The morality police are watching
I am often disappointed, and at times even offended, at the way homosexuals are viewed. Those who interact with me throughout the day will customarily refrain from their usual sexist verbiage so as not to offend my sensitivities on this topic. However, I am also quite offended by homophobic speech because as a woman I [...]
Tired of Harry Gill’s biased writings
Dear Editor, Mr. Editor I have grown weary reading the biased writing of one Mr. Harry Gill. But when I read his reckless articles, I consider what my brother said to me a few years ago “Haters wanna play hard. I won’t pretend to be mad. I’ll just disregard you like my memory’s bad”. Mr. [...]
Alcohol is insidious
Dear Editor The Government has launched its Feminition Women’s Expo weekend. The press releases from the launch indicate that Banks DIH, DDL and Ansa McAl who all sell alcoholic and non-alcoholic products are going to be sponsors and be actively involved in displaying their products. The event is not being advertised as alcohol-free. There are [...]
Murder accused walks free
Twenty-eight year-old Bernstein James yesterday walked out of the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court a free man, freed of the charge of murder. He had been accused of killing his brother Floyd James, on January 1, 2009. The preliminary inquiry (PI) was before Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani, and Bernstein was represented by defence counsel Jerome Khan. Kaieteur News [...]
PM Hinds cannot deny he spoke to me on March 4
The Prime Minister can hardly deny speaking to citizens when he is on the streets of Georgetown, because there are also five attendants who can testify to his action. The PM always has with him five or six attendants whenever he is around. One afternoon I saw him on Main Street in jogging outfit and [...]
Power and Sex
Henry Kissinger, who knew a thing or two about power in his days, once pithily remarked that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac. Nothing that has happened before and since – culminating with the tawdry arrest of the head of the IMF for attempted rape – has disproven his thesis. Through the ages, once ensconced in [...]
The Legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan is Tarnished
Dear Editor Everyday one reads in the daily newspapers of corruption, crimes, substandard works and family disruption. In post 1992, many Guyanese felt that such attritions would no longer happen. Dr. Jagan groomed people whom he felt shared his vision of honesty and integrity. These people have ignored the teachings of this great man. They [...]
THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES…
Democracy is electronic these days. Television is all. Look at the history from poor Richard Nixon in 1960 (he looked shifty and he never changed that image until he resigned in 1973) to ‘Clegg-Mania’ in the UK in the 2010 election. Third party leader Clegg looked the part on stage with Gordon Brown and David [...]
Is PPP really a democratically elected Gov’t?
Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to respond to Mr Vishnu BIsram’s letter, “ One can’t bully his or her way into governance when rejected by the voters,” (KN 05-20-11). Mr Bisram on several occasions referred to the PPP Government as a democratically elected one. I want to challenge that notion and to show that the [...]
Let the PPP account for its years in office
Dear Editor, There seems to be an orchestrated and concerted effort on the part of the PPP/C and its collaborators to make their campaign theme “28 years of PNC”, a strategy they hope will cause the incumbent regime to escape the scrutiny of the Guyanese people. They hope that by beating the 28 years mantra [...]
A deplorable situation
Dear Editor, I would like to draw your attention to the deplorable state of the Diamond Community Center Street (aka Cinema Street) on the East Bank of Demerara. Attached is a picture of what happens on a good day if the Lord permits rain should fall, and what I would describe as total neglect. This [...]
WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING
Within two weeks, the people of Guyana would have forgotten about the Islamic cleric who was arrested in Guyana and who was released without any charges being laid. There will be from time to time occasional reminders about this arrest, but the people of Guyana would within fourteen days no longer have this issue as [...]
Breaking News…Sleeping toddlers perish in East Coast fire
Two toddlers left at home alone perished yesterday in an early morning fire that destroyed the family’s shack at Dazelle Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. Julius De Clou, six, and his four-year-old brother, Josiah, were reportedly asleep when their mother, 27-year-old Ashona Letlow, left to go to a nearby house to iron a school shirt. [...]
