Daily Archive: Saturday, October 6, 2007

Two men with pending matters before the court who allegedly shot at another man while he was driving were yesterday placed on $125,000 bail each by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.

A couple who allegedly had over 1,000 grammes of ganja at a house at Mahdia was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.

A woman who was left as the guardian of a toddler and who allegedly ill-treated the child by beating and leaving him alone in the house was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.

Finally! The archaic laws governing sexual offences are set to be reformed with drastic changes proposed throughout the entire Criminal Law (Offences) Act Cap 8:01 and with some new offences and harsher penalties recommended.

Guyanese cyclist Marlon `Fishy’ Williams finished 18th place in the 14 kilometres first-division Time Trials on the opening day of the Tobago International Cycling Classic on Thursday, according to reports from the twin island republic.

Approximately 30 golfers are expected to take part in today’s Ansa Mcal sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course starting at 12:30 hours.

Despite the change of venue, the Queen’s College Inter-House athletics championships was a huge success as their star athletes illuminated the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda yesterday with shining performances.

President of the Guyana Cricket Board Chetram Singh said yesterday he was upset at the disappearance of the GCB’s equipment from the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) ground on Woolford Avenue.

Eight teams from the East Coast of Demerara will take it to each other in the third edition of the Freedom Cup hosted by the East Coast Football Association.

The Guyana Cricket Board/Republic Bank (Guy) Limited-sponsored Right Start under-15 Inter Secondary school cricket competition continued on Wednesday and Thursday at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation ground.

Dear Editor, Why is the Kashif and Shanghai Organis- ation crying foul now that they may not be able to host their annual football competition this year?

Dear Editor, Visiting the El Dorado match between Berbice and Demerara at the Stadium on Sunday I was surprised to hear that equipment bought with Stanford funds was stolen from the Guynec Ground.

Dear Editor, One can certainly empathize with the comment from Gabriel Charles (SN 4/10/07) bemoaning negative coverage of Guyana in the press.

Dear Editor, With reference to the article on QC’s upcoming school sports which was published in the October 4 edition of Stabroek News, we would like to offer a correction to the spelling of the name of one of the houses.

Dear Editor, Your Sunday article, concluding on the basis of a poll of one third of PPP MPs that Ralph Ramkarran is the PPP leader having the most support for nomination as the next Presidential Candidate for the PPP is hardly scientific.

Dear Editor, I am prouder to be a Guyanese upon reading that the UWI St.

Dear Editor, I read with interest the concerns of Mr. Remus George in his letter dated 4 October 2007 regarding the issuing of traffic tickets for minor traffic violations.

Dear Editor, I wonder what is the agenda of a certain printed media, which seems very keen in promoting a “PNCR fallout”.

Dear Editor, Tuesday, October 2, was the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and United Nations, in commemorating Gandhi’s contribution to our understanding and practice of non-violence or ahimsa, declared October 2 as world non-violence day.

Dear Editor, Is this the same mysterious JdF whom you once claimed was holed up in Queens or Long Island.

Dear Editor, Cashier: “Good Afternoon KFC can I help you ?”

Dear Editor, Earlier this year, President Bharrat Jagdeo shocked the nation when he announced his government was going to dip into public funds and loan 168 million dollars to Buddy and amounts to other private business persons to expedite the completion of their construction projects related to Guyana’s hosting of CWC 2007.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr Al Creighton captioned “Like universities generally UG has never had a formal statutory evaluation system for its top officers” (07.10.04).

Dear Editor, I remember wondering as a boy, why newspaper stories of monsoons in India that killed 200 people took only a few lines while other stories where maybe one person died or perhaps a dog fell down a well, were given disproportionate prominence in the same newspaper.

Dear Editor, Where have all the sirs gone? The depletion of male teachers in the education system is now a worldwide phenomenon.

When she was crowned Miss Amerindian Heritage 2007, 21-year-old Odessa Paul achieved a lifelong dream: to model on the stage of the National Cultural Centre and to be crowned a queen at the same time.

