Dear Editor, David Hinds and Eric Philips were both cut from the same bolt of cloth. They are only interested in the welfare of Afro-Guyanese, and brand the PPP as a racist party. Their biggest fear is that Afro-Guyanese, who now see this “good life” as just an elusive dream, will see past their lies and find the PPP an attractive alternative to the failed Granger Administration. Adam Harris is frustrated and feels betrayed by the many failures of the incompetent Government he supports. Yet he can hardly write a…
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APNU/AFC must replace rhetoric with substantial deliverables
Dear Editor, The Honourable Attorney General, Basil Williams, and his surrogates seem to be staring at the sky, while the pretence that ‘all is well’ continues. Truly, “anti-corruption is everybody’s business”, as stated by Williams, at an Anti-Corruption Sensitisation Seminar at the Anna Regina Multilateral School Auditorium, Cotton Field Village, Essequibo Coast, as reported by Government’s Department of Public Information. If the Government is serious about fighting corruption, why not set up the Integrity Commission, in keeping with the Integrity Commission Act, as promised? The reason for this call being…
Read MoreGDF Lance Corporal killed by drunken motorcyclist in Lethem
Guyana Defence Force Band Corps’ Lance Corporal Devon Fraser was on Wednesday morning killed after a drunken motorcyclist struck him from behind while he was walking along the Lethem Public Road in Region Nine. Based on reports received, the 28-year-old Fraser, of Lot 48 Goedverwagting Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, was with a colleague when the motorcyclist, who was riding at a fast rate, collided with him. As a result of the impact, the motorcyclist also sustained injuries to his body. Both Fraser and the motorcyclist were taken to the…
Read MoreAddressing poverty
October 17 was observed by United Nations member countries as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. According to the UN, some 1 billion people live in extreme poverty and more than 800 million endure hunger and malnutrition. The UN has noted that poverty is not simply measured by inadequate income. It is manifested in restricted access to health, education, sanitation and other essential services and, too often, by the denial or abuse of other fundamental human rights. According to the UN, vast inequalities threaten economies, communities and nations, trapping…
Read MoreBridging Guyana’s ethnic divide
Most Guyanese would concede that ethnicity plays an inordinate role in our politics and that the way the latter has structured our political participation has not been positive. Since the claim that “modernisation”, set into motion after WWII , would soon make the “primordial” roots of ethnicity disappear has been proven quite premature, it behoves policymakers to take another look at our political system and institute changes that could steer our political behaviour in more positive directions. In fact, evidence gathered during the last 50 years had demonstrated that ethnicity…
Read MoreRugby Americans North 7s… Guyana drawn alongside Barbados, Cayman Islands
The National Rugby Team, commonly called Green Machine, will meet the force of their counterparts from Barbados and Cayman Islands when their Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens campaign gets cracking in Mexico City from November 25-26. Guyana who are in pool A, are the current Caribbean Champions despite their loss in the final to Canada 5-52 in Trinidad and Tobago last year November. Pool B pits together Jamaica, Bermuda and Dominican Republic while Pool C contains the host along with Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao and British Virgin Islands. The men’s…
Read MorePan-Am Indoor Hockey Championships 2017…Guyana blows away Mexico 12-0
By Michelangelo Jacobus A commanding performance from Guyana’s captain Robert France who had an attacker’s dream of a game ensured Guyana blew away Mexico 12-0. While they looked disjointed and out of sorts on Tuesday, the Guyanese rebounded spectacularly to make light work of the Central American visitors as action in the Pan American Indoor Hockey Tournament entered day three in Georgetown. On Diwali day in Guyana, France lit up the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when he provoked the Mexican defence with a double helmet-trick. The Guyanese captain opened proceedings…
Read MoreHighly-anticipated grass track series set for Oct 29 in Berbice
The highly exciting grass track series will have its next instalment on October 29 at the Bath Settlement Community Centre Ground, West Berbice. After rounds at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground and at the aforementioned ground, the trilling action returns under the flagship of Banks DIH under their Banks Beer brand. Organiser Sheik Yassen told this newspaper on Wednesday, that preparations are well on course for another crowd pleaser. Yassen contended that the sport continues to grow and given the enormous crowd which came to witness the action when…
Read MoreGuyanese participating in Elite Referee course in Costa Rica
Guyana’s lone FIFA female referee, Maurees Skeete, is currently in Costa Rica attending the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association (CONCACAF) 2017 Women’s Elite Referee/Assistant Referee Course from October 19 to 22. Skeete is the only participating referee from Guyana in this four-day course, which is taking place at the Barcelo San Jose Hotel in Costa Rica. Manager of Refereeing, Mark Cahen, and Refereeing Administrator, Michelle Savani, will oversee the entire initiative. In brief remarks, Head of Refereeing Department, Stanley Lancaster expressed: “Based on Skeete’s continued high performance…
Read MorePrezzie’s prerogative
Satiricus was bored. He was skimming the TV channels and chanced upon that documentary on Whitney Houston. Now, if there was one singer who’d hit Satiricus’s sweet spot, it was Whitney. But the documentary explained a lot of things – especially why she married “bad boy” Bobby Brown. And thinking about Bobby Brown brought Satiricus a full circle to what had shocked him to the core THAT MORNING: the Pee an’ See people saying it was Prezzie’s prerogative to take PARTY business to State House. Seemed Prezzie was following Bad…
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