National champion McDonald maintains form
- Going to C/bean c/ships in fine mettle National champion and World Championship participant Abigail McDonald continued her mesmerising form with another sublime performance to capture the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) Open Tournament which was played on Sunday, at the Chamber of Commerce Building on Waterloo Street. McDonald, who produced one of Guyana’s [...]
Oscar Shew Memorial TT Tourney set for this weekend
The Oscar Shew Memorial Mini-Cadet, Cadet, Junior and Youth Knockout Table Tennis Tournament is scheduled for this weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, according to a Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) release yesterday. “The GTTA and National Sports Commission, in its effort to promote table tennis countrywide, will be coordinating a knockout table tennis [...]
Recovering Jerome Taylor eyes South Africa return
Jamaica and West Indies fast bowling ace Jerome Taylor is eyeing a return to international cricket against the visiting South Africans in May after he pulled out of the Test tour of Australia last December with a back injury. On that tour the regional team was depending on his guile and accuracy to lead an [...]
Guyana beat L/Wards by 5 wickets to climb out of cellar position
By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Splashmin’s Resort & TCL Group A sensible half-century partnership between Man-of-the-Match Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Vice-Captain Assad Fudadin helped Guyana to their first win at this level since March 2008 as the Leewards went down by 5 wickets in their Regional 4-Day game at the National Cricket Centre [...]
Conquerors and Pele to clash in final
Fruta Conquerors and Pele will contest the championship match of the 2009 DeSinco Trading sponsored Georgetown Football Association (GFA) competition following victories over Santos and Sunburst Camptown on Sunday morning. Conquerors blanked Santos 3-2 while Pele came from behind to defeat hosts Camptown by the odd goal in three. Santos, who had stunned Alpha United [...]
Farmers need to be prepared for the challenges ahead
Dear Editor, We the small farmers are elated at the recent announcement of additional support to mitigate the effects of the current El Nino phenomenon which is affecting all farmers and citizens across the country. The many initiatives have been very supportive and it is anticipated that this new commitment of $258 million will greatly [...]
I expect a full retraction and an apology from Mr. Kissoon
Dear Editor, In his column, “I did not and will not run away from my country. The Three Musketeers did”, Mr. Freddie Kissoon claimed that along with Drs. Prem Misir and Randy Persaud, I am one of “The Three Musketeers” who are “propagandists working out of the Office of the President.” To make the employer-employee [...]
Building on Govt. reserves
Dear Editor, It is with great dissatisfaction that I write this letter. I have read your reports on the Minister of Works breaking down bridges fences and other structures on government reserves on the West Coast of Demerara. Well I bought a property in Blygezight C/ville, Georgetown and I might say I bought this property [...]
It could have been worse
Dear Editor, It is with great fear and a confused state of mind that I pen this letter in your column; the fear of not knowing when we will get rains for our crops and the confusion of what to do next as a farmer. This El Nino situation has been increasing its effects since [...]
Today is Republic Day: Where is Chase, Westmaas, Kwayana?
There can hardly be any doubt about it; most school children know that Republic Day means that the country’s head is not the Queen and that republicanism means we have severed constitutional ties with the UK. Scholars will go on to debate whether in terms of the human condition (that thinkers from early Greek time [...]
Guyana has been recolonised by foreign capital
Guyanese will today be engaged in bacchanal on the streets of Georgetown as part of Mash Day activities. Lost in the revelry will be the political significance of the day, which marks the fortieth anniversary of Guyana becoming a Republic, a political miscalculation by the Forbes Burnham administration. The declaration of Guyana becoming a Co-operative [...]
This type of rhetoric creates hatred and division
Dear Editor, Once again, I feel the need to respond to your columnist Mr. Freddie Kissoon. Anyone reading his articles of February 21, captioned: “Sorry to disappoint you on this one”, and that of Monday (21-02-10), “I did not and will not run away from my country. The Three Musketeers”, would conclude that Mr. Kissoon [...]
