Presidential candidates call for peace – urges supporters to accept final results
Leaders of four political parties yesterday called for calm as the country awaits the results of Monday’s General and Regional Elections. The Presidential Candidates urged their supporters to accept the results which are expected to be announced by today. Representing their respective parties at an emergency press briefing were Donald Ramotar of the People’s Progressive [...]
2011 General and Regional Elections … Final results will be announced soon. Kaieteur News will continue to keep readers updated.
2011 General and Regional Elections…Guyana on edge: Still no official declaration
…APNU, AFC refuse to participate in PPP/C recount request Last evening, more than 24 hours after the General and Regional Elections were conducted, and with no official declaration having yet been made, tension continued to rise in Guyana as speculations and accusations ran rife. It was not business as usual in the capital city [...]
Pending Elections Results ….”Business as usual”
Prior to the General and Regional Elections, Kumar Ramnauth, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce had stated that the business sector was concerned about the timing of elections being so close to the Christmas season. And these concerns were certainly not unfounded as just over 24 hours after Guyanese took to [...]
CARICOM Observer Mission issues preliminary statement on elections
The atmosphere at polling stations on Elections Day on Monday was conducive for free and fair elections. This notion was offered by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Electoral Observer Mission which in its assessment of Elections Day stated that the people of Guyana were given the opportunity under good conditions to elect a government. [...]
Sharma TV suspension will not begin tomorrow
- Conservatory order granted A conservatory order has been granted in favour Television Station owner Chandranarine Sharma. Kaieteur News understands that order was granted yesterday through his lawyer Rex Mc Kay. The order indicates that Sharma’s TV suspension will not start from December 1 A few weeks back an Order of Nisi of Certiorari [...]
Stabbed Brazilian is 40th murder victim in hinterland division
The murder rate in E&F Division climbed to 40 on Sunday following the stabbing to death of a Brazilian at a shop located at Butterfly backdam, Cuyuni. The victim, known only as ‘Amazon’, was reportedly slain by one of his own countrymen during an argument. The suspect, a 35-year-old Brazilian known only [...]
PPP/C calls for immediate release of preliminary results
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic in a statement last evening called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to make public immediately, or as soon as possible, preliminary results of the 2011 General and Regional Elections. “The PPP/C feels that such declaration would dissipate the disquiet that has seemingly engulfed Guyanese as they anxiously [...]
A fictional construct: The future of the PNC
I asked my editor to give me until 22:00 hours to submit this article. He said impossible. He set 19:00 hours. Normally my column goes into his mail-box by 10:00 hours. For today’s submission, I wanted to wait until 10 PM so I could do an analysis on the winner of the 2011 [...]
What will the new leader bring?
Dear Editor, Election Day is past and gone. Not much can be spoken of the rallies because the words of love and harmony did not play a regular lead role. The hate, dissent and wicked insinuations spewed by opposing candidates poisoned the air we breathe. It is indeed sad, for hatred breeds evil [...]
Hypocrisy in the church
Dear Editor, I was invited to the Newtown Assembly of God church in D’Andrade Street, Newtown, a number of times and so I started to visit. However I observed an incident, recently, that caused me to think differently of pastors and leaders of some churches. How pastors conduct themselves without regard for visitors, observers [...]
Nepotism is rife.
Dear Sir, Had it not been for the independent dailies, I would not have been aware of the rampant nepotism and cronyism that exist in Guyana. I will cite one example. Dr. Gansham Singh returned to the country last year and immediately landed a top job at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Dr. Singh is [...]
Who is the Iron Man?
Dear Editor, An open question to all Guyanese, irrespective of their ethnicity or racial background and political affiliation, former Prime Minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, was called “the Iron Lady” because of her hard stances or measures. Question: which of our Heads-of State, both past and present, could rightly be called “the Iron Man?” Because [...]
Who owns Guyana?
Dear Editor, Guyana needs a new breed of Policital Leaders, who are neither PPP nor PNC. Within the last forty-five years all that the Guyanese populace has had is totalitarian, dictatorship, crooks, thieves, corruption and the list goes on. This has happened when PNC was in power and now the same is happening [...]
