Tug mishap….Missing four fear dead
- vessel failed inspection … “we watched them drift away helplessly for hours” by Gary Eleazar The GDFS Essequibo has joined in the search for the four missing crew members of the Chrisann V, which sank just in the Atlantic Coast near the mouth of the Moruca River on Wednesday [...]
Woman chopped, hands broken after asking for child support
Abiola Marshal, 39, is nursing three chop wounds to her head, one to her left hand and two broken hands at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). She reportedly sustained the injuries when her reputed husband attacked her yesterday at Lot 400, ‘B’ Field Sophia. Reports are that she had gone to the [...]
Dem boys seh…Fip money coulda buy eight brand new helicopter
Imagine Guyana got helicopter that can’t fly over water. De Rat fork out over $300 million fuh two helicopter and to this day dem never wuk. People know was fourth hand thing. One dem buy from somewhere wheh it been park up fuh years. Was problem from de start. Dem same helicopter [...]
On search and rescue
A vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Essequibo Coast on Wednesday. Five people have been rescued so far and another four are missing. Any disaster sends shockwaves across a country largely because human lives are involved. The victims are people with families; some have parents and all are people eking out a [...]
AGE COUNTS
This past week, as is required under the constitution, the President met with the leader of the Opposition for consultations on the appointment of certain officials and offices. While the constitution only mandates agreement for certain offices such as that of substantive commissioner of police, in most other cases the president is merely requited [...]
President Ramotar believes modern facilities crucial to development of sport
-says he is interested in new advancement models at GOA Awards By Michael Benjamin President Donald Ramotar is adamant that sport is integral in the development of this nation, and his Government has underlined this belief through the construction of several modern sport facilities across the country. Ramotar was delivering the feature address [...]
National Sevens team to be named today
The Guyana National Sevens Team to participate in the HSBC World Series in Hong Kong will be announced shortly after a practice session and trial game which will be staged today, at the National Stadium, starting from 10:00 hrs. This is according to a release from the Guyana Rugby Football Union who also disclosed [...]
GTTA shortlist strong contingent for Caribbean C/ships
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has shortlisted a strong contingent of players to represent Guyana at the Pre-Cadets Championships in Jamaica, the Cadets/Junior Championship in Cuba and Senior Championships in the Dominica Republic. In a release, GTTA President, Henry Greene said that having all the shortlisted players together before the start of those [...]
GFF/WDFA Inter Club U17 final…Uitvlugt to face Den Amstel for C/ship today
The battle line will be drawn again between two villages that go back a long way when it comesto football rivalry, Den Amstel and Uitvlugt both affiliated to the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA). The two villages will clash for championship honours in the final of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) sponsored [...]
‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schoolboys Football Competition…NSSS, CWSS latest teams to register wins
New Silver City Secondary (NSSS) and Christianburg / Wismar Secondary (CWSS) became the latest teams to secure full points when the Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schoolboys Football Competition continued on Thursday afternoon in Linden. Over at the Wisburg ground, New Silver City defeated Marcia Craig’s Educational Institute (MCEI) 4-1. On target for [...]
AG hints at possible fraud by GCB Executive
Attorney General and the Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, issued a statement, yesterday, highlighting what he said indicates a case of fraud by way of the transfer of property from the Guyana Cricket Board to a private company set up by the members of the GCB Executive. Below is the full text [...]
GCB to return to Court on March 19
Officials and lawyers for the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Government returned to the High Court yesterday, before Chief Justice, Ian Chang. The appearance was sparked by an injunction filed by Attorney General (AG) and Ministry of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall seeking to prevent the 13 officials of the GCB from holding [...]
Only five players turn up for IMC team encampment
-Practice sessions to go ahead at Stadium today Only five players from the 19-man squad selected by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) turned up at the Windjammer Hotel in Kitty yesterday to begin their encampment for Guyana’s next two matches in this year’s Regional four-day cricket tournament. Guyana face Barbados in Barbados [...]
AFC’s Statement on Guyana’s Cricket
The Alliance For Change (AFC) condemns in the strongest possible terms, the recent state- sponsored harassment of members of the Guyana Cricket Board. Whilst the AFC supports and demands full transparency and accountability in all area of operations, it feels that the recent searches and attendant trauma and anxiety were uncalled for. The [...]
Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club horse race meet off again
The horse race meet organised by the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in collaboration with the Winners Circle Pool Hall and set for this Sunday March 4, at the Club entity No 6. West Coast Berbice has been postponed again. This is the second postponement of the race meet. Eight races were carded [...]
The Skeldon project was a dicey proposition from the start
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to your editorial in your today’s issue 2nd March 2012 and I must compliment you on your very insightful observations which very few except a handful of us old sugar industry managers know. In 1999 when Bharrat Jagdeo asked my father Mr. Joseph Vieira, who was a director of Bookers [...]
ICC and FIFA use one-size-fits-all policy
DEAR EDITOR, The ICC and FIFA have been founded and managed mainly by Europeans with some small posts given to non-Europeans for window dressing purposes. Whenever non-Europeans attempt to rise in these Organizations, ways are found to keep them in their place or to force them out. They do so without allowing intervention of [...]
It’s like having a basket to fetch water
Dear Editor, The University of Guyana/Kissoon matter has reminded me once again of an exchange between a former Guyana Chronicle columnist and a former Minister at a conference held at the NAACIE building in Kingston some years ago. In response to the minister’s rebuking him about his one-sided, lop-sided writing, even palpable lies: “how [...]
That transformational single vote margin
DEAR EDITOR, With the November 28, 2011 election results still reverberating from the dismal pit of corruption and non-accountability throughout the length and breadth of Guyana, a little known fact is that Region One Barima-Waimi played a pivotal role in changing the landscape of the country’s body politic like never before seen in [...]
Let police work be of focused interventions and improved service
Dear Editor, I really don’t believe everything I read in the newspapers or hear in the electronic media, so if I was not present I would have been hard pressed to reconcile President Ramotar’s remark that where the rule of law is concerned there are no sacred cows – with the recent revelation that [...]
Guyana’s air and river transport disasters
…volumes of ‘cold cases’ as families still seek closure Guyana compared to the rest of the countries in South America is small in size and in comparison to its sister Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries has a negligible transportation air and sea fleet. But it’s not without its fair share of air and river disasters. [...]
Parika Backdam farmers blame poor koker management for losses
The heavy rainfall experienced on Wednesday has caused many farmers in Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) to suffer huge losses to their cash crops, but some say that irregular opening of the koker in the area, contributed to flooding of their lands. They said that persons responsible for manning the koker failed to open it [...]
GT&T’s parent company reports US$780M revenues
Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN), the parent company of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T), has announced a 23 percent increase in total revenues. According to the Full Year 2011 Results released by the company yesterday, total revenues earned were US$182.9M. Fourth quarter revenues generated by the company’s wireline operations in Guyana, including international telephone calls [...]
Blairmont harvesters, workshop down tools again
- threaten to withdraw from GAWU Hundreds of cane harvesters from the Blairmont Estate have taken industrial action again. The embattled workers, who have been engaged in protest action as long as three weeks ago, downed their tools again on Thursday and continued their strike action yesterday. And the issue remains the same; the [...]
UGBC makes $2M IT donation to IDCE
….books given to Stanleytown Library Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus, Professor Daizal R. Samad, on Tuesday handed over more than $1M in information technology hardware to the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) in New Amsterdam. The presentation, on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, included computer systems, [...]
