Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Life goes on

The action by Dominica of signing up to Venezuela’s ALBA initiative, now seems to be a source of concern in the region.

The Guyana/ Stanford Twenty20 cricket team got in some much needed batting practice at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, yesterday.

The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) Hand-gun section launched its 2008 programme with a Practice Paintball Shooting competition last Sunday at the Guyana Scouts Association ground, Woolford Avenue.

Ronaldo Rodrigues of the Silver Shark Aquatic Swim Club captured nine races to dominate his age category and help secure a convincing victory for his club at the Orca Speed Swim Club interclub swim meet last Saturday at the Colgrain Pool.

Andrew Light, the son of deceased former Guyana middle order batsman, Andrew Light, outshone his more illustrious countrymen Lennox Cush and Mahendra Nagamootoo but his team Sweet Revenge still went under to Central Sports by 42 runs in Chaguanas Central Trinidad, in the fifth round of matches of the Carib Sunday League cricket competition.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) pavilion normally a quiet area visited by a few club members for a round or two of drinks is expected to be transformed into a hive of activity tonight when the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) stages its Annual General Meeting (AGM) from 17:30h (5:30pm).

Despite countless victories on local and regional circuits, Alika Morgan has still not been able to land either the Sportswoman-of-the-Year or the Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year award of the National Sports Commission (NSC).

Dear Editor, Born in Lusignan and grown in Buxton, I state publicly my sympathy with those people on the East Coast of Demerara who have suffered at the hands of lawless gunmen or official security forces, trained to secure officials only.

Dear Editor, SASOD extends its condolences to the families and loved ones of the six children and five adults killed in Lusignan on Saturday morning.

Dear Editor, With impunity, a gang of demented individuals went on a murderous rampage, slaughtering eleven innocent individuals; how can the nation comprehend the murder of children while they sleep?

Dear Editor, Cry me a river. The statements by President Jagdeo are exactly the same statements he put out after the Sash Sawh assassination, the same after the Nathoo bar massacre, the same after the Agricola massacre, the same after the Rose Hall attack, the same after the Tain uprising, the same after the Albion attacks.

Dear Editor, The EU, UK, US and Canadian Heads of Mission advised that, “there should be some level of confidence in the country’s security forces”.

Dear Editor, Since Christmas week, we the members St Barnabas church, have been encountering piles and piles of garbage at the entrance of the church from the parapet on Regent Street leading up to the gate.

Dear Editor, I write to categorically condemn this vicious, cowardly act of murder of 11 innocent Guyanese, including children, carried out no doubt by deranged and demented gunmen.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I cautioned against ethnic finger pointing as it relates to the Lusignan massacre since the actions of a few should not be used to taint an entire group.

Dear President Jagdeo, I have recently returned to a country gripped by the race hatred and race fear that I came to accept as a normal thing as a child growing up, while you were still a babe in arms, in the sixties: Mainly working class Africans and Indians slaughtering each other while an Anglicized ‘raceless’ middle class shook their heads in various shades of horror, sadness, disbelief and impotence.

Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re-election of Mwai Kibaki.

Dear Editor, After the tragic incident in Lusignan , I have decided to share some essential home defence ideas.

Dear Editor, On November 24, 2007, my wife and I travelled from New York to Guyana for a two month vacation.

Dear Editor, With the deepening financial woes of the Georgetown Municipality, it comes as no surprise that the City Council has ordered an audit probe into the operations of its Finance Department.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mr Vic Puran captioned “The point raised by the DPP of want of jurisdiction was not raised by the Attorney General in any of the Dataram case” (08.01.27) and wish to clear the misrepresentations of the law and facts as stated therein.

Hundreds flocked Tract ‘A” Lusignan Pasture yesterday to bid farewell to 22-year old Lusignan cricket club member Shazam Mohammed who was gunned down in his kitchen when a group of about 25 gunmen slaughtered 11 persons including children on Saturday morning.

Lyken/Newburg Funeral Home yesterday said that documents were forged to show that it shipped two bodies from Guyana and it accused Sandy’s Funeral Home of being behind the deception, a charge that owner of Sandy’s, Michael Sandy denies.

A hunter who allegedly gunned down the husband of his ex-lover at Kilcoy, Corentyne last Thursday turned himself in at the Albion Police Station around 11:30 pm on Monday, accompanied by his father.

The police rank and six sugar workers who suffered pellet wounds following Monday’s fiery protest at Bath Settlement have all been discharged from hospital but harvesters are demanding that charges be dropped against those who were arrested before they resume work.

The military has commenced court martial proceedings against one of its ranks over the disappearance of a single assault rifle last year November, but questions are being asked why two senior officers, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain have not been similarly treated.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said a recent allocation of $660M will be used to upgrade its navigation and communication systems.

Approximately $180M is currently being spent by the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics to create a sturdy sea defence, between Turkeyen and Ogle on the Rupert Craig Highway and this could become a reality by September.

The national chapter of the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) along with its business labs workshops was launched on Monday with a mandate to encourage young people to create employment through entrepreneurship.

A 43-year-old man, who allegedly injured his drinking buddy, was yesterday placed on bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of unlawfully and maliciously inflicting bodily harm.

Several Caribbean experts are meeting at the end of February to discuss the necessary steps that would allow the region to survive and prosper in the light of climate change and issues such as food and energy security.

An 84-year-old man who allegedly dumped his tenant’s possessions out of her rented apartment and beat her with a stick was yesterday placed on $40,000 bail.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle yesterday attempted to rob an interior based businessman and ended up shooting him in the foot, outside of the Ministry of Agriculture compound, Bourda.

Sol Guyana Inc says the public has supported its operations at two fuel distribution services it acquired over the last two years and to show its gratitude it hosted a cocktail earlier this month.

Chess has been introduced to schools in Region Six as part of government’s efforts to revitalize its competitiveness across the country.

The Ministry of Health says this year it is focusing on expanding the existing services and introducing new ones such as patient advocacy at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

The Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) in an appeal for calm and reason to prevail in the wake of the killing of 11 persons, including five children, at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, early last Saturday morning, has called on the government to establish without delay the long-heralded SWAT team.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) in joining with the nation in condemning the barbaric act of the killings of 11 persons at Lusignan, including five children, says this constitutes “an open challenge by organized criminals to the authority of the State to maintain the rule of law”.

The Sandy’s Funeral Home has offered to do the funeral for the 11 victims of the Lusignan Massacre for free, owner of the business, Michael Sandy has said.

A man and his wife, who live in a house located right in the middle of the Lusignan massacre, believe that they have every reason to give thanks to their creator.

Despite failing to kick down the door to the house, the bandits who attacked the house of Shalem Baksh in Lusignan persisted and knocked out wooden bars from a window before smashing down his bedroom door and dragging him from under his bed where he had been hiding with his wife and daughter.

Normalcy returned to the East Coast Demerara corridor yesterday following three days of heated protest action by residents against Saturday morning’s massacre at Lusignan which claimed 11 lives.