Does it make sense to continue building on the coastland?
Dear Editor, Now will the government sit up and listen after the Montrose flooding? Will they now realise that the rip rap sea defence they are bent on building is a joke? Look at the magnitude and force of the waves. How can sand and boulders, which are not even anchored, withstand such an onslaught?
We should concentrate for now on the Caricom rice market
Dear Editor, After reading Mr Jessop’s article in the Sunday Stabroek on the EPA and rice, I wondered quite amusingly how situations always change. When the EU was conceiving the EPA, the rice farmers were on their knees with respect to prices and yet the EU was willing to price them out of the market [...]
Disappointed Gayle takes positives from defeat
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle is disappointed over losing the opening Digicel Test to Sri Lanka, but believes his side gained many positives from the match at the Guyana National Stadium. After West Indies lost by 121 runs to hand Sri Lanka their first Test win in the Caribbean yesterday, Gayle [...]
Holding, Bishop, Cozier stimulating
- ‘Night of Nostalgia’ By Kiev Chesney Three of the most distinguished cricket voices from the commentary box, two of whom are masters of the game, graced the Savannah Suite of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel on Tuesday evening for the ‘Reds’ Perreira Foundation’s Night of Nostalgia. Former West Indies fast bowlers Michael `Whispering Death’ Holding [...]
Sri Lanka scores historic win
Sri Lanka’s total dominance over the last four days culminated in defeat for the West Indies on the fifth and final day of the first Digicel Home Series test at the National Stadium, Providence, yesterday. Starting the day on 96-1 and needing a further 341 runs for victory, the homesters were dismissed for 315 with [...]
NA man remanded on carnal knowledge charge
A 25-year-old man who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a female under the age of fifteen was yesterday taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and subsequently remanded to prison. Gregory Mittleholzer of 43 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam was not required to plead to the charge when it was read to him by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle. [...]
History This Week No. 2008/12
West Indies – Sri Lanka Test Cricket: A historical perspective (Part I) By Winston McGowan Caribbean cricket fans are currently focusing on the visit to the region by the Sri Lankans. It is Sri Lanka’s third tour of the Caribbean since the country which bore the name Ceylon up to 1972 was raised to full [...]
The Bourda Accord
Just over a decade after President Janet Jagan and opposition leader Desmond Hoyte signed the Herdmanston Accord at the northern end of New Garden Street in Georgetown on 17 January 1998, President Bharrat Jagdeo and forty social partners agreed to the Bourda Accord at the Office of the President at the southern end of the [...]
Missing hotel owner
Samples from highway corpse for DNA testing Samples have been taken from the remains of a female corpse believed to be that of Roselaine Hall, the hotel owner who went missing two months ago; and police have followed all the procedures to have a DNA test done to identify the body. The body was discovered [...]
Civil aviation workers payout now approved
Guyana Civil Aviation Autho-rity (GCAA) employees are to begin receiving the promised $18 million payout today after it gained Cabinet’s nod last week. The matter was taken to Cabinet after Minister of Transport Robeson Benn halted the payout, citing non-approval from him and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh as well as the fact that the [...]
Cabinet puts UG under focus
Cabinet has been paying attention to the entry requirements for prospective students to the University Of Guyana, the mandatory resort to external examiners and the use of peer reviews. Attention is also being focused on the independent review of scripts, academic standards and appointments and the size of the student population and areas of study.
National business survey to begin soon
A national economic survey of business establishments is scheduled to begin shortly and Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh says the survey is important to the rebasing of the national accounts to allow for more accurate measuring of economic activity conducted in Guyana. The minister has also urged the enumerators involved to ensure that their [...]
Man attempts suicide in Diamond lock-ups
A man who was being held in the Diamond Police Station lock-ups is currently a patient of the Georgetown Hospital after he attempted to commit suicide in his prison cell yesterday afternoon by tying his shirt to an iron bar. The man of Little Diamond Housing Scheme is presently in the open ward of the [...]
West Coast farmers set grade A paddy price at $4,000
As the paddy price row continues, members of a newly-formed farmers’ group have said that the price per bag for top quality paddy should be at least $4,000. They were also up in arms over the government selling cheap rice in George-town where half of the country’s population lives.