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M&CC to kick start IT prog with support from Polaris

M&CC to kick start IT prog with support from Polaris

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on M&CC to kick start IT prog with support from Polaris

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) yesterday inked a Memorandum of Understanding, which now paves the way for the municipal entity to gain Information Technology support from the...
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More focus to be directed to workplace health and safety- PS Labour

More focus to be directed to workplace health and safety- PS Labour

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on More focus to be directed to workplace health and safety- PS Labour

The concept of Occupational Safety and Health (OS&H) has evolved over the years, expanding from merely maintaining good working standards in factories to addressing the concerns of occupational...
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Today we celebrate May Day as a time to organise around issues vital to workers

Today we celebrate May Day as a time to organise around issues vital to workers

May 01, 2009 Letters Comments Off on Today we celebrate May Day as a time to organise around issues vital to workers

Dear Editor, While May 1st is celebrated in many countries in the world as International Workers’ Day dedicated to the historical struggles of labour, few know that the holding began in fight for...
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PRESIDENT BHARRAT JAGDEO

PRESIDENT BHARRAT JAGDEO

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on PRESIDENT BHARRAT JAGDEO

It is once again my pleasure to salute workers and their representative unions here in Guyana as they commemorate yet another Workers’ Day, May Day 2009. I wish to reassure them at this time that...
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Milerock, Blueberry Hill clash in LTW football final

Milerock, Blueberry Hill clash in LTW football final

May 01, 2009 Sports Comments Off on Milerock, Blueberry Hill clash in LTW football final

Milerock and Blueberry Hill United will clash in the final of the Linden Town Week football tournament this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground. In semi-final rivalry on Tuesday night at the...
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People’s National Congress Reform

People’s National Congress Reform

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on People’s National Congress Reform

Labour Day is a special occasion for workers in Guyana and the rest of the world. It is a time when they should be able to celebrate the consolidation of their rights, increased wages and benefits,...
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Address these concerns without delay

Address these concerns without delay

May 01, 2009 Letters Comments Off on Address these concerns without delay

Dear Editor, With the collapse of the Manganese Company at Matthew’s Ridge in Region One, the community of Port Kaituma had suffered from lack of employment opportunities, which made the community...
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Hijackers now targeting 212 Toyota Carinas

Hijackers now targeting 212 Toyota Carinas

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on Hijackers now targeting 212 Toyota Carinas

Owners of Toyota Carina 212 motorcars are becoming anxious as hijackers appear to have turned their attention to the popular model of vehicles. This follows another hijacking in the city in which two...
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Is criminal justice being compromised by having PPP MPs as special prosecutors?

Is criminal justice being compromised by having PPP MPs as special prosecutors?

May 01, 2009 Letters Comments Off on Is criminal justice being compromised by having PPP MPs as special prosecutors?

Dear Editor, Re: “GRA officers, Customs brokers slapped with initial 72 conspiracy, forgery charges,” (Kaieteur News, April 29), brings to a head the long awaited charges that the acting...
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GAWA celebrates 69th year with month of activities

GAWA celebrates 69th year with month of activities

May 01, 2009 Sports Comments Off on GAWA celebrates 69th year with month of activities

Secretary of the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) Deion Nurse has indicated that his organization will be observing its 69th anniversary with a month of activities that gets underway...
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Guyana Public Service Union

Guyana Public Service Union

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on Guyana Public Service Union

Year after year, contrary to the norm in any modern democratic state, the reasonable expectations of Guyanese workers for enhancement in working conditions and benefits and the consequent improvement...
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Some big man really frighten dead

Some big man really frighten dead

May 01, 2009 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some big man really frighten dead

Old people always seh that when de poe bore is everything does run out and sometimes de mess it does lef behind does tek years to clean up. Well somebody drive a nail in de poe this week. Bright and...
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Minister Rohee’s letter is cause for deep worry

Minister Rohee’s letter is cause for deep worry

May 01, 2009 Letters Comments Off on Minister Rohee’s letter is cause for deep worry

Dear Editor, Clement Rohee’s letter of April 30, 2009, in which he sought to castigate me for presenting a “blatant misrepresentation of the truth”, provided much entertainment, but on more...
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PNCR calls for justice for Van Beek

PNCR calls for justice for Van Beek

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on PNCR calls for justice for Van Beek

