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  • New kits for Elite League teams signify ‘league’s growing prestige’- GFF

    New kits for Elite League teams signify ‘league’s growing prestige’- GFF

    GFF President Wayne Forde shares a moment with the team reps

    He further added, “We look forward to seeing the brands of our loyal and generous sponsors being proudly displayed to the fans at home and to the thousands who are viewing the League via the FIFA+ platform weekly.”

    The new kits signify the league’s growing prestige and the commitment of the GFF to elevating football in Guyana.

    The KFC Elite League comprises GFF clubs that play at the highest level of football in the country, ensuring that fans witness the best in local football talent and competition.

    As the teams champion ahead in their football endeavours, the new kits will enhance the teams’ professional appearance and confidence. The GFF thanks our generous sponsors and look forward to their continued support.

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  • Three arrested after ganja found in abandoned lot

    Three arrested after ganja found in abandoned lot

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  • Teen dies in Imbaimadai fire

    Teen dies in Imbaimadai fire

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  • Tripling of traffic fines being explored to tackle road deaths– Benn

    Tripling of traffic fines being explored to tackle road deaths– Benn

    There has been an increase in road accidents and deaths over the years and to tackle this, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn recently said the authorities are exploring several solutions including an increase in the fines for breaches of traffic offences.

    “It is my view now that we will not get a better hold of this situation. If people are not made to feel the appropriate sanctions for reckless misbehavior, dangerous misbehavior.

    “It is my view that we should increase the traffic fine by three times,” Benn said.

    He was at the time speaking at the launch of the Road Safety Stakeholders’ Forum 2024 and Road Safety Campaign last Friday.

    Majority of the accidents, Benn said, are caused by younger folks, particularly males, and are linked to alcohol consumption and speeding.

    Many accidents, he added, happen between Friday and Sunday during the evening hours.

    “Persons speed because they think they could get away with it. Persons speed perhaps because they know if though they are charged, they will not appear in court or pay the fine. Some persons say they speed because they know they can bribe the police on the road.

    “It is my intension to put in place the requisite technology, the tracking of cases at the courts with the effort of the Guyana Police Force to make sure that those people must pay the requisite fines and sanctions,” Benn explained.

    Meanwhile, in his address, Commissioner of Police (ag) Clifton Hicken admitted that while much is being done, more emphasis needs to be focused on ensuring safety on the roadways.

    “There are so many ways accidents can occur but it is for us to ensure that we be responsible in whatever we do,” Hicken said.

    Guyana is currently working in accordance with the United Nations Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030 with an aim of reducing traffic deaths and injuries by 50 per cent by 2030.

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  • Hooper wins Big Star Youth and Sports Club’s Emancipation race

    Hooper wins Big Star Youth and Sports Club’s Emancipation race

    Athletes and officials at the conclusion of the race

    After Valenzuela took top honours in the 5k male race, Javier Henry had to settle for second, while Joseph Rahaman came third. Amari Gibbs finished fourth.

    Leander Bennette, Princes Butcher and Torremica Dick were the other finishers in that order in the female 5k race.

    Berty Rahaman took the brave step to run the Over-50 category solo, and he finished in style. Veteran coach Patrick Gray, one of the founding fathers of the club, was presented a special award for his services over the years.

    The race was successfully organised by Tyrone Smith and the Big Star Committee members, while corporate support came from A Ally’s and Sons, Courts Guyana, Republic Bank, Banks DIH, Sparkle Supermarket and Athletics Guyana.

    In addition to the companies, locals from the area supported the event financially.

    Big Star Youth and Sport Club was founded in 1991.

    The club is known for producing cricketers, with Melroy Barkley being the club’s first National youth cricketer, while current Guyana Harpy Eagles selectee, Sylus Tyndall started his career at the Ulverston-based club.

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  • Court rules in favour of Guyana Cricket Board; election of Bassarath to Cricket West Indies deemed unlawful

    Court rules in favour of Guyana Cricket Board; election of Bassarath to Cricket West Indies deemed unlawful

    High Court Judge Navindra Singh on Monday ruled that the election of Azim Bassarath as Vice-president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) was null, void and of no legal effect being contrary to the Articles of Association of Cricket West Indies and the laws and rules governing elections.

