Gold hits US$1,300 an ounce
- GGDMA urges miners to sell more gold As the gold price hits US$1,300 an ounce, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling on miners throughout Guyana to increase their gold declarations and production. Executive Director of the GGDMA, Mr. Edward Shields, said, yesterday, that he hopes that miners will take full [...]
GRCS certifies First Aid Trainees in Bartica
The Guyana Red Cross Society certified 21 residents of Bartica and surrounding areas, resulting in an increased number of persons in Region Seven, now certified in Red Cross Standard First Aid. The event was held from September 17 to September 19 at the Lions Den, Second Avenue, Bartica. According to Communications Assistant of the Guyana [...]
Celebrity basketball returns under Roc Nation
By Edison Jefford It was huge earlier this year and now it proposes to be even bigger with new entertainment group Roc Nation planning to rock the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall on October 9 with a night of celebrity basketball that has been justly themed “The Road to the IGG”. The Inter-Guiana Games’ (IGG) basketball [...]
Health Ministry launched debating competition
- Aims at raising awareness on dangers of tobacco and alcohol With the aim of sensitising in-school youths to the dangers associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol, the Ministry of Health‘s Adolescent and Youth Health and Wellness Unit yesterday launched a National Secondary Schools Tobacco and Alcohol debating competition. Under the theme ‘Think [...]
Driver caught, minibus found at Enmore mechanic shop
Police yesterday went to a mechanic shop at Enmore, East Coast Demerara and found a minibus believed to have been involved in the accident that killed Buxtonian, Biko Edwards.. This newspaper was told that the minibus was found but the driver was not there. But information then led rank to a house at Lusignan where [...]
BCB contributes financially to West Indies female players
“The Berbice Cricket Board is proud of each one of you and we are confident that you would make your family, Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies proud. The facts that the three female Berbicians are the only Guyanese on the West Indies Team speak volumes of the high level of cricket in Berbice”. Those [...]
“Guyanese Girls Gone Wild’ video prompts gun seizure
The manager of Joseph’s Record Bar, Shabbir Baksh, is one step closer to receiving his firearm along with its licence to legally use it given that the Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang and Justice Rishi Persaud, quashed an order by the Divisional Commander Leron Brummell. Assistant Commissioner Brummell must return Baksh’s firearm and licence or [...]
Fuel truck driver dies after Mahdia fire
After battling for his life for the past 24 days, 24-year-old Gopaul Basmattie succumbed to complications after he was severely burnt in a fire that broke out at Boodhoo’s General Store, Mahdia, Potaro. Reports are that on September 1 last workers of the Boodhoo’s General store in Mahdia were pumping out fuel from a tanker [...]
Scorpions have won the battle
- but can they win the war? Beepat’s Scorpions will go into tonight’s initial Division III game of the Pepsi Street Series with much confidence after dropping only one game to Melanie Patriots on their way to winning what has been a competitive Georgetown sub-association League. They have won the battle now it is about [...]
Hikers trounce Old Fort in Banks men’s first division
The feature match-up of Thursday evening’s hockey schedule in the ongoing Banks Night Hockey Tournament saw the Hikers ‘A’ in top form as they picked apart an ill-prepared Old Fort 5-0. Young Shaquille Assanah opened the Hikers account with a penalty corner shot just six minutes into the match to put Old Fort on the [...]
Berbice Board to launch Banks Beer Light 3-day Senior Inter Zone Tourney
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday October 1st will create history when the Board in association with Beverage Giants Banks DIH Limited launches the first ever Senior Inter Zone 3-day tournament in the Ancient County. The value of the sponsorship is approximately $1M and the competition would be named the BCB/Banks Beer Light 3-day [...]
Smelly patient discomfits others
Expectant mothers at the Maternity Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) say that they are in total discomfort because they are left with no other choice than to share the ward with a woman who is said to be a destitute and is also a patient at the institution. Yesterday morning some patients walked [...]
SA trip would be a waste of time if changes are not made
By Sean Devers in South Africa In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, Igloo Ice-Cream, Forest Enterprise, Cops Security, the Caribbean Market (Maryland) & Universal DVD Club After all the hype and support given to the Guyana cricket team from near and far the Amazon Conquerors were conquered in each of the four games [...]
