Ease of doing business…Guyana slips one place in World Bank’s rankings
Guyana has, in the latest World Bank International Financial Corporation’s Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World report, slipped one place down the ratings to 114 out of 183 economies examined. However, in the region St Lucia is the best spot to conduct business rated at 52 while Antigua and Barbuda [...]
Truck driver averts collision, but ends up in canal
A Leyland DAF truck, driven by 29-year-old Roy Narine of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD), yesterday swerved off the Friendship Public Road, into a trench to avoid a collision between a minibus and another truck. According to an eyewitness, Narine was heading south (towards Timehri) when a truck tried to overtake him [...]
A man from another time…Aviation pioneer, Victor Fitt, is a special person.
Pull quote: “I got a message asking if I would fly over and try to locate where Clement Cuffy was hiding. David Rose and a party of policemen had left on foot. I flew over and eventually spotted Cuffy, who pointed a gun and fired at my aircraft…” He played in the home [...]
Miner dies after collision with truck
While travelling home, 24-year-old miner Hillary Elias Augustus met his demise about noon yesterday at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. He had come out of the interior to purchase a red motorcar, PLL 9283. He previously resided at Long Creek, Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Augustus was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital. [...]
Man killed while collecting friend from wake
A young father of two died early yesterday morning at the West Demerara Regional Hospital while receiving treatment for injuries sustained after being involved in a vehicular smash up. According to reports, 22-year-old Phillip Smith of 945 Westminster, West Bank Demerara, died at around 01:00 yesterday, following the smash up which occurred at Goed [...]
Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie enjoying a free ride
People does want tek other people thing and do what dem wouldn’t even do to dem own. If a man borrow somebody car he gun drive it like he head ain’t good. He might even crash it and then he gun seh that he sorry. Uncle Freddie tek de Waterfalls paper and try fuh [...]
Honours even after Bangladesh fight back
An inexperienced West Indies top order rose to the occasion to trigger a strong comeback in Mirpur after Bangladesh had enjoyed the better of the drawn first Test in Chittagong. On a track that promised plenty of runs and just as much discouragement for the bowlers the trio of Kieran Powell, Kraigg Brathwaite [...]
Gayadin promises a day of exhilarating daredevilry on Nov 13
Motor racing fans in Guyana and abroad have been promised a day of exhilarating daredevilry during the final leg of the GT&T Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship which is scheduled to be staged on November 13, at the South Dakota Circuit. This is the promise made by Group 3& 4 racer Gavin Gayadin when [...]
Today is Rodeo day
The day has finally arrived and its Rodeo time again. A jam packed crowd is expected to throng to the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park Arena West Coast Berbice where all roads are expected to lead. All the Vaqueros and other participants from overseas and other parts of Guyana including the far flung [...]
Special grading exercise held as GKC scores a first
The Guyana Karate College on Friday October 28 held special Kyu and Dan grading examinations for over sixty of its students under the review of the Chairman and Chief Instructor Shihan Frank Woon-a-Tai M.S., 9th Degree Black Belt of the newest World Shotokan Karate Organization, the International Karate Diagaku. Students undertaking the examinations this [...]
GABA, GBBC seek to add international flavour to ProAm amateur segment
There is a high possibility that the November edition of the ProAm boxing series dubbed, ‘Friday Night Fights’, will see the amateur segment taking on an international flavour. This disclosure was made by President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle to Kaieteur Sport. Ninvalle informed that he and President of the [...]
GFA / Banks DIH President Beer Super League kicks off today
Fourteen teams are anticipated to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the inaugural Georgetown Football Association (GFA) / Banks DIH President Beer Super League which kicks off today with a double header at the GFC ground. According to a source close to the GFA, only Pele and Riddim Squad are yet to respond [...]
Volleyball competition on today in Berbice
The Berbice Volleyball Association has organized yet another competition in the busy 2011 schedule. The Association which has been very active will be staging the inaugural Dilip Budhram Memorial Volleyball competition today at the Albion Community Centre beginning from 09: 00hrs. The one day competition is open to all teams/ clubs/ schools in [...]
