After 2 years as Minister…Irfaan Ali builds mansion with poolhouse
The construction of a house at Leonora, West Coast Demerara, is the talk of neighbours who say that the property is owned by 31-year-old Irfaan Ali, the Minister of Housing and Water. The house appears to accommodate eight bedrooms, a large living room, a detached kitchen and a walkway that runs around the front of [...]
Front page comment ….Kaieteur New Year wish to all
A Happy New Year to all Guyana! Kaieteur News joins in welcoming the year 2012. We are hopeful that this year will see the beginning of a new process of all our leaders and political parties working together so that our country can prosper. 2011 is no more and so too are the [...]
2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery
ENMORE US$12.5M Packaging Plant This past year the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) under the auspices of the former Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud commissioned a US$12.5M at Enmore on East Coast Demerara. While this initiative was seen as laudable and the facility a much needed one, the price tag attached was more than questionable. Christopher [...]
Dem boys seh…De Rat give Guyana nuff soft loan
Christmas is a time when people does eat nuff but dem have people who can eat more than dem own weight. Two of dem is Sam and Henry. Dem boys seh that Henry beat Sam. When he playing tennis he got a big table wid a warmer fuh chicken, wild meat, duck, beef, [...]
Guyana’s revenues set to surpass $104B target
-self-employed remain biggest evaders of taxes -Suriname car scam being probed By Leonard Gildarie Despite a year geared for elections, Guyana is set to collect a record-breaking amount in taxes and other revenues. Head of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur, on Friday, disclosed that surpassing that $104.4B will remain one of the [...]
MV Oliver goes missing at high seas
On Wednesday December 21, last, the MV Oliver L, registered in the name of Raymond Lord, left Trinidad destined for Port Georgetown, Guyana, but to date has not arrived nor its crew members have not been heard from. Last contact was made with the Master of the vessel at 8:00 hours on Thursday December [...]
A bad year for the aviation sector
A near-disastrous crash-landing at the country’s only international airport, and a spate of other accidents in the interior made 2011 a bad year for the aviation sector. There were at least four plane mishaps last year. The first happened in late April, when a bird was sucked into the left engine of a [...]
Amaila Falls Hydro Project’s price tag rests on an escalator
Having been embroiled in a plethora of controversies over the years and having been conceputalised ever since the early 1990s the price tag for the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project seems to rest on an escalator. The project when it was first announced was set to cost some US$475M but the last time it was [...]
“We will work to root out corruption and get value for money” – President Donald Ramotar’s New Year’s address
Fellow Guyanese, I am pleased to greet you on this New Year. This is my first New Year’s address to the nation and I am extremely honoured to extend best wishes for peace, happiness, health and prosperity to all Guyanese. In keeping with our traditions, the dawn of a new year is for [...]
City Hall seeks intervention of Minister, Auditor General
Mayor and City Council’s Senior Councillor, Patricia Greene, recently wrote to the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud, and Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, imploring them to investigate the Council’s maladministration and financial records. The decision to write the Minister was taken by Mayor Hamilton Green and Councillors at the body’s Statutory Meeting [...]
New Year’s Messages
The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) The PPP/C extends best wishes to all Guyanese at the dawn of the New Year, 2012. As we usher in 2012, let us look forward with great hope to the year ahead and the abundance of opportunities it brings us for a more peaceful, prosperous and productive society. Over [...]
Caribbean economies on right path, but not immune to turbulence – IDB’s Moreno
The Caribbean and Latin America are closing a year marked by economic gains, but the region remains exposed to external shocks, Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno said in a year-end report. In recent remarks to the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors, Moreno summarized the region’s challenges, the institution’s performance over the past [...]
GWI accused of faulty billing system
A La- Grange, West Bank Demerara man is accusing Guyana Water Inc. of wrongfully disconnecting his water since December 14, last. According to the man, he had been up-to-date with his bill payments to the water company, and even though he didn’t receive water in late 2006-2007 he still paid his water rate. [...]
Mother criticises Bartica police officers
A mother is speaking out against the police, apparently fed up with the manner in which police ranks of the Bartica Police Station are executing their services. Evette Chung, the mother of Madonna Griffith, a resident of Itaballi located in the Mazaruni River, was enraged when she claimed that police officers on Christmas [...]
Sunday Cartoon January 1, 2012
Caledonia AIA, Pele FC and a pound of gold—who will claim the top prize
By Michael Benjamin It’s Pele versus Caledonia AIA and apart from the lucrative first prize of one pound of Guyana’s pristine gold, the two teams will also want to procure bragging rights when the curtains come down on the 22nd edition of the Kashif & Shanghai football extravaganza at the National Stadium Providence tonight. [...]
GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Alpha, Conquerors in showdown for $3million today
-Camptown, Beacons play for third place By Rawle Welch Reigning club champions Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United led by overtime goals from Leon Grumble (110th) and Dwain Jacobs (115th) had to summon all their collective experience to repel a determined effort from Sunburst Camptown in the feature clash on semi-finals day in the GFA / Banks [...]
Senior cricketers seek President Ramotar’s intervention as cricket imbroglio deepens
The administrative rift within the local cricket fraternity has reached an alarming level and several local players that have represented or are representing the regional cricket team are requesting a meeting with President Donald Ramotar to have the situation return to a semblance of normalcy. Among those players are reliable middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, [...]
WICB seeks meeting with government on cricket matters
The West Indies Cricket Board in a letter dated December 30, 2011 is seeking a meeting with Sports Minister Dr. Frank Anthony to look into the cricket matters affecting the game here. However, the letter signed by WICB President Julian Hunte, indicated that it will be with…”the understanding the WICB recognizes the GCB as the [...]
Sewkarran 101*, Sean Kadim 51 steer Bath to victory
Avishkar Sewkarran became the latest centurion when play in the 2011 New Building Society (NBS) sponsored second division 40 over cricket competition continued recently in the Ancient County. Sewkarran belted a match-winning 101 not out for Bath of West Berbice who were set a challenging 204 to win off 35 overs by Cotton Tree Die [...]
“Happy New Year! 2012 could be the last year for West Indies cricket as we know it!”
Colin E. H. Croft With greatest respect to Scotsman Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne” be damned! What’s done is done! Whatever it was, it may have adjusted us, but not changed us. People do not change. They only adapt. We cannot now change 2011 occurrences. We should forget and move on. Happy New Year 2012! [...]
All Roads lead to Rising Sun Turf Club today
Horseracing fans will trudge to the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast Berbice today for the end of season meeting at that entity set to start at 12:30pm. Thousands are expected to swarm the venue for the Annual New Year’s Day event, which will see over $7.6M up for grabs and over 85 [...]
Trophy Stall donates GFA Banks Beer tourney MVP trophy
The Trophy Stall of Bourda Market has donated the MVP trophy to the Georgetown Football Association for their Banks Beer tournament which concludes tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda. Alpha and Fruta Conquerors clash in that match up. Proprietor of the Trophy Stall, Ramesh Sunich, made the presentation to Charmaine Wade, GFA Office [...]
Nostalgic moments in Sports 2011
2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery
