Linden release Junior All-Star team
By Edison Jefford The Linden Amateur Basketball Association has announced the names of their junior All-Star team that will take on Georgetown on the opening night of the Beepat Scorpions All-Star Weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The event is set for Saturday and Sunday nights, this weekend, where the Senior All-Star teams are [...]
Floyd Carmichael prevails in GASP open scrabble tournament
Floyd Carmichael enjoyed his best tournament to date and despite dropping the penultimate game to Moen Gafoor, rebounded to cart off the spoils when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged the GASP Open Championships in the pavilion of the Bourda Cricket Club, yesterday morning. Carmichael compiled 5 points and a positive spread of [...]
Daly-Ramdyhan leaves for Spain
ITF certified Level 1 tennis coach Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan left the country recently to attend a worldwide coaches conference which begun on October 29 and runs until November 5 in Spain. The current and multiple national champion, who has also been involved in coaching for a couple of years speaking with Kaieteur Sport shortly before [...]
Local pugilists experience mixed fortunes in Barbados
- Goodwill boxing card disrupted after ring incident The Guyanese boxing team that traveled to Barbados to engage boxers of that country in a goodwill boxing tournament Saturday evening last, returned home yesterday afternoon after experiencing mixed fortunes. President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (ag), Eustace Cuffy reported that following an incident involving local [...]
GT take inaugural National Women’s F/Ball league title
Beat Region 9 1-nil to remain unbeaten In sweltering heat at the Lethem Community Centre ground, the dominant Georgetown lasses beat Region Nine 1-nil yesterday afternoon to take the inaugural Women’s National Football League title. Playing skillful football on the large and well kept ground, a huge crowd watched as Shamaine Ward sealed the issue [...]
The disintegration of the fabric of our civilisation
Dear Editor, I am not ashamed to say that the image of the injury to the lower torso of the 14-year-old Guyanese Youth on the front page of one of the two independent dailies caused me to involuntarily weep like a child. I wept because of my imagining the pain, agony and suffering that youth [...]
You could be next
Dear Editor, Imagine if you will, as a foreign national visiting Guyana , you happen upon some police men and become a suspect of a crime. A forced confession could be gotten out of you and your family might not know your whereabouts for a long time. Guyana is a signatory member of the United [...]
Colin Ming captures EU Golf title
Experienced golfer Colin Ming stepped up his game to triumph in the European Union (EU) sponsored Medal Play handicap tournament last Saturday at Lusignan Golf Course just three weeks before the Guyana Open championships. Playing off a 9 handicap Ming recorded a gross 77 to end with a net 68 in the prestigious tournament which [...]
Despite the multi-million $$$ Doppler Radar weather reports still inaccurate
Dear Editor, Perhaps it was several inches of rain which was dumped over Guyana last Saturday (31-10-09), but of course we did not receive such a prediction or report from the Ministry of Agriculture’s weather reporting division. Why I am not surprised? Inaccurate weather reporting is still the order of the day even though the [...]
AID and bad governance poor bedfellows for sustainable development
Dear Editor, AID in the form of loans, grants, and debt relief provided close to no comfort for the bottom billion countries over the last 30 years; in fact, research at the Centre for Global Development in Washington, D.C. concluded that AID becomes unproductive at 16 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Today, I examine additional [...]
Those responsible must be held accountable
Dear Editor, It was a ghastly sight to see the burns on the private parts of the teenager on the front page of Kaieteur News. The torture of the young man at the hands of police must be condemned in the strongest words possible and those responsible must be held accountable. The act of these [...]
Torture of lad by police signals time for supporters of the PPP to call for government’s resignation
Dear Editor, On reading KN’s news story, “Torture,” (October 31), featuring a 14-year-old lad whose lower torso bore gruesome burn marks allegedly at the hands of police officers who were trying to determine the killer or killers of the former Region Three Vice Chairman, I have only one thing to say: it is time for [...]
Calling for justice for this 14-year-old child
Dear Editor, As a mother I was shocked and saddened when I saw the photograph that was published in Kaieteur News of a 14-year-old child tortured by the policeþ at Leonora Police Station. I can imagine the ordeal that his poor parents were going through. It makes matters worse of not knowing where your child [...]
Who approved such inhumane methods?
Dear Editor, Was I in total shock with KN front page image of the brutalised 14-year teenager by investigative officers of the police force? No. I will agree with anyone that it was a barbaric method used in extracting information from the victim or person of interest and those responsible should be subject to face [...]
THE POLICE CANNOT INVESTIGATE THIS ONE!
Twenty five lawyers have taken a first and important step in condemning the recent torture of a teenager while in Police lockups. This is a decisive step, I believe in Guyana, and commences a momentum which could result in a serious overhaul of the manner in which the police treat with prisoners and suspects. By [...]
Chaitram got it wrong
Dear Editor, In response to Mona Chaitram’s critique of my letter (27/10/09) .First of all, I want to ask Ms. Chaitram when last she visited Guyana and how long she spent? There is no doubt in my mind that she would have been ‘blacked out’ no sooner had she settled down unless she had a [...]
Torture in Hotel California
There are some fantastic songs that even if they fall outside your favourite genre of music, you would still have a deep, aesthetic appreciation for their intrinsic value. There are too many to mention and I wouldn’t know where to start but for the purpose of this essay, I would mention the hit of the [...]
Corbin must resign
Dear Editor, It is only a beast that would look into the eyes of a terrified child and calculatingly inflict such an horrendous injury that shocks an entire nation. I cannot find words to describe the emotions that ran through me as I looked at the photo on the front page of Kaieteur News. This [...]
THIS BULL BUSINESS
“They getting on awful, so ah bring back the bull.” — Lord Kitchener If you’re looking for an appropriate Revival Assembly for the male member of the species Bovinae, the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament fits the Bill, the Motion and the Resolution. A few weeks ago in the Lower House, the behaviour displayed [...]
LCDS Financing
As we draw closer to the December Copenhagen meeting on Climate Change that will attempt to craft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, we are receiving increasingly optimistic information that the premises of the LCDS on funding are fundamentally sound. Brazil, which is home to the largest remaining standing tropical forest, inevitably has a great [...]
