The campus at Tain has competent people to lecture English major courses
Dear Editor, I believe persons wishing to choose English as their option or major at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus are at a sore disadvantage, since this cannot be possible unless one travels to Turkeyen. I applied last year to major in English and was told after a few weeks that it would not [...]
Rotary Club donates books to Marian Academy
- several other schools to benefit from similar gestures The Rotary Club of Georgetown yesterday handed over a set of literature books it had received from the Chairman of Food For the Poor, Paul Chan-A-Sue, in what was the first of several other similar ventures to be undertaken. Former President of the Rotary Club of [...]
South America’s real life Tarzan
Dear Editor, As a child I watched several Tarzan movies and read lots of Tarzan comic books and I saw Tarzan fighting lions and tigers and defeating these man-eating animals. The man in the story published in the Kaieteur News of Wednesday the 28th April, is South America’s real life Tarzan. Any man who fought [...]
Windies clear favourites tonight against Ireland
…But Simmons hoping to spoil country-men’s party By Sean Devers Despite their shocking loss to New Zealand in their only warm-up game on Wednesday night after they appeared to have the match all wrapped up, host West Indies are clear favourites to beat ICC qualifiers Ireland in their opening match of the ICC 20/20 World [...]
Former judges who became entrants for the Guyana Prize should have been disqualified
Dear Editor, I refer to a very fascinating letter published in the Kaieteur News 26/04/2010, written by Ruel Johnson under the caption: ‘’The Guyana Prize Committee should take a stand against the erasure of the national prize for literature.’’ In Mr. Johnson’s letter he addressed a number of issues pertaining to the Guyana Prize for [...]
Parliamentarians inspect Skeldon sugar factory
- facility reaching 200 tonnes of cane per hour The Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economics, comprising government and opposition member, on Wednesday inspected the US$185M flagship state-of-the-art Skeldon sugar factory which was commissioned last August by President Bharrat Jagdeo. The committee, which comprised members of the People’s National Congress Reform, Winston Murray, Mervyn Williams, Dave [...]
A pristine and pure society cannot exist where there is unfettered freedom to engage in vulgarities and immoralities
The Editor, Politicians the world over behave as if they have the cure for all that ails humanity. Yet the record shows that all they have accomplished is to create unforeseen mayhem and confusion as they make and enforce laws in vain attempts to curb simple social ills. Here in Guyana, Minister Priya Manikchand is [...]
Two thrilling matches expected tonight as Mayor’s Cup Football semis loom
Its crunch time and the wheat will be separated from the chaff as four of the top teams competing for top honours in the Mayor’s Cup Football Championships clash for semi-finals places in two pulsating quarter-final matches commencing at 18:00hrs tonight. In the first encounter the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) oppose Uprising while the nightcap [...]
An appeal to Shivnarine Chanderpaul: Don’t accept that gift
I called the Pegasus Hotel twice this week to speak to Shivnarine Chanderpaul but he was out. An arrangement was made on Wednesday for me to see him at the Stadium and at a practice session the next day. UG work and Labour Day commitments prevented me. I am still going to make an effort [...]
Globalisation and Labour
Tomorrow will be Labour Day. It is a public holiday in recognition of the signal role that workers play in the life of our nation. For us in Guyana – a country in which the ancestors of almost ninety percent of the population were brought from other lands precisely for their labour – that role [...]
Cops using cameras to spy on females in lockups – former inmates
- Rohee dismisses allegations as blatant lie Now that the Brickdam Lock-ups which houses male detainees has been rehabilitated, two former inmates of the East La Penitence facility have expressed concerns for the well being of the females who are left to wallow in the filth that has overrun the facility. The two women who [...]
Brand-new Essequibo stelling falling apart
…supporting pontoon sinks in river A pontoon anchoring the ramp of the multi-million-dollar stelling at Good Hope, Essequibo, sank Monday night forcing yet another delay in the commissioning of the facility. Minister of Public Works and Transport, Robeson Benn, confirming the incident yesterday, disclosed that work was being done on the pontoon but unusually high [...]
Widespread corruption undermines poverty-reduction efforts – states 2010 Economic Freedom Report
Guyana’s economic freedom score is 48.4, making its economy the 153rd freest in the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. The report however stresses that Guyana’s overall score remains the same as last year because improvements in three of the 10 economic freedoms were offset by declines in investment freedom and property rights. Guyana is ranked [...]
