Mervin Moses cops best lifter trophy as five records smashed, one equaled
By Franklin Wilson Hot and exhausting conditions did not hamper what turned out to be a successful Banks Power Stout/Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Senior National Championships yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Five records were smashed and one equaled as fans were treated to some exhilarating lifts by the best athletes in [...]
Forde brings home the bacon
- wins third consecutive SA 10k By Edison Jefford Cleveland Forde ran a tactical and well paced race yesterday that brought home the bacon for the third straight year in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) South American (SA) 10km Road Race outside YMCA. Forde was very strategic before breaking from Brazil’s, Eliesio [...]
GCC ‘A’ set final clash with Hikers ‘A’
All GCC affair in Women’s final After a slow start in the GT&T National Indoor Hockey Championships, GCC ‘A’ stormed back to make it to the final of this year’s competition after squeezing past Old Fort ‘A’ 4-3 in what was a ‘must-win’ game for them last Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports [...]
Jamaica cops $1.6 million 1st prize
Guyana go down in low scoring final By Sean Devers Guyana did well to restrict the Chris Gayle Jamaicans to 111 on Saturday nigh under lights at the Guyana National Stadium in the final of the Guyana Cricket Board 20/20 cricket Festival before an inefficient batting performance on a flat track and fast outfield resulted [...]
Hicks, Bishoo to make National One-Day debuts
Nagamootoo, Christian, Jacobs left out By Sean Devers Wicketkeeper Delbert Hicks and leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo are the only players without Regional One-Day experienced selected on the Guyana 14-man squad for the Regional series which starts in Guyana on Wednesday. The squad was announced on Saturday night. The left-handed Hicks, who played at the Regional youth [...]
Creary (91), Braithwaite (48) show form in Windies U-19 practice match
By Sean Devers Jamaican First-class batsman and West Indies under-19 Skipper Andre Creary stroked an elegant unbeaten 91 while consistent Bajan First Class opener Kraigg Braithwaite made 48 as the 2 most senior batsmen in the West Indies under-19 squad showed form in their first practice match in Guyana yesterday at the DCC ground. The [...]
Fundraiser held for differently abled persons
The Diamond Community Center Ground yesterday played host to the first fund raising effort held by the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons Living with Disabilities. The Council has been in existence for little over a year, and has some 26 member organisations under its wings. Head of the Council, Leon Walcott, told Kaieteur News [...]
Tony Simon finishes 3rd at 9th Elite Caribbean Cycling C/ship
Guyana’s Tony Simon placed third at the 9th Elite Caribbean Road Race Cycling Championships which was held in Barbados for the first time, yesterday. The 150 kilometre road race which was held on the Spring Garden route was won by a rider from Guadeloupe with a French Guiana cyclist taking second. Five riders from Guyana [...]
Insurance Brokers Guy Ltd helps rugby fraternity
Insurance Brokers Guyana Ltd recently presented to Yamaha Caribs trophies for winners of the Covent Garden Secondary School’s Inter-House Tag Rugby Competition. Handing over the trophies was staffer Lomell Johnson, who made the presentation to Caribs’ Treasurer Troy Yhip at the Company’s location on Carmichael Street. Yhip speaking to Kaieteur Sport said that staging the [...]
800 malaria cases found in Omai
By Fareeza Haniff As the Ministry of Health continues the struggle in dealing with the malaria situation in the country, almost 800 cases have been found in the Omai area. Up to the end of September of this year, a total of 8,270 malaria cases have been recorded in the country by the Health Ministry, [...]
Prolonged dry season blamed for smaller Berbice rice crop
BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – The prolonged dry season is being blamed for Berbice farmers harvesting less rice in the second crop than in the last crop. President of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association, Leeka Rambrich, explained that the drop in yield was mainly due to the fact that rice fields absorb large volumes of water [...]
Cops probe death of Melanie mom
Police were late yesterday evening trying to contact relatives of a 30-year-old Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara woman, to ascertain whether her death was the result of foul play. The woman, identified as Dianne Mathias, of Lot 215 Melanie Damishana, reportedly died at the Georgetown Hospital Public Corporation shortly after midnight, yesterday, after being brought [...]
