Johnson leads GCC to crushing win against UG in a day
By Sean Devers A detention period of writing on the chalkboard ‘we are not yet ready for first division cricket’ should be recommended for the University of Guyana cricket team after their humiliating defeat on Sunday in less than a day of their Demerara zone Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) National 3-day 1st division match against [...]
National cricketers can benefit from reduced rates
As Genesis Fitness Express moves to TSC building By Sean Devers The recently opened Genesis Fitness Express gym which was launched 3 months ago with Sunday exercise sessions at the National Gymnasium, has moved to the refurbished Transport Sports Club (TSC) Pavilion on Thomas lands and the Gym’s CEO Noshavyah King says that National cricketers [...]
Panthers justify colourful sponsorship
Displace top-three ranked Nets in OT By Edison Jefford Colours Panthers justified their recent lucrative sponsorship deal Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall when they displaced number three ranked, Nets with a superb win in Overtime (OT) in the featured First Division game. Panthers came from 13 points down at halftime to first [...]
These little things mean a lot
Dear Editor, Most times whenever I address a topic that deals with less serious and everyday troubling issues, some folks upon meeting me would share with me their objections, schooling me on the need to avoid the trivial and stick to those causing us much affliction that seems never ending. But in as much as [...]
A matter that needs immediate investigation
Dear Editor, I was delighted to receive an invitation to the President’s Suite (PS) to view the final of the 2009 Regional 50-Over Competition between Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago at the National Stadium. A relative who is associated with the Guyana Cricket Board provided me with the invitation. During the course of the second [...]
Two dossiers: Which one will win out?
There are two documents in circulation. One is a terrible indictment of the Government of Guyana. It is the compilation of deaths by homicidal violence that occurred from the period 1993 until the arrest of drug trafficker, Shaheed “Roger” Khan. Edited by some of the finest minds in the opposition camp, this volume is a [...]
A THIRD WHAT?
Even if the Constitution of Guyana could be successfully amended to facilitate a third term for President Bharrat Jagdeo, why would anyone wish to do so? Even if it could, why should it? This year marked the tenth anniversary since President Bharrat Jagdeo assumed the Presidency. He had done so with a tremendous amount [...]
In current day Guyana, psychological wrongness is dangerous and suicidal
Dear Editor, I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of M. ST. Clair Morgan as expressed in the letter captioned “Mad Dogs and Dumpsites”. One has to wonder about the twin motives behind locating that dumpsite in the community where it is at, and allowing it to be referenced by the name of a celebrated freedom [...]
What message is the President sending?
Dear Editor, I am a little confused. While driving down the Avenue of the Republic late last week I managed to see the massive billboard, seeking a third term for President Jagdeo, at the corner of Robb Street and Avenue of the Republic, on an empty lot. I am sure that it cost a pretty [...]
Dem boys seh… Henry find oil at Convention Centre
People who don’t smoke and who always complaining bout people smoking now smoking. Dem even smoking more than people who does smoke four pack cigarettes a day. Dem boys seh that dem see so much smoke that it lef town and reaching all across de river. People all pun de East Bank smoking and it [...]
Mr. Yesu Persaud is truly an outstanding Guyanese
Dear Editor, I write to congratulate Mr. Yesu Persaud on receiving an Honorary Doctorate from UWI, Trinidad on October 30, coming on top of another Honorary Doctorate from the University of Warwick last year. And three years ago he received the prestigious Pravasi Samman Award granted by the government of India to select Diaspora Indians [...]
Minibuses – the scourge of the roads
Another minibus crashes and there are multiple deaths. This accident occurs on a stretch of roadway that affords speed well above the limit. But there is more. Vehicles parked at the side of the roadways are not clearly seen if they do not have proper reflectors and to compound the situation the roads are not [...]
