Our Precious Child

OUR PRECIOUS CHILD

Jamaica-born Dr. Yvonne Crichton-Denbow, wife of Guyana-born Dr. Frank Denbow, has written and illustrated a keepsake album named OUR PRECIOUS CHILD which records a child’s religious development.

The book was launched on June 5th in New Jersey and there is a book signing in Long Island NY on July 24th.

Also planned was a book signing in Guyana at the Pegasus on August 5th.

There will be a book signing in Brooklyn at St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church on Saturday September 18th at 1PM.

The book is currently available on line at our website OURPRECIOUSCHILD.COM where there is contact and ordering information. The price would be available for purchase at the book signings at a lower price..

Here is an outline of the book by the author Dr. Yvonne Crichton-Denbow. Our Precious Child:  A Keepsake Album for Recording a Child’s Religious Development. – Overview < Click to download:

Here is a book review by Professor Emeritus Belle Tyndall.  Click this link to download >: Book review by Professor Emeritus Belle Tyndall

here is the Book signing Flyer:  Book Signing Flyer

Mark Holder: Still ‘Something of Value’

Posted By Stabroek staff On May 29, 2010 In The Scene

Mark Holder

“She doesn’t stand out in a crowd//She might not merit a second glance//But to me, she’s a treasure//And I’ll tell the world that she’s something//She’s something//She’s something of value…” Wherever the opening bars of this song is played, Guyanese, especially those who enjoy ‘oldies’ will come up with the name Mark Holder. They might wonder where he is today and what he is doing these days.

^[1] Mark Holder

When he produced the album ‘All The Way’ at Coach House Studio in England in 1977/78, in collaboration with Mark Holder, Guyanese international recording artiste Eddy Grant had said that he felt Mark was destined for “greater things than his already considerable success in Africa and the West Indies….” He had added, “Mark Holder, we at Coach House know that you will go ‘All The Way’.” Mark Holder has been ‘all the way’ there and then some.

The “Something Of Value” singer, who will release his latest album ‘All My Love Is For You’ in July, has enjoyed considerable success in his musical career in the years since he has not been on these shores. Though when asked how long ago it was that he left Guyana, Mark’s answer was “As a son of the soil, I have never left Guyana. In my daily lifestyle, Guyana is and will always be in the forefront of my goals and achievements.”

Mark, who is currently negotiating a Caribbean tour, has Guyana on that schedule and hopes to be here in July.

^[2]In a series of online interviews with The Scene, which started late last month, Mark revealed that at ‘The Gala’ in Canada—the final celebration for Black History Month this year—he performed one of his new songs, “Rise Up Haiti”. He said he composed this song while he was “viewing a broadcast of the devastation in Haiti and saw a picture of a young rescue victim begging her mom not to let her die. These words touched my heart and motivated me to compose the lyrics.” It also touched others, because at ‘The Gala’ the “enthusiastic audience… were on their feet dancing and holding hands during my performance,” he added.

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The Guyanese Association of Manitoba

GUYANESE ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA

7^TH ANNUAL DUCK CURRY COMPETITION

The Guyanese Association of Manitoba had its Annual Fun Day on July 17, 2010.  Although the weather was somewhat the over 400 Guyanese and their friends made it a fun day of games –softball, cricket and rounders, with teams from the various Guyanese counties as well as from Canadian-born Guyanese.

Everyone had an enjoyable time as they looked forward to the highlight—the Annual Duck Curry Competition.  In the attached report on the festivities, board member of the Association, Sharmela Sukhdeo-Rambally writes:

“As the judging began, all fifteen teams’ members slowly sauntered in with their curry dishes with great pride joy –  and of course dance!!  Team after team danced in and served their very best, resulting in 1^st prize going to Guyanese Pride captained by Sancharie Shivbalak (Pam), with Curry King placing 2^nd captained by Vishnu Narine Cosmos Lancers bringing 3^rd place captain Pammy Persaud and Three Rivers 4^th place captained by Chaterpaul Bhowanie, Consolation prizes were also given out for aroma, consistency, Taste, presentation and best dressed team.”.

“As a born Guyanese, fellow Pegger, and Canadian, a sense of belonging and pride came over me seeing everyone come together for another successful event.”.

Read Sharmela’s full report here:  Duck Curry Competition

The Year 1910

1910 Ford Model R
Show this to your friends, children and/or grandchildren!

1910 Ford Model R

THE YEAR IS 1910
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
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The year is 1910
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:
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The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year ..
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME .
Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which
Were condemned in the press AND the government as ‘substandard.’
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
The Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars ….
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada , was only 30!!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn’t been invented yet.
There was no Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn’t read or write and
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school..
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
Back then pharmacists said, ‘Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,
Regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health’
( Shocking? DUH! )
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help …..
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. !

