DeSinco U-19 prelims end today
Play in the DeSinco Trading sponsored Georgetown Football Association Under-19 tournament preliminary round concludes today with one match at the Camptown ground in Campbellville. Kicking off at 9:00am, Alpha come up against Uprising in a Group ‘A’ fixture to close off preliminary action. The four leaders from each group will advance to the knockout stage, [...]
A TIME FOR REFLECTION
By Ameena Gafoor THE ARTS FORUM has chosen two compelling poems by Martin Carter with which to close the year. Gone from our midst more than a decade now, Carter’s poems will continue to resonate within the hearts, minds and souls of this and future generations. Every reader interprets a work of art from a [...]
2000-2009: A Decade of Caribbean Decline
By Sir Ronald Sanders The first decade of the 21st Century – 2000 to 2009 – has proven to be a decade of decline for the Countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). When the UN Human Development index was published in 1999, four of the 13 independent CARICOM countries (not including Haiti) [...]
Guyana stumble at first attempt at Caribbean Basketball Championship
Dear Editor, The first attempt of organizing a Caribbean Basketball tournament took place in Guyana February 1976. The proposed countries identified to participate were host Guyana, Suriname, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. Trinidad & Tobago withdrew at the last moment sighting a lack of communication anyhow, Suriname and Barbados arrived on time honouring their verbal [...]
Barbados barely avoided a sweep in Goodwill International Series June 1997
DEAR EDITOR, Guyana playing without seasoned veterans, Captain Lugard Mohan, Orin Mohan, Rawlwin Loncke, Lancelot Loncke, experienced forward Robert Cadogan and the temperamental Eion Leitch, humbled a strong Barbados line up 2-1 in a goodwill three (Test) International Series June 1997 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Coach Bernard Daniels and his assistant Phillip George [...]
Expired Strategy
Mr. Lincoln Lewis took strenuous objection to my citing him as one of the new purveyors of the old divisive “us” against “them” discourse that has fuelled out political strategies since Independence. I cannot imagine why. His intervention, in fact, served as a remarkable restatement of what I had described. He labels the PPP as [...]
TIME FOR THE PARTY TO BE PARTYING?
This holiday season should find the leaders of the People’s Progressive Party in deep introspection about the state of their party, the woeful lack of leadership being demonstrated from within and the need to reshape the relationship between the party and the government it formed in 2006. This past week, the General Secretary of the [...]
Bowlers dominate in West Coast Zone as two take hat-tricks
Bowlers dominated the December 17 round of the Guyana Softball League Carib Beer sponsored softball cricket tournament as several teams recorded victories. In the results from the zones: WEST COAST ZONE: Leonora Primary School Ground: Zeeburg Youths XI defeated Rangers Youths SC by massive 112 runs: Zeeburg Youths XI won the toss and batted first [...]
GABA executive to hold Special Meeting with all Boxing Coaches
The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will hold a special meeting with all Boxing Coaches tomorrow, Monday, December 28, at 17:00 Hrs at the Guyana Olympic Association, 76, High Street Kingston, Georgetown. In correspondence from Secretary Sean Richmond, GABA indicated that the purpose of the meeting is to facilitating discussions on all matters of concerns [...]
I got a great Christmas gift
Christmas Day has come and gone and I feel as though I have lost a good friend, not that I am one of the children who look forward to the day because there are gifts and toys, but because it is the one day when people who do not call or write to me all [...]
Desrey Fox, some hypocrisy and deadly politics
I worked very closely with J.O.F. Haynes at the University of Guyana. When he died, I didn’t attend the funeral for one particular reason – when prominent citizens die some ego-trippers use the occasion to display their egos. People who didn’t care for the living when they were alive, make use of the WHO IS [...]
Butts has high hopes for Windies at Under-19 World Cup
The West Indies selectors have named a strong team to participate in the International Cricket Council’s Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, and chairman of selectors Clyde Butts says he expects the team to perform very well. Speaking on Thursday, Butts noted that the team is “very well balanced” including a number of allrounders who [...]
