Mayor’s Cup All Star U-23 footballers to tour Suriname
- three practice games scheduled starting today The Mayor’s Cup Under-23 All Star football squad will tour neighbouring Suriname from Tuesday August 3 to Saturday August 7 for a Goodwill series. The squad is due to leave for Suriname next Tuesday and will face a Suriname Under-20 team on Wednesday and an Under-23 team on [...]
Olympic-size Pool nearing completion
“Making steady progress” – Anthony Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, on his visit yesterday to the site of the Olympic-Size Swimming Pool that is being constructed at Liliendaal, said that the unprecedented facility is on schedule to be completed in September. “I think we are making steady progress, we should complete [...]
Trinidad ends Guyana’s hockey medal hopes
Guyana’s hopes for a hockey medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games were cast aside by a determined Trinidad ladies team who dished out a 5-1 beating on the South Americans. With Guyana needing a win to ensure a place in the semi-finals, their ladies came out pressing but the experienced Trinidad side were [...]
Cush making his mark as 20/20 specialist
- another hat-trick for veteran all-rounder By Sean Devers in Trinidad In Association with Digicel At age 35, many in Guyana had written off Lennox Joseph Cush as an aging warrior who was over the hill, especially since his right knee, which went under the surgeon’s knife twice, was expected to struggle with the hectic [...]
Customer care seminar fails to attract “those in need of training”
Several persons in Linden were on Friday last given the opportunity to learn and reinforce good customer relations practices, through a Customer Care Seminar at the Egbert Benjamin Exhibition Centre and Conference Hall at Speightland, Mackenzie. Ms Morgana Bethune, whose initiative it was to conduct the seminar, said the general response from participants was quite [...]
Coconut water bottling factory being readied
By Leonard Gildarie The Hope Estate plantation, East Coast Demerara, is being upgraded with government looking for interested parties to run a coconut water bottling facility there. Over the weekend, there were advertisements in the newspapers requesting interested parties to submit proposals that will see Guyana bottling its own coconut water. Director of National Agricultural [...]
FFTP Director recognized for service to the community
Executive Director of Food For The Poor (Guyana) Inc. Leon L Davis, received a certificate on Monday for his “outstanding and invaluable service to the community” . At the organization’s Festival City head office, Pandit Suresh Sugrim, President of the New Jersey Arya Samaj Mandir, Inc. Humanitarian Mission, presented a “Certificate of Special Senate Recognition”, [...]
Govt. returns seized West Dem co-op
A West Bank Demerara co-op society seized by government last week has been handed back to the cane farmers. Officials of the Labour Ministry disclosed on Monday that there were a number of “technical issues” in the manner the society was taken over by the Chief Co-operative Development Officer (CCDO) last Wednesday. The Belle Vue [...]
We often forget the children
Dear Editor, We sometimes focus more on living and forget the little ones beside us that so much need our direction. Our children are being left to find their way on their own, and more so fend for themselves in order to survive. Now this is not so with every child, but for the majority [...]
Linden hit-and-run victim unidentified
A hit-and-run accident early yesterday morning has resulted in the death of a man of Amerindian descent, who is yet to be identified. The dead man was discovered on the Linden Highway in the vicinity of a popular sawmill at Amelia’s Ward.The body was removed shortly after 05:00hrs. However no one in the vicinity seemed [...]
Two more Army officers graduate
Two more officers from the Guyana Defence Force were recently awarded with their master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Management respectively. Through a press release the army said that Lieutenant Coast Guard Roger Nurse was awarded the best graduating student at the Masters Level in Computer Science at the University of Pune, India. [...]
Obesity Is Over Fat
Dear Editor, The terms, overweight and obesity, often are used interchangeably, but in fact the conditions are not the same. The true standard of measure is the proportion of weight that is composed of fat, as compared to that representing lean muscle, bone and body fluids. Ideally, a man’s body fat should be 10 to [...]
