Daily Archive: Saturday, February 10, 2007

A 44-year-old man was on Thursday released on $30,000 bail on a break and enter charge after telling the court that he was beaten unconscious by persons who accused him of stealing over $362,000 worth of articles from a motorcycle store.

A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 27-year-old West Bank hire car driver who reportedly caused the death of a seven-year-old girl by driving in a dangerous manner was released on bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Little is known in Guyana about microbicides or the research that has been ongoing with them.

Guyana and West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul returns to add depth and experience to the Guyana team in their crucial KFC fifth round match against Barbados at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, today.

The Providence Stadium will get its first test of competitive cricket on February 16 when 2006 Shapoorji Pallonji Twenty/20 Cricket champions Young Warriors tackle GCC in a friendly affair that has been organized to test the readiness of the Local Organising Committee’s ability to host the CWC Super Eight matches scheduled to commence on March 28.

A new president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will be elected tomorrow when that body holds its Annual General Meeting at the Lions Den, Bel Air Park, beginning at 10am.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has added three more players to Guyana’s table tennis lineup that will contest the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) last Thursday honoured National Captain and West Indies vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan as a cricketing hero and role model at a special luncheon held in his honour at the club’s Head Office.

The National Sport Commission’s (NSC) cycling coach Hassan Mohamed will be hosting two Mashramani cycling programmes.

The Guyana Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 is extending an invitation to members of these communities Greenfield Park, Providence, Republic Park, Nandy Park, and Bagotstown to attend a meeting at the stadium today.

Dear Editor, Further to your office’s request for a response to a letter captioned “Guyanese in the USA inconvenienced by lack of passport books” (07.02.06) purportedly signed by an Andrew Marques, kindly be informed as follows: 1) No passport application has been received by our Embassy from any Andrew Marques between June 2006 to the present time.

Dear Editor, Mr. Roy Paul’s letter captioned “Early payment of electricity bills will prejudice pensioners” (SN 2/2/07) suggests that some of our customers are labouring under a great deal of misconception regarding their electricity bills and payment.

Dear Editor, It angered me to read about the death of the motorcyclist on the Harbour Bridge, and the injury to his pregnant girlfriend.

Dear Editor, I refer to an Article in KN dated 25th.

Dear Editor, On a recent cruise, we took organised bus tours around a few Caribbean islands, including Barbados, Trinidad and Grenada.

Dear Editor, I have been following with close interest what has been developing in the press between the Government News Agency and Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I write with specific reference to the article headlined “Rusal to mull hydropower” (07.02.08) where it was stated in part by Mr.

Dear Editor, I’m not so much responding to this Sunday’s Kaieteur News Ravi Dev column (Mash and Republic Day) as I am instead offering comment on aspects for issues relevant to Republic Day and the Mashramani Festival which he raised therein.

Dear Editor, I am aware that Mr. Vishnu Bisram already briefly addressed in a letter the President meeting Mr.

Dear Editor, Now state-owned Guysuco and GPL withdraw their ads from Guyana’s most independent newspaper, supposedly without the knowledge of their Chairman!

Dear Editor, The year 2007 is the year of the African Renaissance and fittingly, in March, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and American Slave Trade.

Dear Editor, Now that two passengers using the back track route to go to Suriname have lost their lives the authorities will do something to enforce safety in the crossing of the Corentyne river; also probably when two small children trying to get transportation to go home after school on Lombard street during the sitting of parliament are crushed to death, something will be done to stop the chaos that takes place on Lombard Street in the vicinity of Leopold and Schumaker Street on parliament day.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that even now and more than a month since VAT was introduced the general public still encounters numerous problems with businesses.

Break-ups happen everyday yet something about them never grows old. So when your girlfriend turns up and says she is through with a guy or that he has dumped her you find yourself in that position some of us know so well: dying to know what happened.

Discipline vs. Punishment Punishment The literal meaning of punishment is “to cause to undergo pain”.

