Did Jagdeo venture too far ahead of the pack?
A friend once said to me, “If you are going to lead, don’t run too far ahead of your followers because suddenly there would be nothing to lead.” It made sense immediately. I thought of the situations in ground battles and had a mental picture of the leader charging well ahead of his [...]
Cop positively identified as drug counselor’s killer
Eyewitnesses to last Thursday morning’s fatal shooting outside the Stabroek Market have positively identified a police Corporal as the gunman. The rank, whose name was given as Corporal Sherwin Smith, was picked out from an identification parade by no less than four persons yesterday. This is the first step towards prosecution in the [...]
Sophia women beat suspected serial rapist
More than a dozen women caught a man trying to rape a woman in Sophia yesterday and gave him a severe beating which landed him at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The man was identified as 23-year-old Dwayne Elliot, also of Sophia. He is in police custody. The victim was also taken to [...]
How the NIS Corriverton branch costs $69M…3 Tuff tanks, gutters, and pipes for $1.4M
-bids not opened by National Tender Board The controversial high-priced $69M Corriverton branch of the National Insurance Scheme was not awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB). The contract was awarded by NIS. It is still unclear if it was placed to tender with NIS making an assessment and then awarding the [...]
Preserving the Wapishana language and culture….Dorothy Faria is a ‘Special Person’
Pull Quote: “Sometimes when I speak the Wapishana language some of the children look at me like if I fall off the moon; I don’t like that. The children should be able to speak their language.” By Neil Marks “This is a warrior you’re looking at.” With that, Dorothy Faria establishes herself [...]
Dem boys seh…De police really smart
Is confusion in de system. Two cops decide that dem gun mek dem heights before dem lef de wuk. A man gun get tek way and two of dem tell de man that if he give de $50,000 dem gun get back de gun. De man, like a fool, give dem de money [...]
Johnson, Mohamed spur Demerara to victory as E’bo lose by 58 runs
GCB’s El Dorado 50-overs cricket Skipper Leon Johnson led from the front with a classy 67 and off-spinner Zaheer Mohamed completed the job with 5-28 as Demerara whipped Essequibo by 58 runs at Bourda yesterday to join Berbice at the top of the points table of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) El Dorado [...]
Ramdin spurs T&T to Champions League warm-up win
An aggressive 45-ball 71 with four fours and three sixes by West Indies Keeper Denesh Ramdin and an impressive display by leg-spinner Samuel Badree (3-7) helped Trinidad & Tobago record a 66-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders yesterday in their warm-up game ahead of the Champions League T20 qualifiers. And a solid 98 from [...]
Digicel offers support to GABA, GCF
Digicel’s Public Relations Manager Shonnet Moore speaking during the presentation of monies to the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and the Guyana Canoe Federation (GCF) stridently reiterated the Company’s explicit support for all sports. Moore shortly after presenting respective cheques to officials of the two Bodies reminded those in attendance of Digicel’s unreserved commitment [...]
Celebrating Our Shame at $120 Million
By Khemraj Ramjattan, Presidential Candidate The legendary Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, during the first populist regime of Juan Peron, summed up the political atmosphere of repression under the dictator thusly: “Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy. Bellboys babbling orders, portraits [...]
The final comical act of a failed president
One definitive characteristic of Mr. Jagdeo’s presidency was his total obliviousness to the comical levels to which he brought down his office. I prefer to say he was oblivious, because no President or Prime Minister would consciously do or say the asinine, comical, hilarious things that formed a permanent habit of Mr. Jagdeo [...]
From dreaming ‘country-boy’ to three-time Guyana Prize winner (Part 2 of 3)
“We hear of America being a ‘melting pot’; yes? It is being in this melting pot that has helped me as a writer—in that it has broadened my perspectives on human interactions. Being here made me realize that despite your race the bills you have to pay do not discriminate—and that the struggle to [...]
