De word “cut” get more popular since de budget debate. While it is new fuh de budget, some accustom to some form of it. De West Indies cricket team accustom to getting “cut tail” and some people does always be looking fuh a “cut- back”. Since de budget cut, plenty people now gat to “cut corners”. Dem who might lose dem jobs could end up “cutting de pack” fuh play cards whole day. Others does get cut fuh medical reasons. Fuh some, that “cut” does cause a “weight” fuh be…
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Accomplished dancer wins Shri Prakash Gossai Memorial Award
By North American Correspondent A Guyanese, Devieka Chetram of the Tarana Dance Centre of Toronto, has won the Shri Prakash Gossai Award for Excellence in Arts last week in Toronto. The Award was introduced this year and Ms Chetram, an accomplished dancer, has the distinct honour of being the first recipient. She was selected by a team of distinguished community leaders for her outstanding contribution in promoting Indian Classical dance in the Toronto area.
Read MoreChutzpah
Confounded nonsense! With so many of us having relatives in New York, we might have heard the Yiddish expression “Chutzpah”– pronounced “hutz-pah”. It means “insolence”, “utter nerve”; “effrontery” as in: “During the budget debate, APNU and AFC had the chutzpah to act as if they had a lock on God and morality.” Well, Nigel Hughes, just demonstrated another bit of chutzpah in a letter to the Stabber. You remember Nigel Hughes, don’t you? SC and top biller on the AFC ticket – much to Ramjattan’s consternation. The poor wanker Ramjattan…
Read MoreOpposition Leader taps Sandra Jones as new GECOM commissioner
Sandra Jones, a human resources management and organisational specialist with more than 25 years’ experience has been tipped to be Opposition Leader David Granger’s choice for commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Guyana Times International was reliably informed. The consultant, who has vast experience in both public and private sector management and reform in Guyana and the Caribbean, will most likely replace former GECOM Commissioner Robert Williams, who died earlier this year. Over the past month, there has been much speculation about who would be filling Williams’ place, but…
Read MoreCake Shop Politics
Satiricus has never forgotten his humble beginnings. How could he? He’s actually never moved very far up the social ladder, if the truth be told. He remembered his mother sending him over to the cake shop down the street whenever they ran out of luxuries like rice and flour. The cake shop owner Goat Head Hanso, young Satiricus soon figured out, wasn’t too far up the ladder himself. He’d often run out of items with alarming (to Satiricus’ household) frequency. Seemed that Goat Head’s supplier, Massa Jimbo from the public…
Read MoreLocal tourism must be pushed
Dear Editor, The fact that several international, regional and local media operatives were given a tour of the mighty Essequibo River is very noteworthy. The tour was facilitated; compliments of BK International, and it redounded in a lot of positives. The exercise was the first event to usher in the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s 13th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-13), which was held from April 15 to 18. Now one of the first benefits I can think of is that the BKs of Guyana can offer these kinds…
Read MoreInnovative community watch
Dear Editor, “Mangrove women in clean community competition” makes for a most exciting piece of reading. I think of my Sunday school days. I used to participate in Bible Quiz competitions. So it was like ‘fighting for knowledge.’ Now residents of five villages that comprise the Golden Grove to Belfield Mangrove Reserve area, on the East Coast of Demerara are expected to vie for a Gy$ 100,000 prize, this being offered for the cleanest community. The prize is actually being put up by the Mangrove Reserve Women Agriculture Producers (MRWAP)…
Read MoreWe should take guidance from President Ramotar’s words
Dear Editor, H.E. President Donald Ramotar, in addressing the Guyanese nation concerning the recent budget-cut crisis, stated that “my faith in dialogue remains undiminished.” These words are indicative of a responsible, reasonable and mature leader and the importance of his judicious words must be emphasized rather than trivialized if we are to indeed bridge the parliamentary gaps and work together in furtherance of a brighter Guyana, particularly in these dark hours of uncertainty. These words must resonate in the minds of both sides of the legislative battleground if we are…
Read More“What hypocrisy!”
-Ramotar says opposition actions stem from vindictiveness President Donald Ramotar has slammed the combined opposition cuts on the 2012 National Budget and assured workers that the government will continue to be on their side as it charters a path to advance the country’s development. Ramotar, who was at the time addressing workers assembled at the May Day rally at the National Park, said it is tragic what the opposition is trying to do to ordinary Guyanese. “I say anyone who has interest in the working class should have supported that…
Read MoreChief Justice throws out parliamentary committee motion
Guyana’s Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has dismissed the attorney general’s case of constitutional breach by the opposition in the setting up of the Committee of Selection saying the court cannot intervene in the internal affairs of Parliament. “The court holds that the motion of the attorney general is legally misconceived in that the affidavit in support of motion contains no allegation of fact capable of supporting a finding of constitutional breach by any of the respondents or by the National Assembly,” Chang said in his ruling. Chang’s lengthy ruling…
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