Daily Archive: Monday, November 12, 2007

How have you found food prices? Have you had to make changes in what you purchase?

After all the campaigning, the outcome of the Trinidad and Tobago elections of 2007 saw Prime Minister Patrick Manning leading his People’s National Movement (PNM) troops to a resounding victory over the United National Congress, led by former Prime Minister Mr.

Cristina Fern

In his address to the annual awards ceremony of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), two Saturdays ago President Jagdeo challenged the widely held belief that a significant part of the economy is being buttressed by laundered money.

Guyana men’s hockey team scored a golden goal in extra time to beat Jamaica 3-2 and cop the bronze medal at the Caribbean Hockey Cup tournament at the National Hockey Centre in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

Esan Shamshudin continued from where he left off on the opening day to win the prestigious Le Meridien Pegasus Open two-day golf championship which ended yesterday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.

For the second day in succession rain has affected the opening Inter-County cricket match between Demerara and Essequibo at the Everest Cricket Club ground, but unlike the first day when some amount of play was possible, the weather had the final say yesterday as no amount of mopping up could make any impact on the state of the ground.

Dear Editor, Entering C Division! Speed Limit 48mph written by the arms of the law big and bold in yellow at the junction of Sheriff Street and the East Coast highway.

Dear Editor, If you allow lawlessness to prevail in any society you are bound to have challenges when you need to curb such lawlessness.

Dear Editor, I enjoyed the cartoon in your Thursday paper about the prisoner being told to go to the toilet on his own while two policemen remain drinking at a table.

Dear Editor, Hindus will be celebrating Diwali with their garbage bins full in the township of Anna Regina, they will have to light their diyas among the garbage becasue of the constant negligence of the council to address this problem.

Dear Editor, I would like to commend the Guyana Police Force and the Police Commissioner for their efforts in trying to curb crime in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Traditional Diwali celebrations were held in Queens among the large Guyanese population on Friday evening in their homes and at the mandirs.

Dear Editor, One can appreciate the apparent candour displayed by acting Police Commissioner, Mr Henry Greene, that his officers will “meet fire with fire” when confronted by armed criminals, because this shows that Mr Greene will not allow dangerous criminal elements to get and maintain the upper hand over the police.

Dear Editor, Let’s offer a step by step account of the crisis at UG as it unfolded so the students who are being affected by the postponement of the graduation and their parents can see who are the academics that stand for principles and the ones that have a narrow agenda.

Guyana Defence Force Brigadier (ret) David A Granger believes that narcotics and fuel smuggling are corrupting Guyana on a large scale and he is calling on the security forces to spend time suppressing these rather than pursuing street criminals who are mere products of the more lucrative illegal trades.

Lightning killed a 14-year-old boy yesterday at the Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD) seaside.

The recent murder of nine-year-old Sade Stoby has highlighted the need for DNA testing in the investigation of sexual and other crimes.

Speeding claimed yet another life on one of the country’s roadways, this time that of a 40-year-old man of Nurney Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

Guyana joined with countries around the world in remembering the men and women who served in the two World Wars as Remembrance Day was observed yesterday.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Cecil Kennard last week Thursday handed over the report into the killing of Buxtonian Donna Herod to Director of Public Prosecu-tion and recommended that a coroner’s inquest be speedily held into the matter.

Police raided a home at Crane Squatting Area and arrested three men and a woman after two unlicensed firearms and ammunition were found.