Daily Archive: Monday, December 17, 2007

Articles published on Monday, December 17, 2007

What the people

Are you satisfied with the government’s and police’s response thus far to the rum shop incident involving Minister of Local Government, Kellawan Lall?

A dialogue on corruption

At a recent press freedom seminar in Jamaica, that country’s Finance Minister, Mr Audley Shaw sketched a startling picture of how serious the corruption problem in the country was.

Roughed-up

NOW a weakling frequently roughed up by the contemporary powerhouses of world cricket, the West Indies last night engaged in a little of the bullying that once made them the most feared team in the game.

It’s Ravens’ time!

The Ravens’ Basketball Club Saturday night proved itself to undoubtedly be George-town’s best when they swept aside the Nets in two straight games to become the last team standing in the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association/Next Level Entertainment/Banks DIH Super-Eight Knockout competition.

Ramdhani, Mendes and Ali win twice in singles tourney

Narayan Ramdhani, Darius Ali and Rose Mendes each secured a pair of impressive wins when they competed against players from Barbados in the singles event of the Guyana Classic International Junior Bad-minton Tournament on Saturday at the Queen’s College auditorium.

Businessmen linked to airstrip bulldozer

Two Corentyne businessmen, one of whom had been accused in the past of having connections with the drug trade, have been linked to the bulldozer which was found abandoned on an illegal airstrip discovered last week, 80 miles upriver from Orealla.

Eid set for Thursday – CIOG

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said “the crescent for Zul Hijjah was not sighted” on Monday and for the sake of maintaining unity, the “sacred month” began on Tuesday.