Breaking News!! PPPC secures 32 seats, APNU, 26, AFC, 7
The Guyana Elections Commission confirmed today that Donald Ramotar is the new President of Guyana. His party, People’s Progressive Party Civic won 166,340 votes of the 342,236 valid votes cast. . This represented 48.6 per cent of the total votes cast A Partnership for National Unity secured 139,678 votes or 40.8 per cent of the [...]
2011 General and Regional Elections…Presidential Candidates call for peace, calm and restraint
– urge supporters to accept final results The tension continued to escalate in the capital city and countrywide yesterday as more than 48 hours after theGeneral and Regional Elections the official results were yet to be announced. This did not stop a group of exuberant supporters of A Partnership for National Unity from [...]
Commonwealth says vote count ‘transparent’
Notes use of state funds in PPP campaigning, media access Officials worked hard and in “a transparent manner” to count votes cast in Monday’s poll, the Commonwealth Observer Mission said yesterday. The Mission said that party agents were able to closely follow the process and to receive a copy of the respective [...]
OAS says vote count delay ‘unfortunate’
The “operational procedures” of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) stymied the timely flow of elections results, observers of the Organisation of American States (OAS), stated yesterday. “It is unfortunate that following a generally well administered election up to and including Polling Day the failure to ensure the timely dissemination of results may undermine the [...]
GAP/ROAR Parliamentarian dies
Opposition Member of Parliament, Everall Franklin, of the Guyana Action Party has died. Frankly, 52, passed away shortly after 05:30 hrs at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital yesterday. In a brief interview with Franklyn’s wife, Teresa, she said he was rushed to the hospital from their Hadfield Street home, some time around 05:00hrs. [...]
Bharrat Jagdeo does it again
This column would have been submitted before the results of the election. Tomorrow I will begin to assess why victory for one party, and why the loss for the others. Today, I look at some issues surrounding the elections. We start with Mr. Jagdeo’s press conference yesterday afternoon. Mr. Jagdeo was predictable as usual – [...]
A New Beginning
Whatever else may have been achieved in Election 2011, Bharrat Jagdeo’s vacation of the office of President of Guyana has to be a positive development. When the defining words of a president during the campaign are “I is in cuss mode”, we know there is not much hope for an enduring, positive [...]
Dem boys seh…De pompousness done
De Bible got a saying, “Ask and it shall be given.” Wha you ask for you does get. De PPP had a theme song, “Dem a watch we.” That is wha dem ask for. Now according to dem boys, de voters give dem wha dem ask for. APNU and AFC will not only be [...]
Dem boys seh…Firecrackers shut down ‘Merica Street and mek police run
Georgetown was quiet ever since people had to vote. Dem business place and de whole of Georgetown get more quiet when de people done vote. Some business places open and some shut. Dem wha open got de door half open and dem got some big wood fuh block it just in case. Dem boys [...]
IF YOU CAN DRIVE IN GUYANA, YOU CAN DRIVE ANYWHERE
It is said that if you can drive in Guyana, then you can drive anywhere in the world. The drivers of Guyana are amongst the most highly skilled in the world, and this may have to do with the fact that most of them learnt to drive in other persons’ vehicles. When [...]
GCB Carib/Pepsi Big Smash t20 cricket…Pitbulls, President’s X1 advance to Sunday’s Final
By Sean Devers Rain and Berbician off-spinner Eon Hooper sent favourites Church’s Chicken Corentyne Titans crashing out of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Carib/Pepsi Big Smash t20 cricket competition at Bourda yesterday as the President’s X1 and the Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls both won their semi-final matches. In brilliant sunshine at the Region’s [...]
GCC Flora does us proud
By Rawle Welch The sport over the past year has enjoyed a shift in fortune, while many of the local teams and national units have followed suit with some encouraging results as well so when the GCC Flora Under-21 Ladies team left these shores to participate in the Magnolias International Tournament in Trinidad [...]
FIFA could suspend officials under investigation
ZURICH (AP)—FIFA should consider suspending officials who are under criminal investigation as part of its effort to clean up the organization, an independent anti-corruption expert hired by the governing body said Wednesday. Swiss professor Mark Pieth said FIFA also should examine ways to make the election of its presidents more transparent and impose [...]
