Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Articles published on Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Norton calls drug bond controversy learning experience

As he prepares to seek re-election as Vice-Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton is asking members to see past his mistakes in addressing the controversial Sussex Street drug bond contract, while saying he acted on information given by his staff.

CCJ sets aside rulings over Essequibo rice lands

Orders by two courts here in proceedings between claimants to seven acres of rice land at Aurora, Essequibo were yesterday set aside by the Caribbean Court of Justice which said that proceedings in the High Court shall be stayed until the Land Court case between the litigants is decided.

Bids opened for QC cafeteria, Bishops’ extension

Tenders were opened yesterday for the construction of a Cafeteria /Multipurpose Complex at Queen’s College, an extension of the Bishops’ High School and the construction of  a Pavilion and Fence and levelling of a playfield at the South Ruimveldt Secondary School, all in Region 4.

THREE-TIME CHAMPS! The victorious Guyana U19 team along with GCB Executives and Director of Sport Chris Jones.

‘No one expected us to win’

Guyana’s Under-19 Captain Travis Persaud thanked his team for giving “100 percent” which he said was the main catalyst behind winning the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional U19 tile for a record third time.

GPL says working on submarine cable

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says that on August 18, 2016, a GPL team with assistance from a team of submarine cable experts from China retrieved GPL’s submarine cable from the Demerara river bed to assess the damage to it and a repair plan has been worked out.

Rose Hall Town Jammers win

Rose Hall Town Jammers defeated the Guyana Human Development Centre (GHDC) by a 49-31 margin when the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) sanctioned A.

SN should celebrate the achievements of Rio

Dear Editor, With reference to my letter dated June 8, 2016 about the Olympic Games Rio-2016 (‘The Olympic Games will not be cancelled or postponed’), I write one more time to this prestigious newspaper to lament that the Stabroek News, even after the resounding success of the Olympics in the city of Rio de Janeiro, continues to rely on international news agencies that highlight negative aspects of the event, instead of celebrating the achievements of the first Olympics held in South America.

Badminton team tops group, sets up clash with Suriname

Guyana’s four-member badminton team of Narayan Ramdhani, Jonathan Mangra, Priyanna Ramdhani and Ambika Ramraj topped their group after playing unbeaten in yesterday’s round robin group fixtures of the Caribbean Badminton Championships in Aruba to set up a clash against Suriname in the knockout round.

Schoolchildren will remember historical re-enactments better than monuments

Dear Editor, The hostile email and facebook narrative purportedly by Dr Mellissa Ifill and the Kaieteur article on August 21, 2016 by Freddie Kissoon were directed at whether the President was making an ideological error which bordered on betrayal by commemorating the 1823 insurrection at the current monument at Thomas Lands; in addition, it was suggested, this was impulsive, and not tactical from the perspective of what was important in the entire event.

Social cohesion and co-operatives

When the government created the Ministry of Social Cohesion it placed ethnic conflict, the easing of which is contingent upon the behaviour of its mortal political enemy, the People’s Progressive Party, at the centre of its agenda, and some would say that in our circumstances failure is the default mode of any such enterprise.

The squandering of riches or the successful shaping of self?

By George Mentore   George Mentore teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia   I have three broad questions to discuss, each arising from the recent attempt by the Government of Guyana to relocate the Walter Roth Museum — an administrative effort which, I have to say, appears far more reflective of engorged political muscles unaware of the consequences of its ponderous movements, than the rational choice of a well-informed leadership. 

Barbados: moving towards elections

A call by Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart  to his Democratic Labour Party supporters not to “jump ship”, and advice to voters to rally once again in the party’s support, suggest that he is beginning to feel confident that the difficult days of economic reform for Barbados are coming to an end, and that his party can begin the task of pulling back those alienated by the harsh economic policies which his government, on the advice of the international financial institutions, has felt it necessary to pursue since the last elections of February 2013.