PPP/C, AFC trade verbal blows on the Corentyne
– Nagamootoo calls Freedom House the ‘Rob St Gang’ – Joey Jagan says “Moses lied!” By Leon Suseran Tempers flared on the Corentyne on Sunday during fiery speeches as massive crowds turned out for both the People’s Progressive Party/CIVIC (PPP/C) and Alliance for Change (AFC) rallies at the Port Mourant Market Square [...]
Sleeping child dies after tree crashes onto house
– five others injured A five year old girl was killed early Sunday morning after heavy winds caused a tree to crash down on her home while she slept. Dead is Tammica Hackett, of Freeman Street, East La Penitence. The little girl who attended the East La Penitence Primary School and was in [...]
Black Tacoma linked to Election vandals
…police to review CCTV recordings The Peoples Progressive Party Civic is again reporting that individuals have been vandalizing its election paraphernalia such as billboards. The party reported that they have contacted the police and have urged them to review the Closed Circuit Televisions recordings which may have evidence, since the damaged election materials [...]
Court bars millers from leaving country until farmers paid
MRL rice row… – milling licences suspended By Leonard Gildarie Government has secured injunctions against owners of Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) barring them from leaving the country until millions of dollars in farmers’ debts have been paid off. Across the country, the embattled rice milling chain is said to owe [...]
RUSAL employee buried alive in mining pit
- colleague injured A 20-year-old RUSAL bauxite company employee was buried alive and another worker seriously injured when a mining pit caved in on them at Kwakwani, around 10:30 hours yesterday. The dead man has been identified as Franklyn Reece, of Hururu Mission, Berbice River. His colleague, identified as Anthony Johnson, sustained spinal injuries and [...]
President engaging in political opportunism – Ramjattan
Presidential Candidate of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan has noted with amusement President Jagdeo’s latest decree on clearing the 132 scrap metal containers on the wharves awaiting permission to export. The AFC presidential candidate deemed the move as political opportunism with total disregard for the intelligence of the Guyanese people. Ramjattan said that [...]
Guyanese continue their littering ways
As the Mayor and City Council struggles to clean up Georgetown, citizens make this task for them difficult as they continue to litter in the most absurd places. The uncontrollable littering habits of Guyanese have not only made Georgetown, and Guyana as a whole, unhealthy to live in, but this catastrophe is the number one [...]
MRWP holds successful Farmers’ Market
The Mangrove Reserve Women Producers (MRWP) held their first Farmers’ Market, sponsored by Digicel to promote their agro-produce which they have been developing for months. Despite the inclement weather yesterday, many braved the rain to participate in this momentous event for the women, which was held at the Mangroves Visitors Centre, Victoria, East Coast Demerara. [...]
Miss Guyana Universe contestants receive prizes
Contestants of the July 9, Miss Guyana Universe Pageant 2011, last evening received their prizes. The ceremony held at the Water Chris Hotel, Waterloo Street, Georgetown, was not without contention. According to the franchise holder Odinga Lumumba, it is customary to host the prize giving ceremony months after the pageant to allow ‘feelings to settle’ [...]
Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan is overall King; is 3rd Guyanese to dead lift 700lbs
Having conquered all at the local, Caribbean, Regional and International levels, Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan continues to prove that he is the best in the business on the local scene. A member of ‘Body Max Gym’ Morgan romped to another Overall Title when the curtains came down on the 2011 edition of the Guyana Amateur [...]
Pegasus Hotel Tennis Open starts Friday
The Pegasus Tennis Open starts on Friday Nov 4 at the hotel’s courts in Kingston. The tournament, which is held annually, coincides with the anniversary for the Hotel which has been sponsoring the tournament for over 20 years. Pegasus’s contribution to tennis over the years has been vast with the tennis courts acting like a default home [...]
Mangal wins Macorp Golf tourney
Mike Mangal blazed the golf course at Lusignan to win last Saturday’s Macorp Medal Play Golf tournament in an electrifying performance. The former Guyana Open champion shot a net 63 and also had the lowest gross of 73 in the tournament that attracted 38 players including employees of the sponsors Macorp. Muntaz Haniff continued his [...]
