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Maurice Solomon & Co sponsors upcoming Medal Play Golf Tournament at Lusignan Golf Club Aug 17, 2024 Sports Officials at the handover of the sponsorship for the event. Kaieteur Sports – The Lusignan Golf Club is set to host a prestigious Medal Play Golf Tournament tomorrow, Sunday, August 18, 2024, graciously sponsored by Maurice Solomon & Co. This event promises a showcase of skill, strategy, and sportsmanship, attracting golfers from various handicap brackets and celebrating the region’s rich golf tradition. The tournament will follow the Medal Play format across 18 carefully designed holes, challenging golfers of all levels. The men’s division will be divided into two handicap flights: 0-14 and 15-28. The top three performers in each flight, based on net scores, will be recognized, ensuring a competitive yet inclusive atmosphere. The tournament also includes the “Best Ladies’ Prize” to highlight the club’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the sport. Additional awards such as “Nearest to #4” and “Longest Drive-#5” will add excitement and technical challenge. Top honours will be given for the “Best Net Overall” and “Best Gross” awards, celebrating both consistent play and exceptional individual performances. Contact can be made with the Lusignan Golf Club at 220-5660 or via WhatsApp at 677-3758 for any details. On tournament day, August 18, golfers should assemble by 8:45 am under the iconic tree near the clubhouse for a 9:00 am tee-off. The club’s Manager and Captain will be available to distribute scorecards and handle administrative details. Following the tournament, around 1:00 pm, there will be a prize presentation to honour the day’s top performers. Additionally, a card raffle sponsored by Froggy’s will offer participants more chances to win prizes, enhancing the event’s community spirit. The Lusignan Golf Club’s tournament, under the esteemed sponsorship of Maurice Solomon & Co, embodies the spirit of golf—a blend of precision, perseverance, and passion. Participants and spectators can look forward to a day of competitive energy and sporting excellence as the event brings together seasoned golfers and enthusiastic amateurs. Related Similar Articles

Pooran family wins horse at Guyana Cup Aug 17, 2024 Sports The Pooran family won a horse at the Guyana Cup. Kaieteur Sports – It is a ‘Stroke of Luck’ or divine intervention for the Pooran’s household. They did not run a race, but unknowingly was a very big winner with a 5,000 entry ticket to the races. They were undecided about attending last Sunday’s Guyana Cup Day of racing at Rising Sun Turf Club (RSTC). Their reason being they lost their only horse, which was like a family member to their household. Mourning the loss created the uncertainty of attending the most prestigious day of racing on the country’s sporting calendar. A call from a very close friend, Randy (Dinesh Deodatt) one week before Guyana Cup changed their mindset. Randy also an avid horseman was on his way to buy tickets for the Guyana Cup, and enquired if they wanted him to buy tickets for them. Randy shared, “I knew a horse was going to be raffled. So if you don’t have a ticket. You don’t have a chance. So I went with the hope we could win the horse. I purchased 12 tickets, at a cost of $5,000 each. When I returned home I told my wife, Gracelin Campbell to give out the tickets. She gave the Pooran family from the stack of tickets – the first three tickets (numbers 0132 – 0535).” The winning horse is a USA-bred roan/grey yearling filly by Funtastic/Rainbow Bright. Related Similar Articles

Saudia Narine birth anniversary dominoes set for Sunday at Wakenaam Aug 17, 2024 Sports Organiser Vijay Persaud (left) accepts the first prize from Ishwar Narine, a relative of the sponsor Saudia Narine. Kaieteur Sports – Saudia Narine, an overseas based Guyanese, will be hosting her birth anniversary dominoes competition on Sunday at Carlosh Sports bar, Good Success, Wakenaam. Entrance fee is $18,000 and the winning team will collect a trophy and a cash prize. Trophies will also be given to the runner up and the MVP. Among the teams set to participate are Underdog, All-Star and Tuschen. Double six time is 10:00hrs. Related Similar Articles

Six teams remain in CSGI country wide pool tournament Aug 17, 2024 Sports The action promises to be intense and may the best team emerge as the winners. Kaieteur Sports – Over the last 3 weeks we have witnessed many vigorous and exciting matches from 20 Pools teams coming out of Linden, Bartica, Berbice, East Bank, Georgetown, East Coast, West Bank, and West Coast. We saw these teams battling it out on 9ft tables throughout Guyana fighting for a position in the final matches and ultimately lifting the 2024 CSAG and Ivanoff National Team Championship Trophy. It’s now crunch time and we are down to our final six teams: Team Predators, East Bank Snipers, Cue in Line, Chief Pool Club, Berbice Strikers and Suicide Squad. These teams were set to battle yesterday with the final four on show today