5th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting C/ships lifts off today
Ansa McAl, New GPC & Johnny Singh contribute to Team Guyana The response from the business community to an appeal of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has been given the thumbs up by GAPF Boss, Peter Green. The Federation encountered financial difficulties in fielding a full 8-member team to the 5th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting [...]
85 percent of complaints are resolved in favour of consumers – PUC
About 85 percent of all complaints directed to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are completed in favour of consumers, according to PUC Manager, Raymon Cummings. He however noted that the ultimate result is usually dependent on the nature of complaints. Cummings made reference to complaints about allegations of tampering, of which 90 percent of the [...]
Parika stabbing victim ‘refuses to implicate cop’
An investigation into the stabbing of a Parika resident by a policeman is reportedly at a standstill because the wounded man is refusing to give a statement. “We can’t lay any charges because he’s not cooperating,” a senior police official said yesterday. However, the official gave assurances that the matter is not closed and the [...]
Covent Garden creates history, becomes 10-time winners
- L’Aventure also in winners’ row After waiting for four years and behind a vocal crowd that included parents and fans, Covent Garden Secondary School rewrote the history books when they became the first school to win 10 championships after defeating L’Aventure in the final of the Ministry of Sport / National Sports Commission / [...]
Achievers Youth and Sports Club to hold award ceremony tomorrow
The Achievers Youth and Sports Club of West Berbice will be holding its 9th Annual Award and Prize Giving Ceremony tomorrow, Saturday 26th March, 2011, at the R.D.C Board Room, Fort Wellington, West Coast, Berbice. They will honour Outstanding Performances for 2010 commencing from 14:00 hours (2 pm). Guest Speaker will be Director of Sports [...]
Constraints still abound as World TB Day is observed – Health Minister
More than 91 percent of all Tuberculosis patients were tested for HIV in 2010 and about 25 percent were found to be HIV positive, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. In fact he revealed that about 70 percent of all TB deaths in Guyana are because of AIDS. According to him there were [...]
Must the ERC or Granger atone for 1973 elections mishaps?
Dear Editor, Ms Lurlene Nestor in a letter to (SN) on 22 March 2011, titled, “Did the ERC monitor what the President said at Babu John?” Ostensibly seeks to do well for Guyana. She is worried, as a PNC executive, about the public’s perception after they were reminded in President Jagdeo charges that PNC presidential [...]
Zone 32 bus operators say being illegally forced to pay monies
- claim association uses police to threaten them Several Zone 32 minibus operators yesterday refused to continue paying monies to what they described as an illegal association and said that consequently they are being threatened and charged by police. Almost 100 of the minibuses have since joined up with the United Minibus Union (UMU) and [...]
MSC honours Crosse on WI selection
Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) honoured one of its own when club member Kwame Crosse was presented with a set of cricket gears on Wednesday afternoon, in the club’s Pavilion. The gift represents the club’s recognition of his selection on the West Indies Under-19 team that is scheduled to tour Dubai next month. Former President of [...]
What’s in a name?
To be answered tonight as ‘Lightening Struck Assassin’ attempts to silence ‘Battersea Bomber’ By Michael Benjamin When Kwesi ‘Lightening Struck Assassin’ Jones enters the ring against Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman tonight in the 13th edition of the ProAm boxing cards, the former pugilist would obviously feel that he has the psychological edge over the latter [...]
Mr. Kwayana was never Minister of Labour
Dear Editor, In a letter dated 23 March, 2011, titled, “The men who helped make Dr. Cheddi Jagan”, Mr. Cheddi (Joey) Jagan (Jr) erroneously stated that “Mr. Kwayana served as Minister of Labour in the first elected government of Guyana in 1953…” Mr. Kwayana served as Minister of Communication and Works in that government. Mr. [...]
Thousands affected as GRA systems disrupted by lightning
Thousands of individuals conduting business at Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) offices across the country, are still being inconvenienced to some extent by the recent network disruption caused by lightning damage, which forced delays in the delivery of services, especially the processing of Customs Entries and the sale of Motor Vehicle Licences. The Total Revenue Integrated [...]
