EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF FOR JUNIOR SPRINT CHAMP
- hundreds bid farewell to Roxanna Rigby Hundreds of mourners turned out yesterday at Rosignol to bid farewell to the late national junior athlete, Roxanna Rigby, who was laid to rest at the Rosignol Cemetery following a Funeral Service at the Rosignol Methodist Church. Scores of representatives from the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force, [...]
National juniors benefit from Dr. Ian McDonald’s talk
The national junior players selected by the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) to prepare for the upcoming preliminary rounds of the World Junior Championships all agreed that the motivating session conducted by Dr. Ian McDonald yesterday at the GMR&SC will serve as useful material to improve their game generally. McDonald, a former national champion, who [...]
Former immigration officer accused of fraud
A former Immigration Officer was yesterday placed on $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, on a charge of forging one entry stamp in a Guyana passport for Edward Drakes. It was alleged that Keon Luther, 23, of 3472 Jacksonville, North Ruimveldt committed the offence on May 21, 2008 at Timehri with the intent to [...]
Grass track practice session on today
Briefing will immediately follow The Dirt Bike riders that will vie for supremacy in the Championship Series will test-ride their bikes at the Mecca of Grass Track racing, the Ogle Community Centre Ground, this afternoon ahead of tomorrow’s final race meeting. Kaieteur Sport understands that some of the best riders in Guyana will be revving [...]
Soca Monarch, Road March, Junior Calypso Monarch, HIV song competitions
(By Mondale Smith) It’s no secret that Adrian Dutchin, the nation’s lone three-time Soca monarch is a member of the KKR Head Hunters group and while he has opted to not compete in 2010 Mashramani competitions for yet another year, his fellow group members are not standing down. In an exclusive interview, Melissa ‘Vanilla’ Roberts, [...]
Pacesetters hold nerves to beat Macabees
Ravens easily tame Bounty Colts Courts Pacesetters rallied from being down double digits at the end of the first quarter of their Division III game against Macabees to beat the team that had opened with a morale boosting win earlier this week in the League’s first round. Pacesetters rebounded from an 11-point (19-8) deficit at [...]
Culture Ministry prints Guyana Classics
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, yesterday, gave the Government Information Agency (GINA) a sneak peak at the first 12 of 36 books titled “Guyana Classics” to be launched in February. The 12 copies which are prefaced by President Bharrat Jagdeo, include the first book to be written about Guyana, Martin Carter’s [...]
GSL Softball cricket tourneys continue this weekend
Play in the Guyana Softball League organised Masters and Female softball cricket tournaments and the Carib Beer sponsored competition continues this weekend with several matches. In fixtures from the Masters and Female events sponsored by 4R Bearings in collaboration with the Floodlights Association: Sunday JANUARY 31: MASTERS CUP – Everest Ground: 10:00am: Max Masters versus [...]
Guyana Masters Football Association hosts AGM tomorrow morning
The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Guyana Masters Football Association (GMFA) will be holding a general meeting for all of the clubs under its auspices tomorrow starting at 11:00hrs. The meeting would be held at the Georgetown Football Club, Bourda and top of the agenda will be the election to install an executive to [...]
Judgment reserved in TCL case against Guyana Government
Judgment has been reserved in the matter involving Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) and its subsidiary, TCL Guyana Incorporated (TGI), following hours of legal arguments at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) against the Government of Guyana. The hearing took place on Tuesday and was heard before CCJ President Chief Justice Michael de la Bastide. TCL [...]
GFA appointed IMC commences task of regularizing the game
By Franklin Wilson The Interim Management Committee (IMC) appointed by the General Council of the Georgetown Football Association to chart the way forward for the game in the city has set out to achieve its mandate of regularizing the sport within the stipulated time frame of 3 months. The governing body for the sport, Guyana [...]
MOU signed for engineers to do Post Grad studies on water management
In an effort to strengthen its human resource capabilities, the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Guyana (UG) and McGill University which will pave the way for engineers to read for a Post Graduate Certificate in Water Resource Management. Permanent Secretary within the Ministry, Dindyal Permaul, [...]
