Govt. secrecy on contracts/projects facilitates corruption
MPs say… The very secretive way in which the specifications of government contracts are made available has been described as a way to facilitate corruption, according some Members of Parliament and key figures in society. At present, the only persons privy to the information are the contractors who buy the bid documents. Several efforts by [...]
Drag racing champion and friend die in submerged car
- eyewitness says victims were racing with other driver Popular drag-racing champion Raymond Ally and a friend, Jermaine Frank, died at around 01:30 hrs yesterday when the car they were in overturned in a canal near Rahaman’s Turn after careening off the East Bank Demerara Public Road. Ally, 26, of Lot 42 Friendship, East Bank [...]
High winds blow off Cyril Potter’s roof
- official cites sub-standard work High winds accompanied by a sharp downpour yesterday destroyed the roof of a building that houses the library of the Cyril Potter College of Education (Teachers’ Training College) located at Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara. It was around 08:40 hours when the security guards on duty as well [...]
Dem boys seh…Government is not de solution, but de problem
De more dem boys follow de Egyptian crisis de more dem understand government. Dem was listening to de news when dem hear that Hosni Mubarak and he family got assets worth US$70 billion. It mean that dem got more than Bill Gates who was said to be de richest man in de world, or at [...]
Man locked in store found hiding in ceiling
“Gimme a chance nah, ah de hungry.’ The pleas of a man who had stashed himself in a Regent Street store with the intention of ‘cleaning it out’ when the time was right. The man who claimed that he was from the East Coast of Demerara was found hiding in the ceiling of the Sachi [...]
GWI addresses Pensioners’ queries on “subsidy for water”
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) recently met with the Pensioners’ Association of Guyana to increase its public awareness campaign on the Pensioners’ Subsidy for water. According to GWI’s Public Relations Officer, Timothy Austin, over 30 pensioners interacted with GWI’s Public Relations and Customer Service Departments, including Customer Service Manager, Jeanette Thomas, at the Association’s East Street [...]
Nightmare for Mahdia woman miner at GGMC
- mystery how same land allocated twice By Leonard Gildarie Amidst calls for a review of the operations of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)- the country’s regulators of the gold and diamond mining industry-one Mahdia woman is crying out for a full investigation. Virginia Serieux, 32, said that the entire situation at the [...]
AFC plans to transform UG into regional research University
…intends to revamp Health Care sector if elected to Office Education is the key to economic and social transformation and as such the Alliance For Change (AFC) says that they have several strategies aimed at boosting this vital sector. In the party’s action plan for Guyana, the AFC says that they intend to revisit and [...]
Samuels’ comeback ‘double’ put Jamaica in charge
Guyana set massive 359 to win By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Western Union & Jamaica Pegasus On the 66th birth anniversary of the late Jamaican Reggae great Bob Marley, Marlon Samuels yesterday hit his second First-Class ton for Jamaica on a ground where he scored his first six years ago to put [...]
Ronson Williams, Alison Heydorn named footballers of the year
- Rodrigues is top coach By Franklin Wilson Guyana’s number one goalkeeper, a member of the Country’s top club side Alpha United, was named the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) male player of the year when that entity held their Annual Awards Dinner and Gala at the Georgetown Club on Saturday night. Lady Jags forward Alison [...]
GAAMI seeks to promote herbal life in Guyana
With vision to lead the development of primary health care through education and research in herbal, alternative, naturopathic and integrated medicine, the Guyana Association for Alternative Medicine Institute, GAAMI yesterday held a public orientation ceremony at the Ocean View International Hotel. GAAMI is said to be an offshoot of Guyana Association for Alternative Medicine-GAAMI, which [...]
Peter Green returned as GAPF President for another term
By Franklin Wilson The membership of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has maintained a high degree of confidence in their President Peter Green whom they returned un-opposed in that post for another term when their Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held yesterday at the Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue. Green, who was recently elected [...]
Berbice Basketball season bounces off today
By Samuel Whyte Basketball players in Berbice will have a chance to show off their skills when the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association bounces off its first tournament for the 2011 season today at the Vryman’s Erven court in New Amsterdam. The association will roll off its programme with play in the annual Mashramani Basketball competition which [...]
