Daily Archive: Sunday, February 3, 2008

Despite all that has happened since February 23, 2002, this is the first time that the residents of the lower East Coast have confronted the administration in anger.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony on Friday night pledged to have the Olympic-sized swimming pool completed in less than a year’s time.

Fruta Conquerors floored Northern Rangers while Santos struggled in their 1-0 win over Black Pearl in Friday evening’s opening double header card of the Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout football tournament at Tucville playfield in La Penitence.

The Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) yesterday launched the Hugh Ross Classic for local bodybuilders at the Ocean View International Hotel.

Alonzo Greaves continued from where he left off on the local circuit, when he won the feature event for schoolboys and novices in the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani cycle race programme around the inner circuit of the National Park yesterday.

Four legends of West Indies cricket have been dropped from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cricket committee and are at a loss to know why.

While he was just barely able to open his eyes, he looked up and beheld a miniature badminton shuttlecock among the assortment of toys hanging from a musical mobile at the top of his cradle.

Today’s Super Bowl event will be used to revive the sport of American football in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I write with respect to the recent appointment and swearing in of Mr.

Dear Editor, The Canada-Guyana Forum is hosting a gathering to bring all Guyanese together in Toronto to mourn the most recent outbreak of violence, the senseless slaughter of the eleven women, men and children, at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, The withholding of subventions from the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) by the government is unjustified.

Dear Editor, “Hope has two daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”

Dear Editor, I remember switching channels one night, a while back, and stopping on Channel 9 when I saw a good-looking, well-spoken young man holding 2 puppies, one in each hand.

Dear Editor, G.P.L. is the only business organisation that I know that is asking its customers to conserve on the use of the product (electricity) it has for sale.

Dear Editor, Almost a half-century ago, a rare man had a dream in America.

Dear Editor, I wish to convey my most sincere condolences to the families, friends and relatives of the men, women and children who were brutally massacred at Lusignan on Saturday, January 26, 2008.

Dear Editor, This Tuesday in America, party members from some 22 to 24 states go to the polls to choose delegates who will get together in the summer to approve the nominee for their party to face off in the general election.

There are always tragedies in the world. The children of Somalia with flies settling on their dying, emaciated faces make us turn away from the TV screen with grief and horror.

The first contentious plank of the EPA is its emphasis on reciprocity and trade liberalization between regions of vastly unequal development levels and capacities and 2) arriving at an agreement on many unresolved issues at the WTO, with the Doha Round of negotiations still incomplete.

The World Day of Prayer (WDP) is celebrated on the first Friday in March and not in February as I incorrectly reported in my column in Sunday Stabroek on January 6 this year.

There is no making sense of the events of Saturday, January 26; events that have added yet another bloodstained blotch to our country’s history.

I hadn’t seen them for half of the Christmas week, the egrets, and no one told me why they had gone, but they are back with the rain now, orange beak, pink shanks and stabbing head, back on the lawn where they used to be in the clear, limitless rain of the Santa Cruz valley, which, when it rains, falls steadily against the cedars till it mists the plain.

Should we believe the optimism of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Direc-tor General Pascal Lamy, when he suggests that global trade talks in the Doha Round are on their last lap and can be completed by the year’s end?

The optometrist says my mom has low vision. What does this mean?

While most people think that having an anaesthetic is akin to being asleep, there are numerous operations that can be performed without being asleep.

I can hardly believe that we are already in the month of February.

Yes acne. Of course, we should call it by its real name: Puppy Pyoderma, or Pyogenic Dermatitis.

A press release from Universal Event Promo-tions (UEP) in Germany has announced that World Chess champion Viswana-than Anand (India) will defend his title against Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) in Bonn, Germany from October 11-October 30, 2008.

Cost and benefits Export allowances were introduced as an incentive for companies engaged in foreign exchange earnings, and looking at the countries where they are still available several years after their introduction, there must be some doubt as to whether they have achieved their objective.

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The National Assembly is still not autonomous in terms of staffing and budget in keeping with constitutional provisions, and a special parliamentary select committee has been appointed to look at the issue of staffing.

Two armed men yesterday forced a man into their vehicle in an apparent kidnapping after first chasing him from King Street to Regent Street.

Leader of the Opposition and PNCR-1G Robert Corbin said that it was unacceptable that the Lusignan tragedy was being used as an excuse for a brutal assault on people and wanton and unprovoked destruction of their property in Buxton and neighbouring communities.

The PPP has condemned aspects of Kaieteur News’s coverage of the Lusignan massacre and subsequent events.

Members of the Joint Services found a small boy in possession of a concussion grenade in the Friendship, ECD, area on Thursday January 31, leading to the arrest of a male and a female relative.

The country’s first block of townhouses, with spacious three-storey apartments in a gated community, is about to be opened with 70 per cent of occupancy accounted for, Executive Director of Gafsons Group of Companies Sattaur Gafoor said.

After years suffering from a tumour growing in his nasal cavity and numerous public appeals by his mother for financial assistance to obtain medical attention abroad, 15-year-old Ricardo Bynoe will be leaving for Maryland, US, today to have surgery.

The business community and some residents in Lethem do not feel that the border township is ready for the level of trans-border activities which is expected in another few months when the Takutu Bridge opens, because of the lack of physical infrastructure and services.

The two men who were arrested on Friday when joint services ranks searched the Friendship home of Tenisha Morgan, yesterday remained in police custody as investigations continue into the teen’s mysterious disappearance.

Following calls that were received at city schools over the past two days threatening to harm students, Education Minister Shaik Baksh on Friday decried the tactic as a callous and cowardly one in which some persons were seeking to drive fear into the population by disrupting the schooling of children.

The Women’s Affairs Bureau (WAB) says this is a time of testing for the families of the victims of the massacre at Lusignan and the nation as a whole.

The Public Accounts Com-mittee (PAC) of Parliament is concerned that the funds from the Guyana Lotteries continue to elude the Consolidated Fund, four years after then Auditor General Anand Goolsarran had pronounced on it in strong terms.

Whenever the opposition PNCR provides a photograph of the former Leader of the Opposition and President Desmond Hoyte to the Office of the Parliament it would be placed in the parliament chambers, Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran said.

Former St Lucian Prime Minister and academic, Professor Vaughan Lewis believes Dominica or other Caricom countries who give their support to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) see it as just another avenue for obtaining economic aid which is not available in Caricom.

A former PNCR Central Executive member and member of Team Alexander which challenged PNCR Leader Robert Corbin’s position at the party’s last biennial congress is urging Corbin to transfer the leadership of the party to party chairman, Winston Murray.