“It is critical that a thorough professional investigation be undertaken with the aim of bringing the perpetrators of the Maria van Beek shooting to justice,” said People’s National Congress...
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Alliance For Change

Alliance For Change

May 01, 2009 News Comments Off on Alliance For Change

On the occasion of Labour Day, the Alliance For Change recognizes the contribution of all workers in Guyana. Today, in the midst of economic and social crises, Guyanese workers continue to toil to...
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The Trade Union Movement and ghosts talking from the grave When it comes to the first day of a new month, as my hands move on the keyboard and as my thoughts wonder and wander on this page, I think of time moving on and I keep this little candle burning in a locked-away corner of my mind. Its flames give off the colour of hope; hope of perseverance, hope of endurance, hope of assurance. It is indeed the audacity of hope in a country that has definitely become one of the saddest tragedies of the post-colonial world. Tomorrow, Zimbabwe will embrace its future. It was Kenya’s turn yesterday. It was the American turn last November. When will Guyana’s turn come? The great anti-fascist, Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci once wrote that, “The Optimism of the Will must override the Pessimism of the Intellect.” The leader of Sein Fein, the political wing of the now disbanded, Irish Republican Army, made that statement his mantra as the Irish nationalists struggled with their claims of a united Ireland. All around this nation are broken dreams and burdened souls merged in a confluence of the déjà vu of yesterday’s angst. For those too young to remember the poetry embedded in the zeitgeist of the seventies where a Janet Jagan and a Walter Rodney serenaded each other with a post-colonial passion of effervescence and liberation, their tomorrow is saddled on the horse of winged impulse. They will leave and they will embrace Obama’s audacity of hope. Some may even touch the rhythm of a Caribbean beach. Other will withstand the Alaskan wind in Ontario. But they will leave and they will leave Mr. Jagdeo to bask in his post-presidential luxury. And they will leave us, the older ones to live a life of reflection of an unchanging Guyana. They will leave us with the optimism of Barack Obama. Addressing his press conference on achieving a hundred days in office, Mr. Obama told the gathering of an American politic motif that drove despair in Guyanese who listened to him. He said American politics moves quickly and reminded them that he was 30 points below Mrs. Clinton in the Iowa primary. He didn’t go on but we know what happened; he won the Iowa contest. In Guyana, politics moves at a dangerously slow pace. And as we walk in the May Day rally today, that observation of President Obama and that cruel reality of Guyana will be on the face of all of us. It will torment us because we want our politics to move as fast as it does in the US but we know it will not. As we move off from a site Forbes Burnham arrogantly renamed (Parade Ground), we will think of Burnham and his rule and the shadows of the new Burnhams will hover behind us. We will turn into Critchlow Labour College, while the new Burnhams will go to the National Park. Many ghosts will be turning in their graves as the TUC procession perambulates the streets of Georgetown Growing up, I knew that in the trade union movement Mr. Burnham’s property was the GLU, Dr. Jagan’s personal possession was GAWU. Mr. Burnham and Mr. Desmond Hoyte must be shouting out from the grave. Mr. Carvil Duncan remains the head of the GLU and the union is now part of the shamelessly pro- government grouping, FITUG. Another figure reaching from his burial site will be the famous and respected unionist, Gordon Todd. He was one of the founders of FITUG, a movement designed to take the true trade union movement away the tentacles of the dictators in Guyana who disregarded workers’ rights. The bitter irony is that those barefaced pro-government unions that drink at the trough of state patronage have had the diseased boldness to use the name of a trade union group whose reason for existence was to fight against political domination of the trade union movement. But however conspiratorial are the habits of the pro-government labour aristocracy that has taken the workers into FITUG, what about the workers themselves? If Mr. Duncan has his reasons for seeking the company of the new Burnhams, why are the workers of the GLU still have him as their head? Could you imagine the leader of GAWU taking GAWU out of the den of Freedom House? Of course both unions should long have been outside the cage of their political bosses. As the TUC and FITUG go their separate routes today, slow movement in Guyana is giving rise to optimism. Gordon Todd has spoken from the grave and has told CCWU to get out of FITUG.

