Lusignan to host historic Day/Night Hand-in-Hand final
Hosts put title on the line against DCC tomorrow By Sean Devers Host Lusignan will put their Demerara Cricket Board 2nd division Hand-in-Hand 50-overs cricket title on the line when they face-off with City side DCC tomorrow in the first ever 2nd division final under lights. The contest is scheduled to commence at 13:30hrs and [...]
Timehri Panthers hammer Mocha Champs 3-0; Grove Hi Tec swamp Kuru Kuru Lions 5-0
Timehri Panthers, led by a Collis Messiah 2nd half double romped to a comfortable 3-0 win over Mocha Champs when rivalry in the Stag Beer / East Bank Football Association division one league continued on Sunday last at the Grove Playfield. Messiah was on target in the 49th and 67th minute in a game that [...]
West Indies face big battle without Gayle
The West Indians received an immediate view of life without the captain Chris Gayle when both openers fell cheaply and they were dismissed for 271 against Queensland. Gayle flew out of Australia on Wednesday to be with his sick mother in Jamaica and shortly after he left Allan Border Field his side was in trouble [...]
GABA launches impressive New Season
Jump-ball scheduled for tomorrow night The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) launched an impressive New Season yesterday afternoon that has scheduled activities until August next year with the first jump-ball tomorrow night at the Sports Hall. The 2009/10 Season commences with a Division III and Open Knockout Competition at 7pm tomorrow night. It was disclosed [...]
Upper Dem won hands down
Kaieteur Sports understand that the forensic audit that was conducted on the results of the National Schools’ Championships over the past few days has revealed that the defending champions, Upper Demerara won hands down. North Georgetown protested the final outcome of the 2009 Championships that was held at the Albion Community Centre Ground after Upper [...]
MCYS/NSC Schools Windball Cricket continues
- Seerja Construction Company Tournament resumes today Results in the MCYS / NSC Male Windball Indoor Cricket Champions Trophy played, at the National Gymnasium. GITC defeated Carmel by two wickets. Carmel High made 72-5 with Gavin Charles 33 and Mark Rigby 11. Christopher Manarath took 3-5. GITC in reply, reached 75-6 with Jamal Mc Allister [...]
The tranquility of Duke St. Kingston has been taken away
Dear Editor, We the residents of Duke Street are writing to inform you about our disgust of the noisy parties and its effects that are constantly being held at Duke Lodge on weekends. Over the past months Duke Lodge has been a host to open air parties that, in our opinion, are suited for night [...]
GECOM acknowledges concerns raised over ID distribution
Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) acknowledges the concerns raised in the letter titled “Contradictory information from GECOM” (SN – 17-11-09) and the letter from one Latchman Sookdeo (SN and Guyana Chronicle (18-11-09). The letter in the SN of 17-11-09 refers specifically to problems the letter writer supposedly encountered with the GECOM temporary staff, [...]
The colour purple
The Guyana Government, with so much on its plate, has found time to issue an edict to taxi drivers that their carriages must have a uniform colour next year. The drivers weren’t consulted on the right to reject that proclamation but a contorted form of democracy eventually prevailed when the transporters were told that they [...]
THE PNCR SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITSELF!
As a political party which once commanded some 43 per cent of those who voted in an election, a percentage which has now been reduced to 35 per cent, the PNCR can offer little excuses for having found itself in a situation where it owes large sums of money to the Mayor and City Council [...]
A classic example of the double standard of Government
Dear Editor, In a community which is prone to flooding, Government’s support for an entity’s acquisition of a reserve dam and drainage canal, filling it and constructing buildings thereon and in contravention of the by-laws of the country, is further demonstration of the callousness and irresponsibility of a government to the wider society. And all [...]
Eve Leary has acquired a sordid reputation for some of the strangest happenings
Dear Editor, Kaieteur News has set the scene as a new chapter in publishing began by exposing the graphic images of police torture and brutality in Guyana. The other media houses would have preferred that it was quietly hushed up and to be removed from the public domain. If it was not for the public [...]
An inaccurate view of UG
Dear Editor, I was reading the Kaieteur News (2009-11-17) and was taken aback by Freddie Kissoon’s column titled, “Eyes Wide Open: What does Mr. Jagdeo see on his frequent foreign trips?” I found it very distasteful that he sought to use the death of two young girls by way of suicide in another one of [...]
When reports are unfavourable
Every year some international agencies review the performance of countries around the world and pronounce on them. There have been pronouncements by the United States Department, the United Nations, some others and more recently, Transparency International. It is amazing to note the reaction to these reports. When they are favourable to us we quote them [...]
