Frankly Speaking
Well I have to thank the Stabroek News young veteran-journalist Miranda La Rose for providing me with today’s lead issue indicated in my caption.
Articles published on Friday, October 5, 2007
Well I have to thank the Stabroek News young veteran-journalist Miranda La Rose for providing me with today’s lead issue indicated in my caption.
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A teenaged maid who allegedly stabbed her employer in the abdomen with a knife after an argument over a dirty plate was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday ruled in favour of the attorneys representing murder accused beauty queen Carolan Lynch in deciding not to have a statement tendered into evidence at her preliminary inquiry.
Let us pick up where our editorials of last Friday and Sunday left off in their discussion of the warm glow caused by the maritime award and the way forward with respect to our foreign policy in general and more specifically, the management of the border controversy with our western neighbour.
As Guyanese and Surinamese both contemplate the implications of the award that has effectively settled the long-standing maritime dispute between the two South American Republics, officials in both George-town and Paramaribo appear optimistic that the demarcation of the maritime jurisdiction of the two countries significantly enhances their respective prospects of economically significant oil finds.
Managing Director of EMPRETEC – Guyana Judy Semple-Joseph has told Stabroek Business that the organization’s October 10- 11, 2007 Marketing Practice Workshop seeks to provide a unique opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises in Guyana to build marketing bridges with the region and with the United States and to enhance the marketing prospects of those enterprises where such prospects already exist.
The news that Guyana’s prospects of a commercially viable oil find may have risen in the wake of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) arbitral award in Guyana’s maritime dispute with Suriname passed with little public fanfare here.
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Last week’s column dealt with the award to Guyana by the Arbitral Tribunal of the UN of maritime territory which had been a cause of dispute between Guyana and its neighbour and CARICOM partner Suriname, an area considered as having probable oil resources.
In my article published in the September 14, 2007 issue of the Stabroek Business and titled “The Strategies for Sustainable Growth in the CSME”, I made reference to Dr.
Small business enterprises in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) territories will be offered an important opportunity to take their goods and services to a single regional marketplace when the first ever Caribbean Small Business Trade Fair and Exhibition is held in the twin-island republic from November 10- 17, this year.
Sharon Barnwell nee Mitchell is one of many Guyanese residing overseas whose accomplishments in business are attracting more than passing attention.
Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.
They held a media briefing to ask for privacy leading up to discussions with President Bharrat Jagdeo and Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Colin Klass in the wake of media reports on the possibility that the year-end tournament might not be held, but in the end conceded that it was indeed possible that the Kashif and Shanghai year-end football fiesta would not be held this year.
Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) made a clean sweep of the Banks DIH and Infab night hockey tournament following their men’s first-division team’s 2-1 win over Everest Hikers in their decider, Wednesday evening at Thirst Park.
The Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) P&P Insurance/ Cummings Electrical-sponsored Raymond Panday Memorial two-day second-division cricket competition will continue tomorrow with four matches.
Twelve-year-old Ianna Graham of ‘A’ house proved unstoppable when the Brickdam Secondary School held its Inter-House athletic championships at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) ground yesterday.
Dear Editor, It had not been our intention to offer any response to a recent letter from Mrs Bernadette Persaud in which she commented on the Guyana Prize for Literature and its Awards Ceremony, partly because it is not our policy to entertain discussion about the Judges’ decisions.
Dear Editor, Mr P Singh, in his letter about the absurdity of making ‘Jonestown’ in the interior a site for ‘dark tourism’, is absolutely right.
Dear Editor, I write to support the letter sent to you with information that the students living at the Annai Dormitories are experiencing a food shortage which led to your investigation and report.
Dear Editor, Reference to the article in the Stabroek News dated Wednesday October 3rd 2007 titled “Barama formulated MOU on use of roads by miners”.
Dear Editor, The supreme gift of multi-ethnicity adds spice to flavour and in no ordinary way was this divine phenomenon more perfectly blended into a complete oneness than in Washington DC, on Saturday last, when Guyanese met, greeted, embraced and again endorsed the true sprit of our national motto of one people, one nation, and one destiny.
