Articles published on Friday, January 19, 2007
This pointedly brief piece published on this day is my own way of expressing unqualified solidarity with the Stabroek News and Sunday Stabroek in their issue with the Government regarding the latter’s withdrawal of State advertising from the two ‘papers.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday granted bail to a 12-year-old boy who appeared for the second time before him on a charge of unlawful wounding.
Two men appeared in the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on a charge of stealing over $270,000 worth of items from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) and were remanded to prison.
Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of robbery when he yesterday appeared to answer to the charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday granted bail to a teenaged boy who allegedly fondled a 12-year-old girl on Christmas Eve day.
A man who was accused of breaking into a woman’s home and raping her four years ago at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara was set free on Tuesday after a High Court jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty.
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Banks DIH Ltd is currently engaged in discussions with the West Indies Rum and Spirit Producers Association (WIRSPA) aimed at helping the company emulate the highly successful local and regional marketing success of its rum products in North America and Europe according to the Company’s Rum Factory Executive Robert Sugdeo.
With the Old Metal Dealers’ Act having just been amended to grant government the power to halt the trade in scrap metal, local dealers are pondering the implications of the amended legislation for the future of an industry which they say provides a livelihood for more than 30,000 Guyanese.
Although the government had said prior to the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) that the initial phase of the exercise was unlikely to pass without some hiccups, one wonders whether even the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) had anticipated the widespread and animated public response and the level of general concern that has ensued.
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I strongly believe that company executives in Guyana do not spend enough time on developing our local human capital.
With Cricket World Cup 2007 now just two months away the financial crisis gripping the Georgetown City Council continues to cast a huge pall of uncertainty over the likely success of what is clearly a “last ditch” effort to at least render the capital presentable for the Guyana leg of the world’s largest international cricket tournament.
Like most local business houses contemplating the implications of the January 1, 2007 introduction of the new Value Added and Excise Tax, Bryden and Fernandes Inc, one of the country’s largest distributors of household and food products is cautious about its business projections for the year ahead.
Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.
A 2004 report, which criticised aspects of the Louis Berger feasibility study done on the Berbice bridge, has been ignored and government is moving to build the bridge using the Berger recommendations.
Seventeen national associations have submitted nominations for the 2006 National Sports Awards and according to Director of Sports Neil Kumar, selecting the winners for the various awards might be a difficult task for the panel of judges.
President of the club, Devin Munroe told Stabroek Sport in an interview on Wednesday that the club is using whatever “little” resources are available to develop the venue while the Local Organising Committee (LOC) is to come forward with assistance.
A new track and field club comprising some of the top sprinters, middle distance and distance athletes in Guyana is expected to take the country by storm soon.
President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Affeeze Khan is leading by example with his sponsorship of three of Guyana’s top amateur boxers who will be taking part in a tournament in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad today and tomorrow.
The Guyana Darts Association (GDA) will host its first darts tournament for 2007 tomorrow at the Guyana Motor Racing Sports Club, (GMRSC) Woolford Avenue.
The Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) will show their gratitude and appreciation by means of a race walk on Sunday January 28 in memory of the late veteran race walker Lennox “Engine” Jacobs.
Dear Editor, I strongly believe that it is incumbent upon me to reveal a suicidally depressing situation in which my brother was embroiled.
Dear Editor, It was my first experience of Linden in the night, and more importantly of Christmas Eve night.
Dear Editor, On Dec 30 2006, the Kuru Kururu neighborhood was assaulted by loud and annoying music coming from a party in the village.
Dear Editor, Other Red Thread members are in the process of responding to the VAT-related points made in the letter by Commissioner-General Sattaur published in the Chronicle on Tuesday, January 16 and in the Stabroek News on Wednesday, January 17.
Dear Editor, According to your note to my letter you did not receive two letters I e-mailed recently.
Dear Editor, The Anna Regina Multilateral School held its termly PTA meeting on Sunday, January 14th 2007.
Dear Editor, Thank you for the publication of my letter captioned “The members of this Water Users Association were not democratically elected” (07.01.03).
