Guyana Water Inc. and medication benefits are unfair to seniors
Dear Editor, Here is a scenario which is by no means farfetched. A four-apartment house is rented by four unrelated tenants aged 72, 73, 74 and 75. The landlord holds the transport for the property. The Landlord is 45 years old. How does each tenant benefit from the G.W.I subsidy? Not one of the [...]
Grove Hi Tec, Buxton Stars advance after thrilling contests in K&S Football extravaganza
Grove Hi Tec FC played a robust game to dispose of Victoria Kings FC 3-2 moments before Buxton Stars FC needled BV/Triumph and advanced into the next round when action in the Kashif and Shanghai Football extravaganza continued at the Beterverwagting Community Centre Ground Wednesday evening last. Buxton Stars also qualified for the next [...]
GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…GFC sets up Christmas Day date with Sunburst Camptown
-Santos also progress to quarter-finals By Rawle Welch Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Santos FC booked the final two quarter-final spots after registering victories against Houston Stars FC and Banks All Stars 2-0 and 4-2 respectively in the inaugural GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup which continued on Wednesday evening, at the GFC ground. In [...]
Reds to personally autograph his book at Oasis Café’ tomorrow
Book lovers in Guyana will have an opportunity tomorrow to have a personally autographed copy of ‘Living my dreams’ by veteran Guyanese Radio Cricket broadcaster Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira. Perreira who hails from Pomeroon in Essequibo but now resides with his Guyanese wife Zandra in St Lucia, is home for the Christmas holidays and will [...]
Greene takes swipe at absentee national players
– GTTA rewards National C/ships performers By Edison Jefford President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Henry Greene, took a swipe at the senior national male players who did not compete at the 2011 National Championships when he spoke at the Awards Ceremony for the event Wednesday night. “While we might [...]
Season ending Horserace meet set for Rising Sun Turf club on New Year’s Day
$7M up for grabs By Samuel Whyte The final race for the 2011/2012 Horse racing season is set for the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park West Coast Berbice. The date is Sunday 1st January2012. With horseracing having a busy year in 2011 all the top horses will be hoping to put in a [...]
Caledonia AIA and Caribbean United football team hope to claim K&S ‘pound of gold’
Trinidad and Tobago Professional League club Neal and Massy Caledonia AIA and Caribbean United of Barbados are in Guyana and has their sights set on this year’s Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament top prize of a pound of gold. Caribbean United playing in their second Kashif and Shanghai tournament will be in action [...]
Peaceful Woman Warrior- Sensei Celise Thomas
At age eight, she started martial arts in November of 1999 with Young Tigers Karate School located at Cumuto Trinidad. Celise was influenced to join this sport by a good friend who at the time was a purple belt in the same dojo. On 6th May 2000, she tested and passed her first [...]
Woodpecker Junior Badminton tournament to conclude today at QC
The Annual Woodpecker Junior Christmas Singles Tournament for 2011 started at the Queens College Badminton Courts yesterday and is expected to conclude today with the remaining matches. Several players turned in good performances and are in line for championship honours, while the Ramdhani siblings and Angelica Holder won their respective categories. Priyanna Ramdhani [...]
Guyana banks on Ramotar administration to draw down on Norway Funds
…administration angered but sees renewed hope under Ramotar’s Presidency Spearheaded by Former Head-of-State Bharrat Jagdeo, and after much ranting and raving on his part, the Guyana Government is still to spend a dime of the money from the Kingdom of Norway under a Memorandum of Understand signed in 2008. Two tranches from the US$250M promised [...]
Western Union $10M heist…Two youths detained, $6M recovered
Quick action by police has resulted in the arrest of two youths and the recovery of over $6M from Wednesday’s night’s daring $10M heist at the Western Union outlet in Church Street. Kaieteur News understands that the youths, aged 18 and 22, were detained in a house, where the cash was recovered. Police [...]
Finally… temporary bypass bridge being constructed at La Parfaite Harmonie
Days after this publication highlighted months of delay in the construction of the $80M La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara main access bridge, the unknown contractor has commenced constructing a bypass facility. According to workmen on site, materials have been mobilized to construct a temporary bypass bridge several hundred feet east of where [...]
