Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Two brothers have been charged with evading customs duties in connection with a quantity of frozen chicken, believed to have been smuggled into the country and which has been seized by Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

The four persons, including two teenagers, accused of killing a 30-year-old fisherman on Mashramani Day appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a joint murder charge and were remanded to prison.

Well over a decade ago the report of the West Indian Commission headed by Sir Shridath Ramphal was presented to the Caricom heads of government.

Pele, led by goals from senior national players Nigel `Powers’ Codrington and Shawn `Fatso’ Bishop, came from behind to defeat defending champions Fruta Conquerors to win the Annual Mayor’s Cup football title Sunday night.

Dwain Dick is the new men’s singles champion of the annual Mashramani table tennis tournament sponsored by the National Sports Commission/ Guyana Table Tennis Associa- tion.

Dexter Solomon scored a brilliant 95 not out to pace Ascension Secondary School to a 117-run victory over St Josephs High School in the Georgetown Secondary Schools final at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) yesterday launched the Diamond Fire and General Insurance under-19 Inter-Association cricket competition at the insurance company’s head office in Kingston yesterday.

Dear Editor, Inasmuch as I would like to see our city with some semblance to what it once looked like many moons ago, I am in sympathy with the vendors who have been asked to move from around the Stabroek market square permanently.

Dear Editor, I read with interest a letter dealing with Internet Services by Mr Leon Jameson Suseran, who is advocating that the internet services should be zero rated with respect to the recently introduced VAT.

Dear Editor, We of the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) endorse the appointment of acting Commissioner Greene to the substantive post of Commissioner of Police.

Dear Editor, It’s a shame to see politically fostered racism still affecting the Guyanese people.

Dear Editor, What are we waiting for? We have the hotel; beautiful Buddy International Hotel.

Dear Editor, Mr Robin Williams’s letter captioned “The African cultural influence has been profound in many areas” (SN 20-02-07) was quite a mouthful lambasting my premise on distinct culture in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I read an article in which Help and Shelter castigated the TOK for an incident in which a sexually inappropriate remark was made to an under-age girl, by one of the members.

Dear Editor, I thought that I had heard everything, but Vidyanand Persaud’s suggestion that traffic control contributes to pile-ups, and that traffic lights are likely to hurt more than help in his letter captioned “Traffic lights like pedestrian crossings may cause more accidents” (07.02.21) has really blown the top off the incredible.

Dear Editor, The pictures gracing the front page of of the Guyana Chronicle on February 24 and 25 are emblematic of what has been, lamentably, an inexorable slide towards decadence in a country that used to have the right to lay claim to being one of the the last bastions of morality in the Caribbean area.

Dear Editor, I would like to commend Ms. Miranda La Rose, on her outstanding piece of journalistic work with regard to the report on the Casique Hotel at Providence.

Dear Editor, The observances of Hindu Festivals in India are similar to those in Guyana and NY with some differences.

Dear Editor, Now that Buddy’s hotel is open for business, I hope both the proprietor and the government come clean with the public at the opportune time on how much money was hauled in by the hotel and casino operations so that the public can know if government would be getting back its multimillion-dollar ad-vance, as President Bharrat Jagdeo boasted would happen.

Guyanese businessman Shaheed Khan, yesterday pleaded not guilty to 18 additional charges brought against him by the US Government when he appeared before Justice Dora Irizarry in a New York court.

One man has died and four others were nursing injuries at the Linden Hospital Complex last night, following an accident about four miles from Mabura.

An East Ruimveldt man was on Sunday night shot dead by a policeman who is also the driver of Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee during an altercation at Jerries Snackette on Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty.

Three bandits, armed with a long gun and a cutlass, attacked a family at Belvedere Reef on the Corentyne around 3.15 am yesterday and made of with about $500,000 in cash and antique gold jewellery.

In the wake of recent criticism by one of its Region Four councillors, the Alliance For Change (AFC) says that its leadership is only interim until it holds its first national conference.

Residents of the northern side of Good Faith Recess Dam, Mahaicony say the dam is in a terrible condition with huge potholes and needs to be fixed urgently.

Persons with special needs in West Berbice can now seek formal education since for the first time a school has been established to cater for them.

Horace Mitchell who served as a judge both in Guyana and the Eastern Caribbean died last Tuesday in Antigua after a brief illness.

The Guyana leg of the US$2 million training programme for security personnel manning the world cup stadiums in the nine host countries commenced yesterday, with Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene lauding the initiative of the Cricket World Cup committee for organizing such an event.

The recent delivery of 250 breeding sets of supermale tilapias from the United Kingdom is expected to provide the boost the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG) needs to make aquaculture the leading economic sector in Guyana by 2015.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has made a call for the city enhancement exercise to be recognized as a national effort to be supported by all rather than “the notion being peddled by some that the move

Four persons have won the right to represent Guyana in Trinidad next month at the finals of the Qaseeda competition.

Secretary-General of the International Criminal Organisation (Interpol), Ronald Noble says he is pleased with Guyana’s security arrangements for the hosting of Cricket World Cup (CWC).

Five suspects are in custody in connection with a $16 million fraud detected at Clico Life Insurance, police said yesterday.

An allegation of assault against the Crabwood Creek Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) chairman yesterday saw a street protest, the resignation of the chairman and the closure of the office pending an investigation.

PNCR-1G MP Dr George Norton is recommending that the government commission a study to determine the success or failure rate of the Cuban Miracle Eye Care programme in Guyana.

Talks regarding an agreed framework for enhanced political cooperation between the government and the parliamentary opposition are unlikely to resume before the upcoming Cricket World Cup.

Residents of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, are calling on the authorities to have urgent repairs done to a damaged bridge on the Railway Embankment as they fear a serious accident may occur on the bridge.

Police in Guyana have arrested one person in connection with T&T$5.3 million cocaine seizure last week in Trinidad, while alleged interference with the investigation by a lawyer is being investigated, according to a press release.

The dead body of a male person of African descent was found on Sheriff Street, in the vicinity of Subryanville on Sunday night, the police have reported.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after over 100 grammes of cocaine, marijuana and a quantity of ecstasy tablets were found at a Princes Street house yesterday afternoon, when members of the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit carried out a raid there.