Articles published on Saturday, December 29, 2007
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan’s state of turmoil to new heights.
A 24-year-old man was yesterday charged with rape and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
A 26-year-old Jamaican man yesterday said that he was offered 200, 000 Jamaican dollars to fetch cocaine and agree to do the job because he was in desperate need of the money.
Two men who were charged with separate counts of carnally knowing a girl under the age of 15 appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday and were remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry last week Friday sentenced three men, convicted of possession of over 400 cases of uncustomed polar beer, to jail for a year and ordered them to pay a fine of triple the value of the items amounting to $6.5M.
Only the worst cynics in the world do not look forward to the New Year as a time when there will be change for the better.
The momentum of the first Test, utterly, if unexpectedly, with the West Indies throughout the previous eight sessions, shifted rapidly in a final hour of crazy cricket on the third day at St.George’s
He was without his reindeer and red suit but like Santa Claus, Joseph `Reds’ Perreira founder of the `Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation, yesterday promised the starving sports community of Guyana goodies for the new year.
Revenge will be high on the agenda as Guyana’s World Cup football preparations kick off with a match against arch-rivals St.
Dear Editor, The appointment of Mr Ganga Persaud to the Judicial Service Commission in a seemingly stealthy and abrupt manner brings the government into serious disrepute since it was the same Ganga Persaud who was embroiled in the famous law contract scandal (involving a group of New York-based individuals close to the governing party) for which he was given a rap on the knuckles and then transferred to another post.
Dear Editor, I join in condemning the cowardly assassination of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
Dear Editor, Mr Parris, in his letter captioned ‘The PPP’s fight for freedom of expression’ (SN, 8.12.07) had mentioned that Mr Percy Armstrong was removed by Dr Jagan from his press conferences on more than one occasion.
Dear Editor, For a newspaper that prides itself in calling for a Freedom of Information Act, I am surprised that you omitted the salary and office allowance of the Leader of the Opposition.
Dear Editor, I would like to refer to a kind of speculative journalism by SN regarding the likely reshuffling of cabinet ministers.
Dear Editor, What is necessary now for Mr Kellawan Lall’s removal from public office for his wanton behaviour is a massive protest.
Dear Editor, Your editorial (Dec 13, ‘Iowa’s dark horses’) is an excellent analysis on the current state of the campaign to choose a nominee for each major party in the US presidential election.
Dear Editor, I recently visited Guyana after 15 years and my trip was a miserable one.
Dear Editor, What is necessary now for Mr Kellawan Lall’s removal from public office for his wanton behaviour is a massive protest.
Dear Editor, Well it has been quite a year for us here in Guyana.
Dear Editor, My agency, the Central Bureau of Intelligence and Security (CBI) is very concerned about the ever increasing and seemingly uncontrollable acts of piracy and murder of innocent hardworking fishermen.
Hi Everyone, This has been a delicious, adventurous, educational year in the kitchen for me.
The idea of spending Christmas behind bars must be depressing. You would think that it would make a Grinch out of any holiday enthusiast, but the men at Camp Street who are actually on ‘lock down’ appear to be a different lot.
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Tennicia DeFreitas is set to represent Guyana tonight at the 28th Digicel Haynes Smith Miss Caribbean Talented Teen pageant in St Kitts.
Some things in life really are just too good to be true even if we chose to ignore the clich
The ‘Undisputed’ King of the Dancehall headlines the Guinness Christmas Jam at the National Park tonight in what is expected to be another show of his lyrical prowess and hardcore dancehall style.
The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has announced that come January 2008 electricity tariffs will be increased by six per cent to 20 per cent for varying categories of consumers, as high fuel prices rip apart the company’s finances.
CLICO Guyana, a member of the CL Financial Group of Trinidad and Tobago has begun the construction of a new building on Camp Street which it purchased several years ago from Guysuco and says the new edifice will transform the area.
As investigations continue into the illegal airstrip which was discovered by the army two weeks ago in the Corentyne area, police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a Crabwood Creek businessman who is allegedly connected to a bulldozer that was found on the airfield along with a burnt aircraft.
A man was suspected to have been murdered at Mahaicony yesterday and a suspect is in police custody as investigations continue.
GPSU President Patrick Yarde says he wrote to President Bharrat Jagdeo on December 24 to request, once again, the “timely and long overdue appointment of the constitutionally established Public Service Appellate Tribunal.”
The Guyana Revenue Autho-rity (GRA) says it agrees with the security measures being implemented by the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) but says that the GPOC Chairman acted unilaterally in taking the decision to install cameras in the Customs examination area of the post office.
At eight, Chelsie Reid seems much older than her age. She is bright, articulate and at such a tender age she is already a cancer survivor.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez, who presides at two courts on the West Demerara yesterday held a retreat for prosecutors, police, court staff and probation officers to review the operations of those courts.
Mora Point residents will soon have access to enhanced health-care services as plans are in train to expand the Region Five community’s health centre.
Seven boats were on Monday handed over to health centres in the upper and lower Pomeroon to boost health care services in Region Two communities.
A valuation list crafted in 1996, which the Georgetown municipality has been operating with to value properties for rating purposes has now received legal standing with the passage of the Valuation of Property for Rating Purposes (Validation) Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday.
A South American investor is the lone interested company in the now defunct Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL) after two companies which had shown interest scrapped plans to reorganize the entity.
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said that although 2007 was a year of challenges, many of the plans that had been outlined for the sector in the National Budget and the National Competi-tiveness Strategy have been achieved.
Fire, believed to have been deliberately set after a domestic row, destroyed a two-storey building at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday afternoon.
Police yesterday said that a post-mortem examination revealed that Christopher Edwards, who was found dead on the Annandale Railway Embankment on Christmas day, several feet from his motorcycle, died in an accident.
The decomposing body of a man was discovered in his Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara home last evening and it is unclear under what circumstances he died.
