Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Since the Cold War’s end, all kinds of barriers have come down, and the world economy has fundamentally changed.

Marcel La Cruz, the woman who grabbed a newborn baby from a 13-year-old mother nearly a year ago, was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the High Court yesterday for the kidnapping.

Attorney-at-law James Bond appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on three traffic-related charges and was granted self-bail by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Three men accused of raping three teenagers were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man who allegedly had over two kilogrammes of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 22-year-old man who allegedly had a gun and bullets at Eteringbang was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded to prison a 27-year-old miner accused of unlawfully having a gun and ammunition at Etering-bang, when the man appeared at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday.

With crude oil prices likely to rise above US$100 per barrel by the end of this year, there has never been a better time for petroleum-rich countries to buy their way out of chronic debt and underdevelopment.

Six members of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) seven-man team returned yesterday from Chicago, United States of America (USA) where they participated in the World Amateur Boxing championships.

Defending champions Berbice have short-listed a 20-man squad to defend its four-day Inter-County title, with notable omissions being regional record holder for wickets and former West Indies leg break bowler Mahendra Nagamootoo and former Guyana Under-19 captain Andre Percival.

The musical chairs at the top of the Cellink Plus Premier League leaderboard continues and with just three weekends of the Premiership remaining, it’s still a toss up on who will be the winner.

Amidst the hype and tension of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Elections, the Guyana men’s and women’s hockey teams arrived in the twin-island republic yesterday for the inaugural PAHF Caribbean Hockey championships set to bully off tomorrow at the National Hockey Centre in Port-of Spain.

While the Guyanese hockey players are settling down in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for the start of the Caribbean Hockey Cup, the hosts’ chances of lifting the inaugural men’s title were dealt a severe blow with the news that nine of their overseas players will be unable to make the journey home.

Toucan Industries Sports Club TISC) on the back of an unbeaten even century from Daniel Sarjoo, began their campaign in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ Steve’s Jewellery World sponsored Over-40 limited overs cricket competition on a high note when they scored a convincing 10-wicket victory over Police Sports Club at the Transport Sports Club ground last Sunday.

The Management committee of the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (formerly Silver Park Turf Club) will run off a one-day horse racing meet on December 9 at the Number 6 Village West Coast Berbice.

Malteenoes Sports Club [MSC] inflicted a crushing innings defeat on Third Class when they squared off in the Raymond Panday Memorial second-division cricket competition over the weekend at the GYO ground.

A five-wicket haul by GYO off-spinner Ken Alphonso and a blistering hundred by Malteenoes’s Lennox Cush highlighted the start of the fifth round of the GCA/Cellink Plus first-division cricket competition on Sunday.

Dear Editor, I would like to highlight an issue regarding the sale of spare parts for the new Toyota Carina [or the 212 Carina as they are locally known].

Dear Editor, With respect to “the increasing popularity of American cultural traditions like Halloween and Thanks-giving in Guyana” as stated by Mr Urling in his letter captioned “I thoroughly enjoyed Halloween and St Patrick’s day parties ” (07.11.04) “being attributed to the fact that the world is indeed “flattening” and is becoming smaller”, I beg to differ as it is nothing short of a form of cultural plagiarism by the minority Guyanese to cultivate American cultural forms in our society just to be associated with an American phenomenon.

Dear Editor, With respect to handling citizens of Buxton, do the law enforcement arms of the state have very low standards or do they have no standards at all?

Dear Editor, I attended a forum called: Investment Opportunities in Guyana on 1 November in Miramar, Florida.

Dear Editor, I write in response to Mr. Bharat Kissoon’s letter captioned “Had Ms.

Dear Editor, I really don’t know how to respond to your (rather predictable) editorial captioned “A grouse for Mr Naipaul” (07.10.30) on Naipaul and his latest book, but I do know that a response is warranted, and for many reasons.

Dear Editor , I agree with the letter writer that passengers in an overloaded minibus should be charged.

Dear Editor, “Death and paying taxes “are the two things most certain in life, declared Benjamin Franklin, one of the most celebrated American founding fathers: statesman, businessman, scientist.

Dear Editor, Mr John Da Silva appears to be engaged in an endless and unenviable task.

Dear Editor, I pen this letter in a vain effort to put certain incidents occurring at Homestretch Avenue and at the East Ruimveldt Police Station in which I was involved on Wednesday 31st October 2007 in proper perspective.

Hire car and minibus drivers yesterday blocked the main thoroughfare at Tain, Corentyne to show disapproval over the hike in ticket fines and a number of schoolchildren were left stranded on the road because of a spontaneous increase in fares.

Police said yesterday that a post-mortem examination conducted on 9-year-old Sade Stoby, who was found in a clump of bushes early Sunday morning, revealed that she died from asphyxiation due to submersion, compounded by blunt trauma to head.

The Guyana Fire Service’s (GFS) capability has been significantly boosted with the acquisition of equipment and gear from the Toronto City Council in partnership with the Toronto Fire Service, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Guyana and Russia are in the process of finalizing several aspects of an agreement as part of a collaborative fight against trafficking in narcotics, the Government Information Agency (GINA reported yesterday.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has lauded a five-day training session for Customs and Immigration officers by United States Customs and Border Protect-ion Homeland Security facilitators and acknowledged the country’s inability to effectively monitor its borders.

The four survivors in Sunday’s accident at Kara Kara on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway have been transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital as police investigations continue.

Relatives and friends of wanted man David Leander called David Zammett and ‘Biscuit’ yesterday staged a protest at the Georgetown hospital charging that they are not allowed to visit him.

Though speedboat operators had started to ply the Suriname/Guyana ‘backtrack’ route about three weeks ago the service only became fully operational from last Friday.

Hers is one of the (if not the) best known black faces in Britain, Baroness Valerie Amos the just demitted Leader of the House of Lords.

Frank Bowling, the distinguished Guyanese artist, was last week nominated to receive the award of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has condemned what it alleges is the adoption of torture by the security forces in Guyana as a weapon in their fight against crime.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) on Friday rendered assistance to five families who suffered losses due to fire.

Amid a deepening rift that has seen the postponement of the annual convocation the University of Guyana’s Academic Board has called for a meeting with the full university council to iron out what it says are gravely disturbing events such as the erosion of the authority of the Vice-Chancellor (VC).

A small fire reportedly set by copper burners on Sunday afternoon in the rotting garbage at the Mandela landfill is under control but residents in the surrounding areas are still coping with acrid, black smoke from the site.