Businessman’s wife was not arrested for refusing to sing statement
- police The Guyana Police Force has stated that the wife of a businessman who was handed over to Brazilian authorities early last week was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to obtain the passport upon a forged birth certificate and not for refusing to sign a statement as was stated by this newspaper yesterday. The [...]
The ‘Sheriff’ of East Ruimveldt Secondary
Retired headmaster Samuel B. Moffatt is a ‘Special Person’ “You can’t build on sinking sand. I had a meeting with the Ministry of Education. I said. ‘You sent me there, I can’t work under these conditions with the quality of teachers.’ I gave them a list of the teachers I wanted weeded out. I said [...]
High Court halts CCWU’s election
A High Court judge has granted court orders halting today’s elections for a new executive of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU). The application for the injunction was filed by the union’s former President, Roy Hughes, who contended, among other things, that he has another court matter challenging the current leadership. Yesterday, Hughes’ lawyer, [...]
Guyana one step closer to receiving money from Norway
The Forestry Commission is currently seeking an Independent Forest Monitor, to undertake the initial scoping mission in 2010 and a monitoring assessment in 2011, which are required before any money can be disbursed from Norway to Guyana under the Memorandum of Understanding signed. That MOU between the Government of Guyana and the Government of Norway [...]
CUSH FIRES USA TO ICC WCL TITLE
All-rounder ready for Guyana’s Campaign in S/Africa By Sean Devers It has been a wonderful year so far for the versatile Lennox Cush and the Guyanese all-rounder is hoping that his success continues next month when he aims to help Guyana create one of the biggest cricketing upsets by winning the Champions League 20/20 cricket [...]
Lumumba returned as Alpha boss, Ninvalle is his deputy
The Alpha United Football Club held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday last at the Water Chris Hotel and Odinga Lumumba has been returned as head of the country’s number one football club. Parliamentary Secretary within the Ministry of Sports Steve Ninvalle was appointed as the Vice President. Ninvalle previously served as Public Relations Officer. [...]
“Guyana’s CLT-20 2010 Effort – A rough road to travel; a long, long way to go!”
By Colin Croft Many would think that I should get into the melee that is the Champion’s League fiasco, with the Guyana Cricket Board in one corner, the Guyana cricket team in the 2nd corner, the West Indies Cricket Board in a 3rd corner, and, to complete the boxing ring, there is the West Indies [...]
Burnett opts out of Commonwealth Games
-cites illness, unpreparedness as reasons By Edison Jefford Guyana’s international middle-distance runner, Marian Burnett, have opted out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India in October, citing an illness that developed at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games as the primary reason. Burnett’s unavailability for the Commonwealth Games was communicated to the President [...]
Toolsie Persaud doles out hefty sponsorship deal to athletic star
Following his sterling performance at the Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago supported by a personal best time of 10:47secs in the 100M dash, star sprinter of the Enmore Athletics Club, Kenneth Semple, has managed to clinch a lucrative sponsorship deal that supports his five months off season training programme. Toolsie Persaud once again rose [...]
Cocaine Made Him Eat Dog Mess Yet He Can’t Let Go
By Michael Benjamin Scenario # One: A concerned mother tells her husband that she is upset about her son smoking marijuana. She is so upset that she takes a double dose of prescribed sleeping pills. Scenario # Two: a young man comes home from a stressful day at his high-pressure job and drinks a six [...]
Health Ministry aims to triumph over malaria scourge
The ambitious target of reducing malaria from more than 40,000 cases per year by 2000 to less than 8,000 cases by 2012 has been charted into the local Ministry of Health’s agenda. Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, in a statement issued yesterday said “significant progress was made to attain this goal, and by 2008 [...]
GT&T says farewell to Joe Singh
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has said goodbye to its former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Major General (rtd), Joe Singh, who demitted office on July 31, after five years at the helm. Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, the guest of honour, speaking at a cocktail ceremony held Thursday at the International Conference Centre at [...]
