Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 16, 2007

An alleged gang which has been robbing businesses and persons at gunpoint of millions during the year in all three counties was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

An Information Technology (IT) teacher who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Two men accused of robbing a taxi driver of his car were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A tally clerk who allegedly drove his motor car dangerously and struck down a motorcyclist on Durban Street resulting in the man’s death was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Last Friday morning, when nobody from the Nobel committee rang to congratulate him, Al Gore realised that he hadn’t won the peace prize so many had thought was his due.

Guyana, a country which has won the regional limited overs competition on nine occasions faces the Windward Islands, finalists of the 2006 competition today at the Blairmont Community Development Centre ground in the opening round of the KFC Cup limited overs cricket competition.

Being back on top of the mountain is sweet again for Sylvon Gardener.

England has done it but Clive Lloyd does not feel a managing director for West Indies teams would be feasible presently.

Manager of the Trinidad & Tobago KFC Cup cricket team, Omar Khan, said that as defending champions, the team have everything to play for.

Seventeen-year old Joaan Deo started playing golf just over eight months ago and already she has been on the podium twice and a lot is expected from this young Lusignan resident.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago, with eight titles at this level, start their KFC Cup title defence with a first round game against the Combined Colleges and Campuses at the Guyana National Stadium today.

Pint-sized, eight-year-old Sheriffa Ali played unbeaten to come out on top in the Oasis Caf

Sixteen year-old Guyanese golfer Avinash Persaud won the Flow Millennium Lakers Club championship at Trincity Course recently in Trinidad, according to reports from the twin island republic.

Dear Editor, I refer you to various letters written by Mr Frederick Kissoon (SN 07.10.05; KN 07.10.07) and SN 07.10.13, “The Two of us are the only ones at UG who speak to the press”, to which Mr Jason Benjamin’s name is also attached.

Dear Editor, I read with much pride the performing of the first open-heart surgery in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I have noted the recent news on the drive to export agri products to buyers overseas.

Dear Editor, I note that Usha Pertab (letter captioned “The purpleheart exported by Bulkan Timber Works was either dressed or kiln dried” (07.10.14).

Dear Editor, Your newspaper’s spotlight on the untenable situation of several acting appointments in government institutions and organizations, “Confirm top cop or let him go” Opposition MPs, (SN October 14), is highly commendable and welcome.

Dear Editor, It is with a great degree of reluctance that I write regarding the protracted pronouncements of Drs Anand Daljeet and Seelochan Beharry on my role in Guyana and their expectations thereof.

Dear Editor, Last Tuesday, October 9, two unidentified members of the Guyana Power and Light disconnection team came to my residence around 14:00 hours, alleging that I owe the company some $9000.

Dear Editor, It is embarrassing to see that the Stabroek News will be staging a protest at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting on Monday.

Dear Editor, During the last twenty years including five under the PNC, Guyana became the poorest country in the Western hemisphere by 1992, accumulating an international debt of US $2.1 billion.

Climate change reforms are increasingly skewed in the interest of the developed world and Commonwealth finance ministers have a chance to reshape this, President Bharrat Jagdeo said last night while also revealing that he had offered to deploy the country’s entire rainforest in the global warming battle.

Stabroek News yesterday protested outside of the Commonwealth finance ministers meeting over the government’s withdrawal of state advertising but its employees were prevented from holding placards in what Editor-in-Chief David de Caires said was a breach of its democratic right.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General, Ransford Smith in his address at the opening of the finance ministers meeting last evening said that Guyana is looking forward with increased confidence.

Two men posing as customers yesterday walked into the Digicel outlet on D’urban Street, and stuck up an employee before escaping with the day’s sales and several high-priced cellular phones.

A businessman early yesterday morning shot and killed one of two gunmen who ambushed him and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home in what appeared to be a robbery attempt.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General, Ransford Smith on Sunday said that there is need to find a business strategy to allow the Iwokrama rainforest project to provide for its own sustainability since it is not a question of overseas funding, but the utilization of its own resources.

An evening of colour and diversity greeted the delegates at the opening yesterday of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting as performers brought some degree of levity to a meeting weighed down by concerns of small developing states’ preparation for the challenges of climate change.

At least two families of the flood-affected Joe Hook and Grass Hook areas in Mahaica Creek have so far decided to relocate to Hope, East Coast Demerara within three weeks to escape the possible recurrence of a flood.

The Government of the United Kingdom and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the implementation of a project to enhance the region’s capacity to deal with climate change in a comprehensive way.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on Friday donated $250,000 in cash and other items to the fire-affected residents at Laing Avenue.

A man is to be charged shortly with the murder of a woman after she died in the hospital on Saturday.

A small aircraft vanished from the Anna Regina airstrip between Sunday and early yesterday morning after landing there.