Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Justice Rishi Persaud yesterday sentenced Ray Castello called “Tony” to ten years in jail after he was found guilty of raping and sodomising a 12-year-old girl between April 11 and 14, 2005.

Eighteen months after a trial date was set for the Customs House $10 million heist, the prosecution yesterday brought its first witness to testify.

The United States census of 1870 contains an entry for a 33-year-old slave named Constant Tine.

Barbados captain Ryan Hinds grabbed three wickets in four balls late yesterday afternoon to restrict Guyana to 285 all out in the last over of the first day’s play of their fifth round Carib Beer Series match played at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground yesterday.

It will be Guyana’s turn to undergo yet another appraisal when officials of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Cricket World Cup (CWC) arrive today for the latest venue inspection tour ahead of the 2007 International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup tournament.

Bagotstown fought long and hard Sunday night to ensure that the East Bank Basketball title remained in the village when the team came up against finals first timers, Barama at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, Many Guyanese living in the USA find themselves without a valid Guyana passport due to the fact that at the Guyana Embassy in Washington no passport books are available.

Dear Editor, I refer to your report that ten bills passed in parliament had lapsed because the president failed to assent to them.

Dear Editor, The pattern the media seem to be forming by using their voices to expose the injustices to them and society is highly commended.

Dear Editor, It would be more than a coincidence for us to believe that the recent police presence at the Doodnauth family to take a statement since the death in Nov,06 was not prompted by your publication of the letter from her husband.

Dear Editor, I write regarding the notice placed in the newspapers by the GRA that Transfer of Rights will no longer be allowed by that organization.

Dear Editor, Is this really what it has come down to?

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mrs Amanda Murray’s letter captioned “There were secondary schools in these regions long before this government got into power (07.02.03).

Dear Editor, I read Freddie Kissoon’s column dealing with Shri Prakash Gossai, captioned ‘Will Shri Gossai become gossamery’.

Dear Editor, It was good to see Mr Vishnu Bisram, a regular and insightful correspondent to your columns, comment on GINA’s remonstration against journalist Rickey Singh’s opposition to the Guyana Government’s policy regarding its advertisements for Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, Guyana is not the only Caricom country reeling from crime.

Dear Editor, Ms Parvati Persaud-Edwards, in her letter captioned “Religion and race should not be the bases for protesting an appointment” (SN, Feb 1), misunderstands me and the problem of race.

Two brazen gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon forced the driver of a Wieting & Richter Ltd vehicle to crash into another vehicle, after firing a shot at the vehicle, and then grabbed an undisclosed sum of money belonging to the company, at the corner of Lamaha and Parade streets.

The body of Cheryl Peters, who had missing since last Friday after the ‘backtrack’ boat in which she was travelling capsized, was found floating in the vicinity of Number 74 Village yesterday morning.

The body of a nine-year-old boy was yesterday recovered from the Demerara River where he had apparently drowned on Sunday after he had attempted to disembark the boat he was in by jumping onto another boat, but hit his head and fell into the water instead.

Two persons who allegedly conned a woman out of $60,000 by telling her that they could secure a genuine passport for her, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have joined the government ministries in the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Five years ago Maureen Mohabir noticed that her stomach had started to swell for no apparent reason; not long after her feet also started to swell.

Little is known locally about the specific mental issues people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) face, but depression and isolation are reported to be among them.

Trainee rangers and environmentalists from the North West began a one-month training exercise last weekend, as tour guide operators at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development.

Jane Ivy Thompson, who died in an accident last week Sunday, had told her son-in-law to “take it easy” on the road and while he obeyed her, an apparently reckless driver overtook another vehicle on the busy East Bank roadway and slammed into their car.

Banks DIH Chairman and Managing Director Clifford Reis said the social and business climate which has prevailed in Guyana over recent times has tested the faith and resolve of every Guyanese and business entity.

One of the leading figures in British public life, Trevor Phillips last Thursday delivered the Inaugural Coventry Cathedral lecture on ‘The Media and Morality’ to an audience of some 400.

The PPP is maintaining its view that the Deputy Speaker erred in preventing the Prime Minister from responding to a motion that called for the stoppage of work on the construction of the Berbice River bridge.

The development of a housing scheme area at Amelia’s Ward, is proving to be a boon to government as residents, expecting to benefit from the predicted economic growth, relocate to the Region Ten community.

The Rose Hall, Canje Ground came alive on Saturday night when 18 singers, backed by the Shakti Strings Orchestra, participated in the semi-finals of the 2007 Mash Soca Chutney Competition.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith was yesterday laid to rest following tributes by colleagues and friends celebrating his life and legacy at the St George’s Cathedral, as they remembered him as a stickler for professional standards.

Sharmaine Gift, Mark ‘Super Markey’ Harris and Winston ‘Pecky Dread’ Bradshaw, along with Delroy ‘DMD’ Dash who was a no-show, were the first four contenders to be eliminated from the first round of the Carib Soca Monarch competition on Saturday.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) commends the government for the steps it has taken to bring immediate and tangible relief to consumers who were severely affected by the impact on the cost of living due to the implementation of Value Added and Excise taxes.

The Trinidad Express is advising President Bharrat Jagdeo not to tilt his administration in any direction that is going to attract comparisons with the Forbes Burnham regime during the mid-sixties and mid-eighties.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday’s early morning, three-hour power outage was the result of a system shutdown in the 50 Hertz Demerara cycle.

With assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Campbell-ville Environmental Development Association has set up a solar-powered pedestrian crossing light near the Campbellville Secondary School.

A new in-patient facility at the public hospital, further expansion of primary health approaches to chronic diseases and continued development of the immunization programme are among the key objectives budgeted for this year in the health sector.

As part of the measures to improve the quality of the streets of Guyana the Police Traffic Department has implemented four compulsory lectures which persons writing the theoretical examinations are required to take.

Two men yesterday robbed businesswoman Zabeeda Azeez of $12,000 in cash and jewellery at Lot 55 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice and shot her son in the process.

The government is also seeking “an amicable and honourable solution” to the proposed sale by IAMGOLD of its 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc (OSI), a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister said yesterday.

Caricom delegates at the Twentieth Special Meeting of the Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) agreed that the region must make a direct response to the trade challenges it faces.

Eighteen-year-old Kevon Washington had his life cut short on Sunday afternoon when he drowned at a mined out lake in Block 22, Wismar, Linden.

As the investigation into the murder of Mark Ritchie which occurred last week Tuesday at Kuru Kururu on the Linden Highway continues, a suspect took police to a farm cultivated with cannabis in the Kuru Kururu Backlands.

The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) at its inaugural meeting last month, agreed to recruit a director and to urgently establish its secretariat within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is yet to receive the report of a board of enquiry that he had established to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding last month’s jail break at the Mazaruni Prison.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said yesterday that the blockage which affected the treatment of water at the Shelter Belt has been removed by the East Demerara Water Conservancy Board and that water should be restored by yesterday afternoon.

Digicel is conducting a recruitment drive for customer care agents to join its newly installed, state-of-the-art centre in Georgetown.

A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) team yesterday visited the Uitvlugt Estate where workers complained about high prices.