I am now going to forward this to someone else without typing it myself.
From there, it will be sent to others all over the WORLD – all in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
IT STAGGERS THE MIND

Foo does it again as Guyana lift Caribbean T20 trophy

Foo does it again as Guyana lift Caribbean T20 trophy

01/08/10 – videos on Youtube (see video here)

“For me, I have a simple method …. I see the ball and I hit it … full stop,” Foo said

Jonathan Foo accepts the Man-of-the-Match award from Clive Lloyd

Guyana’s Jonathan Foo produced a magical display of power-hitting to stun Barbados and single-handedly won the inaugural West Indies Cricket Board’s Caribbean T20 title for his country. Before Saturday’s epic final match, the 19-year-old right-hander had showed great enterprise but he saved the best for the last night at Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

Foo struck four crunching boundaries – including two off the first two balls of the final over – and three magnificent sixes in an unbeaten 42 from 17 balls that turned the game completely. He entered the arena with Guyana tottering on 72-5 at the end of the 14th over. He however remained calm and played to his strength – which is hitting straight – much to the delighted of many of his countrymen in the large crowd of over 12 000, and millions around the world viewing on the match on ESPN and ESPN2.

For their brilliant effort Guyana won the sparkling, new Caribbean T20 trophy, which was presented to skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan by Dr Julian Hunte, President of the West Indies Cricket Board. They have also took home a cheque for US25 000 and booked a place in the Airtel Champions League, to be played in South Africa in September.

Foo, the son of a Chinese father and Indian mother, shared an unbeaten last wicket stand on 24 from 11 balls with last man Devendra Bishoo, who had the honour of hitting the winning run. At that point the Guyanese fans were overcome with joy and ran onto the field to celebrate with their new baby-faced heroes. It was extra-special night for the two lads from Albion in Berbice, as Foo was named Man-of-the-Match and Bishoo was adjudged the CT20’s Most Valuable Player for his brilliant leg-spin bowling.

“For me, I have a simple method …. I see the ball and I hit it … full stop,” Foo said. “I feel really great to win for Guyana. For the first few games (of CT20) I felt comfortable but tonight was a little different … I was really nervous at the beginning. When I started to strike the ball I settled down and just played my natural game. I kept looking at the scoreboard. I knew once Bishoo stayed with me I could win the match for Guyana,” Foo said.

Sarwan was full of praise for Foo and said he is a special talent. “The difference between the two teams tonight was one man and that man is Jonathan Foo. For someone so young to go out there and do what he did for the country, under such pressure, is truly remarkable. He was sensational and he’s the reason why we are happy and all Guyanese are happy tonight.”

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Guyana – Caribbean Twenty/20 Champs

Flamboyant Foo takes Guyana to title

– Stabroek staff On August 2, 2010  Sports | 19 Comments

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jonathan Foo played the innings of a lifetime to trump memorable bowling from Ashley Nurse, as Guyana were crowned inaugural champions of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, following a one-wicket victory over Barbados in the Grand Final on Saturday, July 31st.

Guyana wins Caribbean Twenty/20 Championships

Foo struck four fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 42 from 17 balls that earned him the Man-of-the-Match award, as Guyana, in pursuit of 135 from their allocation of 20 overs, overcame Nurse’s five wickets for 35 runs in his allotted four overs to hit the jackpot with one ball remaining.

Davendra Bishoo, later adjudged the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, struck the winning runs, when he drove Javon Searles through extra cover.

The ball ricocheted from the hand of diving fielder Larry Babb, and Sulieman Benn gave chase from cover, somehow managed to misfiled, allowing Bishoo and Foo to come back for the second run to seal the victory.

The result meant that Guyana have won a regional Twenty20 championship for the second time, following their capture of the 2006 Stanford T20 Cup, and most importantly, they will represent West Indies at the Champions League T20 in September in South Africa.

When Foo came to the crease, Guyana were 72 for five with the cream of their batting – all of their line-up of West Indies batsmen – dismissed.

But the 19-year-old Foo has shown a maturity beyond his years throughout the competition, and while the rest of the Guyana batting threw their wickets away, he remained calm.

He too, however, almost got caught up in the drama. With 18 needed from the last nine balls, he skied Nurse to wide long-on, where Babb ran more than 15 yards, muffed the chance, and to add insult to injury, parried the ball over the rope for a six.

