Daily Archive: Sunday, January 21, 2007

The unanimity of the various faiths on the subject of casino gambling has clearly taken the government off guard.

John Limerick The team is good at playing football but they are not scoring goals.

The Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes (RHT-FM) under-15 team was led to a tense victory over Port Mourant through an exciting unbroken eight wicket partnership worth 18 runs between Rohan Sookram and Surendra Kissoonlall off 23 balls on Sunday at the area “H” ground.

Managing Director of Woodpecker Products, Trophies and Sports, Luana Fernandes said that before the implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on January 1 this year, all sports items were subject to a 10 percent duty tax but no consumption tax.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said government is pleased with the results of the volunteer programme, speaking during the third press briefing hosted at the office of the Local Organising Committee (LOC).

The Gunners Sports Club defeated the Ravens by two wickets in the third annual Troy Jeffery Memorial 30-over cricket match played last Sunday while the Henrietta United juniors beat the seniors in the football match.

Dear Mr Sattaur, In your letter to the editor published in the Guyana Chronicle on January 16, 2007 and the next day in Stabroek News you accused us of being biased.

Dear Editor, Is it just me or has the Regional Administration of Region Six been in the media, especially television, lately?

Dear Editor, I had the misfortune of travelling to Georgetown on a school day using the regular East Coast Highway.

Dear Editor, One “too early to sleep” night on a cruise ship, my wife and I decided to play the “slot machines”- those things that you put in your coins, pull the lever or press a button, there is a fun noise and if you win, out comes a whole bunch of coins so pleasing to the ears and the heart.

Dear Editor, After reading Colin Bascom’s letter, “Our relations with India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” (SN 17-01-07), I had to re-check the meaning of the word “justice”.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Brother Eusi Kwayana’s letter captioned “I strongly object to the appointment of Shri Gossai as an adviser on ethnic relations and culture” (02.01.17) as it relates to comments attributed to me.

Dear Editor, Permit me to congratulate the Better Hope Community Policing Group for apprehending a bandit who had robbed a shop in the community.

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina Town Council collects revenue equal to $1,000 for every corpse that is buried there, but nothing is being done to maintain the cemetery.

Dear Editor, Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) imminent outsourcing of transmission and distribution major maintenance is of great concern to employees of the transmission and distribution department.

Pain is a universal human experience. It is an unpleasant sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

My wife is trying to get me to stop smoking and she says it can damage my eyes.

When my daughter began nursery school about six years ago, she came from school one day so anxious to relate what had occurred, the words were tripping over each other.

One of the greatest pleasures I have is talking about plants.

Tapeworms, though not as lethal as hookworms can be equally debilitating in the long run.

Last week we took a brief look at contemporary African poetry as illustrated by a selection from a poet resident in Britain, Nigeria born Ben Okri, who won the Booker Prize 1991 for his novel The Famished Road.

The poor are always with us. In Guyana we are very conscious of the fact that many of our consumers are living from hand to mouth.

Continued from last week Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, was the location for the encounter between Fischer and Spassky.

There is no connection between sexual mores and job performance. Many of the greatest leaders in history were unbridled lechers.

Listening to Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, speak in Aruba one could not but have sympathy with her and the difficult hand that she has been given to play over Caricom’s new visa regime.

Introduction Last year this publication ran a story regarding a potential reform being considered by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to replace the current pay as you go system with a system whereby benefits are set with reference to the amount of contributions paid into the scheme (‘NIS eyes contribution-based pensions proposal as part of reform,’ Sunday Stabroek, November 5, 2006).

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A man who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison in December last year by jumping the fence continues to evade capture by law enforcement authorities more than a month later.

Members of the medical fraternity are preparing to send a position paper on the controversial Health Licensing Facilities Bill of 2006 to the select committee to which the bill was sent last week.

The Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) has expressed disappointment that President Bharrat Jagdeo has not taken into account the views of the religious community in terms of withdrawing the Gambling Prevention (Amendment) Bill for wider consultation.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has established a board of enquiry to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding the jail break at the Mazaruni Prison on Friday January 12.

The Guyana Government has shot itself in the foot with a very bad political move that smacks of the old, discredited ‘Burnhamist doctrine’ of the late President Forbes Burnham which had reached into all aspects of governance, including crude interferences and worse, in the functioning of the country’s media.

The government, with the assistance of international agencies, has spent approximately $5 billion to repair damaged infrastructure and improve drainage and irrigation (D&I) capabilities countrywide since the disastrous flood of December 2004/January2005.

The Iwokrama International Centre and Conservation International have scheduled a public viewing of An Inconvenient Truth on Thursday, January 25, in the Rupununi Room, Hotel Tower at 6 pm.

Relatives of a 21-year-old man who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital six days after jumping into the Lamaha Canal popularly called the `Blacka’ believe that negligence by the hospital’s staff had a big part to play in his demise.

Chairman and Managing Director of Banks DIH Limited Clifford Reis said that the Value Added Tax (VAT) would cost the company between $200 to $300M per year and that the “jury is still out” on the new tax regime’s revenue neutrality.

Former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie has taken up a position to head the Saraswat Primary School after receiving a letter of introduction from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), despite opposition from the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU).

Over 16,000 public assistance recipients countrywide will soon be able to collect their grants from various post offices, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas.

Officials should stick to procedures in order to avoid the potential for the cultivating of corrupt practices and to project a positive image of the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).