Year: 2017

Richard David launches campaign for NYC Council District 28

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Activist and Community Board Member Richard David officially launched his campaign to be the Council Member in District 28  through a video released on social media today. Richard, inspired by President Barack Obama’s call to action in 2008, got involved asmentor to boys and girls of colour in Southeast Queens. Richard attended Public Schools and started working at age 13; his first job was at the South Queens Boys & Girls Club(now known as BGC of Metro Queens) He graduated from Hunter College, where he organised student actions on campus…

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CSME takes center-stage as 28th CARICOM Inter-Sessional Meeting opens in Georgetown

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The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) continued inability to expedite meaningful integration, and effectively implement the Caribbean Single Market Economy (CSME) is putting the future of the Caribbean economies in jeopardy, according to President David Granger. The Head of State was at the time addressing the opening of the Twenty-Eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, at the Marriott Hotel on Thursday morning. morning. According to GINA, President Granger, the current chairman of CARICOM, said that if the Caribbean is to escape the hazard of economic emasculation…

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What Gayle tells us

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T20 batting will move on from him, but for now, as he stands on the verge of yet another monolithic landmark, he is a reminder of what is possible in the game Centuries were once rare currency. In WG Grace’s first transcendent season, the summer of 1871, when he turned 23 years old, 17 first-class hundreds were scored. The champion accounted for ten of them. By the time Grace made 104 for Gloucester against Sussex at Hove in 1876, to become the first man to compile 50 first-class hundreds, he…

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No dispute large enough

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Satiricus was all choked up. He couldn’t believe men with such goodness in their hearts still walked on the face of the earth. If he didn’t let out his feelings soon, he felt he’d burst like a balloon and be splattered all over the walls of the Back Street Bar where he was held up with his usual posse. “Fellas!” he exclaimed breathlessly. “Can you believe in two whole years, the KFC and Pee-an-See have never used the Com-in-de-burg Accord”? “Sato…” said Hari with a worried look, as he swallowed…

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End of Indian Indentureship

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As we wrote last year, March 10th will mark 100 years since Governor-General Hardinge of the Government of India issued an order ordering the cessation of shipments of Indentured Indians to Guyana, the West Indies and Fiji. And to mark this seminal event, commemorative events are being organised in each of these locales to allow the descendants of those immigrants to reflect upon their past from the perspective of their present, with an eye towards charting a course to their future. In Guyana, most of the groups that work in…

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Floodlights Masters vow championship repeat at Florida Cup

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Captain of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) masters team, Ricky Deonarain is highly optimistic his team can retain the Masters championship in this year’s Florida Cup annual tournament slated to be played from February 24-26. According to the veteran right-handed Deonarain, the side is loaded with a plethora of experienced campaigners and feels everyone can give a good account of themselves. He also stated that they are buoyant and ready to remain on the podium. Reflecting on what had transpired last year, Deonarain mentioned that the success was…

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Ming elated over blazing start to 2017 season

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Guyanese race car sensation Calvin Ming has continued to swift ascendency into the history books with a stupendous start to his 2017 season. Two weekends on the track thus far and the son of veteran Guyanese racer and businessman Stanley Ming, has already secured two podium finishes. Racing in Mexico in the FIA NACAM F4 Championships, the young speedster secured his third podium place in two weeks despite serious car troubles. In an interview with Guyana Times International Sport Ming in speaking of his performances explained that “My performance in…

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England reach Blind Cricket World Cup semi-finals

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England’s Visually Impaired cricketers have booked their place in the T20 Blind World Cup semi-finals after beating the West Indies by six wickets in Bangalore. After a tricky start to the tournament, in which they lost three of their first four games – against India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – England have now won five in a row to finish fourth in the table, meaning they will face Pakistan in the last-four. England didn’t have it all their own way as West Indies racked up 232 for 4 from their…

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Gonsalves, Chan, Petterson cash in big

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The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) opened their 2017 season in smashing fashion with the Junior/Novices Championship seeing a fair amount of success on Sunday at the Banks D.I.H. facility, Thirst Park. With 22 lifters taking to the mat, Cavis Rodney endured the challenge of Indra Mekdeci to win the overall novice female unequipped prize. The 29-year-old Rodney squatted 140 KG; bench pressed 77.5 KG and dead lifted 150KG to amass a total of 367.5KG. After the competition, Rodney said she was a bit nervous going into the competition but…

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Killing the goose…

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…in Georgetown While the sentiment, “death and taxes are certain” has been expressed for quite a while, it seems the powers-that-be in Guyana are hell-bent on amending it to “death THROUGH taxes” as the lot of Guyanese. Hot on the heels of the US$2.50/hour parking fees imposed (in Queens and Brooklyn our relatives earning TEN times our salaries pay US.75 CENTS/hour!) comes news that City Hall has hiked property rates by 10 per cent. Oi vey!! But that’s not all. This is only at the City Level. Don’t forget your…

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