Dear Editor, We refer to the article concerning the Hubu goat farmer on the 13th January 2007 with a picture of a dog on a piece of land.
Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned about the views being expressed in the written media outlets about the denial of ads to Stabroek News.
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Colin Bascom of the Executive Committee of The Campaign for Justice in Guyana (JIG UK) captioned “Our relations with India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” (07.01.17).
Dear Editor, As perhaps expected, the nay-sayers and doomsayers are at it again, this time about the Health Facilities Licensing Bill 2006, by those who seem determined to criticize any and everything that the government does or is about to do.
Dear Editor, Being an avid user of the internet and a web developer, I feel a compulsion to write on the subject.
Dear Editor, Is there another country on planet earth where the mere sight of a Guyana Power and Light bill (GPL Bill) increases hypertension, diarrhoea, heart attacks and other unpleasant response except Guyana, the land of many waters that should have been generating electricity at the minimum rate.
Dear Editor, It is appalling to see the dramatic spate of protest against casino gambling by groups of particular religious persuasions and non-religious groups.
A young man of Riverview, Ruimveldt was brutally shot to death in Middle Road, La Penitence last evening by two men who calmly rode away on a pedal bicycle.
Given the raging controversy over the casino gambling bill there is an expectation that it would be sent to a select committee prior to passage based on parliamentary precedent and today’s key sitting will be presided over by Deputy Speaker Clarissa Riehl.
A sixth Mazaruni Prison escapee, Dhineshwar Sooklall of Wakenaam, was yesterday nabbed by the Joint Services, one week after the jail-break in which he and eight others fled from the high security facility.
The body of Hazrat Alli, the missing passenger from a boat collision near the Bartica Stelling on Tuesday night, was yesterday afternoon found at Kaow Island, Essequibo River.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon says he sees no room at the moment for revisiting the cut-off in GINA advertising in the Stabroek News (SN) and any change would have to be dictated by financial and economic considerations.
Secretary to the Defence Board, Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday publicly apologized for an inability to explain to the Guyanese populace the status of the investigations into the army’s missing AK-47s.
President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday met representatives of the Export Import Bank of India (EXIM) to pave the way forward for specific developmental projects that could be funded by the bank.
Local beef exporters would need to ensure that beef products are competitive in quality, price and service.
Casino gambling legislation is a means by which criminal elements in Guyana can conceal their various activities including extra-judicial killings and a number of other illegal activities.
The PNCR-1G and its supporters who are lobbying against the impact of the Value Added Tax (VAT) changed the route of a protest march staged yesterday by making a detour west into Regent Street instead of east into Church Street.
Lethem has been without power since Wednesday night and the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) plans a protest there tomorrow when Prime Minister Sam Hinds is supposed to be in the area.
An attack by what is believed to be Africanised bees at Liliendaal yesterday forced a woman and a Digicel contractor to seek treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says some aspects of police reform have already been implemented and he expects the implementation of the security plan by mid-year.
The government has been gearing Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice) to transform its dependency on the mining sector into diversified development that would improve the region’s economy.
The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) renewed a State Forest Permit (SFP) to Batavia, Region Seven, after the village council reapplied for it to allow residents to utilise the land for economic activities.
Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says consumers have the power to influence market prices and can ensure that the unscrupulous actions of some businesses do not affect the cost-of-living due to the implementation of the value-added tax (VAT).
Help and Shelter says there needs to be standards for the media in responsible reporting with regard to sexual abuse cases.
Two men were yesterday being questioned as investigations continued into the strangling of a nine-year-old girl whose lifeless body was discovered amid a pile of logs on a Parika beach on Tuesday morning.
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the Guyana Citizens Initiative (GCI) recently held a workshop on safe water with residents of Mocha Arcadia.
Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand says the ministry is working with the Georgetown Legal Aid Clinic to extend legal services to Regions Five and Ten.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) says three persons listed in a wanted bulletin last week have been arrested.
The five children of Parika Backdam fire victim, Glarey Bowling are back at school after many difficulties in the months following the family tragedy.
