Diwali Messages
GUYANA HINDU DHARMIC SABHA Deepavali is of vedic origin. Maha Laxmi puja is performed. The Veda describes Laxmi as the source of fortune and abundance. This beautiful festival occurs in the dark half of the Hindu month of Kartik on Amawasya or new moon. It is fascinating to witness families get together and, among other [...]
Caught on camera breaking into Pizza Hut
A man was caught on camera early yesterday morning removing two flat screen television sets from Pizza Hut. According to reports, the burglar broke into the premises through a window at around 01:19 hours, but the discovery was made approximately five hours later. Operations Manager of KFC/Pizza Hut, Mahindra Persaud, said at [...]
Vineeta Persaud cops prestigious Computer Science Award
Vineeta Persaud is this year’s proud recipient of the Shivraj Maraj Memorial Award for being the best graduating Computer Science student 2011 of the University of Guyana (UG). Persaud who obtained a 4.0 Grade Point Average is now among an elite group to gain this accolade dating back to 2004. At the award ceremony [...]
Leonora Secondary and Primary stand out
..as Nat’l Schools Garden Competition concludes The National Schools Garden Competition concluded yesterday at Leonora Secondary, after its launching six weeks ago, with the announcement of the regional and national winners for Nursery, Primary, and Secondary schools. The majority of the audience displayed the green and white uniform, a signature of Leonora Secondary [...]
Burton reeling from broken promise of PNC Parliamentary seat – Witter
“Why would all of us agree to have her elected as (GTUC) President and then work to undermine her?” The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has responded to its former President Gillian Burton’s charges against it and is asking whether she has been promised another Parliamentary seat. This is according to current President [...]
Rice truck slips off MV Makouria at Parika stelling
There was a near disaster yesterday when a truck which was transporting rice from the Essequibo Coast slipped and stuck between the MV Makouria and the Parika Ferry Stelling. According to reports, the platform used to get vehicles on and off the ferry broke on one side almost sending the truck into the Essequibo [...]
300 trainee teachers to receive laptops before year-end
Some 300 trainee teachers at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) will be receiving laptops before year-end under a joint government/World Bank US$4.2M teacher education reform project. This is according to Education Minister Shaik Baksh, who was at the time addressing scores of Information Technology (IT) teachers at a recent workshop at the [...]
Duo in court as missing trafficator fuels brawl
Two men, Calvin Gulliver and Lloyd Daniels, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to face charges of malicious wounding and assault respectively. Gulliver is the owner of a car used as a taxi, driven by Daniels. At the hearing, before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, it was alleged that on October 23, last, [...]
Flood warnings as highest spring tide expected tomorrow
The Ministry of Public Works and Communication is warning residents living in low-lying areas to take the necessary precautions during this period of spring tides which started Monday and are expected to be at their highest tomorrow. Chief Sea and River Defence Officer, Geoffrey Vaughn, according to a government statement, said that tides over [...]
Conductor fined for assault on driver
– to pay compensation A conductor, who assaulted his driver after the latter insisted that the money he (conductor) was handing over was not the amount they had worked for during the day, was yesterday fined and ordered to pay compensation the virtual complainant. Abdool Bennett appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at [...]
Moses parts from the PPP
…leaves guess open about political future Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday, parted ways with the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Central Executive, saying that the current leadership has demonstrated the sort of pettiness, greed, corruption and arrogance that party founder, Dr Cheddi Jagan, fought against. However, Nagamootoo, 64, declined to say which political platform he would be standing [...]
Miner’s body found
The body of miner, Junior Joseph, formerly of Bartica and Cullen, on the Essequibo Coast, was discovered somewhere in Region Eight, by his employer, Pandit, a/k Sir on Monday. According to Joseph’s grieving wife, Annie Joseph, her husband’s employer, and a team of men made the discovery after an intense search was immediately launched [...]
Jagdeo attacks Nigel Hughes
…accuses him of being an associate of criminals “I (Jagdeo) appoint senior counsel…He will never be a Senior Counsel once I am President and I don’t know whether Donald Ramotar will ever give him because he is a drug dealers’ Lawyer” Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday, during his party’s most recent [...]
C.N. Sharma throws weight behind APNU
-coalition not worried about campaign finance By Leonard Gildarie The Justice For All Party (JFAP) has thrown its support behind the political coalition, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU). The announcement came at the weekly APNU press conference, yesterday. JFAP’s leader, Chandra Narine “C.N.” Sharma, however, is for the first time since his [...]
Edghill’s Jesus comments invoke ire of Christian leaders
Some leading members of the Christian community are upset over comments made by Bishop Juan Edghill at the People’s Progressive Party/CIVIC rally at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara on Sunday. Edghill told the crowd of PPP/C supporters “I believe if Jesus Christ, who I serve, was in Guyana and he had to vote, he would have [...]
Dem boys seh…Hopscotch is de big game now
De church does keep out of elections and things like that but Ten Edghill bring in de church and now a pastor waiting fuh tell he to he face that he eyes pass de church and all who seh that dem is Christian. De man was hanging around tekking he perks from de Big [...]
What I saw Saturday afternoon in Dundee made me sick
What goes through the mind of human beings like Ricky Singh, Sir Shridath Ramphal and others who are either nearing their eighties or are in their eighties when they offer their support to the ruling party’s governance of this tragic territory? Mr. Singh was in Guyana when Walter Rodney was refused an appointment at UG [...]
SEASON GREETINGS!
So you don’t know what today represents! Shame on you. Years ago, October 25 was a special day eagerly anticipated in Guyana. Folks would rise early and the first things they would do is to turn on their radio. The radio in those days used to be the common means by which people listened [...]
Changing alliances and voter shift
These elections are interesting from many angles. In the first case there seems to be a large number of people who appear to care less about one party or the other. These are not the undecided voters that pollsters talk so much about. These are just people who feel that one party or the [...]
We must move away from this era of darkness that is stifling us
Dear Editor, Now that GECOM has added its voice to expressed concerns about the unfairness of the five-minute weekly air time offered to the opposition parties by the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), it is hoped that the NCN’s management will let justice prevail. A five-minute weekly news report in a 30,240-minute week [...]
Time will provide Mr. Seeram with answers
DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to respond to a letter written by Ralph Seeram (from the Diaspora) in Kaieteur News, on Sunday Oct 23 under the heading….. “Can elections be won or lost by radio and television exposure”. I will leave most of his letter to have time provide him with answers, but [...]
Cherish the power of your vote…don’t be bought
Dear Editor, Our opportunity to eject the current regime is just a few weeks away and they know it. They are using every dirty trick they can to buy our votes. They are offering us favours that are supposed to be our rights. If every family is now entitled to a laptop then [...]
Pre-election debating should be mandatory and not a personal option
Dear Editor, As was reported in the press, a week ago, a candidate’s refusal to debate is not acceptable to many Guyanese. In the political arena it is best for the electorate to receive as much information on the candidate as possible. Any candidate who refuses to debate is essentially hiding an attribute [...]
Debutant Sunny lights up Bangladesh’s day
As the sun shone after two washed-out days, the debutant left-arm spinner Elias Sunny injected some excitement into an encounter heading for only one result. He came into action after Bangladesh declared, and picked up four wickets on a pitch that’s has become highly spin-friendly but the time already lost to rain meant [...]
Sukhram successful defends title, Haniff dethrones Persaud
-Reis among prize winners Papo Haniff with a total gross of 148 over two days carted off the R1 Vodka Guyana Open Golf Competition which ended on Sunday at the Lusignan Course. Haniff, regarded as one of the better golfers to originate from this country, though playing below his opening day standard carded [...]