at Butchers Chill Spot on Sheriff Street. These teams have shown throughout this tournament why they deserve to be in the final six. They have showcased class and skills in every match to outsmart and outplay their opponents ensuring their spot in the final six and move closer to the lucrative prize fund of over 2 million dollars. Peerless Solutions East Bank Snipers and Suicide Squad have already cemented their spot in the 1st semi finals. We encourage pool fans to come witness the remaining action as the other four teams battle it out for the last two semi-final spots. Yesterday, Cue in Line took on Team Predators at Jason Pool Bar (South Georgetown), and Berbice Strikers faced Chief Pool Club at Butchers Chill Spot (Sheriff Street) to determine the final four. The final four teams will go head-to-head today, Saturday, August 17th, to battle it out in the Semi finals to secure their position in the final which is scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, August 18th at Butchers Chill Spot from 2pm. The Board of Directors of Cue Sports Association Guyana Inc. would like to thank and congratulate everyone who participated in this first-of-a-kind tournament in Guyana, and we wish all the teams who are still in the tournament the best of luck. CSAG would also like to thank the following venues for hosting the games: Sunil and Son Pool Bar (Mahaica), Butchers Chill Spot (Sheriff Street), Suraj Sports Bar (Meten-Meer-Zorg) and Jason Pool Bar (South). Ivanoff Vodka is the title sponsor, with Toucan Distributors, Farfan and Mendes, Websource Guyana, American Construction, KBS Electrical, Premier Innovations Guyana, Auto Fashion, MMG and Coss Cutter are other main sponsors. Related Similar Articles

Corruption is a serial killer, could be 2025 gamechanger Aug 17, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Hard Truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – The PPP Government enjoyed a holiday of several years duration where its corruption was concerned.  Not anymore.  Before, the rancor over the PNC 2020 elections shenanigans overwhelmed all other considerations.  Guyanese, especially PPP supporters, knew that there was some swindling and thievery happening in government quarters, but a benign eye ruled.  Then, there were the succession of oil developments, the heavy electricity of global attention and expensive national projects blanketing the news.  The dullness and dreariness of corruption got shoved to the inside pages of the media, and to the back of the consciousness of citizens.  All governments steal.  The ones in the Roman Catholic system in Vatican City, another under a Muslim theocracy in Teheran, and that big one in New Delhi that is so much about dharma and karma are no exceptions.  If where God supposedly has so much influence corruption still has life, then what about where godlessness reigns supreme.  There is PPP Guyana. GHK Lall Thinking of this, I interpreted corruption presence and corruption power in Guyana in two ways.  When it is negligible and somewhat invisible, the people are inaudible, even manageable.  By negligible, I mean that everyone knows that corruption is there, but it is more of a common cold and not a lethal cancer.  The people shake their heads (“dem bannas dis baad…”).  Some of the people smirk (“de PNCEE used to teef tuh”).  And when the people-PPP backers, PNC outsiders, and the mixed bag of those President Ali calls naysayers and troublemakers-manage to get by the demands of daily living, a slippery peace and tranquility prevail. The concern is when corruption becomes such a monstrous beast that it can neither be ignored nor covered up nor condoned any longer.  When corruption has reached that chronic condition (critical mass state), then it is more than a concern: corruption is a crisis that threatens a catastrophe.  I must commend the PPP Government for contributing to its own self-destruction. For when PPP loyalists speak alarmingly, angrily, and despondently about corruption, then Guyanese know what the world knows.  PPP Government corruption is bad beyond evaluation, beyond mention, maybe even reconciliation.  Nothing and all the books that I can write could ever capture, contain, and convey the culture of corruption that has seized Guyanese by their necks and suffocates the life out of them.  Mention the tender board and revulsion comes.  Say the procurement commission and vomiting reflux is triggered.  Talk about awards and the performance of some contractors and overseeing engineers and it is time for the urinal or number two. Who can pretend not to see, not to care?  To round matters off, when the honourable men and women in Guyana are challenged to say something straight about what is going on, Guyanese get a stone if they are lucky, a snake, if they are not.  One honourable citizen reacts by hissing and spitting in venomous serpentine fashion.  Matters are made worse, because knowing nods.  Self-destruction in action again. Like another babbler and bluffer, the responses to rampant corruption are all coils and menaces, just like one of those shiny and speckled creatures.  