The President has a right to visit anywhere in Guyana
Dear Editor, Exactly one month after the mark of the 170th anniversary of the purchase of Buxton, formerly named Plantation New Orange Nassau, I was disheartened to read and listen to some of the sentiments expatiated by some political leaders exercising their constitutionally protected and recognised freedom of expression. The genesis of their gripe was [...]
CSEC exposes the need for compulsory reading
President’s College came into existence in 1985 having been established as the School of Excellence. Top performances at what was then the Common Entrance were the first choices. Many parents opted for Queen’s College with its reputation dating back to August 15, 1844, when it first opened its doors. That Queen’s College was the obvious [...]
Police capture Aranka gang
- Alexander Village woman among suspects The reign of terror created by a gang in the gold mining area of Aranka came to an abrupt end with the capture of an entire gang of criminals on Saturday. The gang, which comprised four males and a female, was nabbed when a police riverain patrol intercepted them [...]
Alcohol consumption major cause of road accidents in Berbice
- 334 drunk driving cases recorded As the call gets louder for something to be done about the raving consumption of alcohol in Berbice, the police are at their wits end in trying to cope with the spin-off of its overuse. Alcohol consumption, which leads to drunken driving, is one area that has reached chronic [...]
Woman stabbed nine times by estranged husband
Doctors were last night fighting trying desperately to save the life of a 22 year old woman who was stabbed over nine times by her estranged husband. Trishawarie Ramdharie, 22, of Cornelia Ida West Coast Demerara was being prepared to be taken to the operating theater for emergency surgery. The incident happened yesterday at a [...]
Bishop’s High is CSEC 2010 top performing school
- Minister Baksh The Bishop’s High School has been declared the best performing school at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination. The results of the examinations were last week unveiled by Minister of Education Shaik Baksh. Based on the analysis of the percentage of candidates gaining passes in five and more subjects, including [...]
Chinese women celebrate 150 years in Guyana
“Chinese women came here as refugees, not knowing what to expect; to a strange land with strange foods and people, and an even stranger language. We have made our lives and our homes here among friends who showed us a welcoming hand and whom we set out to emulate.” These were some of the sentiments [...]
Couple in car injured after blowout
Another early morning accident, this time in the vicinity of the Conversation Tree on the Rupert Craig Highway has left a 30 year old man nursing serious injuries. Nohar Seenjan, 30, of De Abreu Street Kitty received serious head injuries after one of his tyres suffered a blow-out. Seenjan’s wife Claire Melville was also a [...]
Kishore captures Courts Medal play Golf title
Teenage golfer Avinda Kishore carted off the third annual Courts Guyana Inc. Medal Play golf tournament in tough playing conditions caused by overnight rain last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course. Kishore, who recently won the Safeway Security tournament, continued to show top form this season in recording a net score of 73 from a [...]
Dave Martins to perform ‘Not a blade of Grass’ at grudge match this weekend
By Sean Devers Dave Martins’ message in his hit single ‘Not a blade of Grass’ written during Guyana’s border dispute with Venezuela was clear. “We int giving up no mountain, we int giving up no tree, we int giving no river that belong to we” sang Martins; letting our Spanish neighbour know that we were [...]
Hikers Hockey Club Junior Camp 2010 starts today
The Hikers Hockey Club has scheduled its annual junior summer camp from today, August 23 to 28 at the Saint Stanislaus College Forum. The camp is open to all aspiring junior hockey players and will run from 9am to 4pm daily. England based players Marvin Dannett, Janella Munroe and Chantelle Fernandes will team up with [...]
Lower yields predicted this rice crop
BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – As the inclement weather continues to have its way, President of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association Leeka Rambrich is predicting lower yields for this rice crop. The second crop (autumn crop) is now in the flowering stage where more sunlight is needed and if this is not had, then the grains [...]
Further decline in ethical and moral standards in Guyanese politics
Dear Editor, The recent rapid downward spiral of events in Guyana has taken on uglier turns leading us further into a deeper hole of national strife, instability, impoverishment, disintegration and embarrassment. The situation is simply depressing and disturbing. Another new political low in the annals of politics in Guyana has been reached. I specifically refer [...]
