Whyte-Nedd’s performance merits appointment – Yarde
Her years of acting in the capacity of Chief Education Officer, should see Ms Genevieve Whyte-Nedd being eligible for the full benefits associated with the substantive position. At least this is the belief of President of the Guyana Public Service Union, Patrick Yarde, when he addressed a press conference yesterday. Whyte-Nedd, according to the union [...]
Strikers, Regal & Providence to contest Zone 4 final
Strikers, Regal and Providence will contest the final of the Supligen dominos competition following semi final play on Wednesday last at R&R. Scramblers were sent packing finishing on 69 games to winners Providence which chalked up 76 and Regal with 73. The top markers for Providence were M. Beaton and T. De Santos with 16 [...]
New Amsterdam, Mahaica Determinators & Pistons advance
New Amsterdam United, Mahaica Determinators and Pistions United are the latest teams to advance when competition in the 3rd annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial knock0out football tournament continued at the No. 5 Ground, West Coast Berbice. On an exciting day, New Amsterdam outhustled city side Fruta Conquerors to win an epic battle in extra time 3-2; [...]
La Penitence man found dead in home
- was not seen for several days The decomposing body of 55-year-old Michael Whaul, of Lot 13D Tucville Terrace, North East La Penitence was discovered early yesterday morning by neighbours. At the scene residents converged, awaiting the arrival of the police and undertakers to gain access to the house, since the man lived alone. According [...]
Digicel adds its name to Guyana Cup sponsors
Digicel’s resolute support for the Horse Racing industry continued yesterday when it added its name to the list of sponsors for this weekend’s Jumbo Jet Auto Sales-organised Guyana Cup Race Meet which is scheduled to be staged at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice, on Sunday starting from 12:00hrs. The cell phone giants [...]
Harris ‘Paints’ a good corporate image
Makes donation to Albouystown Boxing facility The Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) Boxing Gym will get a well deserved facelift following a timely donation of several gallons of paint by Harris Paints, one of the leading local manufacturers of the product. The gesture originated from a humble request to the administrators of the above mentioned paint [...]
Not enough tail-wind may have caused Cessna crash
A preliminary report into last week’s accident which left a Cessna 206 badly damaged has suggested that there was not enough tailwind to generate speed for a takeoff. According to Minister of Public Works and Transport, Robeson Benn, the damaged aircraft, being operated by Oxford Aviations from the Ogle International Airport, is still at the [...]
Corporate Guyana lend huge support
With a few days remaining before the Super one-day Jumbo Horse race meet organised by Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Racing Stables in collaboration with the Rising Sun Turf Club set to come off, Corporate Guyana have been lending invaluable support to this mega event. The venue is the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park [...]
Habitat receives $1M boost from GT&T
A non-profit organization, which since 1995 has helped provided homes to over 2,000 families in Guyana, says that it is partnering with more organizations in an effort to improve its services. The announcement was made yesterday by Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Guyana Inc. (HFHG), William Harris, shortly after the entity received a $1M boost [...]
UG hire-car drivers ordered to move again
- calling on institution’s authorities to intervene Hire-car drivers operating from the head of the University of Guyana (UG) access road are contemplating protest actions after being continuously blocked from working in the area. Following the completion of a court action in July, the drivers were stopped from operating in front of the Beharry residence. [...]
Graveyard of political mediocrity, cemetery of fossilized thinking
By any economic measurement, Guyana is a very poor country (emphasis on the word, very). In the CARICOM region, it is just stuck in the position of being below all states except Haiti. We are an impoverished nation, but not even an ounce of visionary leadership appears to offer some glimpses of optimism that we [...]
Buxton’s economy suffered under PNCR policies – Ramotar
“…ruling administration revived village through investment.” General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar has fired another salvo at the leader of the Opposition Robert Corbin and his party, saying that the People’s National Congress Reform is now at a state where it is desperately clutching at straws. As it relates to Corbin’s charges [...]
History and Castro
Fidel Castro was pronounced to be in “magnificent” health by his admirer Hugo Chavez, who had just spent five hours with him. Earlier this month, Castro had addressed the Cuban Parliament, dressed in his familiar olive-green fatigues with his brother Raul, to whom he had relinquished the Presidency, at his side. With the world breathlessly [...]