There is a degree of transparency in them, for the more they deny, the more they damage and damn themselves.  In a nutshell, PPP corruption is so thick that the air in Guyana is thicker than that over Beijing, Bombay, and Baku combined.  Because of PPP corruption thickness and darkness, Guyanese can’t see; Guyanese sinuses flare; Guyanese stomachs sicken.  The trouble for the PPP is that those are not only PNC and AFC believers.  Those are increasing numbers of PPP devotees who have had it up to their eyeballs with the corruption of their government. They lament PPP Government corruption on Liberty Avenue, they scream about it on Independence Boulevard.  From Punt Trench Dam to Bella-dam to the sea dam to the back dam, the refrain is loud and clear and commanding.  Damn them.  Damn the PPP Government and its thieving.  Damn the rogues and reprobates that steal and squander and celebrate, while life is so difficult for the ordinary man and woman and their children. PPP Government corruption has groundings, long transformed into a groundswell, and has now swollen into what smothers citizens with its stench, sickness.  It is said that all politics is local.  When the pinch is felt by the individual, it is local.  When the pain pierces families, then it is localized.  Matters heighten to heated intensity, when the impacts are personal, i.e., the regular mass of left behind people squeezed, the left out made into losers when the world is telling them that they are the biggest winners.  The losers see the winners and they are not of PNC stripes.  They check out who are the arrogant, swaggering bigshots, and they are not AFC operators.  The distressed don’t have to vote for them.  Guaranteed incentives may be too late to get them to come out come 2025.  Corruption is the contributor.  Corruption could be the difference maker.  PPP Government corruption looks like the game changer.  Now, if only enormously unhappy Guyanese had an alternative in 2025. (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.) Related Similar Articles

Presidential volume Aug 17, 2024 Editorial Kaieteur News – We had braced ourselves for this day.  President Ali did the honours through what was bizarre at times, earsplitting otherwise.  In a truly cringeworthy exhibition of leadership gone topsy-turvy, the president took his show to the International Building Expo and let loose.  It was a thunderous barrage of sound at the worst possible moment. We are embarrassed that there does not seem to be anyone in the president’s party, or his cluster of close advisors at the Office of the President, who has the guts to show him the ropes and the way that certain things are done.  Worse yet, we shrink in embarrassment at the spectacle that the president has made of this country before an audience that included a group of foreign attendees.  Members of the diplomatic corps had the best seat in the proceedings, right in the front row.  It is reasonable to believe that they walked away with a less than wholesome appreciation for Guyana’s president comfort level with high volume.  His highly charged body language spoke so much towards what was negative, and both his verbal comportment and demeanor were of someone who is at home with a few of the uncivil ingredients of life. There is an old saying that there is a time and place for everything.  Apparently, President Ali either didn’t get that memo, or if he did, he was too casual in reading it and absorbing its substances, implications.  There is another old saying that may be seen by the young head of state as old-fashioned.  Whether he does or not, it would be in his best interests if he considers the value of refinement makes the man.  If for no other reason, it would be a feather in this country’s cap, if its leader sets the standard pertaining to that, while being applauded and respected for it.  A quiet word goes a long way, but President Ali has grown familiar, way too familiar some may assert, with believing and embracing the opposite.  For some reason, he has concluded that most engagements are an opportunity to give a demonstration of the carrying power of his lungs.  One wonders if he would think it appropriate to sound off at deafening decibels during a funeral service and peel the paint off the walls in a religious house of worship. We respectfully caution the president that not every occasion should amount to show of strength, as if a test of manhood is called for, must be proved.  Further, not every speaking opportunity, often a matter of protocol or a courtesy extended to a sitting president, should be made into what comes across as nothing but the fire and ire of a political campaign in full swing.  The heat of political campaigns, like the highly pitched sound sprees in an out-of-control rum shop, has its own culture and seasoned practitioners, of which the president is an impatient master in waiting. It pains us to remind the president that an International Building Expo at the Providence National Stadium, one that has been graced by diplomats and a noticeable foreign contingent ought not to be understood or equated with that of an overheated political campaign.  