Daily Archive: Monday, December 10, 2007

Following the rigged 1985 elections, the WPA appointed Eusi Kwayana as its lone parliamentarian for the one seat the party was given.

With just over two weeks to go before Christmas Day how are your preparations coming?

Early on in his `92 administration President Cheddi Jagan expressed exasperation at the situation at the then Guyana Electricity Corporation (GEC).

Guyana’s Pan American Games bronze medalist Clive Atwell and Hendrick Pelswijk, who represented Guyana at the World Championships in Chicago USA which ended last month, were among the winners when the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) held its Champion of Champions bouts Friday and Saturday night at the National Gymnasium.

Demerara easily won the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County Twenty20 competition with a five-wicket victory over defending champions Berbice at the National Stadium, Providence, yesterday.

One of the most astonishing stories in amateur basketball unfolded last Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when a five-man Disciples team comfortably eliminated a star-studded, complete roster of Ravens division-three players in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association/Next Level Entertainment Super-Eight, knockout tournament.

Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandalall was elected president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) yesterday and immediately promised to provide a tennis table in every school and resuscitate the national senior championships during his term in office.

Buxton needled Pele 1-0 on Saturday at the Camptown Football Club ground in a Group ‘B’ match of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Supligen U-20 round robin competition.

Dear Editor, While there is some evidence of development in the agricultural sector in Region Two, that is Pomeroon Supenaam, there are no signs of development in the area of sports.

Dear Editor, The contributors to the African discourse are genuinely concerned about the plight of Africans today.

Dear Editor, I resonate with Mr. Leon Rockcliffe’s courageous letter, captioned “In any respectable society this minister would have resigned,” which took civic society high rollers to task for their deafening silence over the illegal firearm use by a government minister, and the apparent business as usual response by government to this, and certain other incidents that demanded justice and not compromise.

Dear Editor, I note that the Guyana Power Company is pondering the introduction of pre-paid bills for consumers to aid their cash flow as a result of the high oil prices.

Dear Editor, News editorial on Thursday captioned, ‘Conduct unbecoming’, I felt duty bound and inspired to share my recent encounter with a cop.

Dear Editor I would like to ask people, politicians (especially politicians) and organisations to desist from making claims about the taxation system that cannot be backed up.

Dear Editor, With reference to your article on the termination of Andrea Bryan by NCN she should seek advice from the Chief Labour Officer, regarding her entitlements under the Termi-nation of Employment Act.

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned “Pensions should continue for benefit of widows” (07.12.04) my friend Leon Dunsford Dickson made some comments in relation to payment of pension to a former colleague and the cessation of such payment on death.

Dear Editor, In 2005 government workers got an increase in their salaries.

An explosive shoot-out on Saturday in the Pomeroon which resulted in the death of a Venezuelan man and the arrest of another after they kidnapped a mother and a child is believed to be linked to drugs, a statement from the Guyana Police Force last evening said.

Seven engines, fishing seines and drums of gasoline belonging to Guyanese fishermen from the Number 66 Fish Complex were recovered in Suriname last Friday and several men were also taken into custody.

A 39-year-old Guyanese woman was found bludgeoned to death in her New York, Queens home early Friday morning and her estranged husband is the main suspect and is now in police custody, a New York Daily News report has said.

Social work graduates of the University of Guyana have been called upon to give back to the country and rally efforts on pressing social issues.

Caricom leaders must confront their regional counterparts on human rights violations such as the withdrawal by the Guyana Government of advertisements from Stabroek News, the newspaper’s Editor Anand Persaud told a press freedom seminar in Jamaica on Thursday.

The US National Transport and Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its strip assessment of engines and other parts of the Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft which claimed the lives of three persons when it crashed near Kopinang last year.

The overall balance of payments for the first half of 2007 reflected a deficit of US$8.6M or $1.7B, from a surplus of US$17M or $3.4B for the corresponding period of 2006, said the Half Year Report from the Finance Ministry.

Teachers and students at a Mahaicony Creek school were left without tap water after cows damaged the pipeline and the headmaster said that is one of many issues at the school that needs to be addressed.

A Herstelling resident is fighting for her life in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal Corporation after reportedly setting herself afire following a dispute with her husband.

Ten Guyanese recently completed training in Geneva, Switzerland on strengthening the implementation of recommendations made to Guyana by UN human rights bodies and a plan of action has been drawn up.

Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy is calling on members of the public to help the Blood Bank to reach its 6,000 units of blood target for this year.

Suspected arson at Number Nine Village, West Coast Berbice resulted in major losses when a two-flat, three-bedroom house belonging to rice farmers was completely destroyed around 10:15 pm on Saturday.

Two hours after leaving to go to church, the body of an epileptic man was fished out of a drain at Patentia, West Bank Demerara that he had apparently fallen into.