Daily Archive: Friday, February 2, 2007

Again, pardon me for not discussing herein such “significant issues” as the Value-Added Tax.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the rape of a woman committed by a notorious and now dead wanted man for which his father is also charged commenced yesterday at the Wales Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the most distinguished foreign correspondents of the last half-century, died last week at the age of 74.

Clerk of Markets Schulder Griffith has told Stabroek Business that the revenue collected from stallholders and vendors is sufficient to meet the cost of maintaining Georgetown’s five municipal markets and wants the City Council to “plough back” those funds directly into providing services for the facilities.

The Guyana Youth Business Trust (GYBT) last year disbursed 266 loans valued at $41.13m to young entrepreneurs compared with 409 loans totalling $45m in 2005.

No West Indian novel has chronicled the tribulations of the poor and the downtrodden more poignantly than the Jamaican writer Orlando Patterson’s The Children of Sisyphus.

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You are probably not likely to meet too many young Guyanese businessmen with the self-belief of Jermaine London.

Think about what happens most often when we decide to make a major change in the way our company does things.

Examining the government website of a country provides a good insight into its state of e-readiness and how far it has progressed along the road of improving the delivery of government services to citizens by the application of technology.

Stabroek Market stallholders are calling for a review by the Police Traffic Department of the traffic management arrangements that apply in the Stabroek area during sittings of the National Assembly in order to allow them to conduct business without undue hindrance resulting from traffic restrictions.

Roy Beepat and Monica Satrohan-Beepat belong to a younger generation of an older business class that has greased the wheels of commercial life in the city for several decades.

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Guyana, needing a win goes into battle with the Leeward Islands in their fourth round encounter of the KFC one regional competition at the Albion Sports Complex today.

Basketball players in Guyana will shortly be faced with a dilemma.

Altaf Habibulla has been named captain and Carlos LaRose vice-captain of the Georgetown team for the upcoming under-15 Inter-Association competition which will oppose East Bank at Diamond on Saturday in the opening game.

The Georgetown Cricket Association has scheduled 14 Under-19 matches this week-end starting today.

Dear Editor, It is quite exciting to see the new archive taking shape on Homestretch Avenue; the responsible authorities should be commended for their initiatives and we wish a successful completion of this structure.

Dear Editor I refer to your article “VAT returns may be filed from today, GRA”, SN February 1, 2007.

Dear Editor, A number of pensioners have asked me to publicise the dilemma that has been caused by the GPL bringing forward the due date for settlement of their electricity bills from the first week of the following month to a date at the end of the current month or even, in some instances, to one week before this.

Dear Editor, I look with dismay as the government through their Revenue boss and his revenue agency (GRA) congratulate businesses for incurring losses everyday as the revenue boss puts it `to keep their customers`.

Dear Editor, As a prisoner at the Georgetown prison. I am in total agreement with the illustrious Minister at Home Affairs’ statement “

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago I read in the newspapers that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is clamping down on environmental pollution, including loud and excessive noise.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to your article under the caption “Major Deficiencies uncovered in Barama Forest Management – Auditor to appeal some findings.”

Dear Editor, It is indeed refreshing to note that the Ministry of Housing would be expediting the issuing of land titles and transports for house lots in housing schemes countrywide (Guyana Chronicle 29/1-/07).

Dear Editor, This past weekend a GINA press release titled, “Govt.

Dear Editor, We refer to your report headlined “PNCR says Rice Factories Bill sets unrealistic benchmarks for millers” (07.01.26).

Dear Editor, I am the owner of a Route 32 mini bus – working GT to Parika.

Dear Editor, You would recognise from my ID card that I am a senior citizen with great-great-grandchildren and so I was around when Cheddi Jagan formed his PPP and me and my family always voted PPP because we knew Cheddi had a broad mind and a big heart, he was not vindictive.

Dear Editor, Despite the Newsweek statistics provided by New York-based Caribbean pollster and sometimes letter writer, Mr.

Some 20 people connected to drug accused businessman Roger Khan have given statements to Khan’s New York lawyer Robert Simels who was here for two days and the US is to introduce as evidence a ledger of a slain boutique owner which contained the names of alleged drug dealers.

Amid signs that the government is unhappy with a proposed deal and is trying to attract Russian investors to take over, IAMGOLD yesterday said it wants an “amicable” resolution to the sale of the Linden bauxite operations and argued that it will incur a loss of over US$30M on conclusion of the transaction.

The third phase of public ticketing for the upcoming ICC CWC 2007 championships got underway at the local Ticketing Centre in Georgetown yesterday with small crowds throughout the day, a feature which had not been seen since the centre opened in May last year.

Following an article in Wednes-day’s edition of Stabroek News highlighting a city jeweller’s disappointment at the police for not taking a statement from him on the murder of his wife more than two months ago, ranks turned up at his home the same day and took an official report.

Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards sentenced Nandkumar Singh to 36 years imprisonment yesterday for killing two persons, one of whom he once shared a relationship with.

Digicel has introduced the BlackBerry Connect service which includes timely delivery of emails and SMS, for the Sony Ericsson P990 to customers in nine Caribbean markets – Guyana is not included as yet.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says a blockage in the Lamaha Canal is causing the low water pressure in the city.

The Guyana Revenue Author-ity (GRA) said Project Design and Construction Company was the first of five companies or individuals to submit VAT tax returns yesterday.

A 26-year-old Sophia man who was allegedly found at Wisroc, Linden with a quantity of ganja by members of the Police Narcotics Branch was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said it is with deep regret that he learnt of the passing of veteran journalist Cecil Griffith, AA.

A “disgrace” said one; “unsuitable,” asserted another, and “questionable,” insisted a third.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has written to President Bharrat Jagdeo requesting that he mandate that the provisions of the Appropriation Act be used to pump up the salaries of public sector workers.

Wildlife traders at a meeting on Wednesday agreed to seek compensation and an audience with President Bharrat Jagdeo in a bid to mitigate the effects of a ban on wild caught birds by the European Union (EU).

Complaints about the dust resulting from corrective work ongoing at the median on the East Bank Demerara four-lane highway in the vicinity of Republic Park has led to the use of water to keep the dust level down.

An elderly woman died and a pedal cyclist remains hospitalised two days after they were involved in an accident with a motorcar driven by a Berbice talk show host.

A Banks DIH executive was recently named a fellow at an England-based engineers’ society while three other employees were appointed to senior positions.