The legacy lives on
Dame Olga Lopes-Seale DA, GCM, MBE, BBS By Michael Benjamin “If I can help somebody with a word or song; if I can show somebody that he is travelling wrong; if I can help somebody as I pass along; then my living shall not be in vain. It was October; the year 2010 was quickly [...]
Rain washes out games in 1st and 2nd division 2-day competitions
Rain poured down on the city yesterday morning and hampered second day’s play for fourth round matches in the Carib Beer 1st division competition. Umpires abandoned games and there wasn’t any play in none of the matches. Although, the predicted results for the games at DCC, GCC, and Everest were probably draws, Malteenoes at Everest [...]
First Cruise Liner for the year docks at GNSC wharf
Yesterday, Cruise Vessel the M.V. Saga Pearl 2 docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited. The ship is the first cruise to dock in local waters for the year. Upon its arrival, the crew and its passengers were given a grand Guyanese welcome with some entertaining steel pan music. The passengers were also given [...]
Education is the eternal foundation of a nation’s development
Dear Editor, The decline of education in Guyana since the 1980s until today has been a major concern for every educated Guyanese citizen living and working in Guyana. As our political and economic condition deteriorated many of our qualified teachers left the country seeking better jobs with better pay and better job incentives. When teachers [...]
Guyana cries out for upstanding leaders
Dear Editor, AFC presidential candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, at a Bath Settlement political meeting, is reported telling the Indian dominated crowd, “to stop being fearful of African Guyanese.” To this Lurlene Nestor (Kaieteur News, January 22, “Khemraj Ramjattan’s Bath Settlement call was ill-advised”) made it known that, “this call by Mr. Ramjattan [she finds] very offensive [...]
Shocking statement by Minister Rohee
Dear Editor, The victims of crimes like young Sheema Mangar, Mr. Ramoudit, who was returning to Guyana after more than a decade, was killed for his gold chain, he did not even have a chance to say hello or goodbye, young Ricky Jainarine 10 years old, his mother longs to just find his body to [...]
A message to our youth
Dear Editor, My contribution is inspired by the faith and vision of Noha Tarek, an Egyptian graduate student studying political science. Noha proclaimed to a BBC News reporter that she is participating in Egypt’s pro democracy rallies for greater prosperity, peace and freedoms even if her participation results in her death. Noha’s self-less commitment is [...]
The economic policies of the AFC are designed to lift all citizens
Dear Editor, The first thing to note is the AFC’s Action Plan did not (and I insist did not!) say the party will perform ethnic audits before each policy is implemented as is claimed by Mr. Jason Abdulla (Kaieteur News, 05-02-2011). I believe the media cited our presidential candidate, Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan, incorrectly on this [...]
The M&CC faces enormous challenges
Dear Editor, The enormity of the challenges facing the City Administration is really beyond belief. I refer to a letter (Wednesday, February 2, 2011, SN), written by L. Narin, titled, “Exercise in futility”. The writer of this letter is fully justified. I have on numerous occasions visited this abomination in a residential area (Anira Street), [...]
WHAT IS THERE TO HIDE?
Trying to gain information from the government is like trying to obtain a state secret. Even the most basic inquiries is like trying to break into a secret vault. This newspaper had repeatedly tried to obtain information on the specifications for certain public works, information which is supposed to be public. This newspaper has been [...]
Robert Corbin and a big lie perpetrated on the Guyanese people
On Thursday, I called the head of the UNDP in Guyana, Mr. Tinguria (hope I got his name right) to suggest that he seek legal opinion on the constitutional status of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) because the ERC continues to get funding from the UNDP. I informed Mr. Tinguria that the Leader of the [...]
AS TIME GOES BY
I have often wondered what kind of reaction those people who study time get when asked what they do for a living and answer, “I am a horologist.” In Trinidad I might even be asked, “Where you study? The University of Charlotte Street ?” and Guyanese will immediately associate me with Tiger Bay . But [...]
