Guyana News

Collie Hercules with eight goals to his name is currently the leading goal scorer in the Guyana Football Federation’s Guyflag-sponsored senior inter-association football tournament.

Nets Basketball Club reached their first nationwide first division semi-final Sunday night at the McKenzie basketball court when the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) tournament continued in the mining town with a double-header.

North Georgetown track and field champions, St. John’s College copped three medals at the annual Barbados Relay Fair held in the land of the flying fish on February 10.

Dear Editor, Ms. Miranda La Rose deserves both recognition and reward for her credible and consistent coverage of the projects associated with Cricket World Cup 2007 in Guyana.

Bakewell Topp XX and Victoria Kings have secured the two remaining semi-final places in the Annual Mayor’s Cup Football Tournament following victories over Alpha United and Western Tigers respectively.

Dear Editor, It was recently reported that an individual by the name of Clairmont Lye has returned his national award, the Cacique Crown of Honour (CCH), to the Office of the President, citing what he described as governmental excesses over the years, with the pulling of advertisements from the Stabroek News, being ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’.

Rupie Shewjattan plans to electrify the South Dakota Circuit on Sunday with his new electronic boost controller that was added to the engine of his 1300cc Toyota Starlet car for the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) national championship series.

Dear Editor, In his response to my letter challenging the ethnic distinction in the CWC brochure Devanand Bhagwan confesses that the only distinct African expression he ever experienced in relation to Guyana is the Christmas masquerade “long lady”, seeing some women dancing African style, and postscripts that with the assertion that quote, “African drumming is also becoming more noticeable”.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday urged the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) to expand table tennis to all the regions.

Dear Editor, I have just read a slew of letters and thought it would be a good thing to respond to those by Mr.

Local Organizing Committee (LOC) marketing manager Richard Hanniff said yesterday that the handing over of the Providence Stadium was not a single event but was actually a work in progress.

Dear Editor, I would like to refer to Kean Gibson’s letter captioned “Not surprised at the Pandit’s appointment” (KN 07.02.01).

Veteran cricket commentator Joseph “Reds Perreira” is appealing to the Government of Guyana to consider an adjustment to the name of Guyana’s first ever national stadium.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana should end the Stabroek News controversy, and it should do it sooner, rather than later.

The Iwokrama International Centre had its origins in an offer made in 1989 by then President Desmond Hoyte at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Malaysia to donate nearly one million acres of forest in central Guyana to show how tropical forests can be conserved and sustainably used for ecological, social and economic benefits to local, national and international communities.

Dear Editor, I am writing to bring to the attention of the M&CC or the NDC [I don’t know who is responsible] the deplorable condition of Sixth Street Cummings Lodge.

Dear Editor, With World Cup Cricket around the corner I cannot help but wonder if this event would elevate or embarrass Guyana.

Dear Editor, I note the flimsy and inadequate response by the Ministry of Housing and Water to the water utility fiasco appearing in Stabroek News on 17th February 2007.

Alliance for Change (AFC) Member of Parliament Raphael Trotman has taken aim at President Bharrat Jagdeo’s refusal to assent to a number of bills already passed in the National Assembly, describing it as the most preposterous legal situation to have faced the country.

A stormy marriage ended in disaster last evening when a man punched a hole in a cooking gas bottle and set himself alight at Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown.