Daily Archive: Thursday, October 25, 2007

Introduction In the last article, the four general elections held between 1947 and 1961 were examined.

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A woman and a 15-year-old girl who were allegedly apprehended after uttering two forged US visas to a police constable at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri were yesterday placed on $340,000 bail by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A City Constabulary Lance Corporal who allegedly sold a motorcycle which he confiscated from a man who had stolen it from a Ministry of Home Affairs employee was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A man who admitted trying to throw over 500 grammes of ganja into the prison compound was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

How must the administration respond to the recent spate of road deaths at Supply Village on the East Bank Demerara, at Bel Air Village on the East Coast Demerara and at Amelia’s Ward in Linden?

There was wide participation in the beach volleyball seminar recently held by the Guyana Volleyball Federation [GVF] in collaboration with the International Volleyball Federation [FIVB] at the Guyana Table Tennis Association Training Centre in the National Park.

Regional limited over giants Guyana will begin their quest to regain the KFC Cup they last won in 2005 when they take on Jamaica today in their semi final clash at the Three Ws’ Oval, Cave Hill, here.

A presentation of autographed copies of the book of poetry, “Moongazer”, written by Lorri Alexander, was presented to each of the visiting representatives of FIFA -the world governing body of football, who officiated at the three (3) day COM – UNITY Seminar, jointly hosted by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and FIFA at the Cara Lodge, Quamina Street , on Thursday.

Tutorial High School and Lodge Community High will bang heads today in the final of the Edwin ‘Chow’ Sealy Memorial School indoor football competition being played at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Ten local teams, 2 Barbados clubs and a selection from Washington D.C

Timehri Panthers, Mocha Champs and Grove Hi-Tech all chalked up their first wins in the 2007 East Bank Football Association season.

With its eyes on the Senior Inter-County four-day cricket competition, the Essequibo Cricket Board says it will be staging a three-day trial match to gauge the level of fitness of prospective selectees.

With the Rugby World Cup just ended in France the action will now switch to Guyana for the eagerly anticipated one-off match between arch-rivals Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago Over 35s on Saturday at the National Park rugby field.

Guyana’s middleweight Beijing Olympic Games hopeful Markember Pierre crashed out of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Boxing Championships in Chicago, United States of America (USA) when he lost to a Hungarian fighter 7-23 yesterday.

Dear Editor, The caption of Mr Dennis Wiggins’ submission in your letter columns that characterized the Alliance For Change (AFC) party thus, “The Alliance cannot confine itself to parliamentary politics and must be activist” (Stabroek News 07/10/20) is in sync with the policy of the AFC.

Dear Editor, I would like to ask the attorney representing the Guyanese family who recently received refugee status in Canada the following questions :- 1) Can he relate exactly how the drug couriers plan-ned to secrete drugs among rice shipments?

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Mr Rickey Singh for his letter, captioned “The Stabroek News ads decision” published in the Guyana Chronicle on October 23, 2007.

Dear Editor, Being a frequent reader of all three daily newspapers I was asked whether press freedom is under threat with respect to government’s decision to withdraw advertisements from the Stabroek News which is based on the decline in newspaper circulation.

Dear Editor, We have had new traffic lights installed over four months.

Dear Editor, I thank you for forwarding my letter about the teenager who was allegedly attacked by a senior PPP member, to the Minister of Human Services for a response.

Dear Editor, Too bad for Malcolm Sonaram who was remanded to prison for causing death by dangerous driving on October 17.

Dear Editor, It is so sad that none of the three daily newspapers seemed to have recognized as a human person, the unborn child who perished in the recent road carnage on the east coast.

Dear Editor, Not long ago I was looking for something from the 1886 newspapers at the National Archives.

Dear Editor, A recent letter suggested planting a tree to replace the dying Conversation Tree in commemoration of Mr Charles P Kennard.

Dear Editor, The November elections in Trinidad are turning out to be quite interesting.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Dr Anand Daljeet captioned “Our scientific institutions cannot develop without the proper equipment” (07.10.21).

Dear Editor, Since I have been living in Guyana, going back and forth from England and Barbados for the last 20 years, I was asked by many singers and musicians especially the Mighty Intruder of “Lilawattie” fame and Mr Richard Noble, a producer and songwriter of “If you tell me” which was sung by our own Billy Wade, to speak on their behalf about the copyright laws not being enforced in Guyana which gives songwriters, musicians, and other creative artistes no chance of earning a living by whatever they have created.

Dear Editor, I would like to refer to the GLU’s upcoming elections at its 5th Triennial Delegates Congress for the post of President General.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Eric Phillips’ letter captioned “Widespread indifference to the plight of Africans in Guyana” (07.10.13) where Phillips declares that “The Indian population is indifferent to African needs”.

In the backdrop of an alarming rise in road fatalities and a public outcry for action, Acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene yesterday unveiled several new plans including a ticketing system from November 1 with fines between $5,000 to 7,000 and the naming of those whose licences have been suspended The 177 deaths on the roadways for this year represent a 52% increase in road fatalities.

Nine gunmen operating from a canter truck yesterday afternoon ambushed and robbed cambio dealer Roy Sarjoo of close to $4.3M before beating him during a 15-minute spree on the busy Third Avenue and Church Road, Subryanville as children from nearby Mae’s School left for home.

Barama Company Limited yesterday dubbed the $96.4M in fines imposed by the forestry commission as “severe, unclear and

Veteran Guyanese/Caribbean journalist Rickey Singh in an open letter with a “specific appeal” to President Bharrat Jagdeo is urging him to urgently review the decision that led to the mass withdrawal of public sector advertisements from the Stabroek News and for a fair redistribution of the ads.

A brazen gunman who robbed a Berbice family at midday yesterday was forced to drop most of his booty after police and an armed businessman in the area arrived on the scene and gave chase.

The Ministry of Health is advising parents not to administer cough and cold medication recently withdrawn by the US to children under the age of two.

Twenty-three-year-old Shazad Ali of Lot 39 A Albion High Reef is the latest person to have died by accident on the Corentyne Highway.

Bishops’ High School ‘old girls’ and attorneys-at-law Faye Barker and Yogini Lochan met again last week when they were admitted to the local bar.

When I learned, about week before I began my fellowship with the International Center For Journalists, that I would spend three weeks at a newspaper in California, I was elated.

The Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday held a farmers’ open-day and mini-processors’ expo at the Parika market to determine how to further expand the market value for produce.