Daily Archive: Friday, December 14, 2007

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Eleven days to that day, which, I hear, celebrates the second most important observance in the Christian Calendar.

A man accused of attempting to kill another man after they had a misunderstanding was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Richard L Armitage was US Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under President George W Bush.

With less than two weeks remaining before Christmas the perennial army of street vendors seeking to ‘cash in’ on the seasonal demand has ignored the tough line taken by the city police for more than a year now and have returned to the streets in force.

Work could commence shortly on the renovation of a city building earmarked to accommodate a new multi million dollar pizza outlet which is to be established at a cost of between $60m and $90m.The

Whether the Georgetown City Council has simply been ‘worn down’ by the sheer persistence of street vendors or whether the Council has decided to embrace the spirit of Christmas and grant the vendors a seasonal ‘amnesty,’ street and pavement vending has returned to the capital with a vengeance.

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Kiva.org is one of the most exciting online discoveries I’ve made within the past year.

For most businesses seeing this title, they would most likely say it doesn’t apply.

Guyana’s newest business consultancy enterprise says it can offer the local business community any of the services that it can secure from abroad at rates well below those being charged by international business consultancies.

At home the astute businessman gets ready to leave for the store.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General has told members of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) that the strengthening of the regional equity market is critical to the realization of a vital element of the Caricom Single Market – the free movement of capital among member states of the Community.

The outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean region remains robust but external shocks especially from the United States due to financial turbulence there could impact remittances in 2008.

Users of the Federal Express (FEDEX) service in Guyana are now benefiting from a significantly improved quality of service as a result of a collaborative effort involving two Guyanese companies.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul won the Cricketer-of-the-Year award when the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) held its annual award ceremony for 2007 on Wednesday night at the Georgetown Cricket Club pavilion.

Bert Sukhai, Chief Executive Officer of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) said that his company was pleased with the organisation of the just concluded NAMILCO knockout football Festival.

By almost every conceivable indicator, the West Indies third major tour of South Africa, starting in East London today with a 25-overs-an-innings thrash that is part of Makhaya Ntini’s benefit year, is destined to follow the same ill-fated course of the previous two.

Ravens’ forward Ryan `Corn Meal’ Gullen gave an explosive 27-point performance giving his team a much-needed offensive boost in the process which enabled them to a 77-66 victory over the Nets on Wednesday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the first game of the best of three Guyana Amateur Basketball Association/Next level Entertainment division one finals.

The national cricket selectors yesterday shortlisted 36 players in two separate squads for next year’s Carib Beer and Stanford Twenty20 tournaments raising quite a few eyebrows in the process with their choices.

Dear Editor, I plead guilty to becoming quite irked every time I observe a cellular telephone being used in a blatantly ostentatious manner.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr Reginald Forde captioned “I have the skills and equipment to service BMW” (07.12.12).

Dear Editor, I do thank you for the opportunity of keeping up with GT news on your online newspaper.

Dear Editor, “Pre-paid bills not a good idea” contends a letter writer in Stabroek News on Monday 10/12/2007.

Dear Editor, Permit me to share my comments on your editorial dated Wednesday, December 12, 2007 captioned ‘Grand Evasions’.

Dear Editor, Those of us who knew Kellawan Lall, nicknamed Peck, recall that he went to the Lumumba University in Moscow, Russia.

Dear Editor, It is nice to know that the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament will be on after some uncertainty.

Dear Editor, At his presentation at the university of Guyana in the early 1990s, Minister Louis Farrakhan advised Afro Guyanese to master mathematics and learn from Asians skills of economic empowerment, as a basis to be or remain competitive in the society and the world.

Dear Editor, Cheddi Jagan international airport is the gateway to Guyana for almost 90% of tourists arriving by air.

Dear Editor, The hold up in my response to Mr. Skinner’s letter captioned “African Guyanese are not engaging their energies on the right issues” (07.12.02) was the result of my desire to include in my response the central argument of my letter captioned, “Breaking into the East Indian bloc is difficult because of their greater cultural cohesion,” (07.11.27).

Tragedy struck in the Mazaruni River on Wednes-day night when two speed boats collided not far from the riverain community of Bartica resulting in the death of a city businessman.

An East Coast man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with committing several armed robberies on fishermen in the Corentyne River.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr yesterday granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each to Barry Datram and Michael Baharally, the two men held after a drug-linked kidnapping of a woman and her daughter last Saturday, but up to press time, they were still in custody at the Brickdam Police Station.

A 22-year-old Old England, Upper Demerara man died yesterday during a shoot-out with police, who were following up on investigations into a series of carjackings.

A 34-year-old unemployed man who was reportedly caught stealing in a yard at around 4 am yesterday at Princetown, Corriverton was chopped to death by an occupant of the home.

As the cause of the Wednesday night fire that destroyed a Lamaha Street embankment home is being probed, relatives said that the owner of the home has not yet contacted them.

The British High Commission on Monday launched Phase 1 of a project to upgrade the communication systems in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in support of the ministry’s ‘Stamp it out’ initiative to counter violence against women.

The training of the police anti-crime unit (ACU) in rapid response tactics is one of the measures high on the agenda of the British-funded 3 million pounds security reform plan to be implemented next year.

Journalists need to move away from passive reporting on health to become advocates so as to help the public better understand these issues and make the necessary changes, PAHO/WHO Country Representative Dr Kathleen Israel said on Wednesday.

Director of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) Dr Oudho Homenauth is calling on local tourism entrepreneurs to participate in a new agro-tourism venture.

Two men are in police custody but a third fled during a shoot-out with the police following a home invasion in South Ruimveldt.

The Canadian government is impressed with the progress being made by the organisation launched back in April this year to help deportees integrate into society and yesterday donated its second tranche of a CDN$20,000 initiative.

The PNCR is insisting that an inquest be held into the death of Donna Herod who was gunned down in Buxton/Friendship during a police operation to ferret out criminals from the East Coast Demerara village in September.

Police have detained the driver of a motor car which was involved in a fatal accident on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

Close to a month after Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall allegedly gun-whipped a young man and fired off his weapon indiscriminately in a brawl near an East Coast Demerara rum shop, the authorities are yet to decide whether his actions were criminal.

The PNCR is glad that Venezuela has expressed regrets at the incursion into Guyana’s territory but feels there should be a commitment that such incidents would not occur again.

Police yesterday afternoon arrested two Colombians and a Venezuelan at a city hotel in connection with investigations into the illegal airstrip found on Sunday in the Corentyne area.

A man who the police suspect was the driver of the car used by bandits during the armed robbery at the home of Anna Catherina businessman Basdeo Sahadar, was held yesterday and a large quantity of money was seized from his hotel room.

As investigations into the recent armed robbery and kidnapping involving Ruimzeight Gardens, West Coast Demerara, resident Barry Dataram and his family continue, police yesterday arrested another Venezuelan.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday received letters of credence from High Commissioner of Pakistan to Guyana, Musa Javed Chohan, in the credentials room at Office of the President.