Leveraging knowledge Networks within the Indian Diaspora
Dear Editor, With some prominent exceptions, the developing world is fast losing opportunities where leveraging its Diasporas’ Knowledge Networks could transform the usual ‘same old, same old’ stagnant economies into a vibrant Knowledge Economy (KE); without this transformation to a KE, many such countries will not achieve sustainable growth rates; and poverty, and social and [...]
This audacious claim demonstrates how far the bar has finally dropped
Dear Editor, Friday (29-01-10), Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said that the administration takes all the credit for what the industry is today. “We’re unashamedly proud and take all the plaudits for what the mining industry has become over the years. Where we took it and where we are today,” he told [...]
Freddie Kissoon responds to IAC
Dear Editor, East Indians will keep migrating unless they make the psychic break with the PPP I am replying to a letter by the Indian Arrival Committee captioned, “IAC views Kissoon’s opinions as misinformed”, Kaieteur News, January 28. This correspondence of the IAC was in response to my warning to the East Indian people of [...]
Guyana cannot support any programme in the LCDS which disrupts the mining industry
Dear Editor, There is Guyanese proverb that says “Han Go- Han Come”, meaning that “if you do for me I will do for you”. The present “winner take all” scenario playing out as a battle between forest conservation on the one hand, and curtailing the mining industry on the other, is causing serious vibrations on [...]
The forgotten thousands must seize the day
Dear Editor, There are more than 100,000 men and women of working age in Guyana who have been officially unemployed for over a year. As their numbers are swollen by people losing work with the induced contraction in the forestry, mining and agriculture sectors, Guyana will rank only above Haiti as having the highest proportion [...]
Let Kids Play
In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, the quintessential novel of childhood bliss, Mark Twain advised, “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” As a definition of “play” it would be hard to beat but somehow we seem to be fast [...]
Family feud leads to murder at Abary
A long-standing family feud ended tragically with the brutal murder of 33-year-old Maxwell Watson, of Little Abary, East Coast Demerara last night. Watson was stabbed in the left side chest by his uncle and collapsed on the parapet outside his yard. His reputed wife, 20-year-old Valerie Niles sustained a stab in the back while trying [...]
Mocha fire injures two children, destroys home
(By Mondale Smith) A five-year-old lad who celebrated his birthday yesterday is among a family of six rendered homeless after fire destroyed their home at 137 Nelson Street, Mocha Arcadia. The homeless are five-year-old Clebert, his brother Kempt, 7, and sisters Sowana, 22, and Odessa, 20, as well as their father Wade Flue, 48, the [...]
Three to be charged with taxi driver’s murder
- alleged mastermind was victim’s friend Two Agricola men and a third from Grove, East Bank Demerara, are to be charged next week in connection with the murder of Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, called ‘Anil’, whose charred remains were found on Wednesday on the Mocha access road. Police have said that one of the men has admitted [...]
Judge halts order to grant bail to murder accused
By Latoya Giles Justice Diana Insanally yesterday granted a Conservatory Order suspending the execution of the order which Justice James Bovell-Drakes granted on Tuesday last. Justice Insanally further ordered that leave be granted to the accused, Trion Sumner, until February 15, to join in the proceedings. The motion to nullify the order by Justice Biovell-Drakes [...]
McLean resigns from miners’ association
- govt. officials to meet Barticians today by Leonard Gildarie As a row in the gold and diamond mining industry deepens with threats to shutdown Bartica over a controversial six-month notice to authorities, a senior official in the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association has tendered his resignation. Major General (rtd.), Norman McLean, last evening [...]
<<>>Guyana is a strange place
Like Sam ain’t coming back. He lef to go to Cuba and people start fuh talk how he sick. But de man just gone to learn Spanish. He always want to talk de language but because he been gone, dem boys believe that Robert gun grow accustom to he seat and when he come back [...]
Wife of national poet Martin Carter is dead
The wife of national poet, the late Martin Carter is dead. A release from family members said that Mrs. Phyllis Carter died in Trinidad on Thursday night Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Martin and Phyllis Carter were married in 1953 and parented four children. Martin Carter died on December 13, 1997.