My Bones And My Flute
By Edgar Mittelholzer Part Four Mr. Nevinson dabbed at his forehead. “it’s like some—some unpleasant dream. I still can’t believe that it’s happening. He looked at me and gave a short uncomfortable laugh. “If this gets around, people won’t pronounce me out of my mind—and I won’t blame them.” After another silence he smiled at [...]
PEACE – OUR COUNTRY’S GREATEST BLESSING
By Latchmin Punalall MP We are just a few days away from the commencement of a New Year. It is a time when we review the old year to rejoice over our achievements and also a time when we identify areas of disappointments, weaknesses and failures so that we can improve in the coming year. [...]
Pele and Sunburst Camptown canter into K&S semis
Beat GDF and Riddim Squad at National Stadium By Franklin Wilson It was likened to the final of the tournament, actually it was just the quarter-final but the level of intensity, excitement and anxious moments it produced certainly had fans and supporters at the edges of their seats from start to finish. That was the [...]
CLICO liquidation: 2000 policy holders could have been paid by yearend-govt. official complains
By Leonard Gildarie Policyholders hoping for an early conclusion to the liquidation of the CLICO Guyana are facing another setback with the court on Wednesday ordering a temporary stay of proceedings after the company asked that Chief Justice (ag), Ian Chang, recuse himself from the case. And a top government official, who asked not to [...]
Cop held at roadblock after Corentyne robbery
A Police Constable from the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam, Berbice was thrown into a cell at his place of employment after he was nabbed fleeing from the scene of a robbery in the ancient county. The constable and two of his accomplices were held in a car at a roadblock at Number 76 Village, [...]
GDF spreads more Christmas Cheer
The Guyana Defence Force, on Wednesday, brought Christmas cheer to the members of the Toucan II Multi-Purpose Club of Buxton when it presented the club with a 32-inch flat-screen Toshiba television. Woman Lieutenant, Dawn Robertson, made the presentation and wished the club members a happy holiday season while expressing the hope that the television would [...]
Dem boys seh… Dem Woman Tired
Today is a special day fuh some people. All of dem feel that is de best day in de year and that nobody should deny this fact. What dem boys know, though, is that Friday is a religious day fuh Muslims. In Muslim countries, Friday is like Sunday because all dem business does close and [...]
Jagdeo calls for full probe into Desrey Fox’s death
President Bharrat Jagdeo said that he is not satisfied with the report on the circumstances surrounding the death of Education Minister Desrey Fox. The Minister succumbed suddenly at the Georgetown Public Hospital on December 11 while receiving treatment following a vehicular accident. She had been in hospital for almost a week and according to reports [...]
City Hall still without electricity
Failure on the part of the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) to restore the supply of electricity to City Hall was regarded as “as a little bit of deception” by City Mayor Hamilton Green, yesterday. According to Mayor Green, he was of the understanding that once GPL and the municipality had exchanged cheques the [...]
Diamond traffic light working
The traffic lights at Diamond junction on the East Bank Demerara have started working and officials say that works to widen the roads there will be completed in late January. The junction, which has been a source of headache for authorities because of the high level of congestion, has been earmarked for a number of [...]
Sunich maintains tradition for Kennard TC Boxing Day race Meet
Proprietor of the Trophy Stall in Bourda Market, Ramesh Sunich, has continued a tradition he has kept for over 20 years, that is to sponsor the trophy for the best jockey. Tomorrow’s Kennard memorial Turf Club Boxing Day Meet at their Bush Lot Farm Corentyne racetrack is no different. Sunich this week presented the trophy [...]
Lady Jaguar Ashley Rodrigues earns 2009 All-Great Lakes Region honours
Soccer Puts Three on All-Region Squad YPSILANTI, Mich. – Three members of the Eastern Michigan University women’s soccer team were named to the 2009 NSCAA All-Great Lakes Region team. Lady Jaguar Ashley Rodrigues, Katie Lozar and Katie Marsh represented the Eagles after helping the team to an 11-4-6 record and a third straight Mid-American Conference [...]
An Orphan’s Christmas wish
By Jamal Scott Like the average 10-year-old boy Noel (not his real name) attends school regularly and is quite often involved in the many naughty deeds boys so often find themselves. He likes sports and tree climbing but is most times a quiet lad who becomes introverted in an instant. But as the [...]
