Island Mix Restaurant & Lounge hosts ‘Lady Jags’ fundraisers in Canada
The history making ‘Lady Jags’ will feature in two fund raising events on July 30 and August 1 in Canada which will be promoted by Island Mix Restaurant & Lounge. According to Programme Director of the Guyana Football Federation Women’s Programme, Colin Baker, The GFF has supported the Women’s Programme to date with approximately US$200,000. [...]
T&T defeat Guyana to win Scalextric Model Car Racing C/ships
- Laud quick progress made by locals By Rawle Welch Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) defeated Guyana 111-99 to emerge winners of the Scalextric Model car Racing Championships which ended on Sunday, at Ray Rahaman’s residence in Rahaman’s Park. The Trinidadian team littered with some of the most experienced players in the sport in the Caribbean [...]
Western Tigers FC to host youth camp July 19 to August 13
Reigning Kashif and Shanghai champions BK International Western Tigers Football Club in an effort to develop a solid understanding and foundation of the fundamentals of the game among youths in the East and West Ruimveldt areas will be hosting a football camp. Club Secretary Dexter Cush said the camp will commence on Monday July 19 [...]
Athletics team fortify CAC participation
- travel logistics only work to be done By Edison Jefford Guyana’s senior national track and field team has fortified participation at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, which will be held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico from July 17-August 1, with the athletics competition scheduled to commence on July 24. Speaking with Kaieteur Sport [...]
Rose to finalise League restart
President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Trevor Rose is expected to finalise arrangements for the restart of the Division I League that was suspended to facilitate a national super ward basketball tournament eight weeks ago. Speaking briefly with Kaieteur Sport, Rose stated that after the completion of the first set of games, the [...]
EAC athlete Malcolm Walcott turns in credible performance at HIG
Contingent experiences mixed fortunes The seven athletes from the Enmore Athletics Club (EAC) to participate in the annual Hampton International Games that was staged in Trinidad and Tobago from July 2-4 have returned to Guyana with 2 Gold and 4 Silver medals in what coach of the team, John Martins describes as highly commendable. Malcolm [...]
Importance of discipline stressed as ECCB Academy launched
By Sean Devers Despite heavy rain, the 9th annual East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) Academy was officially launched yesterday morning at the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence at LBI. Director of Sport Neil Kumar, EECB President and Acting Guyana Cricket Board President Bissoon Singh and former EECB President SK Singh all stressed the importance of [...]
Sarwan to lead Guyana in Regional 20/20
By Sean Devers Ramnaresh Sarwan will lead Guyana in the inaugural Caribbean 20/20 cricket tournament which starts in Barbados on July 22 and will have two new caps in his side which is missing West Indies left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul. The Guyana 14-man team, which will face the Windward Islands in their opening match on July [...]
Blackwood’s unbeaten ton helps Jamaica recover
Jermaine Blackwood fashioned an important unbeaten century to lead a Jamaica recovery against leaders Guyana on the first day of the second round of their TCL regional under-19 three-day action in St Lucia yesterday. Blackwood, a member of last year’s victorious Jamaica team in Jamaica, struck 7 fours an a six in his 166 balls [...]
Campbell to captain Guyana in regional Female tournament
Teenage West Indies Women’s all-rounder Shemaine Campbell will Captain Guyana in the next month’s West Indies Women’s cricket tournament in St Vincent. The Guyana side also includes Tremayne Smartt who was a member of the West Indies team which reached the 20/20 World Cup semi-final but did not play any of the games while Erva [...]
Yes, I predicted correctly what banana republic rulers will say!
My column for Wednesday, July 7 was a prediction of what our authoritarian leaders will tell their audience when they are invited to speak at the official ceremony to mark the opening of the corporate head office of GBTI which sits next to the Atlantic Ocean in Kingston. Here is what I wrote; “It is [...]
The church and sexual abuse
Dear Editor, I respond in relation to an article by Stella Ramsaroop and a letter by Mr. Leon Suseran. There is no doubt that what Ms. Ramsaroop said in the main reflects the feelings and sentiments of most sane thanking human beings in the world regardless of their religious beliefs, caste, creed, class etc. It [...]
THE OPPOSITION SHOULD SEEK A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT
The PNCR does not believe that the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has the legal standing to carry out any investigation into complaints against media houses. The PNCR is of the view that the Ethnic Relations Commission is unlawfully constituted. In the party’s opinion, the constitutional requirements for the extension of the life of the ERC [...]
This issue is clearly one of morals
Dear Editor, Today, the American people are being asked more and more to validate and communicate a message of approval for however anyone chooses to live. Today, more than ever, it truly seems if one respectfully disagrees, the same is labeled intolerant. While I do believe each and every true follower of Christ Jesus should [...]
In Guyana’s case it’s not security sector reform but restructuring of the forces
Dear Editor, The reason why security sector reform is necessary varies. They include post-conflict rebuilding, transition from military or one-party rule to participatory forms of government, recent independence, a lack of transparency and accountability in public affairs, a disregard for the rule of law, problem in conflict mediation due to an often conflict-exacerbating role by [...]
Mr. Sasenarine Singh failed to address the issues
Dear Editor, I have noticed in the Kaieteur News of July 5, 2010 a response from Mr. Sasenarine Singh to my letter. Let me say that Mr. Singh did not answer any of the issues that I had raised. He did not say what was done by this government to cause his somersault after the [...]
PPP finally justifies its dictatorship in Guyana
Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the piece, Elected dictatorship and elected oligarchy – battle cry of the ‘new opposition’, carried in Kaieteur News letter columns of July 12 instant, by Dr. Prem Misir, one of the PPP Government spoke person, in which he now publicly attempts to justify the despicable dictatorship of the [...]
Fairness is advocated in matters like these
Dear Editor, As a former University of Guyana (UG) student, I have been following the narratives about the lecturer whose contract was not renewed June 2009 by the UG Administration, “The double standards at UG” (Kaieteur News, July 4th, 2010). The contract would have covered the period from August 2009 to August 2010. Although he [...]
Govt.’s GDP growth estimate for 2009 masks the weakness of the real economy
Dear Editor, My letter in the SN of July 4, 2010 addressed the issues raised by Mr. Rajendra Rampersaud in a letter dated June 28, 2010 in that publication on the April 2010 Country Report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). In my letter I indicated that I would subsequently address the reaction of the [...]
Defining Guyana’s low tourism appeal
Dear Editor, I have asked a Virgin Atlantic executive why it is that the airline comes as close as Tobago, less than 500 miles away but does not come to Guyana after crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The executive gave a clutch of reasons mainly based on tourist destination preferences. It is apparent that tourists prefer [...]
The wrongs in the public accounts
There is growing acrimony between the decision makers and the examiners of the public accounts. And at the root of all this is the method used to determine how public funds are spent and the extent of accountability. For some time now the Auditor General, each year, has been producing reports on expenditures by the [...]
Finance Minister tables Treasury Memorandum one month late
The long awaited Treasury Memorandum that has been stalled for more than a month now will be tabled in the National Assembly on Thursday coming and is expected to be circulated. Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh will present to the House the document which is slated to outline what will be done as it relates [...]