Dem Boys Seh… Ashni bruck up parliament
Is Mash and all dem people in parliament decide that dem wasn’t going to miss it fuh nutten. Dem boys seh that dem talk fast, fast, and only Dr Ashni decide that he got to talk lang. He spend three hours fuh present de budget. Monday night he spend two hours to wrap up. He [...]
President Jagdeo and Ministers on the Essequibo Coast
DEAR EDITOR, President Jagdeo and Cabinet Ministers Robert Persaud and Manniram Prashad engaged farmers and the broader communities yesterday on the Essequibo Coast. RPA General Secretary Mr. Dharamkumar Seeraj was also on hand. The meetings were held at Dartmouth and Cotton Field, where hundreds of residents turned out to discuss various issues affecting their communities [...]
Make this educational trip a reality
Dear Editor, I am a “proud” past student of Queen’s College, however, the unjust treatment of certain students by those who control the school is utterly preposterous and therefore I felt the need to write. The students of the Caribbean Studies Class along with their teacher have painstakingly sought to raise funds to make their [...]
Forty years of being a Republic
Forty years ago, Guyana took the bold step to move away from the Monarchy and to manage its own affairs. This move was on the cards four years earlier when Guyana attained independence. On the occasion it had its own flag and other symbols of nationhood but it was still tied to the monarchy. The [...]
Man’s skeleton found hanging
The skeletal remains of a man who has since been identified as 67-year-old Jocelyn Prince was discovered yesterday afternoon hanging from a tree on the southern bank of the Lamaha Canal. The discovery was made by some men who were hunting iguanas in the densely vegetated area. The body appeared to be in that position [...]
Bodies of mother and son recovered
Demerara river boat mishap… Relatives retrieved the badly decomposing bodies of 26-year old Malika Wilson and her three-year old son, Adam Wilson, who perished Friday evening in the Demerara River. The bodies were found in the vicinity of Charity in the Demerara River yesterday. The woman’s husband, Collis Wilson, said that the bodies were only [...]
Pastor in sex probe still to turn self in
Police were up to late yesterday still to arrest the Mahaica Pastor under investigation for allegedly sexually abusing his 17-year-old stepdaughter. The man had told Kaieteur News that he would have gone in to the police with his attorney but has still not done so. A source close to the Pastor said that he has [...]
‘Bones man’ is Soca Monarch 2010
(By Mondale Smith and Gary Eleazar) While Shelly G’s no show to defend her title proved a disappointment to some, none can complain about the 2010 choice for Soca Monarch. Before a celebratory crowd, Orlando ‘Bones man’ Johashen, 27, a Berbician of Tempe Village and a worker at the Guyana Forestry Commission, was adjudged the [...]
Slain woman’s children say cops not following up leads
- claim police still to trace threatening phone calls made to mom Close relatives of 78-year old Rajkumarie Mahadeo have accused the police of failing to follow up on several possible leads that could result in the arrest of her killers. They alleged that investigators are still to try to trace several threatening phone calls [...]
Dem boys seh….Is Mash and trickery
Tomorrow is Mash and dem boys know that it gun be a good day because dem gun find some women who gun want beer to drink. That is when dem gun be at dem weakest because de sun gun stand up in all its glory. De thing is that nuff of dem gyal know de [...]
Devious machinations in High Court admin system to be blamed
Lost Region 10 Seat… – AFC Alliance for Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, has lashed out persons speaking to the competency of the legal team that petitioned the High Court for the Region 10 Parliamentary seat. Ramjattan pointed out that in no way was the loss a result of the inability of the team of lawyers [...]
Gunmen terrorise Canjie family during robbery
An East Canjie, Berbice family was on Saturday evening terrorised by four gunmen who invaded their home and relieved them of an undisclosed amount of jewellery and a large amount of cash. Reports are that businessman, Zaheer Ali and his family of Besty Ground were attacked by the gunmen sometime around 19:30 hours. This newspaper [...]
GWI cuts off water supply to Diamond squatting community
- after timber company threatens legal action over land ownership By Michael Jordan The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has cut off water from the Great Diamond squatting community due to the ongoing land dispute between the residents and Toolsie Persaud Limited(TPL). Residents said that they have been without potable water for almost a month and [...]
