Daily Archive: Friday, October 26, 2007

How sordid my captions. One would prefer not to address such issues for the young and the world to read and consider.

When I wrote about the “end of history” almost twenty years ago, one thing that I did not anticipate was the degree to which American behaviour and misjudgments would make anti-Americanism one of the chief fault-lines of global politics.

Two boys who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and stole her jewellery and damaged items worth over $1.1 million and reportedly had 15 cartridges at Kwakwani were on Tuesday remanded into police custody by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier who allegedly hit another rank who was playing music over the head with a piece of iron was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge by Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday sentenced two men to eight years imprisonment, after they confessed to breaking into homes, on the advice of a woman, and stealing items worth over $2M while the alleged mastermind was remanded.

A man was arrested yesterday morning at Limlair Village, Corentyne in connection with the robbery at a hardware store at Bengal Farm on Wednesday and the police recovered a 9 mm pistol and three matching live rounds of ammunition.

The trial of a customs officer accused of attempting to obstruct the course of justice by unlawfully uplifting four persons along with more than 1,000 cases of beer and a truck from the Leonora Police station began yesterday with Special Constable Robert Campbell of the Parika Police Station giving evidence.

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A major confrontation has erupted between two of the key players in the Guyana Scrap Metal Dealers Association (GSMDA) dealing a further blow to the already beleaguered industry and threatening to derail the GSMDA’s negotiations with government over the reopening of the scrap export trade.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the Trinidad and Tobago-owned airline charter service Constellation Tours is to pursue the lease of additional aircraft to ply its routes between Georgetown and North America in an effort to avert repetition of last week’s flight cancellation which left more than 100 passengers stranded at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and provoked a sharp official reprimand from Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Manniram Prashad.

Several months ago the Stabroek Business published a story disclosing, among other things, that a former member of the Board of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) had been fingered in a scam designed to conceal the actual amount of electricity consumption at a city business premises and that a serving member of that Board had moved to have an employee removed from her post because she had instructed that his electricity supply be disconnected for a sizeable unpaid bill.

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On more than one occasion over the past two weeks, I’ve been counselled by well meaning colleagues about my writings.

Generally, laptops are more expensive than their desktop counterparts, more susceptible to damage, and are significantly more expensive to repair.

The search for quality improvement and efficiency enhancement in the production process in Guyana has seen the application of various programmes provided by the European Com-munity (EU), the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and other international agencies.

A city businessman who has been the victim of three robberies over the past two years has told Stabroek Business that he believes that a large number of robberies carried out against business premises are aided by employees of those establishments who provide criminals with critical “inside” information.

Developing countries need to act urgently to implement disaster risk management mechanisms in order to reduce their vulnerability to economic losses resulting from natural disasters, according to a paper prepared by the Common-wealth Business Council (CBC) and discussed at last week’s Commonwealth Fin-ance Ministers Meeting in Georgetown.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone No 223-6175/6) reports that session 225’s trading results showed consideration of $6,682,987 from 536,535 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 224 which showed consideration of $407,900 from 13,100 shares traded in 5 transactions.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Courtesy of P&P Insurance and Cummings Electrical Ltd An Australian-born Jamai-can sent Guyana crashing out of the KFC Cup yesterday.

Guyana’s lone participants at this year’s Criollo Cup weightlifting championships in Puerto Rico encountered weight problems on the day of competition in a nightmare tour that saw two weightlifters and an official being dropped from the initial team due to financial woes.

It took extra time but eventually Lodge Community High claimed this year’s Edwin ‘Chow’ Sealy Memorial tournament.

Seven nations have planned a November assault on Guyana with the South Dakota Circuit as the battle field.

The Mc Gill Superstars of Canal Number One defeated Zeeburg Cricket Club last Sunday at Canal Number Two to win the 2007 New Line Aqua Farm 40-over competition at the Sports Club Ground, West Bank Demerara.

Come tomorrow cyclists from around the country will take to the National Park circuit in the Troy Humphrey/James Fowler Memorial cycling extravaganza.

