Golden Jaguars battle to hard fought draw in La Cathedral del Espectaculo
San Salvador, El Salvador - Guyana’s Golden Jaguars, clinched their first points in Group B, with a commendable 2-2 draw versus El Salvador, when action in the North, Central American and Caribbean Zone, third round 2014 World Cup qualifiers, continued Friday evening on at the Estadio Cuscatlan. The star of the night for the Jaguars was 19-year [...]
Murray beats Berdych to reach final
Djokovic and Ferrer semi-final halted (Reuters) – Britain’s Andy Murray produced a masterful performance in atrocious conditions to beat Czech Tomas Berdych in the semi-finals of the U.S. Open on Saturday and edge closer to his first grand slam title. With both players struggling to control the ball in near gale-force winds at Arthur Ashe [...]
Improved time is Forde’s biggest challenge today
- Josiah-Tanner, Morgan faceoff in AinLim 10k Guyana and the Caribbean’s leading name in distance running, Cleveland Forde, has his biggest challenge today in the Neal & Massy Group AinLim 10k to improve his time in the race that will start at 6am at Diamond on the East Bank Demerara carriageway. Forde, who has been [...]
No place for empty rhetoric; sports officials must be action oriented
More than one week has expired since Director of Youth and Sports, Neil Kumar, apparently embarrassed by the Olympics achievement of ‘lesser Caricom mortals,’ Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada, awoke from his lethargy and read out the riot act to the heads of local sports organizations signaling his intention to initiate strategies to curtail [...]
Over-50 Veteran footballers for trial match at GFC today
Over-50 Veteran footballers will be engaged in a trial match today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda today as they prepare for a tour by a visiting Surinamese team. The session today is set for 10:00am and all Over-50 veteran players are invited to the session. This is being used to select [...]
All set for Furniture World Cycle race today
A number of questions are expected to be answered today when the cyclists pedal off for the inaugural Furniture World 50 miles cycle road race organised by the Flying Ace Cycling club. The race, which is expected to bring together all of the top riders in Berbice, will pedal off from in front of the popular Furniture [...]
“Squash has done so well for this country…”
- Ansa McAl CEO, Beverly Harper says Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ansa McAl Trading Limited, Beverly Harper believes that Squash has repeatedly made Guyana proud. She was speaking at her company’s Reception for the successful Junior Squash team that won the Caribbean title. “Squash is dear to my heart. Squash has won for 30 [...]
TTTTA expresses condolences on Greene’s passing
The Trinidad and Tobago Table Tennis Association (TTTTA) has expressed condolences to its Caribbean and Regional Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) counterpart, Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) on the passing of its President, former Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, who died Friday morning at Harlem in a vehicular accident on West Coast of Demerara. He was [...]
Rupert ‘Choppeye’ Gordon—Guyanese footballer extraordinaire
Statistician Charwayne Walker continues his series on footballers who represented Guyana over the years. Today we feature Rupert Gordon. Georgetown has always been regarded as the hub of sports activity thus relegating the achievements of Berbicians to obscurity. Despite this, sports stalwarts out of the Ancient County have etched their names into the annals of [...]
Mr. Jagdeo legally sold his property
Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to a letter published by the Kaieteur News on 4th September 2012, and written by Cindy Sookdeo, in respect of statements I made in the recently aired NCN debate series in respect of former President Bharat Jagdeo pensions. In the letter, Ms Sookdeo, whom I understand to be [...]
The NCN debate exposes Gopaul’s thinking on what public servants should do to live comfortably
Dear Editor, During a portion of the corruption debates on NCN Channel 11— TV last week, a most awkward statement was made by the former Head of the Public Service, Nanda K Gopaul who said “What is wrong with a former President seeking to ensure that he lives a comfortable life after his presidency.” [...]
Minister Nandlall’s further defence of Jagdeo’s Pradoville II houselot is puzzling
Dear Editor, Under the conditions of “preferential treatment”, I hereby make an application for a second plot of space in your letter pages as I seek to respond to a letter (“Jagdeo observed the ten-year condition attached to the transport for Pradoville I land to the letter”) written by the learned Honorable Minister of [...]
