Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

As the founders of two of the world’s largest open-source media platforms – Wikipedia and Connexions – we have both been accused of being dreamers.

A 38-year-old man who was yesterday brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of obtaining credit by fraud and simple larceny was sentenced to one year and two years imprisonment, respectively, and the sentences are to run concurrently.

Four people were yesterday placed on bail of differing sums after they were allegedly involved in a neighbourhood brawl on January 14.

The Cariforum-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is more than just a trade agreement: its scope embraces many subjects that have up to now been solely or mainly within national and regional jurisdiction (Box 1).

The exhibition opened at the Umana Yana on November 3rd 2007 and continued from 10:00 a.m

In the context of integration institutions in the developing world, the Caribbean Community has had a certain success in terms of the relative longevity of its existence as a progressively innovating institution.

Chapter IV 276. Thus the day of departure ever drew nearer and kept us all the more occupied as we still had many a thing to think of, and much to worry over that we had postponed to the very last moment.

Whether or not Guyana’s Golden Jaguars are good enough to make it to the 2010 football World Cup finals in South Africa, the launch earlier this month of a local World Cup Committee is a commendable development, deserving of more than a modest measure of praise.

In January 2001, the US Congressional Budget Office projected a budget surplus of $5.6 trillion over the next ten years.

As the time nears for their first match in this year’s Stanford Twenty20 cricket competition, defending champions Guyana have stepped up preparations for the defence of the title they won in 2006 when the competition was first held.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars battled to a 2-2 draw against St. Vincent and the Grenadines Vincy Heat in their return friendly football International Sunday evening at Victoria Park in Kingstown.

Junior basketball players in Region 10 will be dribbling for greater spoils and accolades when the Victory Valley Royals’ fourth annual Schools Basketball Championships are contested in Linden later this year.

February is expected to be a busy month for local hockey players and officials as the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) plans to run off three tournaments including the National Indoor Champion-ships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A crowd-pleasing 112 by Zaheer Haniff was not enough to prevent Regal XI from being the 2007 champions of the West Indian Sports Complex sponsored 15-over softball cricket champions as they cruised to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Hustlers XI at the Thirst Park ground Friday night.

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) is inviting all eligible Under-15 players to a practice session today and tomorrow at the Enmore Community centre ground.

Guyana has been identified to host this year’s Caribbean women’s 15-a-side Rugby championship in May and the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has indicated that one country had already signalled its intention to participate.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has selected 48 of their best females to commence training for the 2008 NAWIRA Sevens Championships which will be held in Guyana from May 3 -10.

Dear Editor, The massacre of eleven innocent people in Lusignan is beyond belief.

Dear Editor, My soul cried out when I read of the brutal killings of the innocent victims in Lusignan.

Dear Editor, The Canada-Guyana Forum extends its condolences to the surviving families of all the victims of the senseless massacre at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, For the first time I can say that I’m embarrassed and ashamed to be Guyanese.

Dear Editor, I have been residing in the US over a year.

Dear Editor, The Lusignan massacre is shocking in its barbarity. But to suggest, as a PPP press statement and the PPP-controlled IAC have done, that the violence is “centrally directed” is to raise the spectre of terrorism and civil war.

Dear Editor, I offer my sincere condolences to the families, friends and the people of Guyana, on the recent massacre at Lusignan.

Dear Editor, The massacre at Lusignan has left many Diaspora Guyanese at a loss for words to express their horror.

Dear Editor, I listened and watched in horror, as what started out as a tranquil Saturday morning eventually unravelled into a most upsetting day.

Dear Editor, After more than two years of the army’s presence in Buxton, criminal elements continue to strive, organise and move freely in and out of Buxton.

Dear Editor, It was a devastating tragedy that struck our country on Saturday morning when a body of armed criminals invaded five homes in Lusignan, ECD and mindlessly murdered 11 people, including five children.

Dear Editor, It was with great distress and sadness that we learned of the “brutal and cold blooded” murder that took the lives of eleven innocent people including five children, all residents of Lusignan and left so many families and citizens in a state of shock.

