President Jagdeo is out of the country and is expected home tomorrow but the air traffic controllers are on strike for more money and better working conditions. The airport has been shutdown and is expected to remain shutdown until their demands are met.
So what will President Jagdeo do? Meet their demands and get to return home or hold out and stay away.
This is an interesting one. Excellent timing by the air traffic control guys and gals. Well done folks.
A white Route 32 (Georgetown/Parika) mini bus with red stripes, BKK 6847 was seen traveling at an extremely fast rate at Eccles on the East Bank Highway heading in a southerly direction.
The driver was not only speeding but driving recklessly as he lane hopped and was surely a threat to life and limb on the roadways last evening (Jan 31st 2009) at approximately 11:40. At the time the bus was laden with passengers and it is shocking that none of them seemed to have objected to the driver driving at breakneck speed.
MBC Channel 93 is currently showing the movie Volcano.
THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT THE SO-CALL SWAMI OF AMERICA SEVASHRAM SANGHA, SWAMI VIDYANANDA WAS CAUGHT HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH TWO FEMALE DEVOTEES OF THE ASHRAM RECENTLY.
AS YOU HAVE HEARD IN 1991 AND AGAIN IN 1996 AND AGAIN IN 2001, THE SWAMI CANNOT HELP HIMSELF.
WE HAVE AUDIO RECORDING AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO […]
Someone please tell Wanita that today is the last day of January, not February 2009.
What is the point of that Video Hitlist Countdown anyways? What’s the concept? Is it a billboard show? Who determines what videos are in what position on the chart? Wanita?
We don’t really get it. And if it is a countdown show why is there no graphic with a chart? No self-respecting countdown show can survive without a chart showing the viewers what is where on the chart. Simply slapping a number on the video while it is being shown is not good enough. It is slack production, cheap, lazy, sloppy, mediocre.
And someone needs to tell Wanita when she is doing a backdrop for a television set she cannot do it with a glossy finish, it has to be done in matte. It takes common sense people, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist - if it is a glossy finish when you apply light to it it will look extremely shiny and ‘overwhite’ (overexposed) and disappear on television. Ah, these juveniles who are winging it on television and hoping for the best as they go along.
Yo Jaydon Samuels, you’re such an ignorant donkey. They really need to have you bush people live out here on the coastland for a few years at least before they throw you into news. Is whey you went to school bai? Oh yes bush!
Basseterre is in St Kitts you joker, the Guyana v Leeward Islands cricket match is being played in Nevis which is a separate island you fool. Such a dunce bamsee!
Paul Moore you need to learn the meaning of the word ’subsequent’. It does not mean what you think it means so you sounded like quite a fool when you read it. And if you did not write the script then in reviewing it before you went on air you should have changed it as it was wrong. And if you did not read the script before going on air then you’re just the quack we know you are.
You’re such a poor anchor bro. When will you get a job in pr or something else and leave that anchor’s chair? You’re such a disaster in it.
Onika Jones you are either a professor or a doctor. You can’t be both.
The man is Professor Vibert Cambridge or Dr. Vibert Cambridge, not Professor Dr. Vibert Cambridge. You better enroll at UG quick to learn something. No sorry, not UG, enroll at a primary school.
Is Nakasia Logan the official funeral reporter of the NCN Six O’Clock News?
Whatever she is she needs an urgent refresher course in basic English. She is unable to have her subjects and verbs agree and has a genuine problem as she does not appear to understand the rules of subject and verb agreement.
President Bharrat Jagdeo made it onto the biggest global television media stage he has ever managed as part of a panel on the BBC World Debate.
However the show, which was recorded in Davos and hosted by Nik Gowing, had a low key panel for a leader of a nation to have sat in. He was the only country leader on the panel and sat alongside Laura Tyson of the University of California Berkeley, Jacob Frenkel, the vice chairman of AIG, Anders Berg who is the Swedish Minister of Finance and Prof. Nouriel Roubini of New York University.
This was a truly low level panel for the leader of a nation to be a part of but we can’t expect President Jagdeo to get higher up the ladder. He either has to sit with a lecturer, a professor, a vice chairman (not even the chairman) and a Minister of Finance or not get a chance.
It is critical for us to recognize that President Jagdeo sitting on this panel was an admission and demonstration of his lowly position on the global political stage as he was a former Minister of Finance so for him, as a President, to be sharing a stage with a current Minister of Finance is a step down.
And he was repeatedly interrupted while he spoke, by Gowing, Tyson and Frenkel which showed unquestionable disrespect towards him. There it was that these lowly global figures were disrespecting the leader of a nation. One cannot even imagine any of these interrupting the leader of any developed nation while they spoke.
There was one classic moment of the gross insulting of President Jagdeo by the members of the panel. When he spoke Tyson paid undivided attention to examining her manicure job. It was disrespectful, insulting and outright condescension but such is his lowly standing internationally. We really felt bad for President Jagdeo.
And when the others spoke he could be seen continuously nodding his head in agreement like a junior office assistant agreeing to the chairman of the board.
