Man fined, sentenced and remanded for shooting friend
A man who shot his friend in his head was fined $75,000 and jailed for three years each on the possession of firearm and possession of ammunition. He was also remanded for shooting his friend in the head. The jail terms will run consecutively. The prosecution had asked that the magistrate take into consideration the [...]
NCERD Library – a wealth of educational information
It has been in existence for almost two decades but to some it remains non-existent. However, those who have sought with diligence to utilise its service can testify to the fact that the National Centre for Educational Research Development (NCERD) library is home to a wealth of information. The NCERD Library, according to Librarian, Ms [...]
Inner Wheel Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The Inner Wheel Club of Georgetown would be celebrating it’s 25th anniversary of it’s chapter today. The club, which is affiliated to the International Inner Wheel, has its genesis as far back as 1924 in Manchester, England, when Margarette Golding together with a group of wives of Rotarians officially chartered the club. The International Wheel [...]
Ground breaking ceremony launches 9th European Development Fund
…reconstruction, rehabilitation and maintenance of sea defences continues Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn, and European Union Ambassador, Geert Heikens, yesterday ‘broke ground’ at the seawalls of Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara, to commemorate the launching of civil works programmes within the Ninth European Development Fund. The ground breaking ceremony came as part of the inaugural [...]
Local laboratories working toward ISO accreditation
Laboratories across Guyana are a step closer to delivering foolproof results, thanks to the efforts of a local entity and a regional organisation. The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) in collaboration with the Caribbean Laboratories Accreditation Service (CLAS) yesterday convened a two-day training workshop aimed at training laboratory technicians throughout Guyana, on a new [...]
Johnson, Jacobs excluded from Guyana 21-man training squad
Shortened 1st Class season planned for next year By Sean Devers The national senior selection panel headed by Chairman Claude Raphael yesterday named a 21-man training squad as Guyana’s preparations for next year’s shortened Regional First-Class season begin next week with the encampment of the squad in the city. The squad, picked mainly from performances [...]
Mon Repos win Boys title
Mon Repos registered a convincing 31 runs victory over Leonora to cart off the Seerja Construction Company Inter-Primary Schools Windball Cricket title which ended yesterday, at the Carifesta Sports Complex. Taking first strike, Mon Repos posted a challenging 59-3 off the allotted 5 overs with Jaswant Murilall hitting a top-score of 35. In reply, Leonora [...]
RHTY&SC junior teams honour 8 outstanding Corentyne head teachers
Eight outstanding head teachers from schools on the Corentyne Coast were recognized for their outstanding contributions on Thursday last by the Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17 and Pepsi Under-19 teams. The teachers were honoured under the club’s tribute to outstanding teachers programme at the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club [...]
Several First Class pacers failed to win a senior cap for Guyana
Guyana’s Inter County Final was once classified as first class matches the status started in 1972 and was relinquished in 1990, but before Guyana’s Premiere County Championship list its first class status several young and enthusiastic fast bowlers joined the first class ranks either for Demerara, Berbice or Essequibo but failed to gain the coveted [...]
Rusal rides with Kashif & Shanghai for 4th year
Bauxite Company Rusal has for the 4th successive year supported the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation ensuring the year end football extravaganza succeeds. Finance Director Ramdeo Kumar in handing over a cheque to the organisers yesterday at their Foreshaw Street Office related his company’s delight at being on board with Guyana’s number one tournament, again. Rusal [...]
Designers House awarded Food & Drinks Concessionary Rights for K&S
The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation in an effort to continue raising the bar, has awarded a one year contract to Designers House, who will be in charge of the Food, Drinks, Arts and Craft Concessions at the upcoming 20th Anniversary Tournament. Speaking at yesterday’s press conference, Director of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, Kashif Muhammad, [...]
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 [...]
Another security guard murdered
By Brushell Blackman The body of Ivan Phillips, 54 years of D’Urban Street, Lodge, was found lying in a pool of blood at the Le Premier Academy on North Road and Alexander Street, where he worked as a security guard. The man had a stab wound to the neck and his head was bashed in. [...]
Death toll climbs to six
Bus was speeding and rammed truck from the back De Hoop smash-up… By Clifford Stanley, Latoya Giles and Brushell Blackman The death toll in Saturday’s smash-up at Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara climbed to six yesterday, as Police Commissioner Henry Greene confirmed that the truck driver was drunk, and some survivors accused the [...]