The Banks DIH Thirst Park ground will come alive this evening when the inaugural Banks DIH/Claytons Kola Tonic Masters international football tournament commences from 6pm.

Dear Editor, I refer to a recent letter captioned “I wrote authorities in Guyana asking them to verify documents for clients who were seeking asylum, they did not reply” (07.10.23).

Dear Editor, In one of my Sunday Consumer Corner columns I made reference to 10 managers of The New Building Society having Indian surnames.

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Prashad Nagar, an area designated as residential.

Dear Editor, When PM Sam Hinds referred to the inability of our Parliamentarians to agree on the establishment of the Indigenous People’s Commission at the recent Amerindian conference we were reminded of the entrenched disunity among our political parties at the highest forum in the land who swore to rise above party loyalty, egoism and deception and to dedicate all their intellect to enhancing Guyana’s welfare and more so in this instance our Amerindian community.

Dear Editor, It is against regulations for a child under 12 to be in a front seat.

Dear Editor, Are the Guyanese people prepared for this Brazilian Invasion?

Dear Editor, Zero Tolerance is the name of the Traffic Campaign to be launched on November 1, 2007, that was prompted by the road carnage, which claimed some eighteen lives in three separate accidents.

Dear Editor, Prior to 1992 the country was experiencing severe problems with water, electricity, housing and other social problems.

Dear Editor, Where was he when Mr Jagdeo and the PPP were accusing the PNC of ties to the Buxton exterminators and criminals?

Dear Editor, I was pleased to see that all three major newspapers carried on October 23 reports of the administrative penalties imposed on the largest Asian-owned logging company by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

Dear Editor, Yours faithfully, T Pemberton

Dear Editor, On Sunday October 21 users could not get on to the Solutions 2000 internet platform via their main office in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, As a human rights activist and a feminist, I find the discussion on verbal abuse against women quite interesting.

Dear Editor, I am sure that everyone is aware of the concert dubbed “The Guyana Music Festival” which is scheduled to be held on October 27, 2007 at the Providence Cricket Stadium.

Hitting back at Barama’s announcement that workers would have to be laid off as a result of heavy fines by the forestry commission, the government yesterday said it would not be blackmailed and it added that interim arrangements can be made to ensure the company’s plywood factory is supplied with raw material.

Guyanese management consultant Dr Aubrey Armstrong says trade unions have to be creative in the fight to sustain themselves and he slammed the government over the withdrawal of the subvention of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) noting that CLC had given many a second chance when the formal system failed them.

Queen’s College student, Wainella Isaacs who gained fourteen subjects at this year’s sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams has been named the most outstanding student overall and she will receive her award during the Annual Meeting of Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) slated for December 6 in St Lucia.

Government has allocated $40M for the construction of a two-storey block at the Camp Street Prison to mitigate overcrowding.

The Critchlow Labour College (CLC) might be forced to close its doors since the Government has once again withdrawn its monthly subvention without any reason, GTUC President Andrew Garnett warned last evening.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has underscored the need to strengthen the relationship between the CARICOM Secretariat and the various community institutions while addressing yesterday’s first ever assembly of regional institutions in the 34-year life of the Caribbean Community.

A former supervisor of Boodhoo’s General Store at Parika who was previously charged with stealing over half a million dollars from her employer denied 52 additional charges amounting to over $3.5M when she appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

St Stanislaus College teacher Angelique Mohamed succumbed to the injuries she suffered during an accident on Sunday night.

The growing incidence of teenage pregnancy in hinterland communities and the settling of rape cases by compensation were among the issues raised when Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, met with toshaos on Wednesday.

Attorney-at-law Savitri Sonia Parag was recently admitted to the local Bar after Senior Counsel Rex McKay presented her petition to the high court.

One week has passed since 22-year-old Buxtonian Ishmael Archer disappeared, allegedly snatched from his village by four heavily armed men who forced him into a car, but relatives strongly believe that he is alive based on information relayed to them from an unknown caller.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Saturday commissioned an all-weather road at Airy Hall, Essequibo Coast.