CGX oil search comes up empty
-Suresh Narine new Chairman in major shakeup -company spends extra US$21M By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s hope of striking oil in commercial quantities suffered a major setback with Canadian-owned, CGX Energy Inc. announcing yesterday that its drilling has not found any oil in commercial quantities at the Corentyne offshore site. The company has since announced [...]
Ramotar defends NICIL hoarding $$$B
“We are not doing anything illegal as far as that is concerned… None of it is misappropriated and it is audited,” Ramotar By Gary Eleazar The Opposition concerns regarding billions of dollars being held in special accounts in the name of the National Industrial Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) and not turned over to the nation’s [...]
Home Affairs elections $90M for police adds up
…Audit Office probe almost complete By Gary Eleazar There appears to be vindication on the part of the Ministry of Home Affairs as it relates to that entity’s accounting for the $90M allocated to the Guyana Police Force for the November 28, 2011 elections. According to the budgetary explanation the money was to meet [...]
Presidential pension package up for Parliament debate Thursday
- APNU wants new package drafted The major Parliamentary opposition party, APNU, would on Thursday pilot a motion calling for a repeal of the contentious Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2000. The Act dictates the pension package for former Presidents and was passed in the National Assembly in May, 2009 under the Bharrat [...]
Hospital workers sit-in over lack of potable water
Workers at the CC Nicholson Hospital at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara, downed arms yesterday to protest the lack of potable water at the facility. The situation reached crisis stage yesterday after the workers received no relief despite after almost two weeks of complaining to the regional health authorities. The action by the workers at [...]
An oligarch falls
Mr. Henry Greene is finished. He should never have been a policeman with a substantial badge. He was not made of such material. Greene spent twenty years under the PPP rule, and I doubt very much that past presidents, Burnham, Hoyte and Jagan would have tolerated his excessive and constant indiscretions. I found it [...]
REFORMING GECOM IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE!
There have been incessant calls over time for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to be granted greater ‘independence. It was argued that this independence was particularly urgent in respect to two areas: financial control and political influence in the appointment of Commissioners. It was contended that because the government holds the purse strings of [...]
It depends on who is selling
The wheel has come full circle for those administering the National Insurance Scheme. When the scheme came into being in 1969 the voices of criticism were loud. In the first instance those opposed to the scheme insisted that it was an unwanted tax on the worker. On the other hand, the then government was [...]
Dem boys seh…Dem want oil but dem get water
Old people seh that nobody should count dem chicken before dem hatch. CGX start fuh drill fuh oil and Bharrat, Rob Bert, Brazzy, Bobby and everybody start fuh clap dem hand. You woulda believe that dem find oil from de way these people was behaving. De posse announce how dem building de Marriott because [...]
NICIL may have to be reformed legally
DEAR EDITOR, The identity of the author of your Peeping Tom columns of 6 May and 7 May 2012 is not difficult to guess. Someone is back from globetrotting, and re-engaged with the business of State. On 6 May (‘The world is not waiting on Guyana to solve its political problems’), the Opposition is [...]
Is it a Value Added Tax or a Sales Tax?
DEAR EDITOR, Even as I applaud Mr Khurshid Sattaur’s letter published May 7, I am meditating its implications for application of the VAT. I am moved to address to him an enquiry I put late last year to a few acquaintances among businessmen, public servants and politicians (note overlapping categories). Having had no [...]
Predictable fallout from the excesses of unbridled capitalism
DEAR EDITOR, The recent elections in France and Greece have brought to the surface the growing discontent and frustration experienced by the voting public over IMF/EU austerity measures imposed on them as a consequence of the economic and financial crisis. In both countries, right and centre-right parties have suffered significant losses at the [...]
Furthering an agenda at the expense of others
DEAR EDITOR, Reference is made to the Kaieteur News’ editorial, 5th May, 2012, titled “Arrival Day should be preserved.” This editorial seeks to laud the contributions and influence of Indians in Guyana and why the holiday should be preserved, albeit it was argued by the PPP government that the holiday would commemorate the arrivals [...]
