Daily Archive: Monday, January 22, 2007

Rezena Sukram, sales clerk – ‘I’m not satisfied with the investigation so far into the disappearance of the missing weapons because they have only found a small amount.

Two revealing meetings were held over the last two weeks in relation to local government at which the subject minister Mr Kellawan Lall presided.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul fashioned an innings of quite exceptional quality in this central Indian city yesterday but it was not enough to prevent defeat for the West Indies by 14 runs in the first of their four ODIs against India in the Pepsi Cup series.

The entire Guyana Cricket Board Executive was returned en bloc at the board’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the Georgetown Cricket Club yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was out of the country for sometime on an approved leave of absence.

Dear Editor, There are those who would like to sow divisions in the society and as part of their stratagems they want to portray the PPP/Civic administration as anti-religion.

Dear Editor, The minibus association has once again threatened to go on strike to raise their fares, a regular tactic which they use to hold the commuting public to ransom.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Our Relations With India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” by Colin Bascom J.I.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned “Who rebuilt Toucan Suites” (KN 07.01.17).

Dear Editor, One cannot help suspecting the motives of the main opposition PNC/Reform-1G in seeking to have the Berbice River Bridge project delayed until discussion of their motion for an investigation by the Economic Services Committee of the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, VAT is causing a lot of controversy. Who suffers?

Dear Editor, I wish to express my deep concern as a parent over the death of little Basmatti Seecharan of Parika, East Bank, Essequibo who was raped, beaten in the head and strangled to death.

Dear Editor, Guyanese born Ashook Ramsaran, current Secretary General of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), who headed a business delegation to the recent diaspora summit in Delhi, met with India’s President Dr.

Dear Editor, Guyana was once a wonderful country to live and die in.

Dear Editor; At the 84th meeting of the Sixty-first session of the UN General Assembly held in December 2006, member states voted on a draft resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (document A/61/443/Add.3).

The three remaining escapees from the gang of nine who broke out of the Mazaruni Prison two Fridays ago were recaptured yesterday bringing a close to the intense chase by the joint services.

In November 1996, police killed Winston Hescott during an exchange of gunfire at Madewini Creek.

Efforts underway to improve law enforcement capacity to tackle piracy include a private trawler owner making a boat available to the police and coastguard for an immediate response to situations at sea and improved communication facilities at the Georgetown Boat House The Agriculture Ministry is also working with the Fishermen’s Co-op societies of the Corentyne and the East Coast Demerara to provide a boat to the police for patrol and responses, a Government Information Agency (GINA) release said.

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy believes that if certain key changes are made in the public health nursing programme the number of challenges it faces would be reduced significantly.

Amidst calls for local government elections to be held before the end of this year, the Mayor and City Council is hoping to cut its budget from $2.5B to $1.6B.

Power has since been restored to the border community of Lethem after being left in the dark since Wednesday.

The Region Four administration has written to Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall informing him of a 16:12 vote by councillors for the administrative building to be reconstructed at the same Paradise, East Coast Demerara location.

The Central Islamic Organi-sation of Guyana (CIOG) recently donated $1M worth of computers and printers to the Farm Masjid.

Infestation of termites and bats at schools in Region Five is a major problem and officials said they have to intensify efforts to tackle the problem effectively.

Institutional strengthening of the Community Services Enhancement Project (CSEP) got a boost last Friday with the granting of a contract to facilitate the transition of the five Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to secondary township status.

Two years after the East Coast Demerara, Georgetown and other parts of coastal Guyana were devastated by flooding, Ruth Barrow and her family of Dazzell Housing Scheme and Bibi Shameena Persaud of Good Hope are still in the process of rebuilding their livelihoods.

Three men armed with handguns on Saturday robbed the Enmore Post Office of $748,960 before escaping.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) Inc. is advising consumers that brown sugar is zero-rated and as such does not attract Value Added Tax (VAT).

A Queens family is desperately searching for a deaf relative who vanished hours after arriving in New York.

A lone bandit carrying a handgun shot a female pump attendant at a Texaco service station on Saturday night during a robbery.

Two more Community Development Councils (CDCs) on Friday received government’s support to empower them to improve the standard of living of residents, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Residents of La Grange, Bagotville and Nismes through a community effort and donor assistance have contributed to the Bagotville Library Centre being upgraded to an official branch of the National Library.