There are more questions than answers
Dear Editor, How petty can the PPP get? Imagine them asking Winston Felix to explain his alleged phone conversation with someone. But before he answers, or even attempts to answer, the childish forces need to explain among other things to us Guyanese. How and who authorized the bugging of the Commissioner’s phone? Which [...]
An alphabet for the past government
Dear Editor, Please allow my alphabet on the PPP/C. A- Abuse- of power B- Bigotry C- Corruption- cronyism- persuasive D- Pervasive-disgraceful E- Erratic, evasive, egotistic(not Nagamootoo) F- Failure, favouritism G- Grandiosity- greed H- Haphazard I- Incompetence J- Jugglery K- Killing L- Laundering M- Money grabbers, murderers N- Nepotism O- Oppression P- Permanency Porosities [...]
Sharma guides India to win over Windies
Cuttack, (AFP): Rohit Sharma hit a responsible 72 under pressure as India survived a top-order collapse to post a thrilling one-wicket win over the West Indies in the opening one-dayer on Tuesday. India were reeling at 59-5 following Kemar Roach’s three-wicket burst and Andre Russell’s double strike before reaching the 212-run target [...]
Magnolias Indoor Hockey Championship…Xavier’s heroics lead Flora GCC under-21 ladies to fourth consecutive title
Led by a remarkable performance from national goalkeeper Alysa Xavier, the Flora GCC under-21 ladies hockey team carted off their 4th trophy in as many years of the Magnolias Indoor Hockey Championship after surviving a penalty shootout against the hosts over the weekend. Xavier’s heroics between the uprights were complimented by solid performances [...]
Hot & Spicy Corner adds flavour to K&S tourney
Hot & Spicy Corner, located at 3rd and Albert Streets, Alberttown is the latest entity to lend support to the 22nd Kashif & Shanghai Football tournament, which is set for a grand launch on December 10 at the once famous GCC Ground, Bourda. Proprietress Vanessa Singh handed over their contribution to the K&S Organisation [...]
Bess aiming to add WBC CABOFE cruiserweight belt to collection
It seems that the uncertainty of a December boxing card has failed to daunt the spirits of local pugilists and following confirmation of such activity scheduled for December 17 next, these boxers, being true professionals, have switched gears and are engaged in hectic preparations to close of this year’s activity on a fiery note. [...]
USA-based Guyanese athlete lives to run
Wants to represent her homeland in 2012 Olympics By Sean Devers With three pre-teen children to care for at the mature age of 37, United States of America-based (USA) Guyanese-born long distance runner Euleen Josiah-Tanner has been enjoying tremendous recent success and her goal is to represent Guyana in next year’s London Olympics. The [...]
Carib/Pepsi Big Smash t20 semis on today at Bourda
Pulsating cricket is anticipated today at Bourda in the two semi-finals of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Carib/Pepsi Big Smash t20 semi-finals involving the cream of Guyana’s cricketers. The Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls and the Church’s Chicken Corentyne Titans are favoured to advance to Sunday’s Final at Albion but first the City [...]
Writer missed opportunity to import credible information
– Facts about ‘Nationals’: Part I By Edison Jefford It’s rather unfortunate that this missive had to be fashioned in the form of a response to an article that appeared in Kaieteur Sport yesterday. The misfortune has everything to do with the fact that I could have easily been a source of [...]
CONCACAF U-17 WCQ Round 2…‘Lady Jags’ lose to Soca Princesses 8-0
Guyana’s Under-17 Lady Jags suffered an 8-0 whipping at the hands of Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Princesses in their first game of the Round Two action in the CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying competition yesterday afternoon at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, Kingston, Jamaica. The experienced ladies from the Twin Island Republic, who [...]
A minority government and Parliament…Nothing barring winning party from coalescing with opposition parties – Ram
For the first time ever, Guyana could face the very real possibility of having a minority government, meaning that no party has gained more than 50% of the votes cast. It could mean that one party while winning the Presidency, because of the fact that it would not hold a majority of votes in Parliament, [...]
