Giftland Office Max, Oasis Ride support GTCL
Giftland Office Max continues to support local sport while Oasis Ride Taxi Service also pitched at a simple presentation ceremony to the Guyana Tapeball Cricket League (GTCL) at the Giftland Office Max shopping complex on Water Street. The GTCL 20/20 competition, dubbed ‘Clash of the Titians’ is scheduled to commence on February 28 and the [...]
Pro move excites Da Silva
- debuts on Sunday By Edison Jefford Junior Da Silva thirsts for competitions, challenges and tests for his personality, and as an established novice Dirt Bike rider, he believes the time has come to take on the ‘big boys’ in the professional groups at the INXS Meeting on Sunday. Guyana’s number one novice racer revealed [...]
Pepsi Sonics justify GABA Leagues boycott
Had formally complained to sub-association By Edison Jefford Pepsi Sonics sought to justify its boycott of the ongoing Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Leagues last weekend informing that the association failed to act on a formal complaint that was lodged in December last year. In a document sent to this newspaper this week, the Basketball [...]
South Turkeyen Sports Committee stages domino competition and athletic meet
The South Turkeyen Sports Committee will launch its Masramani programme with a King and Queen Dominoes tournament at Shem’s Hideout, 244 South Vryheid’s Lust Housing Scheme, this Friday, February 5 starting at 19:00hrs. The tournament would attract players from Better Hope South Sports Club, Vryheid’s Lust, Plaisance and Betterverwagting among other villages. Director of Sports, [...]
Wavell Hinds to replace Dwayne Bravo
West Indies have suffered another injury blow with confirmation the allrounder Dwayne Bravo will miss all the engagements against Australia this month. Bravo broke his right thumb while playing for Victoria in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition and will return to Trinidad in a bid to be fit for the series against Zimbabwe starting in the [...]
Floodlights A & B gets sponsorship $$$ for Florida Cup 2010
Top Brandz, Metro, Guyana Lotto, Monroe Shocks, Steve’s Jewellery on board The Guyana Floodlight Cricket Association will be sending two teams to the Florida Cup 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and have managed to secure several sponsors for the trip to offset some of their expenses. Lending assistance are Top Brandz of 40 Goedverwagting [...]
University of Guyana captures bronze in inter-collegiate 20/20 cricket tournament
The University of Guyana returned from Barbados with a bronze medal after competing in the annual Inter-Collegiate 20/20 cricket tournament from January 4-10 last. Sports Organizer of the University of Guyana, Sievewright Benjamin informed this newspaper that his boys had performed creditably in the tournament. Benjamin said that the UG squad arrived in Bridgetown and [...]
Mayor Green’s 75th Birthday football resumes tonight at Tucville ground
Pulsating football is anticipated this evening when the Mayor Hamilton Green 75th birthday 7-a-side inter-club knockout football tournament resumes with Wales and Mocha battling from 18:00hrs at the Tucville ground under lights in preliminary action. After a break for the Christmas holiday and the Kashif and Shanghai national tournament, fans could be in for a [...]
A tribute to Phyllis Carter
Dear Editor, Last August was the last time I saw her. I went to drop off some old photographs of Martin I had found in my files. That warm, generous smile was very present as I left the photos. Martin and Phyllis Carter as the SN report states were together for over 50 years. In [...]
The President is missing out on the issues of the people
Dear Editor, Perhaps if President Jagdeo was in Guyana at the moment, I’d have penned this letter directly to him, through my editor of course. But the sad reality of the situation is that he is not. The Barticians have collectively voiced their dissatisfaction at Government’s mining policy. An entire sub-region was shut-down due to [...]
Like the river everything returns and the cycle continues
Dear Editor, Some are calling for politically outstanding figures of Guyana to be judged in the context of their own times. This international trend has some merit, since the wisdom of hindsight is often too harsh or rosy. But this same approach must be extended to all in the same context and not when it [...]
Guyana has one of the best practices of good governance in the Caribbean
Dear Editor, Many of the prophets of doom continue to wrongly label Guyana as an elected dictatorship, when in fact Guyana has one of the best practices of good governance in the Caribbean. The United Nations has set out a criterion as the basis upon which good governance can be evaluated; it is participatory, consensus [...]
Freddie does not understand polling
Dear Editor, It does not appear that Freddie Kissoon understands the concept of polling (letter Kaieteur News, January 27). Kissoon said there is no such subject as Political Science and that he studied history with his field of specialization being “Guyanese History”. Polling falls under the discipline of Political Science, among other subjects, but is [...]
Let’s look at the bigger picture
Dear Editor, I have followed with keen interest the many letters to the press concerning the President’s numerous overseas visits. The matter did not miss the AFC press conference when Presidential Candidate Mr. Raphael Trotman puts a figure to the overseas travels. Whichever side we are on the political spectrum, it seems unfair to me [...]
Regulating taxis
In the last few years, we have witnessed a remarkable resurgence of taxis in our local transportation sector. In the previous two decades the minibuses had come to dominate the field to such an extent that few thought taxis could have staged a comeback. Apart from breaking out of the shackles of the old fixed [...]