Dear Editor, With reference to your published solicitation of the views of a number of PPP persons as to their choice of the PPP’s presidential candidate for 2011, it was interesting to hear what came out of their mouths.
Dear Editor, It has been brought to my attention that in a press release issued by the PNCR it has been alleged that the Freedom of Information Bill tabled by me in the National Assembly was in effect a bill that was to be tabled by the PNCR, which in effect I took away with me to the AFC.
Dear Editor, On a brighter note, it was the local craft exhibitors who to my mind stole the show namely Jah Works and Burrowes School of Art graduate from a few years ago, Stonewall Michael who specialised in ceramics craft.
Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter by the Minister of Amerindian Affairs captioned “Consultations were held and agreements reached with every Amerindian community which received an Absolute Land Grant (07.09/14) in reply to an AFC press statement.
Dear Editor, I am elated over the decision of the maritime border issue with Surname.
Dear Editor, Local news outlets must stop making headlines and captioning figures as the “Guyana/Suriname Basin” when referring to oil exploration in Guyana’s territory.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is scheduled to hold its Conference on October 21-23.
Dear Editor, It is always an outrage when someone dies. The outrage is even more if it could have been prevented or responded to sooner.
Kicking off the reform of sex offences laws, Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday said the system is failing victims of sexual violence because the laws in the country are archaic.
Some 10,081 patients were treated by medical personnel from the USNS Comfort and US$20,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies was donated to persons and institutions during a week of humanitarian service here.
The Ministry of Education has approved the suspension of classes at President’s College (PC) for two days following a protest by students yesterday over the unavailability of potable water as a result of a defective water pump.
A logger, the lone survivor of a trio who allegedly staged an armed robbery at King Solomon’s Royale Cambio last Saturday, was yesterday remanded to prison.
CARIFORUM is working towards meeting the December 31, 2007 deadline for a new trade deal with Europe but there are still many obstacles to be ironed out at a meeting concluding in Jamaica today and sugar and rice will be key topics.
Stabroek News Assistant Editor, Cheryl Springer, is one of twelve newspaper editors from around the world selected for fellowships by the International Center For Journalists (ICFJ).
The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company is advising its customers that the 50% reduction on outbound international rates at weekends has ended.
New Caribbean Airlines Chief Executive Officer Philip Saunders says his focus at the helm is to consistently deliver excellent service from A-Z and declared that Guyana is important in their strategy.
The GuyExpo planning committee on Monday demolished a booth at the Sophia Exhibition site belonging to horticulturalist Boyo Ramsaroop and has since said that that action was taken because he had built it without permission.
Education Minister Shaik Baksh on Monday said that investigations into complaints by parents that they were told to take furniture for their children, at the Richard Ishmael Secondary School, are still ongoing.
Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira yesterday flatly refused to answer questions on who had put up controversial billboards on the maritime tribunal award.
A Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) volunteer last week presented the National Commission on Disability (NCD) with a five-year strategic plan which focuses on advocacy and social inclusion and coordinating and capacity building.
The two suspects who were detained by police in relation to the deadly attack on an MMC vehicle at the Sheribana Bridge on Monday last have been released from police custody.
A man in his late 60s collapsed on a pavement on Regent Street in the vicinity of Kuyum’s Jewellery World on Wednesday and was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Fire last evening damaged a two-storey South Ruimveldt home after the generator reportedly overheated, leaving four persons homeless.
The agriculture ministry’s Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board on Wednesday launched a user friendly guide for farmers and persons who utilize pesticides.
Security will be heightened at the Georgetown Fisheries Wharf in response to increased reports of robberies in the area.
An assessment of efforts to develop the livestock sector with imported breeding stock is currently being done through the Ministry of Agriculture and the British High Commission to determine the possibility of bringing in Texel sheep.
Students in Kurupung, Cuyuni/Mazaruni district, Region Seven, will soon benefit from government’s school feeding programme which has been successfully piloted in several hinterland regions, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.The
The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre says it has awarded a Berbice teen a scholarship tenable at the University of Guyana.
Teachers would not be released to take part in the national house-to-house registration exercise but they may be involved after school hours, acting Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Gail Teixeira says.