The undignified treatment of the dead is a sin
Dear Editor, We have all experienced those clichéd opening scenes of horror movies where the wind whistles and sometimes roars through the trees of an over-grown cemetery. This is how I envisage Guyana’s burial grounds. My eldest daughter would have been 32 years old today had she not been killed by an alleged drunken driver [...]
Dazzling action expected today at Ryan Crawford Horse Race Meet
Over 75 Horses entered Over 75 horses will gallop for top honors at the season opening horse race meet organised by the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club (RCMTC) today at Alness Village, Corentyne Berbice. Seven (7) are carded for the day with action set to begin at 13:00hrs and over $3.5M in cash and other [...]
An election year budget has to be good
Dear Editor, Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, indeed highlighted the benignity of the Guyana government when he classed the 2011 budget as an election budget. I don’t know all his reasons for calling it such, I will never know, but from his remark, I take it to mean that he agrees that the budget [...]
Raj Singh led DCB holds Executive meeting
A number of committees appointed Following the withdrawal of the Court proceedings which were instituted by the Bissoondyal Singh-led faction of the Demerara Cricket Board against the Raj Singh-led Demerara Cricket Board faction, the Executive Committee of the Raj Singh led body held its first meeting on Friday last at the Everest Cricket Club Pavilion. [...]
Ramjattan’s race reasoning – reality versus rhetoric
Dear Editor, AFC presidential candidate, Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan’s reassurance to Indian Guyanese there is no reason for them to be fearful of African-Guyanese (Blacks) has instead riled others who view the comment as racially provocative. First, the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC), said to be closely aligned to the PPP, dispatched a letter to the Ethnic [...]
Fudadin, Barnwell & Singh among the runs
In only practice match for Guyana team National team left-handers Vishaul Singh and Assad Fudadin and standby all-rounder Chris Barnwell were among the runs on the final day of Guyana’s only two-day practice at Bourda. Singh, who hit 44 with 3 fours from 119 balls and 165 minutes and Skipper Fudadin whose 47 was decorated [...]
Lessons from Malaysia
By Sir Ronald Sanders I am writing this commentary in the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the Capital of Malaysia. To describe Malaysia as a vibrant, energetic country would be an understatement. It is fast becoming yet another Asian Tiger joining the economies of Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. Yet, it wasn’t so long ago that [...]
Cartoons, Sun. Jan. 30, 2011
Government fully behind YBG Initiative
-Anthony says at yesterday’s launch Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony stated that Government is fully behind the new Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Initiative given that it is a programme aimed at taking the sport to the next level and meaningfully engaging for youths. Anthony was speaking at yesterday’s formal launch of [...]
The Old Age Pensions Scheme – Something stinks to high heaven
An Analysis of the Old Age Pension Scheme as presented in the National Assembly on Tuesday January 25, 2011 by AFC Member Sheila Holder The Alliance For Change (AFC) calls on the Minister of Human Services, Priya Manickchand, to post on the web the names and addresses of the 44,000 pensioners said to be in [...]
There is nothing better than neighbours
By Adam Harris You wake up in the morning and you call out to those of your neighbours who you may see and the day begins. You feel that people barely notice you because they do nothing special. Each day is the same thing. A ‘hi’ here and a ‘hello‘ there and you continue on [...]
You might know a paedophile
This week we found out about four children who were said to have been sexually molested by “trusted” adults. The good news is that all of the alleged perpetrators have been stopped and will now face justice. However, one cannot help but wonder how many more situations such as these exist and whether there is [...]
A brief history of current rum-shop politicians
The first story you are about to read here on a rum-shop man whom the Leviathan shamelessly elevated in the education sector is true. This was one of the most nauseating aspects of the Leviathan’s politics that I think puts him below all other Caribbean Heads since Self-Government in the fifties. The identification of this [...]
The Linden triple murders
By Michael Jordan We like to think that execution-style killings only came into vogue a few years ago. We like to see the eighties and nineties as ‘the good old days’, when it was inconceivable for bullet-riddled bodies to turn up anywhere. But let’s take a trip back to Sunday, December 27, 1998. Sometime before [...]
The Baccoo speaks
The month is coming to an end and all the madness that greeted the year would disappear, but not for long. People have short memories so they forget all that happened during this month in years gone by. A few years ago, it was in this month that there was a massacre. There will be [...]
Unity and diversity
It has been asserted that at Independence, we “inherited a state but not a nation”. With the vast majority of Guyanese arbitrarily dumped into Guyana over the last few hundred years to join the Indigenous peoples already here, we simply do not have the collective wherewithal to imagine a nation “looming out of an immemorial [...]
The Salamander
Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterised by their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant species are grouped together as the Urodela. Most salamanders have four toes on their front legs [...]
THIS DEBATE SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT SCORING POLITICAL POINTS
The number of persons on the old-age pension receipts is way too high. This must not be spun as a call for eligible persons to be taken off the list, but simply a demand that the list be examined to ensure that only those entitled to old-age pensions should receive those pensions. The number of [...]
12 murders in 27 days
- similar number of homicides in January 2010 Twelve people, including a 21-year-old teacher, a US-based citizen and a 14-year-old boy were murdered in the first 27 days of this year. A similar number of people were also slain during the same period in January 2010. Last year, four of the victims were women; there [...]
Chinese to invest US$1 billion in projects here – Ambassador Yu
Chinese companies are getting ready to invest some US$1 billion in various projects in Guyana, Chinese Ambassador, Yu Wenzhe has said. To date, the total investment from China is over US$100 million in the field of mining and forestry, Ambassador Yu said, and other investment projects currently in the pipe line are worth more than [...]
Egypt’s Mubarak sacks cabinet
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuse to bow to demands that he resign, after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protest against his 30-year rule. Mubarak dismissed his government and called for national dialogue to avert chaos following a day of battles between police [...]
Digicel launches ‘Royalty’ Mash band
Digicel yesterday unveiled its “Royalty” themed Mash band for this year, announcing that it will be competing for King of the Band and hoping to win other prizes. Last year, the company placed second in the large band category but would be hoping to beat that this year. It won Queen of the Band, and [...]
Dem boys seh… Woolford get cuss and he can’t cuss back
Ever since de waterfalls paper start talking bout corruption, everybody joining in. Bharrat tell dem soldiers that de people who does deal wid gold and diamond corrupt. But as old people seh, wrong thing never got owner. De people who dealing wid gold and diamond deny. Up comes Robeson and he seh that dem lie; [...]
Cabinet Secretary collapses, rushed to city hospital
Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon was early yesterday morning rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after collapsing while preparing for work. Reports are that Dr. Luncheon was rushed to the hospital around 07:00 hours after complaining about spinal spasms. An ambulance was rushed to his home. Up to last night he was being treated at [...]
Hit and run driver nabbed on Harbour Bridge
A hit-and-run driver led police on a chase over the Demerara Harbour Bridge around 20:30 hrs after slamming into a motorcyclist and slightly damaging two cars on the East Bank Demerara public road. But the chase ended with police arresting the suspect on the Bridge and impounding his car at the Providence Police Station. The [...]