Housing and you: Valuation of your land for mortgages, insurance purposes
By Leonard Gildarie Last week, we spoke of little things that can be done to raise the value of your home without going overboard on the costs. It is a fact that many persons build their homes never intending to move out. However, it does not hurt to consistently upgrade, whether it is [...]
The house in the Back Street
By Michael Jordan Five years ago, in September 2006, when Savitri Singh heard that a baby had died in the house at Back Street, Stewartville, she wasn’t very surprised. Shocked, yes, but not surprised. Because Mrs. Singh had lived in that very house, and she still swears that something unseen and malevolent lurked [...]
SHOWING APPRECIATION
There were quite a few persons wearing black on Friday, the Day of Appreciation for President Jagdeo, but they were in the main attending funerals. There were not many homes draped with black flags and hardly any vehicles displayed their objections to the hosing of this day of appreciation. As such [...]
Another side of 9/11
By Sir Ronald Sanders Broadcast to the world via international television, a young man spoke poignantly at the observance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in New York of the regret he felt that his father was not there to teach him to drive a motor-car, to see him graduate from high school, [...]
The Baccoo speaks
Tension is heightening because people have refused to accept that everyone has the right to disagree. In this case the disagreement is over who should be respected and who should be allowed to make determinations at the national level. Indeed, there was always this problem but it was not an issue until now. The [...]
Minister Anthony challenges Elite Coaches to focus on School Development
Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony has made a call for more football coaching to be done in the schools around Guyana. Dr. Anthony was at the time delivering the closing remarks at the FIFA/Guyana Football Federation MA Elite Coaches Course which ended at the Carifesta Sports Complex on Friday morning. [...]
GFF mourns death of WDFA President
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the football fraternity has been plunged into a state of mourning following the death of President of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA), Sydroy Nedd. Familiarly known as ‘Neddy’ or ‘Juene’, the late Administrator has been a tireless worker for the development of the game on the West [...]
Universal sports Store supports WI U-19 players
The Universal Sports Store yesterday made a contribution to the two Guyanese in the West Indies under-19 team which tours India this month and the other who was in the training camp in Barbados but failed to make the touring squad. Andre Budhan, the Store’s USA based CEO, presented cricket gear to Ronsford Beaton and [...]
Essequibo Cricket Umpires complain over outstanding money
Senior Members aligned to the Essequibo Coast and Pomeroon Cricket Umpires & Scores Association (ECPCUS) have lashed out at members of the Essequibo Cricket Board over outstanding money allegedly owed to them over the past three years. According to information revealed to Kaieteur Sports the outstanding sum of money totaled $109,740 for matches [...]
In-house matters should not attract ‘outhouse’ solutions
By Michael Benjamin The precedent set by the electorate of local sports associations of installing politicians and high ranking officials of civil organizations into executive positions has received more than its fair share of criticisms yet this ploy seems to override all other strategies. Such strategies have marked the abandonment of commonsensical, for practical [...]
Courts 10km Road Race Classic on today
-‘Brother’ goes for gold, Horatio seeks revenge Dennis Horatio and Cleveland Thomas are unhappy that Nathaniel ‘Brother’ Giddings has made them underdogs today. The only way for them to prove otherwise is reinforcing the fact that they may be superior to the unorthodox ‘barefoot’ junior athlete. The two outcomes of today’s Courts 10km [...]
Mark Lewis claims feature 35 lap contest
11th DeSinco Trading 11 race cycle Meet Linden based Mark Lewis capitalized on the absence of the leading stars to claim victory in the feature 35-lap schools boys and invitational race when the 11th annual DeSinco Trading sponsored 11-race cycle programme came off at the National Park yesterday. Lewis’ winning time was One Hour [...]
“Awarding West Indies Cricket!”
Colin E. H. Croft With the recent International Cricket Council Awards 2011, I have this very heartening feeling that West Indies cricket is definitely on the up-swing. The three awards won by West Indians must signify hope, even as the senior teams, ladies and men, travel outward to continue the process of representation! Curtly [...]
