Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 9, 2007

The current issue of Time magazine flatters its readers with the conceit that 2006 was the year of the Ordinary Person.

With the new format of regional cricket, defending champions Guyana will begin their quest for a 10th regional one-day title against the 2005 semi-finalists, Wind-ward Islands, in Grenada today.

Guyana Cricket Board president (GCB) Chetram Singh said yesterday he has alerted the various competition committees about the opportunity provided by the recent good weather to get an early start to the domestic season.

Junior vice-president of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Ken Elexey passed away Saturday morning at the St Joseph Mercy Hospita,l where he succumbed to colon cancer.

When the panel of judges meets to select Guyana’s Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2006 on January 26, they would have a tough decision to make since among the top performers in this category last year are two 15-year-olds – table tennis player Trenace Lowe and track athlete Alika Morgan.

Herstelling and Prospect set up a semi-final showdown when both teams recorded victories in their quarter-final games as the East Bank Demerara Basketball tournament continued on Sunday.

As a young boy in Guyana, not unlike others in the islands of the Caribbean, the game of cricket was merely one of life’s simple pleasures.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial captioned “A real tragedy” dealing with the kidnapping of a baby from a l3 year-old girl.

Dear Editor, Thank you for raising the questions that most people and the relevant agencies should be asking about the situation of Shevonne Green.

Dear Editor, I read the ‘Consumer Concerns’ article in Sunday Stabroek, 7th January, about drugs and their ‘use-by’ dates.

Dear Editor, I support Mr. Christopher Ram who has given some highlights of the global scourge of casino gambling in his letter captioned “Casinos are widely favoured by drug interests as laundries” (07.01.06).

Dear Editor, I empathise with Heather Martin’s letter captioned “I was charged $56 extra on a tub of butter, the supermarket said it had already paid consumption tax of 30%” (07.01.04).

Dear Editor, Twenty-one-year-old Rodney Beckles, son of the principal of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus, was yesterday charged with the murder of 28-year-old Khalil Campbell.

Dear Editor, When reading the list of zero-rated food items in the papers, you wonder what was going on in the Ministry of Finance and in the government generally as they come up with it.

Dear Editor, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said at a meeting with community policing members at Annandale in December, 2006, that he is challenging East Coast policing groups to do more about crime, he also said that groups are not doing enough to stop crime in their villages, and that crime has increased on the east coast over the years.

Dear Editor, I have observed with interest our President making certain statements about Le Meridien Pegasus.

Dear Editor, The members of some minibus associations are calling for a 20 percent increase in fares or they will engage in protest action mainly in the form of a strike.

Dear Editor, As was reported in the Kaieteur News on 1/6/07, Buddy’s Hotel is about to be completed and this bodes well for Guyana.

Dear Editor, Kashif and Shanghai are businessmen at Linden. I presume that we would all agree that private businesses are run to make a profit and can only be sustained if the returns are satisfactory.

Dear Editor, I refer to the Guyana Chronicle’s front page article headlined “Harpy eagle killed on Linden-Lethem road” dated January 6, 2007.

What appears to be a well-planned and executed break and enter and robbery some time Sunday night or early yesterday morning has left a businessman pondering his next move after losing an estimated $4.5 million less than one month after making an investment.

Members of the public are being urged not to pay any increase in fares when using public transportation services since there has been no increase in gasoline prices or vehicle parts as a result of the newly introduced Value Added Tax (VAT).

Two gun-toting bicycle bandits robbed and beat a 55-year-old female shopkeeper at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara around 10 am yesterday.

Outgoing President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Gerry Gouveia says the private sector is “furious and hurt” over the treatment meted out to it by the Guyana Revenue Authority in the wake of the chaos surrounding the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT).

A teenaged boy who with another person allegedly robbed his employer of a quarter million dollars was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A businessman is counting his losses after persons unknown stole his car worth $4.5 million and set it alight at Mocha Arcadia.

The Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) organisation will not be staging the Linden town week this year after a dispute with the council over the payment of a $2 million fee but the council says it is still moving ahead with plans for the April event.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) through the Ministry of Agriculture has in the pipeline the purchase of two long-boom excavators at a cost of $60M for work on the main conservancy.

After a number of setbacks in the Caribbean region the Hydrometeorological Service has finally been able to start work on the radar tower for the long awaited Doppler Radar.

Four suicides and ten attempted suicides reportedly fuelled by alcoholism among other issues have rocked the hinterland community of Santa Rosa within recent weeks.

Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday remanded to prison a woman and her son who allegedly had 52 grammes of cannabis for trafficking.

A four-member delegation from the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) is here for a seven-day visit.