Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Articles published on Tuesday, March 13, 2007

More on the Summit

In agreeing with President Jagdeo’s assessment of the 19th Summit of the Rio Group as a “success” and in offering congratulations to the President and his team, in our most recent editorial on the Summit, we were of necessity looking at the big picture.

Congestion with cell phones continues

Dear Editor, In a response to a letter writer in the Sunday edition of Stabroek News (03/11/07), GT&T has acknowledged that with its per second billing system in use, it has observed an increase in the number of persons using its cell phones on the network thereby causing congestion.

Morgan refused bail

Now accused of being a primary supplier of cocaine to Trinidad, Barbados, St Maarten and Canada, Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who US drug enforcement officials held at Piarco airport on Friday, was refused bail yesterday pending an extradition hearing.

Mission Child Protection launched

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun a campaign aimed at getting children off the streets, reuniting them with their families where possible and working with parents and guardians to ensure that the children have a good home environment.

Volunteer needs $$$ for tumour surgery

Twenty-year-old Ryan Bynoe, a Youth Challenge Guyana volunteer, is in need of surgery to remove a tumour from his stomach and needs to raise the sum of US$14,000 ($2.8 million) to help to offset the expenses for the surgery in Trinidad and Tobago.