Jonathan Carter’s second straight half-century limped Barbados to 134 for five from their 20 overs, after they chose to bat on another hard, true Queen’s Park Oval pitch.

The left-hander struck four boundaries in 57 from 61 balls, but he was never fluent throughout his innings.

No other Barbados batsman passed 20, as they typically got bogged down by Guyana’s battery of spin bowlers.

Bishoo was the most successful Guyanese bowler, and finished with two for 14 from four overs. He ended the tournament with 10 wickets – the second highest aggregate, and one less than teammate Lennox Cush – and finished with an average of 8.20.
Guyana too, found it difficult to score against Barbados’ spinners, who share all nine scalps that fell.

Sulieman Benn captured two for 22 from four overs, and fellow left-arm spinner and Barbados captain Ryan Hinds took two for 30 from his four overs.

Benn made the breakthrough, when he trapped Travis Dowlin lbw for eight in the fourth over, Hinds had Sewnarine Chattergoon caught at deep mid-wicket for nine in the eighth over, before Nurse got into the action.

Sarwan was also caught at deep mid-wicket for 26 off the off-spinner, who also had Christopher Barnwell caught at long-on for a duck before Narsingh Deonarine was caught at short third man for 21 off Hinds.

Foo continued to hold things together, but Royston Crandon, Cush, and Esuan Crandon fell for nine runs in the space of the same number of deliveries to leave Guyana wobbling on 85 for eight.

Foo struck Nurse for a six off the last ball of the 17th over, and two fours from Dwayne Smith’s final over – the 18th of the innings – to ease the pressure, but Guyana appeared hopeless, when Nurse had Derwin Christian caught at long-off for seven.

But the Barbadians were clearly fooled into thinking that they had the match won.

SCOREBOARD

BARBADOS (20 overs maximum)
D. Richards c R. Crandon b Cush            16
K. Edwards b Barnwell                                16
J. Carter not out                                           57
A. Holder c Barnwell b Bishoo                14
D.R. Smith c Foo b Bishoo                          2
+C. Morris b R. Crandon                             7
L. Babb not out                                             12
Extras (lb3, w7)                                           10
TOTAL (5 wkts, 20 overs)                     134
*R. Hinds, A. Nurse, J. Searles, S. Benn did not bat
Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Richards, 12.5 overs); 2-63 (Edwards, 8.3); 3-92 (Holder, 14.6); 4-98 (Smith, 16.3); 5-107 (+Morris, 17.2)
Bowling: Cush 4-0-47-1; E. Crandon 4-0-23-0 (w4); Barnwell 4-0-19-1; Bishoo 4-0-14-2 (w2); R. Crandon 4-0-28-1 (w1)

GUYANA (target: 135 off 20 overs)
T. Dowlin lbw b Benn                                      8
S. Chattergoon c Carter b *Hinds              9
*R. Sarwan c Carter b Nurse                     26
N. Deonarine c Nurse b *Hinds                21
C. Barnwell c Searles b Nurse                     0
R. Crandon c Smith b Nurse                        3
J. Foo not out                                                 42
L. Cush b Benn                                                  2
E. Crandon b Nurse                                        6
+D. Christian c Carter b Nurse                   7
D. Bishoo not out                                             2
Extras (b1, lb1, w6, nb1)                              9
TOTAL (9 wkts, 19.5 overs)                    135
Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Dowlin, 3.5 overs); 2-38 (Chattergoon, 7.6); 3-62 (*Sarwan, 12.1); 4-63 (Barnwell, 12.5); 5-72 (Deonarine, 13.6); 6-76 (R. Crandon, 14.6); 7-78 (Cush, 15.2); 8-85 (E. Crandon, 16.3); 9-109 (+Christian, 18.1)
Bowling: Searles 3.5-0-26-0 (nb1, w4); Benn 4-0-21-2 (w1); D.R. Smith 4-0-21-0 (w1); *Hinds 4-0-30-2; Nurse 4-0-35-5
Result: Guyana won by one wicket (1 ball remaining)
Series: Guyana wins the Caribbean T20 Championship
Man-of-the-Match: Jonathan Foo (Guyana)
Most Valuable Player: Davendra Bishoo (Guyana)
Umpires: B. Doctrove, N. Malcolm
TV umpire: C. Duncan
Match referee: C. Cumberbatch
Reserve umpire: C. Mack

Caribana Parade – 2010

Caribana parade: ‘It looks as if a third of the city is here’

Toronto Star – Katie Daubs – Staff reporter – Saturday July 31, 2010.

