Daily Archive: Sunday, November 18, 2007

On Thursday, Venezuela made incursions into Guyana’s territory – again. On this occasion two dredges were destroyed in the Wenamu/Cuyuni, and helicopters intruded into our air-space.

Defending champion Ransford Goodluck took an assailable lead at the end of day two of the National Rifle Shooting championships shooting two possibles in the process yesterday at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

Assad Fudadin (237*) and Royston Crandon (110) posted 209 for the first-wicket as Berbice, in reply to Essequibo’s first innings score of 160, ended on 523-3 at the close of the second day’s play of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Senior Inter County four day match at the Demerara Cricket Club ground, Queenstown yesterday.

Bad light intervened forcing an adjournment to the men’s 0-9 flight but defending champion Christine Sukhram leads in the ladies category at the end of day one of the Smirnoff Guyana Open Golf championships at the Lusig-nan Golf Course yesterday.

It hasn’t taken long under the new Julian Hunte presidency to recognise that, with West Indies cricket, the more things change, the more they remain the same.

Eight pulsating games will bring the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground alive this evening when the seven-a-side football competition in honour of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green’s 73rd birthday kicks off.

Camptown defeated Wes-tern Tigers 1-0 while Police failed to show up for their match against Santos on Friday evening as the Georgetown Foot-ball Association (GFA) Premier League competition continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

Dear Editor, Some years ago, while discussing our country’s politics, I was very surprised to learn that my friend, who was no more than 10 years my junior, did not know that Dr Jagan had been elected to Guyana’s legislature in 1947.

Dear Editor, I am prompted to respond to Mr Rajendra Rampersaud’s article of November 16 (Stabroek Business) titled, “The payment systems in Guyana are still too cash based.”

Dear Editor, I have been following the letters about the agri promotion that was done in Florida.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to Mr Dennis Wiggins’ letter captioned “Armed struggle is not an option; peaceful co-existence is our only hope” (07.11.04).

Dear Editor, Guyana’s leading political commentator and University of Guyana lecturer Mr Freddie Kissoon has consistently advanced the thesis of the emergence of the practice of elected dictatorship in Guyana.

The economic powerhouses of the world are still hoping to revive the DOHA round of WTO trade negotiations.

This weekend, the National Chess Championships of Guyana will be decided.

Despite the cost of living increasing 2.7 times since 1992 – the US$ exchange rate has only increased 1.6 times Increase in the cost of living since 1992 A Stabroek Business article “Our purchasing power has fallen” (2 November 2007) prompted me to investigate the cost of living in Guyana.

One of the most difficult aspects of writing about the negotiations with Europe for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is that events at a government level that are shaping their outcome may well have moved on by the time this appears in print.

This week’s article is a collaborative effort be-tween myself and wife, the latter at one time in her achievement filled life being an animal nutritionist.

Torture, misplaced allegiance and recent police revelations Last week I announced that I had concluded my reassessment of the criminalisation of the state in Guyana.

Why should children get their eyes checked? Studies have found that nearly 25% of school-age children have vision problems of which neither they nor their parents are aware.

BIntroduction A heart attack is an injury to the heart muscle caused by a loss of blood supply.

Last week in this column we carried the first five paragraphs of an article entitled ‘Competition in the CSME needs a national quality infrastructure.’

(Akima McPherson is a painter and a member of the Division of Creative Arts in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana.)

Cold War JP: Was the Cold War necessary? ZB: It certainly took place -that’s part of the answer.

Compost is as important to your garden as the air you breathe.

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Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) inadequate berthing facilities present a problem for companies shipping oil, and this has caused the fuel needed for power generation to run dangerously low, a source said.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rudy Insanally said Guyana was awaiting a report from Venezuela on the military operation it carried out in the Cuyuni River on Thursday last in addition to a report from the joint services before any steps were taken.

Presidential Adviser on Empowerment Odinga Lumumba and his driver Trevor Hollingsworth are both patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital following a crash at Hope on the East Coast of Demerara last evening as they were on their way to Georgetown.

Guyana did not propose an extension of the waiver on the Common External Tariff (CET) on extra-regional cement when the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) met last week despite earlier indications that it would have done so.

A women’s group in Mabaruma, Region One, is supplementing their income by producing organic cocoa sticks which have attracted an international clientele.

Thieves broke into the lower section of the Lachmansingh Primary School at Bush Lot, West Berbice during Friday night and stole and destroyed items belonging to the students and teachers.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) said it has adapted a standard specification for the labelling of commodities after the National Standards Council approved a final draft.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon on Tuesday during his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing announced that Cabinet had given the green light for two major contracts in the Works and Education sectors.

Almost seven months after a fisherman and father of six left on a fishing trip and never returned relatives are still waiting for answers from the authorities and his employers.

Some city businesses are optimistic that their promotional events will bring in shoppers this holiday season, leading to better sales than last year, although one had an altogether more pessimistic outlook.

Top officials of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company met with President Bharrat Jagdeo last week to look at the economic and technical aspects of building a new international submarine fire optic cable directly to Guyana.