Dover pleased with progress of Lady Jags
Female World Cup qualifiers set to kick off next week at GCC Assistant Lady Jags Coach Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover said he is pleased with the level of work being put in by the local based Lady jags ahead of group A action in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifying competition. Guyana will be [...]
Official release confirms K/News story
Shiv only Guyanese picked, Gayle not selected By Sean Devers in Trinidad Kaieteur Sport, in Monday’s story of the regional cricket match between Guyana and the Leeward Islands broke the news that West Indies Captain Chris Gayle was not selected for the 20/20 clash here on Sunday between West Indies and Zimbabwe. It was also [...]
National TT team preparations underway
Senior players lending assistance to GTTA The National Table Tennis Mini-Cadet, Cadet and Junior team preparations are underway at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with some senior national players assisting the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) with the massive squads. Up to Sunday, Kaieteur Sport caught up with General Secretary of the GTTA, Godfrey Munroe, [...]
Scrap metal dealership frustrates residents
The residents of Eccles have expressed their frustration at the operations of the scrap metal merchant who operates at 148 Cowpen Street, East Bank Demerara. They say that the operation causes rat infestation; it creates a noise nuisance and hazardous dust particles and presents an unsightly surrounding. According to a resident, the scrap metal business [...]
Congratulations to Rising Sun Turf Club
- GPF members did a fine job as well By Rawle Welch Congratulations must be extended to the Organising Committee of the Rising Sun Turf Club for pulling off a well run Mashramani Race Meeting last Sunday, at Arima Park on the West Coast of Berbice. Perhaps, mindful of the unhelpful criticisms that surfaced in [...]
Legendary Kipketer for Gibson Relays
KENYAN-BORN former Danish middle-distance runner Wilson Kipketer will be a special attendee at this year’s Gibson Relays at the National Stadium and will be the speaker in the ‘Technical Corner’ at the GC Foster College today at 7:00pm. Kipketer won successive gold medals in the 800m at the World Championships in Gothenburg 1995, Athens 1997, [...]
Mandela landfill fire under control
City Hall is awaiting the report from the solid waste director and has closed off three- quarters of the landfill site at Mandela Avenue, according to Public Relations Officer (PRO) Royston King. He said that with the assistance of Ministry of Local Government, the Guyana Fire Service and with City Halls resources the fire at [...]
Begin the transformation process
Dear Editor, Partial progress for this nation is that all of us have got to change or mind set towards image transformation and the world will look at us differently in the positive. Come 2011, general elections will be held and whichever direction the results goes, I can only hope that civil society can begin [...]
US citizen busted with 7 kilos of cocaine
A St. Vincent-born United States citizen is currently in police custody after she was found with seven kilograms of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning. The woman who has since been identified as Anesha Joseph, was caught around 08:20 hours by ranks of the Police Narcotic Branch. This newspaper was told that [...]
Kissoon never wrote explicitly or implicitly that Dev works in Office of the President
Dear Editor, First, your daily columnist, Mr. Freddie Kissoon, has truly become a proverbial thorn in the sides of many people, but especially those on the side of the PPP and its government. I believe he is intelligent enough to understand the rationale behind the choice of his topics and brave enough to stand up [...]
Another way to celebrate Youman Nabi
Dear Editor, The Muslim community is being encouraged by no less than the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) and the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) to reflect on the life of the greatest benefactor to mankind, Muhammad, on an occasion granted by Government as a National “holy-day” – Youman Nabi or “Day of the Prophet”. [...]
Threat or obsession or both?
Writing in the letter pages of this paper yesterday, Dr. Prem Misir let it be known that “Freddie Kissoon and gang are no threat to the Government.” Before I come to that I need to contextualize in common parlance what is meant by the Three Musketeers (the term I used on Monday to describe Misir, [...]
No word from the Ministry of Education or NCERD on the non-graduate course
Dear Editor, In September 2007 the first batch of teachers began the National Centre for Education Research and Development (NCERD) Non- Graduate Course for Secondary School Teachers. This two-year programme was conducted through the distance mode and focused in empowering teachers in the areas of Mathematics and English Language. Several teachers across the country signed [...]
NOT THE JOB FOR ‘THE DONALD’
‘Reshuffle’ means to shuffle again or to rearrange and make new. This is an inapplicable word to apply to the Cabinet reorganizations that have taken place infrequently over the years. What we have interpreted as a Cabinet reshuffle is nothing more than tinkering with a few Ministries. We had that in the past when an [...]
Indebted Berbician takes poison
A 46-year-old Palmyra, East Canje man was yesterday discovered dead in his house, hours after his estranged wife winged out of the country for Curacao. Dead is Motilall Mangal, a seaman and hire car driver, of lot 23 Palmyra, East Canje, Berbice. The man reportedly drank half-litre of what is believed to be Gramoxone. His [...]
Lethem police nab Brazilian cop killer
Police in the Rupununi have 19-year-old William DaSilva in custody bringing an end to a pursuit for at least one member of a group that killed a Brazilian policeman in 2007. In that year three men killed a Brazilian policeman by slashing his throat. They then took his weapon and fled. Da Silva managed to [...]
Pulsating music, gyrations characterise Guyana’s 40th Republic Anniversary
By Michael Benjamin The liquor flowed freely as revelers imbibed, some slowly, others as though there would be no tomorrow. The refreshing sound of Guyanese music filled the air. Revelers gyrated to Vanilla’s ‘High’ and Bones Man’s ‘Mash is we own,’ each artiste vying for the Road March (King or Queen). Yes, the signs were [...]
Parliamentary records tampered with
– Ramjattan Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is charging that the Parliamentary Hansard has been tampered with. Ramjattan was referring to the session that relates to the controversial $4 billion allocation which was allotted to the Housing Ministry. The process was being questioned by the AFC Chairman. Ramjattan said that the answer which [...]
<<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble
News does travel far and fast and dem boys seh that nuff news traveling. One news is that New Building Society in trouble and is serious trouble. De news is that de NBS about to collapse. Only de other day de NBS release figures that it very solvent, till it building a new office. But [...]
Retired Rosignol headmaster kills self
- licensed gun found near body Police are probing the suspected suicide of retired headmaster and popular businessman Aubrey Alexander, who was found dead at around 14:00 hrs yesterday in his Welcome Street, Rosignol home. Alexander’s body bore a single gunshot wound to the head and his licensed .32 revolver in the left hand. Relatives [...]
Finance Minister goes back in time as debates end
- Corbin says Budget imposes burdens Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh took a waltz back in time on Monday in vehement defence of the 2010 budget, quoting “Man No.1” and “Man No.2” from newspaper reports on the budget of 1989 as he wrapped up the Parliamentary debates. He reminded the House of a time gone [...]
Mash in Lethem sizzles
The Department of Education, Region Nine, copped the first prize in the Lethem Mashramani Float Parade through the streets of Central Rupununi yesterday. With their float depicting the six races of Guyana, the winners took away a trophy, compliments of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry and a cash prize of $70,000. They beat [...]
NDIA brings water from Upper Mahaica for drought-hit farmers
Efforts to utilize fresh water 27 miles up the Mahaica River for drought-hit agricultural cultivations and cattle on the coast, are expected to be completed today. Construction of a canal leading from the right bank of the Mahaica River at Kuliserabo to the Perth Biaboo Main Canal, running parallel to the river and about four [...]
Absent witnesses stall murder trial
- Judge threatens to issue warrants The absence of two prosecution witnesses brought an early end to the murder trial of Khemraj Gopaul, of Angoy’s Avenue, on Monday. Gopaul is on trial at the Berbice High Court before Justice Winston Patterson and a mixed jury for the August 17, 2005 murder of Nethu Singh, the [...]
RHT Gizmos & Gadgets crush Skeldon to reach semis
A youthful Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadget (RHTG&G) team missing five if its senior players to national and Trinidad club duties crushed Skeldon Community Centre (SCC) by 126 runs to reach the semi-finals of the Ramcharitar/Berbice Cricket Board 40 overs first division tournament which bowled off on Saturday last with six matches. RHTG&G, the [...]
