Daily Archive: Thursday, February 14, 2008

ISLAMABAD – As Pakistan gears up for its parliamentary election on February 18, many observers hope that the vote will usher in a period of stability and calm by lending popular legitimacy to the government.

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The positive aspects of the West Indies performance in the recent Test series in South Africa discussed in the first instalment of this article were to some extent counterbalanced by the negative features.

An Essequibo Coast man was remanded on the charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years of age when he appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man has been arrested after police found an unlicensed Taurus revolver and matching rounds at a Corentyne house on Tuesday.

Two men accused of robbing a goldsmith of over $5M in cash and jewellery at Parika, East Bank Essequibo earlier this month were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

At the time of the submission of the report of the commission of inquiry into the alleged involvement of former Minister of Home Affairs Mr Ronald Gajraj in extra-judicial killings in May 2005, President Bharrat Jagdeo mooted the notion of having a “mother of all inquiry” [sic] into this country’s bloody history of civil violence.

Table tennis fans (including those who follow the game closely and those who have just a cursory interest) and even the players themselves, have struggled with the dilemma of knowing just exactly who are the country’s champions.

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) yesterday suspended the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team indefinitely following an off the field incident that brought a premature end to Wednesday evening’s quarter-final matches in the Banks Premium Beer Cup at Tucville Playfield.

The West Indies Rugby team and its five Guyanese players have concluded the International Rugby Board 2008 Sevens World Series in San Diego held from February 9th-10th with mixed emotions.

Scotiabank in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday launched the 2008 Kiddies Cricket programme at a simple ceremony held in the boardroom of the GCB.

The planned Annual general Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) which was to have been held on Tuesday was postponed owing to a lack of a quorum, but outgoing President Philip Fernandes disclosed that March 1 had now been set as a new date for the meeting.

Preparations are going apace for Sunday’s 25-race Mashramani Motor Racing Championships sponsored by telephone giant GT&T, and Ansa McAl, distributors of Carib Beer at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri.

Led by an explosive batting display from Anand Bharat who stroked an unbeaten 108, the sixth hundred of the competition that included 12 sixes, Ruimzeight XI made an unassailable 235-2 from their 15 overs to defeat Bourda Market XI by 66 runs in their second game of the day as the Trophy Stall 15 overs softball cricket competition continued on Sunday at the Providence ground.

The country’s top athletes along with the aspiring ones will be able to commence the track season this Sunday at Eve Leary Sports Club ground in the National Senior Trials.

Dear Editor, I wrote sometime ago about a sealed-off koker at Maida Farm, Corentyne.

Dear Editor, I am the Managing Director of Guyana Variety Store & Nut Centre located at lot 8 Camp and Durban Street Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, opposite the Georgetown Prison.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter captioned “Cameras should be installed at the parcels section of the Post Office” appearing in your newspaper of Saturday, February 2, 2008.

Dear Editor, Fr. Malcolm Rodrigues’s statement (SN 2008-02-11), “time to talk to the terrorists”, is much more earth shattering than Archimedes cry of Eureka, when he discovered a method to determine the purity of gold.

Dear Editor, I was very disappointed to read your article of 12 February 2008 captioned ‘Lall involved in another brawl’.

Dear Editor, More than two weeks have passed since my letter captioned “The TUC President should respond herself to the issues raised” (08.01.22) was sent by you to Ms.

Dear Editor, I take issue with Ayube Khan of Toronto on his letter captioned “Should Mash proceed?”

Dear Editor, Miners in Region No 2 that use the Onderneeming road/interior trail, that takes them into the interior, to gain access to Barama Road are appealing to the minister to look at the road and have it repaired.

Dear Editor, I heard on my radio recently a report that titles to a stated fraction of our commonly-owned lands had been granted to the leaders of communities formed by our Amerindian brothers and sisters, to be held on behalf of the inhabitants of the said communities.

Dear Editor, I am now convinced that the majority of Buxtonians can be classified as dedicated farmers.

Dear Editor, The analysis of the political response, or lack of, it to the ethnic instability in Guyana as was expressed by Claudius Prince in his letter, “The politicians invent silly reasons for not talking to each other”, is very much in line with what I believe is the position.

Dear Editor, Next month, the Guyana Teachers’ Union will be holding its elections and to date, Cummings Lodge Secondary School has not received either the preliminary voters list or the final voters list from the union.

Dear Editor, The time has come for the private security sector and police to become engaged in working out a suitable model to govern the cooperative efforts of private security services- those which provide a collective body of services known as private law enforcement, and the statutory security providers or public law enforcement.

Dear Editor, I came on the 10:30 pm BW 0483 flight on February 10, 2008, from Miami, Florida with three pieces of luggage- two checked-in pieces and one carry-on.

Dear Editor, It is interesting to note in the January 19, 2008 Stabroek News the report “Female MPs discuss sexual violence.”

The government has no intention of engaging criminals in any dialogue and will continue to take an aggressive approach to those hiding out in the East Coast backlands.

Gunmen at Riverview, Ruimveldt, last night opened fire on a police vehicle and within a matter of minutes the entire area was cordoned off and crawling with heavily armed ranks.

The Government has resorted to selling some the remaining BMWs for a price of $9M each, forgoing significant duties that would have been payable on the luxury vehicles that had been bought for the Cricket World Cup.

Two armed bandits sparked terror in Canal Number Two early yesterday morning when they broke into two houses on the Conservancy Dam, assaulting occupants including small children, before escaping into the thick bush with a quantity of items including jewellery.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr has quashed a decision by the Minister of Public Works and the aviation authority to ground an Air Services Limited (ASL) Cessna and has ordered them to show cause why the order should not be made absolute.

Jerome Ganga of Friendship, East Bank Demerara lived by the bottle and on Tuesday he reportedly died hours after taking his last drink.

Haiti has ratified the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and in accepting the official document CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington expressed his delight and quipped “it has been a long time in coming.”

The examples of what is currently undermining governance and other facets of the society may be small but they indicate the level of corruption taking place in the country and the state of its economy, Jesuit priest and social activist, Fr Malcolm Rodrigues says.

With the roof “leaking like a basket” and zinc sheets flapping in the breeze, the dispensation of justice in some courts is subject to the weather.

Police ranks and officials from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) were on Tuesday night caught in gunfire while returning from Hog Island where they found 17 drums of suspected illegal fuel, among other items.

Police arrested a taxi driver after a Brazilian miner was attacked and robbed of cash and a large amount of diamonds at Hope Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

Digicel says its first year of operation in Guyana has been phenomenal and that its customer base has grown to over 200,000.

The Fruta juice advisory issued by the Ministry of Health has been rescinded and it is now advising distributors that the beverage can be distributed without any restrictions.

Police apprehended two men, who discarded their unlicensed guns and attempted to flee, during a mobile patrol along Mandela Avenue.

An Amerindian village will be recreated at the Sophia Exhibition Complex to give Carifesta patrons an opportunity to experience the lifestyle and culture of local indigenous peoples.

The absence of a properly constituted Police Service Commission (PSC) would delay any disciplinary action being taken against senior officers found in dereliction of duty as regard their response to calls about the Lusignan massacre.

Police yesterday said that they had received a report from the mother of missing teenager Tenisha Morgan on Tuesday saying that she was stuck on a dam surrounded by bush with a river on one side.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains found at Brushe Dam could not determine the cause of death but revealed other clues that could help police identify the victim.