Daily Archive: Monday, November 5, 2007

When travelling on minibuses and they are speeding do you complain?

Staceyann Chin is a full-time award winning writer and activist. She identifies as Caribbean and Black, Asian and lesbian, woman and resident of New York City.

Thus far, the government has offered two reasons why the call by GECOM and opposition parties for a new ID card for upcoming elections would not be acceded to.

The South Dakota Circuit came alive yesterday for the International and Caribbean Race of Champions meet with Mark Vieira dominating the marquee Group Three category, copping two wins and a second place finish with his fire-spitting, Digicel sponsored Mazda RX7.

Colin Ming won last Saturday’s A.H. and L Kissoon Group of Companies-sponsored golf tournament but a 12 year-old-newcomer created a stir in the one-day event at the Lusignan Golf course.

Former West Indies Under-19 captain Leon Johnson’s unbeaten half century propelled Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to its first Division One title in five years after they scored a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Albion Community Centre cricket team in the Neal and Massy limited overs final yesterday at the National Stadium at Providence.

Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) gained sweet revenge over arch-rivals Enterprise Cricket Club (ECC) when they defeated them in a feature Twenty/20 match at the LSC ground, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday.

Taurus Dominoes Club, with 82 games romped to victory in the final of the seventh annual Tony Kissoon Memorial dominoes competition held recently at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC).

Beacon are the winners of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) De Sinco Under-17 league competition following their comprehensive 4-0 whipping of Pele at the Camptown ground on Saturday.

The East Coast first-division team drew first blood by defeating Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) by 17 runs in the first game of the East Coast zone of the ANSA McAL/Pepsi Twenty/20 first – division cricket competition.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has arranged practice sessions for the squad selected to represent Demerara in the Inter-County four-day cricket competition which starts this week-end.

Dear Editor, Firstly, I would like to congratulate Mrs. Janet Jagan for taking a correct and principled stand in denouncing the government’s decision to withdraw or restrict its advertisements in the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, In response to your editorial of Oct. 15th entitled ‘Ten deaths’ I must refer to the story about the boy in Holland who saw a hole in the sea defence (sand dike) and plugged the hole with his finger until workmen arrived.

Dear Editor, Even as the Guyana Police Force begin to enforce strict traffic laws and attempt to bring lawless traffic offenders to justice, the carnage and the disrespect for law and order continue by minibus drivers and conductors and hire car drivers.

Dear Editor, A teacher of English recently questioned the term “one times three,” contending that it is wrong and it should be “one time three.”

Dear Editor, There is a major weakness with this argument. First, it assumes that the breakdown of the voting population is the same as the wider population.

Dear Editor, The opposition party headed by Mr. Corbin and backed by Mr.

Dear Editor, In my recent letter on V S Naipaul I committed a grave error.

Dear Editor, During our last encounter about two years ago in Georgetown, he shared a decision to relocate to Berbice to escape the high cost of living in the city.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr A. Persaud’s letter captioned “To Messrs Beharry and Daljeet: Concentrate your efforts elsewhere” (KN 07.10.28).

Nine-year-old Sade Stoby, who went missing on Friday afternoon, was found brutally murdered early yesterday morning not far from her North Barnwell, East Bank Demerara home, and there was evidence that she was sexually molested.

Two persons died yesterday afternoon and three others including a baby were injured when a speeding car on its way to Linden toppled off a bridge at Kara Kara on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, turning what should have been a family day of fun into mourning.

A 25-year-old mini-bus conductor was early yesterday morning fatally stabbed while hanging out on Sheriff Street.

The Auditor General’s Report 2005 says that ministries whose accounts have not yet been closed must continue the process to reconcile their accounts and transfer all outstanding balances to the Consolidated Fund.

Some 31 lecturers, mainly from the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus have withdrawn their services from the Berbice branch over allegations of abuse and disrespect from the campus director, leaving students without instructors.

As days run into weeks since the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) announced that it had seized some 4,000 carats of diamonds suspected to have been smuggled here, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says that the agency was still concluding its investigation into the Belgian firm that had the gems.

Changing expenditure trends have forced at least one Caricom state to take a second look at their basket of goods and another to upgrade its own to reflect the changes in expenditure.

The stench from a dead sheep that was left close to the stairway of the Blairmont Court forced matters to be heard in Magistrate Geeta Chandan’s chambers last Monday.

The East Canje Lions Club recently conducted a medical outreach at Betsy Ground and provided over 75 residents with free medical and dental treatments.

A band of armed, masked pirates on Thursday morning raided five Guyanese fishing vessels off the Corentyne coast, stripping them of their engines and other equipment before ferrying the fisher folk to Suriname where they were deposited to find their way back home.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand has said that the government is providing assistance to senior citizens’ homes through the national budget.

Digicel last Tuesday signed an interconnect agreement with Telesur following several months of negotiations that started in April, after the company was awarded an operator’s licence by the Government of Suriname, said a Digicel press release.

Wanted man David Leander called David Zammett and ‘Biscuit’ remained under heavy police guard yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he had been admitted on Friday.

Some of the services at the Fort Wellington Hospital (FWH) have been disrupted after a large section of the building was pulled down to facilitate upgrading of the facility and persons feel staff should have been relocated.

The AFC and GAP-ROAR are arguing for proportionality in resources for registration scrutineers on the basis of the percentage of seats they have in Parliament and want the elections commission to allocate their share directly rather than through the main opposition PNCR-1G.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and the agriculture ministry hosted a mini-exhibition for Region Ten students at the Linmine Constabulary Recreation Hall on October 24 to highlight potential careers in the sector.