Jagdeo’s latest secret…Ansa Mc Al team heads to Guyana to ‘clear the air’ on ethanol plant
…project targets prime land in Canje, Berbice A high level team from Trinidad and Tobago is expected in Guyana on Wednesday to address the necessary issues and to make disclosures about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Government of Guyana and Ansa McAl Group of Companies. This is according to the [...]
Truck driver survives 25-foot drop from broken bridge
-Driver, passenger cheat death and praise God During this season of Lent, two men are praising God after narrowly escaping the claws of death when the truck they were in toppled over the Manari Bridge, Region Nine. Reports are that on Mash Day (February 23) around 1:00 hrs, truck driver Paul Singh and [...]
“Mentally challenged” persons being trained as nurses – GPSU issues one month ultimatum
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday expressed concern over the country’s nursing programme, saying that overcrowding and poor training facilities are a threat to the quality of health care in Guyana. The union also gave the Ministry of Health one month to fix a number of issues such as overcrowding and poor toilet [...]
Bodies of Guyanese couple found in NY apartment
-murder/suicide suspected The bodies of Guyanese Ramcumar “Narresh” Bandhoo and his girlfriend Rafeena Rahaman were found at around 13:20 hrs yesterday inside their home at Lot 6, Mynderse Street, Schenectady, New York. Reports from New York’s Fox News indicate that Bandhoo stabbed his girlfriend to death in a jealous rage before taking his own [...]
Why this secrecy?
It seems that with each passing day the nation is being fed a dose of secret deals signed by the Bharrat Jagdeo administration. Just before the elections, news came that President Jagdeo had entered into an agreement with a Chinese firm for the construction of the Marriott hotel in Guyana. There were [...]
SECURING THE VILLAGES
The police must be aware that there has been a significant increase in the trend of armed robberies occurring in Guyana. The bandits are now targeting suburban communities and villages, attacking mostly small businesses such as shops and goldsmith operations. With most of the police operating within the heavy populated urban centres [...]
Dem boys seh…Donald, de donkey dead and Bheri
Guyana just had an election results that this country never see before. Is de first time something like this happen. PPP now running de government and de oppositions running de parliament. And dem boys plan fuh run all of dem—but wid talks. Before de PPP come to power in 1992 dem use [...]
Music and its role in domestic violence
DEAR EDITOR, Guyana is home. It will always be my home, even though I have spent over twenty-five years away from its homely embrace. I have made, nonetheless, regular annual and bi-annual visits since departing its well-trodden soil and I am extremely frightened by its fall from grace with respect to its social and [...]
How does one change the Guyanese “entrenched mindset”?
DEAR EDITOR, I read Mr Maxwell’s analytical letter of Thursday, February 23rd, about the crime situation in today’s Guyana. As a colony, Guyana (then British Guiana), had a strict class system, and there was a solid educated or moneyed middle class, and ‘everyone knew his/her place’ – at least we were expected to, and [...]
APNU agents were at all Cane Grove polling stations, Freddie
DEAR EDITOR, Permit me space to correct a gross misstatement being peddled by one of your columnists Frederick Kissoon. This is the second time I am reading this nonsense he is peddling and as a result I want to set the record straight. I am also sending you back-up information. Since 1997 I [...]
Luncheon is out to lunch on PPP’s abuse of the Consolidated Fund
DEAR EDITOR, Let me get this right: the PPP spent $5.7 billion out of the Consolidated Fund during the last three months of 2011, which happens to be right smack bang in the middle of election season and it wanted the opposition to legitimise that level of spending without being able to properly [...]
The WAC should focus its energies on more important matters
DEAR EDITOR, Surely, this must be a first! A country’s army holding a (public) beauty pageant?! Just when I think we cannot get more absurd as a people, I’m proven wrong. Here is a bunch of women holding public office, setting aside their responsibilities to “advertise their ware.” And for what? A trophy [...]
CABOFE championship card…Cox vows to KO Wayne Braithwaite in the mid round tonight
The boxers had assembled at the studios of the National Communications Network (NCN) to brief the press of their plans for their respective fights tonight. Each pugilist promised to win but remained cagey of his method of annihilation. Former World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight champion Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite then turned to current Caribbean [...]
Regional 4 Day Cricket
Golden Jaguars end Caribbean tour on a high
Thump Grenada 2-1 The youthful ‘Golden Jaguars’ outfit ended their four (4) game Caribbean tour on high note, clawing their way back from a goal down to earn a hard fought 2-1 victory, over the boys from the Spice Isle of Grenada at their National Stadium in St George’s on Wednesday night. The [...]
GMR&SC Day of fun with go-karts on tomorrow
The long-awaited Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) Fun-day that was previously affected by the inclement weather will now be staged tomorrow, at the club’s Headquarters on Albert Street. Motor racing fans will see action in the Endurance race which will form the feature event, while those that missed the season opener at [...]
GFF Super League …Premilinary round to end tomorrow at Uitvlugt Gr.
The Preliminary Round games in the GFF Super League Games is set to conclude tomorrow with a double header at the Uitvlugt Community Center Ground, West Coast Demerara. In the curtain raiser at 13:00hrs, New Amsterdam United will oppose Mill Ballers of Bartica in a game that the former will have to win by [...]
GABA League continues this weekend
As top two City teams go on show The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League continues this weekend with the two top teams in the city going on show at the Burnham Basketball Court as the mega contest reaches its second week in the new season. Eagles, who lost via walkover because they did [...]
GCB releases itinerary for first half of year
Both the Under-15 and 19 tournaments will have as part of their competitions a Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President’s XI Development Squad according to a release which was sent to the media via e-mail yesterday. The release sought to inform all Counties of the schedule of tournaments for the first half of this [...]
Fifth Annual Educational Awards Scheme convened by BCB
Ten Under-15 players from the Ancient County on Saturday last received educational materials from the Berbice Cricket Board when the organisation hosted the 5th Annual Educational Awards Scheme at the Area ‘H’ Ground. The main aims of the Educational and Awards Scheme are to promote the value of education for sportsmen and the [...]
Alpha United withdraws from NaMilCo Football Festival
Cites return to GFF fold President of Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba in a letter written to Organisers of the NaMilCo Football Festival confirmed his team’s withdrawal from the annual tournament citing the club’s return to the fold of the Guyana Football Federation. The full text of the letter that Kaieteur [...]
Hadi’s Softball fixtures for February 25 & 26
The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) organised Hadi’s nationwide Male/Female softball tournament continues tomorrow (Sunday). This tournament will be put on hold for the next two weeks following this Sunday matches, resuming on March 18. Demerara zone: Carifesta Sports Complex: Pitch 1: 09:30hrs – Trophy Stall B vs Pine Star. 11:30hrs [...]
Section of Soesdyke/Linden highway caves in
-engineers promise repairs over weekend Residents at Kuru Kuru on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway are concerned about a gaping, seven-foot deep hole on the public road near Swan. Residents say the hole is not only a hazard to vehicles traversing the area but also to pedestrians using the area. When this publication visited the [...]
PPP/Cs grip on Parliamentary power loosens further
… opposition moves to take command of all Standing Committees The tight grip that was once held on the Parliamentary structure by the ruling Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has appeared to be loosening further when the Selection Committee met to determine the composition of the remaining standing committees. In a previous round of [...]
Billion dollar Manganese Matthews Ridge investment…Company not relocating residents in mining area
Officials of Reunion Manganese Inc say contrary to rumors the Canadian company exploring for manganese in the Matthews Ridge, Region One will not be relocating residents in the area and does not intend to deforest the area in order to carry out its operations. On a media tour yesterday at the headquarters [...]
