Jagdeo and Ramroop will not stop KN from exposing their greed – Glenn Lall
Guyana Times over a prolonged period, has been leveling scurrilous attacks against Kaieteur News, its publisher, Glenn Lall and its Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris. These attacks began when the newspaper uncovered rampant corruption involving some sister companies of the Guyana Times. Kaieteur News also questioned the operations of owner of Guyana Times and a host of [...]
Minister confirms NCERD Director’s contract not renewed
Education Minister Priya Manickchand has sought to clear any misconception which has recently surfaced in the media with regards to the ‘termination’ of the Director of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), Mohandatt Goolsarran’s contract. The Education Minister during a press briefing yesterday at NCERD to announce the release of the National Grade [...]
Faulty kerosene stove caused inferno – Fire Chief
A faulty kerosene stove has been cited as the cause for Wednesday evening’s fire at Old Road, Soesdyke, which claimed the life of 68 year-old Kunti Singh. This is according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle who said that their investigation found that the woman was cooking at the time when tragedy struck. This publication was [...]
Largest ‘street-ball’ tournament returns
- $1M up for grabs, winner-takes-all By Edison Jefford In an impressive show of support and endorsement for Guyana’s largest ‘street ball’ tournament, Marketing Director of Ansa McAl Limited, Troy Cadogan and his marketing team yesterday announce the second coming of the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Championships. Cadogan was quick to point out that [...]
Christianburg/ Wismar retain Region 10 Zone title
It was a repeat of last year’s final and sadly for New Silver City the result was of the same as they succumbed to Christianburg/Wismar Multilateral 1-0 courtesy of a penalty from Mario Batson in the 40th minute. The game ended the Region 10 Zone of the Digicel Nationwide Schools’ Football Competition yesterday at the [...]
NAMILCO Wheat-Up CARICOM Cycle Road Race… Record turnout predicted
By Franklin Wilson Cyclists from the ‘Land of Many Waters’ are expected to turn out in record numbers on Monday CARICOM Day, when the National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) under its Wheat-Up brand, hosts the ninth annual 65 Miles Road Race in observance of the occasion, celebrated throughout the Caribbean. Still striving to make [...]
MCY&S launches 5km Road Race, Fitness Jog
By Juanita Hooper In an effort of resuscitating long distance running in Guyana, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCY&S) in collaboration with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) yesterday afternoon officially launched the first of a series of 5km Road Races and Fitness Jogs during a press briefing in the MCY&S Conference Room. [...]
Meet the Washington DC Jammers
Michael Creppy Coach, DC Jammers Clarence Wallerson Asst. Coach, DC Jammers Dennis Baird Team Manager, DC Jammers Glenn Stokes American Univeristy 5’7 Guard Professional Basketball: Holland -Bweert; Mexico-Minerosa/Bareteros; Dominican Republic -Leonos SD; Finland -Korihait Gordon Klaiber Fairleigh Dickinson University 6’10 Forward Professional Basketball: Japan -Saitama Broncos Andrew Ifill Height: 197cm / 6’6′’ / Weight 210 [...]
Guyana National Basketball Team Player Profiles
- team takes on D.C Jammers, Brooklyn Bulldogs this weekend The Guyana national senior male basketball team will be in action this weekend against one of their long-term nemesis, the Washington D.C Jammers and a new foe, the Brooklyn Bulldogs in a tri-partite series for bragging rights and the impressive lien trophy. Kaieteur Sport presents [...]
Fans promised early night as Jones, Declou predict knockouts tonight
By Michael Benjamin If boxing buffs are to take Edmond Declou and Kwesi ‘Lightening Struck Assasin’ Jones seriously, then they could be assured of an early night tonight when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stages the 24th edition of the Friday Night Fights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall this evening. Both pugilists [...]
Nagamootoo’s comments are unfortunate
Dear Editor, It is most unfortunate to have read the comments in your newspaper attributed to AFC Member of Parliament Moses Nagamootoo who is inferring that it is the government that is seeking to create an atmosphere of instability in Guyana. In an article appearing in your newspaper of, June 28, 2012 Nagamootoo is quoted [...]