GBC on board as ECB launches its 50-over round-robin cricket festival
The management of Guyana Beverages Inc. of Diamond EBD has always proven to be a good corporate citizen and yesterday morning more evidence of this surfaced when that entity acquiesced to the necessary funding to facilitate the successful staging of the 7th Annual Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) 50-over round-robin cricket festival slated to run from [...]
Inter-ethnic understanding and unity is a process not an event
Dear Editor, The occasion of the visit of the President to Buxton has certainly created significant entropy in the debate surrounding same. I agree with The Leader of the PNCR that the President has a right to visit any community. Hence the visit should not be an issue. Those who invited him should have made [...]
Mark Sutton Foundation hosting Football clinic
Members of the Tritons and Positive Vibes Football Clubs based in Paradise/Bachelors Adventure and Melanie Damishana are currently benefiting from a Coaching Clinic being staged by the Mark Sutton Foundation. Sessions have been ongoing for the past three-weeks and are being held at the Melanie Damishana Playfield, East Coast Demerara. Twenty-five players between the ages [...]
WE WILL SURVIVE!
Glenn Lall is a visionary. Long before the recent withdrawal of GINA ads, he had predicted that this was in the works, and he took steps to protect his newspaper from strangulation by the State. While not many in the pressroom are admitting it publicly, privately they are expressing relief at the price rise in [...]
Queen’s college performance improves in 2010
Dear Editor, With respect to the above headline which occurred in the Wednesday, August 25, 2010 issue of the Kaieteur News, I find it necessary to state the following:- At Queen’s College, there are two categories of students writing the CSEC Examination – Category A: Fifth Form Students writing at least five subjects; Category B: [...]
WICB exposes WIPA’s attempts to misguide the public
St John’s, Antigua –The WICB notes WIPA’s responses to the WICB’s exposure of the players association’s rejection of the joint ICC/FICA proposal which was designed to bring a final resolution to the issue of image rights and intellectual property. WIPA asserts: “The ICC/ FICA proposal as contained in its document to WIPA indicates under the [...]
It is the squeaking chair that gets the oil
Dear Editor, I have been reading the harsh responses to the critical comments made by David Hinds and some leaders of the opposition parties to the recent visit to Buxton by President Jagdeo. One Todd Morgan, in a letter published in Kaieteur News of August 25, says, “David Hinds would want you to believe that [...]
Sowing seeds of division
Dear Editor, I. G. Abbott’s 26/8/2010 letter, “An attempt to plant confusion in the minds of the few who might be less informed”, is equally culpable as Peeping Tom’s 24/8/2010 “Keeping the Burnham flame alight!” Both are on an excursion to plant confusion. For some reason everyone likes to tell the PNCR what to do. [...]
WIPA denies that it has stymied, delayed or breached any Agreements
Port-of-Spain, T&T: WIPA replies to the WICB’s Release of 24th August 2010 as follows: 1. There was no timeframe set out in the New York Agreement (NYA) for the Special Arbitrations as articulated by the WICB. 2. With regards to the CBA/MOU negotiations it was agreed by representatives of both parties following meetings on October 14th 2009 [...]
Stop this ‘contingency fees’ demand
Dear Editor, Several parents of new students who would be attending school in a few days’ time have approached me with the disturbing fact that secondary schools across Berbice particularly in New Amsterdam, are demanding huge sums of monies from them as part of what has been referred to as “contingency fees”. Without paying these [...]
PPP attempting to rewrite history – Corbin
“ This is further evidence of their ostrich-like behaviour. “ Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Robert Corbin yesterday responded to the comments made by General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Donald Ramotar as it relates to the administration’s role in the embattled village of Buxton and the recent visit by [...]
Court dismisses GPSU’s decade-old case against Gopaul
The High Court on Tuesday dismissed a decade-old case filed by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) in which government was accused of unlawfully halting the deductions of fees from non-unionized members. The case had been filed in July 2000 against the then Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Public Service Ministry (PSM), Dr. Nanda Gopaul. [...]
