“Cutting Styles” emerges from unlikely partnership
The Ministry of Agriculture via the New Guyana Marketing Corporation will partner with Guyana Fashion Weekend today for an event which promises to showcase Guyana’s talent in the culinary arts, utilizing local fresh fruits and vegetables. According to Managing Director of Guyana Fashion Weekend, Sonia Noel, she is very excited that the Ministry of Agriculture [...]
Bess becomes 2nd Berbician Test pacer, but Windies’ struggles continue
By Sean Devers In association with Caribbean Airlines South Africa were 46-2 replying to West Indies’ 231 after the opening day of the 3rd Digicel Test at the Kensington Oval here yesterday on another day dominated by the tourist in the final match of what has been a one-sided series. Skipper Graeme Smith, who scored [...]
Cops fail to find ‘Blacka’
Despite intensive searches yesterday, ranks from Georgetown and Mahdia have failed to find the surviving gunman from last Monday’s Mowasi Landing shootout that left two people dead. The slain dredge owner has since been identified as 20-year-old Devon Baird aka Devon Williams or Davendra, of Mainstay, Essequibo Coast. Police had initially identified the slain man [...]
ACP-EU sign Second Revised Cotonou Agreement
After more than a year of negotiations with the European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the EU this week signed the second five-yearly review of the Cotonou Agreement in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The Cotonou Agreement is the most comprehensive partnership agreement between developing countries and the EU. It is a key [...]
More cocaine intercepted at GPOC
Despite the stringent measures in place, persons in the narcotic trade seem hell bent on trying to smuggle the illegal substance out of the country. On Friday, another person was caught at the General Post Office Corporation trying to post a package with cocaine concealed in it. Reports are that some time around noon a [...]
The Crisis of Management in our Sugar Industry
By R. O. Bostwick The Sugar Industry has always been of supreme importance to our national economy in many respects. Inter alia, it is the largest foreign exchange earner and the most significant contributor to our gross domestic product. In addition, it provides direct employment for well over twenty thousand workers and indirect employment for [...]
Character assassination and the Internet
This week, I want to touch on a topic that I believe not only has relevance right now but is going to receive far greater focus in the upcoming months, in the lead up to the general elections to be precise. That issue is of course the use of the Internet. First I should say [...]
Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations
This year the Guyana Cultural association is attempting to honour a new cross section of Guyanese Society during its annual award exercise. Organisers of the event which forms a part of the Guyana Folk Festival celebrations, have said that this year they are trying to acknowledge, “ … individuals from villages and village communities who [...]
Business Coalition on HIV/AIDs hands out awards
The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Friday evening handed out awards to several companies for their outstanding work in seeking to eliminate HIV/AIDS and the stigma and discrimination against those living with the disease. According to Amanda St Aubyn, the chairperson of the Coalition, the membership is more active than ever before, with marked increases [...]
Patentia Secondary Head Teacher’s home broken into
No matter what comes her way, Gloria Gobin, the Head Teacher of Patentia Secondary School said she will not give up on her 31 years of teaching service. Ever since the shooting to death of one of her students, Kelvin Fraser, the teacher said that she has been under attack from members of her community. [...]
Historical body reviews history, politics, environment
History and the Environment was the theme yesterday as the Guyana Institute of Historical Research staged its third annual conference. Held at the National Library Conference Room, the four panel discussions and opening ceremony spanned the entire day. More than a dozen presenters took to the microphone and expounded on four very distinct subject areas [...]
Scrap metal association not “scrapped”- founder says
A scrap metal dealer has denied that an association he helped to establish has been “scrapped”. As a matter of fact, says Percy Cole, former President of the Guyana Scrap Iron and Metal Dealers Association, the constitution of the body just does not allow this. Cole’s claims come after it was reported earlier this week [...]
OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 7)
By Clarence O. Perry Used correctly, education will build for us a prosperous and democratic Guyanese nation. Used wrongly, it will continue to destroy us. There is so much more that can be written on the relationship between the lack of quality education and the incidence of violence in our schools and in [...]