The Trade Union Movement and ghosts talking from the grave When it comes to the first day of a new month, as my hands move on the keyboard and as my thoughts wonder and wander on this page, I think of time moving on and I keep this little candle burning in a locked-away corner of my mind. Its flames give off the colour of hope; hope of perseverance, hope of endurance, hope of assurance. It is indeed the audacity of hope in a country that has definitely become one of the saddest tragedies of the post-colonial world. Tomorrow, Zimbabwe will embrace its future. It was Kenya’s turn yesterday. It was the American turn last November. When will Guyana’s turn come? The great anti-fascist, Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci once wrote that, “The Optimism of the Will must override the Pessimism of the Intellect.” The leader of Sein Fein, the political wing of the now disbanded, Irish Republican Army, made that statement his mantra as the Irish nationalists struggled with their claims of a united Ireland. All around this nation are broken dreams and burdened souls merged in a confluence of the déjà vu of yesterday’s angst. For those too young to remember the poetry embedded in the zeitgeist of the seventies where a Janet Jagan and a Walter Rodney serenaded each other with a post-colonial passion of effervescence and liberation, their tomorrow is saddled on the horse of winged impulse. They will leave and they will embrace Obama’s audacity of hope. Some may even touch the rhythm of a Caribbean beach. Other will withstand the Alaskan wind in Ontario. But they will leave and they will leave Mr. Jagdeo to bask in his post-presidential luxury. And they will leave us, the older ones to live a life of reflection of an unchanging Guyana. They will leave us with the optimism of Barack Obama. Addressing his press conference on achieving a hundred days in office, Mr. Obama told the gathering of an American politic motif that drove despair in Guyanese who listened to him. He said American politics moves quickly and reminded them that he was 30 points below Mrs. Clinton in the Iowa primary. He didn’t go on but we know what happened; he won the Iowa contest. In Guyana, politics moves at a dangerously slow pace. And as we walk in the May Day rally today, that observation of President Obama and that cruel reality of Guyana will be on the face of all of us. It will torment us because we want our politics to move as fast as it does in the US but we know it will not. As we move off from a site Forbes Burnham arrogantly renamed (Parade Ground), we will think of Burnham and his rule and the shadows of the new Burnhams will hover behind us. We will turn into Critchlow Labour College, while the new Burnhams will go to the National Park. Many ghosts will be turning in their graves as the TUC procession perambulates the streets of Georgetown Growing up, I knew that in the trade union movement Mr. Burnham’s property was the GLU, Dr. Jagan’s personal possession was GAWU. Mr. Burnham and Mr. Desmond Hoyte must be shouting out from the grave. Mr. Carvil Duncan remains the head of the GLU and the union is now part of the shamelessly pro- government grouping, FITUG. Another figure reaching from his burial site will be the famous and respected unionist, Gordon Todd. He was one of the founders of FITUG, a movement designed to take the true trade union movement away the tentacles of the dictators in Guyana who disregarded workers’ rights. The bitter irony is that those barefaced pro-government unions that drink at the trough of state patronage have had the diseased boldness to use the name of a trade union group whose reason for existence was to fight against political domination of the trade union movement. But however conspiratorial are the habits of the pro-government labour aristocracy that has taken the workers into FITUG, what about the workers themselves? If Mr. Duncan has his reasons for seeking the company of the new Burnhams, why are the workers of the GLU still have him as their head? Could you imagine the leader of GAWU taking GAWU out of the den of Freedom House? Of course both unions should long have been outside the cage of their political bosses. As the TUC and FITUG go their separate routes today, slow movement in Guyana is giving rise to optimism. Gordon Todd has spoken from the grave and has told CCWU to get out of FITUG.

