Jagdeo urges EPA to take more active role in national clean-up
President Bharrat Jagdeo has urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to get involved in the enhancement of the country as that role falls within the ambit of the agency. A release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said Jagdeo, on a tour of the National Zoological Park on Friday, declared that “when we crafted the [...]
Water utility floats valves promotion
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday launched a promotion which will see float valves being installed in 500 customers’ water tanks. The company is currently involved in a water conservation campaign aimed at educating customers and this is one of its initiatives. At a press conference held at the water utility’s head office yesterday, GWI Public [...]
Lotteries money paid into Consolidated Fund
A sum of roughly $12M from the Guyana Lotteries Company was deposited in the Consolidated Fund in December. Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh, in a written response yesterday to a question tabled in Parliament in the name of PNCR-1G MP Volda Lawrence, said the amount of $11,870,989 was paid into the Consolidated Fund on December [...]
Greene runs blistering 100m at AAG’s national c/ships
Rawle Greene recorded his fastest hand-timed sprint in Guyana in a dominant performance in the men’s 100m event at the Enmore ground on Sunday when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) staged the combined national junior and senior championships. Greene overcame a surge from Carlton Bobb in the middle of the race to end in [...]
Royston Crandon showered with prizes
Guyana’s senior opening batsman Royston Crandon was showered with prizes on Sunday after he was named Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) Cri-cketer-of-the-Year at the club’s 17th annual awards ceremony. A release from the club stated that Crandon took home approximately $400 ,000 worth of prizes including a ticket to the USA, a [...]
More on the Summit
In agreeing with President Jagdeo’s assessment of the 19th Summit of the Rio Group as a “success” and in offering congratulations to the President and his team, in our most recent editorial on the Summit, we were of necessity looking at the big picture. We deliberately refrained from commenting on the numerous glitches and the [...]
Bel Air couple arms trial
Defence counsel representing Swiss House boss and his beauty queen wife yesterday objected to two additional statements which the prosecution intended to serve. Farouk Razac and his wife Carolan Lynch are on trial at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys for unlawful possession of arms and ammunition. Razac and Lynch are charged with [...]
Five Black Bush men remanded over armed robberies there
Five men were yesterday charged with being involved in the recent armed attack on homes at Black Bush Polder and were refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan. Roy Fraser, called ‘Rambo’, along with his brother Leary Fraser, Radesh Singh, called ‘Youth Man’, Carlton Chaitram, called ‘Rishi’, and Chandradat Nirmal were not required to [...]
Mission Child Protection launched
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun a campaign aimed at getting children off the streets, reuniting them with their families where possible and working with parents and guardians to ensure that the children have a good home environment. To date, after three days ‘Mission Child Protection’ has seen 37 children rescued [...]
Morgan refused bail
Now accused of being a primary supplier of cocaine to Trinidad, Barbados, St Maarten and Canada, Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who US drug enforcement officials held at Piarco airport on Friday, was refused bail yesterday pending an extradition hearing. Head of the Central Authority Unit (CAU) in the Ministry of the Attorney-General attorney David West [...]
The ‘newly emerging private sector’ drive around in luxury vehicles
Dear Editor, The President now speaks of ‘a newly emerging private sector’. One can easily deduce who constitute this. The old and established business houses that conducted clean business are no more with the exception of a few like John Fernandes, Toolsie Persaud. It took years for such businesses to reach where they are today. [...]
The Press Association’s response to the President is unjustified
Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned “Press body slams President’s verbal assault on media” (SN, March 11, 2007). I read the reports of the President’s speech in Stabroek News and other sections of the media and at no point did the President “attack”, “berate” or “verbally assault” the media as the Guyana Press [...]
Congestion with cell phones continues
Dear Editor, In a response to a letter writer in the Sunday edition of Stabroek News (03/11/07), GT&T has acknowledged that with its per second billing system in use, it has observed an increase in the number of persons using its cell phones on the network thereby causing congestion. Apparently it hasn’t been doing anything [...]
The perils of a leader who adorns himself with Yes-Men
Dear Editor, It is always refreshing to read ‘Ian On Sunday’ and his column of Sunday 11-03-2007 is one to behold. In that column, Dr. Mc Donald highlights the danger of public officials and business executives finding comfort in the unprofessional conduct of those who are usually known as ‘Yes-men’, and I dare say that [...]
The PNCR should be willing to accommodate criticism
Dear Editor, I refer to Mrs. Volda Lawrence’s letter captioned “There is a proper forum for party matters to be dealt with” (07.02.09). Mrs. Lawrence named three forums where matters of the PNCR could be discussed, one of those is Congress. At the last Congress of the PNCR held in 2004, the membership did not [...]