Daily Archive: Monday, October 15, 2007

Should more women be involved in sport? Do you think they are being discriminated against?

The recent discussions by Freddie Kissoon, Nigel Westmaas, and Alissa Trotz in the Guyana press on political murders in Guyana’s troubled history since the 1960s bring to mind Martin Carter’s powerfully evocative poem, After One Year, published in 1964: After today, how shall I speak with you?

A 53-year-old man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with carnal knowledge and buggery of an 11-year-old girl.

The news that heart bypass surgery was successfully performed here for the first time on Saturday is a shining indicator of the progress that has been made on several fronts by the Ministry of Health and the public/private sector partnerships which will also see important developments in kidney health care and other areas.

Today Stabroek Sport takes a look at the batsmen who will by their exploits bring the crowds, schoolchildren and all, back to the cricket grounds in Guyana including the National Stadium at Providence when the KFC Cup bowls off tomorrow with the opening game between the hosts and dark horses, the Windward Islands.

Ansa McAl and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) through their PEPSI brand have joined forces with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to sponsor the GCB’s Inter-County and Club Twenty20 cricket competitions.

Marion Jones did it, now it is time for the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF).

Cleveland Mentore playing with a 16 handicap recorded 40 points to win last Saturday’s Neal and Massy Guyana Group sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan Course on a day that saw the youth golfers prevailing over their much senior counterparts.

An impressive spell of spin bowling from 13-year-old Darell Fredericks led Ascension Community High School to a 57-run victory over Tucville Secondary School in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Republic Bank Right Start Under-15 Inter Secondary School cricket competition over the week-end.

Wins by Uprising and Santos in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby U-13 league competition has set up the possibility of an exciting showdown between the two teams to decide the winners of the inaugural competition.

Dear Editor, On October 10, 2007, my colleagues and I were preparing to return to Georgetown via the ferry from New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, For over one year residents of Lusignan West, East Coast, Demerara, have been writing letters about the discomfort they are going through because of the noise and dust emanating from furniture manufacturers in that area.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article dated 2nd October 2007 captioned “PNCR level 11 misconduct charges against Mc Allister.”

Dear Editor, I visited Bartica this week and enjoyed the beauty of the location and the hospitality of the people.

Dear Editor, This year is another challenging one for sugar and rice in Guyana given developments in the European Union and Jamaica.

Dear Editor, In an effort to create a horrific awareness of Road Safety, a philanthropist is about to launch competitions designed specifically for drivers of mini buses and motor cycle/scooters who constantly breach Chapter 51:02 of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act.

Dear Editor, Over a year ago, I made the difficult decision to stop addressing letters to the Chronicle.

Dear Editor, Thank you for the coverage you have so aptly given about the wanton destruction of the potable/portable water situation at Salbora, the irresponsible destruction of a main access road and the loss of millions of dollars.

Dear Editor, I refer to my letter captioned ” Amerindians must seek at least a basic secondary education, preserve their mother tongues” (07.09.28).

Dear Editor, I read with great interest a letter to you by Members of SASOD-Guyana captioned “Buju Banton is an unrepentant homophobe”.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Cecil Kennard says that the police report into the killing of Buxtonian, Donna Herod should have been sent to his office first before it went to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

In the interest of transparency and good governance, President Bharrat Jagdeo needs to explain the constitutional mechanism he used to extend the term of the commissioners of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

Buoyed by its first successful open heart surgery, the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) is gearing up to deepen its work here and persons who suffer heart attacks are now being promised care at its facility.

Police intercepted a minibus with a number of Suriname-bound passengers at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning carrying 10 pounds of compressed marijuana.

A taxi driver attached to the Top Notch Taxi Service located at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, is bemoaning his decision to take a hire from two “decent looking” men for South Ruimveldt as instead of receiving the $1500 for the drop he was gun-butted twice and forced to flee his car leaving cash and phone cards.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will host a reception this evening at State House for the Heads of State and some 294 delegates and observers attending the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting (CFMM) which gets underway today and ends on Wednesday.

During the discussions of the special theme: climate change, Commonwealth Finance Ministers may over the next few days consider the thorny issue of carbon pricing and blended financing for climate-related investments but Finance Minister Dr.

The European Union (EU) demand for duty-free access for substantially all its exports to Cariforum countries is among the sticking points in trade talks between the two sides and this and the recent scrapping by the EU of the Sugar Protocol could feature at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting this week.

‘Climate Change: The Challenges Facing Finance Ministers’ will form the basis for the technical discussions when Guyana hosts 40 countries at the Common-wealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) opening today.

In preparation for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) which officially opens this evening senior finance officials will meet this morning followed by a Commonwealth Business Council/World Bank Debt-Shadow Ratings meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

The Canefield, East Canje resident whose concrete house has started to crack after a Digicel tower was erected right next to it earlier this year is pleased that the company contacted him after a news item appeared in this newspaper and is taking steps to have the problem rectified.

A Vergenoegen youth who was the victim of a severe thrashing last month at the hands of his friends recently suffered a relapse and is back in hospital.

Armed bandits on Friday afternoon attacked Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo greens vendor Ayube Khan and his family making off with an undisclosed sum of cash, the proceeds of the sale of a vehicle.

President’s College’s acting kitchen manager was on Monday issued with a dismissal letter for insubordination but the woman says that she was fired for sending breakfast out to students on the morning they staged a protest on the Golden Grove Public Road over the quality of water they were receiving.

The grief-stricken father of five-year-old Brianna Dover whose lifeless body was pulled from the disused Tucville Sewerage System last July says that his child could have been alive today if the site was secured ten years ago when another toddler fell into the cesspool.

The man who was found with a gunshot wound in Agricola on Friday night said he was driven to the village in a taxi and shot unexpectedly by one of three men who were also travelling with him.

Residents of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, who staged protest action last Wednesday are expecting improved service after the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) agreed to double the daily supply to the area.