Diamond Secondary School sets up computer laboratory
Diamond Secondary School is the first of several secondary schools to have benefited from a Canadian non-profit organisation with computer laboratories. At an official handing over yesterday, the Chairperson of the Global Partnership for Literacy, Geoff DaSilva, through which the programme is being conducted, said five more schools will soon benefit from this programme. These [...]
St Margaret’s Primary School is 75
Amidst boisterous chants of ‘St Margaret’s Primary School, 75 years old’ the children of Grades Four, Five and Six of that institution marched through the streets of Georgetown to round off one month of celebratory activities to commemorate the inauguration of the institution. Earlier in the day, the children, accompanied by several of their teachers, [...]
Mysterious unfolding at Bladen Hall Multilateral
Something mysterious is unfolding at the Bladen Hall Multilateral School. Several students have been affected to the point of having breathing problems. Others have reported feeling dazed. These occurrences have been ongoing since last Friday when ten from Form One students began panting for air and going into trance like states. Those were collected by [...]
Government mulls construction of $206M abattoir
The government is discussing the construction a state-of-the-art facility where cattle can be prepared, in accordance with health safety regulations, for both local and overseas markets. Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, made the disclosure yesterday during the National Meeting for Livestock Farmers at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA). The forum was held to discuss [...]
GPL says 33% of production lost to theft, other issues
- plans installation of 12,000 new meters in 2010 By Leonard Gildarie Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has rolled an ambitious plan this year to change the face of its image even as the crippling blackout woes of last year become a thing of the past. However, the government-owned entity says that one of [...]
Baby dies, parents blame negligent doctors at GPHC
The distraught parents of six month old, Shequeena Peters, are blaming the doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital for their child’s death. According to Karen Jacob and Floyd Peters, their daughter who was born prematurely, would have been alive had it not been for the negligence of the doctors who work at the medical institution. [...]
New Sewerage Pump Station commissioned
The days of over flowing sewage in the capital city especially when it rains may soon be at an end. Yesterday, the first of 24 sewage pump stations valued at in excess of $170M was officially commissioned by the Guyana Water Incorporated at the corner of Princes and High Streets, in the old Guyana Broadcasting [...]
Jumo to Ring in Mash 2010 with weekly Soca Jamboree
This and every Saturday at C&S Sheriff Street Soca and Mash music lovers in Guyana are advised to head down to the C&S nightspot on Sheriff Street to be part of Jumo’s Mash Soca Jamboree. Co-ordinated by singing sensation Jumo ‘Rubber waist’ Primo X2 the every Saturday event that starts next Saturday will feature various [...]
GPHC to manage Kitty, Industry Health Centres
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be taking over the management of the Kitty and Industry Health Centres during the course of this year. This was disclosed by GPHC’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Khan, during an interview recently with the Government Information Agency (GINA). In recent years, huge sums were allocated toward rehabilitation of [...]
Guyanese author launches second novel
Guyanese Author, Dr. Brenda Do Harris, will launch her second novel “Calabash Parkway” at the Sidewalk Cafe – today at 18.00 hrs. The programme will include a reading of extracts from the novel by Dr. Do Harris and a book signing. Calabash Parkway is set mainly in the 1980s in Brooklyn, New York and explores [...]
CRANDON SIBLINGS TAKE 1ST DAY HONOURS
CCC struggling at 24-3 replying to Guyana’s 271 By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, Leisure Inn & Car Rental & Caribbean Airlines West Indies ODI player Royston Crandon fell 6 short of his century while his elder brother Esuan was left stranded 2 short of his maiden First-Class fifty as Guyana [...]
Suspected thief nabbed in Saffon Street building
A man who claimed that he just slept in the building but could not say by what means he entered, will have a lot of explaining to do before a city Magistrate. The suspect was nabbed in the Traders Depot on Thursday night when neighbours alerted the owner that persons were entering the Saffon Street, [...]
