Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 23, 2007

There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure. For several years, I argued that America’s economy was being supported by a housing bubble that had replaced the stock market bubble of the 1990’s.

Nearly a year after they were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at Middle Road and were slapped with ten years imprisonment each, Rocky Gravesande and Sherlock Peters were freed by the Court of Appeal.

A businessman who allegedly hit down a guard who was crossing the Rupert Craig Highway last Wednesday was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

The case against a teenaged boy who is accused of murdering a presidential guard was yesterday put off until November as the magistrate hearing the case is on leave.

Marcel La Cruz, the woman who grabbed a newborn baby from a 13-year-old mother nearly a year ago pleaded guilty to kidnapping in the High Court yesterday and will be sentenced in another few days.

A man who allegedly robbed two women at Republic Park and was shot by the police after he attempted to disarm an officer was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Last week the Sunday Times published a fascinating profile of a man who made one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century.

All the glitches have been repaired, the kinks in the system ironed out and the early teething problems solved.

The Guyana National U-19 male basketball team overcame all the odds to end Suriname’s reign as champions in a 57-54 thriller in the final of the 2007 Inter-Guiana Games competition on Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Ian Gouveia with a 16 handicap a gross 85 and net 69 won last weekend’s Guyoil sponsored Medal Play golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf course.

Fresh off his third round stoppage of Edison Morillo, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore is adamant that he is not afraid of Vincent ‘The Kid’ Howard.

After a hectic three days, the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall was a picture of peace and tranquility late Sunday evening as the curtain was pulled on a very eventful second and final stages of this year’s Inter Guiana games with Suriname retaining their title as overall champions.

New-york based Guyanese businessman, Ravi Etwaroo, has unveiled a project to ‘adopt’ young West Indian cricketers.

Two goals each from Sheldon Gurrick and Keoma Gravesande paced Pele to a 4-0 drubbing of Police on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground as play in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus Premier league competition.

Dear Editor I refer to Mr David Burgess’s letter captioned “Conversation tree seems to be dying” (07.10.22).

Dear Editor, Just read your Sunday editorial captioned “Burnham and education”.

Dear Editor, I read the letter headed “Gail Teixeira is losing her credibility, her present job appears to have shifted her loyalty from the party to the President” (07.10.21), about the withholding of ads from SN.

Dear Editor, I have observed that the Home Affairs Minister has made rash and unsubstantiated statements about Canada’s refugee system, especially the one that relates to my client who was successful in his refugee claim.

Dear Editor, The proposed increase in the electricity tariff will bring more hardship on workers.

Dear Editor, Myself and others have been keenly following the recommendations put forward by the Minister of Social Security and Human Services to make perpetrators of female sexual abuse more accountable.

Dear Editor, After reading the Sunday Stabroek editor-ial captioned “Burnham and education” (October 21, 2007), I hope the same right to analysis given in this column will be given to mine.

Dear Editor, SASOD, the prominent Gay/Human Rights body in Guyana, recently invited the Guyana Government to denounce the promotion of societal homophobia.

Dear Editor, Democracy in its true sense can be undermined by many factors two of which are unaccountability and lack of transparency.

Dear Editor, Your news item, (“PPP urges Canada to stop exporting criminals,” Saturday, October 20), related to the Guyanese family that received political asylum in Canada, last month which captured many people’s attention when it first broke.

Dear Editor, A ticklish situation lurking around the corner is the new decision by the Jamaican government to have foreign workers show in 10 days their work permits or face deportation as appeared in a Chronicle report dated October 20, 2007.

Barama Company Limited has been slapped with $106M in fines for breaches in three concessions, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) said yesterday.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) yesterday seized around 4,000 carats of suspected smuggled diamonds bound for Dubai following cross-checking of documents which showed irregularities in the paperwork.

Amerindian Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues yesterday lamented that the Indigenous People’s Commission is still to be put in place and floods, roads, unemployment and land extensions are among concerns to be raised by village leaders at the National Toshaos Conference.

A post-mortem examination on the body of Gordon Sayers, the soldier who was found dead in an army barrack at Camp Stephenson, Timehri on Sunday morning showed that he died from cerebral haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head.

Chinese nationals residing in Guyana are being urged to ensure that all their documents are in order to avoid having to face the full penalty of the law, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday.

In light of the horrific road accidents that left 24 persons dead in 12 days, the police have planned a meeting today for the Traffic Officer and Divisional Traffic Heads to discuss ways of intensifying the fight against traffic lawlessness.

Trinidadian companies are offering a host of energy services here as Guyana prepares to embark on exploration projects which it is believed will yield oil in commercial quantities.

Barama Company Limited yesterday made a parting donation of a computer to the school children of St Monica/Kariwab and also handed over a $5.5M building after pulling out of its operations earlier this year when villagers of Akawini, upset by a logging deal, commenced a campaign against the company.

A 22-year-old teacher attached to St. Stanislaus College is battling for her life in hospital after the motorcycle she was a pillion rider on slammed into the back of a car on Sunday night on the Railway Embankment, Bel Air.

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) says Chairman, Justice Cecil Kennard, will pay a two-day visit to the Essequibo Coast to address members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) based in the area and to receive complaints from residents about errant officers.

Guyanese law student Sohan Jaikaran Poonai won the honour of Best Graduating Student at the Hugh Wooding Law School for 2005/2007.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited last week pledged more than $6M towards the development of sport and education for 2007/2008 when it formally launched its community programme, the ‘Power to Make a Difference’, locally at the Bank’s New Market Street headquarters.

Residents of the Angoy’s Avenue community should not have much time to be “idle” since the Congo Nya Cultural Foundation Library & DVD Club was recently launched to keep them occupied.

The Lions Club of Central Demerara on Thursday donated a quantity of medical supplies for diabetic patients to the Ministry of Health.

A ‘Stand Up – Speak Out!’ pledge and service was held Wednesday at the new Art of Living Centre in Turkeyen, in support of the eradication of extreme poverty and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Since Guyana attained republican status 37 years ago, the government usually announces a list annually of persons who are honoured for their outstanding contribution to the country – be it in sports, music, culture, education, and other fields of endeavour.