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-says Ramjattan’s backers tried to force him out of race

AFC executive Michael Carrington says he will press ahead with his challenge to Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan for the presidential candidacy at the party’s national conference this weekend, despite vigorous efforts to dissuade him. Carrington issued a statement last night announcing his intention to run as a grassroots candidate and according to him, party leader Raphael Trotman had requested that the challenge be kept silent. “…Following the approval by the NEC, the leader of the AFC had requested of me and other NEC members not to disclose the decision to the press prematurely,” he said.

Guyana opening embassy in Kuwait. De news mek dem boys smile. No Guyanese live in Kuwait and Guyanese hardly go there suh dem boys want know why open de embassy. Is not like de Kuwaitis gun use it and is not like de embassy is library wheh dem school children in Kuwait gun visit to know bout Guyana. Dem boys seh that dem now wonder whether Bharrat setting up heself to be Ambassador. He like dem things because Ambassador does travel and he enjoy traveling. Dem boys also want know whether he like de long name that dem people in Kuwait got. De Prime Minister name Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Ahmed Al-Jaber Al Saba. Bharrat gun change he name to Bharrat Al Jagdeo Al Guyana Al Presidente Nuff Punish Al Awe. He gun have Kwame Al Shita Al Buga Al Dunce as he deputy because once Bharrat gone nobody gun keep he. Not even de GRA officer who some people trying to blackmail want Kwame. De blackmail is that dem have this senior officer pun tape performing all type of sex act in de office. Dem boys seh that de blackmail can’t wuk. Nutten wrang wid dat. Dem seh Bharrat doing wuss than that to de whole country.
Talk half. Lef half.

Another Presidential hopeful: Dr. Faith Harding has entered the race to become the PNCR's Presidential Candidate. And now, the count is: 1, 2, 3, and 4, who's next?

By Nadine Luthers

As a young woman who is looking forward to becoming a mother one day, my heart bleeds to see the situation in Guyana as it relates to Maternal Deaths and Infant mortality. I can vividly recall Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy at a forum once, venting what he called his "frustrations" on the way the media reported on such issues. To him, the media were painting a very bad picture of the country's health care system and ultimately being misguided and piggy backing on the staistics presented by a well known and reputable International Organisation on the situation in the country. We knew different...the figures were real...cases of maternal deaths have ever since been increasing.It is however suprising that our Dear Minister of Health who i respect very much, would look at this grave issue of concern, as one that is the epitome of a dream.

A new housing development at Sparendaam, dubbed Pradoville 2, has attracted concerns over its proximity to sea defences but Minister of Housing, Irfaan Ali says that, generally speaking, whatever construction is done, engineers ensure that “everything is taken into consideration”. Ali said that all constructions by the ministry are built to “strict engineering specification” and quizzed on whether the Ministry had inspected the Sparendaam development; he responded tersely that “the ministry must inspect it…” The new East Coast housing development, where several government officials are reported to be building their homes, is on grounds where NCN’s radio transmitter was once cited. The transmitter has been relocated to the West Bank Demerara.

Several hours after a teenager contacted her brother via cellular phone to say that she’d been abducted hundreds of Lindeners assisted police in a massive hunt which ended just after 7 last evening. After residents, police officers and members of Com-munity Policing Groups spent the majority of their waking hours searching for 16-year-old Alicia McAlister she was found along the Block 22 Access Road, Wisroc in Linden. The teen contacted relatives shortly after 6 pm yesterday to tell them that her abductors had indicated that they would let her go. Just before 7 pm McAlister contacted relatives again to say that “the men” had dropped her off at the Block 22 location. When police and relatives showed up at the location they found the teen in a dishevelled state with her hands tied in front of her and she was holding her cellular phone.

By Freddie Kissoon

At his latest press conference (as usual, Freddie Kissoon was mentioned only this time referred to without specific naming), President Jagdeo told the reporters (obviously this was broadcast to the entire nation) that his Government has been moving faster than other countries in “this hemisphere” on its rights agenda. I say most unambiguously that nothing Mr. Jagdeo has uttered the past five years, including calling me a man-kisser and a sleaze ball, has so enraged me than this statement. It was barefaced nonsense in the sense that he could have clothed his observation in deceptive language. But he used the word “this hemisphere” meaning all the countries in the Caribbean, Central, South and North America. Depending how one interprets “hemisphere” it could mean the entire western world because scholars in these parts of the globe when they use the word “hemisphere” they mean the West, taking in Europe too and of which Guyana is a part. Looked at from any angle, the Guyana Government, one of the most undemocratic, and perhaps the most undemocratic administrations in this hemisphere, is being classified as one of the freest governments in these parts of the world.

Dear Editor,

After Janet Jagan had stolen the entire top of the slate from under the nose of the entire Exco of the PPP, in 1997, she proceeded to Kitty Market Square to announce the decision to the country. I went with my wife to the rally. Previously, I had been told by one person, that he was being asked to chair the said rally and that he was not going to do so. I was in company with Ramjattan when we were told this. Just prior to this, another minister had told me that Cheddi had requested him to serve for one year and he was done with the Cabinet after that. I had gone to his office to show him my report for the Guyana Chronicle on the real story behind the collapse of the Charity Wharf, into the Pomeroon River, He begged me not to attempt to publish that story, as his Ministry was the subject Ministry, but he needed not fear on that score. The Editor refused to publish the story. I sought the help of the Mirror Editor – same result.