relay win By Edison Jefford The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) remained adamant that it will reclaim the elusive Joint Services Track and Field Championships’ overall title after they won the first event in the annual calendar competition that started on Sunday. The Defence Force took an early lead [...]
Johnson, D’Andrade turn table on Ballantyne
Kelvin Johnson and Lionel D’Andrade turned the tables on Pamenos Ballantyne when the local distance duo placed first and second respectively in the Ministry of Health 7 ½ Mile Road Race in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday. Johnson won the event in 44:20 edging D’Andrade (44:23) in the process. Ballantyne was third in the distance [...]
9th annual El’Dorado Inter-County One-Day cricket launched
‘Final under lights will be vigorously promoted’- Ramsay Ali By Sean Devers When Demerara battled Berbice in the inaugural El’Dorado senior Inter-County One-Day final at Albion in 2001 it marked the commencement of a fruitful collaboration between Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) for the staging of Guyana’s premier limited overs [...]
Lyght to make debut for Demerara
The late Andrew Lyght was arguable the best opening batmen Guyana produced who did not play Test cricket and his son Andrew Lyght Junior seems to be following in his footsteps as a pugnacious right-handed opener. While Lyght senior, who died at age 44 in 2001, played the last of his 38 First-Class matches in [...]
Should the line be drawn on sex talk/education?
Dear Editor, Channel 72 on the night of Saturday, September 26, 2009 featured a call in programme and the topic read, “What’s your favourite position.” It was actually just a few seconds before the final caller called in that I spontaneously tuned in out of curiosity to have a deeper understanding of what exactly this [...]
We have not given up the search
Dear Editor, I write in response to your article, “Companies finally give up search for missing U.S. plane”, September 23, 2009, on Kaieteur News Online (http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2a009/09/23/companies-finally-give-up-search-for-missing-us-plane/). My name is Darren Furlotte and I am an Uncle to Patrick Murphy who, along with Wes Barker and Chris Paris, went missing in Guyana, November 1st, last year. [...]
Randy’s crusade against the AFC
Dear Editor, I have read Dr. Randy Persaud’s letters in the press prior to the 2006 elections always debating Dr. David Hinds and company. His arguments and presentations were brilliant – and I became, shall I say, his fan. I met him in New York at a meeting (organised by Vishnu Dutt) two weeks after [...]
A very pertinent and intellectually stimulating discussion
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Mr. A. Donald Augustine for introducing a very pertinent and intellectually stimulating discussion. I heard the name A. Donald Augustin perviously, while attending UG, as someone who excelled as an economist in Guyana. If I recall correctly he was at the State Planning Secretariat or Ministry of Finance…never did get to [...]
Michael Jackson and Bharrat Jagdeo: The tragedy of power
The future of Guyana was the subject of an intense conversation on Sunday evening with the core of the debate being the third term scenario for Mr. Jagdeo. I was the only participant who stuck to my present belief that Mr. Jagdeo will be the PPP’s presidential nominee for 2011 or whenever is the election. [...]
Many ‘killer drivers’ still free to continue
Dear Editor, I see the families of those two children, who were killed in a hit and run accident, at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, on August 16, are picketing the court, demanding justice. I support them in their demand. However, in this case, justice is being served, the driver was put on a million dollars [...]
I wanted my concerns of corruption, both within and outside the PPP to be addressed
Dear Editor, I respond to Dr. Randy Persaud’s letter, “What does Boyo Ramsaroop want?” published in Kaieteur News and Guyana Chronicle on the 25th September. I understand Dr. Randy Persaud in his new-found job attempting to spin my words. Where in my letter, or in any other writing of mine, did I indicate the PPP [...]
WHAT IS THE NEWS?
What is the news? How does a journalist decide whether an item or occurrence is newsworthy? In a small society like Guyana, it is not unusual to find very trivial and often mundane items making the news. Smallness in size can translate to smallness in outlook. But not everything that is not earth-shaking is unworthy [...]
The Govt. appears to be insensitive to the genuine concerns of the people
Dear Editor, Guyana has within the last few months experienced a dangerous level of executive insensitivity, stubbornness and downright stupidity. Permit me to illustrate my point by referring to three recent instances. The first has to do with the President’s remarks regarding confessed drug cartel Saheed Roger Khan. When asked about Roger Khan, President Jagdeo [...]
BK sue he cousin
Dem old British police always seh that a criminal does return to de scene of his crime. Dem boys always know that. Dem know dem thief does pass back to see wha happening and that is how some of dem use to get ketch. Well Mark Benschop return to de scene of a crime dem [...]
Reaping the fruits of hard work
Dear Editor, I express my profound congratulations to the head teacher and staff of Wisburg Secondary School for their achievement at this year’s CSEC. To understand the success of Wisburg, it must be told that the students of this school hail from the really depressed areas of Linden and are students, who did not perform [...]
Mideast Outrage
Undaunted by the failure of his predecessors’ failure over the last half a century to broker a lasting peace between its ally Israel and the Palestinian people, (displaced by the formation of the Israeli state) President Obama staked much of his international credibility by stating at the beginning of his term that he would make [...]
Tain woman found murdered in bed
TAIN, CORENTYNE – The naked body of 49-year old Chintra Punwassy also known as ‘Chandra’ of Fourth Street, Tain Settlement on the Corentyne, was found in her bed early yesterday (Sunday) morning. The details are somewhat sketchy but according to police reports, the discovery was made by a sister, Kawalah Dabidyal, of Tain Settlement about [...]
Children among protestors, picket Kwame at fashion show
A fashion show at the Promenade Gardens organised by the committee responsible for the Accolade Music Awards was yesterday picketed by a small but vocal group, which included children. The show is believed to be closely linked to Information Liaison to the President, Kwame Mc Coy. Mc Coy is in the midst of a legal [...]
US-based family makes largest ever donation to local school
The students of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan School in Corneila Ida, West Coast Demerara will now benefit from advanced technology, thanks to a new computer lab equipped with a total of 47 flat screen computers. These computers were donated by President of ZARA Realty in the United States of America and Canada, Guyanese, George Subraj. [...]
