Synergy must complete 1/4 mile per day to meet deadline – project document
The start date for the Amaila Falls road project has been revised from April 12, to April 15. Makeshwar Fip Motilall, Head of Synergy Holdings Inc, has eight weeks to survey the site for road and present a plan. The contract is for a design and build project. This plan will be examined by a [...]
90,000 ID cards still uncollected
Old cards could be decommissioned soon-GECOM warns By Leonard Gildarie The Guyana Elections Commision (GECOM) has expressed worry over 90,000 National Identification Cards (ID) which are still uncollected. GECOM, in notices published in the daily newspapers yesterday, said that it is concerned that tens of thousands of registrants, who were registered during the 2009 house-to-house [...]
More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM
As International Day of the Midwife is observed, major emphasis is being placed on the fact that there is a dire need for midwives globally. According to a statement issued by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), “The world needs midwives now more than ever!” According to the ICM as the world’s midwives marked International [...]
Dem boys seh…Guyana got nuff Champion
Awards is something that does mek people feel proud and dem have some that does mek people get vex. Dem is de award that does insult. For example, dem boys like de award that Bharrat get. In fact, de man get two; one is a doctor fuh he economic skills. But is de second one [...]
West Demerara goes back in time on Arrival Day
The West Demerara Indian Religious, Social and Cultural Organisation put on another impressive display of bygone culture of the East Indians who began arriving in this country 172 years ago. Several mandirs from West Demerara set up elaborate floats which displayed different aspects of the way of life of East Indians of long ago. Most [...]
GDF hosts Holy Name Nursery School pupils at Base Camp Ayanganna
In keeping with its policy of building and fostering partnerships and goodwill with the wider society, the Guyana Defence Force hosted 21 pupils from the Holy Name Nursery School of Riversview East Bank Essequibo. The children were accompanied by their parents and teachers when they visited Base Camp Ayanganna last Friday. The students were given [...]
Reputed husband refutes allegations of torched Linden house
Brent Lewis, the former reputed husband of the mother of his five children, who allegedly torched a neighbour’s home on Saturday night is claiming that it is a frivolous allegation to tarnish the woman’s character. Brent Lewis, yesterday, told Kaieteur News that the structure that Linieka Roopnaraine and her mother, Tarawattie Beharry, are claiming the [...]
More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM
As International Day of the Midwife is observed, major emphasis is being placed on the fact that there is a dire need for midwives globally. According to a statement issued by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), “The world needs midwives now more than ever!” According to the ICM as the world’s midwives marked International [...]
US-based union to seek punitive measures against Guyana Government
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199, United Healthcare Workers East is threatening to urge the United States of America take punitive action against the Guyana Government if the current seven-month old impasse between the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union and the Bauxite Company of Guyana is not amicably resolved soon. The US- based organization [...]
GDF rescues lost dental health team en route to St Cuthbert’s Mission
It was a small undertaking but the mandate to serve and protect was very much in effect when a squad of Guyana Defence Force ranks went out on a mission to rescue a dental outreach team that had lost its way en route to St Cuthbert’s Mission. The trip should have been a routine one [...]
Scrap metal dealers eyeing legislations to police industry
- elect new executive The Guyana Scrap Metal Dealers Association (GCMDA), currently facing a crisis after Government banned exports last week in the wake of an increase in vandalism, says that it wants to propose a legislative framework that will assist in managing the industry. The association made the revelations yesterday in a statement which [...]
Inclement weather could postpone AAG U-23 meet
The dark clouds now hover over this weekend’s Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Under-23 Championships following the advent of the rainy season that seriously affected the World Twenty/20 Matches that were held in Guyana. It is clear from local weather reports that the May/June rainy season is here, which places outdoor sports events such as [...]
Local drivers, riders gearing up for C/Bean Series
- King, Vieira to lead Guyana’s challenge Local drivers and riders gearing up to participate in the opening event of the 2010 Caribbean Motor Racing Series in Jamaica on May 24 will have to return next week to get their machines shipped. This is according to a close source, who told Kaieteur Sport that the [...]
