Nagamootoo returns to Whim today
…former PPP member plagues the party In the incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) they are lining up to castigate “The Naga” and they would have good reason to. This is the view of some members of his new political party. Moses Nagamootoo was a force to be reckoned with in the party, maintaining solid [...]
US coke swallower nabbed at CJIA
A 28 year-old woman from the United States is currently under guard at a city hospital after she was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, early Friday morning. According to reports the woman was about to board a flight at around 05:40 hours on Friday when she reportedly confessed to ranks of [...]
Mangrove Committee hosts Farmers’ market today
Members of the Mangrove Reserve Women’s Agriculture Producers (MRWAP) group based at Cove and John East Coast Demerara, will host the first ever Farmers’ Market under the trees, today. The venue is the grounds of the Mangrove Visitor Centre, Cove and John, East Coast Demerara. The event is part of the alternative livelihood component [...]
Young Lindener targets the young for academic development
In an era when too many youths are preoccupied with the Gaza and Gully culture, there are thankfully still quite a few for whom attaining a good education and making good career choices are their major preoccupations. At the age of twenty-four, Deon Anderson has already graduated from the Universidad De Camaguey in Cuba [...]
Essequibo Police investigate maternal death
Detectives are in the process of obtaining statements from doctors and nurses, who were in charge of a patient, who died at the Suddie Public Hospital a few days after she had given birth to her baby. Reports are that the baby died four days after it was born to 34-year-old mother, Carol [...]
Robbery under arms accused gets $100,000 bail
– police allegedly places false charge There was a controversial courtroom scene when an alleged robbery under arms detainee appeared to answer the charge against him. Vincent Hinds, 20, was on Friday taken to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was not required to plead to the indictable charge before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell. He [...]
“Loose cannon” remanded for multiple offenses in interior
A man who was described as a “loose cannon” was on Friday remanded to jail after he visited the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer three separate charges. Malcolm Henry appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell to answer the charges of assaulting his reputed wife Mardrie Mendonza, resisting arrest, and assaulting the said officer. The [...]
God is indeed watching us—but from a distance!!!
By Michael Benjamin Power– ultimate unbridled power! This seems to be the goal of the PPPC as General and Regional elections loom. At least this is according to Prime Ministerial candidate, Samuel Hinds who, during a recent presentation, urged members of his constituency to ensure that the incumbents secure a resounding victory at [...]
AFC’s Action Plan is rooted in 200 Years of Knowledge – Part 2
By Dr. Tarron Khemraj INTRODUCTION It was noted in the first column that there are several conventional wisdoms that have been ventilated over the decades by practice and debates among scholars and policy makers. The AFC is aware of these best practices that have been successfully employed in Barbados, Mauritius, Taiwan, Singapore, South [...]
Clogged canal frustrates Albouystown residents
Irate residents in a section of Albouystown are expressing great disgust and frustration as it relates to a garbage pile-up in a nearby canal. The waterway in the vicinity of Albouys Street has been overflowing for days now as a result of current spring tides. Zalina Singh, an elderly woman, told Kaieteur News that [...]
NCDs account for more disabilities than classical diseases
Although Guyana through the Ministry of Health has a vision where people live long disability-free and productive lives, the truth is that in the last few decades chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, the various cancers, heart diseases, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other such NCDs have made more people disabled than [...]
Interesting Creatures…The Boa Constrictor
The Boa constrictor is a large, heavy-bodied species of snake. It is a member of the family Boidae found in North, Central, and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. A staple of private collections and public displays, its colour pattern is highly variable yet distinctive. Ten subspecies are currently recognized, [...]
More Guyanese making positive lifestyle choices
…as National Diabetes Programme intensifies Guyana like the rest of the world is facing a growing diabetes epidemic, and the Ministry of Health has been intensifying its approach to tackle and conquer the incidence of diabetes in Guyana. Although still an uphill task, there is evidence to suggest that significant inroads are being made. Diabetes [...]
The desecration of the names of great humans
I cringed. I was nauseated at what Gail Teixeira wrote in support of Juan Edghill’s right as a religious preacher to enter politics (letter in both KN and SN). In doing so, she desecrated the priceless values religion brought to politics in the quest to save mankind from atrocities and dictatorship. One has to be [...]
From the Diaspora…TONE DOWN MR. PRESIDENT
By Ralph Seeram The nominations are in; the race has truly begun. You can tell by the “mudslinging” and character assassinations being lobbed by both opposition and the ruling party. It was a week of more defections, with the AFC claiming a coup with the crossover of Moses Nagamootoo. The PPP had its moments [...]
GT&T Jingle and Song Competition…The ‘sugar song’, Joel Ghansham and a 10-year-old handful
By Leonard Gildarie Well, it is here. I am not sure why I never took the opportunity to pay more attention to GT&T’s Cellink Jingle and Song Competition. But I am loving it! Reality TV, as these types of shows are known, has been taking the world by storm. From the US to Britain to [...]
ImmigrationTALK: E-Verify – Coming to your Employer Soon!
By Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Gail@Go2Lawyer.com The word “E-Verify” will soon be an everyday term or process used when applying for a job in the United States. E-Verify is free and voluntary and is the best means available for determining employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their social security numbers. The [...]
Why is Arti Cameron not at Miss World?
- A national beauty queen’s horror story A new Miss World would be crowned next Sunday, and it’s an absolute certainty that it would not be Miss Guyana – in fact, Arti Cameron is not even in London. But to those who know, this might have come as no surprise. Ever since Arti [...]
The reality check is never far away
I got a reality check the other day when I happened to be driving a Mercedes Benz along the streets of Georgetown. There were people who knew me but who perhaps because of the strangeness of the vehicle, only recognised me after I had passed. Then they took to calling me to let me [...]
Nagamootoo takes on Jagdeo
“…every time he opens his mouth on a public platform he speaks volumes of himself….I am not going to describe him, people will describe him” Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo has been described on more than one occasion during his tenure as being less than Presidential or un-statesmanlike. Just days before the recent Nomination [...]
IT IS THE PARTIES THAT MATTER!
Reality will eventually step in. All of the main political parties are at present basking in the trophies that they have captured in the game of psychological warfare being practiced. In this game, all of the parties have been successful in wooing over to their camps, individuals who were in the past either associated [...]
A panicking PPP resorts to its usual propaganda of divisiveness
The seemingly endless column of citizens wearing the green of the APNU, on Nomination Day, Thursday 27 October, 2011, evidently sent the PPP propagandists into a frenzy of fear. As all Guyanese have now come to expect, their instinctive reaction has been to retreat into their well worn tactic of seeking to cast the [...]
Being Guyanese
One of the unfortunate characteristics of electioneering politics is while striving to prove they are each “better”, politicians stress only their differences. Over the years, we too have stressed our differences – cultural ones – in reacting against the cultural hegemony imposed over our society by the state. But we have also always insisted on [...]
The Commonwealth: Will wise heads prevail?
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a member of the Eminent Persons Group that has produced a report on reform of the Commonwealth) A visitor to Perth in Australia during the week ending 30th October would be forgiven in believing that the City revolves around the 54-nation Commonwealth. The entire city is festooned [...]
The Baccoo Speaks
It seems impossible to curb the spate of road accidents. All of the drivers would think about safety until they get behind the wheel of a vehicle. That is when they throw caution to the wind. It is as if the vehicle takes total control. This would appear to be the case when [...]
