Bella Dam Remix, East Bank All Star battle this weekend
Softball cricket fans are in for a treat when Bella Dam Remix and the East Bank All Star Softball cricket teams face off in a feature 20 overs match scheduled for the Splashmin’s Fun Park Ground starting at 10:00hrs this Sunday, November 29. Organized by Devo Sadhoo, the winning team carts off $60,000 and a [...]
“Us against them” – Propaganda versus revisionism
In my Monday article, I indicated that I will complete my argument against the accusation of Ravi Dev (in his last Sunday KN column) who deemed my attempt to look at Dr. Jagan’s “The West on Trial” using the revisionist approach as negative revisionism. Mr. Dev observed that there are two kinds of revisionism – [...]
Kingston Grassroots Soccer Academy receives assistance
Members of the Kingston Grassroots Soccer Academy (KGSA), Fort St Kingston, continue to benefit from the goodness of their President, Junior Forrester, a former resident of that area, now residing in the United States. The membership of the Kingston based organization recently received a supply of soccer gears compliments of their benefactor. Forrester visits Guyana [...]
Gouveia is being selective in his responses
Dear Editor, I’ve noticed that recently every time someone points a finger at Gerry Gouviea, he is quick to respond to clear the air and give his version. Good for him. At least the goodly businessman is on the ball because these assertions if left unanswered will haunt him. But Gouveia seems to be selectively [...]
What if this was a Queen’s College boy?
Dear Editor, I understand that the recent celebration of the 165th Anniversary by the QC alumni was a resounding success and high praise must go to Vic Insanally and his team for their sterling efforts; my singular regret is that I was unable to attend and reminisce with so many of my schoolmates. Queen’s College [...]
Husband concerned over missing wife
Christina Ramona Matterson, 23, of 65 Belmont Mahaica has been missing since Wednesday last. According to her reputed husband, Ramchand Dalchand, his wife left home to attend the Clinic at Mahaica Hospital to extract a tooth. She never returned home. Attempts to make contact with her by cell phone proved futile. He also said reports [...]
Sugar workers should be offered these assets as a matter of preference
So, the Guyana Sugar Corporation hopes to earn some $32B on the sale of non- performing assets. But in whose hands will these assets end up? Particularly when it comes to the sale of sugar lands, would these assets end up in the hands of the poor sugar workers, many of whom are wondering whether [...]
Guyana Government is not fascist
Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, in his evident deep seated compulsion to attack the PPP, has incorrectly characterized the PPP regime as “fascist” and “Marxist/communist” at the same time – which is a contradiction – in recent columns. His further insinuation that the late Dr. Jagan was “fascist” maligned a great man’s name and I [...]
Mayor’s birthday football continues tonight
The final round of preliminary matches will be contested tonight when play in the Mayor’s birthday football tournament continues at the Tucville Ground from 6:00pm. A total ten games will be contested and features several explosive match-ups with teams battling for favourable positions in the standings to earn favourable draws in the knockout stage which [...]
Berbice Bauxite Strike
Workers at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI), the company that mines our bauxite in Berbice, are out on strike. As with the sugar workers that struck against their corporation, GuySuCo, the issue is a wage demand by their union that the company claims they just cannot afford. While there is now a further [...]
Road safety executive urges setting up traffic hotline similar to 911
President of the Enterprise Road Safety Association, Chanderpaul Persaud, is calling for the setting up of a Traffic Hotline similar to the 911 crime hotline, to aid in the apprehension of errant road users. According to Persaud this will enable the police to respond quickly to reports of reckless use of the roads when public-spirited [...]
Prisoners threaten Magistrate, court halted
Pandemonium broke out in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court one, when suspects including those charged with the Bartica Massacre violently protested the conditions under which they are being held. The prisoners hurled their food and liquid unto the floor of the courtroom and created such a stir that the Magistrate Priya Beharry was forced to leave [...]
Confusion surrounds cause of Mahaica smash-up
One-year-old Jonathan Bourne, a survivor of the Mahaica smash up, still remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. A CT scan shows that the toddler sustained massive head injuries. Fluids were still being drained from the child’s body. His mother, Clavia Williams, is also a patient of the same institution. She sustained [...]
City Council to renege on decision reached with GPL
Following a meeting between the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) and the Georgetown City Council at the weekend, a mutual decision was made between the two entities to exchange cheques with a view to putting an end to either companies’ indebtedness to each other. At the municipality’s statutory meeting yesterday, it was disclosed that [...]
JAGUAR KILLS MINER
A Jaguar struck with deadly effect, killing a 43-year-old miner of Aishalton early yesterday morning. Kurt Rodrigues died on his way to the Aishalton Hospital after he was mauled by the dangerous feline while he was walking along a trail at Marudi Mountains in the Rupununi. Kaieteur News understands that Rodrigues, a pork knocker, had [...]
High speed suspects charged and remanded to prison
The three suspects who were involved in a high speed chase on Friday were yesterday placed before the courts. The men, Marvin Williams, Dexter Conway and Rawlin Kennedy, all pleaded not guilty to the charges of simple larceny and damage to property. The men made their court appearance before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown [...]
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 [...]
Rose Hall sugar workers strike again
…after GuySuCo withdraws day pay Yet another strike has crippled the sugar industry, as almost 3,000 workers from the Rose Hall estate withdrew their labour. The workers resorted to strike action on Sunday when the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) withdrew a day’s pay earned by the workers for not producing sugar to meet [...]
Bauxite strike continues at Aroaima
The Guyana bauxite mining operations of Russian aluminium giant, ‘Rusal’, have come to a halt after workers downed tools to protest a new wages agreement. Workers at the Aroaima Bauxite Site, some 65 miles south of the capital Georgetown, said they would not accept Rusal’s offer to cut 75 jobs in order to pay the [...]
Citizens need to help promote road safety – Traffic Chief
Saturday’s accident has taken the road fatality figure to a total of 104 compared to 101 for the same period last year. Traffic Chief Neil Semple said that this latest accident has created a dent in the traffic department’s statistics. “It’s sad that these persons have lost their lives but it is as a result [...]
Govt. failed farmers in MMA-ADA
…repossession of land will be resisted-PNCR The government’s recent penchant for seizing land appears to have shifted to Berbice, according to People’s National Congress Reform Member of Parliament, Africo Selman. Selman, speaking to the media at the party’s most recent press briefing, drew reference to the fact that the MMA-ADA (Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agricultural [...]
Police take Gymkhana to Essequibo
Essequibians, both young and old were in for a treat on Sunday when the Guyana Police Force returned with another of their Gymkhanas. The event took place at the Anna Regina community centre ground. Present at the event were commander of’ G’ division, M. Christopher; Assistant Commissioner, Mr.Bovell; and Region Two chairman Ally Baskh. Mr. [...]
Stalls demolished, hire cars displaced
- as road works start at Diamond intersection Several stalls located at the New Diamond Housing Scheme’s junction have been dismantled as construction to widen the East Bank Demerara public road in that area commences. Hire cars, which once were allowed to park on the north-eastern section of the junction, were also displaced as [...]
Disability Bill closer to fruition
The much anticipated Persons with Disability Bill was read in Parliament last week, lending to the assumption that it’s passage and subsequent implementation may soon become a reality. Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, at the most recent sitting of the House last week Thursday, presented the crucial legislation, which from all indications may be debated [...]
Public Servants pay hike still to be finalised
Despite President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent assurance to public servants that their salaries will be increased, the details are yet to be finalised. According to a source close to the Finance Ministry, the matter has been discussed on several occasions but nothing concrete has been finalised. President Bharrat Jagdeo made the announcement of a pay hike [...]
