Daily Archive: Wednesday, February 14, 2007

You go to the party with whoever brought you and of course we would never have expected Jagdeo to have publicly criticized his mentor Mrs Jagan despite the fact that in the early days of his presidency when he was vulnerable and had not accrued his ring of mediocrity she may not have totally relinquished the reins of power.

Fenton Haynes, brother of the Mocha woman whose burnt body was found behind her home some two years ago, testified in the High Court yesterday to greeting an uneasy Lloyd McCleoud at the home on the day his sister went missing.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a Linden resident who was allegedly found with five kilogrammes of ganja in his possession at an East Bank Demerara (EBD) police roadblock.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan granted $25,000 bail to a couple accused of fraudulently converting more than $750,000 to their own use when they yesterday appeared before him to answer to the charges.

A congratulatory and celebratory spirit pervaded the Annual Guyana Police Force Officers’ Conference last week.

Carl Rambarose turned in an outstanding all-round performance as Tutorial High School trounced Christ Church Secondary in one of four quarter-final matches of the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sport Commission competition played yesterday.

The National Sport Commis-sion’s (NSC) annual Mash-ramani table tennis tournament scheduled to get underway this Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall has been postponed to commence Monday at the same venue.

Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that in 2007, the year of the ICC Cricket World Cup one-day competition, to be held in the Caribbean, it is the regional one-day series, the KFC Cup competition, that will be used, right down to the wire, to prepare the region’s players for the “big dance” which starts on March 05 and ends on April 28.

National football players, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson and Collie Hercules ensured that their respective associations could move on through emphatic wins when the Guyflag inter-association football tournament continued on Sunday.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club launched the Ramnaresh Sarwan Education and Sports Trust Fund for the less fortunate primary and secondary school students in the Lower Corentyne area.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) will be hosting its eighth sports presentation and award ceremony on Saturday at the Akbar Hussain Lecture Hall, Anna Catherina Islamic Complex from 6:30 pm.

Dear Editor, It is doubtful that any reasonable thinking person would call into question the value of community policing in the universal contest against rising crime levels.

Dear Editor, When I read your Monday, February 12 editorial, ‘Private ads versus state ads,’ I thought it was helpful in getting fence sitters in the ongoing ads brouhaha to get a clearer picture of the Jagdeo administration’s stunning lapse in judgment and come to the defence of Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, The recent piece about the Guyana Civil Service of the 1950s certainly brought back memories.

Dear Editor, I had cause to travel to New Amsterdam and beyond twice last week.

Dear Editor, The Mash Calypso semi-final was held in Linden on February 10, 2007 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground.

Dear Editor, It is with amazement that I read a letter written by Mr Leon Suseran (KN, 12.2.07) who believes that Value Added Tax – VAT is charged on the expression of faith.

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned ‘Mr Green quoted half of what I said’ (SN, 9.2.07) Minister of Home Affairs Mr Clement Rohee was correct to say that I was not in Parliament to hear his remarks.

Dear Editor, It grieves my heart to see my fellow Guyanese brothers and sisters suffer yet another blow as they continue their long wait for a prosperous and democratic state.

Dear Editor, Is the class question relevant in Guyana or has the struggle for racial recognition become the paradigmatic form of political struggle?

Dear Editor, As a musician for a number of years I want to share my views on the recently held Chutney semi-finals on February 3, 2007, at Canje.

Bosai Minerals of Chongqing in China is buying Omai Bauxite Mining Inc.

A soldier died at the army’s Camp Jaguar New River location last week Tuesday following what the military said was an accident but the young man’s family is not accepting this explanation and wants more information from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

Pandemonium broke out at the St Gabriel’s Primary School yesterday morning when a cutlass-wielding man went looking for a teacher who had earlier put him out of the school compound because of his attire.

Businessman and civil society activist Clairmont Lye, a recipient of a national award for his role in the fight for democracy, has returned it “in protest against the excesses of the government over the past years, but more specifically because of the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.”

Several shortcomings and in one instance inaccurate information were discovered in the early stages of the implementation of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Guyana, according to an audit done in 2005.

The People’s National Con-gress Reform-One Guyana (PNCR-1G) yesterday joined calls for a complete overhaul of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and said that the organisation was now being looked at as a burden to workers.

Citing data from a study put together by the World Bank, Alliance for Change MP Khemraj Ramjattan in parliament on Friday sought to highlight a number of aspects of the country’s development which he argued were not dealt with in the budget.

The department of education in Region 10 is investigating the vandalizing of the head teacher’s office and some vital equipment belonging to the Linden Foundation Secondary School.

A three-member Guyanese delegation is participating in the first India-Latin America Conclave: Project Partnerships 2007, being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi.

The National Elections in August last year has been blamed for the lateness of the Auditor General’s report, which is now to be presented to the Speaker of the National Assembly in March.

The Women’s Studies Unit, located in the Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana, was the recipient of a generous donation from the Democracy and Governance Programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Ministry of Agriculture is mourning the passing of one of its former ministers Gavin B Kennard.

The allocation for the housing sector in this year’s budget supersedes last year’s by some $500M and special emphasis would continue to be placed on low-income earners, Housing and Water Minister Harry Narine Nawbatt said on Monday.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says customers in Kingston will experience a disruption in service as the well which supplies the area is undergoing emergency repairs.

Police are investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a Zeelandia Estate, Wakenaam, Essequibo River pensioner.

A suspected armed robber is under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he sustained injuries in an exchange of gunfire with his intended victim.

On Monday teachers at the Mackenzie High School implemented a board of governors decision to suspend classes for Forms One to Three as the steps to the building which hosts those classes are unsafe.

Gunmen on Monday robbed the proprietor of a jewellery shop and his customer of more than $400,000 in cash and jewels.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha encourages devotees to attend celebrations for this year’s Maha Shivaratri.