GRA Changes Motor Vehicle Licence Renewal Process… Vehicle owners to renew/ purchase MVLs every fiscal year
- Agency to network with Guyana Police Force The Guyana Revenue Authority announced on Wednesday that beginning January 1, 2012, a new Motor Vehicle Licences (MVLs) system will be introduced. Under this new system, MVLs will be valid for a period of one (1) year effective from the anniversary date of registration of the [...]
Berbice Commander defies Greene gag order
-describes it as disrespectful Commander of Police B Division Assistant Commissioner Steven Merai says that the gag order placed on the Commanders and Heads of Division of The Guyana Police Force was an irresponsible move and a total disrespect to the respective Commanders by Commissioner of Police Henry Greene. Merai, who is set to [...]
Cornelia Ida man walks away with car as Ansa McAl’s ARIEL Clean Sweep ends
One lucky Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, resident walked away with a brand new TOYOTA ALLION, as the Ansa McAl’s ARIEL Clean Sweep Win-a-CAR-not-a-cart promotion ended yesterday. Four other lucky participants won flat screen televisions and ARIEL food hampers at the draw which was done live on national television. The grand prize winner, [...]
$700M in coins circulating in Guyana
The total number of coins presently in circulation in Guyana, adds up to over seven hundred millions dollars. This was according to a Bank Statement from the Bank of Guyana after the closing of Business on November 30, 2011. It stated that precisely $784,193,266 of the monies circulating in Guyana represent coins. Kaieteur News spoke [...]
Generator fire temporarily halts DIDCO Ruimveldt operations
A mid-afternoon fire yesterday, temporarily halted operations at the DIDCO Wholesale depot at Ruimveldt and proved to be more than just a scare for some of the visibly shocked employees. According to reports, technicians at the local chicken giant were about to service the industrial size electricity generator when upon opening it, plumes of smoke [...]
Digicel repeats call for end to telecoms monopoly
Mobile giant Digicel yesterday repeated calls for the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector. The call came after the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) asked Digicel to come clean on its financial position to show how it has been hurt by GT&T’s hold on the internal market. In a swipe at GT&T, Digicel [...]
Man shot after dousing cops with gasoline
A man who doused police with gasoline in an attempt to escape during an operation to arrest him yesterday is currently nursing a gunshot wound to his left hand. The cops were forced to shoot the man who became extremely violent when police responded to reports that he had earlier verbally abused neighbours [...]
No objection to $186M schools’ biscuit contract
Five contracts were given “no objection” at Cabinet’s December, 20 statutory meeting. Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon, at a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday, said that the contracts are in the areas of education, health, water and sports. The contracts that were approved are as follows: Tenders Amount (EDUCATION) Supply of biscuits under the [...]
Diplomatic vehicle torched…. Vehicle belongs to diplomat of European Delegation
Contrary to reports under the caption “Diplomatic vehicle torched” in Thursday’s Edition of this newspaper, it has now been established that Alain Castermans of the European Delegation is the owner of the vehicle that was set afire at Lot 59, Anira Street, Queenstown. The vehicle did not belong to UNICEF Representative, Dr. Suleiman Braimoh [...]
Berbicians facing unending blackouts as Christmas nears
Berbicians, especially businesses are reeling from unending power outages that have been rampant over the past week. But many persons expressed their preparedness for such an occurrence especially since they noted that the performance of the Guyana Power & Light Incorporated (GPL Inc) usually gets from bad to worse during the festive season. [...]
Relatives suspect foul play after body found in Port Kaituma Hotel
Three weeks after arriving in Port Kaituma, 51-year-old Terrence Morrison was found dead in a hotel room on Tuesday night, and relatives suspect foul play was the cause. According to Beverly Williams, sister of the dead man, Morrison earned his living a regular ‘bushman’ working on gold dredges. “Wednesday morning his boss lady [...]
A disabled person’s story of determination and a system that he believes has failed him
By Leon Suseran Pull quote: “Even the bandits don’t sorry for disabled people.” The Disability Act was passed sometime ago in the Guyana Parliament. This Act was put in place to solidify government’s commitment to reach out as far as possible to and touch persons with disabilities and those confined to their homes due [...]
APNU youth arm wants President Ramotar to demand Rohee and Greene’s resignation
The youth arm of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling on newly elected President, Donald Ramotar to demand the resignations of Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee and Police Commissioner Henry Greene to allow an independent and impartial investigation into the shooting of some of its members with pellets on December 6, by [...]
