Digicel continues trend of assistance for sports
Following a string of financial support to many other sport disciplines, Digicel continued its trend of assistance towards the development of sports with another exhibition of benevolence with East Coast Demerara-based Full Group Entertainment being the latest recipient. Member of the Group Benson Gomes received a cheque worth $200,000 from Digicel’s Sales Manager Dwayne Scott [...]
Guyana’s sugar market in Europe assured
- Tate and Lyle By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s sugar market in Europe is assured. This confident expression was made by visiting officials of Tate and Lyle (T&L) yesterday. Their visit comes more than three weeks after T&L, Guyana’s biggest customer, announced that it has sold its European refineries to the American Sugar Refining Inc (ASR). [...]
Street Warriors X1 prevail over Kitty All Stars X1
Street Warriors X1, led by a disciplined unbeaten knock of 47 from Melissa Cummings (5×4) with support from Dawn Budhram (40*) whose knock included 4 sixes and a pair of fours, defeated Kitty All Stars XI by 10 wickets when play in the 4R Masters’ Cup and Females Softball cricket competition continued at the Softball [...]
Guyana/Barbados play to no result; other games end in draws
Rain again had the final say on the 3rd and final day in Round 4 matches of the 2010 TCL West Indies Under-19 three-day Challenge in St. Lucia yesterday. Playing at Dennery the game between Guyana and Barbados ended in a no result after play started at 11:20hrs on the final day; rain stopping play [...]
All Saints carts off team title
Four schools participated in this year’s 12th Annual Hilbert “Beef” Humphrey Memorial Inter-Primary Schools Mini-Tennis Tournament which was played recently, at the Republic Bank Court in New Amsterdam. The schools that participated were All Saints, St. Theresa, School of Nations and St. Aloysius, while those absent were New Amsterdam and Overwinning. Coming out on top [...]
Govt. flays Mahaicony Rice Mills over farmers’ payments
- tables bill mandating millers’ 10% deposit Government regulators of the rice industry are one step closer to making into law a 10% bond by millers to ensure that farmers are paid. It will be the latest offence launched by authorities in the face of growing complaints by farmers about outstanding payment from millers. The [...]
Giftland partners with Cool Crew for sports events
Giftland OfficeMax have partnered with Cool Crew Promotion and Skeet Entertainment to host a variety of sports events that forms part of “The Second Annual East Coast Reunion” under theme “A time to reconnect, A time to Reunite” East Coast Reunion. In a release yesterday at a simple handing-over ceremony, in which Giftland gave over [...]
No position taken as yet on draft report – GGDMA
The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says that a draft report being prepared by a special committee to make key recommendations for the industry is still being studied. As a matter of fact, GGDMA said yesterday, the association has not taken a position on the report as yet since discussions are still ongoing. [...]
TOO LAZY TO MAKE THE EFFORT
A great many of our children have met their deaths after being sent to purchase items for their parents or simply being allowed to roam free about their communities. A great many of the children who are killed in road accidents are those who were sent out on some errand by their parents. Often these [...]
Mr. Ralph Ramkarran protected his party’s image instead of promoting the people’s interests
Dear Editor, If Mr. Ralph Ramkarran was just another PPP executive member with an eye on the 2011 presidency, I wouldn’t bother reacting to his recent public remarks about running for the office if his party nominates him. However, Mr. Ramkarran is not just another PPP executive; he is the Speaker of the National Assembly, [...]
What anti-govt. newspapers?
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a letter carried in the Sunday Chronicle (July 18, 2010) by Todd Morgan which carried the heading “Opposition henchmen, or just blinded by hate?” I write this letter off my own volition, and not under any external influence. In his letter, the writer overtly expressed his view [...]
Refusal of the ERC to entertain union’s complaint
Dear Editor, As a citizen of Guyana I am very concerned that the complaint filed by the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) many months ago before the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has not been addressed at all. Understandably, the framers of the Constitution never intended for the ERC to be used to ventilate [...]
