New vehicle registration system effective today
–police to have monthly list of defaulters A new system that will see Motor Vehicle Licences (MVL) being sold on the anniversary of the registration is expected to go into effect today. According to Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, owners whose registrations are due will be mailed notices and given [...]
No word yet of missing cargo vessel Oliver L – Minister Benn
Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn has reported that there has been no sign of the cargo vessel MV Oliver L in the territorial waters of Guyana, Trinidad, nor in Venezuela. A team comprising Minister Benn, Lt. Col. Orin Porter, Operations Officer of the Coast Guard; Michael Tennant, River Navigation Officer, MARAD; Harbour [...]
Overseas visitor’s Christmas season spoilt by armed bandits
-narrowly evades bullet intended for his head When Rupert Angus planned his Christmas visit back home to Guyana to see his mother, the last thing on his mind was an encounter with gunmen. But it happened. He lost his precious gold and diamond chain worth $1.5M, dodged a bullet intended for his head, and [...]
Cabinet gives go-ahead for six contracts
Cabinet this week gave its “no objection” to the award of six contracts. In the agriculture sector, a contract to the value of 69.5 million, will go towards the supply, delivery and testing of field equipment for the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA). In the health sector, $345.5 million will go towards the procurement [...]
A strange sales girl and vanishing water in 2011
For every minute you live in this world, you meet a person that causes you to reflect on just what makes up the human being. I happen to know the owner of Bakewell very well. I hope that if he reads this article, he will have a talk with a particular sales girl in the [...]
Addressing the phenomenon of mental health
We Guyanese are not very subtle (and certainly not very kind) when we speak of the unfortunate souls who, afflicted with one or another mental shortcoming, live in our midst. “Mad people” is about the kindest designation that is invoked and hurled at them. The State mental institution located in Berbice has always been [...]
AN APPLE AND A MANGO
This past Christmas, apples were retailing cheaply in Guyana. A succulent apple could have been had for as low as $60 each. If you haggled you could have gotten a discount. On the other hand, locally grown mangoes were not at a bargain, out of season. Five were selling for five hundred dollars. [...]
Dem boys seh…Nuff people crying
De New Year break wid some people complaining how dem mek resolution and how dem had to break dem same resolution. Tek de case of de man who own a newspaper. He mek a resolution that he gun stop smoking. He actually stop. But that was three years ago. This time he mek [...]
Is CARICOM or the UN going to intervene in Guyana cricket now?
DEAR EDITOR, Things are looking comical for Minister Anthony’s IMC or we can say Clive Lloyd’s IMC. Let us retrace our steps before we describe the circus. The Chief Justice refused an injunction in relation to the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB). He said that since the board has no legal existence therefore legal action cannot [...]
Guyana’s 2011 Elections – “A Political Watershed”
DEAR EDITOR, The historic importance of the 2011 elections is yet to be played out, but what is irrefutably true is that the scourged politics of race which has bedevilled Guyanese politics since the 1950s will cease to feature as a political force in the future. To be sure, this last vestige of a corrupted [...]
Guyana was spared a disaster of astronomical proportions
Dear Editor, It has been said time and time again, that Guyana is a Blessed Nation. On November 28, that statement was proven to be true, for Guyana was spared a disaster of astronomical proportions. Had the AFC and PNCR joined forces to contest the elections as a single unit, they probably may have won [...]
T&T’s Caledonia AIA lift championship despite dismal crowd support at K&S final
The theory which advocates that sports and politics are combustible mixes and should not be experimented with, was forcefully exemplified when Guyanese responded to a boycott call by the youth arm of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and stayed away from the K&S football finals at the National Stadium, Providence Sunday evening last. The [...]
GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup… Thousands witness ‘the Hammer’ win $3million
- Beacons upset Sunburst Camptown for 3rd place Thousands of football fans braved the inclement weather to converge at the GFC ground to witness the finals of the GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup which ended on Sunday evening with Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United through a solitary strike from Andrew Murray Jnr edging a spirited [...]
