Doctor offended by GHRA’s comments
Dear Editor, My name is Mahendra Chand and I am a Government Medical Officer designated as the Police Surgeon in the Guyana Police Force. My job is to determine the fitness of recruits, to take care of the general health of the staffs of the Police Force, the Fire Service and the Prison Service. I [...]
LCDS on track
The President’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), outlined in early June, attracted quite a number of naysayers. Not this newspaper. The week before the announcement, in our editorial Climate Change: Beyond Rhetoric, we noted: “We have long criticised the administration for not establishing a strategic vision for our development and remaining mired in the passive [...]
GCC U-21 Ladies retain title in T&T
Defending champions GCC Under-21 Ladies team retained their title in the Fourth Carib Magnolias Indoor Hockey Tournament which was played, at the Woodbrook Youth Facility in Trinidad and Tobago. According to reports out of the Twin Island Republic, the Guyanese girls opened up with a 2-1 win against Magnolias, but lost by a similar margin [...]
The bogeyman of Stanleytown
By Micheal Jordon Travel through Inner Stanleytown, on the West Bank of Demerara and you’ll observe the canefields, the canals and the thick vegetation. It may then dawn on you that this area would be a good hiding place for a fugitive. One man found this terrain to his liking just a few years ago. [...]
Credit reporting Bill sent to select committee
The Credit Reporting Bill which seeks to enable a more reliable and responsible credit lending while protecting competitive borrowers’ rights, was referred to a Special Select Committee on Thursday evening during the sitting of the National Assembly. During his presentation of the Bill to the House, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, noted that the [...]
The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines
By Petamber Persaud The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines is set for November 16 – 20, in Havana, Cuba. This Encounter is organised by the Casa de las Americas to coincide with Casa’s fiftieth anniversary. Casa de las America was founded ‘four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the [...]
Coaches leaving nothing to chance in semi-final contests today at Stadium
By Franklin Wilson The tactics that will be employed by the coaches of the respective teams in the final four of the inaugural Guyana Football Federation National Super League will be quite interesting as neither of them, are leaving anything to chance as they seek a place in the final. Kaieteur Sport sought to get [...]
The Baccoo speaks
The madness continues with people seeking all manner of remedies for mental ailments. A crook is going to capitalize on the present situation by promoting the idea of evil lurking among men. There are going to be the gullible who, even when the police intervene, will withhold their cooperation. But at the same time, others [...]
Bandits strike thrice on Essequibo Coast
Police on the Essequibo Coast are still conducting their investigations into two robberies and an attack on a businessman that has now left Mr. Matadeen Etwaroo,a/k Choto, of Affiance, Essequibo Coast, with injuries to the head. One of three bandits beat Etwaroo Friday evening with a metal object. Deomattie Shaw, Etwaroo’s sister, who was also [...]
MICHAEL GILKES DISCUSSES THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Michael Gilkes, formerly Reader in English and Head of the English department at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, has been a teacher all of his adult life. A founding member and first artistic director of the Barbados-based theatre company Stage One, he has been involved in the theatre arts for over [...]
Humphrey speaks out
By Rawle Welch Newly crowned Pegasus Open Ladies tennis champion Berbician Carol Humphrey is in full support of sentiments expressed by Men’s champion Phillip Squires. Squires in a previous interview with Kaieteur Sport spoke of the low standard of the game presently and called on the new executive to do all in its power arrest [...]
Man dives from Harbour Bridge on a dare
A man believed to be of unsound mind plunged into the Demerara River from the Harbour Bridge on a dare, yesterday morning. The man jumped over the rails at the eastern half of the bridge. He landed on one of the buoys and held on for dear life. Police officers stationed at the bridge quickly [...]
Dumped: A blueprint for Caribbean salvation
By Sir Ronald Sanders Government representatives of all the countries that now form the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), except the Bahamas and Haiti, were present at a meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica when “majority opinion was clearly in favour of a Federation”. They made concrete and visionary decisions and adopted resolutions that they [...]
China commits further support for modernisation of Guyana’s Agri. Sector
Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud recently headed a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture to China at the invitation of the Chinese Government. It was intended to further specific co-operation between Guyana and China. Currently, there is no specific co-operation between the Ministries of Agriculture of the two countries. The visit was further intended to formalise [...]
Race walkers battle for honours in 10K event this morning
Race walkers from across the country will compete for honours when the Cavalier Sports and Tour Club in association with the Guyana Tourism Board stages a 10K race walk around the inner circuit of the National Park this morning starting at 06:30hrs. Several of the country’s top race walkers would contest for trophies and other [...]
Guyana’s Men and Women’s teams crush opponents
- injured Butts to be flown home GUYANA Men’s and Women’s national seven’s team played unbeaten on the first day of the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association(NACRA 7’s Championships) in Mexico City yesterday. Guyana’s Men’s team in Group A of the opening day together with Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe and the Dominican Republic showed [...]
Do the right (policing) thing
Last week we promised to expand on the notion of a more representative police force as an integral aspect of good policing in a diversified society such as ours by looking at the experience of the British. Even though almost every country with ethnically diverse populations has addressed the ethnic makeup of their law enforcement [...]
THE AFC HAS BEEN SUCKERED
By throwing its weight behind the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), the Alliance For Change (AFC) has demonstrated that it can be easily wooed by the government and by the intricacies of the international political system. The AFC has taken the inexplicable decision to support the strategy even before the government has inked important supplemental [...]
When is a photograph too gruesome?
There is a thing among people. They would tell the world that they do not like bad news. As a reporter and an editor, on numerous occasions I have had to defend some decisions to members of the public. I still recall the Kaieteur News front page on the morning after the Lusignan massacre. Indeed [...]
Hackett takes lead after first day
Blessed with perfect sunshine and very fast putting greens, Brian Hackett with a gross 88 and a net 64 from a 24 handicap took the lead after the first day of competition in the Digicel Classic 2009 Golf Tournament which is being played at the Lusignan Course. Hackett led Lakram Ramsundar, who finished with a [...]
Ferrier, Singh hit centuries, 5-wkts hauls for Yadram, Rasheed, Bishoo
By Sean Devers National players Deon Ferrier of Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) and GCC’s Vishal Singh scored centuries yesterday in the Demerara zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) National 3-day cricket competition to give their respective teams first innings points. This was a day after they were denied the opportunity of converting unbeaten fifties [...]
David de Caires and cappuccino conversations with Mark Benschop
I approached the check-out counter at the supermarket and standing there was one of Guyana’s leading legal luminaries. He said; “You must put those articles of yours in book form.” I mentioned that it has been my intention to do so a long time ago. I don’t know why I haven’t done so. I have [...]
Sunburst Camptown are NAMILCO Champions 2K9
Defeat BK Int. Western Tigers 5-3 on penalties; Santos edge New Amsterdam 5-4 for 3rd By Franklin Wilson It was a fitting climax to 3rd annual National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) Football Championship on Friday evening at the Tucville Community ground. Watched by the top Executives of the company including Managing Director Bert Sukhai, [...]
Santos & Pele to clash in feature game on opening night, Milerock play Grove Hi Tec
By Franklin Wilson Defending Champions Pele FC led by Guyana’s first MLS player, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson will oppose Santos FC in the feature game of the opening double header when the 20th Annual Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Football tournament kicks off on Sunday December 13th at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence. The fixtures, tournament [...]
Upper Demerara does it again
Has grip on Schools’ C/ships By Edison Jefford Upper Demerara and Kwakwani ensured that the overall National Schools’ Championship trophy remains in the District for the fifth time in the New Millennium with a transparent victory Friday night at the Albion Community Centre Ground. Upper Demerara, District 10 won their 14th overall title since the [...]
