Woman hit by speeding bus still in ICU
Twenty-nine-year-old June Ann James who was hit in the head by a speeding route 41 minibus on Aubrey Barker Road on Monday night was still critical in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening. The woman’s relatives told this newspaper that while she was not able to communicate with them by [...]
No arrests yet in ex-cop’s murder
Two days after an ex-policeman was executed in his car at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara police are yet to arrest his killers. When asked whether anyone had been arrested in connection with the killing of Orlando Edwards, Commander of ‘C’ Division Leroy Brummel said yesterday that detectives were still conducting their investigations and no one [...]
Allen’s rice complex at Essequibo for sale by receiver
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) through its receiver Maurice Solomon is seeking to sell 44 acres of rice land in the name of Allen’s Enterprise Limited, now in receivership at Coffee Grove, Anna Regina on the Essequibo Coast. A notice from the bank said Allen’s Enterprises, once a thriving ten-tonne rice milling [...]
Road safety tops the agenda at ‘B’ Division policing group activity
The ‘B’ Division Com-munity Policing Committees are hosting a week of community outreach activities, including road safety lectures, to mark its ‘Awareness Week’ observances. The Bush Lot Community Policing Group kicked off the activities by repainting the pedestrian crossing in the village on Sunday. Chairman of the group Anand said the painting was done at [...]
Education Salvaging science:
It is universally acknowledged that the body of knowledge known as science has had and continues to have the greatest impact on human development. Accord-ingly, science teachers have a critical role to play in ensuring that every child leaves the formal school system with a basic understanding of the nature of science and the relevance [...]
Festivals
Guyana’s Mashramani is a commemorative event to mark the country’s attainment of republican staus on February 23, 1970. The annual festivities have their origin in a cabinet decision taken in 1970. Mashramani is Guyana’s single largest indigenous festival. Among both home-based and migrant Guyanese – who return home each year to participate in the festivities [...]
CSME
The enthusiast of Caribbean Integration would be excused if he or she considers the pace at which the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) is being implemented to be less than ideal. Indeed, a study of the Communiqu
Society
Neither continually rising fuel prices or a less than reliable national road network has sated the desire among Guyanese to possess their own cars. The cars just keep coming. “Houses and cars are the two things that Guyanese most want to own – and not necessarily in that order,” says a local car dealer. Time [...]
Regional Affairs
Caricom’s evolving policy framework Integration efforts in the Caribbean have always been driven by a sense of common history, geography and politico-cultural make-up (which motivated the federation attempts of the late 1950s) and the imperatives of achieving economies of scale and scope so as to offset the disadvantages of extreme small size of population, physical [...]
Philately
The year 1876 saw further advancements in the postage stamps of British Guiana. Prior to this juncture the colony’s postage stamps were printed on un-watermarked paper by typeset (the locally printed stamps) or by lithography (by Waterlow & Sons in London). The Crown Agents of the United Kingdom took over from the Colony’s London agent [...]
Wildlife
Philippe Kok, a Herpetologist from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences returned recently from his sixth trip to the Kaieteur National Park. He was accompanied by Michelle Kalamandeen of the Centre for the Study of Biological Diversity at the University of Guyana (UG), Paul Benjamin of Chenapau Village, and Giuliano “Kinky” Seegobin of Menzies [...]
Book review
Derek Walcott | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 | ISBN 0374237433, 112 Pages, $20.00 A review by Brendan de Caires Home Is Where The Art Is “When I came home I expected a surprise & there was no surprise for me, so, of course, I was surprised.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein The Prodigal is a self-consciously [...]
People
Gordon Braithwaite wears the expression of a man who would relish a rolling back of the years
Industry
The following is a revised version of a paper presented to the Aluminum Symposium at Paria Suites Hotel, Trinidad on December 5, 2006 (reprinted from the Trinidad and Tobago Review January 1, 2007) When public outcry forces the government into taking positive action we know that our democracy is working. It is therefore necessary to [...]
Sport Review
(Reprinted from Cricinfo Magazine) At Lord’s was the scenery, it bound to go down to history,” as the calypso goes, and so it did. It was in 1950, more than a decade before any of Britain’s colonies in the Caribbean was to become a republic, that West Indies defeated England in a Test match in [...]