Book Review: Writer blasts corrupt Guyanese society
Book Review: Guyana: A National Cesspool of greed, duplicity and corruption (A Remigrant’s Story) – GHK Lall By Dr Glenville Ashby In what can only be described as a daring literary exercise, writer GHK Lall unveils a personal narrative that underscores the need to address Guyana’s epidemic of unhinged greed and corruption. It is provocative [...]
E-Networks Inc. links with ESPN Caribbean for exclusive coverage of ICC Twenty20 WC
- West Indies Men’s and Women’s teams considered strong contenders – ICC Women’s World Twenty20 semis and final also to air live Cable Provider E-Networks Inc. through its ESPN Caribbean link will present exclusive live coverage of all matches of the ICC World Twenty20 World Cup (WC) from Sri Lanka, beginning with the warm-up between [...]
K&B Mining rescues AAG U-23 team
K&B Mining and Hardware Supply is the first business entity to come to the rescue of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Under-23 team that will compete at the South American Championships in Brazil. President of the AAG, Colin Boyce, had appealed to the sports ministry and corporate Guyana to assist with funding the six-member [...]
Intense rivalry anticipated in Topco Juices National Junior Championships precursor
Intense rivalry for chess honours is anticipated when the nation’s best junior players convene this morning for the TOPCO 2012 National Championship Qualifiers Tournament, under the auspices of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), slated to get underway at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club, Hadfield St. Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Subsequently, the top seven players will go on to [...]
Devoted community leader and preacher, Samuel Singh, is a ‘Special Person’
By Leon Suseran Our ‘Special Person’ this week is proof that one can definitely make it in this life, despite overwhelming challenges, and when everything seems to be against you. You can say that Samuel Seepaul Singh went through it all. He was born into a poor and humble family with many other siblings. His [...]
Courts 10km Road Race… Underdogs eager for big performance
By Edison Jefford The re-introduction of the Courts 10km Road Race Classic last year also re-introduced the era of competitive distance-running that has been one of the hallmarks of local athletics; the Courts 10k gave the local distance running circuit a much-needed rejuvenation. Other companies have since followed Courts’ lead with 10k races or an [...]
Inquiring minds want to know… What has happened to that promised WBC super tournament?
Boxing pundits accustomed to the monthly Friday Night Fights, an initiative of President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), Peter Abdool, would have noted that there was a lapse in the monthly feature and the signing ceremony for the September edition of the programme that was supposed to have taken place at the [...]
Mackeson Smooth Moves : $1M challenge bounces off in Albouystown today
Last year, throngs of patrons flooded the renowned Independence Boulevard Basketball Court in Albouystown when the Georgetown stage of the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Championships was held at the popular community venue. This year, the initial phase of the competition will bounce off in Albouystown today from 4pm at the same venue with the [...]
Winning ICC award was a “shocker” says Taylor
BRIGHTON, England – Stafanie Taylor said she was stunned to be named the ICC Women’s One-day International Player-of-the-Year. Taylor took the accolade ahead of West Indies Women’s team-mate Anisa Mohammed, and current opponents Lydia Greenway and Sarah Taylor of England at the LG ICC Awards staged in the Sri Lanka capital of Colombo on Saturday. [...]
Alvin Geronimo Braithwaite; from Sandbach Parker to World Cup Defender
- former British Guiana & Guyana Int. 1964 – 1976; C’bbean selectee 1973 Statistician Charwayne Walker continues his series of features on Guyana’s World Cup Football players; Today we are pleased to feature Alvin Geronimo Braithwaite. After some outstanding performances for Sandbach Parker in the Hood League in 1963, Alvin Geronimo Braithwaite was selected for [...]
Narine claims ICC Emerging Player of the Year Award
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – For the second year in a row, a West Indian spin bowler has won the International Cricket Council’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year award. Sunil Narine, the off-spinner who has made a huge impression since joining the Windies set-up last December, won the prize on Saturday night at the ICC Awards [...]
“ICC WT-20 2012 – Beware of spoilers – Big noise does not always make great sense!”
Colin E. H. Croft Before ICC WT-20 2012 starts, let me divert quickly to another pending T-20 competition – Champions League 2012 in South Africa – which follows immediately, to inform about two bets that I made recently. Not very surprisingly, I won the first! So, Dwayne Bravo (Chennai Super Kings), Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians) [...]
