Govt pulls plug on Amaila Falls Road Contract
Fip Motilall to pay US$120,000 per day in liquidated damages, Govt seizes all equipment Government yesterday announced the cancellation of the US$15.4 million Amaila Falls Hydro Project contract it signed with Synergy Holdings Inc, headed by Makeshwar Fip Motilall. The announcement came from Minister Robeson Benn at his Kingston office. After three deadline extensions [...]
AFC Leader Raphael Trotman elected Speaker of the National Assembly
Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Raphael Trotman was yesterday elected Speaker of the National Assembly for Guyana’s 10th Parliament and A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Deborah Backer was elected unchallenged as his Deputy. The election for Speaker was initially contested by Former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran, Trotman and Backer. Backer’s nomination was subsequently [...]
WTO Adrift
The eighth ministerial of the WTO held in Geneva Dec 15-17 passed almost without comment, much less the conflict that had characterized its meetings over the last decade. The sad reality is that the WTO faces a crisis of relevance due to many factors since the launching of the Doha Round in 2001. Arrogating [...]
A jumbie is threatening people outside the Gafoor villa
I never professed to be a neutral commentator since I started doing social analysis in the Stabroek News and the Catholic Standard in the late eighties. There was nothing to be neutral about. I believed that the PNC Government under Hoyte had to democratize Guyana and that free and transparent national elections had to be [...]
UNCLE DONALD HOTTING UP THEIR TRACKS
Change is not taking place at break-neck pace. And quite rightly so. When change is too rapid, it can lead to a great deal of confusion and any progress made can be quickly reversed. Change is taking place in Guyana and this change must be pleasing to at least one person. That person [...]
Dem boys seh…Fip should get jail
Old people does seh that moon does run till day ketch it. Fip run till he time run out. He get ketch and is Robeson, de man wid de hammer that ketch he. Ever since Ash Knee and Brazzy promote de man as de best thing since slice bread although dem boys know [...]
Living in dread of the police
Dear Sir/Madam, I wrote many letters concerning my situation and I pleaded with someone high in authority to investigate the harassment that I am facing from the La Grange police. I reside at 37 La Grange Public Road West Bank Demerara I occupied the bottom flat of Aunt Janet Codrington’s house. I have [...]
Bisram is erractic
Dear Editor, The results of the November 28 polls has so shattered the credibility of Vishnu Bisram and exposed his suspected manufactured biasness towards the incumbent PPP/C Government that he has offered shallow explanations to dissipate the deceptions and humiliations he invited on himself. He has so far proferred at least three reasons [...]
The lot of a legitimate businessman
To Editor, I would like to comment on an article that was published in the Sunday Chronicle January 8, 2012. Vendors are reluctant to occupy tarmacs; they fear losing business. I think these regional Chairmen are not doing their duty. They cannot let the vendors tell them how to do their job. The [...]
NTN needs to decide which constituency it wants to serve
Dear Editor, I reference you to NTN Television, mainly to emphasize my displeasure with NTN Channel 18 programme scheduling. The station advertised that it would be carrying the matches between India and Australia, only for me to find out that the game is being interrupted by a series of different programmes, which include [...]
Ravi Dev’s ethnic dilemma
Dear Editor, I refer to a section of your columnist Ravi Dev’s article “Background to the Present Imbroglio II” in Sunday’s Kaieteur News, more specifically, his conclusion “…it was now quite clear to both Indian and African thinkers that as the leaders of the NPC had feared, the Indians could deny the Africans [...]
This road is a death trap
Dear Editor, I am employed with an Institution located in Kingston and to get to work I have to drive through Water Street aback the Ministry of Public Works and Communications. Of late, the stretch of the road between Mud flat and Access Road has rapidly deteriorated now to the extent that only [...]
Please appoint another
Dear Editor, All the best for the New Year. Berbicians are looking forward for great things in 2012. We are situated behind God’s back; we are a very proud people, but it appears as though we are of use only at elections time. What does the Government plan to do for us this [...]
Expectations abound for Tenth Parliament
Mr Editor, Yesterday the 10th parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana was officially convened. I had hoped that this would have been not only a celebration of the end of “winner takes all politics”, but a historic moment for Guyanese women; the selection of the first female speaker; alas history will have to [...]
Remembering Dr Moti Lall
Dear Editor, I wish to convey my deepest condolences to the wife, children and other relatives of the late Dr. Moti Lall who passed away on January 10 at his Republic Park, East Bank Demerara residence. He will surely be missed by all those who knew him both as a politician and as [...]
Jamaica demolish Sharks
North Sound, Antigua – Jamaica followed up a steady half-century from Nkrumah Bonner with purposeful bowling to sweep to a 50-run victory over Sussex in the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament yesterday. Leg-spinner Odean Brown led the bowling with three wickets for 17 runs from four overs, as the Sharks failed to successfully chase 153 for victory [...]
Government has not reached consensus with WICB
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Contrary to a report in another section of the press The Government of Guyana has not reached any consensus with the West Indies Cricket Board “concerning the roles to be played by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in the administration of cricket locally” as [...]
CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship – Cuba…Lady Jags needle Puerto Rico; Cuba, Jamaica advance to finals
Guyana’s Lady Jags closed out competition in the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Puerto Rico at the Estadio Pedro Marrero Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. The win for the young Guyana team was their first following defeats to Cuba (1-5) and Trinidad and Tobago (1-2); the Lady Jags scoring [...]
GFA supports the late Shawn Bishop’s daughter – Promises more assistance
The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) in memory of the late Shawn ‘Fatso’ Bishop has arranged a benefit game for sometime next week where all the proceeds will go to his mother and daughter. According to President of the GFA Vernon Burnett, the late footballer’s contribution to the sport will be recognized, while the [...]
Boxing Coach feels Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym has made credible strides in 2011
By Samuel Whyte As the Annual General Meeting of the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym (PRBG) looms, Coordinator and Coach Orland ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers has lauded the efforts of his boxers saying that his Gym had a good year. He is also adamant that the entity will attain greater heights over the next year. [...]
Beck’s Lumber Yard assists ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Dominoes
Beck’s Lumber Yard of Norton Street became the latest entity to add its support to the Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Nationwide Dominoes Competition which got underway over the past weekend, but continues today with matches at Lorna’s Hodeout in Plaisance. Handing over a trophy was son of the Proprietor Sheldon Beckles, who made [...]
Fun and frolic as Berbice lawmen holds day of Interaction
Police Officers, comprising members of the Station Management Committee of the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam will collaborate with the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Boxing Coaches Orland ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers and Monty Bovell to host a Day of Interaction with the public and other sister organizations at the Central Police Station, New [...]
Letter to the Sport Editor…Benjamin is ill-informed
Dear Editor, It is rather unfortunate that once again I have to devote precious time to respond to an inaccuracy in the sport pages of the Kaieteur News, which sadly, happens to be from an author who knows that I am easily accessible for clarification since we are colleagues. My attention was drawn [...]
The 10th Parliament…Two preachers, an ex-commissioner and an herbalist
It was never going to be straightforward or easy. A meeting of the National Assembly to elect a Speaker of the House following the November 28th General and Regional Elections was going to be anything but that. It was characterized by the usual suspects of protestors, a packed gallery of family and friends, smiles from [...]
President blazes opposition over Trotman’s election as Speaker
-says opportunity squandered for new era of cooperation The election of leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman, as Speaker of the House, has been slammed by government with President Donald Ramotar saying that the opposition has committed a gross violation of established convention. “Today’s occurrence in the National Assembly is disappointing as the [...]
