Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 4, 2007

The world’s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months.

Two outgoing passengers who were nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri with cocaine in their luggage on separate occasions last week, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and denied the allegations made against them.

After successful arguments by the defence a 30-year-old man who was charged with four counts of carnal knowledge was granted pre-trial freedom in the sum of $200,000 at the Blairmont Court yesterday.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan sent a police officer on self-bail yesterday when he appeared before her at the Blairmont Court on a simple larceny charge.

A man who admitted to a charge of threatening behaviour was placed on $20,000 bail or an alternative of 12 days imprisonment when he appeared at the Blairmont Court yesterday.

A 16-year-old, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old are dead. Having graduated, reports say, from being lookouts for bandits, they took up arms and went on the attack in Non Pariel.

In one of the most lop-sided finals, Guyana’s Everest Hikers hammered Malvern Hockey Club of Trinidad and Tobago 11-2 to win the men’s final, while Georgetown Cricket Club made it a Guyanese double when they dethroned Raiders in the ladies’ final of the Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Young Warriors Cricket Club and Albion Community Centre have advanced to the semifinals as action in the Berbice leg of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi sponsored national 20/20 cricket competition for first division clubs continued last weekend with five matches played.

Today’s matches of Mayor Hamilton Green’s 73rd birth anniversary inter-ward, street/village seven-a- side football tournament have been postponed because of the inclement weather organizer Lennox Arthur said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write to offer my sincere condolences to the family of Winifred Hunter nee Wishart who passed away on September 26 this year in Jamaica, WI.

Dear Editor, I wish to highlight a security issue at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport which is causing much distress to passengers.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by W.P. George captioned “The cow trespassing nuisance can only be dealt with when the law of branding is enforced” (07.12.02).

Dear Editor, I have attached two photographs of a vehicular accident which left newspaper vendor, Sabestian Khemraj in obvious pain.

Dear Editor, On November 15 2007 my friend and former postal colleague Patrick Benjamin passed to the great beyond.

Dear Editor, Will the court rule on the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) case before December 31st ?

Dear Editor, Wilbert M Stephenson in his letter captioned “What cements the Indian vote is fear of what a PNC government may do” (07.12.01) painted the picture of Indian historical fear of African retaliation or violent behaviour and PNC history which would cause them to cling to the PPP.

Dear Editor, Why should we allow king Jagdeo to abuse us, especially in these modern days?

Dear Editor, The voices of discontent are rising slowly but ominously.

Dear Editor, I am becoming increasingly concerned with the seemingly callous way in which the authorities are fogging neighbourhoods in Georgetown.

The first tranche of $1 billion (3.27 million euros or US$5 million) out of a total European Union grant of 89 million euros (US$135 million) has been made available to the Guyana Government, a release from the Delegation of the European Commission to Guyana said.

Grieving church members, gripped with disbelief and shock, gathered at their Hadfield Street, Lodge church compound yesterday consoling each other over the news that their pastor had been cold-bloodedly murdered.

An overseas-based Guyanese was yesterday relieved of his licensed firearm and $215,000 when two gunmen, pretending to be prospective tenants, invaded his home.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says he never took any recommendations from the search committee he had suggested be set up to look for a suitable candidate for the position of Chief Justice, as it may have opened “a can of worms” for him.

Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the recent disappearance of an AK-47 rifle from the military headquarters was unacceptable, but he praised the administration for its tough action so far, saying that in the past weapons went missing and the nation had a hard time knowing.

Around $13M went up in flames on Saturday night when the boys’ dormitory of the Bartica Secondary School went up in flames, Regional Chairman of Region Seven Holbert Knights said yesterday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday filed a statement in the High Court of Amount Due as Value Added Tax (VAT) from Friendship Hotel and Restaurant Holdings Limited, franchise holders of KFC and Pizza Hut.

An $74.6M all-weather road has been constructed under the Poor Rural Communities Support Services Project (PRCSSP) of the Ministry of Agriculture for farmers in Naamryck, East Bank Essequibo, a Government Information Agency (GINA) release has said.

Digicel on Friday launched its Christmas Money Tree, which offers customers a chance to win cash and other prizes as well as an entry into the grand cash prize draw.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and other security agencies yesterday signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with airlines establishing an inter-agency committee to stamp out narcotics trafficking through Guyana’s international airport.

Two years after Shivnanand Persaud’s wife was killed, and his son injured when their house at Number 71 Village collapsed, the man’s one-bedroom house was destroyed by fire yesterday, and his hospitalized with burns.

Police have concluded that Terrence Marks whose body was found last Monday on the Westbury foreshore, Essequibo Coast, died by drowning.

There has been no announcement with regard to the appointment of Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene, though President Bharrat Jagdeo was high in praise of his work.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday that government is looking at how pensioners and persons in need of special assistance could benefit from some of the VAT revenue collected.

School choirs, which have been fading away across the country, have received a boost from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through a funded programme aimed at reviving music in the education system.

Government may consider keeping the 20 BMWs it bought for the Cricket World Cup games for state visits and official functions as the tender process is not working.

Government does not believe that the $30 million which it lent to the owners of the yet-to-be-completed Casique Hotel is at risk and hopes to work with them to ensure that the hotel is completed and the money repaid.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has not totally ruled out the possibility of reshuffling the cabinet, but was reluctant to confirm this.

Tap water was recently restored at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, after residents had been without it for some time however some say they now have another “headache” to contend with as they are being billed exorbitant amounts.

A group of British wildlife reporters have completed a seven-day tour of Guyana and have left impressed but believe that more must be done to market this country since it has much to offer in the area of eco-tourism.

Government is seeking to change the image of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast by creating new opportunities for the inmates such as writing the CSEC examination and being involved in various sporting activities.

The New York-based Lima-Coffee Grove Association of North America has made a generous contribution to an accident victim in dire need.