May 01, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Trade Union Movement and ghosts talking from the grave When it comes to the first day of a new month, as my hands move on the keyboard and as my thoughts wonder and wander on this page, I think of time moving on and I keep this little candle burning in a locked-away corner of my mind. Its flames give off the colour of hope; hope of perseverance, hope of endurance, hope of assurance. It is indeed the audacity of hope in a country that has definitely become one of the saddest tragedies of the post-colonial world. Tomorrow, Zimbabwe will embrace its future. It was Kenya’s turn yesterday. It was the American turn last November. When will Guyana’s turn come? The great anti-fascist, Italian philosopher, Antonio Gramsci once wrote that, “The Optimism of the Will must override the Pessimism of the Intellect.” The leader of Sein Fein, the political wing of the now disbanded, Irish Republican Army, made that statement his mantra as the Irish nationalists struggled with their claims of a united Ireland. All around this nation are broken dreams and burdened souls merged in a confluence of the déjà vu of yesterday’s angst. For those too young to remember the poetry embedded in the zeitgeist of the seventies where a Janet Jagan and a Walter Rodney serenaded each other with a post-colonial passion of effervescence and liberation, their tomorrow is saddled on the horse of winged impulse. They will leave and they will embrace Obama’s audacity of hope. Some may even touch the rhythm of a Caribbean beach. Other will withstand the Alaskan wind in Ontario. But they will leave and they will leave Mr. Jagdeo to bask in his post-presidential luxury. And they will leave us, the older ones to live a life of reflection of an unchanging Guyana. They will leave us with the optimism of Barack Obama. Addressing his press conference on achieving a hundred days in office, Mr. Obama told the gathering of an American politic motif that drove despair in Guyanese who listened to him. He said American politics moves quickly and reminded them that he was 30 points below Mrs. Clinton in the Iowa primary. He didn’t go on but we know what happened; he won the Iowa contest. In Guyana, politics moves at a dangerously slow pace. And as we walk in the May Day rally today, that observation of President Obama and that cruel reality of Guyana will be on the face of all of us. It will torment us because we want our politics to move as fast as it does in the US but we know it will not. As we move off from a site Forbes Burnham arrogantly renamed (Parade Ground), we will think of Burnham and his rule and the shadows of the new Burnhams will hover behind us. We will turn into Critchlow Labour College, while the new Burnhams will go to the National Park. Many ghosts will be turning in their graves as the TUC procession perambulates the streets of Georgetown Growing up, I knew that in the trade union movement Mr. Burnham’s property was the GLU, Dr. Jagan’s personal possession was GAWU. Mr. Burnham and Mr. Desmond Hoyte must be shouting out from the grave. Mr. Carvil Duncan remains the head of the GLU and the union is now part of the shamelessly pro- government grouping, FITUG. Another figure reaching from his burial site will be the famous and respected unionist, Gordon Todd. He was one of the founders of FITUG, a movement designed to take the true trade union movement away the tentacles of the dictators in Guyana who disregarded workers’ rights. The bitter irony is that those barefaced pro-government unions that drink at the trough of state patronage have had the diseased boldness to use the name of a trade union group whose reason for existence was to fight against political domination of the trade union movement. But however conspiratorial are the habits of the pro-government labour aristocracy that has taken the workers into FITUG, what about the workers themselves? If Mr. Duncan has his reasons for seeking the company of the new Burnhams, why are the workers of the GLU still have him as their head? Could you imagine the leader of GAWU taking GAWU out of the den of Freedom House? Of course both unions should long have been outside the cage of their political bosses. As the TUC and FITUG go their separate routes today, slow movement in Guyana is giving rise to optimism. Gordon Todd has spoken from the grave and has told CCWU to get out of FITUG.

When it comes to the first day of a new month, as my hands move on the keyboard and as my thoughts wonder and wander on this page, I think of time moving on and I keep this little candle burning in a...
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Labour blues

Labour blues

May 01, 2009 Editorial Comments Off on Labour blues

The news yesterday that Precision Woodworking has sent home all its workers and may be closing down should remind everyone on this Labour Day of the very uncertain future that confronts workers as...
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Scotsburg United, Queens, Vishnu Super Store win at Crabwood Creek

Scotsburg United, Queens, Vishnu Super Store win at Crabwood Creek

May 01, 2009 Sports Comments Off on Scotsburg United, Queens, Vishnu Super Store win at Crabwood Creek

Last Sunday at the Crabwood Creek Cricket ground a large turnout witnessed three exciting games of softball cricket. The opening game was the first ever female softball cricket match to be staged at...
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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

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  Kaieteur Sports- The highly anticipated Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival is set to ignite the National Gymnasium from November 28th to December 1st. This year’s...
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Louis 97, Athanaze 90 give West Indies slight edge after day one

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Vladimir Woodroofe backs out of World Championships over unfair selection

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Exciting Double-header bowls off today with finals looming

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YMCA and Hard Knocks battle for Futsal supremacy in ExxonMobil Championship Final

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Sukhwa delighted to score most runs at GCB National T20 League

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