July 31, 2010 Caribana revelers enjoy the 43rd annual parade along Lake Shore Blvd. The sights and sounds of Saturday's Caribana parade were enough to bring a smile to any face - as were events leading up to the parade. Toronto Star/Andrew Wallace

Caribana sights and sounds

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The sights and sounds of Saturday’s Caribana parade were enough to bring a smile to any face.

Especially one covered in sparkles.

“She likes to dance,” Latasha Coombs said, smiling with glittery lips as her one year old daughter did her best booty shake between swigs of her sippy cup.

Heaven Tyrell was decked out in a full red and gold costume just like her mom for her very first Caribana.

Three generations of the family were waiting for the parade to begin in the Exhibition Place parking lot. The lot was filled with colourful masqueraders dancing non-stop among discarded chicken bones and water bottles. Coombs’ aunt Cherry-Ann Baird didn’t mind the wait. She was happy to be “listening to the music, dancing and having a good time” with her family.

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Jagdeo in US$30M laptops pledge

–as GT&T commissions broadband service

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday (July 29), pledged some US$30 million over the next three years to purchase laptops for poor families as GT&T officially launched the Suriname/ Guyana- Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS), the backbone on which the e-magine broadband service was rolled out earlier this month.

Addressing attendees at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Jagdeo, who has long bandied the computer-in-every-home idea, said the only reason the initiative did not get off the ground before was the uncertainty surrounding internet access.

“That situation has changed now that we have this cable and by the end of the year hopefully will be further enhanced,” the President said. “So we will be setting aside some US$30 million over the next three years to give at least 90,000 households some instrument. We’ll focus on the poorest households in Guyana.”

According to Jagdeo, it would help generate the demand to sell the bandwidth GT&T has available. However, he noted that those families may not be able to afford broadband service initially and may receive some assistance from the state.He challenged GT&T and its parent company Atlantic Tele Network (ATN) to set aside the resources to produce other types of content saying that demand for the service can be created.

“If we are clever working together, developing more applications that we can put on this backbone that we’ve created then more people are going to use it and in no time whatsoever you’re going to recover the investment,” he said.

The President added that having affordable internet was also important to the education sector, an area in which he said the region was losing its competitive edge. He noted that he has been calling for a regional Information Com-munication Technology (ICT) plan focusing on regional broadband access for all of the people.

“We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on roads, on water supply, sewerage etcetera, and those are important but they don’t have the same kind of transformative impact on our society if we were to spend this on broadband access plus the instruments for all of our households. The educational industry could see a boom in our region and we can probably offset some of the loss of competitiveness in the traditional trade areas that we are accustomed to.”

According to Jagdeo, Guyana has a duty to do it if it’s not going to be done at the regional level.“I know we have resource constraints but … this is one area if the state has to even subsidise that access it will,” he said.

Meanwhile, it was revealed that the Columbus Group which is providing GT&T with the bandwidth for the cable will be making some 20 gigabytes of bandwidth available for educational purposes in Guyana over the next three years.

And in brief remarks ATN CEO Michael Prior acknowledged the support from Jagdeo for the cable project and said that they shared his vision that demand had to be created.

“We’re going to have to take another leap of faith as the President suggests and urges us and rightly so … and make sure it’s very affordable and that we wheel people in and that we figure out products that are accessible to all,” Prior said.

He added that the laptop per household initiative would be a great help in speeding up the growth of broadband in Guyana. However, he cautioned that it would be a while before broadband was available to everyone pointing out that even in the US they were playing catch up.

Earlier, GT&T’s Chief Financial Officer and CEO-designate Yog Mahadeo announced that they had entered several strategic partnerships including with Starr Computers for low cost computers and Brainstreet for virtual classrooms.

Mahadeo said they will continue to work for a fair return on their investment and to fight “the scourge of bypass” calls which costs the company a lot of revenue. Mahadeo is to succeed Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh as CEO of the company from August.

Also in attendance was Chairman of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Orga-nisations and Managing Director of Telesur Dirk Curry. GT&T and Telesur are co-investors in the submarine optic cable project worth some US$60 million.

The cable connects Guyana and Suriname with Trinidad and Tobago and ultimately, the rest of the world, according to GT&T. The facility will make available 3,000 times the current bandwidth capacity in use locally, providing an improvement in the delivery of telecommunications and related services in Guyana while acting as redundancy for the Americas II cable.

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