Missing Harbour Bridge pontoon…Stolen winches dumped at Mahaica
Authorities of the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday recovered four winches that were stolen with a pontoon from the facility a week ago. The recovery of the winches occurred a day after searchers found the multi-million-dollar pontoon stashed miles up the Mahaica Creek. The winches were discovered dumped on a deserted section of the [...]
Strike #145 hits GuySuCo… Enmore factory workers down tools
Factory workers at the Enmore Estate commenced a three-day strike yesterday to protest the job evaluation done by the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and its refusal to pay the agreed upon “holiday-with-pay”. The workers were in consensus to down tools immediately after their representative concluded a meeting with the company’s Personnel Manager at [...]
Ex-convict escapes attempt on his life
- detained in Brickdam lock-ups A Riverview, Ruimveldt resident escaped being gunned down on Monday night and is now being held at the Brickdam Police Station in what police are claiming is protective custody. Reagan Rodrigues called ‘Grey Boy’ told this newspaper last night that gunmen in a silver grey Toyota 212 motor car opened [...]
Drunk minibus driver caused Coverden crash – police
The minibus driver who allegedly caused last Monday’s crash at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, was under the influence of alcohol when the mishap occurred, police said yesterday. A senior traffic official told Kaieteur News that a breathalyzer test on the driver of minibus, BNN 4262, revealed that his blood alcohol level was above [...]
$1 allocation to ERC means closure …Staffers can’t receive salaries – Edghill
Junior Finance Minister and former Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Juan Edghill, yesterday informed members of the media that due to recent budget cuts made in Parliament, the ERC which was allocated $1, is unable to function. Edghill said that due to those cuts, the ERC has been brought to a standstill, which [...]
WHY QUESTION NICIL ABOUT PRADOVILLE 2?
The Alliance for Change (AFC) has some nerve. Imagine, it is making an accusation against NICIL, and then demanding that NICIL prove the allegation. This is what the AFC’s stance as regards how much money NICIL is supposed to have amounts to. It was the AFC which went public with the claim that NICIL [...]
Sugar’s downward spiral
The news from the sugar front is not too sweet: in fact it is rather sour. After producing only 236,000 tonnes (which was a 7% increase over the previous year) GuySuCo quite optimistically projected that they would deliver 250,000 this year – 101,800 tonnes were going to be delivered in the first crop that traditionally [...]
The Guyanese people must demand freedom and democracy
The Philip Moore burial controversy has struck a raw nerve. The more you think of it, the more the picture becomes clear as a sunny day on a tropical afternoon when the sun is in its fiery mood – We live in a totalitarian society. The central government has jurisdiction in everything. And [...]
Dem boys seh…Henry de Yellow ain’t get no parade
When de government raise dem security guard pay all dem private security people get vex. Nuff of dem use to rob dem old people because is dem who is security guard—people who can’t sleep when de night come suh dem decide to do something to ketch dem hand. Dem got dem women who [...]
DPP denies clearing Jack Warner
Trinidad – CMC – The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Roger Gaspard yesterday said he had never instructed the police to clear the former vice president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Austin Jack Warner of bribery allegations purported to have taken place here last year during the campaign for the FIFA [...]
Team Guyana gets another opportunity to showcase class
By Rawle Welch Specifically organised to provide as much practice as possible for Team Guyana (Back Circle), the national line-up produced an impressive performance on opening night which must have instilled confidence in their supporters and the nation as a whole. Tonight when they face Island All Star it is another opportunity for them [...]
Japanese Swim Coach strengthening school programme
Warm-up pool to be ready by year-end says Director of Sports Neil Kumar By Sean Devers Director of Sports Neil Kumar yesterday lauded the work of Japanese Swim Coach Kumiko Inuzuka and said her six-month stint in Guyana should greatly improve the standard of swimming at the school level and widen the pool [...]
Summerbell in pole position for Carib title
David Summerbell’s impressive lap record of 1:17 seconds has had an intimidating effect on the Barbados and Guyanese drivers, some of whom have started to declare him the odds on favourite to take the 2012 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Champion Driver’s title. “I have faith in him. With the performance he displayed in the last [...]
