But hold on! Is not de odda day we been celebratin Kriss-Mus? And is Septemba ahready?! Buh wha de arse is dis?
Well look! Just now is Octoba den Novemba and den Rudy Grant wid Lil Kriss-Mus Tree again.
Look somebodee put dah clock pon pause lil bit yeh.
Canadian motorists should brace for gasoline prices of $1.75 per litre as tropical storm Gustav threatens to shut down oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a report released Friday.
With weather agencies calling for another active hurricane season, CIBC World Markets is warning that pump prices could spike if the 2005 storm season […]
Someone needs to teach Bharrat Jagdeo how to pronounce “unearthed”. Where are his pr people? McKoy? Oh no, he probably ain’t know himself. Ah well, que sera, sera.
The new “CNS Channel 6 >>> The People’s Station” graphic is brilliant.
Excellent work CN. Keep raising the bar for the others to follow.
HJTV graphics are also pretty good.
Living Guyana would like to recommend Vee See Tee and Eve-Ah-Ning-Ning Views and its owner, People Nuh Care parliamentarian Mr. Toe-Knee Vay-Raw to Conservation International for a special award given to his company for their groundbreaking policy on energy conservation in Guyana.
Mr. Vay-Raw has taken his conservation initiative to the extreme to the point where he refuses to buy computers for his staff. Mr. Vay-Raw is of the view that the purchase of computers will cause his newsroom staff to significantly increase the company’s electricity use. This will obviously result in a heftier GPL bill and will cause a strain on GPL’s fuel supplies. So Mr. Vay-Raw sees his refusal to purchase computers for his newsroom staff as a major energy saving exercise.
Further Mr. Vay-Raw believes that if he did buy computers the staff would prepare their news scripts and would then have to print them out. This he believes would result in the wasting of more paper which would cause a burden on the world’s forests as we know that paper is made from trees. Not to mention the waste in ink and even more electricity to power the printers.
It is understood that Mr. Vay-Raw’s staff are delighted with their boss’ initiatives.
“Our boss is so considerate and smart,” said My-Kul Old, “he wants to conserve on electricity and save money so that all his staff can say, with pride, that we work for a rich man.”
Asked whether it would not be better to share some of the money he earned from his conservation efforts with his staff by giving them a salary increase Mr. Vay-Raw disagreed and said that would be the cheap and easy option.
“You do not give people fish, you teach them to fish, I am paying them a low salary and forcing them to budget wisely and smartly in these difficult times, if I give them a salary increase that will cause them to slack up as economist within their homes,” Mr Vay-Raw explained.
“They need this lesson I am teaching them with low salaries to become better human beings tomorrow,” Mr. Vay-Raw concluded.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has said two days of power-sharing talks with the ruling Zanu-PF have ended without agreement. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) spokesman Nelson Chamisa told the BBC the balance of power was in dispute. He said President Robert Mugabe wanted MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to become a titular prime minister without real […]
Prince Harry has urged Army bosses to return him to the front line in Afghanistan. The soldier royal, third in line to the throne, had a successful first tour of duty in the war zone earlier this year. Now he is desperate to go back for another encounter with hostile Taliban forces. Harry, 23, […]
The piercing wails from little lungs fill the air at this makeshift relief camp in Bihar’s flood-ravaged Purnia district. The babies scream for food. Their mothers cradle them in loving arms but cannot soothe the hunger in their bellies. Food is scarce for the hundreds of people who have sought shelter here. They huddle under […]
Russian beats American Ruiz in unanimous decision to win belt left vacant
BERLIN - Russian giant Nikolai Valuev won the WBA heavyweight championship Saturday night, using his left jab to outpoint American John Ruiz in an unanimous decision. The fight was first declared a split decision, but the score was officially later changed to give Valuev […]
Curfew set, looters warned; hurricane set to hit Louisiana on Monday
NEW ORLEANS - The Big Easy and other Louisiana coastal areas took on the eeriness of ghost towns Sunday as most residents heeded a mandatory evacuation order, and police and National Guard troops clamped down to prevent the kind of lawlessness and chaos that followed […]
The closing ceremony just ended with fireworks and the releasing of some yellow ballons.
Car-reeeeeee! Car-reeeeeee! Car-reeeeeee! Car-reeeeeee!
Carry yuh skunt! Thank God that annoying song will be off the radio and tee vee!
As it was extremely hot today we decided to escape the heat indoors and plunk ourselves on our modest little veranda type attachment to the building. It’s been very breezy out there. We’ve just ended spending hours out there. Reading, thinking, surfing the internet, sleeping and just generally wasting the lazy day away.