    Bassarath of Trinidad and Tobago was elected to the post at the last CWI election on March 25, 2023.

    The court ruled that the office of the Vice-president is now vacant and has instructed CWI to hold a new election to fill the post. The court also ordered the sum of G$100,000 to be paid to the GCB on or before August 26, 2024.

    Following the ruling on Monday, CWI has instructed its legal team to immediately file an appeal, and will await the decision of the appellate Court.

    The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in January, 2023, nominated Bassarath for the position of Vice-president of CWI in accordance with the Articles of Association of CWI Inc.

    The GCB later withdrew the said nomination prior to the election. The said withdrawal was done in writing and was premised on certain reports/information received by the GCB in relation to Bassarath’s conduct as President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board.

    In October 2023, the GCB called for the resignation of Bassarath, questioning the “legal basis” of the March 25 elections at which the Trinidadian cricket administrator was elected.

    Bassarath was elected unopposed; he gained six votes with two voting against, and four abstaining.

    Ruling: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9Xo838xTAjSHB4Uy/?mibextid=oFDknk

    CWI to appeal: https://www.windiescricket.com/…/cricket-west-indies…/

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  • Edgard Leblanc ou la chute du « prétendu » dernier rempart

    Edgard Leblanc ou la chute du « prétendu » dernier rempart

    Le pouvoir rend-il fou ? Cette belle question aussi sensible qu’osée est le titre d’un livre hautement scientifique écrit et publié en 2020 par Erwan Deveze, expert en neuroscience, dont nous vous recommandons la lecture. Mais, en attendant que vous ne le lisiez et le compreniez, faites un petit tour dans l’histoire d’Haïti, passée ou récente, et vous verrez, non sans haut-le-cœur, que le pouvoir a toujours rendu aveugles certains politiciens sur lesquels des Haïtiens fondaient un certain espoir…, à la limite, un espoir fou. Par une étonnante magie, le pouvoir a même rendu totalement et follement méconnaissables des gens connus, très bien connus, trop bien connus. C’est le cas de le dire pour Edgard Leblanc Fils, premier président éphémère du Conseil présidentiel de transition. En effet, lors de son discours le 30 juillet dernier à la 47ème session des Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de la CARICOM à la Grenade, Edgard a lâché une bombe. « Dans la capitale, dans le nord comme dans le sud, la vie a repris quasiment totalement… », a déclaré, effrontément, le représentant de l’Accord du 30 janvier au CPT. Ceux qui n’ont pas vendu leur âme et leurs yeux au diable, donc pouvant voir encore, s’interrogent : pourquoi l’Haïti du responsable de l’OPL est-elle si différente de celle dont la triste et scabreuse réalité est mondialement connue ? Que s’est-il passé dans la tête de cet homme prétendument intègre et rectiligne en si peu de temps ?

    Scrutons un peu cette capitale où la vie a repris, pour répéter M. Leblanc. C’est là que, très récemment, soit le 29 juillet dernier, le Premier ministre Garry Conille, en visite à l’Hôpital de l’Université d’Etat d’Haïti, a failli laisser sa peau à la suite d’une attaque orchestrée par des gangs armés. C’est là que vivotent, depuis plusieurs mois, des centaines de déplacés réfugiés dans le bâtiment qui logeait jusqu’ici le Ministère de la communication. C’est là que se trouvent des facultés (publiques/privées) abandonnées par des professeurs et des milliers d’étudiants par peur de s’exposer à la fureur directe des gangs armés ou au hasard d’une balle perdue. C’est aussi là que se trouvent des Ministères rarement fréquentés par leurs titulaires. Et que dire des rues jonchées de fatras, parsemées de flaques d’eaux boueuses, encombrées par des carcasses de véhicules… Port-au-Prince est un mort qui respire, mais où la vie n’habite plus Monsieur le Conseiller-président !

