Blyden scores 1st ton in T&T’s 50-over League
By Sean Devers in Trinidad GDF all-rounder Travis Blyden registered the first century in this year’s 50-over Championship League here in Trinidad with a shot-filled 110 with 9 fours and 3 sixes for Rousillac United against hosts Woodland Cricket Team over the weekend. Blyden also turned in a useful all-round showing the next day as [...]
Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin new record holders
Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin are the new record holders of the three-hour Endurance Race after they registered 121 laps to erase the old mark of 120 laps during last Sunday’s Guyana Motor racing & Sports Club event, at the South Dakota Circuit. From a starting grid that saw 24 cars line-up, the Roshandins, who drove [...]
MOM Budhan Baksh leads Farm A to 13 run win over Farm C
A fine all round performance from Man-of-the-match Budhan Baksh guided Farm C to an exciting 13 run win over their A team in the final of the F&H Printing Establishment sponsored Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) organised Inter-Jamaat ten10 cricket competition which concluded yesterday at the MYO ground, Woolford Avenue. Triumph defeated Providence Jamaat in the [...]
Fox /Dr. Surujbally claim Doubles title
Reigning 55 and over doubles champions Maxie Fox and Steve Surujbally outplayed Bobby Khan/Roy Rampersaud 6-1, 7-5 to maintain their dominance in that category as play in the Mings Products & Services Tennis Tournament opened last Friday, at the Pegasus Hardcourts. In the Men’s 35 & over Singles division, Andre Lopes weathered an early onslaught [...]
Mike Brusche had the best aggregate in Guyana’s 1968 Boa Vista Tour
Dear Editor, Guyana National Basketball team, led by Eagles Compton Nicholson, played unbeaten on their 1968 tour of Boa Vista Brazil. The Parade Ground Ballers started the Brazil Mission with an emphatic 43 to 28 points victory over Bare Basketball Club. Skipper Compton Nicholson top scored with 18 points. Guyana then humbled Notria 49 to [...]
The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors
Dear Editor, Queen’s College is the premier secondary institution in this country, it has produced presidents, prime ministers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, businessmen only to mention a few. I and all my siblings have passed through this great and noble institution. It was only a few days ago when I was at a social gathering overseas [...]
The negative aspects of homosexuality are due to society’s attitude
Dear Editor, We should stand in revulsion against, and do all we can to oppose, the prejudice, the hatreds, and the condemnation of a society that make the homosexual’s life so difficult. The evidence is overwhelming that our society is pervaded by a strong fear and a deep hatred of lesbians and gay men. This [...]
Kissoon and gang are no threat to this Govt.
Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column of February 22, 2010 in the Kaieteur News. I see now I am in his ‘Three Musketeers’ grouping; in my childhood days, I endeared the reference to me as one of the Corsican brothers; but now Kissoon by the stroke of his pen makes me a [...]
Mabaruma, Lethem hospitals benefiting from roving initiative – Minister Ramsaran
The Ministry of Health has been collaborating with the private sector in its quest to provide crucial medical services to residents of some far flung public health facilities. Already benefiting from this new approach is the new modern Mabaruma Hospital, according to Minister within the Health Ministry, Dr Bheri Ramsaran. The Minister noted that although [...]
Guyana needs to encourage its highly skilled overseas-based people to return
Dear Editor, Columnist, Mr. Kissoon’s piece, “I did not and will not run away from my country. The three Musketeers did” (Kaieteur News February 22, 2010) was utterly distasteful. Mr. Kissoon is a very cantankerous writer. Sometimes he lands very well when he deals with issues of crime in Guyana, but on other issues he [...]
There is truly a time for everything
Dear Editor, Praise the good Lord for the hours upon hours of rain yesterday (23-02-10) in Berbice. There is truly a time for everything. The land and crops must be rejoicing. But I was truly taken aback by a letter in SN (23-02-10) captioned, “Mash often falls within the Lenten season”. The writer stopped short [...]
