Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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 uncertainties about climate change are many and great.

The WR investigative crew has been busy diving in dumpsters over the holidays.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted bail to a 32-year-old goldsmith accused of fraudulently converting gold that he had been entrusted with, to his own use and benefit.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle granted a carpenter $50,000 bail when he appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of escaping lawful custody.

A man who was accused of chopping his uncle to death was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Springlands Court before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.

Would the Caribbean people be wrong if they indicated a feeling, as the year 2007 has come to an end, that all is not well with our regional foreign policy-making?

Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan is optimistic that his young team which is participating in this year’s Regional Carib Beer Series tournament, will get it right.

It’s the third and final day of the Digicel-sponsored Kick Start Caribbean football clinics conducted by former England player John Barnes and not a day has been spent outside, the weather has seen to that.

Courtney Walsh , for one, isn’t surprised by the surprising West Indies’ performance in their current Test series against South Africa.

Dear Editor, I recently learned that the criminal charge for murder against Ms Carolan Lynch was dismissed by the Magistrate for lack of evidence.

Dear Editor, For fifteen years the government, TUC and PSU seem unable to narrow whatever differences they may have in order to bring some relief to the public servants who are entitled to commuted car allowances and other allowances payable on the performance of their official duties.

Dear Editor, I am happy to see such a tremendous response of people trying to acquire their Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN).

Dear Editor, It is pleasing to read that the Private Sector Commission, the Alliance for Change and the Government support the concept of retaining VAT at its current level to effect income tax reform.

Dear Editor, Recently the Government declared an allocation of budgetary funds for different areas.

Dear Editor, The pitying bitterness which the principals of the Guyana Publications Inc.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the exemplary work done by members of your staff in reporting the lawless behaviour of Mr Kellawan Lall.

Dear Editor, Raphael Trotman ‘s 2007 Christmas Message (KN 23/12/06) said “those who voted for the AFC in 2006 knew that they were voting for a party that would not represent racial groups, but all Guyanese.”

Dear Editor, There have been a couple of letter writers who have got the right idea about the unions that represent them, that is, they are getting angry at the way the unions conduct their business without speaking to or balloting them first.

Dear Editor, I agree with letter writer R. Khan that Benazir Bhutto looted her country and she was not a perfect (or Jeffersonian) democrat as stated in his letter captioned “Would a patriot loot her poor country?”

Gunmen last evening opened fire on a businessman as he ran across a bridge in front of Bonny’s on Church Street in his bid to escape and at the end of it all the man lay dead at the corner of the road while two persons who were in the supermarket sustained wounds from stray bullets.

As public pressure mounts over the alleged torture of several soldiers by members of an army unit during investigations into the theft of an AK-47 rifle, the ruling PPP yesterday said it did not condone brutality against citizens and would support an independent probe into the matter.

After enduring 22 years of misery at the hands of her husband, Shreemattie Vivekanand will never be able to live a normal life with the physical and emotional scars that she has been left with.

Following recent investigations of continuous pollution of the Essequibo River by some operators who discharge tailings waste into the waterway, more stringent actions against miners guilty of such breaches will be taken by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

A United Kingdom group is calling on its supporters to write to Guyana and implore the authorities here to get rid of the death penalty altogether.

Parliament Office is tasting its way through a variety of dishes towards selecting a caterer to provide culinary delights to Guyana’s lawmakers, this newspaper understands.

The PPP is calling on the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to make every effort to collect all monies owed from all parts of the country and to stop losses owing to inefficiencies in distribution.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has established an online facility that allows employers to submit the information required for Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) on behalf of their employees, according to a press release yesterday.

In less than two months, Guyana will have its first substance abuse rehabilitation centre for women as a result of US$125,000 funding provided by the US State Department’s International Narcotics Legal Affairs unit (INL) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS).

Government is facilitating a public consultation on the University of Guyana to allow stakeholders a chance to voice their opinions on the challenges facing the institution in its critical role in the sustainable growth of the country.

The house to house registration exercise intensified yesterday and saw registration teams dispatched to several communities countrywide accompanied by scrutineers from the two major political parties only.

The PPP hopes that municipal and local government elections, delayed since 1997, could be held by mid-year, by which time it is also optimistic that reforms to local government legislation will be completed.

The woman, whose body was found in a septic tank at a Campbellville home on Sunday died as a result of strangulation and blunt trauma to the head, a post- mortem examination has found.

The agriculture ministry and the Maritime Administration Department are collaborating with the fishing community to standardise fishing practices and the first licensing exercise is expected to start in February.

Four meteorological technicians are set to undergo training in weather forecasting in Barbados at a cost of $7.2M, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a press release.

The Culture ministry says it intends to include more choreographed dancing among the Mashramani revellers and special attention will be paid to crowd control while en route to the National Park.

The National Federation of and for Disabled People said the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) won its recently held domino competition with 81 games.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) says Pakistani Muslim scholar Maulana Hafiz Noorul Hadi Haleem, who served in Guyana for four years, has died.

Traffic Chief Neil Semple said although many drivers continue to flout the traffic laws he is optimistic that ‘Operation Safeway’ will boost the department’s enforcement capacity and reduce the number of road deaths.

-escape in waiting car Three gunmen on Saturday stuck-up and robbed a businessman, his wife and staff at the gift shop he operates at Kersaint Park, La Bonne Intention.

A MOU will be signed between the home affairs and agriculture ministries in keeping with plans to revitalize agriculture in the prisons.

The determination of the Chairman of the Number 66 Fish Port Complex to assist fishermen who lost their engines to piracy has led police to recover two suspect stolen engines so far.