Giftland Office Max & Interline Fitness Gym donate
Giftland Office Max and Interline Fitness Gym have both made contributions to the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) ahead of their annual Novice and Intermediate Championships set for the National Cultural Centre tomorrow evening. Giftland Office Max Marketing Manager Compton Bobb handed over a cheque to federation President Fiona Harris which covers [...]
GPHC reports success with Emergency Medicine residency programme
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is reporting a successful emergency medicine residency programme. Under the programme, teaching staff of Vanderbilt University train local doctors in emergency medicine over a three-year period. The programme outline is approved by the University of Guyana and upon completion of the programme, the doctors gain a Masters in Emergency [...]
Guyana ink deal to reopen Manganese mining at Matthews Ridge
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh, who is the new Chairman for the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, and Executive Chairman of Reunion Manganese Incorporated, David Fennel, on Thursday evening, signed a mining agreement geared to reopening manganese mining at Matthews Ridge. The 25-year agreement for the mining operation is deemed to [...]
KLM Basketball Extravaganza
More than just a game for Ravens – Coach Tonight, basketball fans and players will converge at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Basketball Extravaganza, where Ravens will take on a Georgetown All-Star and the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Elite squad is down to face the Ravens Junior squad. The inaugural [...]
State Prosecutors, Police Prosecutors undergo specialised training
State Prosecutors from the Chambers of the Directors of Public Prosecutions and senior investigating ranks as well as Police Prosecutors from the Guyana Police Force are ending a two-day training workshop being held at the Regency Hotel, today. The training is under the sponsorship of the Modernization of the Justice Administration System project (MJAS). This [...]
Excitement grows as battle for semi-final spots heigthens
Football fans, relieved that the rains have abated, are expected to turn out in their droves when the excitement continues in the Mayor’s Cup football extravaganza tomorrow evening with an exciting double header. Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United would go head to head with Santos FC in the supporting match to Pele FC and Rhythm Squad [...]
Stag & El Dorado softball cricket continues tomorrow
The Stag Beer and El Dorado Rum softball cricket competition which was put on hold due to the inclement weather will continue tomorrow. Essequibo Zone – Group A – Die Hard vs El dorado Sports Club; Adventure B vs Young Warriors; Annandale Sports Club vs Queenstown Darul-Haaq. Group B – Reliance X1 vs Starlite X1; [...]
THE BANDITS WILL BE CAUGHT
“They had no right to kill that innocent man,” the woman bemoaned as she read the report in the newspaper about the cold-blooded killing of a driver attached to a mining office located within the Ogle Aerodrome. “What right they had to take that man’s life? What did he do to them?” she continued. I [...]
Canje road add to residents’ woes
Residents of the agricultural community of East and West Canje are crying out for help. Their major concerns are the main roads in the area. Some time last year, contracts to construct the roads were issued to contractor H. Nauth and Sons. The contractor dug up the roads and has left it in an impassable [...]
Simmons’ 2nd consecutive ton against Guyana put T&T in control
By Sean Devers Twenty-six-year-old Test batsman Lindl Simmons hit his second consecutive First Class century against Guyana as Trinidad and Tobago controlled the opening day of their final round regional four-day cricket match at the Providence Stadium yesterday. Simmons’ unbeaten 134, his ninth First-Class ton and third against Guyana has so far lasted 250 balls, [...]
BCB to launch Junior Elite training Programme tomorrow
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will tomorrow launch its Junior Elite Training Programme for 2011 with 35 Under-15 cricketers drawn from across the Ancient County. This activity is set for the Albion Community Centre and the players were selected by the Junior Selection Committee which is chaired by Leslie Solomon, based on their performances, personal [...]
Impartiality and the GPF
Dear Editor, I am responding to the nonsense dished out by several senior members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for not performing their duties as required by oath. On numerous occasions when ministers of the government and senior members of the PPP broke the law, some senior police officers go to great lengths to [...]
