Daily Archive: Saturday, February 24, 2007

The world today is one that abounds with extremes. Not that it has not always been this way, it has; but it keeps getting worse.

It is the ultimate showdown in local football. Two evenly-matched teams will go at each other for 90 minutes tomorrow to decide who will win the 2007 Mayor’s Cup football tournament which carries as first prize a whopping $500,000.

Football stars of yesteryear will attempt to roll back the years when the Thomas United Masters Association stages a four-team invitational tournament at the Georgetown Football Club ground from 5pm today.

The Rainbow Football Club of Mahdia (RFC) defeated Georgetown Football Club’s (GFC) Under-20 team 1-0 in a friendly game played at the Mahdia play field on Saturday.

The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will be a hive of activity today when the National Sports Commission (NSC)/Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Mashramani tournament continues with play in the Under-21 Open, the `C’ and `B’ Class Open events and the Open men and women’s singles.

The New Amsterdam Champions after winning 89 games copped the winner’s trophy for the Annual Mashramani Domino Competition hosted by the National Sports Commission (NSC) at the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Hall.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) will serve off a Toucan Industries Incorporated junior Mashramani tournament billed for Tuesday at the Georgetown Club, Camp Street.

Nigel Bryan played true to form to cart off the boys’ U-15 singles title, while Samuel Fraser captured the boys’ U-13 crown as action in the annual Mashramani table tennis tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, The falling out between the government and Severn Trent is one of the many ironies in our country.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Clarence Ellis’s letter captioned “The creeping dictatorship can be reversed by local government reform” (07.01.25) wherein he speaks of (i) the need for greater local government powers and (ii) where he urges the City Council of Georgetown to press the Central Government for more money, indeed enormous sums of money.

Dear Editor, Have you noticed that whenever there is a pile-up on the streets in Georgetown, there is a policeman ahead directing traffic?

Dear Editor, Enclosed are pictures of some derelict vehicles that have been parked on the parapet on Victoria Avenue, La Flora Gardens, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, I read your report on the opening of Buddy’s Hotel in the February 22, 2007 issue and again was appalled at the arrogance and “bitchiness” exhibited by the President in his remarks.

Dear Editor, Traffic deaths seem to outnumber the total of all lives lost from the years of conflict from 1963 up to the present times plus all the people killed by the bandits plus all the people killed by the police.

Dear Editor, A few days ago a letter penned by one Jason Hinds questioned Mr Lye’s decision to return his CCH to the Office of the President.

Dear Editor, It is very sad to continue to hear all the negatives about the services the NIS provides to the poor people.

Dear Editor, I find your editorial, “The other Iran,” (February 22), rather enlightening and stimulating, but especially the strong insinuation that the Bush administration, despite repeated denials, plans to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Robin Williams’s letter captioned “The most positive thing we could do is to become conscious of our predicament” (07.01.12).

Dear Editor, We have seen that despite all the extremely generous benefits, tax/duty exemptions, concessions, political connections, winning of awards, etc.,

The Scene now has a new email address: thescene@stabroeknews.com. This is the only email address that can be used to contact The Scene at present.

Calypso in Guyana has only ever had one real rebel, though a few in the art form have been radical with their social commentary in the past.

Having convinced Guyanese that he was serious and had come out to engage them with an energetic and impulsive performance resulting in him enjoying the spoils of the soca war, Malo says nothing has changed.

From the age of 15 years old, Chutney king Harresh Singh says, he was an entertainer.

Hi Everyone, Two things can come to a person’s mind when you invite them to your home – “I wonder what wonderful things we will eat” or “I hope that she is not making (Fill in the blank) again”.

We are happy that Nicole Osbourne neither won nor made it into the top five of the recently concluded Carib Soca Monarch competition.

A colourful spring celebration which runs into Phagwah on March 4 kicks off today at the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha with the Annual Pre-Phagwah Mela and Bazaar at the Dharmic Sanskritik Kendra in Prashad Nagar.

Do you feel bad after hitting a child in your care?

Guyana hosts important nesting sites for at least three of the five endangered marine turtle species in the Atlantic.

Students preparing to write the National Grade Six Assessment for the first time this year, now have an extra week to prepare as the Education Ministry has taken a decision to postpone the examination in the face of the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers assigned to the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau (OCNFB) who reportedly seized cocaine valued $5.3 million, believe they have made a major dent in a drug smuggling operation between T&T, Guyana and Canada.

A mother is in grief after her two-year-old daughter yesterday afternoon fell overboard and drowned while going to a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) shop to purchase a pack of biscuits.

A 17-year-old technical institute student was struck down and killed on the Corentyne highway on Thursday night while on his way home from church.

Chaos at the end marred this year’s Mashramani float parade, with a stampede towards on Irving Street late yesterday afternoon, in which some people might have been hurt.

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Amputee Yonette McDonald, 37, who was the lone survivor of an accident on Mandela Avenue that killed two others, two Fridays ago died at the Georgetown Hospital on Thursday.

The BK International ship New Horizon that sailed to Guyana with a cargo of fuel destined for a company in the Dominican Republic will not leave any time soon as the vessel has to be fumigated and a new crew might have to be selected.

Last week a band of sea pirates operating in the Pomeroon River took their attacks to another level; they heated knives and scorched the buttocks of a number of fishermen, telling them that they must always have Yamaha outboard engines and no other brands.

The flag-raising ceremony to observe the anniversary of Guyana’s attainment of independence was held yesterday at Parliament Building A Guyana Information Agency (GINA) release said President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony, acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Brigadier Edward Collins were present for the traditional hoisting of the Golden Arrowhead.

A porter who allegedly stole a bicycle was released on bail when he appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

The Carter Center is urging that “serious attention” be given to the recommendations in its report on the last elections.

Leader of the Justice for All Party (JFAP) CN Sharma said he is delaying court action as it regards the parliamentary seat his party is reported to have won but is yet to be allocated, in the hope that the matter will be resolved amicably.

When Donetta Jardine graduated from the David Rose School 11 years ago life seemed bleak as she felt the world of work was not ready for her physical disability.

The AFC is accusing the governing PPP/C and the main opposition PNCR of deliberate efforts to stifle the party’s involvement in the affairs of the Parliament.