It is not the World Bank that’s hampering the LCDS progress
Dear Editor, I congratulate the publisher of Kaieteur News for the outstanding job he is doing by providing the Guyanese people with not just news but real information. Mr. Lall made me very proud as a son of the soil of Wakenaam. Mr. Editor, permit me to raise a few issues that are of great [...]
Cops begin new probe in Pakaraimas shooting death
Police have returned to the Pakaraimas area where Samson Jacob Aaron was found dead last month to ascertain whether his demise was a suicide or a murder. Commander of E and F Division, Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine told Kaieteur News that a team departed for the area yesterday. He is yet to receive any further [...]
Mayor’s Cup semifinalists to be decided starting Sunday
The Mayor’s Cup football championship is closing in on its semifinal round. The battle for the four semifinal slots start Sunday with the first two quarterfinal matches at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda. Sunday’s quarters will see powerhouse Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United looking to impose their will on Santos in the curtain raiser at [...]
GNRA handgun shoot fixed for Sunday at Timehri
The Guyana National Rifle Association handgun section will run off its first practical pistol shoot for this year on Sunday at the Timehri rifle ranges. The IPSC Handgun competition rules will apply in what is anticipated to be a day of keen rivalry. The senior shooters will contest three stages while there will be two [...]
RI Vodka sponsors Next level Domino first prize
The R1 Vodka trophy and $300,000 will be at stake in this weekend’s two-day Domino Gittens and Next Level Dominoes Club countrywide tournament billed for Saturday and Sunday at the National Gymnasium. Local beverage giant Banks DIH Ltd. presented the first prize to tournament organizer Lyall Gittens at Thirst Park on Thursday. Communications Manager of [...]
Stragglers Guyana playing for pride against T&T
Win for Guyana could give Barbados/Windwards life-line By Sean Devers Bottom-of-the-table Guyana is the only team without a chance of a semi-final place going into the final preliminary round of Regional four-day cricket competition, but Skipper Assad Fudadin says Guyana will be playing for pride when they face Trinidad and Tobago from today at the [...]
Sithe Global executive insists company can build plant
Senior Vice President of Sithe Global, Rafael Herz, insists that his company can successfully build the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Plant. He was responding to the fact that “Sithe Global” has never completed a hydropower plant and its only hydro electric project is the controversial Bujagali plant in Uganda. According to Herz, Sithe has a [...]
Are propagandists distorting the Jagan legacy?
Dear Editor, It seems that propagandists on the governmental side have always been accused of distorting the facts. A good example of this is the case of Dr. Joey Jagan’s recent letters about Dr. Prem MIsir in the daily papers. As is widely known, Prem Misir is an academic and weekly columnist of the Guyana [...]
No match for fingerprints obtained
Police on the East Coast of Demerara have reached a dead end in their investigations into last Monday’s raid on the Correia Mining Company office at the Ogle Airport, which resulted in the murder of 55-year-old guard/driver Solomon Burke. Sources close to the investigations have indicated to this newspaper that the ex-employee who was detained [...]
Sugar Betrayal
The LBI sugar factory has been closed and the workers are up in arms. They are out on strike, even though management has assured them that they have alternative employment at the Enmore factory. Basically the issue is one of trust, or more precisely a lack of trust in the promises of the managers and [...]
OLPF – full disclosure a must
Dear Editor, Guyanese, need a full disclosure on the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) project. The recent exposure of this project, which is nothing short of ‘executive pilfering’, must urge us to seek in depth examination, public, examination of this project. Jud Lohmeyer’s, the sacked project officer, informed us of how surprised he was when [...]
Presidential Advisor battles miner over Cuyuni claims
- court orders GGMC to return seized equipment A court has ordered Presidential Advisor, Odinga Lumumba, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and Shoreham Resources Inc. to return several pieces of mining equipment seized last year from a miner operating in the Cuyuni River. Justice Rishi Persaud also granted an injunction, on Tuesday, barring [...]
Carl Greenidge and Nietzsche’s Übermensch
One of the “certainties” of politics is that people will embrace activists and politicians who have considerable experience and will logically vote them into office. This may be one of the enduring features of politics, but it is not necessarily a predictable trend. There comes a time when a country feels so burdened by failures [...]