He also cut a very unstatesmanlike and schoolboyish look with his arms always folded as he looked uncomfortable and sometimes as if he wanted to run off to the washroom. He certainly did not look like the leader of a nation. His PR advisers are known to be weak in this regard.
They may be good at rural bottom house propaganda and putting up billboards but at the international level they are completely ignorant and out of their depth. They are unable to advise him on how he should conduct himself, what his demeanor should be and the appropriate body language. Any boy from Unity village would need a lot of help in this regard (just think Shivnarine Chanderpaul). At least President Jagdeo did not wipe his mouth with his open hand as he is prone to do at press conferences.
And what he had to say was not all that impressive either. He kept repeating one point over and over and over - that there needs to be independent (non-political) assessment of the global situation and then everyone needs to look to the future (guess what Jaggers, the future won’t be that good to look at if we don’t fix the crap that’s going on now - a point able put to President Jagdeo by Gowing).
And finally President Jagdeo talking about other political leaders lacking political will was rather hypocritical. Ah how pots can be known to call kettles black.
President Bharrat Jagdeo made it onto the biggest global television media stage he has ever managed as part of a panel on the BBC World Debate.
However the show, which was recorded in Davos and hosted by Nik Gowing, had a low key panel for a leader of a nation to have sat in. He was the only country leader on the panel and sat alongside Laura Tyson of the University of California Berkeley, Jacob Frenkel, the vice chairman of AIG, Anders Berg who is the Swedish Minister of Finance and Prof. Nouriel Roubini of New York University.
This was a truly low level panel for the leader of a nation to be a part of but we can’t expect President Jagdeo to get higher up the ladder. He either has to sit with a lecturer, a professor, a vice chairman (not even the chairman) and a Minister of Finance or not get a chance.
It is critical for us to recognize that President Jagdeo sitting on this panel was an admission and demonstration of his lowly position on the global political stage as he was a former Minister of Finance so for him, as a President, to be sharing a stage with a current Minister of Finance is a step down.
And he was repeatedly interrupted while he spoke, by Gowing, Tyson and Frenkel which showed unquestionable disrespect towards him. There it was that these lowly global figures were disrespecting the leader of a nation. One cannot even imagine any of these interrupting the leader of any developed nation while they spoke.
There was one classic moment of the gross insulting of President Jagdeo by the members of the panel. When he spoke Tyson paid undivided attention to examining her manicure job. It was disrespectful, insulting and outright condescension but such is his lowly standing internationally. We really felt bad for President Jagdeo.
And when the others spoke he could be seen continuously nodding his head in agreement like a junior office assistant agreeing to the chairman of the board.
He also cut a very unstatesmanlike and schoolboyish look with his arms always folded as he looked uncomfortable and sometimes as if he wanted to run off to the washroom. He certainly did not look like the leader of a nation. His PR advisers are known to be weak in this regard.
They may be good at rural bottom house propaganda and putting up billboards but at the international level they are completely ignorant and out of their depth. They are unable to advise him on how he should conduct himself, what his demeanor should be and the appropriate body language. Any boy from Unity village would need a lot of help in this regard (just think Shivnarine Chanderpaul). At least President Jagdeo did not wipe his mouth with his open hand as he is prone to do at press conferences.
And what he had to say was not all that impressive either. He kept repeating one point over and over and over - that there needs to be independent (non-political) assessment of the global situation and then everyone needs to look to the future (guess what Jaggers, the future won’t be that good to look at if we don’t fix the crap that’s going on now - a point able put to President Jagdeo by Gowing).
And finally President Jagdeo talking about other political leaders lacking political will was rather hypocritical. Ah how pots can be known to call kettles black.
Immigration consultant sues newspaper for libel
- files $30m suit, secures injunction
Guyana Times: Immigration consultant, Balwant Persaud has filed a lawsuit for $ 30M million against the National Media Corporation, publisher of the Kaieteur News ( KN) and has also secured an injunction from the High Court restraining the newspaper from publishing any other articles on […]
AP via MSN Money Central: A strike by air traffic controllers in Guyana is forcing the cancellation of flights in and out of the South American country.
Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines has canceled at least three flights because the country’s main international airport closed overnight.
Workers began the strike Friday night to press their demands for higher salaries and more hiring to ease staff shortages. The long-running dispute has involved at least two other stoppages over the last year.
Civil aviation chief Zulfikar Mohamed said Saturday that officials are looking for a way to avoid closing the airport after midnight. He says senior staff members are filling in and a new group of controllers is in training.
AP via MSN Money Central: A strike by air traffic controllers in Guyana is forcing the cancellation of flights in and out of the South American country.
Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines has canceled at least three flights because the country’s main international airport closed overnight.
Workers began the strike Friday night to press their demands for higher salaries and more hiring to ease staff shortages. The long-running dispute has involved at least two other stoppages over the last year.
Civil aviation chief Zulfikar Mohamed said Saturday that officials are looking for a way to avoid closing the airport after midnight. He says senior staff members are filling in and a new group of controllers is in training.