Do you know who Amanda Knox is?
If you ask the average Brazilian or Chinese in Guyana who Amanda Knox is, you would get a negative answer. These ethnic communities seldom read local news and in the case of the Brazilians, their television sets are always tuned to Brazilian programmes. Guyanese who follow American television news would have heard the name. Prior [...]
Security or Social Security?
Dear Editor, On Monday September 20 my friend, a female Brazilian citizen who does not speak much English, was travelling from Cheddi Jagan International Airport with Meta Airlines on the flight to Boa Vista. When she went through the airport security check she was routinely searched and her makeup case was opened. The female officer [...]
D’Andrade on podium in Newsday 5km
Guyana’s Trinidad and Tobago-based distance runner, Lionel D’Andrade continued his excellent form in the Twin Island Republic this year with his second place finish in the calendar Newsday 5km Road Race as part of preparation for the Suriname Marathon. Mathew Hadley won the event in 16:34 while D’Andrade, using the event as speed work, clocked [...]
Motorcyclist still to show signs of improvement
Patrick Daniels, 40, the motorcyclist who was struck down on Wednesday afternoon on Norton Street, is yet to show signs of improvements, relatives said Thursday. A close relative of the man told this publication yesterday that Daniels injuries are so severe that doctors are threatening to amputate his leg. “The only thing keeping his leg [...]
Squatters must remove from East Bank Demerara sea dam- Ministry of Public Works
- 14-day notice expire, hundreds without house lots Residents of the Diamond and Herstelling sea dam are peeved at the fact that although the government acknowledges that they are poor people, they are still being forced to pay exorbitant prices for house lots. They all say that they cannot even afford to move themselves from [...]
THE MAKING OF A HERO
I met him one day in London, sitting in a pub sipping a soda. He would have fitted better in a café where the drinks are softer and the conversation quieter, less common and more intellectual or so the frequenters to these places feel. I asked him about his choice of place and he said [...]
Berbice grab first lien on late Colin Wiltshire trophy
- Hetmyer named Man-of-the-Match Visitors Berbice captured the first lien on the late Colin Wiltshire Trophy after defeating Demerara by two wickets with 5.3 overs to spare in an Under-23 Cricket encounter yesterday, at the DCC ground in Queenstown. Responding to Demerara’s 204-7 off the allotted 50 overs, Berbice replied with 207-8 in 44.3 overs. [...]
We should forgive, but only fools forget
The Editor, As British troops landed on our wharves in 1953, a PPP Minister quipped, “This confounded nonsense must stop.” For now, here are a few things that must stop. The millions being spent by Government on these dance hall artistes designed to distract and disconnect our unsuspecting youths from reality and moral upliftment. The [...]
Police found .9mm pistol in Black Bush Polder vegetable garden
Police in the Berbice District found a .99mm pistol around 20:40 hours yesterday, in a garden at Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder Corentyne Berbice. According to source, the police acting on information they received, ventured into the above mention village and proceeded to search the home of 30 year old, Timothy Sampson, who is a crash [...]
East Bank Berbice road and the audacity of hope
Dear Editor, The residents of East Bank Berbice find themselves in a very unfortunate situation – one that threatens their very livelihoods. Indeed if I am not wrong, the impact on their livelihood has already been felt by many. I refer in particular to the current state of the East Bank Berbice Road, which is [...]
St Gabriel’s wins nursery school quiz
Parents, teachers and Ministry of Education officials were yesterday given a special treat while they were part of the audience at a nursery school quiz competition. The competition was held at St Gabriel’s Nursery School as part of the programme for Education Month which was observed under the theme “Child friendly homes, child friendly classrooms, [...]
Leave our cultural spaces!
Dear Editor, Our Cultural Centre is a place where Guyanese can go to for live entertainment, whether it is dance, music, theatre. The CLICO meeting that was recently held there was a gross violation of a cultured space. Meetings of this kind should be held in spaces that are more conducive to this kind of [...]
