Articles published on Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Prussian explorer Robert Schomburgk returned to England for a period of well-deserved rest following his rather extensive challenging and successful explorations of the main rivers of Guyana during the years 1835-1839.
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A 22-year-old cane-cutter accused of robbing another man and using violence was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
The novelist Martin Amis recently asked a British audience to raise their hands if they felt ‘morally superior to the Taliban’.
The stage has been set for the commencement of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport inaugural five-stage cycle road race which promises to be one of the biggest cycle road races in Guyana.
Most of the foreign players have arrived and the stage is set for the fourth annual Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival which gets cracking this afternoon with four matches at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The Kashif and Shanghai football tournament yesterday received one of its major prizes for its year-end football extravaganza when Faizal Khan of Temptation Promotions Ltd.
The Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar cricket club was yesterday the recipient of two cheques totalling $230,000 from David Burgess, proprietor of Windies Sports Bar.
Enterprise Sports Club (ESC) humbled Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) when the two arch-rivals clashed at the Enterprise Community Centre ground on Sunday.
Dear Editor, Justice Ramlal’s ruling that it is unconstitutional for Chief Justice Carl Singh to perform the duties of Chancellor and at the same time perform the duties as Chief Justice has brought the pot to boil.
Dear Editor, The Stabroek News (SN) editorial (Nov 22, 07), “Preparing for the Bali conference on climate change”, discussed some of the challenges facing the planet with regard to this major issue, and also supported the notion of incentives for the stewardship of forests as an effective approach to help in the battle against climate change.
Dear Editor, While obviously any foreign incursion onto Guyanese territory is totally unacceptable, I would mention that dredging rivers to extract gold is incredibly destructive.
Dear Editor, The Rosignol Ferry Stelling is just a stone’s throw from the Rosignol Primary School and the road traffic is very congested around the school hours especially when the 2.20 pm boat arrives.
Dear Editor, I read two reports carried in your newspaper recently, one dealing with the violence by a Minister of Government and the other by a man in Grove.
Dear Editor, I keep seeing these TCL-TGI full-page advertisements in your paper boasting that they can bag and supply thousands of tonnes of cement in a day and they can store thousands of tons of cement.
Dear Editor, Minister Kellawan Lall should he held accountable for his actions and should resign.
Dear Editor, The incident regarding Minister Kellawan Lall involved in a drunken brawl and firing his gun in a public place stands as a test for me.
Dear Editor, Guyana has been a recipient of tremendous assistance from the subcontinent, India in all areas of development; such as technical training in the form of ITEC scholarships, infrastructural development (this is quite conspicuous in the successful completion of the beautiful cricket stadium and installation of the much needed traffic lights in Georgetown).
Dear Editor, At least it is a start and perhaps a precedent — the jailing of the mother in St Lucia for ignoring her daughter’s complaint of rape.
A Caribbean Airlines clerk, who allegedly checked in a cocaine-filled suitcase on Sunday, and passed it off as belonging to an outgoing passenger, is in police custody and will appear in court today.
While the East Coast police dither over whether to charge Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall for allegedly gun whipping a teenager, then firing rounds in the air during a bar brawl over a week ago, another PPP/C Member of Parliament was not so lucky.
Former First Lady Varshnie Singh said yesterday that she returned to Guyana on November 18, to find that the state vehicle she had been using was no longer accessible.
The spanking new $350 million Wisburg Secondary School at Wisroc, Linden in Region Ten was officially commissioned yesterday amidst calls for more student, teacher and parental input, seen as critical to the school’s performance and standards.
A 16-year-old boy is listed as critical in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital after a branch fell hitting him in the face.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Tuesday donated $1 million to the National AIDS Programme (NAP) to benefit children infected and affected by HIV.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday urged hundreds of schoolchildren to tell speeding drivers to slow down as this could help to curb the carnage on the roadways.
Laparkan Shipping and the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus have entered into an agreement where the university will receive books and other teaching materials from the US at a reduced cost.
Escaped prisoner Jermaine Brown who was a patient at the New Amsterdam (NA) Hospital was remanded to prison after he appeared at the NA Court on Tuesday before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.
A just born baby girl was on Tuesday night rescued by a Bourda Market vendor who found her lying on a section of Merriman’s Mall.
Police stopped and searched a man at the Timehri bus park yesterday and found cocaine hidden in the false walls of the two suitcases he was carrying.
Ten Guyanese between the ages four and 24 years old have returned home after successfully completing open heart surgeries in Chennai, India, courtesy of Kids First Fund.
