Freddie vs Jagdeo libel case…’King Kong’ was not Afro-Guyanese – Luncheon
…”but that was opposition’s label for Burnham” The High Court yesterday heard how ‘King Kong’ was a term used widely in the Guyanese political realm for describing the late President Forbes Burnham. This revelation came as the libel case brought against Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon, the newspaper’s publisher and its editor-in-chief, [...]
Today is Int’l Peace Day
– N/A students send cards to children in Egypt Students in New Amsterdam have messages of peace in the form of greeting cards that will be sent to children in Egypt (where there has been much publicised civil unrest) in commemoration of International Peace Day 2011. International Peace Day is celebrated on September 21, [...]
Meadowbrook fire leaves eight homeless
At least eight persons are now homeless after fire gutted their Meadowbrook Gardens home yesterday afternoon. According to reports, the blaze started in the upper flat of the two-storey house at Lot 135 Silverballi Street, at around 13:20 hours. At the time, a woman and her four-year-old son were in the house. This publication [...]
7 firms bid for $1.2B rehab of 23 culverts
Some 23 culverts between Belladrum and Rosignol, West Coast Berbice, are to be rehabilitated, with works estimated to cost in excess of $1.2B (US$6,064,569.91). Yesterday, a total of seven bids were opened for the project which is being funded under the Transport Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme (TIRP), a road improvement project of the Inter-American Development [...]
‘Middle finger’ accused now on self bail
The Prosecution in the case against 18-year-old Kevin Simon is seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following strong representation by attorney at law Nigel Hughes. Simon is the young man who was initially charged with provoking a breach of the peace, to wit, showing his middle finger to President Bharrat Jagdeo’s [...]
Luxury jet crash in US…Brassington brothers jailed
The former president of a luxury charter company whose jet barreled off New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport runway in 2005 was sentenced yesterday to 2½ years in prison by a judge who said he did not believe the crash was a result of regulatory violations, according to a story by the online news, northjersey.com. “I’m just [...]
Dem boys seh…De ERC got to deal wid dem Africanised bees
If de ERC was in action it woulda deal wid de Waterfalls paper. And at this elections time, it woulda be a serious charge because it inciting. People woulda claim is racism. One man pick up de papers and see African kill Eccles man. Well de man tek de thing suh serious that he [...]
Rodney King was in Kitty
Any political analyst and/or sociologist will tell you that a country has gone to the dogs when abominable police brutality is a daily occurrence and the police are not partially but completely out of control. Society becomes a chasm of pessimism, and fright and flight take over. In Guyana, the police force does [...]
GCB’s El Dorado 50-over cricket….Chanderpaul’s unbeaten 95 see Demerara to final despite level-headed 67 from Jacobs
In an exciting finish in near darkness at Bourda, Demerara beat the President’s X1 by 20 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis system yesterday to book a place against Berbice in Sunday’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) El Dorado 50-over cricket final at Albion. Thirty-seven year-old Shiv Chanderpaul showed why he is considered the consummate professional [...]
CLT20 qualifier, Hyderabad…Trinidad & Tobago roar into the main draw
Winning the Caribbean T20 wasn’t enough to secure a Champions League berth this time, but former finalists Trinidad & Tobago roared back into the main draw with a walloping of England’s champions Leicestershire. Lendl Simmons and Adrian Barath put together T&T’s highest partnership in Twenty20 cricket, and the bowlers strangled the Leicestershire batsmen into [...]
Shaheed Ali confident of successful professional debut as ProAm Boxing card looms
When the first bell sounds for the September edition of the monthly ProAm boxing extravaganza two pugilists, Kelsie George and Shaheed Ali would strip off their shirts for the first time after completing productive amateur careers. George tackles Troy Lewis, while Ali opposes Skeete in a 4 rounds bantamweight contest. Ali is anxious to [...]
New-look athletics team for IGG identified
-Male athlete to be omitted on ratification By Edison Jefford The preliminary junior athletics team, which will represent Guyana at the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname next month, has surfaced with just one male athlete facing elimination to bring the team in line with the requisite quota of athletes. Thirteen male and 13 [...]
