HISTORIC FIFA RAP REFEREES, INSTRUCTORS & ASSESSORS WORKSHOP ENDS
“Dawn of a new day for football” – Klass By Franklin Wilson President of the Guyana Football Federation Colin Klass has described the just concluded FIFA Referees Assistant Programme which focused on the training of Referees, Instructors and Assessors as the dawning of a new era in the sport. The Historic Workshop, the first of [...]
Drive on to create crops with minimum land
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) are currently collaborating on a project that will produce locally generated information for the further promotion of hydroponics, a method also referred to as the cultivation of plants without soil. The project is in the form of cultivation of greens and vegetables [...]
Jerries on board
Jerries Restaurant, Bar & Snackette added their name to the list of sponsors for the upcoming Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival. This is the first time that Jerries has come forward as an official sponsor of hockey after assisting last year in the provision of meals for the neutral umpires. Proprietor Jerry Bacchus [...]
Gardner takes Masters Marathon in Suriname
Guyanese finish 10th overall in Telesur Srefidensi race Fifty-four-year-old Guyanese Llewellyn Gardner successfully defended his Masters Marathon title when he finished in the over-45 category and 10th overall from 40 participants in last Saturday’s 26 mile Telesur Srefidensi Marathon in Paramaribo Suriname. Gardner, who began running long distance events as a student at the Campbellville [...]
Curtain call for seven-week KDTTL tonight
Meusa, Bryan one win away from premier title Forehand Connection’s Paul Meusa and Nigel Bryan are one win away from the Kenneth DeAbreu Table Tennis’ League (KDTTL) premier title in Division ‘A’ for the Senior and Advanced players in the Grande Finale today. The introductory Kenneth DeAbreu-sponsored Guyana Table Tennis Association League went on for [...]
Inter-Church/Sunday School Indoor Futsal tourney on this weekend
Following the successful staging of the inaugural Inter-Church/Sunday School Indoor Futsal tournament a few weeks ago, the Holy Family Bible Study Youth Developers has organized a similar event slated for this Saturday and Sunday, November 28 and 29 at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue. Thirty two teams will be contesting for honours and the attractive [...]
Six amateur boxers nominated for Cuban training stint
Six amateur boxers have been nominated for a three month training stint to Cuba. Several amateur coaches, in keeping with a mandate of the President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K A Juman Yassin, convened at the Forgotten Youth Foundation over the past weekend to make the selections. The coaches were responding to a [...]
Cordis sues GFF, NAMILCO, Fruta Conquerors
Attorneys-at-law Joseph Harmon and Trenton C. Lake filed a civil suit in the High Court on Monday against the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), NAMILCO and Fruta Conquerors. This follows a lawyer’s letter that was sent by Mr. Harmon a few weeks ago giving the above mentioned entities just under two weeks to come to some [...]
Pele beat Bon Fin’s Barcelona 2-0 in practice match
Defending Kashif and Shanghai football champions Pele have taken their preparations for the upcoming event to the Lethem community and have been afforded the opportunity to clash with opposition from neighbouring world football powerhouse, Brazil. Pele on Tuesday at the Lethem ground defeated leading Bon Fin side Barcelona from the neighbouring Brazilian border town 2-0 [...]
Positive Vibes Sports Club stages Paradise Village Day activities this weekend
The Positive Vibes Sports Club continues its public related activities when it stages the annual Paradise Village Day this Saturday, November 28 at the village playfield. Teams participating in the events would be drawn from several East Coast villages including Paradise, Bare Root, Melanie Damishana, Bachelor’s Adventure, Non Pariel and Dazzell Housing Scheme. The day’s [...]
R&F Mining sponsors motorcycle for K&S MVP
For the second year, R&F Mining has undertaken to provide a brand new Jialing 125CC motorcycle for the Most Valuable Player of the 20th Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament. Yesterday, the ceremonial handing over of the keys to the K&S organisation took place at Automobile Power Products the local agents for Jailing. Handing over the [...]
GABA knockout tournament heats up
Sonics, Scorpions enter second round Pepsi Sonics and Beepat’s Scorpions joined illustrious company Tuesday night when they won their respective First Division opening round games to complete the five teams that will compete for a place in Sunday night’s final. Sonics defeated Macabees 59-48 and Scorpions won 87-75 in the featured game when the Georgetown [...]