Hi Everyone, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and we all know that romance is often spelled f-o-o-d: from the heart-shaped box of chocolates to the candlelight dinner for two in a fancy restaurant.

If you love classic films then this is right up your street.

“I am no gangsta rapper,” singer Gialiani exclaims with a slightly baffled looked on his face.

A major exhibition of his work has been on in London for two months at the October Gallery, yet in his homeland, Guyana, the work of world renowned artist Aubrey Williams has been vandalized.

If you crave the taste of Ackee and salt fish then you no longer have to travel to Jamaica or elsewhere for that country’s popular dish.

A Guyanese-styled cabaret of song, dance and theatre will be held next Saturday at Sky 7, Sea Breeze Hotel at Pere Street, Kitty.

Citing a clause relating to performance, the board of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has decided to terminate the five-year UK-funded contract with Severn Trent for the management of the water sector which was to come to an end in December this year.

The withdrawal of government advertising from the Stabroek News is “an issue of manipulation which goes to the root of freedom of the press,” the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) said yesterday, adding that the government explanations thus far appear “spurious”.

The Herstelling fisherman who allegedly stabbed his reputed wife to death on Tuesday after she refused to return to the home they shared, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with murder.

Authorities are continuing a probe into the electrocution of two Kwakwani, Berbice women on Wednesday afternoon while in conversation as they held on to opposite sides of a fence.

The Jamaica Gleaner yesterday again blasted the Guyana government’s decision to withdraw its advertising from the Stabroek News and it called on Caricom leaders gathering for their intersessional meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines to tell President Bharrat Jagdeo that such an attack on press freedom stains the entire region.

The Office of the President says the cut-off of ads to Stabroek News is not a press freedom issue but simply a shift of patronage to another private newspaper because of its higher circulation and the limited financial resources available to the state.

More charges have been suggested and twenty-one recommendations dealing with security enhancement, prisoners’ welfare and administrative changes are contained in the report of the board of inquiry that was set up to investigate the January 12 Mazaruni Prison jail-break.

The government is disbursing some $10.8M to support this year’s Mashramani activities in all ten administrative regions, central ministries and departments, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Police are looking for two men who reportedly attempted to douse a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital with acid on Thursday afternoon.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC), with assistance from a number of private sector organisations will host the first ever Georgetown International Village during the Cricket World Cup Season.

A six-member gang of armed bandits early yesterday morning robbed a Canje, Berbice family of some $1.4M along with cash and jewellery.

As the Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speaking Competition sponsored by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), Regent Street branch, continued on Thursday Marian Academy and Covent Garden Secondary prevailed over their respective opponents.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said the road at the junction of Mandela Avenue and Go-Slow Avenue will be closed to facilitate the installation of sewer pipes.

Government says the Children and Family Bill will be tabled in the National Assembly this year to boost its efforts to protect vulnerable groups from abuse.

While the traditional red will be dominant on Valentine’s Day, one lucky person will be driving away in a bright red car, courtesy of Popeye’s Fast food Restaurant which will hand over the car keys on that day.

PNCR-IG Member of Parliament Winston Murray says that the National Budget continues to be pumped up by external funding and the country should free itself from the shackles of lenders.

The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) says that contrary to a report from the Mayor & City Council (M&CC) the noise nuisance matter regarding the KFC Vlissengen Road generators is not yet closed.

The death of a mother and her baby earlier this year is under review by the Maternal Mortality Committee of the Georgetown Public Hospital, according to Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy.

The Office of the President recently approved the appointments of ten persons as regional executive officers/clerks of the councils for all ten administrative regions.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) yesterday sent a strong signal to Caribbean governments, urging them to build on their current agricultural momentum to cope with the consequences of globalization on their economies.

After experiencing significant losses and route duplication as a result of a “ruthless price war”, two of the Caribbean’s dominant airlines decided to merge in an effort to provide more efficient service.

Five community-based organisations have been awarded grants totalling US$20,000 under the United States (US) Ambassador’s Fund for HIV/AIDS.