Mackeson/EDFA Premier League 2nd round …Bakewell Buxton Stars in pole position
Bakewell Buxton Stars have taken over the top spot in the points standings following the latest round of matches in the 2011 Ansa McAl Mackeson sponsored East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Premier League. The Stars maintained their shining ways with another comfortable win, a 2-0 result over Plaisance at the Buxton Community Centre Ground. [...]
Get Set Go wins feature at Norman Singh Turf Club
By Samuel Whyte Get Set Go of the Jumbo Jet Stable got ready and took off to take away the feature C class event and the coveted $1.2M top prize and Banks DIH trophy in another major upset as horses of the Jumbo jet Stable dominated proceedings with four wins in a major [...]
Another local club is fully sponsored
CBR Mining Milerock is latest to benefit For sports organizations let alone clubs to survive and really administer to the needs of their constituents and members, available finances help to shape that success in a major way. While this is so, just a few clubs have been able to attract full time [...]
Regional Super50 cricket…Narine spins T&T into semis as Jamaica lose by 37 runs on D/L system
By Sean Devers Twenty-three year-old Trinidad and Tobago off-spinner Sunil Narine continued to torment batsmen in this year’s Regional Super50 cricket competition by grabbing 5-37 yesterday at Everest to spin Jamaica to a 37-run defeat on the Duckworth/Lewis system and a place against Guyana in tomorrow’s semi-final at Providence. Dwayne Bravo returned from [...]
Leon Belony takes first day honours as 2011 national scrabble championships commence
National scrabble champion, Abigail McDonald amassed 5 games and a positive spread of 642 and signaled her intentions to retain the national scrabble championships but it was Leon Belony with an impeccable 6 games and positive spread of 543 that captured the honours when action in the 2011 national scrabble championships commenced at [...]
Rodrigues confident of being in the mix
Super bike racer Carlos Rodrigues, who will be representing Team Guyana during the final leg of the GT&T / Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship speaking with Kaieteur Sport, related that even though he does not have a chance of winning the individual title, he is hoping to do very well. Rodrigues, who [...]
Kashif & Shanghai Organization expresses gratitude on receiving National Award
The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation has expressed gratitude at receiving the Medal of Service at the National Awards presentation recently. In a release, the organisation noted, “We acknowledge with a sense of both gratitude and humility the bestowal on the Kashif & Shanghai Organization of the National Award, the Medal of Service, in [...]
Football ready to resume in Georgetown
In an effort to inject life into the comatose state of football in Georgetown, beverage giants Banks DIH recently pledged its support to the Georgetown Football Association (GFA). The Company has undertaken to sponsor the Super League Tournament which will contested among the seventeen clubs affiliated to the GFA and which is scheduled [...]
Entries rolling for RCMTC&SF and Ansa Mc Al Triple Crown horserace meet final leg
Entries have started to roll in at a very fast rate for the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports facilities final leg of the Triple Crown Classic Horserace meet in collaboration with Ansa Mc AL Trading Guyana Limited set for Sunday November 6 at the Club’s Track, Alness Corentyne, Berbice. As this [...]
City Engineer’s Department operations come under scrutiny
During the Mayor and City Council’s statutory meeting yesterday, City Hall’s conference room was transformed into a ‘courtroom’ with the City Engineer’s Department on ‘trial’. Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck, was also ‘questioned’ and threatened by Councillor Patricia Greene with a ‘No Confidence Motion’ to oust her from Office. A motion was moved by Councillor [...]
Store proprietor’s murder…Wanted bulletin issued for ‘Dhal Belly’
Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Ryan Kissoon, called “Dhal Belly”, in connection with the August 18 murder of 84-year-old drug store proprietor, Harold Rachpaul. A police release said that Kissoon is of East Indian ancestry, is 171 cm in height and his last known address is Tucville Squatting Area, Georgetown. The police [...]
US Ambassador visits AFC’s Presidential Candidate
US Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hart (left) and Michael Fraser also of the US Embassy yesterday paid a courtesy call on AFC’s Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan at his Georgetown Office.
