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LBI Cricket Club “A” whip Golden Grove CC in the Naven’s Construction T20 tournament Sep 23, 2024 Sports From left: Tilku, Outar, Dowlatram and Mohammed. Marvindra Dindyal Kaieteur Sports – Ariel Tilku, Mavindra Dindyal, Munesh Outar, Emran Mohammed and Richard Dowlatram lead LBI CC “A’ to a convincing 163 runs victory over the hapless Golden Grove CC in the latest round of the Naven’s Construction T20 tournament for teams on the East Coast, Demerara, played at LBI Community Center Ground. LBI won the toss and took first strike on a sunny day with a good pitch for batting. West Indies under19 all rounder Marvindra Dindyal and Richard Dowlatram started with all guns blazing. They put together an opening partnership of 142 runs in 12 overs before losing Dowlatram for 67 with 7 fours and 3 sixes. The hard hitting Ariel Tilku, a former Demerara under19 all rounder came to the crease and immediately got into the act by clobbering 7 sixes in a rapid unbeaten 47. In the meantime, they lost the classy Dindyal for 82 with 8 fours and 4 sixes. LBI ended with 235 for 2 off their allotment of 20 overs. In reply, Golden Grove CC were bundled out for 72 off 15 overs. S. Mangal topscored with 18 runs and offered the only resistance. Bowling for LBI CC ‘A’, Demerara junior all rounder Outar took 4 for 8 runs, Mohammed 3 for 25 and Dowlatram took 2 for 32, winning by a massive 163 runs. Related Similar Articles

Guyana’s first urban eco-lodge now ready to accommodate visitors Sep 23, 2024 Peeping Tom Guyana’s first state-of-the-art urban eco-lodges are now fully furnished and prepared to openly welcome and house visitors. Exterior of the ecolodges President, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali announced the readiness of the 30 accommodations located at Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara on his social media this weekend. Designed and engineered by DuraVilla Homes under the Ministry of Housing, the eco-lodges are made entirely of sustainably harvested building material from Guyana’s rich forestry. The building material ensures a durable, well-insulated, appealing and environment-friendly oasis getaway for all those staying there. The ministry saw approximately 120 Guyanese women managing the execution of this revolutionary housing project. Exemplifying modern hospitality, the eco-lodges feature comfortable amenities including a full-functioning air-conditioning system and spacious patios. Inside, the naturally varnished interior is lined with stunning Guyanese paintings, truly immersing visitors in the vibrant beauty that is Guyanese culture. When outside, visitors will be able to gaze at a glamorous sunset as they traverse expansive walkways lined with various species of vibrantly coloured plants. The eco-lodges are strategically placed only a short distance away from the Guyana National Stadium in Providence. Moreover, upon the completion of the new four-lane Eccles to Great Diamond highway and new regional hospital on the East Bank corridor, occupants will benefit from close-range access to essential services. With locally sourced building materials, 100 per cent Guyanese labour and a focus on promoting Guyanese culture, these eco-lodges embody the government’s commitment to expanding Guyana’s housing and tourism sectors to benefit citizens. (DPI) Related Similar Articles

UG’s School of Graduate Studies and Research to host symposium on Oct. 2-4 Sep 23, 2024 News …promises several cutting-edge presentations Kaieteur News- The University of Guyana School of Graduate Studies and Research (UGSGSR) will host its Third Graduate Symposium from October 2-4, 2024, at the University’s Turkeyen Campus. The event will feature several high-profile speakers and will be held under the theme ‘Vulnerability, Resilience, and Change Towards Sustainability: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives’. Under this theme, there are four sub-themes, namely: Environmental Change, Social Change, Economic Change, and Scientific and Technological Change. In a press release, UG said the selected theme and sub-themes recognise that environmental, social, economic, scientific, and technological changes occur as a result of both natural and anthropogenic processes and that, over time, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies have been incorporated as integral approaches to build community resilience and adaptation as pivotal means to combat change. The Symposium has attracted participants from across the Caribbean and beyond. These include academics and researchers, policymakers, media experts, consultants, and members of international organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNICEF, and several other Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Conservation International (CI)-Guyana, and the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Research. Keynote speakers include the Hon. Dr. Vindhya Persaud, Minister of Human Services & Social Security; Professor Paloma Mohamed-Martin, Vice-Chancellor XI, UG; Dr. Mahendra Persaud, A.A., Chief Scientist, Guyana Rice Development Board; Dr. Ulric Trotz, Former Deputy Director of the CARICOM Climate Change Centre; Dr. Garvin Cummings, Chief Hydro-Meteorological Officer, Ministry of Agriculture; and Dr. Gillian Smith, FAO Country Representative, among others. The more than forty (40) diverse graduate presentations, each a unique exploration of the thematic areas, include: Dean of UG’s School of Graduate Studies and Research Prof. Paulette Bynoe Machine Learning-Driven Optimisation of Temperature for Enhanced Hydrogen Production through Catalytic Pyrolysis of Biomass. Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality in Guyana: Applying Thaddeus and Maine’s Three Delays Model for Targeted Interventions. A Dive into Thermoelectric Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (TE-OTEC): Potential for Implementation in Jamaica. Coastal Carbon Storage in Degraded, Natural, and Restored Mangrove Ecosystems of Guyana. Predicting Malaria Incidence in Tropical Countries Using Climate Variability Trends and ARIMA Modelling; and Project-Based Learning to Enhance Medical Students’ Engagement and Skill Development in Mental Health Outreach Programmes Post-COVID-19. Dean of UG’s School of Graduate Studies and Research and Coordinator of the Graduate Symposium, Prof. Paulette Bynoe, said: “This third symposium is not just a platform for delivering papers, but a vibrant space for graduate students, academics, and professionals to engage in lively discussions on the current interrelated thematic areas. It is also a forum for disseminating information to create and enhance awareness of issues emanating from human-environment interactions.” The symposium will be held in a blended format. Members of the public can attend this event online, and registration is free. Please click here to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__u4s6um8S2-EHZxEEGnhTg#/registration Over the years, the University of Guyana has been involved in several ground-breaking research projects which continue to add to the existing body of knowledge in various areas of academic research. To learn more about UG’s research, please visit: https://researchandinnovation.uog.edu.gy/ For more information on UG’s graduate programmes, research training, and studentships, please visit: https://sgsr.uog.edu.gy/ Related Similar Articles

54 graduated from healthcare, physician leadership programme Sep 23, 2024 News Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony and the graduates Saturday evening Fifty-four healthcare professionals countrywide have gained essential interpersonal and practical skills to enhance management and service delivery, after completing the Masters Certificate in Healthcare and Physician Leadership programme. The cohort included 24 physicians and 30 healthcare practitioners who completed the nine-month course. Launched in October 2022, this initiative was made possible through a strong partnership between Guyana and the Schulich School of Business and Executive Education at York University in Canada. The initiative seeks to strengthen the capacity for training hospital leadership among healthcare professionals nationwide. During the graduation ceremony at Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, on Saturday evening, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony encouraged graduates to continue transforming Guyana’s healthcare system and providing optimal medical support to the population. “With the training that you have received, I hope that you will put it to good use, and use it for the betterment of the people of the country…We look forward to you upping your game at the ministry,” Dr. Anthony said told the graduates. Guyana is aggressively building a world-class healthcare system with the construction of several modern regional hospitals, rehabilitation of health facilities and the provision of other crucial services. “We are all part of a journey where we are now working at a rapid pace to have everybody on board. We have to nudge them to do a little bit more…This is just the first part of the journey…In the Caribbean region, we are aiming to be one of the destinations for health tourism,” the health minister emphasised. Meanwhile, the High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, Sebastien Sigouin said his country is pleased to witness this partnership between the two countries towards a healthier and prosperous Guyana. “Your participation in this programme also demonstrates that the Government of Guyana is committed to growing its health system management capacity…Having a strong healthcare system is the basis [for] any society to grow in a sustainable way,” Sigouin stated. (DPI)   Related Similar Articles

New agro-processing facilities at White Water, Kumaka Sep 23, 2024 News Farmers and agro-processors are poised to enhance the value of their agricultural products and increase their income with the recent commissioning of $51 million in agro-processing facilities at White Water and Kumaka in Region One. The $39 million White Water facility will provide economic opportunities for 3,000 residents across eight satellite villages. Equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, it will boost the efficiency of producing high-demand products such as cassava bread, farine, tuma water, and cassareep. The facility aims to process nearly 140 kilograms of cassava daily, totalling around 50,400 kilograms annually. It is expected to generate 24, 000 litres of cassareep monthly. Meanwhile, the $12 million Kumaka packaging facility will deliver essential post-harvest services, including cleaning, washing, drying, packaging, and storage. This will help reduce operational costs and minimise spoilage, with a processing capacity exceeding 20,000 pounds of produce daily, ensuring that products reach local and regional markets in optimal condition. During the recent commissioning ceremony, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha underscored the government’s significant investments aimed at boosting the country’s food production agenda. The White-Water facility adds to the 13 agro-processing facilities already established nationwide. As the demand for high-quality, locally-produced goods grows, Region One is strategically positioned to emerge as a leading agro-processing hub in Guyana. Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha and Regional Chairman, Brentnol Ashley inspecting the agricultural products at the new agro-processing facility “This project reflects our government’s firm belief that agriculture and agro-processing hold the key to unlocking the potential of rural communities especially, here, in Region One…We have earmarked this region to embark on a number of food production [initiatives] but more particularly to be the spice production for our country,” the minister affirmed. The minister emphasised the vital role of agro-processing in job creation, economic growth, and income diversification for communities. The government has invested over $850 million from 2021 to December 2023 to enhance food production in Region One, with an additional $300 million allocated for 2024 “We have already started the procure the necessary equipment and inputs which will be made available to you before the end of the year,” he further stated. Meanwhile, Regional Chairman, Brentnol Ashley noted that the White-Water facility will play a critical role in ensuring that farmers and agro-processors, including women and youth, process and manage their agricultural produce. They will also have more access to skill training and employment opportunities there.   General Manager of Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), Teshawna Lall also spoke at the event. A $5.8 million wooden cargo boat was handed over to farmers from Hobodeia, Hotoquai, Aruau, Sacred Heart and St Dominique, enabling them to transport their produce to Kumaka Packaging Facility. The boat, which measures 38 feet in length, 8 feet in width and four feet in depth, is equipped with a 48-horsepower long-shaft outboard engine. Also, present at the commissioning event were the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Mr Sewchand, and other representatives from the region and the ministry. (DPI) Related Similar Articles

Living a litany of lies Sep 23, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Kaieteur News- Many Guyanese from different heights of life are living a lie, a series of blatant lies.  Those who lay claim to some higher learning are walking, breathing vehicles of deceptions and falsehoods.  A great many of those who have ascended to power, or have some ambition for it, or relationship to it, now represent monuments of what a lie is, a litany of themis.  It is how they distract, confuse, and mislead the ordinary citizen into falling for hoaxes.  Some have attached a label to these premediated practices: intellectual dishonesty.  Though there may have been some of that at the inception, I do away with the colourful wrapping paper and the frills.  I strip the prevailing Guyanese culture to what it is at the bone: just plain damn dishonesty of the lowest, rankest order.  In the bleak centuries of the Dark Ages, the shamans and charlatans controlled the minds of the common people with superstition and unfounded fears.  In this 21st century in the modern marvel of the world, the Gardens of Guyana, there are verbal swindlers, deceptive raconteurs, intellectual distorters, executioners of ethics.  The political prevaricators scalp and skin what is principled into what is so deformed that it becomes unrecognizable. National elections, resource wealth, political governance, moral standards, poverty and hunger, renovations and applications are all trashed and diminished to the worst.  The common thread is of artful men and women, who crawl and take evasive covering action like anxious snakes around a determined mongoose. Elections: who distort and cheat to defeat for a rung up the ladder.  In the grim Middle Ages, the peasants were held hostage: disobey and damnation descends on the head.  The wicked one will come and grab by the gonads. The Bible was held aloft as the instrument of oppression.  During the hundreds of years of slavery, the same skillful distortions of scripture were conveniently put to work to win over the weak.  Those who held the title of priests were the precursors to local politicians and their peddlers pretending at some genius degree of purity.  Those who are not electoral mathematical wizards (with verbal cleverness to match) sell themselves as immortal philosophers.  Lies are given a new life: in newer reincarnations, a lie is passed off and pawned off on the simple people as truth. Resource wealth attracted great clamors from greater critics.  Executed badly.  Will be corrected immediately.  From the rare truth of the first came the dirty lie of the latter.  Changing and rearranging will happen.  Better management.  By whom and for whom?  Guyanese are still waiting with hope for some form, some expression, of that better management of their natural gifts, so that they can eat, maybe even rise.  What a bunch of liars who tell the people what they want to hear, so that they [the liars] can get their way.  It is all about access to power.  Except when they get it, there is ignorance on how to harness that power and make it work for the interests of the Guyanese people.  Indeed, better management has occurred, but look who is reporting record profits.  It is the infallible and incontestable proof of how leading Guyanese men and women lie their way to political success and personal prosperity.  