Queen’s College records outstanding CSEC performance
“It basically feels good that we are coming out on top once again,” said Queen’s College Senior Mistress, Candida Williams, as she commented on the outstanding performances exhibited by students of her school at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination this year. Williams is the Head of the Modern Language Department at the prestigious [...]
Extract of an interview with Dr. Ian McDonald
(Extract of an interview with Dr. Ian McDonald, June 30, 2010, Georgetown, Guyana. McDonald is a prizewinning poet, novelist, playwright, columnist and editor; he has to his credit six collections of poems.) Petamber Persaud (PP): It is not easy to assess the impact of books…it is not easy to assess the impact of literature on [...]
Let’s not play cheap politics with a critical developmental strategy
Dear Editor, The announcement by President Jagdeo that the government will be expending some US$30 million for the purchase of computers to be distributed must be looked at with a jaundiced eye. First it begs the questions what goal is he trying to achieve. We do know that there is an International Programme founded by [...]
Killing the messenger
Last week, to illustrate its report examining Venezuela’s failure to stem widespread violent crime, El Nacional, one of that country’s largest newspapers, published a photograph of bodies piled up at a Caracas morgue. In a move that may be a harbinger of things to come in Guyana, a Venezuelan court ordered the paper (and another [...]
THE LIFE & LEGACY OF LFS BURNHAM, Part 2
Excerpts of Presentation by MR ROBERT H O CORBIN, MP, on Thursday August 7, 2008 in the National Assembly on the Motion Recognising the contribution of Mr. LFS Burnham to Guyana. “In painful reminiscence An evening shadow lurks A kaleidoscope of memories Hurries across a faded screen of life As a weary warrior hopes vainly [...]
172 countries should matter: Making the G20 listen
By Sir Ronald Sanders The G20 should be the ‘T20’ – trustees not just of the 20 rich countries that sit at their meetings but also of the 172 nations that are denied a seat at their table. This powerful statement has been advanced jointly by the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie, two [...]
Welcome to the Plantation, Part Two
Three Novels by David Dabydeen By Keith Jardim (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) These thoughts are the result, again, of the question: “Why, Mrs. Rutherford wanted to know, did I become an engineer?” Our narrator eventually comes under a contemplative spell caused by the African masks and Rutherford’s questioning. The spell also leads to proto-historic considerations, [...]
A clear understanding of the LCDS and its implications is imperative
In view of the concerns presently being expressed by the Guyana Gold & Diamond Miners Association the AFC publishes today its position of the LCDS. “AFC Fact Sheet on the LCDS” The Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) in its simplest definition is a Government of Guyana initiative that seeks to preserve Guyana’s forest in exchange [...]
The opposition should be at the street corners
By Adam Harris I have been called many things in my lifetime. Some of the terms have been most derogatory. The difference is that with the passage of time the very people who attached labels to me changed their minds. They sought me out when they needed help. It was not so long ago that [...]
I support the separation of church and hate
On July 28, famed author Anne Rice, who wrote “Interview With the Vampire” and “The Queen of the Damned,” posted the following on her Facebook page. “For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being [...]
Inside Magistrate Chandra Sohan’s court
I worked closely with the legal genius, J. O. F. Haynes, when we were both teachers in the Department of Political Science and Law at UG. I got to know a fine mind that was indeed impressive. He had his faults when it came to administration, but J. O. F. Haynes was the embodiment of [...]
The Baccoo speaks
I did say that the police would score big after a robbery and they have because the future cannot change. However, there will be some shoddy investigation. Basic questions will not be asked and little help will be forthcoming from the Office of the DPP. However, all will not be lost, because the relatives of [...]
Continuity and Change
The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Arya Samaj movement is a reminder, not only of the continuous changes that all social groups undergo, but also that some of those changes are the result of directed action. The Hindus that arrived from India between 1838 and 1917 (86% of those immigrants) were snatched from [...]