Jagdeo says that he ordered Dr Luncheon to sack Bissessar
Former Personal Assistant to the President, Rajindra Nauth Bissesar, who recently forged a union with the Alliance for Change (AFC) was not spared the brunt of a verbal assault during the Lusignan rally on Sunday. The President said, “I told (Dr Roger) Luncheon to get rid of him,” as he chastised Bissesar who recently [...]
CANU makes biggest cocaine haul for 2011
– finds 30 kilos stashed in buckets, two arrested Two men were arrested early Sunday morning while two of their accomplices fled after ranks from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit made their largest drug bust in recent times. According to reports, some 30 kilograms of cocaine were found at a koker [...]
Political campaigning at Diwali programme sparks attack against AFC member
Not even the religious festival of Diwali could have escaped the election spin-off. The entire East Canje Berbice leg of the Diwali celebrations held on Sunday evening at the Rose Hall Estate Community Ground in Canefield, Canje, ended in an uproar. In the end, a woman hit Alliance for Change (AFC) member, Attorney- at- [...]
Guyanese man dead in Staten Island crash
Staten Island, New York – A group of friends on their way home from a cruise along the Hudson River met with tragedy after the driver of the packed SUV lost control and struck a guard rail on the Staten Island Expressway near Victory Boulevard early Sunday morning, killing one of his six [...]
Joey Jagan returns to PPP/C fold
-considers Ramotar honorable Outspoken critic of the ruling People’s Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) Joey Jagan, yesterday announced his support for the Presidential Candidate, Donald Ramotar, saying that he has returned home to his father’s party. Jagan, a dentist and son of Dr. Cheddi Jagan who co-founded the PPP back in the 1950s, had [...]
Army uncovers plot to steal grenades
The Guyana Defence Force says that an investigation has revealed a deliberate plan to steal grenades from the army’s training base at Tacama in the Berbice River. This comes in the wake of the disappearance of a quantity of grenades from the Colonel John Clarke Military School on Friday, following a training exercise. However the [...]
Bandits shoot, chop Corentyne man , escape with millions
…`lock son in working Freezer It was horror on the Corentyne as Oliver Permaul, 30, a barber of Lot 100 Back Street, Tain, his reputed wife, Nazeema Amoolayah, 35, a vendor and their three children aged 15, four and One, were brutalized by six bandits armed with a gun and cutlasses and other implements. [...]
Cancer is most costly ailment to treat – Health Minister
In excess of $300M has been plugged into the Ministry of Health’s Cancer Programme with the annual cost of medicines amounting to approximately $150M. In fact Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has revealed that the per capita expenditure, that is how many patients benefit and the cost of cancer medicine, is [...]
Councillors desert Capoey Toshao
A six-member team that represented the Captain of the Capoey Mission, has tendered its resignation, citing an absence of accountability and poor communication, among other related issues. The former councillors said that they were forced to tender their resignation because of unattended issues that confronted the body. Describing the resignation of all six councillors [...]
Prisoners in Concert set to rock Berbice
Prisoners in Concert is staged for Berbice, on October 29, 2011. A compact artistic package has been put together by the Guyana Prison Services. The entertainment programme was launched on the October 2, 2011at the National Cultural Centre. So far it has travelled to Bartica where it played to a sellout audience on October 15. [...]
Vendor gets $40,000 bail for assaulting Bureau of Standards officer
A man is currently before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting a Bureau of Standards officer and also for using threatening language against the man. Appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry, Kennard Ramah, of Lot 1000 Twelve Street Diamond Housing Scheme, pleaded not guilty to the two charges. It was alleged [...]
Three men remanded on attempted $600,000 heist – Businessman wounded
A failed attempt to rob a businessman has landed three men in the lock ups after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The men accused of attempting to commit an armed robbery, pleaded not guilty to the charge levied against them when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine- Beharry. [...]
More ammo found, Warrant Officer under close arrest
Missing grenades… Army Officials recovered a quantity of AK-47 ammunition yesterday morning at the back of the Non Commissioning Office, at Base Tacama in the Berbice River. Kaieteur News understands that the ammunition was found by one of the officers-in-charge. Sources close to the army yesterday stated that a Warrant Officer is [...]