It has been a good restful day. We need to spend more days like these. We would if not for that virulent beast who masquerades as work. Nevertheless it dawned on us at some stage during the afternoon out there that despite the headache that Fineman and his still uncaptured cohorts give us, the devious and sometimes obnoxious but always self serving politicians, the widening hopelessness, the crime and uneasiness it brings and the ever-prevalent economic pressures, Guyana is a lovely expanse where the undemanding among us can find inner peace and a blissful existence.
There we were sitting and surfing and birds were chirping, fish the size of soda bottles were leaping out of the water in the nearby trench, the popular neighbourhood caiman eased by as he chomped on a piranha (pirai for us country folk) and a small plane mercifully interrupted ‘Curry Tabanca’ being blasted by the glorified rum shop in the distance.
At one point in less than two minutes we counted 17 species of what foreign bird watching experts would consider exotic birds. From parrots to hawks to herons they either settled or flew less than fifty feet away. And the breeze. Cool, soothing, intoxicatingly beautiful breeze.
As the day melted away a most memorable sunset developed then swamped the landscape for a few enchanting minutes before disappearing, allowing the six o’clock bee and crickets to take over from the birds.
The red signal lights on towers around graduated from being unnoticeable in the day to screaming hazards in the night’s sky pounding the coconut tree skyline with their furious flashing as if to remind the citizenry that when night falls great care should be taken to protect oneself from the dangers of the dark. And as the darkness begins to dominate the mosquitoes attack. We resisted for a while, even resorting to Baygon but then we escaped inside in the arms of artificial, electricity powered breeze.
This is a two-faced place but while one of those faces is an frightening witch the other is a soul warming beauty to behold. We must survive one to enjoy the other.
The friendly neighbourhood caiman does a swim by.
How many birds can you spot in this bush?
As it was extremely hot today we decided to escape the heat indoors and plunk ourselves on our modest little veranda type attachment to the building. It’s been very breezy out there. We’ve just ended spending hours out there. Reading, thinking, surfing the internet, sleeping and just generally wasting the lazy day away.
It has been a good restful day. We need to spend more days like these. We would if not for that virulent beast who masquerades as work. Nevertheless it dawned on us at some stage during the afternoon out there that despite the headache that Fineman and his still uncaptured cohorts give us, the devious and sometimes obnoxious but always self serving politicians, the widening hopelessness, the crime and uneasiness it brings and the ever-prevalent economic pressures, Guyana is a lovely expanse where the undemanding among us can find inner peace and a blissful existence.
There we were sitting and surfing and birds were chirping, fish the size of soda bottles were leaping out of the water in the nearby trench, the popular neighbourhood caiman eased by as he chomped on a piranha (pirai for us country folk) and a small plane mercifully interrupted ‘Curry Tabanca’ being blasted by the glorified rum shop in the distance.
At one point in less than two minutes we counted 17 species of what foreign bird watching experts would consider exotic birds. From parrots to hawks to herons they either settled or flew less than fifty feet away. And the breeze. Cool, soothing, intoxicatingly beautiful breeze.
As the day melted away a most memorable sunset developed then swamped the landscape for a few enchanting minutes before disappearing, allowing the six o’clock bee and crickets to take over from the birds.
The red signal lights on towers around graduated from being unnoticeable in the day to screaming hazards in the night’s sky pounding the coconut tree skyline with their furious flashing as if to remind the citizenry that when night falls great care should be taken to protect oneself from the dangers of the dark. And as the darkness begins to dominate the mosquitoes attack. We resisted for a while, even resorting to Baygon but then we escaped inside in the arms of artificial, electricity powered breeze.
This is a two-faced place but while one of those faces is an frightening witch the other is a soul warming beauty to behold. We must survive one to enjoy the other.
The friendly neighbourhood caiman does a swim by.
How many birds can you spot in this bush?
Contrary to what the PPP’s most passionate supporters would have us believe Bharrat Jagdeo is not a saviour unto mankind. Equally, contrary to what the PNC romantics would have us believe he is not the devil reincarnate. Mr Jagdeo has good traits and he has negative attributes.
His Excellency remains a man of the people. He cares about their well being generally and it does not bring pleasure to him to see people living in squalor and it is for this reason that he has acted to ensure that some level of decent housing be provided to most in places like Tuschen, Parfait Harmonie and other such locations around Guyana. He is a good man at heart. He desires that Guyana be lifted out of the third world status he found her in. He has his limitations and many impositions as he does his bit to improve on Guyana.
He does have his unpleasant side as well. He is an obsessive micro manager and control freak. It has driven him to micro manage just about every ministry in his government. He hardly gives any minister leverage and scope to act independently within their portfolio and then report to him intermittently. He regularly wastes his time summoning ministers to his office for unnecessary reports and updates.