Fitness Paradise Gym set for Saturday reopening
Management & Staff undergoing intense 2-day PR & Customer Care training The once well known and popular gym in the city, Fitness Paradise, is set to make a grand return to the bodybuilding and fitness arena when its doors are reopened on Saturday at the Brandsville Hotel, Pike Street, Campbellville, under the theme – Shaping [...]
Coley named West Indies coach, Creary is Captain for 2010 U-19 World Cup
By Sean Devers Andre Coley and fellow Jamaican Andre Creary have been appointed coach and Captain respectively of the West Indies team for the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand January 15-30 The 35-year-old Coley was Head Coach of the regional Under-19 team, which participated with little success in the recently-concluded Regional One-Day competition in [...]
Godwin McPherson Foundation to host ‘Day of Sports’
The Godwin McPherson Foundation will host an inaugural ‘Day of Sports’ at the Paradise Community Centre Ground on Saturday where a number of sport events are scheduled for the entire day. Among the events scheduled are a 10km cycle race; 6km road race, softball, football and races for children. The events are scheduled to get [...]
GPL versus City Council: The Politics of Dictatorship
There is only one way to stop dictatorship. There has been only one way throughout history to stop dictatorship – people must refuse en mass to let dictatorship drown them. The story of what GPL owes the M&CC in its rates and taxes and what the M&CC owes GPL in its electricity bill and the [...]
Climate change is a serious issue
Dear Editor, As leaders around the world prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark next month, there is no doubt that climate change can have a severe effect on small countries like Guyana. Our economy is weak and vulnerable, and the effects of climate change can have a crippling impact. However, President Jagdeo must be commended [...]
Copenhagen or bust!
Dear Editor, As leaders and representatives from over 100 nations around the world get ready for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, from December 7 – 18, it has been revealed that a series of e-mails were leaked from the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia, in the UK, showing that [...]
RIDDING OURSELVES OF THIS DANGEROUS COMPLEX
Is it that Guyanese have low self-confidence and is that why more than ten of them would sit in a speeding minibus, placing their lives at risk and not utter a single syllable demanding that the driver step off the accelerator? No, I do not believe it is a matter of low self-esteem, which sees [...]
An open letter to the Minister of Education and the Chairman of Queen’s College Board of Governors
Dear Minister and Chairman, I think that I speak for all of us, the students, at Queen’s College when I say that the current lapse in judgment and gross disrespect on your parts have served as the catalyst for the ongoing impasse at Queen’s College. The refusal, to rescind the controversial reappointment of a former [...]
We need to rethink our road safety strategies
Dear Editor, It seems as if certain things will never change. Six are now dead due to reckless driving. For such an accident to occur, I must assume that the minibus was seeding. I am a regular traveler by night, and from observation, I have seen many bus drivers going above 110kmph during the nights. [...]
Coping with a growing sex problem
Sex seems to be dominating the minds of adult men and young women at this time. Scarcely a day goes by without there being a report of some men being implicated in rape. In some cases the rape is an imposition of a man on his victim as was the case of the three policemen [...]
Four-yr-old shoots baby sister dead
-parents detained The mining community of Mahdia, Region Seven, went into shock yesterday after a five-year old boy shot his 11-month old sister dead with an unlicenced gun that was left unattended in their home. Little Clemona Patterson was killed instantly when the bullet from a .38 revolver struck her at point blank range in [...]
Less than six months later…New Stewartville road deteriorates
Six months have not elapsed since the rehabilitation of School Road at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, but the road is fast reverting to its former unacceptable state. At least this is according to residents of the area. Yesterday, the residents did not hesitate to raise their concerns about the road which they said was rehabilitated [...]
Guyana to spend $400M on rented rice vessel to supply Venezuela
In the wake of Venezuela expressing concerns over the state of vessels that could be transporting rice from Guyana to that country, the Guyana Government will be renting a vessel from another country to transport the commodity. According to a source two shipping companies have been tasked with finalising this aspect of the arrangement. While [...]
