$580M road project to finish by year-end
NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Residents of East Berbice/Corentyne are to derive benefits from a special multi-million road programme funded by the Ministries of Public Works and Finance. Chairman of Region Six, Zulfikar Mustapha said the venture commenced in 2009 and is expected to wrap up by year-end. According to him, the total package is worth [...]
Belvedere Industrial Site fails to attract many businesses
BELVEDERE VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – So far only ten entities have expressed an interest in establishing businesses at the Belvedere Industrial Site on the Corentyne and these applications date back to 2008. Chairman of Region Six, Zulfikar Mustapha, said that Government is now re-focusing its attention on the site and if more persons grab the opportunity [...]
Teen cancer victim in need of help
STANLEYTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Fifteen-year old Trinemcon Tracey Martin of Lot 46 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam has neuroblastoma, a rare cancer of the central nervous system. Her relatives have been told that there is no hope for her, but Trinemcon is determined to try to beat the odds and live a normal life. And the family [...]
The critical factors in selecting a leader for a ‘big tent’
Dear Editor, There has been a lot of talk, in the SN and Kaieteur News, about who should lead a “big tent” opposition in the 2011 elections and what we have is commentary on what each writer perceives – all without a consultation process involving the citizens of this country. Some say we must get [...]
Many drivers are in a hurry on our roads
Dear Editor, The ‘fools’ on the roads in Guyana never cease to amaze me. Many motorists have officially turned the roadways in Guyana into designated sport tracks and are engaging daily in their own Grand Prix. I don’t know how rational I would be seen in stating that we have some of the most dangerous [...]
Learn the mining laws
Dear Editor, I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. M. C. Wilfred on his election as the President of the Guyana Gold, Diamond and Miners Association of Guyana. With the election of a new president of the GGDMA I can assure you that the fight for continued mining in Guyana will be advanced. [...]
The racial divisions of our society are rooted in British colonial rule
Dear Editor, The issue of racial divisions in our society is the responsibility of all Guyanese (in Guyana and abroad). It is good that the British High Commissioner has flagged up this very crucial subject matter, the week of his departure from Guyana. What cannot be disputed is that the British cannot extricate its decisive [...]
JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Guyana is too small and too poor a country to defy the United States of America. Therefore, for all the grandstanding that is taking over the US State Department’s Trafficking in Person’s (TIP) Report for 2010, the Guyana government will eventually have to take action that would allow it to be removed from the US’s [...]
Who will step forward?
Dear Editor, Politics the world knows is a dirty game. It stokes controversy and conflicts and breeds hate, racism, war and genocide. In every continent of the Globe, whether it’s dictatorship, democratic, capitalism, or communist rule, the political arena takes centre stage in its unequivocal dominance and shapes the destiny of a country and its [...]
King Kong sent his goons to disrupt the conference
You had to be there to see before your very eyes the tragedy that is a country named Guyana. Unless this country purges itself of the governmental dominance of the PPP, we are going to implode so terribly that there will be no recovery. As the goons tried to break up the proceedings of an [...]
A virulent and poisonous event
Dear Editor, I condemn in maximum force the diabolical third segment of the event I attended on the 26th June 2010 at the National Library organised by the Guyana Institute for Historical Research. While there were genuine efforts to engage in the productive and informative first and second segment, the event degenerated into a virulent [...]
THE GOALIE DID IT
Albert Camus, author of L’Étranger (The Stranger) is a French-Algerian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. According to the Telegraph newspaper, “He is now recognised as a man who understood the true profundity of football.” Camus once said, “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to [...]
Civil Society in Guyana
Arising in the late seventies, the notion of “civil society” took on a whole new connotation from that of its traditional, historical usage. Classically defined as those institutions outside the state, civil society differed from the family in its reach and scope and from the market in its actuating spirit of volunteerism. From this perspective, [...]
