Daily Archive: Thursday, February 7, 2008

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The West Indies cricket team is now back home after completing its third tour of South Africa, whose former racist apartheid policy had prevented competition between the two teams until the 1990s.

Last week the Toronto District School Board decided to approve a new school in which the “knowledge and experiences of peoples of African descent [will be] an integral feature of the teaching and learning environment.”

Internationally renowned bodybuilder Hugh Ross says he is fully behind the proposed Hugh Ross Classics which will see the best bodybuilders in Guyana vying for the Mr.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul is to many sports-loving Guyanese a hero. To others he is a cricket icon, an idol, worshipped by fans the world over.

The Guyana Telephone &Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored National six-a-side Indoor Championships will get cracking with defending champions Georgetown Cricket Club “A” set for an explosive start against lowly-rated Carib Degenerates in one of six matches carded for this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Esaun Crandon with (4-16) was the shining star on a cloudy night before rain had the final say in the practice game between the Guyana Stanford twenty20 team and a Rest XI at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground last night.

Georgetown Cricket Associa-tion vice-president Alfred Mentore was on Monday elected president of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) when the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers was held at the club’s pavilion.

Former Guyanese and West Indies `A’ team opener Azeemul Haniff was in fine form last Saturday, stroking a quickfire 67 for Clico Preysal Sports in a massive effort of 377 for four of just 50 overs against Joe Public Invaders in the Carib Sunday league at Inshan Ali Park in Preysal.

Country Side softball team of Lusignan and Street Boys of Providence, created upsets whilst Rocky XI remained the lone unbeaten team when action in the Trophy Stall 15-overs-a-side softball cricket competition continued last week end with a series of matches.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Carl Davidson captioned “Mr.

Dear Editor “As a member of the general council I urge other associations to come out and write about the negative things persons say in the newspapers about the GFF and some of the decisions we all made.

Dear Editor, As a sports loving person it pains my heart to see any kind of injustice meted out to any athlete especially when it is time to reap the sweet for their sweat.

Dear Editor, I spent Sunday morning visiting friends in Lusignan and the homes attacked in the massacre there.

Dear Editor, The only village with backlands between Triumph and Enmore is Buxton- Friendship.

Dear Editor, Over last weekend, I was in receipt of several telephone calls from concerned residents of the Buxton/Friendship community, and had some of their stories confirmed by eyewitnesses.

Dear Editor, The world is replete with examples of how not to fight an insurgency without resorting to genocide and environmental destruction.

Dear Editor, Following our criticism of his earlier article, your business columnist Mr.

Dear Editor, The unending political strife which shows itself up in subtle attacks and counter attacks along racial divides needs a more radical solution than the proposals for power sharing that have been advanced for several years, with no apparent approach at implementation.

Dear Editor, While I understand Brother Eusi Kwayana’s argument that “The right to peaceful protest should not be denied” (08.02.05), , I wonder if he gave any thought to the ramifications of such a protest on the PPP and its government?

Dear Editor, I congratulate the hardworking management, staff and illustrious editorial team of the Stabroek News for the professional manner in which numerous issues of national importance have been reported over the past several months.

Displaced farmers of Buxton yesterday shunned Police Headquarters, Eve Leary where a desk was set up to look into compensation for farms destroyed during the ongoing bush clearing exercise aback of several East Coast Demerara villages.

A number of health workers were yesterday honoured during a Family Health Conference for expanding the country’s immunization coverage and Region One medex Leola Barnes carted off the award for the ‘Most Outstanding Commitment to the immunization programme for 2007’.

Police yesterday morning confiscated a little over 4 kgs of cocaine when they stopped and searched a car at Aurora public road on the Essequibo Coast with four African nationals who are said to be in the country illegally.

The taxi driven by Mohamed Rasool who was killed and left on the road at Penny Lane, South Ruimveldt was found abandoned at Guyhoc Public Road on Tuesday night.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a 25-year-old carpenter to prison when he appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, accused of stabbing a man to death outside a wedding party in Canal Number Two last Saturday.

Treasurer of the Mayor and City Council, Roderick Edinboro has been sent on leave to facilitate an investigation by a team from the Office of the Auditor General into alleged financial irregularities.

The police have almost completed their probe into repeated allegations by Lusignan residents that ranks from three East Coast police stations responded more than one hour after 11 residents were slaughtered by a gang of gunmen.

Two parliamentary parties: the AFC and GAP have written President Bharrat Jagdeo reiterating the need for a new national security plan and said they are disturbed at the blame throwing among political leaders over the Lusignan massacre.

The Saturday afternoon King Street drama in which a man was forced into a vehicle by two armed men after chasing him has not been clarified by police but Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has confirmed that the police have no knowledge of any kidnapping.

Over a month has passed since a transformer fell from a moving truck onto a bus at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, resulting in two dying and others nursing broken limbs but so far neither of the two companies involved has accepted responsibility.

A three-day agri-business workshop which opened on Tuesday is part of the administration’s focus on tapping opportunities for products and buyers from Trinidad are to work with Region One farmers to boost exports.

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) yesterday in a release denounced the massive operation to clear vegetation aback of the villages on the lower East Coast of Demerara in which several Buxton/Friendship cane and cash crop farms have been destroyed, as a “flagrant abuse of the basic, cultural and human rights of African Guyanese.”

The Mothers Union Diocese of Guyana on Tuesday launched the Mothers Union Medical Assistance Fund at its annual general meeting (AGM) held at the Hotel Tower.

Flames engulfed the kitchen of a Charlestown home yesterday badly injuring a 23-year-old female.

Three persons who were involved in Tuesday’s accident at Diamond are still in the Georgetown hospital.

A New Jersey-based pensioner who was involved in an altercation at Tain, Corentyne on February 1 died four days later at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and two youths have since been taken into custody.

The police’s actions towards five men held on suspicion of being involved in a crime were on Tuesday described as unprofessional by two lawyers, who said they were denied access to their clients without proper explanation.