Dear Editor, The private security companies’ regulatory bill, which is in its preliminary stages is in most respects a move in the right direction.

Dear Editor, Those who suffered the ordeal of listening to the leader of this nation on the media on January 26 must have been left stunned.

Dear Editor, According to Dr Roger Luncheon, Cabinet has mandated Minister of Transportation and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, to deal aggressively with persons who disregard environmental laws.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Nationalists Party sends its deepest condolences to the victims and families of the atrocity at Lusignan.

Several schoolchildren were affected yesterday after police used tear gas to break up the demonstrations by residents of several East Coast Deme-rara villages who continued to protest the lack of security in their areas following the weekend murders of 11 people including five children at Lusignan.

Residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice (WCB) took to the streets in a fiery protest from 4.30 am yesterday in solidarity with the Lusignan residents whose relatives were brutally slain by gunmen early Saturday morning.

Confusion reigned at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) mortuary yesterday as two funeral service providers went to uplift the bodies of those killed in the Lusignan massacre.

The police and the Regional Educational Officer (REO) in Berbice were yesterday forced to issue statements on the television to quell rumours of student kidnappings after parents started removing their children from schools.

Four-year-old Roberto Thomas, a victim of the Saturday morning massacre at Lusignan, has regained consciousness, the Georgetown Public Hospital said.

As tension mounts on the lower East Coast and other parts of the country in the wake of the gruesome attack at Lusignan, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is calling on the administration and the security forces to work out a strategy that will turn things around.

In wake of the massacre in the village of Lusignan that left 11 persons, including five children dead, the People’s Progressive Party has called on the security forces to “aggressively pursue all measures to bring about the arrest of those responsible for the attacks and to take vigorous actions to destroy the criminal gangs.”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of Guyana has condemned the killings of 11 persons, including five children, on Saturday last at Lusignan while expressing its condolences to the families and relatives of the victims who lost their loved ones in the massacre.

Vision Guyana yesterday condemned the killing of innocent people at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, and noted that “anytime we have loss of innocent lives it makes the nation sad.”

The Inter-Religious Organ-isation (IRO) is appealing to the criminals responsible for the killing of 11 persons in Lusignan to “put down your weapons and leg us engage in a dialogue that may lead to appropriate resolution of this conflict.”

Guyana and Suriname were named as the countries in South America from where mules moved drugs through a large-scale drug empire in Italy, dismantled by the Rome Flying Squad, according to AGI News online.

The atrocity at Lusignan is another demonstration of the depravity coarsening the society, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said yesterday and it urged the armed forces to set an example for the citizenry by committing to standards of law and order.

Following the massacre of 11 persons at Lusignan last Saturday the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is calling on all political parties and stakeholders to come together and objectively examine the root causes of “this terror, since it does not go away with the killing and arrest of some bandits.”

No lawful effort should be spared in bringing those responsible for the Lusignan massacre and the attack on the police headquarters to justice with all possible haste to send a message that these acts would not be tolerated, the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) said.

The body of an 80-year-old man was on Sunday night pulled out of an Avenue of the Republic trench.

Trading on the Guyana Asso-ciation of Securities Com-panies and Intermediaries (GASCI), Guyana’s stock exchange, has been temporarily suspended as of yesterday, according to an advertisement in the press on Saturday.

The Association of Regional Chambers of Commerce (ARCC) “condemns the mass execution” at Lusignan adding that in the light of the most recent allegations of a poor response from the Guyana Police Force government must overhaul the emergency response apparatus.

The best tribute that can be paid to the 11 victims of the massacre in Lusignan is the review and implementation of improved security arrangements, both at the community and national levels, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has said.

The Region Four Administration, the Commission on the Rights of the Child and the Help and Shelter yesterday strongly condemned the killings at Lusignan, especially the wanton murder of five children.

The Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) joins all peace-loving citizens in condemning the senseless killing of 11 persons at Lusignan on Saturday last.