Armed men attack Mainstay family
Five masked bandits, three of them armed with handguns, attacked the Seecharran family at Mainstay village on the Essequibo Coast last Monday evening. Farmer Sew Vishnu Seecharran said that his little daughter fell asleep and he carried her upstairs to her bed. Whilst returning downstairs, at around 21:10hrs, he said that he was greeted by [...]
Despite challenges, GPHC is a model institution – Health Minister
The notion that people die in hospitals all over the world was emphasised recently by Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy even as he underscored that deaths occurring at local public health facilities do not in any way indicate that a poor service is being offered. The Minister’s articulations were in fact mainly centered on the [...]
Charges pending months after Linden accident
Latoya Hinds, the mother of Akeem Hinds, has been wondering why the driver of a vehicle that crashed in Linden on October 20, last and claimed the life of her son, has not yet been charged. At the time of the accident, the young child and six other family members were in a motorcar when [...]
I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too
In a letter in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, Ravi Dev requested an apology over what he claims is a fiction attributed to him; that is he is an employee of the Office of the President in my column last Monday. I hardly expect someone who has written voluminously on me and penned some very [...]
Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation
Dear Editor, I refer to Ms Janet Bulkan’s letter under the caption “President statement does not appear to accord with the MOU”, (SN, 14-02-10). I wish to raise the following points in relation to this letter. 1. Contrary to what Balkan outlines in her letter, Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation or zero [...]
WHAT AESTHETICS?
It is a bitter irony that the government could have co-sponsored a photographic display which included exhibits of our architectural heritage while at the same time erecting a massive security building on the grounds of the former ‘Residence’ on Vlissengen Road. That building, which was the former official residence of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, now [...]
Delivering the goods
Now that we may be possibly resting after the labours of celebrating our Republic’s 40th Anniversary via Mashramani gyrations, hopefully we can spare a thought or two about the Republic itself. Long gone are the euphoric days of 1970 when we severed all ties with Britain: we were now masters of our fate; captains of [...]
Will Lindeners see a distinctive qualitative change in the functions of the various administrations?
Dear Editor, The year 2010 has come upon us in like manner as every other community across our country, but what I think is the distinguishing factor between us and other communities is the difference in the luggage of yesterday which we have brought over to 2010 and must be attended to. This is the [...]
Improvement in Education Sector dependent on partnerships – Baksh
Students’ performances in the areas of Mathematics and English, though not flattering in recent years, is in fact not peculiar to Guyana since other Caribbean territories are experiencing similar problems. At least this is the observation of Education Minister, Shaik Baksh, who opined that the situation is evidently improving. His convictions were amplified during his [...]
Businessman shoots self dead with Uzi
A single gunshot rang out just after 10:00hrs yesterday in Marudi Street, Lamaha Gardens. Police subsequently found 36-year-old Nerbert Gerald Orlando Harris dead in his two-storey home. Reports suggest that the businessman shot himself shortly after he entered his home. Had it not been for an alert female off duty police rank, Harris’s body might [...]
Armed bandits invade cop’s home
Police are questioning two taxi drivers from a popular city service in connection with an armed robbery last night at the home of a Police Sergeant in Triumph, East Coast Demerara. Police believe that the two drivers controlled the getaway cars in which the five bandits fled after relieving the Jaikarran family and a neighbour [...]
Scientists retract paper on rising sea levels due to errors
Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results. The study was published in Nature Geoscience and predicted that sea levels would rise by as much as 2.7 feet by the end of the twenty-first [...]
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 [...]
Region One rules at Children’s road parade 2010
(By Mondale Smith) After a day of sparkling, colourful, topical, relevant and cute displays at the nation’s 2010 Children’s road parade that featured tots, teens and young adults from the 11 education districts, the results are in. Region One, through its theme of ‘Embracing our Diversity, Celebrating our Heritage’ ruled the competition beating Region Three [...]