Sangakkara wins big at ICC awards
ESPNcricinfo – Kumar Sangakkara has won three awards, including the prestigious Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year at the annual ICC awards ceremony in Colombo. Sangakkara also won the People’s Choice prize, an honour he had received last year as well. For Cricketer and Test Cricketer of the Year, Sangakkara was [...]
Marlon Williams pedals to record win; Matthews’ early celebrations jolted
By Franklin Wilson Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams made a historic return to winning ways, setting a new record in the feature 35-lap event at the DeSinco Trading / Degree sponsored 11 Race Cycle Meet held at the Mecca of cycling in Guyana, the National Park, yesterday. Unlike previous races at the said venue, the sprint home [...]
“I want kids to have realistic dreams of playing football in Guyana”
- so says ‘Golden Jaguars’ Captain Chris Nurse Captain of the ‘Golden Jaguars’ Chris Ronald Nurse is hoping for the day when young players in Guyana can a have realistic dreams of forging football careers right in this country and possibly reach the level he is at and beyond. Nurse articulated this aspiration of his [...]
The National Library – serving Guyana for 103 years
With a rich history of constant evolution aimed at bringing literacy to the Guyanese public, the National Library celebrated 103 years of existence last week Sunday (September 9, 2012). Boasting five branches, 21 centres, four prison services and 14 bookmobile stops located on the East and West Banks of Demerara as well as on the [...]
The Tanager
The tanagers comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes. The family has an American distribution. There were traditionally about 240 species of tanagers, but the taxonomic treatment of this family’s members is currently in a state of flux. As more of these birds are studied using modern molecular techniques it is expected that some genera may be relocated elsewhere. Already species in [...]
UNASUR applies ‘democracy clause’ on Paraguay
By Dr. Odeen Ishmael From time to time there have been instances when a particular state, by carrying out certain internal political actions, comes into conflict with the tenets of the regional or international organisation to which it belongs – thus facing harsh criticisms or forceful sanctions of one type or the other. UNASUR recently [...]
A Dark Time for the Caribbean
By Sir Ronald Sanders The importance of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries acting jointly to address their development needs has become acute. With high levels of debt to GDP ratios, widening budget deficits, deteriorating terms of trade, dwindling aid flows, and shocks to their economies by a decline in tourism earnings and a grave contraction [...]
Approving theft of intellectual property is the summit of bold-faced lawlessness
The recent pronouncements by chief spokesperson for the PPP/C government that it was a Cabinet decision to procure pirated text books and then to approve theft of intellectual property by saying it is value for money is the summit of bold-faced lawlessness. To be informed that the Cabinet of President Donald Ramotar would sit and [...]
The power of the will
By Adam Harris Every so often when I read a novel or watched a movie on a rich person I always found a portion devoted to the reading of a Will. Relatives from every corner of the world would assemble in some room in the house of the deceased or in a lawyer’s office for [...]
Henry Greene has left a monumental legacy – Scout Association
Although former Police Commissioner Henry Greene has passed on he has left behind a monumental legacy which will be continued in the years ahead. At least this is according to a touching tribute issued by the Scout Association of Guyana. “We the Scout Association of Guyana owe him a deep debt of gratitude for the [...]
BOOK REVIEW: The Sticky Wicket Trilogy
Author explores sanctity of cricket in West Indian Diaspora By Dr. Glenville Ashby Sometimes the most profound and meaningful of gifts are inconspicuously wrapped. Sticky Wicket is one such example. It is a weighty literary work, delivered with glib and colour. In this trilogy, author Ewart Rouse chronicles the rapturous affair that Trinidadian Frederick Watkins [...]
“We’re the restless-hearted, not the chained and bound.”
Have you ever seen the 1985 movie, “Nine and a half weeks?” It is based on the 1978 publication of the memoirs of a woman whose identity to this day has never been revealed. It tells the true story of a middle class public relations woman who casually ran into a Wall Street financial agent [...]
Jankie Mahadeo and Old Ma’s will
By Michael Jordan The seawalls that protect Guyana’s coastlands from the Atlantic hold decades upon decades of secrets…secrets of hidden love affairs…of rites to unseen forces…and of murder. And if these walls could somehow talk, they would perhaps spill the secret of who took Jankie Mahadeo there seven years ago. On the morning of Friday, [...]