Infrastructure investment, emergency employment needed
- say UN agencies The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for the Caribbean and Latin American (ECLAC) say the strong economic recovery of the region will make it possible to significantly lower unemployment. The organisations related that unemployment could fall from the 7.3 percent in 2010 to between 6.7 and [...]
Pacesetters and Victory Valley Royals to contest final on Nov 4
It was basketball at its finest on Saturday last at the Mackenzie Sports Club in Linden, as a capacity crowd witnessed Pacesetters defeating their arch rivals Dynas Ravens 66-62 and Victory Valley Royals upsetting the Amelia’s Ward Jets 68-37 to advance to the final of the 2011 Brusche’s Basketball Classic. The clash between Ravens and [...]
Ruggers experience mixed fortunes at Pan American Games
The Guyana Rugby team at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico endured mixed fortunes on the first day of competition in the Rugby component of the Games Saturday. Playing in Pool A of the eight team tournament, along with Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico, the Guyana team lost first to Uruguay by 20 points to [...]
Stop the loud music at cricket matches
Dear Editor, Yesterday (Saturday) while watching the finals of the Caribbean super 50 competition, I took time to reflect about my own cricket experience, among my earliest memories are various cricket matches I attended before the age of seven, I looked around the stands and could not see many children and that started the thought [...]
GECOM clears PPP/C, APNU, AFC, TUF to contest election
Of the seven political parties/grouping that submitted Candidates’ List to contest the General and Regional Elections on November 28, only four have been cleared thus far with another lying in limbo. The Guyana Elections Commission has verified to its satisfaction that the ruling Peoples’ Progressive Party Civic, A Partnership for National Unity, the [...]
Robert Persaud owes Guyanese an apology – APNU
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has noted with interest the “rantings of Robert Persaud that are being broadcasted far and wide on the PPP/C’s domestic Channel NCN in response to the green wave of citizens that flowed freely through the streets of Georgetown on Nomination Day.” The political union [...]
13-year old girl suffers burns in Pigeon Island fire
13-year old Toosieda Persaud sustained burns to both her legs while fleeing from a fire that had engulfed her home at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, early yesterday morning. The fire which is of unknown origin began around 04:30 hours and resulted in Persaud being hospitalized in the Burn Care Unit of [...]
Govt. projects resume in Bartica
The numerous Government contracts in Bartica which were stalled as a result of the unavailability of stones have been resumed. According to reports out of Bartica, the main supplier to the community, BK International has decided to make their products available. As such the building projects which were stalled because no stones [...]
GPHC clarifies procedures to deal with maternal death complaints
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation says that a loss of life at the institution does not necessarily reflect incompetence of the staff there but in fact indicates that something went wrong and only a study of the issue could provide answers. Public relations Officer of the entity Alero Proctor, in an interview [...]
WRITING ON THE WALL
You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to. (Humbert Wolfe) “If you have a berth in your company for this gentleman, make sure it is a wide one.” This was in a recommendation given to a shiftless employee by [...]
Leadership was never the problem for the PNCR
Patrick Manning, the four-time elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago deserved to have retired from politics with a better send off. He has been a stalwart for the Peoples National Movement and has been a Caribbean statesman of distinction. But party politics in the Caribbean has been such an ugly affair that this man’s [...]
Freddie Kissoon had called for Nigel Hughes to “resign his leadership role in the Guyana Bar Association”
Dear Editor, “Mouth open, story jump out” is an old idiom often heard in Guyana. There is also another popular saying that, “A liar should have a good memory”. Freddie Kissoon’s memory is obviously very short, or he’s guilty of practicing the art of lying to his readers. President Jagdeo’s recent attack on the integrity [...]
Coalitions, defections and ethnic fears
Dear Editor, Both Kaieteur News (in KN 25th October, “Changing alliances and voter shift”) and Stabroek News (in SN 30th October, “Re-alignment”) have editorialized on the “re-alignments, coalitions, annexions and defections” (SN’s words) that have taken place most dramatically in recent weeks. Both papers speculated on how these changes are likely to impact voting patterns. [...]