Lindeners fed up with empty promises – says PNCR MP
People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Parliamentarian, Africo Selman, during the party’s recent press briefing, said that the people of Linden are fed up with the empty promises made by the administration. She told media operatives that the deteriorating state of the once prosperous mining town of Linden and the blatant neglect by the present regime [...]
Massive shake-up mooted for City Hall hierarchy
- Move stems from disputed China trip A massive shake up may be imminent within the hierarchy of City Hall, a move that could materialise with a motion to have both Mayor Hamilton Green and Deputy Mayor Robert Williams voted out of office. According to reports reaching this newspaper, the no confidence motion has already [...]
Leadership for today
The need for leadership is perennial. Man, after all, is a social animal and by definition we must function in groups and institutions – especially in our modern, complex societies. Groups and institutions need leaders to ensure that goals are fulfilled, the people are inspired to work towards those goals and sanctions are applied to [...]
Sheila Holder asked to apologise
Dear Editor, I again call on Alliance For Change (AFC) Member of Parliament, Sheila Holder to issue an apology for making false, outlandish, and inflammatory claims in an article published on the AFC website (Chronicle plays old racial trick- “don’t split the votes” June 19, 2010). Holder made reference to an article of mine – [...]
PPP/C IN PANIC MODE: signs of the end of the dictatorship
The PPP/C regime appears to have driven itself into frenzy over recent events in the CARICOM countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname to the extent that their paranoia has led to fright over recent reports that the opposition parties in Guyana may be contemplating an alliance. It is obvious that the PPP/C is running [...]
Preparing for the rainy season
Dear Editor, The rainy season is here once again and I was very glad to see that there hasn’t been any report of excessive flooding around the country. As many may have noticed, many canals (both primary and secondary) in farming and residential communities are clear due to extensive work spearheaded by the Agriculture Ministry [...]
Questions in publishing Cadres poll
Dear Editor, I notice that Freddie Kissoon (in several columns in Kaieteur News) and his acolytes (in several letters in SN and Kaieteur News) are touting the findings of the Cadres poll which showed the combined opposition defeating the PPP/C. These are the same discredited characters who touted the findings of the Dick Morris poll [...]
Falling standards in our education system
Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Rev. Cecil Gideon on the nice piece of writing in the Kaieteur News of June 17, captioned, ‘’The Decline of Education in Guyana”. And my congratulations go to you too on your Editorial. You did a splendid Editorial telling all and sundry about falling standards in our education system. [...]
Guyana does not have TIP on the scale that should attract the attention of the U.S.
Dear Editor, I read a letter written by Charrandass Persaud and published in Kaieteur News of 26th June 2010, under the caption, “Trafficking in person is modern day slavery”. The writer expresses disappointment with what he said he grasped as my statements in response to Guyana being placed on the tier 2 watch list of [...]
GCF hosts successful Olympic Day BMX meet
The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) yesterday joined many of its sister associations when they hosted a BMX 5-race Cycle Meet at the Inner Circuit of the National Park in observance of Olympic Day, 2010. Ozia McCually triumphed in emphatic style in the open 3-lap race out hustling the competitive field to win comfortably. He outsprinted [...]
Sizzling action expected on July 5 as 7th ‘Wheat Up’ Cycle road race launched
By Franklin Wilson Defending champion Warren ‘Forty’ Mc Kay will have his work cut out come July 5th when the 7th annual National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO) sponsored ‘Wheat Up’ Cycle Road Race is contested on the East Bank and Linden Soesdyke Highway. Plans for this year’s edition of the event organised by [...]
The Journey, an evening of literature, Part XI
- by Petamber Persaud The eleventh leg of The Journey, an evening of literature, was staged on Wednesday, June 2, at the National Art Gallery, Castellani House under the theme ‘Anatomy of Independence’ featuring literary works that explore challenges and victories on the route to attaining (political) independence. It was another engaging evening of making [...]
