Daily Archive: Saturday, February 2, 2008

At the Weldaad Court on Thursday, Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop sentenced an unemployed man to 10 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to two counts of break and enter and larceny.

A 24-year-old father of four was on Thursday placed on $30,000 bail for allegedly snatching a woman’s gold chain.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday fined ten Venezuelans and a Nigerian and ordered them deported immediately after she found them guilty of entering Guyana illegally.

As with everything else in Guyana, the crime situation just had to get totally out of control and people had to protest before there was any obvious sign that efforts were being made to deal with it.

Former Guyana captain Damodar Daesrath continued his fine form in Trinidad, with his latest efforts giving his team Rahamut’s Evergreen a massive 113-run victory.

An unbeaten 109 from Travis Dowlin propelled the Guyana Stanford Twenty20 team to a 104-run whipping of a select XI in a specially arranged practice match yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is believed, with some justification, that there is collusion between some ranks of the security services and the murderous bandits terrorizing East Coast villages.

Dear Editor, It has taken four days for me to suppress a knee jerk response to the dastardly act of early Saturday morning that left eleven dead; their families bereaved; their community in shock and dismay; and the entire nation in the disbelief and anguish that fellow citizens can indulge in such inhumane, reprehensible, brutal and savage acts.

Dear Editor, I have read and listened with interest to the GPOC ‘camera issue’.

Dear Editor, I am not one to enjoy tit for tat letter writing but I will indulge one Mr Martin Benn in his letter captioned “Mr Moseley’s report on the President’s meeting at Mon Repos was not balanced” (08.01.31) about a story I reported on for Capitol News and the CMC Caribbean Newsline.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to salute the protestors of the East Coast as well as in Bath Settlement, Berbice, who have been protesting.

Dear Editor, I thank Clinton Urling in his letter captioned “Obama is leading the delegate count for the Democratic nomination” (SN 01/02/08) for his compliment on my polling in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, We write to express our shock and abhorrence at the wanton destruction of human lives, more so the lives of innocent little children in the village of Lusignan by gunmen who could only be described as barbaric and bestial.

Dear Editor, I wish to ask our Indo and Afro-Guyanese peoples to get to know each other again, like the way it was before the 1960’s when dirty politics drove us somewhat apart.

Dear Editor, If the government fails to come up with acceptable plans, the business community must force their hand.

Dear Editor, I figured that it would probably be expedient to wait until the victims massacred in the depraved and senseless slaughter in Lusignan had been interred, or that process had begun, before expressing my heartfelt condolences and sentiments.

Dear Editor, On Thursday, I wrote of “the uncomfortable truths” made obvious at the Lusignan killing grounds.

Dear Editor , I refer to a letter captioned “Swami Aksharananda honoured in Mumbai” (08.01.28) and offer congratulations to him on the receipt of this most prestigious award from the Rashtriya Swayam Saywak in India.

Dear Editor, We must hold our leaders accountable. In a democracy, the people are sovereign-they are the highest form of political authority.

Dear Editor, What is known to us is that the mourning will never really end.

In many ways, Kerese Harrinandan is just a normal teenager. She enjoys socialising with her friends, surfing the internet, reading, cooking and working with young people.

The pain of ‘breaking in’ new footwear was excruciatingly and vividly brought home to me this week when I had to do just that.

Hi Everyone, In life one should never say “never,” so I won’t say it.

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The week, The Scene gives Soca fans a glimpse at seven more of the 17 contenders for the Soca Monarch crown.

The Sidewalk Film Club presents The Lover, next Tuesday at the Sidewalk Caf

Amid a series of explosive disclosures and claims, police have upped the reward for information that might lead to the arrest of wanted man Rondell Rawlins called `Fineman’ to a staggering $50M (around US$250,000).

The motorcyclist who was gunned down on First Street, Campbellville late Thursday night following a heated argument with two men, was yesterday morning identified as 29-year-old North Sophia resident, Derrick Cort by his relatives who flocked the Lyken’s Funeral Home.

Mon Repos residents were scared out of their wits on Thursday night when gunmen passed through Agriculture Road firing shots, hitting at least one house.

Striking nurses and other staff of the Woodlands Hospital yesterday protested outside the hospital over the administration’s refusal to recognise the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) as the workers’ representative.

Police are investigating the murder of a Mazaruni miner which occurred at about 6 pm on Thursday.

The much anticipated Cellink Plus ‘It belongs to you – Blue Tundra competition’ preliminary drawing was held yesterday at the City Mall.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited on Wednesday awarded three University of Guyana students in recognition of their outstanding performances at the university’s recent convocation.

The Enmore Estate Road, East Coast Demerara is to be rehabilitated along with roads at Mahaica and Rosignol.

Region 10 Chairman Mortimer Mingo says three recently-constructed roads under the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) in Linden are under threat of erosion owing to the lack of accompanying drainage.

Amerindian communities, numbering about 92, now control 14 per cent of the country’s landmass after additional land titles were recently approved by Cabinet.

The United Force (TUF) says that criminals who committed the horrendous gunning down of 11 persons, including five children, in Lusignan last Saturday should be brought to justice as quickly as possible.

The Indian Commemoration Trust (ICT) is appealing to all Guyanese to “remain cool and calm,” as it joined the countrywide chorus of condemnation of the reprehensible killing of eleven persons, including five children, in Lusignan last Saturday.

The PPP is appalled at the response of the PNCR Leader to President Bharrat Jagdeo’s call on the PNCR to acknowledge that criminals are using Buxton as a safe haven and is calling on the PNCR to make its position “pellucid and categorical” on the issue.

A team from General Electric (GE) of the United States which was here recently met several government agencies in the areas of energy, water, agro-processing and mining, among others, while exploring business and investment opportunities, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday.

Former member of the PPP cabinet in the 1960s, Cedric Vernon Nunes who passed away in Birmingham, UK on Wednesday made a “very valuable contribution to the PPP and to all Guyana,” the party said in a press statement The PPP said that it had learnt with great sadness the passing of one of its early leaders who came to prominence and was recognized as a national leader during the period 1961 to 1964 when he held the position of Minister of Education in the then PPP administration.

According to the Caribbean-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) export duties, which an exporting country charges on its own exports, will be eliminated by 2011, or three years after the EPA comes into effect.

A motorcyclist lost his life yesterday in the vicinity of Banks DIH Thirst Park after he reportedly rode into a truck’s path and fell and was crushed to death.

A number of religious and other non-governmental organizations, including churches and orphanages in Berbice, recently benefited from monetary donations from the New Building Society (NBS) branch on New Street, New Amsterdam.