Daily Archive: Thursday, January 10, 2008

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Introduction In the previous article the extent of participation by women in the general elections from 1947 to 1968 was examined against the background of our ratification of several United Nations conventions.

Q: How can I fill out the Electronic Visa Application Form (EVAF) and obtain a Non Immigrant Visa (NIV) appointment without a personal computer?

A 33-year-old man who allegedly chopped another about the body several times was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Nine months after two brothers were allegedly beaten and one shot by police while they were riding on a motorcycle in North Sophia, two policemen appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged over the incident.

A 21-year-old female, charged with the murder of a West Demerara woman appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded to prison.

What is really going on in Camp Ayanganna nowadays? Is the Guyana Defence Force running some sort of military Gulag?

It might have been a deliberate deception designed to confuse the South Africans but the West Indies last night announced that they would not decide until just before the toss this morning whether captain Chris Gayle and fast bowler Fidel Edwards would play in the third, final and decisive Test.

Seventeen-year-old Andrew Murray jnr., banged in a double to guide the national Under-20 side to a convincing 3-1 victory over Fruta Conquerors in an exhibition game yesterday at the National Park to signal the culmination of the Kick Start Clinic sponsored by Digicel and held by former England international John Barnes.

After two full days of assessment by ex-national player, Diwani Lewis, Alice Ali and Ezra Sue-Ho, have been shortlisted as the two prospective candidates to obtain athletic scholarships to attend Morgan State University (MSU) in the United States of America.

After committing to be a major sponsor late last year, Chief Executive officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company, Joe Singh yesterday announced that his company intends to sponsor the West Indies Rugby team this year.

Dear Editor, Early last year I brought to your attention the fact that in all my years in the food business I had never seen such drastic price increases as those in the immediate post-VAT period.

Dear Editor, The embassy would like to respond to a letter of Ms Hema Persaud, published in the Stabroek News under the caption “This store gives no bill, refused a refund” which you forwarded to the embassy.

Dear Editor, I do not intend to engage in polemics with E.

Dear Editor, The unjustified and puerile attack directed at Honourable Justice Jainaraine Singh, and by extension the whole Judiciary, by President Jagdeo constitutes an outrage which must be denounced as such.

Dear Editor, The residents of Kersaint Park, LBI, East Coast Damerara are calling on the NDC responsible to urgently repair the part of the main access road to the community that is causing major problems for vehicle owners and pedestrians.

Dear Editor, I am 62 and live at Bess Village, West Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Unless his recent remarks regarding the High Court order issued to GECOM were made in his capacity as a private citizen, President Jagdeo must be confusing himself with a Third World dictator.

Dear Editor, I recently had an inexcusable experience at the Certifying Office at the Brickdam Police Station.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Martin Roberts captioned “What are the new TUC President’s plans to deal with the many problems confronting the workers” (08.01.07) and “Auger pervades the society, Ms Burton” (KN 08.01.07).

Dear Editor, Mr Malcom Ali in his letter captioned “The entire Abary river is silted and would require a very expensive operation to fix” (08.01.06) is right on the money.

Gunmen operating out of Middle Road, La Penitence yesterday morning fatally shot a minibus driver in a well-planned ambush of passengers on their way to Suriname, the second bullet-riddled murder in the city in a matter of hours.

Three men accused of killing a Campbellville woman and dumping her body in a septic tank yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and pandemonium later broke out in the courtyard when a woman hurled threatening remarks at one of the accused.

Lawrence Drakes, the Merriman Mall businessman who was gunned down on Tuesday night as he attempted to escape from the two men who had come to abduct him, had been deported from the United States twice and one day after the brutal killing the police are yet to arrest a suspect.

Law enforcement authorities were up to late last night searching for three gunmen who abandoned a boat with a quantity of arms and ammunition during a shoot-out with security forces in Mahaicony earlier in the day.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is calling for the immediate appointment of a body to seriously investigate torture allegations levelled against the Guyana Defence Force by several soldiers who were implicated in the theft of an AK-47 rifle from the army’s main base last year.

In a bizarre turn of events, clothing of three of the six East Coast Demerara fishermen who were attacked and later killed at sea washed up at the Annandale foreshore, leaving relatives of the dead men baffled as to where exactly they were slain and who was behind it.

A 45-year-old clothing vendor was discovered dead in her Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home on Tuesday night.

An elderly resident of Kingelly, West Berbice who removed pieces of boards from the drainage trench that caused flooding to his garden plot was assaulted by the person who placed the “obstacles.”

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, of The Bahamas is the new chairman of the Caribbean Community, effective from the first of this year until June.

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington was conferred with the International Third World Leaders Association (ITWLA) Distinguished Global Leadership Award, at its 2007 summit held in Nassau.

Government is considering proposals for village grants from 125 Amerindian communities.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development plans to spend some $1.7 billion to construct and rehabilitate buildings to enhance health and education services across the country this year.

The Guyana Association of Private Security Organisa-tions (GAPSO) says it supports the police and the public works ministry’s efforts to safeguard the city’s traffic lights from vandalism.

Major General ret’d Joe Singh says he hopes the hospice for needy servicemen and women will soon become a reality, in his message to the disabled ex-soldiers at a fete held recently.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) said it recorded a production of 266,462 tonnes of sugar last year, 2.6% above the previous year’s output and it says it is aiming for over 300,000 tonnes this year.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment Kellawan Lall says he would have resigned without anyone calling on him to do so if he had assaulted a young man in a rum shop brawl the way it was reported by this newspaper.

The Region Three administration on Sunday christened a new boat and engine to serve the riverrain area, in the Essequibo River.