Articles published on Sunday, January 28, 2007
Two Guyanese, a 40-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy are being held by the Canada Border Services Agency in New Brunswick after they were caught on Monday last attempting to enter the US illegally.
In our Sunday edition last week we carried a report on the appointment of former Region 3 Chairman Esau Dookie as headmaster of Saraswat Primary School.
THE rationale for Brian Lara’s decision to bowl first on winning the toss in warm, sultry weather on a flat, hard pitch in the Pepsi Cup match against India here yesterday was not immediately evident.
The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) selective committee is to select a team to represent Guyana in the upcoming PAN-American boxing matches.
With the countdown underway to the opening ceremony of the mega cricket event, Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007, National Communications Network (NCN) will be broadcasting a series of programmes entitled “Cricket Countdown”.
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has short listed 22 players to continue training with a view to making the final 14-man squad to represent the association at the upcoming Under-15 Inter-Association tournament.
The West Demerara Zone of the Sheriff Jewellery Twenty/20 cricket tournament has reached the knockout stage with three matches scheduled for this weekend.
A fine all-round performance by Stephen Jacobs led St Stanislaus College to a resounding 100-run victory over Police Sport Club in the Georgetown Cricket Association under-10 cricket competition at the Eve Leary ground yesterday.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Does GPL have adequate reserve capacity for Cricket World Cup?”
Dear Editor, In February 2006, I contracted an attorney-at-law, Mr Rupert Trim who filed a matter at the Berbice Magistrate’s Court regarding an overdue promissory note on my behalf.
Dear Editor, The latest NACTA survey in Trinidad has found that supporters of the opposition Indian-based UNC have renewed hope that their party will make a comeback to office now that their leader Basdeo Panday and former deputy leader Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj have patched up their differences.
Dear Editor, Peeping Tom in his column titled “Integrity and Solidarity are not hollow words” dated 01/24/07 took issue with me saying that the writer lacks journalistic integrity and solidarity.
Continued from last week So, now back to the wretched tapeworm.
The cervix is part of a woman’s reproductive system. It is the lower, narrow part of the uterus.
Sunday Stabroek, August 6, 2006: ‘Not govt’s intention to have food prices increase because of VAT – Jagdeo.’
Of the twenty-one games that were played, Spassky won one other, the 11th.,
Poetry International Rotterdam is an organisation in the Netherlands that exists for the promotion and propagation of poetry on a full-time basis.
Why does my eye jump or twitch? Sometimes part of your eyelid may twitch for several minutes or hours.
Dr Cen Jones, who has died aged 85, was an expert in tropical medicine whose initiatives in following up on the pioneering work of Dr Giglioli, virtually eradicated malaria in British Guiana (now Guyana).
Nostalgia 16 In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, one of the pastimes of the indulgent rich was prolonged conversation on “The Best of Everything and Anything.”
The simplest way to raise trees and shrubs is from cuttings.
St Lucia’s new Minister of Tourism and Aviation, Allen Chastenet, has a refreshingly different perspective on government.
Introduction This is the first of a series on forestry policies and current practices in Guyana.
There have been a handful of men who have made a deep and unforgettable impression on me: my father, first and always; Jock Campbell, Chairman of Bookers in the 1950s and ’60s; Martin Carter, whose poetry time as it passes burnishes to a yet brighter gleam.
An international audit agency has found Barama Company Ltd (BCL) and its auditor SGS-Qualifor deficient at varying levels following an audit late last year of BCL’s forest operations which led to a three-month suspension of BCL’s certification.
Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela, Dr Odeen Ishmael has found hope in the statement by Chairman of Venezuela’s Communist Party Jeronimo Carerra that the government of President Hugo Chavez could eliminate, once and for all, Venezuela’s “absurd claim” to five-eighths of Guyana’s territory.
The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is calling for the withdrawal of the Teaching Services Commission (TSC) appointment of former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie to head Saraswat Primary School.
The Ministry of Education will be moving to recruit retired teachers as part of a wider effort to enhance the delivery of education countrywide.
Wholesale vendors operating behind Stabroek Market staged a protest yesterday which culminated at Freedom House over what they claimed was the city constabulary’s unfair decision to remove them an hour before the arranged time.
The Government Information Agency GINA) in a release yesterday decried what it called Stabroek News’s “lobbying efforts” directed at a number of organizations and agencies in an attempt to “garner sympathetic ears” over government’s decision to withdraw ministry advertisements from the newspaper.
The Venezulean authorities are yet to submit a report on the shooting to death of Guyanese Parsaram Persaud allegedly by members of the Venezulean army at Eteringbang on October 6.
Bosai Minerals Group Company Ltd has signalled its intention to invest US$1 billion in an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter, once the government approves the US$46M deal, which will give it a 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI).
The United Nations has reaffirmed its commitment to helping the Caribbean region build capacity to combat transnational crime.
