Fireman shot dead by bandits
Delon Collins, a 29-year-old fireman of Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, had his life snuffed out when he was shot dead at around 23:15 on Christmas Eve by bandits. The young man and his fiancée, Probation and Welfare Officer, Nadine Crawford, 32, and her three children had just returned from shopping in Rose Hall [...]
Family loses $4M while at holiday dinner
After satisfying his customers over the Christmas holidays, businessman Rajindra Mohabir was eagerly awaiting the reopening of the commercial banks to deposit the cash he had accumulated. He stashed the cash which amounted to close to $4M and went out to dinner with his family on Boxing Night, unaware that thieves were eyeing his [...]
Five-year-old rape victim in need of blood
The five-year-old girl who was abducted from her Betsy Ground home last Friday and brutally raped, is presently receiving blood as she remains in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the New Amsterdam Hospital. The child had lost a lot of blood and requires about three pints. Although she is [...]
Sales clerk shot while delivering calendars
A 51-year-old man is at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg after a failed robbery attempt caused his attackers to open fire on him. Andrew Correia, a sales clerk of the GTM insurance company, was shot around 08:00 hours last Saturday while delivering issues of the [...]
Drunk driver ends Mon Repos man’s life
When colleagues and friends of Naresh Khemraj called Avinash saw him on Christmas Eve, they sensed that something was wrong – he was not his usual jovial self. Although he did not complain of any ailment, little did they know that he would not live to see day break Christmas morning. Khemraj, 21, of [...]
REMNANTS OF AN OLD, DESPERATE GUARD
In a previous column – Put Them Out of Pasture – this column suggested that there were forces within the ruling party that were out to derail the political progress being made between the government and the opposition parties. This progress was a consequence of political maturity and was evident even before the results [...]
Hey Khurshid, you didn’t acknowledge me!
After decades of psychological suffering perpetrated upon vehicle owners of this country, the revenue authorities in a strange twist of fate, discovered commonsense. The maximum boss of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur, announced that all vehicle owners in this country will not have to line up during a specific period of the calendar year [...]
Post-Kyoto Durban Platform
What exactly did the Durban conference on Climate Change, which concluded on December 11, achieve? Simply pledges by developed countries indicating their intention to take on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Even these are conditional on the domestic processes of some developed country parties or [...]
Dem boys seh…Irfaat mek de lime tree tun green
When Manzoor start de Main Big Lime was a big thing. Then Manniram tek it over. It get more big, but dem boys seh that monkey mek he pickney till he spoil am. De Donald tell Manny fuh go home and tek a rest and Manny carry way he lime tree. Irfaat decide that he [...]
Teams defy soggy conditions to advance in K&S football extravaganza
Action shifts to BV ground tonight, Caledonia, Pele, Kings, Millballers on show Several teams were made to walk the plank when the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament continued at venues around the country. Indeed, the inclement weather has caused many of the venues to become waterlogged and apart from the discomfort experienced by the [...]
GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Edwards’s heroics propel Conquerors into semi-finals
-Alpha, Beacons, Camptown also advance Many have referred to him as ‘the next best thing between the uprights’ and he justified the sobriquet with two magnificent saves to push his team (Fruta Conquerors) into the semi-finals of the lucrative GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup after they defeated an unyielding Santos FC on Boxing Day, [...]
Fruta Conqueror wins as Lester Peters U-15 memorial football tournament concludes
Fruta Conqueror’s U-15 ‘A’ team amassed 18 points and a positive goal average of 14 to cart off the top prize when the curtains came down on the Lester Peters U-15 memorial football tournament at the Tucville Ground Monday afternoon last. Flamingo FC accrued 14 points and a positive goal average of 6 goals [...]
Talk is Cheap Café supports Banks Beer KO Cup
Talk is Cheap Café of Alexander Street, Kitty became the most recent business entity to offer support to the GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup after Managing Director Eton Cordis handed over a cheque for an undisclosed sum to Assistant Secretary Treasurer of the Association Fiona Hamilton yesterday. The presentation ceremony was done [...]