Cost of US$12.5M packaging plant questionable
Kenya installs four times bigger plant for US$3M There are questions over the seemingly high cost of the recently commissioned US$12.5M ($2.5B) sugar packaging plant at Enmore. Last week, Christopher Ram, a newspaper columnist/accountant, in an article, noted that Kenya’s largest sugar company, Mumias Sugar Company (MSC), had recently built a packaging plant for US$3M. [...]
We’re here to take you anywhere
- ASL commissions new cessna As Air Services Limited operations continue to grow with an additional Cessna aircraft at the Ogle Airport, Government is calling for disagreements that exist at the airport to be resolved in a non-adversarial manner since there are controversies with usage of space at the airport. This sentiment was shared at [...]
Sugar worker dies… Joint GuySuCo-GAWU team to probe Enmore factory explosion
A sugar worker who was severely injured during an explosion at the recently upgraded section of the Enmore factory has died. The news came hours after the country’s main sugar workers’ union called for an “impartial enquiry” into the accident that occurred last week Sunday. The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), in a statement last evening, [...]
Amaila Falls Hydro Project … ‘Several millions’ already spent to develop project
- says Sithe Global Sithe Global, the company developing the Amaila Falls Hydro project, has already spent “several million dollars,” Senior Vice President James McGowan said yesterday. Civil society activist and chartered accountant Christopher Ram has already questioned Sithe Global’s stated intention to put US$200 million into the project. Financing for the project, estimated by [...]
Teen shot three times
Nineteen-year-old Colwyn Mercurius was shot thrice by a lone gunman following a heated argument yesterday morning at his mother’s North East La Penitence home. Mercurius was shot twice to the hand and once to the buttocks. Up to press time last night he was being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital. His sister, Colleen, yesterday [...]
US denies allegations surrounding cleric’s arrest
By Latoya Giles The United States has denied that it provided any information to the Guyana Police Force to arrest Nation of Islam Advisor Akbar Muhammad. Muhammad, Guyana-born Canadian citizen, Philip Simon, and East Coast Demerara resident Tyrone Seymour, were arrested last Thursday by the police who claimed that the three men were wanted in [...]
Dem boys seh… HTC means Hide Thief Coming
Long time was cast-iron pipe fuh water. Then dem start fuh use copper because of de rust. But copper get expensive suh de White man devise a new, cheap and light pipe. He call it PVC. Dem boys seh that it mean Pipe Very Cheap. All over de world is PVC. In Guyana, dem boys [...]
UNASUR Council of Delegates meets in Guyana
The Council of Delegates of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) opens a two-day meeting in Guyana today in extraordinary session to discuss the structure and budget for the General Secretariat of UNASUR. It was at the IV Summit of the Heads of State and Government held on November 26, 2010, the Heads mandated [...]
Police detain businessman’s daughter among three
…find gold, stolen cash under suspect’s mattress Police have arrested three other suspects in connection with the murder of businessman, Victor Warner. They have also released his 21-year-old son whom they had held since the murder on May 19, on $ 50,000 station bail. According to reports, the three new suspects were detained on Saturday [...]
Two men found dead in Canje
Two men, both said to be alcoholics, were found dead at different locations in East Canje. The body of Abdul Satar Rasheed, 47, of Lot 9 Adelphi Settlement was discovered lying in his yard around 06:30 hrs on Monday. According to reports, the man was unemployed and was an epileptic. His relatives stated that he [...]
June 1 is deadline for Motor Vehicle Licence purchases
The deadline for the sale of Motor Vehicle Licences is June 1, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says. The announcement was made in a statement by the tax collection agency yesterday which also apologised for delays experienced by taxpayers last Wednesday at the Licence Revenue Office (LRO). Persons visiting the office on Smyth Street were [...]
BILL COTTON/REFORM… NOT QUITE HANSARD LAST WEEK IN PARLIAMENT
Bill likes Parliaments and he also likes pantomimes. Sometimes he gets them mixed up. Last Thursday it was Guyana National Assembly time and the school kids were lining up outside. They were from Victoria, the first free Black village in BG, and were there to help present a petition with two very distinguished supporters-Triple President [...]