    Tout compte fait, 159 ans après sa mort, Abraham Lincoln a encore raison d’avoir prescrit le pouvoir comme test pour déceler le vrai caractère d’un homme. Même si la Presse haïtienne de plus en plus crétinisante n’en parle pas, la mensongère déclaration d’Edgard Leblanc sur Haïti, en présence des Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement des pays de la région caribéenne, est à prendre très au sérieux.
    Elle est révélatrice d’un homme politique sans la moindre conscience de ses Devoirs actuels et, malheureusement, non entravé par une certaine éthique de responsabilité ou une quelconque éthique de conviction qui lui ferait dire même une demi-vérité même si pas trop conforme à la réalité. Au fond, il s’agit d’une déclaration irresponsable frôlant un nihilisme dégradant, prononcée par un politicien bien conscient que le contrôle social, la sanction morale n’ont pas cours dans sa société. Pis encore, ce sont des propos empreints d’un cynisme qui se fout de tout le monde et de son père, qui se moque du qu’en-dira-t-on. Ici, on peut mentir sans rien risquer, même pas son honneur.

    En somme, l’histoire récente nous montre qu’en moins de deux (2) ans d’une certaine période de transition, deux personnalités mûres en âge comme en politique, à savoir Mirlande Manigat et Edgard Leblanc, n’ont pas réussi le test lincolnien du pouvoir. Ils n’ont pas su se montrer différents du grand nombre, tels qu’une certaine opinion les voyait. Ils ont montré leur vrai caractère, du moins politique, tout aussi ordinaire que ces politiciens qui ont des yeux et des oreilles, mais se font aveugles et sourds.

    GeorGes Allen

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  • Lyles narrowly beats Thompson in nail-biting 100m final in Paris

    Lyles narrowly beats Thompson in nail-biting 100m final in Paris

    American Noah Lyles added the Olympic 100m title to his World 100m crown won last year in Budapest with a narrow victory over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson and American Fred Kerley in the final of the men’s 100m at the Stade de France in Paris on Sunday.

    Thompson, the Jamaican national champion and current world leader in the event, looked set to claim his maiden Olympic gold medal at about the 85m mark before Lyles used his trademark fast finish to just out-dip him in the end.

    Both Lyles and Thompson ended with identical times of 9.79 but Lyles won by five thousandths of a second when the times were rounded down. Lyles’ time was 9.784 compared to Thompson’s 9.789.

    Fred Kerley, the 2022 World champion, ran 9.81 for bronze.

    South Africa’s Akani Simbine narrowly missed out on a medal running 9.82 in fourth while defending champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy was fifth in 9.85.

    Letsile Tebogo (9.86), Kenneth Bednarek (9.88) and Oblique Seville (9.91) rounded out the field. (SportsMax)

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  • Friendship pensioner gets new house through MoM initiative

    Friendship pensioner gets new house through MoM initiative

    The symbolic ribbon cutting ceremony marked the handover of the new home

    Following a request by her niece, the MOM programme assessed her previous standard of living and determined her eligibility for the program’s housing programme.

    During the handing-over ceremony, Harripersaud spoke with the Department of Public Information (DPI) and mentioned that her previous home was dilapidated and on the verge of collapsing.

    Thanks to MOM, she is now the proud owner of a brand-new flat.

    “I [am] glad that I get a [new] home and thank you to the government…god bless them,” she expressed.

    77-year-old Sumintra Harripersaud is elated to receive her new home

    Expounding on the MOM initiative, Minister McCoy said it was founded with a primary focus on men’s roles in society and their contributions to national development.

    “And we have been taking on the initiative of constructing homes for people in vulnerable situations and difficult circumstances and it is part of the approach of the government, the approach to prosperity, the approach to wealth creation, the approach to development,” he underscored.

    He further emphasised that this demonstrates the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C)’s commitment to ensuring equitable development.

    Minister McCoy also underlined the significance of homeownership, stating that it is a highly sought-after aspect of our society, and the government is working to ensure homeownership at every level.

    Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs and Information, Kwame McCoy delivering remarks

    Also present at the handing over ceremony were MOM Member, Roger Rogers and MoM’s Coordinator, Lt. Col Bhageshwar Murli among other officials.

    The government has allocated $500 million to the Men on Mission initiative in its national fiscal plan to support vulnerable Guyanese across the country. In 2023, approximately 50 homes were built for vulnerable individuals.

    Already, scores of single mothers and the elderly have received homes in 2024, through the MOM organisation. Founded by President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, the organisation aims to tackle toxic masculinity and create a positive environment and safe space for men, promoting integrity, productivity, accountability and character-building. (Republished from DPI) 

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