An Indecent Assault On The Local Private Sector
Dear Editor, Every country in the Caribbean takes pride in its hotels for the role they play in the local tourism industry, the backbone of its economy. Their industry has been built over many years of careful planning and execution. One thing the governments of these countries have in common is that they provide the [...]
This topsy turvy world
Dear Editor, Barack Obama is of mixed race — a White mother and a Black father. However the White see him as Black and the Blacks see him as Black. When he was voted into office most of us voted for him; those who couldn’t do so physically did so with our hearts because we [...]
Shouldn’t Mr. Jagdeo step into the ring now?
When a President or Prime Minister wants to be the “Maximum Hero,” “All-Powerful Leader,” the “Divine Soul” of his/her nation, he/she must not only be endowed with the qualities of leadership but must be saturated with political finesse, intellectual acumen and be a master strategist. In the Caribbean, Forbes Burnham of Guyana, Eric Williams of [...]
More outages expected – GPL
The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has blamed recent outages in the Demerara area on an underground power cable that failed on July 21. As a result there may be further outages as efforts are made to fix the problems. According to a GPL statement, strenuous efforts have been made since to identify the [...]
Is it legal to sell alcohol at weddings?
Dear Editor, The selling of alcohol at weddings is very disturbing and troublesome. For a number of years now, the selling of alcohol at some weddings has led me to believe that there is no authority that controls the sale of alcohol. However, I will be extremely grateful if someone can educate me about any [...]
Spate of power outages on W.C.D. overbearing
Dear Editor, I express my utter dissatisfaction and frustration with the recent spate of power outages experienced by residents on the West Coast of Demerara. These power outages occur at practically any time of the day, and have become intolerable. As per schedule, in my area, power outages are expected to occur on Wednesdays. However, [...]
Improvements in the Education Sector
Dear Editor, Education is a huge undertaking and one that is focused on the nurturing of skills and the talent of our people. In order to create a strong basis for the sustainable development of their countries, well-developed nations have all spent much effort formulating education policies. These education policies have been implemented to develop [...]
GINA is the designated accreditation agency
Dear Editor, Last Saturday’s Kaieteur News report titled, ‘KN reporter refused entry to President’s press conference’, is demonstrative of that newspaper’s unwillingness to subscribe to the rules and regulations governing the media profession in Guyana. It has been a long-established rule that media practitioners, including reporters and cameramen, visiting the Office of the President and [...]
Put aside politics and clean up the city
Dear Editor, The Environmental Community Health Organiastion (ECHO) is calling on the competent authorities to urgently address the increasingly worrying garbage situation in the city. The existing situation is extremely embarrassing to all decent and law-abiding Guyanese and very harmful to the health of the environment. We could not continue with this situation without damaging [...]
Messianic Populism and Adventurism
So we have two neighbouring countries – Suriname on the East and Venezuela on the west ruled by leaders – respectively Desi Bouterse and Hugo Chavez – that display(ed) definite tendencies towards populist messianic adventurism. Populism is not exactly unknown in Latin America and is generally characterised by: frustrated masses, charismatic leadership, a messianic impulse, [...]
An investment in the future
Those who are astounded by the decision of the Alliance For Change not to enter into any pre-election coalition with the PNCR or the PPP, a decision that effectively dashes any hope of a Big Tent arrangement, do not understand the AFC. The Alliance For Change was created not just to attain political power. All [...]
Fake Piccadilly shoes seized in the battle of the shoe stores
In a case which clearly highlights the problem facing Guyana with fake goods, officials yesterday seized 278 boxes of fake brand-name Piccadilly shoes from The Discount Store at 102 Regent Street as two major footwear businesses clashed. The boxes were only found after a search of the attics. When the Marshals entered, the proprietor of [...]
Driver loses control, kills self, injures passenger
The country’s road fatality figure increased yesterday with the death of a 19-year-old Herstelling, East Bank Demerara resident, who was impaled by parts of a fence after he lost control of the car he was driving while trying to negotiate a treacherous turn on the Quaker’s Hall, Mahaicony Public Road. Shamal Mohamed, 19, of 224 [...]
