Friends perish after leaving wedding house

- Five fatalities recorded for last week An evening of fun ended in tragedy for three friends, all of Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara, after the car in which they were travelling in lost control and ended up in a canal. When the car was pulled from the canal, Premenand Ramnarine’s lifeless body was recovered, while [...]

Govt. shares in GT&T up for sale

“GOG/PU/NICIL is not bound to accept the highest offer and/or proposal” – Ad The Guyana Government has for a while now signaled its intention to sell its 20 per cent shares owned in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T). The Privatisation Unit, as agent for the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited/Government of Guyana, is [...]

Emancipation Day – a celebration for all Guyanese

…as thousands transform National Park into a kaleidoscope of colours The National Park was a sea of colors and patterns yesterday afternoon as thousands of Guyanese thronged the venue as race, color, class and creed were all set aside and folks gathered to celebrate 172 years since the abolition of slavery. African prints, characteristic for [...]

Human Rights body calls for serious investigation into ASP Murray’s death

By Michael Jordan President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA)  Michael Mc Cormack believes that there should be “a more serious investigation” into the death of Assistant Superintendent Ivelaw Murray, although police officials have indicated that the case is as good as closed. Mr. Mc Cormack confirmed yesterday that Murray’s father, retired Superintendant, Ivan [...]

Bandits beat, rob Coldingen family

Cops still to turn up three hours later After a lull, bandits on the East Coast of Demerara resumed their activities, attacking a Coldingen family in a ruthless ten-minute ordeal last night. But while the incident occurred around 19:00 hours, the police at the Vigilance Police Station took more than three hours before they went [...]

Robber nabbed with gun, booty after attacking bus conductor

A man is currently in police custody after he was nabbed with a .32 revolver, three matching rounds and a quantity of cash shortly after robbing a minibus conductor. Reports are that around 19:30 hours on Saturday the man boarded a route 40 minibus at Sheriff Street and requested to stop at Vlissengen Road and [...]

Contract problem threatens team’s participation

Guyanese face Royal Challengers in Champions League opener But contract problem threatens team’s participation By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Digicel West Indies representative Guyana are scheduled to open their Champions League campaign in South Africa on September 12 against Indian team Royal Challengers Bangalore but a contract dispute threatens to put their [...]

Sensational Foo stuns Bajans as Guyana snatch Caribbean 20/20 title

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Digicel It was just before mid-night on Saturday but Guyana flags were joyously waved and hundreds of Guyanese screamed in delight here at the Queens Park Oval as 19-year-old rookie Jonathon Foo left his mark on the Caribbean 20/20 championships with an astonishing exhibition of power-hitting and [...]

GABA Vice President lauds efforts of CAC boxers

- says they performed commendably By Michael Benjamin Vice President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), Maurice Rajkumar is adamant that despite accruing only two bronze medals in the just concluded 21st Central American and Caribbean (CAC) championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, local amateur boxers have performed creditably especially when all the circumstances are [...]

Camptown, Buxton, Milerock & GDF clash today

Alpha & Victoria Kings advance By Franklin Wilson The battle for the final two semifinal places in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League/Super 8 knock-out completion is set for this evening at the GFC Ground and promises some mouth watering action. Sunburst Camptown will take on the youthful Buxton United in the evening’s opening [...]

Two years later, Nicola Blades still unable to walk

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – “Imagine, I am 23 years old. My mother bathes me, she has to change my pampers and dress me as if I were a baby. I have a tumor growing on my spine. I am an invalid. Please help me. Please give me the chance to live like a normal girl [...]

GBCHA looks back on a successful year in the fight against HIV/AIDS

The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, which represents the private sector’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has marked its first full successful year. As the group’s members met on Thursday last for the Coalition’s Annual General Meeting, a number of the Coalition’s achievements over the year were highlighted. In 2009, the organization made significant strides [...]

The AFC’s ego is beyond its numerical importance

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr. Raphael Trotman’s article “AFC’s decision to exclude PNCR not unanimous – Trotman” (30/7/2010). The more the AFC speaks the more people realise that the AFC leaders are not interested in them. The AFC’s ego is beyond its numerical importance and it becomes more inflated when the media gives [...]

The decision by the AFC to form a People’s Partnership without the PNC and the PPP is worthy of further exploration

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter from Rickford Burke dated July 27, 2010 captioned “AFC’s preemptive preclusion……… undermines the doctrine of coalition building”. Burke has failed to honestly flesh out why the Guyanese state is where it is today. He opted instead to unfairly burden the AFC with responsibilities that really belong to the [...]

SURINAME IS NOT LIKELY TO PURSUE AN ADVENTURIST FOREIGN POLICY

The new government in Suriname, even with a former military strongman as President, is not likely to engage in military adventurism. Guyana, therefore has little to fear about aggression from its eastern neighbour. The political situation in Suriname is still in flux. Since no party gained sufficient seats to form a government outright, what we [...]

Emancipation and intimidation

Official business in Guyana today has ceased. If foreigners inquire, they will be told that it is a public holiday in support of the observance of the anniversary of the end of slavery. When we talk emancipation in Guyana, we are talking about the other half of the population of this potentially rich Third World [...]

THREE DOG NIGHT (AND DAY)

There are nights, knights and, then again, nights.  For example, the Beatles came up with the term “A Hard Day’s Night” which was both a song and movie title: It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog. It’s been a hard day’s night, I should be sleeping like a log. [...]

Coalition Building

With general elections only a year away, it is quite a positive development in our political culture that coalition building is quite in the (political) air. Coalitions, of course, are one of the oldest political devices used by groups to punch above their weight by facilitating members to pool their resources – providing, of course, [...]