Guyana Observer News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s elections ended  in confusion today as 12 of the 18 presidential candidates  denounced “massive fraud” and called for cancellation of the  results as street protests erupted over voting irregularities. The repudiation of the elections dealt a blow to the  credibility of the U.N.-supported poll. The international  community was hoping they could produce a stable, legitimate  government in the poor earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country. Haitians shout slogans as they protest against the elections outside a voting center in downtown Port-au-Prince November 28, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

A newspaper decide to check out how de government spending money pun drugs. Is not that de government buying cocaine and ganja because any government that buy dem kind of drugs looking fuh serious trouble. And Guyana got enough crack head already. Guyana got nuff sick people and de government decide that it gun buy de drugs fuh dem. Because de people nuff, de government got to spend nuff money. De only thing is that dem spending de money in one place. Is not like dem woman who does walk around and look fuh bargain. Dem boys read how a newspaper question why de government spending so much money in one place, giving one man de contract. Nobody in de government ain’t talking suh de government ask de man who getting de contract. Is better dem did ask demself. That is wha dem boys seh. De man tell dem how dem always attacking he company. Dem boys want to know how somebody can claim that people attacking he company when all dem want to know is how come he getting every contract. And de man so touchous that he accuse de Waterfalls paper of doing de same thing when de Waterfalls paper ain’t even call he. But is true. De man getting a contract fuh everything. Every government print job is he; every water pipe is he; every ticket fuh functions is he; every programme is he. Even de flags fuh de UNASUR summit was he. Dem boys want to know if a man suh popular and he business so good why he can’t answer questions. Dem planning fuh ask he again bout other things.
Talk half. Lef half.

 (In Photo: Jagdeo's new mansion)

Amidst questions over ongoing construction at what seems to be an exclusive housing scheme at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara, a government official has said that issue has been addressed in the media already and that the transaction was done according to established procedures. There have been questions whether a large piece of land located behind the Sparendaam Police Station, next to the East Coast Demerara seawall was distributed in a fair and transparent manner. The land formerly housed a transmitter belonging to the National Communications Network which has since been relocated to Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. The land was sold in pieces to several government officials, including President Bharrat Jagdeo, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, and the army chief, Commodore Gary Best.

The bodies of the two persons found in shallow graves at Kara Kara on Friday were identified yesterday at the Lyken Funeral Parlour, as Kurt Thierens and Adriano Tracey, 30, of William Street, Campbellville. The post mortem conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivakanand Bridgemohan, confirmed that both men had died from gunshot wounds. It was previously thought one of the victims was Keith Ferrier called “General,” who is wanted for murder, the November 2009 High Court arson attempt and attacks on two police stations. The post mortem revealed that Tracey was shot four times; once in the head, once in the back that exited through the front of the stomach, and twice in the left hand. One of the bullets severed the tips of two fingers on his left hand while another fractured his left wrist and entered his left side. Tracey was slain about three days ago while Thierens, if captured wanted man Colin Jones is to be believed, may have been killed on November 12, contrary to what was reported in yesterday’s issue. Adriano Tracey’s mother, Mrs. Lucinda Tracey, told Kaieteur News that she was able to identify her son by his upper dentures. The dead man had a gold-capped tooth as well as a missing tooth.

 By Stella Ramsaroop

I once heard a woman say she allows her daughter to explore the not-so-nice aspects of her personality. With wisdom, the mother said it is important to have that stronger side of us – as well as the nice, well-mannered side – since the world can be cruel at times. Although I never thought to teach my girls this lesson in an overt manner, I could not agree with this lady more. There are times in life when we need to have a thicker skin and be a little stronger, because if we were anything less, life would chew us up and spit us out. As women, we have been told our entire lives that we are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” So we try to live up to that notion and in the process we can get walked all over. Some women even submit to abusive relationships because they have never been taught to stand up for themselves. If we teach our daughters to always play nice, what happens when they are confronted with real life? Real life can be so tough sometimes and it takes a tough woman to handle tough times. As parents we go to great lengths to teach our daughters to be good little girls, but does that instruction alone give them what they need to function effectively in today’s world?