Daily Archive: Monday, January 1, 2007

Avery Grant – student: ‘I plan on writing five subjects at the CXC examination in May/June of this year and I am hoping that I will do well.

The blighted Georgetown city council will enter 2007 still deep in debt amounting to millions of dollars and owing a part of its work force for outstanding wages and benefits due last year.

An exhilarating experience and much glory is what the eternal optimist hopes the dawning of a new year will bring to Guyana in 2007.

Dear Editor, I write as President of the Guyana Association of Private Security Organiza-tions to clarify the concerns of the police expressed in a press release to the media.

Dear Editor, Thursday’s full page paid advertisement in SN (28th December) on the causes of the City’s woes must be seen as the last spin of the mayoral dice – loaded, which way ever you look at it.

Dear Editor, Pit Bulls are generally feared worldwide. In some countries they are banned for the danger they represent to the average citizen.

Dear Editor, I could not believe I was seeing and hearing right.

Dear Editor, Having read the advertisement in SN d/d 2006/12/28, by the Mayor of Georgetown Mr.

Dear Editor, I read with interest the seemingly interminable debate on corporal punishment in schools.

Dear Editor, I refer to Dennis Wiggins’s letter “Black nationalism did not inspire violence against Indians” (06.11.05).

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr. Mohamed Khan’s letter in the Wednesday, December 27, 2006 issue of Kaieteur News, on the topic who will enforce the Rice Factories’ Act.

President Bharrat Jagdeo last night announced that from this year’s budget $100M will be set aside annually for a sports and arts development fund.

A prominent citizen is calling on members of the Guyana Police Force to look into the number of firearm licences that are handed to the young children of rich businesspeople here who he described as `baby phantoms’.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), in its new year’s message, has slammed the 5% wage hike for the public sector and has called on the government to commit itself to “the principle and practice of respect and adherence to the process of free collective bargaining.”

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) says that the reported 5% growth in the economy over the last year indicated by the government has been negated by a 10% rise in the cost of living over the same period.

Two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, on Friday night robbed Elana Bowman of Strathspey Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara while she was at home with her daughter.

The year has come to an end, but the police are still to bring closure to a number of sensational murders including those of Talk Show host, Ronald Waddell and building contractor Gazz Sheermohamed.

The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), in which Russian bauxite giant RUSAL has majority shareholding, has completed the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for its new project at Kurubuka which could see the development of two open pit mines.

CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington says the community is determined to complete the framework for the single economy by 2008.

A Sophia resident is in a serious condition at the Georgetown Hospital after being stabbed early yesterday morning by the reputed husband of a woman he took to his home.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) is urging Muslims to recommit themselves to Allah and turn away from corruption in observance of Eid-ul-Adha.

The owner of R. Bacchus and Sons Trucking Services succumbed early yesterday morning to the injuries he received when he was hit by a speeding ‘army style’ vehicle last Thursday.

Traffic Chief Roland Alleyne has acknowledged that there “may have been a breach” of the no parking sign outside of the Celina Atlantic resort on Thursday night and said action will be taken to ensure there is no recurrence.

The Police Service Commis-sion through the Police Public Relations Department yesterday announced the promo-tion of 71 senior and junior officers, chief inspectors and inspectors in the Guyana Police Force.

The Guyana Association of Medical Laboratory Profes-sionals (GAMLP) has undertaken several initiatives in an effort to improve the medical laboratory accreditation process.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has extended greetings to the Muslim community as it celebrates the festival of Eid-ul-Adha.

President Bharrat Jagdeo distributed gifts to children in Sophia and those who are patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Christmas Day.

Kei-Shar’s Gift Shoppe and Variety Store has announced the winners in the final drawing of the Christmas Bonus Bonanza.

The Women’s Affairs Committee of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees is grateful to several organisations and companies for supporting their efforts to bring cheer to the children at the Sad’r Boys and Girls Orphanages and the Joshua House.

Guyanese should try to inculcate the lofty attributes of sacrifice, dedication, service and loyalty in their lives as they face the challenges of nation building, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said in extending Eid-ul-Adha greetings to all Guyanese in particular to the Muslim community.

Glarey Bowling, the woman who is bedridden after being severely burnt when her Parika Backdam home was channa bombed by a family friend, has received two wheelchairs and a quantity of foodstuff.