Cricket Umpires Classes at DCC
The Georgetown Cricket Umpires & Scorers Association (GCU&SA) wishes to inform the general public, particularity the cricket fraternity, that Cricket Umpire Classes for this year commenced yesterday at Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), Lance Gibbs Street, Georgetown Classes will continue every Tuesday and Thursday from 17:00 hours to 19:00hrs and is scheduled to be concluded [...]
NSC Independence Junior Badminton tournament concludes
The NSC Independence Junior Badminton Tournament concluded on Monday at the Queens College Badminton Courts with the Under-19 Boys Singles Finals which saw National Under-15 & 17 Champion & Under-15 Caribbean Champion Narayan Ramdhani up against National U-19 Player Avinash Odit. The Finals which went to a three setter was trilling and nerve racking [...]
National Judo Championships on this weekend
The Guyana Judo Association will be hosting their National Championships on Sunday at the Marian Academy auditorium from 10am with the view of selecting a national team to participate in various international outings scheduled for this year. A release from the association indicated that all affiliated associations will be taking part in the [...]
Councilor shocked by what he witnessed at hospital
Dear Editor, I went to the West Demerara Regional Hospital just after 4 p.m with a patient [Mr.Nazir Ahamad] who was helpless and barely conscious. There were no porters to take him to the Emergency Department. Further enquiries yielded the fact that the hospital is short of porters. I had to take the patient [...]
An objection to corporal punishment
Dear Editor, I am a very experienced secondary school teacher and leader. In the last 20 years I have worked in four schools, in various roles from classroom teacher to assistant Headteacher, all of which carried huge responsibilities for ‘child protection and safety in learning’. I woke up Saturday morning, tired and jaded from [...]
The irredentist claim of Venezuela
Dear Editor, As Guyana celebrates its 46 years of independence, it is time to reflect on the major changes which have occurred during the last few decades. Our institutions are still largely shaped by the British, although we have sought to distance ourselves from British institutions. However, the lack of institutional strength and expertise in [...]
Other factors can help in the development of football, etc..
Dear Sir, A letter appearing in S.N on May 12 captioned “Public open spaces should be developed so youngsters can play football, etc” by Lennox Arthur, former national football player, football coach and organizer of soccer tournaments. The content is a clear indication of intellectual dishonesty from Arthur. This letter isn’t intended to defend [...]
No more ‘Jim Cock Bring Ram Goat’ excuses
Mr Editor, Firstly we must thank NCN for opening the door to the opposition for TV time, but it will be fruitless to debate unless we get the draft accounts and the cooperation agreement with NICIL and the PU. Let us make it clear, we have a methodology as to how we arrived at the [...]
A democratic experience
Dear Editor, Those of us who have been following developments in Burma cannot but breathe a sigh of relief now that the military junta has freed Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and granted permission for her to travel out of the country after over two decades in confinement. This is indeed a [...]
There are no dancehall role models
Dear Editor, As Dancehall music continues to strive for international recognition among the mainstream genres of music, it apparently remains blemished by crime, homophobia, and violence. While there have been several dancehall pioneers who have worked and continue to work tirelessly to highlight the versatility and creativity of the genre, and to launch [...]
We can learn from Marley’s example
Dear Editor, In London over Easter I saw the Kevin MacDonald documentary film MARLEY which chronicled the reggae superstar’s rise from abject poverty in St. Ann, Jamaica to become an icon of popular music not just in Jamaica but worldwide. Around the same time I viewed several episodes of a TV documentary series on [...]
In a highly anticipated slugfest, Hardy will do well not to underrate Eastman
By Michael Benjamin When Simeon ‘Candyman’ Hardy signed to fight Iwan “Pure Gold’ Azore for the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title his focus was so intense that disparaging remarks from Azore sparked a brawl in the Avenue of the Republic office of Abdool and Abdool Insurance Brokers, and acrimonious feelings that overlapped into [...]
