Daily Archive: Monday, February 26, 2007

What were your favourite songs at this year’s soca and calypso competitions?

This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora.

The addition of the Buddy’s International Hotel to the skyline of the East Bank of Demerara is undoubtedly a major development and the proprietor Mr Omprakash Shivraj must be complimented for his perseverance and investment.

Carl Hooper abruptly quit international cricket, not because he wanted to be mean, rather the former West Indies captain feels he was forced out of the team well before his planned departure.

Despite driving with a severe disability, motor-racer, Kemal Rahaman, scorched the race track yesterday to win two out of three Group Two `B’ races at the National Motor Racing championship at the South Dakota Circuit.

Newcomer on the local track and field scene, Kim Chan, took the Enmore Community Centre ground by storm yesterday when she recorded her first double in her short career at the final installment of the Developmental meeting.

In an unprecedented move by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) the 2007 national inter-club relay meeting held at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, last Sunday was ruled null and void.

Carlos La Rose was yesterday named to skipper the Demerara squad for the upcoming Castrol under-15 inter-county cricket competition after two days of trial matches at the Demerara Cricket Club ground.

Michelle John drew first blood in the much anticipated showdown with Trenace Lowe by defeating her arch-rival in the finals of the women’s singles event Saturday night as the National Sports Commission (NSC)/Guyana Table Tennis Association annual Mashra-mani competion continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, I recently visited Guyana and enjoyed my visit tremendously.

Dear Editor, It is with interest that I read in the Stabroek News of Friday 02-23 that the Regional Chairman of Region 2 has instructed the Clerk of the RDC to write the Department of Education on the issue of the beating of a pupil of Charity Primary School by a teacher.

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a few salient points which I read the president make in his speech, at the commissioning of the ‘Buddy’s International hotel.’

Dear Editor, Within recent days there were two letters in the newspapers by Mr.

Dear Editor, Guyana is in the middle of a silent, deadly, social upheaval, referred to by one leading Caribbean economist as the “insertion of criminal enterprise into the interstices of the state”, and the recent extraordinary outbursts against Christianity by two government ministers in Parliament (for which they have not apologized; and which still remain part of the official record of that session) illustrate the religious implications.

Dear Editor, I hesitated for a long time to write this letter on American and Western foreign policy since all your letter publications on this subject have been of the so-called “liberal” and anti-Bush or anti-Blair genre.

The US Government is expected to present additional charges against Guyanese businessman, Roger Khan when he makes another court appearance in New York this afternoon.

Declaring that it would “be a tragedy of mammoth proportions if the CCJ was not allowed for whatever reasons to realise its full potential”, the President of the court says the regional private sector needs to be more aware of the role of the CCJ.

It was in the month of September 2005, when well-known boxing coach, Donald Allison was gunned down outside of the Ricola Gym at Agricola.

Guyana Stockfeeds Ltd continues to make strides in the export market and last week prepared five 20-foot containers of well milled, double water-polished rice for shipment to Holland.

Cabinet recently gave the green light for contracts totalling approximately $379.6M for works to be undertaken in the Agriculture, Housing and Water, Home Affairs and Public Works Ministries.

The Parliamentary Management Committee (PMC) will meet today to review the make up of a parliamentary delegation selected to observe the Nebraska Legislature next month.

Lobbying efforts by the majority of Region Four councillors to have their administrative building reconstructed at the former Paradise location have failed and Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall insists that they cannot decide where the building would be located.

Girls will soon benefit from new initiatives for empowerment with the introduction of a programme of basic plumbing, water and sanitation to be implemented at the Guyana Industrial Training Centre.

Residents are planning to stage protest action today for the removal of the acting chairman of the Crabwood Creek (CWC) Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) after he allegedly beat up the captain of the CWC Sport Complex, 23-year-old Clovis Hunte on Mash day.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is urging members of the public to utilize the suggestion boxes it has put up at strategic locations countrywide in its efforts to obtain feedback from stakeholders regarding the services the bureau provides as well as consumer-related problems.

Conservation International (CI) Guyana has called on the government to actively consider protected areas legislation, together with an adequate management authority.

All but two of the 20 countries that make up the Rio Group have confirmed their participation in the March 3 meeting and around five heads of state are likely to be in attendance.