MCY&S fine tuning plans for 3rd annual Inter Block football tourney
Seeking to collaborate with GFF to enhance competition As plans for the 3rd annual Ministry of Culture Youth & Sport, Community Inter-Block football tournament continues, the Ministry through main organizer Steve Ninvalle (Parliamentary Secretary) has written the Guyana Football Federation as they seek to collaborate with the governing body. The main aims of the tournament [...]
GT&T’s 10/10 Softball cricket tourney officially launched
The national GT&T sponsored 10/10 cricket competition organized by the Guyana Softball Cricket League (GSCL) in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports was yesterday officially launched at the Carifesta Sports Complex ground in the city. Speaking at the opening ceremony yesterday, GT&T’s CEO, Major General Retired Joe Singh told the gathering which [...]
Iran’s offer to map Guyana’s mineral wealth non-specific – Luncheon
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has stressed that Iran’s offer to assist Guyana in mapping its mineral wealth is non-specific, and does not focus on any particular mineral resource, such as uranium. The government this week took issue at media reports quoting Parliamentarian Raphael Trotman expressing concern about the deal. Trotman said [...]
Joe Vieira Park comes alive today with Grass Track racing
Spectators lined the outskirts of the Joe Vieira Park yesterday afternoon to get a glimpse of what is expected to be a thrilling display of Grass Track racing and Biker Stunts at the venue today in the INXS Performance presentation. The leading Dirt Bike riders in Guyana will be tossed into action in the ‘Hot [...]
Bridging Guyanese and Brazilian Literature, Part 2
(Extract of an interview with Prof. Miguel Nenevé Georgetown, Guyana, January 2010. Nenevé is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rondonia, Brazil. He was visiting professor at the University of Texas, USA, visiting professor at York University, Canada, where he did his Ph. D. on Canadian Literature. He has to his name two [...]
Dancing to Caribbean drums: An appreciation of the life of Rex Nettleford
By Sir Ronald Sanders This commentary is being written in the first blush of the news that Rex Nettleford has died. A profound and deep sense of loss overcame me, and I have no doubt enveloped many throughout the Caribbean including those who did not know him personally. What everyone understands – those who knew [...]
THE ARTS FORUM
The Arts Forum can think of no better way of paying tribute to Phyllis Carter than with two of the poems her husband, Martin Carter, dedicated to her. UNDER A NEAR SKY A near sky, no stars, another night. Without warning I think of you, And the blown away spatter of rain, on a window [...]
The Crayfish
Crayfish, also known as crawfish, or crawdads — members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea — are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related. They breathe through feather-like gills and are found in bodies of water that do not freeze to the bottom; they are also mostly found in brooks and streams [...]
The AFC IS ON THE MOVE!
The AFC is pleased to report that it has forced President Jagdeo to hold a recent Cabinet outreach in the Berbice area to play “catch-up” to the AFC as we traverse the length and breadth of the country winning the hearts and minds of the Guyanese people. The objective of the AFC’s regional visits is [...]
The powder keg in Camp Street
By Adam Harris The death of two inmates in the Georgetown Prisons early Friday morning made me realize that the prison is like any other in any part of the world. It is meant to be punitive as well as rehabilitative but in Guyana with its paucity of skilled psychiatrists and other skilled social workers, [...]
Moral symbolisms and unintelligent government
I began this piece on Friday evening as soon as I came from work; the Sunday columns have to be in at Kaieteur early Saturday morning. In keeping with my promise to myself as outlined in my Friday article, I plan to pursue the topics that I put in my work schedule over the weeks [...]
The Baccoo speaks
A gang at a school is going to shock the country. Imitators will convince themselves and others that they are going to be a force to be reckoned with. These will be a group of young boys going about trying to make a name for themselves as gang members with horrible consequences. Their parents are [...]
Narrative of reconciliation?
In his letter, “It is foolhardy to deny that Rodney and the WPA existed”, (KN, 1-5-10) Dr David Hinds proposes, “The discourse on race and ethnicity since 1992 has been driven by three narratives.” Namely, a PPP/Indian one, a PNC/African one and a “…third narrative, a rejection of the two ethnic narratives…a projection of national [...]
BRING IN THE FOREIGN JUDGES NOW!
A mentally ill individual should never be incarcerated in a prison. Such a person needs to be in a mental asylum where he can be treated and if needs be isolated under medical supervision. It was thoughtless to have placed the inmate who went berserk last Friday morning in a prison; it was even more [...]
Strategies for countering fluctuating sugar prices
Dear Editor, Today the price of sugar on the world market is over US$0.28 per pound. In the past the price of sugar went to some lows such as US$0.11 per pound. The reasons for these huge swings are many, but a few are – real and artificial supply and demand, dumping of inventories by [...]
GPL needs to bring closure to this matter
Dear Editor, There was a notice in the newspapers this past week asking all customers of Guyana Power & Light Inc (GPL) to honour all outstanding monies owed to the company over the past years. According to the notice, failure to do so will result in disconnection. However, what happens if a customer is awaiting [...]
Benschop replies to the Indian Arrival Committee
Dear Editor, Of course I am grateful that the Kaieteur News, at least, published a portion of my initial response to the sop set forth in Priya Mahase’s hubristic rant. However, I am somewhat chastened over the manner Kaieteur News, in an apparent attempt to maintain the standard of imbalance that benefits the nuevo ethnic [...]
There are many persons out there that desperately need the IAC’s help
Dear Editor, I refer to the IAC’s reply (Kaieteur News, February 3) to me signed by Ms. Pria Mahase. This is what she wrote; “The IAC is convinced that Kissoon is in dire need of help. The IAC has always been willing to provide assistance to Indo-Guyanese in need.” The IAC has persons that are [...]
King’s belief in the promise of America
Dear Editor, In a mere 13 years from December 1, 1955, when the 26-year-old Dr. King rendered assistance to Rosa Parks, an Alabama Black seamstress who refused to surrender her seat to a White passenger on a segregated Montgomery bus, to 1968 when he was assassinated, he roused the conscience of America; by exposing the [...]
Nettleford’s example and vision are worth reaching for
Dear Editor, Whenever I heard Rex Nettleford speak or read his writings I was reassured that I was part of something special. He appealed to three of my defining identities – Black, Caribbean-Guyanese and sufferer. One of my most cherished moments was when I interviewed him in June 2000 in Washington DC for CaribNation TV. [...]
FOISTING THE HOPE/DOCH FOUR CANAL ON THE PEOPLE
The challenge facing the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is the finding of engineering solutions for relief from the dangers of overtopping of the East Demerara Water Conservancy, (EDWC), during periods when there is a high accumulation of water therein. THE COST AND THE OPTIONS The truth is that there are options other than [...]
Prospects for bauxite
The fallout from the overreach and bluff by the Bauxite Union (GB&GWU) at Rusal’s Berbice operation continue to dominate the headlines even as the company attempts to stabilise its operations in the face of a prolonged weak aluminium world market. The Chinese owned Bosai operation and their union have generated less drama although, facing the [...]