His desire to control everything has led him to withdraw advertisements from Stabroek News for a year and a half, to pull CNS Channel 6 off air for four months, to ban Capitol News journalist Gordon Moseley from his office and official residence, caused an editor at his friend’s newspaper – the Guyana Times – to be fired and continues to maintain the communist monopoly on radio in Guyana. Add the fact that he regular lashes out at various journalists and the Guyana Press Association over trivial matters when he ought to behave in a more statesmanlike manner.
Consequently he has divorced himself from any moral grounds to speak on press freedom in this nation. President Jagdeo seems to have little ability to control his obsessive and freakish control desires. It is a sign of his greatest weakness not of his presidency only but of him as a human being. The inability to control one’s desires for any particular thing in its worst form leads to addiction. From the evidence before us President Jagdeo is addicted to control and perhaps has become addicted to power.
If he has become addicted to power then by whatever means he will access a third term of presidency. Addiction is expert at finding ways of satisfying its cravings. If he has no control over his addiction there is little that can be done to prevent him from overcoming the constitutional barriers for a third consecutive term.
If he does succeed in achieving a third term the country will have a man who cares for his people at the helm but it will have a man who does not understand his role in lifting those people he so cares for out of the mire they exist in. He is convinced, in his mind, that he must have a finger in every ministerial pot for the brew to be palatable rather than being the umbrella under which the various ministers are allowed to function.
He believes he must be integrally involved in the building of every bridge, the fixing of every koker, the distribution of every handout for squatters to resettle. He feels if he does not do this he will lose touch with the people, he does not understand that a president will be ultimately praised by all those who feel the positive effects of the government which he, the president, leads. He is unable to connect the dots. It is a failing of many people but to have it as the failing of the nation’s most critical leader can be stagnating at best and catastrophic at worst. We should at least be thankful that we are not suffering the catastrophic, only the stagnation.
Contrary to what the PPP’s most passionate supporters would have us believe Bharrat Jagdeo is not a saviour unto mankind. Equally, contrary to what the PNC romantics would have us believe he is not the devil reincarnate. Mr Jagdeo has good traits and he has negative attributes.
His Excellency remains a man of the people. He cares about their well being generally and it does not bring pleasure to him to see people living in squalor and it is for this reason that he has acted to ensure that some level of decent housing be provided to most in places like Tuschen, Parfait Harmonie and other such locations around Guyana. He is a good man at heart. He desires that Guyana be lifted out of the third world status he found her in. He has his limitations and many impositions as he does his bit to improve on Guyana.
He does have his unpleasant side as well. He is an obsessive micro manager and control freak. It has driven him to micro manage just about every ministry in his government. He hardly gives any minister leverage and scope to act independently within their portfolio and then report to him intermittently. He regularly wastes his time summoning ministers to his office for unnecessary reports and updates.
His desire to control everything has led him to withdraw advertisements from Stabroek News for a year and a half, to pull CNS Channel 6 off air for four months, to ban Capitol News journalist Gordon Moseley from his office and official residence, caused an editor at his friend’s newspaper – the Guyana Times – to be fired and continues to maintain the communist monopoly on radio in Guyana. Add the fact that he regular lashes out at various journalists and the Guyana Press Association over trivial matters when he ought to behave in a more statesmanlike manner.
Consequently he has divorced himself from any moral grounds to speak on press freedom in this nation. President Jagdeo seems to have little ability to control his obsessive and freakish control desires. It is a sign of his greatest weakness not of his presidency only but of him as a human being. The inability to control one’s desires for any particular thing in its worst form leads to addiction. From the evidence before us President Jagdeo is addicted to control and perhaps has become addicted to power.
If he has become addicted to power then by whatever means he will access a third term of presidency. Addiction is expert at finding ways of satisfying its cravings. If he has no control over his addiction there is little that can be done to prevent him from overcoming the constitutional barriers for a third consecutive term.
If he does succeed in achieving a third term the country will have a man who cares for his people at the helm but it will have a man who does not understand his role in lifting those people he so cares for out of the mire they exist in. He is convinced, in his mind, that he must have a finger in every ministerial pot for the brew to be palatable rather than being the umbrella under which the various ministers are allowed to function.
He believes he must be integrally involved in the building of every bridge, the fixing of every koker, the distribution of every handout for squatters to resettle. He feels if he does not do this he will lose touch with the people, he does not understand that a president will be ultimately praised by all those who feel the positive effects of the government which he, the president, leads. He is unable to connect the dots. It is a failing of many people but to have it as the failing of the nation’s most critical leader can be stagnating at best and catastrophic at worst. We should at least be thankful that we are not suffering the catastrophic, only the stagnation.