Ramesh Dookhoo is new GMSA president
Ramesh Dookhoo is new GMSA president Banks DIH executive Ramesh Dookhoo is the newly-elected President of the Guyana Manufac-turing & Services Association Ltd for 2008-2009. He had served previously as president from 2002-2004.
NBS fraud case adjourned to May 23
It was all disappointment for those implicated in the New Building Society (NBS) multi-million dollar fraud case and their relatives when they turned up in court yesterday only to be told that Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin was doing remand work at the Camp Street prison and so the case could not be heard. This is one [...]
Cricket test match attendance ‘poor’
-fans miffed at no radio coverage By Miranda La Rose The Guyana National Stadium at Providence, East Bank Demerara is yet to attract a crowd of any magnitude in the current test match between West Indies and Sri Lanka. Attendance can be describ-ed simply as “poor” and the absence of coverage of the event by [...]
David King dies in Brazil after heart attack
Guyanese businessman David Robert Lynch King died yesterday afternoon at the age of 63 in a hospital in Boa Vista, Brazil after he suffered a massive heart attack earlier in the day while shopping. King was the Managing Director of King Advertising Limited of 150 Church Street, Alberttown. He was also a director of Maikan [...]
Demerara Bank gets US$2M loan from IIC
-to finance small, medium enterprises The Inter-American Invest-ment Corporation yesterday approved a US$2M ($400M) loan to Demerara Bank Limited to launch a programme that will provide Guyanese companies with medium and long term financing in US dollars. According to a press release from the IIC through the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank’s (IDB) George-town office, with the [...]
TB most worrying health problem in Guyana -Ramsammy restates
-over 700 new cases last year Tuberculosis (TB) is the most troublesome public health problem in Guyana at present, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has reiterated, and it could emerge as a major cause of death if progress in the fight is not accelerated. With 701 new cases being diagnosed last year, and 198 [...]
The conscience of the world
Dear Editor, In the present unrest in Tibet where the Tibetans are opposing Chinese occupation, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the American Congress said that the situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world. I do have great respect for Nancy Pelosi and maybe she is correct about what is [...]
Spring tide flooding
‘Basket to fetch water’ -Better Hope NDC Chair says about money for drains In the wake of last week’s spring tide flooding, Chair-man of the La Bonne Intention/Better Hope Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Thakur Persaud says the rates and taxes collected are insufficient for the amount of work needed like clearing drains. Responding to claims [...]
The security agenda must be pursued vigorously
Dear Editor, It is time for the civil, religious, political societies and the media to publicly and aggressively pursue the following initial steps:
Penalise this water waster
Dear Editor, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Mr. Karan Singh, says that he witnessed a man wasting huge amounts of water to wash his yard.
Global rice exports have been restricted and prices are up
Dear Editor, The US Department of Agriculture has reported that world supplies of rice have reached a 25-year low. It is so bad that the Philippines failed in its attempt to procure rice this week, a transaction that is usually straightforward. The current average offer price for rice is now US$680 per tonne, 40% up [...]
Guyanese have jobs all over the USA
Dear Editor, The presence of Guyanese all over the U.S amazes me. They are a very enterprising, ambitious and industrious people found all over the country. They go wherever they can find comfort and a decent living and they are hard workers. Their employers praise their work ethic. I was in Las Vegas last week [...]
No water bills at Cummings Lodge for six months
Dear Editor, Over the past six months we the residents of the block ‘Y’ South East Cummings Lodge have not received water bills. I am now hearing the CEO Mr. Karran Singh saying that GWI is on a nationwide disconnection campaign. In the month of October I went and queried a bill that was sent [...]
Disappointed at silence from some labour leaders on the Critchlow subvention issue
Dear Editor, My heart bleeds for the TUC as I watch the government’s treatment of organised labour and the behaviour of some labour leaders. As a former trade unionist, I participated in many trade union conferences in the 1970s and 1980s. Those were the days when the workers’ cause was foremost, and many sense it [...]
Mr Rohee’s comments are made at the same time as similar sentiments have been raised in the US presidential race
Dear Editor, There are two reasons for my response to the last letter from Minister Rohee. The first is that Minister Rohee in response to a letter about him from Mr. Ogunseye dealt with a topic, which has now taken the limelight in the presidential race in the US. The second reason is that in [...]