Teachers must be bold enough to speak the truth
Dear Editor, With reference to a letter in Kaieteur News, captioned, “Teachers must continuer their militancy”. As General Council representatives, we wish to congratulate those persons who were brave enough to bring this matter out. We need not only be educated and professional teachers, but bold enough to speak the truth. What was done by [...]
Chanderpaul’s unbeaten 89 give Guyana 1st innings points
Coach still disappointed with shot selection of batsmen By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with TCL Group & Splashmin’s Resort Prolific Guyanese Test batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul again showed his ability to grind bowlers into the dust with an unbeaten 89 but although 3 other batsmen got to 40 none reached fifty as Guyana took [...]
Guyana’s best juniors on show today
By Edison Jefford The Enmore Community Centre Ground will certainly become a hive of activity today as Guyana’s leading junior track and field stars take centre field at the Inter-Guiana Games Trials, which is expected to commence at 10:00am. Whether its junior sprint queens, Ashley Tasher, Iana Graham or national schools’ jumps champion, Winston Caesar [...]
Wrangling over legal technicalities
Dear Editor, The U.S. Government had requested the arrest and extradition of Barry Dataram about a year ago. At the time the Guyana and U.S. governments did not have extradition treaties and enabling laws to provide for mutual extraditions. A year ago Guyana’s most celebrated lawyers, Vic Puran and Glenn Hanoman, who took advantage of [...]
Letter to the Sports Editor Germany’s TTL Bombery first European Pro Team to visit Guyana 1992
Dear Editor, Guyana playing without experienced quartet of Auric Tappin, Leon Christian, Mark Agard and Robert Byass, were no match for Germany’s TTL Bombery, the first European Professional team to visit the “land of many waters”. The German’s Pros also visited Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. They opened the Guyana leg of their Caribbean tour [...]
We need to bring back greater accountability in the budget system
Dear Editor, As the Budget debate unfolds and the opportunity for the small man evaporates, we must seriously contemplate what we want as a future for the Guyanese people. Why in a year with such a significant upswing in tax collection, the working class could not benefit from an increase in their tax threshold? Tax [...]
The Jagdeo factor in a volatile global financial system
Dear Editor, All is not well on the world’s economic front. Economic and financial crises in the U.S. continue to carry global consequences. Guyana, nonetheless, remains largely unscathed, due to President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo’s stewardship bringing prudent economic management and strong, sustainable macroeconomic fundamentals; also, the President’s early vision of the utility value of the [...]
USA-based Mark Lee injects $150,000 towards cause
USA based Guyanese Mark Lee, a long time friend and supporter of the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation has stepped up to throw in his lot to the Haiti Football Federation (HFF) fund raising double header organised by the Guyana Football Federation in association with the K&S Organisation this evening at the GCC ground, Bourda. Yesterday [...]
Time to arrest violence in schools
Dear Editor, It is with much concern that I observe the recent upsurge of violence being committed by students on their colleagues within the confines of our city’s schools. This ugly phenomenon, if not nipped in the bud will eventually become cancerous in our educational system and the time to arrest it is now. Over [...]
Censor Violent Music
The debate on violence in our schools and among our youths in general continues to swirl in our midst. As we pointed out in our editorial “Violence in Schools”, there is no monocausal explanation for the phenomena and as such there will be no silver bullet that will rid us of the problem. In the [...]
Fans treated to action packed bouts at Harpy Eagle’s boxing card
By Michael Benjamin Devon Boatswain of the Guyana Defence Force and Stephon Gouveia of the Harpy Eagles turned in impressive performances to win their respective fights and eventually earned the best boxer prizes up for grabs when the Harpy Eagles, in conjunction with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association, staged a nine fight boxing card to [...]
Literature and Society
By Petamber Persaud It piques me how little appreciation we show towards the literature of our country especially when it is the only aspect of our life that embodies the whole of our collective experience. This literature that mirrors our society could also act as a barometer, an inspiration and a guide. This literature has [...]
Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym re-commissioned after renovation works
Boxers of the Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym (HEBG) would resume training at a spanking new facility following the formal re-opening of the Albouystown based gym yesterday morning. The gym had undergone a month long closure after Vice President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), Maurice Rajkumar, had donated the necessary funds to facilitate renovation [...]
Entries for Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Phagwah race meet close Feb. 27
Entries for the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Phagwah race meet at its Bush Lot Farm Corentyne headquarters, on Sunday March 7 will close next Saturday, February 27. The nation’s top horses, as well as those bred in overseas stables are scheduled to be on show based on the interest expressed by the various stables. Among [...]
France in Haiti: A fresh start by Sarkozy?
By Sir Ronald Sanders At last a French President visited Haiti – a country that contributed greatly to France’s accumulation of wealth in the 18th Century and which France impoverished for a century after that. Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in devastated Haiti on February 17, a month and five days after a massive earthquake ravaged the [...]
Diamond Secondary win title
Diamond Secondary School are the winners of the AL Sport & Tour Promotions sponsored Inter-School Windball Cricket Tournament after they defeated debutant Supply in the final by 26 runs last Friday at, the Grove Playfield. Taking first strike, Diamond made 101-1 off the allotted overs with Latoya Jarvis 46, Eugene Trotman 32 and Shenella James [...]
INTRA-CARIBBEAN MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
BOOK REVIEW By Emeritus Professor Frank Birbalsingh Clive Sankardayal, The Brown Curtains, New York, Jako Books, 2007, pp.288. Although the action in Clive Sankardayal’s The Brown Curtains is neither chiefly nor explicitly concerned with politics, or indeed with Guyana, it is strange that the novel should yield such an accurate portrait of Guyanese politics during [...]
Mings Products & Services Ltd does it again
- Sponsors tournament for players over 30 years In what was another clear demonstration of its commitment to sports, Mings Products & Services Ltd Administrative Assistant Sherry Mars, during a simple ceremony held last Friday at the Everest Sports Club, handed over a sponsorship cheque on behalf of the Company to Assistant Secretary Treasurer of [...]
The Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)
The Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) is a crocodilian reptile found in much of Central and South America. It lives in a range of lowland wetland and riverine habitat types and can tolerate salt water as well as fresh; due in part to this adaptability it is the most common of all crocodilian species. Males of [...]
Records tumble on day 1 & 2 of GASA Mash Meet
Female swimmers display pristine form; van Lange & Stephenson set the pace By Franklin Wilson A total of 11 records have been shattered in two days and a number of others are in jeopardy going into the final day today of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association/Mashramani Meet taking place at the Castelani Pool, Homestretch Avenue. [...]
The budget and debates have become a sham
The days when the government’s annual budget presentation to the National Assembly would cause high expectation are gone. The people’s eyes have been opened to the sham that the annual budget and the parliamentary debates have become. This feeling, I believe, developed because people see no connection between what is painted in the Finance Minister’s [...]
Tiger Woods has my sympathy
The past few days were mindboggling. I had to sit and hear about a man who seems to have a hearty sex appetite and who wants help to curb it. He wants this help so bad that he is going to therapy. Well he is either a lucky son of a gun or a stupid [...]
THE 2010 BUDGET: LONG ON WORDS; SHORT ON VISION
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, presented his 2010 Budget to the National Assembly on Monday, February 11, 2010, with his predictable boast of it being the largest in Guyana’s history. However, after he had spent three hours outlining his $142.8 billion Budget, Guyanese were still at a loss to discern how this Budget would [...]
All set for Rising Sun Race Meet today
A lot of excitement is anticipated today when the Rising Sun Turf Club stages its grand annual one day horserace meet, at the club’s track on the West Coast of Berbice. A massive $3million in cash and other prizes have been put up by the organisers for the event which has seven races planned, starting [...]
Sorry to disappoint you on this one
I have extremely liberal views, so extensive that I can easily be classified as an unrealistic person. But I take my values seriously. I believe in these conceptualizations sincerely and I cling to them tenaciously. They are not unchanging (in life never say never) but at the moment, that is how I have philosophized on [...]
