Endurance Race to start off GMR&SC 2011 Programme
Having had to cancel the season opening Drag Race Meet which was scheduled to be staged on February 20 due to the deaths of two members of the racing fraternity, the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club 2011 programme will finally get started on March 13 with an Endurance Meet at the recently resurfaced South [...]
Rockies host reception for hinterland athletes
- NACAC team invited, but did not show up Popular Brazilian Sports Bar, Rockies, hosted a reception Monday night at its 21 Light Street location for the hinterland-based athletes that recently returned from the North America, Central American and the Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Race. The two Region Nine-based athletes, Doretta Wilson and Hezron Pedro, [...]
50 year-old US citizen nabbed with coke at CJIA
Yet another US citizen has been nabbed by Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks, trying to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. According to reports, sometime around 14:00 hours yesterday, the 50 year-old female was nabbed with some five kilogrammes of cocaine. This newspaper was told that the woman [...]
Veteran journalist Sharief Khan passes on
The media fraternity has once again been plunged into mourning with the sudden passing of another of its stalwarts, Sharief Khan, a few months shy of achieving the age of 60. Khan collapsed and died around 09:00 hours yesterday at his Ogle, East Coast Demerara residence, which he shared with his mother and brother, as [...]
Prison officials ‘concerned’ about discovery of .32 round
- Erskine reassures staff on alert Director of Prisons Dale Erskine said yesterday that the discovery of a .32 round in the prison was cause for concern, but reassured that staffers at the Camp Street penitentiary are always on high alert. Erskine was responding to reports that the round of ammunition was found in the [...]
PNCR Presidential hopeful promises youth engagement programmes
People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Presidential hopeful Dr. Faith Harding has announced a plan to have youths purposefully engaged in Guyana’s development. The strategy to achieve this was outlined yesterday during a media briefing. In outlining the plan, Dr. Harding noted that Guyana currently has a youth population of 276,093 between the ages of 10 [...]
Billion-dollar fund launched for Haiti’s reconstruction
Head of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA), Clinton Williams, last weekend returned from the second CARICOM Private Sector-led forum in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The forum was held last week primarily to bring on board members of the Haitian Private Business community and ‘encourage their participation in the overall effort to reconstruct the nation’s infrastructure [...]
Ithaca wife killer gets 30 years
Thirty-two year old Gladstone Williamson, charged with killing 31-year-old plantain chip vendor Gertrude Edwards, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 30 years in jail by Justice Franklyn Holder, at the Berbice High Court. Williamson initially faced a murder charge and had pleaded not guilty, but later changed his plea to guilty on the lesser count of [...]
Tell a lie often enough and you can believe it
Dear Editor: Every so often, there are moments that define a generation. For Guyana, the YEAR 1953 was one such moment with Jagan and Burnham winning 18 of the 24 seats in the National Assembly. What I have seen of Ramjattan and Trotman both in Georgetown and New York, the year 2011 is setting itself [...]
Water receding but several communities still inundated – Officials
- rains reach record levels in February Authorities have repeated warnings of more showers for today’s Mashramani celebrations even as rainfall surpassed record levels for this month. While there are no immediate fears that more flooding could result from a swiftly rising East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC), government officials yesterday said that repairs are being [...]
1763: Lest we forget
Dear Editor, By the time you read this letter today, February 23, a major slave rebellion, exactly 248 years ago, is just stirring or is gathering unstoppable momentum. On this morning in 1763, the enslaved Africans on Plantation Magdalenenburg in the Canje river revolt against their Dutch masters, starting what has come to be called [...]
Thank you, President Jagdeo, for caring about the women of Guyana
I heard a host of angels sing as I read the status update on Monday on NCN Guyana’s Facebook page. It said, “President Bharrat Jagdeo is calling on citizens to break the silence to injustice. The Head of State was referring to the issue of domestic violence where persons fail to render assistance to victims.” [...]
David Granger – the best PNCR Candidate for President
Dear Editor, As I listen to the news, read the papers and engage in conservation as we gear for regional and national elections later in the year, I am very concerned that many of our citizens are being misled by four of the PNCR’s Presidential candidates. I have so far followed the PNCR race with [...]
The AFC never delivered
Dear Editor, AFC’s General Secretary, Sixtus Edwards writes “In Animal Farm terminology some pigs are more equal than others” in KN of 19th February 2011. I would like to ask Mr. Edwards after highlighting all the failures of the PPP, what has he or the AFC done since 2006 to change it? It is not [...]
Gaddafi must be charged for war crimes now!
I do not believe in the death penalty. In a referendum I would vote for its abolition. That doesn’t mean I was unhappy when Saddam Hussein was hanged. If I had to vote on his execution, I probably would have abstained. Hussein was an unfit leader who had no moral redemption in him. Only an [...]
Democracy in Guyana: and the PNC’s callous legacy
Dear Editor I am not usually in the habit of responding to people who present minimal appropriate evidence. Nonetheless, in the Kaieteur News of February 21, 2011, there are two letters that require some level of response. In my previous letter, “Replicating an Egypt in Guyana against the New Opposition”, I merely indicated that Guyana [...]
Republic Day
Today should be one of the proudest days in the life of our nation – Republic Day. While some may confer that honour on Independence Day, May 26th, we do believe that because our umbilical cord to the colonial power, Britain, was retained through the Governor-General, we were not quite “free”. On February 23rd, 1970, [...]
WHY CONSULT ONLY NOW?
A government democratically elected to office, must rule as if it enjoys the will of the people. It must confidently exercise its mandate by making decisions and acting decisively on those decisions. While it is always best if, as far as is possible, an elected government consults with the opposition and other societal forces on [...]
There was a mistake here
Dear editor, Your article on February 21, 2011 that dealt with the number of cases handled by the Child Care and Protection Agency for 2010 and attributed to information from a recent interview with the Director is in fact from an interview done in January which resulted in an earlier article penned. In that interview [...]
Guyana needs a very special leader
Dear Editor, As Guyana approaches yet another election it is time to take stock of where we are as a nation. We are not a cohesive nation. We are divided along racial lines more than we ever were in the 1960’s. The competition for political power has left us devastated in all aspects of life. [...]
Kissoon and his anti non-resident immigrant stance
Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your column to respond to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column, ‘Raphael Trotman needs a course in existentialist philosophy’. Kissoon is clearly not being honest with the facts. Remittances account for the second highest source of foreign exchange into Guyana. This is not imaginary data; this is data provided [...]
Of corruption and cronyism
Dear Editor, Today as we are concentrating on the issue of potential candidates for the presidential elections, we address certain issues such as the position of the candidates with regards to inclusiveness and powers of the President, but what is not being discussed is the type of economic policies and strategies that would be employed [...]
TEARS FOR “KHANA”
Dear Editor, For many years now I called him “Khana”, a hybrid of his name “Khan” and the Caribbean News Agency (Cana), with which he was associated. That was more than 35 years ago. And that’s probably how long I have known Sharief Khan, not only as a colleague but as someone synonymous with the [...]
IPA boss accuses Health Minister of dishonesty
… says no drug tender was advertised Kaieteur News’ contention that the tender for which there were two pre-selected bidders was never advertised is being supported by International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) another pharmaceutical importer. In the wake of the publication, the Ministry of Health lashed out saying that the government did advertise the tender on [...]
Importing teachers – quick fix or long term solution?
DEAR EDITOR, The brain drain of professionals from Guyana, amongst then thousands of qualified teachers, has been occurring for decades. One only has to visit the marking centres of CXC examinations in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Guyana to see the hundreds of overseas Guyanese teachers, who converge yearly. And this is just a fraction of [...]