Munroe should mambo
By Edison Jefford It is a known fact that the absence of Godfrey Munroe from the National Senior Men’s team in August when Guyana hosted the Caribbean Championships did not help the team’s chances of getting past third place in the premier regional competition. Munroe is arguably the best player in Guyana. The [...]
Giftland OfficeMax on board with K&S
Corporate sponsorship is gaining momentum as the date for kick off of the 22nd Edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Extravaganza draws near. Yesterday, the variety Complex, Giftland OfficeMax, at Water Street in Georgetown made a “sizeable donation” to Coordinators of the tournament, Kashif Muhammad and Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major, for the [...]
CONCACAF U17 WCQ Round 2…Lady Jags oppose Reggae Girls today; Soca Princesses play Bahamas
Guyana’s Under-17 Lady Jags will be aiming for an improved performance when they come up against host team Jamaica when qualifying action in the CONCACAF World Cup competition continues at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, Kingston, Jamaica, today. Jamaica, like Trinidad and Tobago who defeated Guyana in their first game on Tuesday 0-8, won [...]
Rambarran retains Presidency following Berbice Volleyball Association AGM
Gregory Rambarran was returned unopposed as the President of the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) when that body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the All Saints Church Hall in New Amsterdam, Sunday November 27 last. Several other nominees were assigned to executive positions including Levi Nedd (Vice President), Philip Adams (Secretary), Leon [...]
Taffin Khan stamps authority as Senior Chess championship continues
Senior chess champion, Taffin Khan continued his good showing to retain the lead position when the Geddes Grant/Seven Seas 2011 National Senior Chess Championship continued at the Ocean Spray Hotel, Stanley Place Kitty over the past weekend. The aspiring grandmaster notched up 8 points from as many games to retain the lead with [...]
NSC was unsure of semifinal game – Chairman
The Noitgedacht Sports Club was unsure of their semifinal game in the Wakenaam Cricket Committee\Thakur Lookram twenty\20 competition which was scheduled to be played two Sundays ago at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground in Good Success, so said Chairman of the club Trevor Stewart. An angry Stewart told Kaieteur sport that he received a [...]
Atrocious treatment at the Blood Bank
Dear Editor, I have been a regular blood donor from the age of 18. I have had the opportunity and privilege of donating not only in Guyana, but also in the five countries that I have called home in the past 12 years. I went to the blood bank on the 23rd of [...]
Carbon credit is Cheddi’s idea, not Bharrat’s
Dear Editor, I wish to inform the general public that the idea of carbon trading was that of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, and not Bharrat Jagdeo. Myself and the late Dr. Jagan discussed and talked about this in my house in Essequibo on a number of occasions, prior to 1992. The idea [...]
Guyana needs a new breed of political leaders
Dear Editor, Guyana needs a new breed of Political Leaders, who are neither PPP nor PNC. Within the last forty-five years all that the Guyanese populace has had is totalitarian rule, dictatorship, crooks, thieves, corruption and the list goes on. This has happened when PNC was in power and now the same is [...]
Tensions, delayed planes and energy drinks…Anxious Guyana awaits elections results
Elections 2011 had thrown up more twists than the plot of a political thriller. For one, almost 48 hours after the close of polls across the country at 18:00hrs on Monday, managers of the voting process, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), are to definitely say which party is in the lead. Planes supposed to [...]
Most businesses remain closed ahead of elections results
As the vote count for the 2011 elections continued yesterday, the main shopping areas along Regent and Robb Streets in the city were almost devoid of shoppers. Only a handful of businesses were partially open, however; employees still refused to turn out to work. According to a few business owners and operators, between [...]
Election tension reduces city to ghost town
With a delay in the results for this year’s General elections, the city of Georgetown, like other areas, continued to be void of crowds; this time even transportation being unavailable for hours. The Stabroek Market Square at 14:30 hrs yesterday saw many businesses closed; no buses on the park, and not even taxis. A [...]
