Guyanese international poker tournment?

What are we waiting for?

We have the hotel; beautiful Buddy International Hotel. We have legal casino gambling now in Guyana. We have one of the world’s best poker player; Victor Ramdin. So what are we waiting for people? Let’s hold an international poker tournament.

The World Series of Poker had a prize pool of over 50 million USD for the main event and over 160 million of total prize for 2006. Come on Mr. Shivraj, come on Minister Prashad take note.

A possible solution to the GOG vs. SN ads dispute

Dear editor,

I am tired of hearing about this ad dispute. Since Stabroek News is the undisputed leader in popularity for online news, why the newspaper hasn’t offer the government online ads and take away the argument about poor circulations? Here are some proof that stabroeknews.com is the leader in Guyanese web news.

I am attaching a screen shot of Alexa; the web leader in traffic ranking. Anyone can fact check my data at Alexa.com. The chart is read by numbers of visitors of the Guyanese news sites out of 1 million Alexa users.

Another point to consider is Kaieteurnewsgy.com and Guyanachronicle.com is not catalogued by Google News, therefore you cannot get google alerts from those websites. Please note GINA is catalogued by google news.

Stabroeknews.com is the most PDA and cell phone friendly of the Guyanese news sites. I would mostly browse and read Guyanese news from my Sidekick 3 and the problem with Guyanachronicle.com is they use anchors as clickable links, which means the information you need is embedded in a full page of other texts, it can be frustrating when you looking for something specific on a small phone screen. Kaieteurnewsgy.com have a lot of flash on their website, which is not viewable on my phone and on the headline page, I cannot read any of the texts. Basically I can only see the front page picture without any online news.

Thank you,

Asif Mohamed

Withdrawal of Stabroek News ads is giving Guyana too much negative world publicity.

Withdrawal of Stabroek News ads is giving Guyana too much negative world publicity.

I love when newspapers and magazines around the world carry stories on Guyana, for example today the World Poultry Magazine carry a story on Guyana’s development in that sector and the University of Victoria (The Ring) carry a story about preservation of Guyanese cultural heritage.

Regardless of what or why ads were removed from Stabroek News, Guyana have received a lot of bad publicity, from the Commonwealth Press Union, hardbeatnews.com, caribbeannetnews.com, Jamaica Gleaner, Hemscott, ABC Money, Forex TV, Forbes, The International Press Institute (IPI), Reporters Without Borders, Barbados Daily Nation and a host of local organizations.

I hope both parties involved would come to some type of compromise because in the end Guyana is hurting.

Asif Mohamed