Dem boys seh…Some people don’t need experience
People does do some stupidness and when de ell phone become so common place is more stupidness. In de States de cell phones causing problem. Dem have some real stupid people who driving and texting at de same time. Dem killing people. Then dem have people who refusing to talk pun de phone. Instead dem [...]
One dead, three injured in Sparendaam crash
(By Mondale Smith) An accident on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of Ben Profitt Drive, Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara, early yesterday morning, has claimed the life of one woman and left three others injured. Dead is former Kaieteur News reporter Kishana DaSilva, aged 23, of Bel Air, Georgetown. Her cousin Alana DaSilva is [...]
Woeful Windies find another way to lose
Despite good bowling and belligerent 53 from Chanderpaul By Sean Devers at Providence West Indies, aiming to go one spot further than their semi-final placing in the last ICC 20/20 World Cup in England, appeared to be coasting at 86-1 hunting 125 for a confidence boasting victory ahead of their opening match against Ireland under [...]
FIFA Representatives address findings with GFF
By Rawle Welch Despite not finalising their recommendations, FIFA Senior Manager of Member Associations Services Urs Zanitti and Marketing Consultant of Member Associations Professionalism Programme Chris Collie told members of the media last Tuesday evening, at the Golden Coast Restaurant that they’ve addressed some of their findings with the executive of the Guyana Football Federation [...]
Mayor’s Cup quarter-finals continue tomorrow
Play continues tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club ground when action in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football championship resumes with quarter-final play starting at 6:00pm with a double header. The double header opens with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) opposing Uprising, while the nightcap brings together Alpha United and Riddim Squad. Teams in this round [...]
Lady Jags for one-week camp in Canada ahead of WGC 2nd round
The Guyana Football Federation is leaving no stones unturned as they seek to whip the National female team (Lady Jags) into top shape ahead of Second Round action in the Caribbean Football Union Women’s Gold Cup Qualifying competition in the Twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, next month. The Lady Jags will be involved [...]
ALBOUYSTOWN CARRY GEORGETOWN’S HOPE TONIGHT
By Edison Jefford Hundreds of basketball enthusiasts in Georgetown are expected to turn out to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall tonight to support the only City team that has a chance of reaching the Mackeson Super Ward Basketball Championship Final. After North Ruimveldt’s surprise exit Sunday night when Linden’s Central Mackenzie defeated them in the [...]
Horrifying tale of seven-year-old’s abuse revealed in court
Twenty two-year-old Royden Benn called ‘Royden Daniels’ or ‘Dougla man’ of Angoy’s Avenue (Cow Dam) and formerly of Pomeroon was on Wednesday refused bail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court on three charges of violating his seven-year-old stepdaughter. The man is charged with carnally knowing the girl [...]
Champion of Earth Award puts Guyana in positive spotlight – Jagdeo
Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo who is one of the recipients of the Champion of the Earth Award says that the recognition puts Guyana in a positive light and will have good results for the country. Jagdeo made the pronouncement during a welcome home reception held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, on Tuesday, where [...]
GFF Female Inter Association League to continue on Saturday
Lethem will kick off their quest for top honours in the Guyana Football Federation Female Inter Association League on Saturday when they host the winless East Demerara Football Association ladies. East Coast lost both their games to date, 0-7 to leaders and defending champions Georgetown and 2-3 to Bartica, both matches played at the Enmore [...]
Hole-in-heart patient remains grateful 15 years later
Gopattie Hariprashad remembers being told her son would only live to be perhaps 13. Today, that son, Munilal Hariprashad, celebrates his 22nd birthday, and she has a long list of people and organizations to thank for that. Munilal, now an electrician is also married, a prospect his mother could never have imagined. When he was [...]
Theophilus threatens to make Gilkes see ‘blue’ in pro/Am boxing extravaganza
By Michael Benjamin Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes bared his fangs at Theophilus King and subsequently threatened to out his lights when the fighters scheduled to participate in the Guyana Boxing Board of Control’s Friday Night fights scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Saturday May 1 next, convened for a live press conference at the [...]
