Guyana face St. Lucia in opening game; St. Vincent to host Group B
By Franklin Wilson The Golden Jaguars will open their quest to win the 2010 Digicel Caribbean Cup (DCC) Championship against fellow Group C team St. Lucia on Wednesday October 13 at the Andre Kamperven Stadium, Parimaribo, Suriname. Host Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, the other teams in the group will lock horns in the feature [...]
Child Protection Week slated for Sept 19-25
Child Protection Week is observed in over 120 countries around the world, and the Ministry of Labour, Human Services & Social Security has chosen the week of 19th September for this purpose. This year’s activities will be centered on changes in the way children are viewed, treated and cared. The observances conclude on September 25. [...]
JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER BEGINS SATURDAY
The TOPCO JUICES Junior Chess Championship Qualifier tournament begins on Saturday at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club, Camp & Hadfield Streets, Georgetown beginning at 3:00PM. Registration begins at 2:00PM. The qualification tournament is especially important for junior chess players since the top seven finishers will be eligible to participate in the National Junior Chess championship scheduled [...]
GPOC to host C’bean Postal Union Conference
Under the theme “Consolidation of Post in the Caribbean” the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) will host the 13th Annual Caribbean Postal Union Conference from 6th – 9th September at the Grand Coastal Hotel, Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara. According to Public Relations Officer of GPOC, Yolaskee Jervis, twenty-three (23) delegates from the Caribbean, North America [...]
GFF shortlists squad of 33 Under- 20’s for CFU tourney & T&T game
Two-day Camp commences tomorrow The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has named a squad of thirty three (33) players to commence training for participation in a friendly International match against Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under-20 team September 26 at the National Stadium, Providence. Additionally, the team will also prepare for competition in the Caribbean Football Union [...]
Eve Leary to come alive Sunday with Gymkhana
The long wait is over. Yes, the police annual Gymkhana is back! This Sunday at 11:00 hours, the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, will come alive with the anticipated skills and thrills of daredevils from the Guyana Police Force and others. The day’s activity will feature a colourful parade by the performers followed by [...]
An alleged, tiny tax-evader is dead; Mae’s School owner is self-bailed. Is it time to rumble?
On the same day, (Tuesday, August 31) the Stabroek News carried a news item of the owner of Mae’s School being charged with failing to pay employee benefits, the Kaieteur News frontpaged a tragedy with photographs of a small Guyanese businessman charged by the GRA with tax evasion. After he jumped from police custody into [...]
My opposition to Govt. does not transfer my support for those who oppose them
Dear Editor, There’s an old axiom: Some people will never learn. I refer specifically to Mr. Robert Corbin and some of his cronies. Politicians must learn to be honest, unselfish, and work in the best interest of all the people, not only those who voted for them. As far as the 2009 PNCR congressional elections [...]
A presidential candidate should be aware of the constitutional provisions
Dear Editor, Mr. Lincoln Lewis, not particularly known for his legal acumen, has wandered (or is it wondered!?) into the murky and treacherous waters of Constitutional Law, (Kaieteur News of Sunday August 15) all in an apparent attempt to uphold the rights of the electorate, in the evolving debate on the choice of presidential candidates [...]
The most vicious writers are the ghost bloggers
Dear Editor, I share the central views expressed in Emile Mervin’s letter captioned, “Anonymous letter writers who bash writers focus on personalities instead of issues”, published in Kaieteur News, 1 September, 2010. I would like to further state that ghost writers must be censored when they openly attack writers’ personalities, who use their own names. [...]
Cook chopped to death in Issano
A 24-year-old man from Cane Grove, Mahaica, is currently in police custody assisting with investigations after he reportedly chopped another man to death at 14 Miles Issano. Reports are that sometime around 04:00 hours on Tuesday, 58-year-old Vincent Williams called ‘Teddy bear’ was involved in an argument with another male, over a female, at a [...]
What about contingency fees already collected?
Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education had repetitive notices all day (Tuesday 31-08-10) on the radio and a report carried in the Kaieteur News about the “contingency fees” and monies being collected by school head teachers and teachers across Guyana. The warnings from the Chief Education Officer came in the heels of letters in the [...]
Appointment to the PSC not in keeping with the Constitution
Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) wish to express our appreciation and gratitude to the newspapers for publishing our views and objections as contained in our Press Statement of August 26, 2010, regarding the irregular and unacceptable manner in which the appointment of the membership of the Public Service Commission (PSC) was approached [...]
Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud’s response
Dear Editor, I wish to offer my comment on the above letter by Mr. Michael Maxwell. The Guyana/Venezuela deal highlights the Government’s commitment to take advantage of every opportunity to improve the lives of all Guyanese especially rural farmers, despite ethnicity or political affiliations. In fact it is rather sad and sickening for any patriotic [...]
The Government has used this rice deal to unfairly transfer US$38M to a special interest group
Dear Editor, The Government is really something else. It is a sickening repository of filthy politricks and bad economics. They rush to parade everything as good when even a cursory examination reveals it is atrocious. Take the paraded recent rice deal with Venezuela for example. The Government owes more than US$160 million to Venezuela. Venezuela [...]
Onward Champions!
Last weekend, the Guyana T-20 team had a taste of what their success in winning the Caribbean T-20 Championship means – at least to the people of Guyana. Both warm-up games against T&T were sold out as entire families, many with babes in arms, thronged the National Stadium to urge on their “boys” for the [...]
Breaking News! Wanted man COBRA surrenders
Guyana’s most wanted man 17-year old Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ yesterday turned himself over to police, ending months of a massive manhunt that stretched from the city to the west and East Coast of Demerara. Rowe’s surrender was negotiated by social activist Mark Benschop, whom he had contacted after eluding another police dragnet yesterday morning [...]
Guyana’s most wanted man 17-year old Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ yesterday turned himself over to police, ending months of a massive manhunt that stretched from the city to the west and East Coast of Demerara. Rowe’s surrender was negotiated by social activist Mark Benschop, whom he had contacted after eluding another police dragnet yesterday morning [...]