Examining the phase ‘predatory political culture’
Dear Editor, I refer to Dr. Prem Misir’s letter titled, “Racial incitement is an illicit mechanism in the pursuit of power” (Kaieteur News of July 19th). Dr. Misir is accusing unnamed persons or institutions of “racial incitement to sustain a predatory political culture”, and further reminds them that such behaviour is against the law. Let [...]
Violence, murder, mystery and the vanishing truth
If social commentators, editors in the private media and opposition parties had inquired as to a Roger Khan connection in the death of Sash Sawh and his siblings, anger, rage and cussing down would have emerged from New Garden Street and Robb Street. The charge from the ruling cabal was that mischief was afoot. But [...]
Union unrepentant about Pegasus picketing exercise
“FITUG has taken up this matter of the Pegasus…We have done the picketing. We have no apology to make to have gone and picket the premises, and to go and picket the premises where we did. We have no apology to make for that, we feel that we had to register our position and we [...]
Autocrats and Democracy
Commenting on ex-dictator Desi Bouterse’s accession to the presidency of Suriname (“Return of the Strongman”, July 20th 2010) we posed the question, “What does it say for democracy, when Surinamese can overlook Bouterse’s chequered past and place the future of their country in his hands?” What it says, at a minimum, is that while democratic [...]
The negative power of music on youth
Dear Editor, It is dangerously callous to underestimate the power of influence that music and films carry. I have argued with social activists in the UK, that when looking at the continuous increase in knife crimes that is rife among black youths in London, we must not ignore the choice of music they embrace. London [...]
MMU’s operations to end July 31
More than a dozen professionals would be on the breadline after Government’s decision to shut down the operations of the Guyana Elections Commission’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) this month end. This was talked about a few months ago. Rumours abounded of the imminent closure of the unit for quite some time but it was only [...]
Journalists have to be careful – new software can alter, shape and change reality
Dear Editor, It was a really eventful week for journalism in the US when an altered recording of a speech delivered in 1986 by Mrs. Shirley Sherrod was aired on Fox News sparking racial outrage among white conservative Americans and the call for the subsequent resignation of Mrs. Sherrod. The video clip was posted by [...]
Digical to sponsor major track and field meet in Linden
Local, regional and international telecommunication giants, Digicel Guyana will sponsor a major track and field meet that is set for the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Ground, Linden on August 29, and is billed as the premier competition for top athletes. Digicel has confirmed their major sponsorship of the President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic, which should [...]
Not a single day passes without concerns about political corruption being expressed
Dear Editor, In 1968 Samuel Huntington argued that by greasing the wheels of the economy and so removing bureaucratic and other practices that impede investments and development, political corruption is efficiency-enhancing and inevitable (“Political Order in Changing Societies”). However, notwithstanding Huntington and others, national societies caught in the spiral of massive political plunder (see following [...]
Juror forces Judge to abort murder trial
A juror did not disclose that he had an indictable matter in court and that the defense counsel is his attorney in Magistrate court. The result was that Justice Brassington Reynolds was forced to abort the retrial of murder accused Alfred Campbell, called Sobers, when he learnt that one of the jurors sitting in the [...]
Woman accused of fleecing 31 house lot seekers of $9M
A 40-year-old woman of Grass Field, Lusignan, has been remanded after being read a total of 31 charges relating to fraud. The accused, Chandrawattie Sedarie, made her appearance yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It is alleged that between January and March this year she collected large sums of [...]
Remigrant suffers two robberies in three days
… now rethinks options Re-migrant Guyanese businessman, Gopichand Niranjan, says that he is going to seriously rethink his options after three armed men invaded his Courbane Park, Annandale home and Auto Sales business, shortly after 07.00 hrs today. It was the second time that he had been robbed in three days, and the sixth time [...]
Kadir accused of spying for Iran
New York- The trial of two men accused of plotting to attack Kennedy International Airport took an unexpected twist on Wednesday when prosecutors suggested that one of the men, a former government official in Guyana, spent decades secretly working as an Iranian spy — passing along information about the country’s economy, foreign policy and military [...]