We believe that President Ali knows this but has reached a state of mind where such constraints matter little to him.  If he doesn’t know, then it is vital that someone in his circle of senior people summon the courage to relay this to him and save him from himself.  Frankly, our priority is less about the president and more about the regard in which this country is held. Like never before in its history, Guyana is at the center of the world’s attention.  When the president, or any national leader for that matter, is a statesman, then this country is embraced as a civilized entity, one with which to do business by investing money and time.  On the other hand, if the man in charge is seen as an empty shell that compensates with incessant volume, more harm than good is done.  In a spirit of care for the president and the nation, we hope that he would take this well-intended message to heart and make some timely and necessary adjustments. Related Similar Articles

City Councillor, Leon Saul should use his pen to address the corruption and mismanagement at M&CC Aug 17, 2024 Letters Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the recent letter by City Councillor Leon Saul, which is replete with empty rhetoric, false narratives, and misguided assertions about President Irfaan Ali and his administration. Councillor Saul’s depiction of President Ali’s public engagements as mere theatrics is both misleading and unfair. It is common for leaders to engage with the populace in a relatable manner. President Ali’s interactions symbolise his approachable leadership style and efforts to connect with citizens on a personal level. Contrary to Saul’s claims, the “One Guyana” initiative is far from a hollow slogan. It is a comprehensive vision aimed at fostering unity, inclusivity, and equitable development across the nation. The distribution of developmental benefits under President Ali’s administration has been more balanced and inclusive than ever before, with significant investments in infrastructure, healthcare, education, and housing that benefit all Guyanese, regardless of political affiliation. Saul’s portrayal of a strained relationship between the Central Government and the Georgetown municipality is a one-sided narrative that overlooks the genuine efforts made by the Central Government to collaborate on urban development projects. If there are issues of inefficiency and mismanagement within the municipality, it is the responsibility of local leadership to address them, not to deflect blame onto the Central Government. Moreover, Councillor Saul’s criticism of the President’s engagement with Stabroek Market vendors highlights a fundamental misunderstanding of leadership. The President’s direct interaction with citizens to address their concerns demonstrates a commitment to responsive governance, something that should be applauded rather than condemned. Instead of using his platform to undermine the Central Government, Councillor Saul should focus on addressing the real issues plaguing Georgetown. The city continues to struggle with garbage pile-ups, financial mismanagement, and poor service delivery. Despite receiving billions in taxes and subventions, the city remains bankrupt. Why are the residents of Georgetown not receiving the quality of services they deserve? Councillor Saul should hold his PNCR colleagues accountable for their mismanagement and the inept performance of the council. He should commend President Ali’s government for stepping in to save the people of Georgetown by investing in critical infrastructure, something the M&CC has failed to do. President Ali’s administration has a commendable track record: increasing public servants’ pay, raising old age pensions, distributing over 35,000 house lots, and reinstating the “Because We Care” cash grant for schoolchildren—a grant Saul’s party discontinued in 2015, claiming it was a waste of resources. Dr. Ali’s government has made significant strides in every aspect of Guyana’s development, including agricultural diversification, effective management of oil revenues, energy security, environmental sustainability, and public diplomacy, all contributing to Guyana’s improved global image and economic transformation. The fact of the matter is, Dr. Ali is a global leader with a common touch, a quality many leaders lack. In just four years, President Ali has spent more time engaging with the citizens of Georgetown, listening to their concerns, and addressing their needs than the PNCR councillors have in the past two decades. It is easy to criticise, but one must ensure that criticism is based on facts, not figments of one’s imagination. I urge Councillor Saul to dedicate more of his time to fulfilling his responsibilities—providing basic services to the people of the city—instead of hiding behind his pen to make baseless criticisms of the President, a man who has walked the walk. Sincerely, Edward Layne Related Similar Articles