Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 6, 2007

This year, the Administration allocated $9.3 billion to the security sector compared to $4.6B in 2006.

Courts Pacesetters became Guyana’s number-one team when they dethroned Kashif and Shanghai Kings at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Sunday night to win the Next Level Entertainment nation- wide first division basketball competition.

Berbice fought back to attain a slight advantage at the end of the first day of the Castrol inter-county under-15 two-day cricket competition at the Police Sports Complex ground yesterday after being dismissed for a paltry first innings score.

Even a penalty shoot-out could not decide the better team in the Rastafari Patriarchs vs ‘Baldhead’ Masters over-40 football grudge-match at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Sunday night.

National players Esaun Crandon and Veerasammy Permaul were the stand out performers when the Berbice zone of the 2007 Neal and Massy national first-division, limited overs cricket competition got cracking with four first round matches.

“You are not selling balata balls you’re selling memories,” is what Dr.

The stage is set for the Camptown Football Club grassroots, four-team tournament which kicks off Saturday at the Camptown ground.

Dear Editor, In a letter captioned “Irrigation a major problem for farmers on the Essequibo Coast” (07.03.01) rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast have reported that due to a shortage of irrigation water they face the risk of losing their crops.

Dear Editor, Responding to the Stabroek News article on Sunday 11th February, 2007 headlined “Student Gangs at Wisburg involved in violence”, I wish to firmly indicate that Ms.

Dear Editor, When I read Andaiye’s perceptive letter captioned “In defence of the vendors outside the Stabroek market, especially the grass roots women; in defence of justice” (07.03.02) I was reminded of the observation made by Sophie Bessis in her book ” Western Supremacy: the triumph of an idea?”

Dear Editor, Officials have been criticizing letter writers for inventing the nature of Pandit Gossai’s supposed appointment in the Office of the President.

Dear Editor, Region Two Vice Chair-man Mr. Vishnu Samaroo says rice farmers will not lose their crop.

Dear Editor, On March 1st, the state owned Guyana Chronicle carried an editorial, “Investors’ confidence,” highlighting a shortlist of projects in which local and foreign investors have ploughed their monies over the past few months.

Dear Editor, An article in your January 13, 2007 edition reported that stray dogs have been killing my goats at Hubu EB.

Dear Editor, In developed countries, freedom of the press implies that all people should have the right to express themselves in writing or in any other way of expression of personal opinion or creativity.

Dear Editor, I am happy to note and give thanks to people who write letters on the ill-treatment and neglect of animals in our subculture, and it is heartening when readers respond in kind.

Almost three years after being established Water Users Associations (WUAs) are still awaiting the revamping of the drainage system which would allow them to carry out their duties.

A report on the implementation of the Caricom Single Economy, commissioned by Heads at their meeting in St Lucia last year, sees this being implemented by 2015.

A young boy of around six or seven years old was last evening decapitated after he was hit, first by a speeding motorcycle, then by a car and then by minibus on the East Bank Public Road at Diamond.

The US Government has challenged the motion by Guyanese drug accused Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan to be removed from a ‘special housing’ facility, on the grounds that his confinement is based on non-punitive, administrative and security concerns that are best evaluated by the prison administrators.

The neat living room in suburban Ealing, west London, seems an unlikely place for the birth of the UK’s first radical black publishing house.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered the exhumation of the body of a man who died at the New Amsterdam (NA) hospital six hours after he was allegedly beaten.

Guyana and Chile are eyeing areas of commonality where the two countries would focus on ways of dealing with special problems facing each other and to secure funding for programmes in this regard, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has said.

A New York-based group has embarked on a project aimed at providing healthcare information to diabetics and cancer sufferers through a resource centre.

Eighty-six-year-old Hilda Edwards and her twin brother Ricta were happy to be able to celebrate their birthday together last Sunday.

Caricom has signed a cooperation agreement on International Humanitarian Law with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) that will facilitate the promotion and development of humanitarian laws and principles within the Community.

The Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, under the directorship of Professor David Dabydeen, will be hosting the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Lecture today, to mark the tenth anniversary of Dr.

Guyana may again soon get a national flag carrier, as President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday met representatives of an aircraft construction company to discuss the establishment or such an airline next year, a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

Up to late yesterday afternoon there was still no sign of Rudy Fernandes, who went missing over the weekend when the fishing boat he was on along with four others capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about three miles from land.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said March brings bittersweet memories as it remembers late president Dr Cheddi Jagan, and Kowsilla who was mowed down by a tractor while protesting at the Leonora Sugar Estate 43 years ago.

Berbicians got their share of the Mashramani celebrations yesterday with band and revellers displaying floats and costumes along Main Street, New Amsterdam and ending at the Esplanade Park.