Not so, claims WICB
Gayle’s recent comments unfounded leaked WICB email suggests Chris Gayle’s recent claim that he’s awaiting a response from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regarding his status with the regional side is unfounded, a leaked board communiqué obtained by the Observer suggests. Gayle, the most high-profile West Indies player currently, said in a recent [...]
Gizmos & Gadgets renew sponsorship of RHTY&SC 1st div. teams
One of Guyana’s leading departmental store, Gizmos & Gadgets on Friday last renewed cricket sponsorship with the nation’s leading youth & sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC). The sponsorship covers the Club’s Under-23 and First Division teams with the package worth $400,000 for 2011. Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster said [...]
Wins for RHT Gizmos & Gadgets, Blairmont, Port Mourant Karibee Rice & Edinburg
Busta Champion of Champions 50 overs cricket The 2011 edition of the Busta Champion of Champions 50 overs cricket competition organised by the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club got off to a flying start on last Saturday with four teams – Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets, Blairmont Community Centre, Port Mourant [...]
RHT Gizmos & Gadgets cricket team to honour outstanding Lower Corentyne Teachers
Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets First Division team along with its official sponsor Gizmos & Gadgets of Wellington Street, Georgetown will on World Teachers’ Day honour four (4) outstanding teachers. The four teachers have been selected from the Port Mourant, Lower Corentyne, Corentyne Comprehensive and J.C Chandisingh Secondary Schools. Secretary/CEO of the Rose [...]
GCB’s El Dorado 50-overs cricket …Berbice slaughter hapless Essequibo to advance to final
Berbice moved a step closer to retaining their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) El Dorado 50-over Cricket title when they slaughtered a hapless Essequibo line-up by nine wickets at DCC yesterday in the final preliminary round of the competition to advance to Sunday’s final at Albion. Essequibo fell like the ashes of cane from the sky [...]
Trophy Stall contributes to RHTY&SC’s Female Development Programme
Managing Director of the Trophy Stall Mr. Ramesh Sunich on Friday donated three trophies to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) that will be used for a female tournament in Berbice. The Rose Hall Town Metro Female Team would clash with two other teams in a three-way tournament in an effort [...]
GCUC Exams set for Sunday at CCWU in GT
The Guyana Cricket Umpires Council (GCUC) has informed that their Preliminary and West Indies Cricket Umpires Association’s Final Written Examinations will be held simultaneously on Sunday September 25 at the CCWU building on Quamina Street, Georgetown from 10.00 hrs.
There was nothing Christian-like here
Dear Editor, Bishop Juan Edghill has told Guyanese that he is fully in support of President Jagdeo’s party to thank Mr. Jagdeo, himself, because he is being guided by biblical principles. According to Edghill, he is acting on behalf or the Christian Community in Guyana, in being a part of the organizing committee of this [...]
NO PNC IS THE END OF PPP
Dear Editor, Greetings from Canada. I am pleased with what your daily publication is doing, putting some sense in the heads and minds of the people. I really don’t know what must happen before the people of Guyana is convince that both the PPP and PNC is taking the whole country for a ride, especially [...]
Roads, bridges and buildings are not indicative of individual wealth
Dear Editor, I have been following for some time now the discourse among politicians and members of the public on the progress, or lack thereof, Guyana has made over the past 19 years under the PPP/C administration. There has been significant infrastructure development during this period which has served to dramatically change the face of [...]
Sasenarine Singh falls prey to the culture of ignorance
Dear Editor, Some are well educated, but yet they have learned very little. They use letters to express their indifferent opinions, displeasure and bitterness about President Bharrat Jagdeo, instead of using their knowledge to do some good professionally and academically. One good example is Sasenarine Singh. Singh in his letter titled “Could not the [...]
Harry Gill must be myopic
Dear Editor, I refer to Harry Gill’s letter captioned “I will personally donate $5,000US to David Granger’s presidential campaign…” in your edition of 17 September 2011. While holding no brief for the PNC or Forbes Burnham, I was appalled at the apparent myopia of Mr. Gill in stating “…the PPP inherited a failed economy [...]
I have grave difficulty with blatant, unapologetic abuse of State resources
Dear Editor, I write as one of the more than seven hundred thousand owners of the Guyana National Stadium located at Providence, East Bank Demerara. I have no difficulty with State properties being used for National events. I do, however, have a grave difficulty with blatant unapologetic abuse of State resources for partisan political [...]