Mayor Green 77th birthday Ward, Street, Village KO football starts Nov 9
The Mayor’s Cup Committee will from November 9 to 27 stage the Mayor Hamilton Green 77th birthday Inter Ward, Street and Village Knockout football tournament at the Georgetown Football Club Ground, Bourda. A total of 32 teams will compete in the tournament which will see games lasting 30 minutes. The no offside rule [...]
Jamaican are Regional Super50 champions
After 5-wicket win against T&T in Final With four consecutive Regional four day titles but none at the One-Day level since 2007, Jamaica beat Trinidad and Tobago by five wickets at the Providence Stadium last night under lights to capture the Regional Super50 cricket title and the Clive Lloyd trophy. In a [...]
Shimron Hetmyer hits half century as Berbice beat Essequibo by 6 wkts
An attacking half century by opener Shimron Hetmyer guided Berbice to a 6 wicket victory over Essequibo at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground Friday in the Guyana Cricket Board U-17 50 overs 4-team cricket competition. In a match which was reduced to 45 overs, Essequibo won the toss and elected to take first strike on [...]
Warrior’s Jagdeo (105 and 2 for 5) and Latchman (62 and 4 for 32) demolish No. 70 Young Blood
2011 New Building Society Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition … Hamant Jagdeo slammed 105, the first century of the competition, and his team mate Lakeram Latchman 62 (10 fours), his second consecutive half century following his 82 last week, to pace No. 73 Young Warriors to a mammoth 311 for 8 in [...]
LOSS OF OLPF LAPTOP
Dear Editor, I refer to the article carried in your Saturday Edition (Oct.29) captioned “First batch of 5,000 computers arrives for OLPF” in which Minister Manzoor Nadir was inaccurately quoted as saying that “recipients of the laptops will have to repay for them should they be lost.”…the article further quoted the Minister as [...]
An open apology to Moses Nagamootoo
Dear Editor, Mr. Nagamootoo, I have berated you, condemned you and criticized you when you chose the path of silence to the egregiousness and atrocities of the Jagdeo regime that have crippled this land. I said I would apologize to you if you demonstrate the courage, conviction and unyielding fire of patriotism to [...]
Why are there NATO assaults in so many non-white countries?
Dear Editor, Gadaffi is dead. Some are happy, some are not. Why was Libya invaded in the first place? Why did the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bomb Libya? Why is there a NATO assault in so many non-white, African, Muslim countries? History repeats itself time and time again. When we study history [...]
The hypocrisy and ironies that bedevil Guyana’s political landscape
Dear Editor, A few days ago, at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, in his usual cuss- down- market style, President, Bharrat Jagdeo delivered a mouthful of venalities against Attorney-At-Law Nigel Hughes. According to news reports, Jagdeo stopped just short of implicating Attorney Hughes in the 2003 murder of Buxtonian Brian Hamilton but did say [...]
Guyanese are waking up from the long slumber since independence
Dear Editor, My letter is of particular importance for consideration by my Guyanese sisters and brothers. I am fully aware that the Alliance for Change (AFC) is making remarkable progress in getting its message across to the Guyanese people and in particular, to the young people who would be voting for the first [...]
Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta, and Why Not?
Dear Editor, Karl Marx in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte alluded to the words from Aesop’s Fable the Swaggerer ‘Hic Rhodus, hic salta’ which means ‘here is the rose, here dance’. In this instance, Marx compared the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th century with proletarian revolutions of the 19th century. He asserted [...]
We’re adrift at the mercy of the Titanic’s clueless captain and crew
Dear Editor, In the immensely successful movie Titanic, a three-man band continued to belt out soothing music as the colossal ship was sinking to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg. The band played on in the midst of complete chaos as panicked passengers scrambled to save their lives. Guyana [...]
Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club quartet seeks greater glory
– Hooper, Hicks, Mahadeo & Ivan aiming high Over the last decade the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC), which was formed in 1990 has along with Albion Cricket Club, dominated cricket in the Ancient County at the junior and senior levels. Widely regarded as Guyana’s leading youth & sports [...]