Joey Jagan responds to Green
Dear Editor, In answer to Nigel Green’s letter of March 25, in which he asked me about Prem Misir’s writings on my father, President Cheddi, and if Misir misrepresented the facts about Jagan? Mr. Editor, I would not waste words to answer Green, except to say that Guyanese are not stupid as he might think; [...]
Poor ethics by Guyana Water Inc. workers
Dear Editor, Yesterday (24-03-11) I heard a man calling at my gate, when I looked out on my veranda I saw a GWI water meter reader. He told me he came to read my water meter, I invited him in and he read my water meter. About five minutes later he came back and told [...]
Where are the voices?
Dear Editor, Following the two-year bauxite dispute at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc, in this dedicated International Year of People of African Descent, to end racism and work towards equality, where are the voices of the: 1. The Guyana Bar Association – the legal advocate? 2. Guyana Human Rights Association – the rights advocate? [...]
Continued underdevelopment
Guyana is known as the land of potential. In every corner of the world where the people know of Guyana they keep talking of its potential; they say that it is a rich country. They also point to its large land mass and small population. Just two nights ago, a foreign gold exploration company announced [...]
Freddie can be objective when he wants to be
Dear Editor, I write to commend columnist Freddie Kissoon on one of the more objective political analysis he has written in a very long time: “Carl Greenidge and Nietzsche’s Übermensch” (Kaieteur News, March 25). Undoubtedly, this man has real talent and the ability to write some very interesting columns when his focus is not targeting [...]
Canadian firm announces major gold find at Aurora
- says will invest US$150M over 20 years By Leonard Gildarie Guyana Goldfields Inc., a Canadian company which has been conducting explorations here since 1996, yesterday announced that it will be plugging almost US$150M into Guyana over the next 20 years, while revealing that it has come across significant gold deposits at Aurora. The ambitious [...]
Sacked OP employee claims Lumumba threatened her
“I am willing to take a lie detector test by any agency. Is she prepared to do that?” – Odinga Lumumba Sacked Office of the President (OP) employee Marcelle Joseph has contended that Presidential Advisor on Empowerment Odinga Lumumba was the person who had threatened her immediately after she was dismissed on an allegation that [...]
Two plead guilty to manslaughter, two acquitted
The trial of a Chesney, Corentyne quartet – a mother, her son and two other males – who were being tried in the Berbice High Court for murder, took a dramatic turn yesterday with the acquittal of two of the accused and the conviction of the other two on the lesser count of manslaughter. Forty-five [...]
Another White Elephant ???
Is the multi-million dollar building which now stands at the Princes and High Street location where the old Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) headquarters was situated, another white elephant? The edifice was originally supposed to house the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, however, there was a change of plans to accommodate the Ministry of [...]
Fatal blaze resulted from toddlers playing with matches – Fire Chief
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has stated that Tuesday’s morning fire which claimed the life of two-year-old Nicholas Maraj was as a result of children playing with matches. Maraj’s three-year-old cousin, Anthony Singh, managed to get out of the building Relatives of the deceased toddler had initially denied that matches were in the children’s hand reach. [...]
CARICOM challenged to advance renewable energy drive
Energy Ministers from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met yesterday and were challenged to advance the Region’s renewable energy drive and leverage energy sector advantages in the face of the recent surge in oil prices. The challenges were made to the Ministers, meeting for the first time in more than two decades, by Acting CARICOM [...]
Dem boys seh…De Top Cop tek he own discharge
Security is a big thing. Was a time when people use to sleep wid dem house open. Dem didn’t have to worry. Dem boys seh that anybody who talk bout dem days got to realize that everybody was poor. Nobody didn’t have nutten to thief. These days, though, even poor people got something because dem [...]
Social Sciences dethrone Natural Sciences in thriller
Social Sciences (SS) turned in a masterful performance to dethrone Natural Sciences 42-41 when the University of Guyana staged the finals of the Inter-Faculty Basketball Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) yesterday afternoon. The match had all the trimmings of an NBA game with Natural Sciences battling furiously to retain the crown and [...]