There is a new governing document and the slippery and tricky ones who make the decisions about applications decided that the Americans are exempt.  Even if the Guyanese owners of the wealth must be the losers, then that sacrifice is what they will have to make.  The renovation that produced a new document has application hither, thither, and yon, but not to the Yankees.  They are God’s gift to Guyanese.  Which Guyanese, may I inquire?  Those languishing in economic tombstones, or those who polish the bottom of the shoes of the Americans with their noses, sometimes their tongues.  What shameless bunch of perverters of what is fair, right.  Where else in the world are there deceivers of this caliber? Are there lower lifeforms? Recently, clashes arose over democracy.  We have it, we are the essence of it.  Austrians, Germans, Hungarians, Russians, and Americans, whether living or dead, are drummed up and set before Guyanese for the substancesthat they represent.  The so-called Guyanese cognoscenti consist of sch pathological liars and self-deceivers that they reject lived reality right before their eyes.  They spar with, and spear, the hard truths of lived experience.  Guyanese experience and reality, not foreign ones or ivory tower ones.  Fear has drowned the majority into the safety of silence, and these mothers still prattle about democracy.  One leader shoutsand rants and another rages and slanders, and that’s democracy.  This is the so-called Guyanese learned, its self-disgracing intelligentsia, who kill their brain cells, suppress any moral or ethical authority that they may have had, while claiming to be bright and honorable. Half of Guyana’s population exist with less than their barebone needs, live with the reality of daily hunger.  Reality not specter, and the liars deliver and defend statistics that isn’t worth a piece of sh**.  Apparently, the new wisdom of the liars and patented fraudsters is that since Guyanese can’t eat roads, then statistics is a healthy substitute.  In a genuine democracy, people should be hung in the public markets for participating in such rackets. When Guyanese learn to develop some regard for the simple elements of life – honesty, honour, principle, and live them, then some progress could be made here.  With the baleful and barefaced liars and distorters in control here, Guyana is where it is, and there is more of the same promised.  We may get to where is wished, only to find that it is despised.  The first casualties would be those who sell lies for a living and reap destruction as their reward.  (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)          Related Similar Articles

President Ali to address UN General Assembly on Wednesday  Sep 23, 2024 News President Irfaan Ali Kaieteur News – President Dr. Irfaan Ali will be leading a Guyanese delegation to the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) next week in New York, USA. While at UNGA, President Ali is scheduled to deliver an address to the General Debate on Wednesday, September 25, and take part in a number of bilateral meetings with other Heads of State, including with the President of Paraguay, HE Santiago Peña and the President of Ecuador, HE Daniel Noboa, the Office of the President said in a press release. President Ali is also expected to have meetings with US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken; Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres; the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; and USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, among others. In addition to the General Debate, President Ali is carded to speak at the UN’s Summit of the Future and attend the High-level event on the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats hosted by US President, HE Joseph Biden.  He will also participate in several panel discussions, including an Executive Roundtable discussion hosted by Former US President William (Bill) Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative’s session on Preserving Our Planet through Sustainable Land Management; Concordia’s Guyana Health Panel with Mr. John Hess and Mount Sinai, and The New York Times Climate Forward event. He is also slated to be a guest speaker on “Creating a New Narrative for Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” at Colombia University, on the invitation of the Colombia Climate School and IICA. In addition, the President is also expected to attend a high-level event on Sustainable Development Goal 4: Educating for the Next Generation hosted by Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Brown.  The Head-of-State and his delegation, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Honourable Hugh Todd, will arrive in New York on Sunday, September 22, 2024, and depart on Thursday, September 26. From UNGA, President Ali is expected to travel to the United Kingdom on the invitation of Concordia and Oxford University to address climate studies students on the Guyana case study and its Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) model. While in the United Kingdom, President Ali is scheduled to meet with newly appointed Foreign Secretary David Lammy and receive the People’s Choice (award) as the Caribbean Global Leader 2024. Prior to attending UNGA, President Ali was the personal guest of His Royal Highness, King Charles III, at his home in Balmoral, Scotland. Discussions focused on our climate action and the successes of our LCDS. Related Similar Articles