Everyone is healthy and I’m satisfied with the progress – Rodrigues
“Everyone is healthy, the starters are in excellent shape and I’m satisfied with the progress we’ve made so far,” were the confident words expressed by Technical Director of Guyana’s ‘Lady Jaguars’ Mark Rodrigues shortly after they wrapped up another training session yesterday afternoon at the GCC ground. Rodrigues is being assisted by National Coach Wayne [...]
Suriname/St Vincent and the Grenadines battle in Women’s World Cup qualifiers
The Women’s World Cup football qualifiers are set to kick off tomorrow afternoon when St Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname square off at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground. Suriname arrived in the country yesterday afternoon and the St Vincentians are scheduled to arrive sometime today. Guyanese footballers open their quest for honours against the [...]
Marvin Richards cops best lifter award at GAPF Novices
Essequibo’s Kenneth Melville sets new squat record Marvin Richards of Buddies Gym, competing in the 90kg division was crowned the best lifter at the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Novices Championship which was held on Sunday last at the Saint Stanislaus College Auditorium Brickdam, Georgetown. Runner-up to the overall winner, 20 year old Kenneth Melville [...]
West Indies announce team for 1st and 2nd Digicel ODIs
The West Indies selectors have named their team for the 1st and 2nd Digicel One-Day Internationals against Zimbabwe at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence set for Thursday, March 4 and Saturday, March 6. Chris Gayle is back at the helm after missing the 20/20 clash, which the Windies lost on Friday in Trinidad. The [...]
DCB calls 26 U-15 players to practice sessions
The Demerara Cricket Board selectors named twenty-six players for practice secessions starting today March 2 at the Malteenoes Sports Club Ground and concluding with a practice match on Friday March 5. The final fourteen will be selected on Friday afternoon to compete in the GCB/Castrol Inter-County U-15 Competition. The 14 will have further practice sessions on Monday [...]
Ramdhani siblings feature in John Deer Mash Badminton tourney
The Genequip Farm Supplies (John Deer) Mashramani Badminton Junior Singles and Doubles Tournament concluded last Sunday, at the Queens College Badminton Courts with the Ramdhani siblings featuring in matches played. Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani were among the title winners. In Results from the matches played: Under-15 Boys Singles Finals: Narayan Ramdhani defeated Kevin Quaicoe: 21-11, [...]
Moen Gafoor back in winners’ row after sterling performance
Moen Gafoor rebounded from a dismal performance in the just concluded Youman Nabi scrabble tournament, where he failed to earn a podium spot, to out-spell a field of worthwhile contenders and cart off the Phagwah Open tournament when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged that tournament at the Malteenoes Cricket Club, Thomas lands [...]
Queen’s baton relay touches down in Lethem
The Queen’s baton relay moved to Lethem in Region 9 on Saturday after earlier in the week making its trek around Georgetown. Regional Chairman of Region 9 Clarindo Lucas received the baton and sent the relay on its way, which took a course through the streets of the Lethem, Tabatinga area after commencing from Tabatinga [...]
Windwards clinch 1st innings points to share cellar position with Guyana
By Sean Devers in Grenada In association with Lifetime Reality Guyana’s miserable campaign in the 2010 Regional 4-Day cricket tournament ended in anti climax yesterday at the Grenada National Stadium when their final round game against the Windwards was called strangely off at Tea after the host had taken 1st innings points in the drawn [...]
Heartening to see Guyanese appreciating a non-traditional sport
Dear Editor, North American-based Guyanese seem to have enjoyed the final for the gold medal in ice hockey between the US and Canada. That was the subject of this conversation on Sunday night (28-02-10) and again on Monday (01-03-10). There was much jubilation and cheers as Guyanese talked about how their teams scored their goals [...]
Can someone give this man a lecture on moral rules?
My contention has been that the two Office of the President propagandists, Prem Misir and Randy Persaud, are not engaged in moral obligation to the President of Guyana and by extension the Guyana Government, because of their insistence to air their views, thoughts and ideas in the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Two reasons explain [...]
The modern history of Afghanistan is really a history of Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud
Dear Editor, In the news headlines, we always hear about Afghanistan, but yet we know nothing much about the politics and history of that rugged country; a history which might surprise many readers when one contemplates the life and times of Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, a Sunni Muslim born on September 2, 1953 and assassinated [...]
There is a need for an Inspector General’s office
The Alliance For Change reportedly stayed away from the final day of Budget Debate over what they perceived as a failure of the Minister of Housing and Water to provide satisfactory answers in relation to their questions over a four-billion-dollar supplementary provision that was passed by the House last year. The Alliance For Change wants [...]
Thanks to Gem, Ron and team for giving us another treat
Dear Editor Having a laugh is said to be a good medicine, but having a good laugh at the expense of politicians and public personalities is almost the best of all medicine. The LINKSHOW this year was indeed a good production with some moments of ups and downs. Young and veteran actors took the audience [...]
GuySuCo cannot turnaround with whim and whip
Dear Editor, When one reads the presentation made by the Honorable Minister of Agriculture to the Economic Services Committee of Parliament in July 2008, one is left to wonder, how the Jagdeo regime could have gotten it so wrong less than two years after. He stated in that presentation that sugar production in 2010 would [...]
Is decentralising Mashramani the right way to go?
Dear Editor, Decentralisation of various services to rural areas in Guyana was done in order for citizens to access the same service offered in an urban area, so as to avoid persons having to travel to the city areas. However, over time these same decentralised services became more or less diluted in their quality while [...]
Promoting a presidential candidate
Dear Editor, Your columnist Peeping Tom has, over the past year or more, been promoting Mr. Donald Ramotar’s qualifications for the PPP’s nomination as its presidential candidate. Up to Peeping Tom’s most recent effort, all he or she could manage was to tout Mr. Ramotar as a ‘nice’ man and as a ‘good’ man. In [...]
Water is fast disappearing
It must be a blessing that Guyana is a Land of Many Waters because the harsh effects of El Niño have not yet hit home. People still operate car washes in the city using power hoses every day and people still leave taps running. Fortunately, Guyana Water Inc. seems to have a lid on leaking [...]