LABA U-23 basketball continues at MSC Hard Court in Linden
The Linden Amateur Basketball Association is cashing in on the Christmas spirit as they have adjusted their rescheduling of matches to continue their Under 23 championship for clubs in Linden yesterday, today and Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court. Yesterday Kashif and Shanghai Kings played GTS Half Mile Bulls and Victory Valley [...]
BCB give thumbs up to the Government for the formation of IMC
The Berbice Cricket Board has given the thumbs up to the Government of Guyana for appointing an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to run the affairs of cricket in Guyana. Following is the full text of the press release: “Even though it was long overdue, we still consider this move timely and we fully [...]
Guyanese Code swapper can’t wait for match
Sunshine Coast Daily – Guyanese man mountain Kevin McKenzie remembers when he first laid eyes on Broncos captain Sam Thaiday in action. “Geez, he’s really cool. I’d like to try that,” was McKenzie’s reaction. And so began the 26-year-old’s transformation from internationally capped England rugby union sevens player to a Australia’s Sunshine Coast [...]
Entries roll in for Rising Sun $7M horserace meet on New Year’s Day
With less than a week away for the grand Finale in the 2011/2012 horseracing season, entries are rolling in for the New Year’s Day mega meet. With the venue being the famous Rising Sun Turf Club at Arima Park, West Coast, Berbice, it is deemed a fitting venue for the close of the [...]
Woodpecker Junior Badminton tourney concludes
The Annual Woodpecker Junior Christmas Singles Tournament 2011 concluded at the Queens College Badminton Courts on December 23 with the remaining matches to decide the champions in the final Tournament of the year put on by the Guyana Badminton Association. Prizes were handed out to 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed winners. The Over-all [...]
UNION OF THE GOVT. & MASSES AGENDA
Dear Editor, Minority governments can never be a precondition for the majority opposition in the legislature to internalize the illusion that, by virtue of its majority, it has an executive role. Under existing constitutional arrangements and given the election outcomes on November 28 last, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) remains the ruling party [...]
The forgotten GuySuCo workers
Dear Editor, We, the retired employees of GuySuCo, and former workers of their Blairmonth, Rose Hall, Albion and Skeldon locations respectively, have been dedicated workers for 25 to 40 years. We have all been receiving a monthly pension. We discovered that only five years ago, 2006-2011. An annual incentive of five per cent [...]
Carnage on the streets
Dear Editor, One month has passed since Patrice Welcome was mowed down on Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt. Since then, many other commuters and pedestrians have shared the same fate. There is no indication that anything is being done to curb the slaughter on our highly congested roadways. Courtesy and care have been [...]
A Good Life, a Board of Inquiry (BOI) or a Missed Opportunity?
Dear Editor, I had three weeks to reflect on our national election results and I would like to share my views on the chance we gave up for ‘a good life’. Was it a Missed Opportunity? On the 28th November 2011, the electorate of Guyana was promised a ‘good life’ (APNU Manifesto, 2011) but [...]
A response to Peeping Tom
Dear Editor, Allow me space in your letter writer column to respond to the recent article of the 25th December edition, entitled “WHEN DIPLOMATS SPEAK, POLITICIANS RESPOND” written by your too scared to reveal himself columnist Peeping Tom but using the veil of anonymity, attacks public officers like myself with his arrogance and poisonous [...]
Unprofessional Turkeyen police rank
Dear Editor, I would like to express utter disgust with the unprofessional, selfish, and lackadaisical attitude of a police officer (name supplied) who was on duty at the Turkeyen Police Station on December 26, last, between the 18.30 hours and 20.00 hrs. I went to that station at 18.30 hrs on December 26 to inform [...]
Man shot in leg during robbery
A Christmas Eve night robbery at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, has left 57-year-old Trenton Benn, of Lot 19 Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The incident occurred at around 21:00hrs at his sister ’s home. According to Benn, his sister is a food [...]