Regard the work on gender issues
Dear Sir, Concerned Caribbean feminists are making public across the region our dismay at the dismissal of Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development, Verna St Rose Greaves, from the Trinidad and Tobago Government. Many outside of Trinidad and Tobago have been admiring her stellar advocacy work which has benefited many different groups in the [...]
Auditor General’s actions
Dear Editor, I refer to the recent action by the Auditor General who supplied 11 names to the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of persons in the Audit Office who were acting, to be confirmed. The public [letter writers], the newspapers and Transparency InstituteGuyana Inc. have all written on the matter of the appointment [...]
Empower People, not Politicians
Dear Editor, Seven months into the new parliament, the opposition has not made much effort to empower the people. While the opposition has attempted to make the government more accountable in its expenditures, no effort has been made to reduce the powers of government and the opposition. The opposition should use its majority to take [...]
Our Children are crying. Is anyone listening?
Dear Sir, Monique’s helping Hands Support Centre has had the opportunity to work with a large population of vulnerable children in Guyana. We see violence against children as a serious public health issue in as it is lack of proper water; therefore it is important to start the discourse around the future of our most [...]
High Flyers and the rest
And the horses are in!!! This might as well have been the headline in the dailies as the results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were announced. The focus, as usual, was on the ‘high flyers’ – the top 100 or so performers out of the 17,138 candidates who wrote this examination this year. [...]
Greenidge’s parliamentary motions sterile, superfluous
- AG Nandlall By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Government has absolutely no intention of abiding with a motion approved on Wednesday evening by the Combined Opposition. Legal Advisor, Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall is confirming this, calling the edict of the motion an ‘opinion’ of the House and not binding in [...]
China Harbour denies history of corruption … ‘Direct questions to your govt’
- we don’t know of any review – CJIA contractor The Chinese contractor involved in the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project yesterday refuted allegations of corruption against the company. Zhongdong Tang, China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC)’s Regional Director, also revealed that it was his company that first approached the Guyana Government [...]
Husband in custody as … Wife found buried in house
Two days after she was brutally murdered, allegedly by her husband, police on the East Coast of Demerara recovered the decomposing body of 50-year-old Joan Durant from a shallow grave in her Melanie Damishana house. The police were directed to the shallow grave late yesterday afternoon by the woman’s husband who had been in custody [...]
Teen stabbed to death
- 18-year-old suspect detained The life of a promising teenager ended brutally last night after he was stabbed to death in 17th Street, Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, during a quarrel with another youth over a girl. Rayaad Khan, 17, of Lot 737 Section ‘C’, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, was stabbed in the [...]
Ramotar seeks private sector input in corruption fight
Corruption has been identified as one of the major impediments to good business in the Guyanese economy and, both the Government and the private sector have agreed to stamp out the practices beginning at the “top.” When the Private Sector Commission (PSC) met at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday for their 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM), [...]
Dem Boys Seh … Airport deal was Jagdeo last haul
Tie Tan was de big ship that sink pun de first trip and kill hundreds. Now dem got Tie Tang. He is not a big ship. He is a big contractor. But dem boys worried because when Tie Tang done wid de airport it might sink like de Tie Tan. Tie Tang come to Guyana [...]
GT&T head resigns, four sacked
Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Yog Mahadeo, has resigned. News of his resignation came yesterday. Until a replacement is found, the telephone company would be headed by former Chief Executive Officers, Sonita Jagan and Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh. Mahadeo’s resignation came in the wake of the completion of the [...]
Hotel Tower owner loses $$M as home goes up in flames
The West Bank Demerara home of Salim Juman Azeez, owner of Hotel Tower, was yesterday gutted in an early morning fire. The blaze, believed to be electrical in origin, left millions of dollars in losses at the three-storey home in Canal # 2. Azeez’s son, Salim Jr., and local cricketer, Gajanand Singh, 25, were the [...]
NY-based Guyanese in CJIA crash sues Caribbean Airlines
A passenger on the Caribbean Airlines flight that ran off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, last July, has sued the airline. According to the Court House News website, Nandine Persaud sustained injuries after the late night flight overshot the runway, leaving the aircraft broken in two. Persaud, reportedly a Guyanese, [...]