Who is drinking something other than cane-juice?
Dear Editor, Not withstanding the already oversized and cost over-run, new factory in Berbice, I find it preposterous that the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will unscrupulously press hard for a significant wage increase from a dying sugar industry, where losses last year were over $4.0 billion and this year losses will be [...]
THE ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE
It is expected that opposition parties are going to take the moral high ground when it comes to abuses of human rights, inclusive of the use of death squads and paramilitary militias to deal with enemies of the State. When the PPP was in opposition it soundly condemned the activities of the Death Squad which [...]
Spare no quarters to remove this nastiness of domestic terrorism
Dear Editor, An enduring criminality stalks the entire Caribbean; the scourge of narco-trafficking, gun running, etc., gains impetus within the context of remote, unpopulated, and porous borders of the Caribbean, including Guyana, providing attractive transshipment routes for these well-prized possessions. Guyana and all its CARICOM partners present claims of novel and aggressive measures against this [...]
Guyana: Narco-Violence and a Failed State
The title of this essay is taken from George Grayson’s forthcoming book; “Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State.” Grayson argues that one of the most important economies of the world and one of Latin America’s powerful countries has become a failed state. Grayson describes a country in which the State’s ability to curtail, muchless stop [...]
Stunned at PNCR’s gratuitous overtures
Dear Editor, The PNCR never ceases to amaze me; this party is actually volunteering witnesses to local law enforcement in the matter of confessed drug kingpin Roger Khan. I am really stunned at the gratuitous overtures of these people, why didn’t they present such “damning evidence” to the U.S authorities when that case was on [...]
ANOTHER FINE CARICOMESS
A Baptist pastor ran into some good news and bad news. The good news was that church attendance rose dramatically the last three weeks. The bad news was that the pastor was on vacation. I like these good news/ bad news jokes. My favourite is the one about the owner of an art gallery giving [...]
Freddie Kissoon has become Thomas Beckett to the PPP King Henry II collective
Dear Editor, As I peruse the contents of the historical exchanges between one of Guyana’s most enduring patriots Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon and the army of PPP apologists and sycophants in whose side his truths have become annoying and discomfiting thorns, the chorus from the lyrics of Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’ keep [...]
Government is failing to combat ‘dangerous’ squatting
Dear Editor, Dr Luncheon announced at a press conference recently that, the ‘high days’ for squatters has come to an end. The Minister of Housing, Mr. Arfaan Ali has also made noises about squatting leads to the destruction of the drainage system, filthy rubbish dumps and latrines spreading diseases, theft from public utilities and the [...]
Road Sense
In our Sunday Edition, it was reported that the Government is planning to extend the four-lane highway from the Providence Stadium vicinity to Diamond. The rationale offered was the inordinate delays for commuters during the rush hours that are precipitated by the traffic jams between those two points. There is not much need to carry [...]
Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned
3rd Annual NAMILCO Football Festival By Franklin Wilson What was turning out to be an exhilarating night of football on the opening day of the 3rd Annual 2009 NAMILCO Football Festival was dampened by indiscipline on the part of one spectator which led to the abandonment of the feature game between Pele and upstarts Riddim [...]
GECOM ready to roll out ID cards
By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Elections Commissions was up to yesterday briefing the staffers who will be producing the new Identification Cards. This newspaper was afforded an exclusive tour of the production line where Andrew Chung, GECOM IT Administrator and System’s analyst, and David Coglan, the Project Manager to Guyana’s ID card programme, explained the [...]
Reepu in pickle
Jamaicans and Guyanese use to run to de States because dem believe that things easy. Dem family tell dem that once people get a job de sky is de limit. Now de Jamaicans running back home because dem ain’t get a job, and dem still illegal. De Jamaican authorities claim how de flights full and [...]
Brothers knife man to death
Twenty-four-year-old Mervin “Jess” Boston was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed more than a dozen times, allegedly by two brothers. Boston, a resident of 138 King Edward Street, Albouystown, was knifed just three houses away from his home. According to the dead man’s cousin, Sonia Williams, who [...]