RHT Gizmos & Gadgets to tackle Young Warriors
The Area “H” ground in Rose Hall Town Corentyne would come alive tomorrow when home team Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadget (RHTG&G) clash with Young Warriors in the championship match of the Peter Lewis Associated Construction Services Under-23 competition. An exciting match is anticipated as both teams boast strong line-ups on paper with several [...]
Private entities launch expanded school feeding programme
Banks DIH, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the Society for Sustainable Operational and Strategies (SSOS) have once again joined with the Ministry of Education in a national school feeding programme at an estimated cost of $1.4B for this year. The three companies, yesterday, signed on to provide biscuits, cassava bread, Topco fruit juice and peanut [...]
Sobers century highlights Masters’ cup and Females’ softball cricket
Carmel Sobers scored an unbeaten century (108) to help her team, Saddam XI, inflict a 4 wickets defeat to Mahaica Masters when the two teams met in the Masters’ Cup and Females Softball cricket tournament on Friday January 15 last. Mahaica Masters XI won the toss and batted scoring 228 all out in 22 overs. [...]
PNCR wants shared governance before 2011 elections
…will meet with PPP The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) recently embroiled in a fight over leadership, says it will go into talks with the ruling party on a system on shared governance before next year’s general elections. “The PNCR believes that in the interest of progress in Guyana a system of shared [...]
Cinderella Promotions stages U-17, seven-a-side, inter-village, football tournament
Football players along the East Coast corridor are gearing up for competitive action when the Cinderella Promotions stages an U-17, seven-a-side, inter-village, football tournament starting on Saturday February 6 at the Paradise village East Coast Demerara playfield and culminating one day later at the Camptown Ground, Campbellville Housing Scheme. The preliminary matches will be played [...]
Desire to remain in Guyana lands American in court
Kenneth Rotnella, 25, of Eccles East Bank Demerara and William Agard, 29, of 447 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme were yesterday granted their pretrial liberty by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. It was alleged that Rotnella, on October 22, 2009, unlawfully attempted to extend a permit which was not authorised by [...]
Mr. Corbin has strange concerns
Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the article under the caption “Devious plot afoot to destroy party – PNCR says” (KN 23-01-10) and make a few observations. The People’s National Congress Reform, through its Vice Chairman, Mr. Basil Williams is claiming that “A devious plot is afoot to destroy the People’s National Congress Reform [...]
ANOTHER GDF OFFICER EXCELS
Guyana Defence Force Officer Lieutenant Colonel, Patrick West, has become Guyana’s first officer to have earned two masters degrees simultaneously; one in Military Arts and Science and the other in Administration. He recently returned from the US where he attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and [...]
We may not have the luxury of time before a cataclysmic tsunami strikes
Dear Editor, The beautiful Caribbean is one of the most geologically active spots on earth and seismic activities and processes over the ages have helped raise and sculpt the islands of the Caribbean. Seismographers believe the earthquake which devastated Haiti two weeks ago is not the last that will be experienced in the region. Experts [...]
Impact of El Nino a major concern – Dr Luncheon
The impact of the current prolonged dry season is of major concern to the government, especially as it relates to the rice industry, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said yesterday. Dr Luncheon said that drought-like conditions brought on by the El Nino weather phenomenon is affecting large scale farming, particularly rice cultivation, [...]
The stench lingered in my car. Guyana is a horrible place
Mark Benschop extended an invitation to me on Thursday morning to visit the Wales factory to talk to striking sugar workers. We arrived at the estate and walked through the gate; I didn’t see the guard. As we were leaving (we went with separate cars), outside of the gate, this fellow came upon to my [...]
Part time staff at GTI to strike from Monday
More than 50 part-time workers of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) plan to go on strike from Monday to force management to make a determination on the payment of increase in salaries. Chairman of the Board of Governors Major General (Ret’d) Norman McLean, had written the Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, pointing out that the [...]
Discrimination and marginalisation do exist in Guyana
Dear Editor, I agree with Godfrey Skeete’s angst over the alarming number of our young men who are resorting to crime as a means of livelihood. However, his assertion that hard evidence cannot be produced to back up claims of marginalisation is pathetically simplistic. And it is thus because anyone with eyes and ears have [...]