Fulton wins Arrival Day Darts “B” Tournament at Safari Inn
Christopher Fulton of Better Hope emerged champion after defeating former Ladies National Champion Rosetta Hiralall two games to one. Earlier, Fulton beat Ricardo Baker and Hiralall got the better of Naitram Mohan in their encounter. Baker then defeated Hiralall to take third place. The players competed in the 701 game, except the [...]
John Fernandes Insurance Services Ltd Second division Hockey League…
GCC draws with Saints, Hikers overcomes Old Fort 2-1 In the opening match of the day, GCC drew 0-0 with Saints as more hockey action continued in the John Fernandes Second Division Hockey League. Saints got off an early attempt at the GCC’s goal, but an excellent save by goalkeeper Richard Hing kept the [...]
Mark Interior Communications throws in weight
– Jai Signs creates new Photo-Op banner Jai Signs of La Penitence Boulevard yesterday handed over the new Photo Opportunity banner it created for the third edition of the President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic with Mark Interior Communications adding its weight in the form of sponsorship. The two companies have been long-standing supporters [...]
Bush Lot United Turf Club Horse Race Meet …‘Mr. Cool’ is champion horse
By Samuel Whyte Taking advantage of the favourable conditions and straddled by Winston Appadhu, Mr. Cool, a five-year-old locally bred horse owned by Mrs. S. Ross and trained by G. Sooklall, turned in a classic performance, winning two races when the Bush Lot United Turf Club held its one day horse race meet at [...]
ASTP / GT&T / MCYS / NSC Schools Windball Cricket C/ships…Tain, Albion, Port Mourant latest to register victories
Tain, Albion and Port Mourant were the latest teams to register victories when play in the Lower Corentyne Zone of the Al Sport & Tour Promotions (ASTP) / GT&T / Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) / National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored 15th Annual Regional Primary Schools Windball Cricket Tournament continued, at the Bush [...]
Glasgow / Jairam win Silvina’s Variety Store Beach Volleyball Classic
Former national Captain Seon Glasgow teamed up with former national Under-19 player Naresh Jairam to win the Silvina’s Variety Beach Volleyball Classic Trophy when the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) held its pair’s competition, at the Eglets Sandcourt in Reliance, East Canje. The pair of Adriel Moore and Creston Rodney (current national U-19 players) and [...]
Letter to the Sports Editor….AAG President responds to Pemberton
Dear Mr. Editor, I write in response to a letter that appeared in your newspaper on 2012-05-06 under the caption “GOA and AAG bosses called on to respond” by one, T. Pemberton. As President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), I would normally read letters of all sorts with quite a lot [...]
Campbelle steers WI to series win
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A valiant, unbroken 24-run, eighth wicket partnership between Shemaine Campbelle and Tremayne Smartt fired West Indies Women to a series-winning three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third Twenty20 International here Sunday. Chasing 78 for victory after the game was reduced to 16 overs per side because of rain, West [...]
City Council Officers protest arbitrary four per cent deduction from salaries
Several employees of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) took to the streets yesterday with plaque cards in their hands protesting against the uninformed four per cent deduction from their April salaries. More than 300 Local Government Officers received last month’s salaries with the four per cent deductions and are not in agreement with [...]
Bandits shoot, rob nightspot patrons
– flee on motorcycle Gunmen on a motorcycle shot two nightspot patrons and escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash during a brazen robbery around 21:00 hrs yesterday at the Cornbread Bar on D’urban Street, Werk-en-Rust. Irving John, 48, of St. Cuthbert Mission, was shot in the lower abdomen, while Glen Xavier, 32, [...]
Guyana will not sacrifice rice, sugar for oil-President Ramotar
By Leonard Gildarie As Guyana continues its off-shore search for oil in commercial quantities, President Donald Ramotar has warned that the country will not be sacrificing its other industries. The Head of State also made it clear, yesterday, that his administration is not prepared to make the same mistakes as other oil-producing countries whose [...]
Murders down despite recent spike
Despite the recent spike in murders the Guyana Police Force has released figures that show an 18 percent decrease for the period January to April, when compared with last year. The Guyana Police Force in a statement issued yesterday said that a total of 44 murders were recorded at the end of April 2011 [...]