NCN board examines role of GuyEnterprise in scam
Internal investigations at the state-owned radio and television company, National Communications Network (NCN), are continuing, a senior spokesman of the ruling administration has admitted. Responding to media queries last week on why the police have not been called in as yet, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, said that a probe is ongoing [...]
Fire destroys Vryheid’s Lust property
A fire believed to have been the work of a vagrant yesterday destroyed a property at Lot 1 Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. According to reports, the fire started around 15:00 hours, mere seconds after a vagrant was seen exiting the building. This publication was told that the two storey building once housed a general [...]
2011 Auditor General’s report headed to National Assembly
Possibly the most important report on the country’s financial management will be laid in the National Assembly this month-end. Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, and his team are working assiduously to complete the Public Accounts of Guyana on the Ministries, Departments and the Regions for the fiscal year 2011. This is in keeping with the Audit [...]
Victim recalls accident involving former Top Cop
Fawaaz Kaleem, one of the occupants of the car, which was involved in the collision with former Police Commissioner Henry Greene, had a vague recollection of what happened before the smash up. Kaleem, though in a great deal of pain, told Kaieteur News that he recalled seeing Greene’s vehicle coming at a fast rate of [...]
A true model of perseverance and commitment…Dr Bhesham Hari is a ‘Special Person’
“There is no substitute for hard work. Real success is something that one can only earn; you can’t buy it and it certainly doesn’t come easy.” By Sharmain Grainger The notion that success doesn’t come easy has been amplified time and again by many over the centuries. However, there are perhaps only a few who [...]
Sunday Cartoon
President’s College student roused with hot iron
Parents of students attending President’s College are calling on the Minister of Education and police to investigate the circumstances under which a house parent at the college burnt a female student on her arm with a hot iron in order to “wake her up” Friday morning. President’s College is located at Golden Grove, East Coast [...]
Overturned tractor pins unlicenced driver
A 25-year-old labourer from Zeskendren, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara perished Friday afternoon when he was pinned under a tractor that had turned turtle into a trench. Delon Morrison, called ‘Gully’ was the driver. He was pronounced dead at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital where he was rushed an hour after his lifeless body was pulled from [...]
UGBC donates books to ten organisations
The University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) in partnership with the Ruby’s Readers Project of North Carolina, USA, donated thousands of books to several institutions in Berbice on Friday. Recipients included Salem Public Library, Stanleytown Public Library, Port Mourant Community Library, Selected Secondary Schools, IDCE, CPCE, the Felix Austin Police College ‘B’ Division, the Guyana [...]
Journalist answers Obama’s critics with definitive book
By Dr Glenville Ashby On the heels of “The Confidence Men,” “The Brief Against Obama,” and a slew of anti-Obama books, talk show host and political correspondent, Bill Press, pens a definitive and measured account of the forces behind the invective against the 44th president of the US. Press’ work, “The Obama Hate Machine,” is [...]
No mooring facility at Linden hospital complex to accommodate ‘river people’
Building the state of the art Linden Hospital Complex on Casaurina and Riverside Drives, Linden, was always touted as the best location, considering its proximity to the Demerara River, which provides easy access to residents all across Region 10. But according to residents living in the riverain communities and West Watooka, it is apparent that [...]
CHAIN SAW OPERATOR DIES IN TREE FELLING MISHAP
Thirty-two -year-old chain saw operator, Deonanand Ramrattan, of Zeelugt Village ,West Coast Demerara, died on Friday when a tree fell on him. Reports indicate that Ramrattan was attempting to fell a tree with a Power saw while working on a gold mining location within the ”Mara Mara” Backdam, in the Puruni area around midday. Over head branches of [...]
Govt. offers condolences to Henry Greene’s family
The government has offered condolences to the family of former police commissioner Henry Greene, DSM, who was killed in an early Friday morning accident, on the West Coast Demerara Public Road. Reports are that Greene, 58, was driving a white Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) PLL 7411 east along the West Demerara Public Road when he [...]