The ‘psychology of wrongness’ and the ‘psychology of entitlement’
Dear Editor, Within recent times I have passively watched the Alliance For Change (AFC) after vocally expressing my utter disgust with the incompetence of Raphael Trotman, Sheila Holder, Dennis Patterson and Cathy Hughes who as African Guyanese have done nothing to represent the interests of Africans who have overwhelmingly voted for the party. Lin-Jay Harry-Voglezon [...]
ISLAM IS NOT THE ENEMY OF AMERICA
In this week’s column we examine the controversy that has erupted over the construction of a mosque near to Ground Zero and its implications for the traditional respect for democratic governance in that country. A poll done about two weeks ago showed that close to 70% of Americans were opposed to the building of the [...]
Internal strife in the PNCR is indirectly aiding the PPP regime
Dear Editor, From all that is unfolding in our political arena in this pre-election period, it seems that the target for elections 2011 is not to remove the PPP from office but to destroy the PNCR. Generally, election struggles involve a battle between opposing parties to see which one will be elected to form the [...]
Self-betrayal and self-destruction: The African Guyanese in Guyana
There is an eruption of anger in the WPA and a mutiny inside the mind of Dr. David Hinds over the organized visit of Mr. Jagdeo to Buxton. Three dimensions of the analysis need to be focused on. One is the psychological chagrin of Hinds himself. He is from Buxton and as someone who fought [...]
HAPPINESS IS
There are people who find that measuring a country by its Gross Domestic Product or overall official economic output is grossly unfair. They argue that if money can’t buy you love, it definitely can’t buy you happiness. There are other people who disagree. American author, Gertrude Stein, said, “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t [...]
Good Judgement in Leaders
In 2005, Michael Ignatieff, the noted commentator left the halls of Harvard for the political hustings of Canada. By 2007, he had recanted his early support for the Iraq war and offered the following (excerpted) thoughts on political judgement. It might be of use to some of our aspiring Presidential candidates. “I’ve learned that acquiring [...]
Gold miner shot dead at Kurupung
A 30-year old gold miner from Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara became another murder victim in Guyana’s interior. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that Rawle Mentore was shot dead after inflicting several chop wounds on his alleged killer. The incident occurred in the Takuba Trail of the Kurupung Backdam on Friday midday. According to information, Mentore [...]
Linden accident leaves two dead
A gruesome accident at Kairuni on the Linden/Soesdyke highway has left two men dead and three others hospitalised with injuries not considered life threatening, according to informed sources. One of the dead men, Christopher George of Kairuni was grotesquely mutilated. The entire back of his head was sliced off and so was one of his [...]
Early morning accident leaves one dead
- three others hospitalised An early morning accident on the Mandela Avenue, in the vicinity of the National Cultural Center yesterday, left one person dead and three others nursing various injuries at two city hospitals. Dead is Christopher Crawford, 19, of 111 Miles Mahadia, who according to hospital sources suffered tremendous head injuries. He was [...]
A political dance seeking credence among Afro-Guyanese – WPA
Jagdeo’s Buxton Visit… The Working Peoples’ Alliance says that it joins with others in characterising President Jagdeo’s recent visit to Buxton as a political dance aimed at satisfying the Peoples Progressive Party’s quest for respectability and acceptance in the African Guyanese community. “While we respect the right of political parties to try to win support [...]
‘Killer’ drivers paying to stay out of jail
By Michael Jordan How much is a child’s life worth? Five million dollars? $600,000? Half of this figure? All of the above, it seems. A three-month Kaieteur News investigation has unearthed a disturbing trend in which drivers from affluent families are forking out millions—and in some cases a mere pittance—to avoid being hauled off to [...]
Dem boys seh…Is more thiefing
De lie detector people coming back again. De first time dem come, dem test all de security workers. Dem ketch some people lying and of course Bharrat knock dem off. Dem boys seh that all over de world, machine like de lie detector does ketch thieves and dem wonder whether dem big ones at the [...]
