Daily Archive: Thursday, February 22, 2007

(Part 11) My previous article (Part 1) on the topic clearly pointed to an explosive situation brewing at Plantation Leonora by Mid-February, 1939.

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An East Coast youth who allegedly stole a $180,000 gold chain from a man was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

In a perfect world, someone with the power to stop the imminent pre-emptive military strike against Iran would find the time to pick up a little pamphlet published by the Prickly Paradigm Press and spend a few hours considering the intellectual stakes in the Great Satan’s latest confrontation with the Axis of Evil.

Despite her successful career in table tennis, top racket wielder Trenace Lowe is one of the many local sportspersons who are affected by the lack of sponsorship.

Peter Abdool was elected president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) when that body held its annual general meeting on Sunday at the Lions Club, Bel Air, Campbellville.

The East Coast Domino Association will hold a general members meeting on Sunday at its headquarters, beginning at 2pm.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) Annual Mashramani Table Tennis Competition will serve off with Veterans over-40, 45 and 50 matches on Sunday from 11:00 hrs at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The idea that our senior athletes are running away with at this point in time, is that coaches in Guyana, in particular athletic coaches, are expected to create miracles.

Dear Editor, I write to you with respect to an article written by your columnist Patrick Van Beek in the Business Page of your Friday, February, 18, 2007 edition of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, My NIS no. is B2264943. I have made more than 800 contributions.

Dear Editor, I have been searching for words to react to Mr Jagdeo’s flippant response, reported in your papers, to the views expressed by a former First Lady and former President, on the question of the withdrawal of Government advertisements from Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I write to salute Mr Clairmont Lye for his return of the national award, the CCH, to President Jagdeo.

Dear Editor, On February 16 Kaieteur News headline read “Competition for cellular service achiev-ed, International and Landline may be next” – President.

Dear Editor, There were many editorials over the past few weeks re the withdrawal of government and state entity advertising from the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I identify with the central theme in Mr Dennis Wiggins’s letter published in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News on February 14 under the separate captions: “The struggle must focus on social democracy, not racial democracy” and “Guyanese should stop pursuing the falsity of racial superiority.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the name-withheld letter captioned “If born here you are seen as Guyanese” (SN 20/12/06) where the writer is putting forward the view that Africans who support ACDA or Indians who support the equivalent Indian organizations think of themselves as natives of Africa or India.

Dear Editor, Mr Ellis’s letters about race are anachronistic since they are dealing with a milieu of 50 years ago which has passed away.

Dear Editor, M. Mc Allister, PNCR-1G parliamentarian in part of his presentation in the debate on the budget has attempted to float once again his party’s propaganda, that they were responsible for the improvement in the economy, repair of the infrastructure, and the debt forgiveness received since 1992, because of the so-called Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) introduced under the presidency of the late Mr Desmond Hoyte.

Dear Editor, Dr. Kean Gibson is known as a good many things to which we can now add professional linguist.

Cocktails, fireworks, prayers and tough talking by President Bharrat Jadgeo marked the opening last evening of the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort, the largest hotel in the country.

Vendors outside the Stabroek Market would be allowed to vend there but only until arrangements are put in place for them to be relocated, according to Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall.

Even as the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) begins to reap the proceeds from the first Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax returns, businesses are still grappling with declining sales.

Three men who allegedly broke into Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) via the roof and stole a large number of items valued at over $1 million were yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

After years of neglect, restoration of the 18th Century Dutch Court of Policy Hall has been completed and on Monday, a museum was opened in the building.

The publisher of the pocket-sized Guyana guide book Guyana-Where and What says the response from the business community has been good and is urging more entities to take advantage of the publication.

One man was admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital and 11 persons treated and sent away after the bus they were travelling in on Monday collided with two cars and turned turtle on the Fyrish Public Road.

Remedial work is continuing on the L’Aventure Secondary School in Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara and yesterday Forms Three to Five resumed classes though the lower forms have not yet done so.

Given the number of rooms registered with the Bed and Breakfast (B&B) programme, accommodation via this route is assured for visitors to Guyana for the Super Eight matches, but registrants are seeking answers to questions as well.

The Guyana Consulate in Barbados says it is hosting a meeting to allow Barbados institutions to inform Guyanese nationals working on the island about the new measures and policies that it has instituted.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) says the semi-finals of the International Qaseeda Competition will be hosted in Guyana on Sunday.

Chutney king Harresh Singh has his friend to thank for his recent win at the Mashramani Chutney final held at the Anna Regina community centre ground on Saturday night last.

Justice Michael de la Bastide, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, is scheduled to deliver the feature address at the Rotary Club of Georgetown’s gala dinner to be held this Saturday at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel on the occasion of Rotary’s World Understanding and Peace month.

A man, who said he was set on fire after methylated spirits was poured on his body, is accusing the police of dragging their feet on the issue as it involves one of their members and two members of the Guyana Defence Force.

Several Amerindian communities which received government grants have shown improvement in their economic activities and this year more communities will be benefiting, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Monday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed sympathy to the family of the late Minister of Agriculture and Guyana High Commissioner to Canada Gavin B Kennard.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) was historically a working class movement dating back to the Civil Service Association, displaying a national brand of militancy that benefited the nation and the labour movement throughout the Caribbean.

Samples from a shipment of soap imported from China were sent overseas for testing after an injunction on February 6th, 2007 barred the importer from distributing 1,266 cartons of a soap bearing the name Lux, Stabroek News has learnt.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited said the senior secondary schools have emerged winners in the preliminary sessions of its Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech competition.

The Public Utilities Commis-sion (PUC) has written to both Digicel Guyana and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited reminding the two companies of the per-second billing that was ordered.

Various efforts by the Administration to project Guyana as a tourist destination are paying off and for 2007 many aspects are being pushed to propel the sector even as Guyana prepares to host several major international events.

Farmers in the Mahaica Creek area are enjoying the current dry weather with occasional showers although it may require topping up the water conservancy, but some are a bit disturbed by pests and plant diseases which are affecting their crops.

Dubraj Latchman, 58, of Good Faith, Mahaicony who was robbed by bandits around 4 pm on Monday told Stabroek News yesterday that this is the first time in 30 years that a robbery had occurred in broad daylight in the area.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the schoolyard ecology (SYE) workshop recently hosted for 50 Corentyne Coast environmental club members aims to equip learners with the skills needed to become “schoolyard scientists”.

Five days after a Bartica gold miner was brutally chopped to death by another man during a row over water, police in the area are yet to arrest the killer.