The lip-service apology that Akon paid to Trinidadian Danah Alleyne in the song, for the public humilation he subjected her to, “Sorry, Blame it on me” should have been widely panned for the hogwash that it is and not accepted as another hit for the singer.

Hi Everyone, Cocoa, coffee, Milo, Ovaltine, Horlicks, hot chocolate, Bournvita, Lipton, anything to which we add hot water, sugar and milk, we call tea.

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The familiar saying, “In unity there is strength’ is beginning to take root among Guyanese entertainers and promoters who are in a push to form what would be called the Guyana Entertainers Association (GEA).

With two weeks to go before the staging of the 2007 Miss Guyana Renaissance Pageant, a twelfth woman has been added to the list of contestants.

Miss Commonwealth 2007 finalist Shirley Burnett and Guyana UK have teamed up to raise some much needed funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children in London, England.

Jean L. Dominique, Haiti’s most prominent journalist was slain, along with the groundskeeper of his radio station, Radio Haiti Inter, on April 3, 2000 by unidentified gunmen.

A new film, produced in Guyana by Guyanese, is set to be released before the end of the month and its producers promise that it will be something that Guyanese can talk about.

Despite Euros 2B being dangled in front of their faces, Cariforum countries yesterday held out for a better deal with the European Union (EU) and while some differences were narrowed in a two-day Jamaica meeting talks are to continue on sugar and other thorny areas.

By any measure phlegmatic is a tricky word to spell but Nirvanie Ramnarain of Annandale Secondary rattled it off with ease yesterday to win the Rotaract Club of Georgetown first National Spelling Bee competition.

The family of Rashley Prass who the police said was killed in a shoot-out in the Canje Creek on Wednesday are still pressing for answers on his death.

A carpenter of 130 First Street, Craig, East Bank Demerara fell to his death yesterday afternoon while doing work at a house in the Diamond New Housing Scheme.

A man whose pit bulls allegedly mauled a businessman early Monday morning while he was out jogging at Well Road, North Ruimveldt leaving him with multiple injuries was yesterday placed on self-bail by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.

Orders came from Office of the President (OP) staffer Kwame McKoy for the placement of the controversial billboards on the maritime tribunal award, the company paid to do the signs confirmed to Stabroek News yesterday.

Some 150 employees of the Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) location in Mabura downed tools yesterday over wages, bringing operations in the area almost to a standstill, sources told Stabroek News.

The Forest Products Association (FPA) is charging the government with displaying a recent tendency to act unilaterally on forestry issues and reacting to attacks on the sector by imposing “wholly impractical restrictions and regulations.”

The recent killing of two MMC security guards, Rodwell Clarke and Warren Hutson, has been condemned by the People’s National Congress Reform and the party described the attack as yet another senseless killing by criminal elements.

A small increase was instituted by the National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) in the price of packaged flour on Tuesday and the 45 kg bag of flour on Monday.

Inmates at the Lusignan Prison who are suffering from infectious diseases particularly HIV, will now be housed apart from the prison population to facilitate their treatment.

Even when interest-free loans are available, many local businesses would be unable to meet the stringent criteria for accessing them, as a few entrepreneurs found out when they attended a seminar hosted by the interest-free facility Caricom Trade and Support (CTS) Programme of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).

Richard Winter, one of the most gifted leather crafters in the country, grew up believing that his ability to transform leather into quality footwear and handbags would get him somewhere.

A food shortage at the Annai Secondary School which resulted in students at the dormitory only receiving one meal last Wednesday has been addressed, Region Nine Chairman Clarindo Lucas said yesterday.

Work has started on the defective water pump which had halted the potable water supply at President’s College, causing students to stage a protest on Thursday.

The body of an unidentified woman was yesterday morning discovered in a trench, a stone’s throw from the East La Penitence Police Station.

Following complaints from farmers about the inaccurate weighing of their paddy by the Mahaicony Rice Mills, its licence has been suspended.

Digicel’s first outing and partnership with GuyExpo was successful, Chief Executive Officer Mark Linehan said in a press release.