Boat builder recalls his horrifying two-week ordeal with kidnappers
“Me beg them, ‘ow buddy, me get family and dey nah know wheh me gone’. Me beggin dem everyday, me praying and begging dem” Imagine being locked away on a trawler with no land in sight for two weeks after being kidnapped, desperately hoping that your life will be spared and that eventually you will [...]
Festival of the Chariot delights Georgetown
Citizens of Georgetown and those in the city for various activities were treated to a colourful display by the Hare Krishna Movement yesterday. The parade was held under the theme “Parading for Peace, ecological Harmony and Spiritual Unity.” The programme culminated with a cultural show at the Merriman’s Mall. The programme was aimed at bring [...]
Unselfishly committed to the needy
Jimmy Bhojedat is a ‘Special Person’ “My advice to youths in any depressed situation is to not settle for less and always strive for better, because the opportunities are there to succeed.” By Gary Eleazar There are few young people that have made it into this popular Sunday Feature ever since this newspaper commenced its [...]
13-year-old in Sharma rape case, the only protected witness
…adults were only offered accommodation The mother and sisters of a 13-year-old girl at the centre of the carnal knowledge case involving Chandra Narine Sharma recently recanted their stories in an interview conducted by Mark Benschop and Nazima Raghubir of Prime News, sparking rumours that the state-protected witnesses were allowed to be contacted. A source [...]
Dem boys seh….Bharrat Kissoon and Freddie Jagdeo
Uncle Freddie does eat, sleep and dream Bharrat. Dem boys seh that things reach de stage wheh every time Uncle Freddie open he mouth he got to talk bout Bharrat. And he can’t seh nutten nice bout de man. Well Bharrat got a plan. He gun keep Uncle Freddie talking because he know that once [...]
Child abuse higher in Georgetown
Instances of child abuse are more rampant in Georgetown and in the mining town of Linden, the Social Services Statistical Bulletin for 2009 has shown. The Bulletin is produced by the Statistical Unit, Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security. It recorded child abuse cases by sex and age for the period January to [...]
Ex-GDF association commemorates second anniversary
The Ex-Guyana Defense Force (GDF) Association is completing two years as an organisation. The association in a statement disclosed that its membership has just passed the 800 mark and the growth continues. “We have been attending to over 100 ex soldiers (our brothers and sisters) who are now shut-ins. Our list to date numbers 86, [...]
20-yr-old fined for sex with dead
A 20-year-old garbage collector in Berbice has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a dead body after he allegedly exhumed the corpse of an elderly woman and had sex with it. Roopram Bacchus appeared before a Judge on Friday and testified that he had a drinking problem. The Judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation [...]
Honey Sehgal – clearing mind and skin
The Hari Mandir in Amritsar, Punjab, known popularly as the Golden Temple, is the holiest shrine in Sikhism. Although the building itself has great historical and architectural interest, it is the Golden Temple’s great spiritual value for Sikh believers, like Honey Sehgal, that is most meaningful. “You can say it’s like heaven,” she says of [...]
Improved attendance, heightened performances highlight fifth ProAm boxing card
By Michael Benjamin Mandessa Moses thrilled a much-improved crowd with a classical boxing display of two-fisted punching that distinguished her apart from Margaret ‘Chico’ Walcott, earning her a unanimous verdict, when the fifth edition of the ProAm boxing extravaganza concluded at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) Friday evening last. Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes failed [...]
Youth Ministry’s camps to commence in July
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport will be hosting its annual summer camps for students for the August holidays. It is scheduled to commence on July 12 and conclude on August 27. The camps will be set up in all 10 Administrative Regions and youths from around the country will have the opportunity to [...]
The Importance of Play
By Marijke Huybrechts, Speech & Language Therapist, MoH/VSO If you think back to your childhood, some of your fondest childhood memories may include time spent engaging in play. And those simple activities are also probably the ones that taught you some of the most valuable life lessons. That’s why it is important for us to [...]