Sewkarran hits 53 & 81 for Bath; Andrews grabs 6-31 & hits 63 for Police
The 2011 Memorex Enterprise-sponsored Leslie Amsterdam Memorial Under-17 two-innings cricket competition in Berbice which resumed recently saw the prolific Avishkar Sewkarran continuing his good showings with the bat when he registered scores of 53 and 81 for Bath against No.7 Silver Park. Sewkarran, who had scores of 103 and 36 in his previous matches of [...]
RHTY&SC maintains benevolence during yuletide season
The seven cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) for the 20th successive year hosted a highly successful Christmas Charity Programme for the less fortunate in the Ancient County. The teams, RHT Farfan and Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under-19, Metro Females and Gizmos and Gadgets Under-21 [...]
Letter to the Sports Editor… Lumumba’s role in the GFA Banks Beer Knockout Cup
Dear Sir, With financial sponsorship amounting to $1,000,000 from Mc Neal Enterprise of which Ministerial Advisor on Empowerment, and Member of Parliament, Odinga Lumumba is an integral part, it remains mind boggling that the individual’s financial contribution, aids in some remote way to the clarion call by the APNU- Youth Arm for the boycott of [...]
Rising Sun end of year horserace meet postponed due to inclement weather
Due to the inclement weather the authorities and organizers of the Grand Finale Annual New Year’s Day horserace meet which was scheduled for New Year’s Day 2012 at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park West Coast, Berbice decided to postpone the activity to a date to be announced. The consistent rains, which have been [...]
RHTY&SC honours PMSS Teacher and Student of the Term
The seven cricket teams of the Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) last week honoured the Teacher and Student of the term at the Port Mourant Secondary School (PMSS). The duo was honoured by the Farfan and Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under-19, Metro Females and Gizmos and Gadgets Under-21 and [...]
Peeping Tom should stop being facetious
Dear Editor, I can understand that Peeping Tom supports the PPP and given the tone of his writings, he definitely supports President Donald Ramotar. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is Peeping Tom’s facetiousness. In his column titled “Remnants of an Old, Desperate Guard” (KN, December 28, 2011), Peeping [...]
Encouraging good behaviour in public
Dear Editor, The talk around town, post-election, is about things that are ‘new’. New President, National Assembly, Speaker, politics, parliamentarians, faces, GECOM, ships, deals, contracts and the list goes on and on. Oh! I almost forgot, a new Commissioner of Police or not quite yet. It is great to have things that are ‘new’ as [...]
Interior worker goes missing
– did not make contact with family in nine months Family members of 30-year-old Besham Narine of Lot 2 Adventure, Essequibo Coast are now frantic because they have not heard from him in nine months. The man’s sister, Sharon Crosse, told Kaieteur News that her brother left to go take up a job in [...]
Geeta Singh-Knight back in the news
By Gary Eleazar While there are some who may not want too many changes this New Year there are others who would love to see some. In fact there are reports that there are some with senior affiliations to the Ministry of Agriculture who would like to see the back of Geeta Singh-Knights. Geeta Singh-Knight [...]
Twelve New Year’s babies
The mothers of 12 babies born on New Year’s Day at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), New Amsterdam Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and Woodlands Hospital received gifts from representatives of Teddies. At the GPHC, the first baby girl was delivered at 1:00 hour to Demme Porter, while the first boy was born [...]
School dropout raped, suspect on bail
Relatives of a 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by one of her relatives have expressed disgust over the release of the perpetrator. Reports are that the victim and the perpetrator are cousins. Further, the girl’s mother is encountering pressure because of the family ties. There is now talk that the incident could result [...]
Cheekies rewards new mothers
For the second time ever, the Cheekies family from Ansa McAl Trading went countrywide to honour mothers of New Year’s Day babies. The presentation of “Cheekies Bundle of Joy” gift hampers that were presented to all mothers who gave birth on New Year’s Day in Georgetown, Berbice and Essequibo, marked the 13th anniversary of [...]
