Daily Archive: Sunday, February 10, 2008

The aftermath of Lusignan has exposed beyond all doubt that the administration really has no answers to the entrenched problems of this society, which is not to say that it is now prepared to entertain ideas from any other quarter.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) Dr. Frank Anthony, is calling on sporting associations to work together to bring sporting activities to Guyana.

The planned encampment of Guyana’s Golden Jaguars football squad over the weekend and the planned training camp in Trinidad and Tobago next week seem to be in limbo.

Now that the minnows have exited the big guns will battle to stay in contention to win the inaugural Banks Premium Beer Cup when quarter-final action in the 16-team knockout tournament gets underway this evening at Tucville Playfield in La Penitence.

The top men’s teams defending champions Georgetown Cricket Club ‘A’, Everest ‘A’and Old Fort ‘A’ all look set to advance to this evening’s semi-finals with the possibility of two squaring off in the final of the GT&T sponsored National Indoor Hockey championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Dear Editor, Professor Clive Thomas, in the most recent of several articles on the recently concluded Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between CARIFORUM (CARICOM plus the Dominican Republic) and the European Union (SN, February 3, 2008 “Guyana and the Wider World – Establishing SIDS and sabotaging it: Casualty of the EPA!”),

Dear Editor, The decision to clear farmlands aback Buxton/Friendship, and as far as Enmore to the east and Triumph/BV to the west for security reasons, with an offer of some compensation to affected farmers, should have caused the Ministry of Agriculture to be the vanguard of such an operation.

Dear Editor, I attended a meeting called by Minister Robert Persaud at the Friendship Community High School, on Thursday at 10 am.

When I finally retired, bloodied but not completely bowed, after 52 eventful and even tumultuous years in the sugar industry, a passage from Shakespeare naturally came to mind.

Late last year a book was published in Britain that should be essential reading for every Caribbean prime minister, minister of foreign affairs and senior official.

Recently a Berbician friend in anticipating the opening of the Berbice Bridge within the next few months exuded that for her – she is about 50?

To the average person, asthma means difficulty in breathing. Although asthma may occur for many different reasons, in this article we will discuss the most common form of this condition – bronchial asthma.

(Continued) Cleft palate/hare lip Clefts are probably the most common inherited abnormality involving the palate and lips of puppies.

The eminent West Indian Nobel laureate Sir Arthur Lewis did not hide his disappointment in delivering his address at his installation as Chancellor of the University of Guyana in January 1967.

It was on August 19 this year that I chose as my topic for this column capacity building.

As you all know roses are very vigorous growers, and always seem to prefer to be planted out in the ground rather than confined for their lives in containers which they quickly outgrow.

How often should I check my eyes? It is difficult to function in society as a visually impaired person.

were some who ran one way were some who ran another way were some who did not run at all were some who will not run again.

A general meeting to re-establish the Guyana Chess Federation will be held on Monday, February 18, 2008 from 6 pm at the Ocean Spray Hotel, Vlissengen Road.

Last week we considered the first contentions plank on which the EPA is based.

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The leadership of PNCR, AFC and GAP would support the resort to United Nations assistance for the security forces to solve some of Guyana’s security and justice problems, but the government is not keen on the idea.

Joint Services ranks yesterday morning discovered the skeletal remains of what appeared to be a male of African descent floating in a swamp in the vicinity of Brusche Dam, Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) had approved funding for the traffic signal public education programme but because the procurement process took a long time, the loan had to be cancelled, a local IDB official has said.

Two men who pretended to be customers yesterday afternoon staged a daring robbery at the Digicel outlet located next door to Texaco on Mandela Avenue, and carted off cellular phones and a quantity of cash.

Vanloads of policemen were dispatched to West Bank Demerara yesterday and were reportedly combing the Wales canefields after receiving information that criminal elements may be hiding out there, a police told Stabroek News last night.

A second updated edition of the pocket-sized handbook and guide, Guyana What and Where 2008-9, which was published last year by General Executive Management Services Inc (GEMS) and launched prior to World Cup Cricket, is in progress to be launched in April 2008.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said that negotiations between the government and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on breaking the telecommunications monopoly the company holds are to begin this week.

At some point in the future, Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran will indicate whether he would like to be a presidential candidate for the 2011 general election, but at present he does not want to divert attention from nation building under the incumbent head of state.

Several villages in East and West Berbice have been inundated following three days of intense rainfall and residents who have suffered major losses are calling for proper drainage systems to be put in place.

The government did not have seniority in mind when Justice Charles Ramson was sworn in as an Appeal Court Judge by President Bharrat Jagdeo two days ahead of two others, Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has said.

A state-of-the-art pesticide and toxic chemical control laboratory which was commissioned Friday at the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) Compound, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara is expected to boost agricultural trade and food production quality in Guyana.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh on Friday said that the furniture probe at the Richard Ishmael Secondary School had been completed but the findings could not be released since the Ministry of Education was still looking into the rules governing requests for furniture.

Holika, which is planted 40 days before Phagwah, will be planted countrywide tomorrow, the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha announced in a press release.