Motion of No Confidence in Nadir tabled again
Initially rejected by the Speaker of the National Assembly, the motion of No Confidence brought by the PNC/R against Minister Manzoor Nadir has been accepted after revisions and is now tabled for discussion in that forum. On April 7, the PNC/R presented the clerk of the National Assembly with a Motion of ‘no confidence’ in [...]
Buxton man peeved at constant police harassment
A Buxton, East Coast Demerara resident believes that he is being specifically targeted by the police because of his past alleged connections with wanted men who had used the village as a hideout during the 2002-2007 crime wave. Delroy Jack, who is also known as ‘Pan Head’, had some of his hair torn out by [...]
Hugh Ross honours veteran Bodybuilder Lindie Sharpe
63-year-old Louis Deane also recognised Seven-time Mr. Guyana Lindie Sharpe who hails from the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden was honoured by Hugh Arlington Ross for his immense contributions to the sport of Bodybuilding in Guyana. Hailed as a true son of the soil, the 53-year-old Lindener who, as many said on Sunday night last, [...]
St. Agnes, MEI, St. Sidwell among winners
St. Agnes, Monar Educational Institute (MEI), ABC Academy, East La Penitence and St. Sidwell’s were the latest winners in this year’s Annual Regional Primary Schools Windball Cricket Championships which continued recently, at the Carifesta Sports Complex. In the day’s full results: (Boys)- ABC beat St. Andrew’s by 9 wickets. St. Andrew’s took first strike and [...]
Friends Inc. stages 3rd Annual Grass Track Meeting on May 23
- Proceeds in aid of charity The country’s top grass track riders have already confirmed participation in this year’s GT&T Cellink Plus / Friends Inc. Meeting which is in aid of charity that will be held on Sunday, May 23, at the Ogle Community Centre ground. According to the Organisers, the categories that will be [...]
Fortune cops best legs trophy at Second HRC
Compliments of Donald Sinclair Ms Body Fitness Open winner Alisha Fortune, who successfully retained the top spot at the Second Edition of the Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding & Fitness Show, also copped the Donald Sinclair trophy for having the best legs among the four competitors. A member of the Guyana Defence Force Gym, like her [...]
Super Ward Finals to set new standards
- referees trained, sponsors recommit By Edison Jefford The dynamism of the inaugural Mackeson Super Ward Basketball Championships should be further emphasised this weekend when the Final begins against a lucrative backdrop of further commitments from sponsors and improved officiating. Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Trevor Rose [...]
Withholding of teachers’ salaries is unlawful
Dear Editor, So is this what life in this democracy has come to; teachers cannot be paid their April salaries? I read with disgust the article in last Sunday’s Kaieteur News and I am perturbed at the level our officials would sink to, what is clearly a twisted act to confuse and punish teachers attending [...]
Two remanded on rape
A 30-year-old who was imbibing alcohol with his neighbour, of Devonshire Castle, Essequibo Coast, on April 9, last was remanded to prison on Monday on a charge of rape. Mohan Roopdaneshwar was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge when he appeared before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty. The man and the victim, [...]
President showed extremely poor judgment attending IAC ceremony honouring Chanderpaul
Dear Editor, Prodigious West Indian cricketer, Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul, deserves to be recognised as a Guyanese sportsman who earned himself an international reputation while helping to keep Guyana recognised in the world of cricket, much like the many great Guyanese cricketers before him who played for the West Indies. He has a street in Georgetown [...]
Private schools urged to raise the bar -Minister Baksh
Private educational institutions have a role to play in enhancing the local education standard. Provisions have been made in the new education legislation to ensure this happens, says Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh. The Minister made the announcement at the recent ceremonial opening, earlier this week, of the new School of the Nations building located [...]
How can some of us be so gullible?
Dear Editor, I am very happy reading in Kaieteur News (05-05-10) that the police are hunting for the ‘fake healers/fortune tellers’ from India. I wish they will also hunt such persons who are Guyanese who daily ‘pray’ for sick people in order to prey on them. Many Guyanese, both literate and illiterate are steeped in [...]
