Daily Archive: Sunday, January 6, 2008

The year 2007 provided little cheer for Guyanese, although it did have two major high points in the form of World Cup Cricket and the decision of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea Tribunal.

The Digicel-sponsored regional football development clinics was launched yesterday in Guyana amidst concerns raised by International Football Federation (FIFA) vice-president, Austin `Jack’ Warner, about the lack of a proper venue.

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Camille’s Enterprise, RHTY&SC, Trophy Stall Bourda Market and Lifetime Real Estate It was all Brian Lara at the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday as Trinidad and Tobago, replying to Guyana’s 334 all out, reached 273-3 at the close of the second day’s play of their Carib Beer Series first round encounter.

For 50 exhilarating minutes before tea at Newlands yesterday, the unlikely batting combinations of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards and the courageous, doubly wounded captain Chris Gayle appeared to have shifted the momentum of the second Test so decisively that the possibility of a remarkable West Indies victory was not just cockeyed optimism.

Dear Editor, I refer to recent articles in the press re the flooding in the Mahaicony supposedly caused by heavy rainfall in the upper reaches in the Mahaicony (85 ins in 7 days) and to state that the rainfall data quoted is quite abnormal and appears to be inflated.

Dear Editor, Thank you for sending us a copy of the letter published in the Stabroek News of December 18, 2007, from an anonymous writer asking the question “When will Ogle become a regional airport”.

Dear Editor, I noted with great interest the explanation of an incident by my most Honourable Minister Kellawan Lall, in the media.

Dear Editor, The Private Sector Commission’s statement that it supports the retention of the 16% VAT, given the comprehensive reform in the tax system, is in my opinion irresponsible and inimical to the interest of the Private Sector.

Dear Editor, I feel compelled to respond to the letter titled “This woman took the blows and did not run to the police for help” (08.01.04).

Dear Editor, I am once more advocating the setting up of a National Criminal Intelligence Unit headed by a rank no less than an Assistant Commissioner who reports directly to the Commissioner.

Dear Editor, The Chief Justice of Trinidad, Sat Sharma, should never have been indicted for perversion of justice or referred to an international tribunal for possible impeachment and removal from office.

As has been emphasised in this column money laundering is associated with all types of illegal activities, not only those arising from organized crime.

In childhood a year is a very large part of a lifetime long – but by old age a year has become fragment – brief.

Every nation and culture has a knowledge of where it has come from, an awareness of shared experience and a sense of its place in world.

As a New Year’s promise I am resolved to carry out some soil acidity tests, and to give my roses a heavy dressing of well-rotted cow manure once the pruning has finally been completed.

One minute you’re in 2007; the next you’re in 2008. The point at which the second hand of the clock moves off 12 is all the difference there is between any two years.

The year 2007 has been a difficult one for our consumers.

At six o’clock last Thursday, on the evening of Boxing Day, December 26, 2007, the dramatic production titled Nuff an Plenty opened at the Little Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica.

As every pet owner knows, companion animals reciprocate love unconditionally and irrepressibly.

I’m 41 and my optometrist told me I need bifocals. I don’t want the old-fashioned ones with the lines.

The statistics are shocking: One in seven women in the United States will be treated for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) over the course of her lifetime.

Dr Vaughan Lewis, a native of St Lucia, is the Professor of International Relations of the Caribbean at the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad.

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 CAMBRIDGE – Will the political resurgence of labour unions throw a wrench into the wheels of globalization?

Introduction As civil society in Guyana has taken – or rather been given – an increasing role in public-spirited tasks such as fighting floods, AIDS, poverty and discrimination – perceived and real – providing legal aid or cheap meals for the poor, those civil society organisations seeking to formalise and institutionalise themselves face more than the usual challenges of resource limitation and fundraising.

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The President yesterday announced an increase in the income tax threshold from $28,000 to $35,000 and increases in pensions and public assistance.

Since the last Ombudsman, Justice Shaik Y. Mohamed, demitted office a few years ago, another one has not been appointed.

Vehicular parking on the right side of Carmichael Street, from New Market Street to Lamaha Street has been banned by the Police Traffic Department and no explanation has been provided to the management of Scotia Bank, whose customers face the most inconvenience.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is questioning a high court order instructing the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to allocate funds equitably to the political parties for scrutineering during the national house-to-house registration exercise.

The Caribbean region did not win anything out of the negotiations with Europe over the Economic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) concluded in December, and the departure from the principle of preferential access to one of reciprocity will be at the core of the problems the Cariforum countries will now face.

President of the Guyana Public Service Union, Patrick Yarde has written President Bharrat Jagdeo calling for the reinstatement of the Agency Shop Agreement which he said had been discussed previously with the administration.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) held a final working session with Registration Officers (ROs) from all of Guyana’s 23 registration areas for status reports on the overall state of preparedness for the start of house-to-house registration on Monday.

Police in West Coast Demerara are investigating a suspected poisoning case involving an Essequibo teenager who died in hospital a day after a heavy drinking session with friends.

This year the Ministry of Housing will vigorously repossess house lots from allottees who have failed to pay or have delayed construction for prolonged periods.

The Sacred Heart rebuilding committee on Christmas Day unveiled a sketch of the buildings it proposes to put up this year, at the burnt-out Main Street site.

From today Mr Christopher Ram, the senior partner of Ram and Mc Rae resumes authorship of the Sunday Business Page.