Daily Archive: Monday, February 18, 2008

That the word conscription has been uttered by President Jagdeo is the clearest evidence yet of how far the Lusignan massacre has pushed the decision makers of the country.

Amidst some light to heavy drizzles, interspersed with a few minutes of bright sunshine, Mark Vieira and Ryan Rahaman completely dominated their respective group events at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday when the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMRSC) held its Mashramani Champion-of-Champions race meet.

President of the Common-wealth Games Federation, Michael Fennell, says that the Caribbean needs to promote more international events to boost sports tourism and ensure that athletes have an incentive for their own development.

Diana King defeated Lloyd Fung-A-Fat in straight games to claim victory in the Open category of the Bounty Farm Mash handicap squash tournament Saturday night at the Georgetown Club courts.

Sunburst Camptown stormed into the Banks Premium Beer 16-team knockout football final with an upset 2-0 win over pre-tournament favourites Alpha “the Hammer” United Saturday evening at the Tucville Playfield.

The Georgetown Masters’ team went down to the youthful Maccabees basketball team 62-74 on Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall as the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) Bryden’s Second Division League competition got underway.

John Charles of Linden stamped his authority in the second road race of the 2008 season of the National Sports Commission (NSC) Mashramani 40-mile event held yesterday on the West Bank from the Demerara Harbour Bridge to Bushy Park and back.

Dear Editor, In their effort to resuscitate and form Community Policing Groups on the lower east coast of Demerara, the government and the police force have held meetings with GPGs from Enmore to Better Hope.

Dear Editor, As a concerned citizen I just wanted to share some thoughts I had after reading a press release from the Guyana Peace-Builders Network on the recent murders at Lusignan.

Dear Editor, I have a problem with the management at Gafoors (LOC Branch).

Dear Editor, We the parents at Hampton Court Primary School would like to voice our concern about the way our children are being taught and treated in this school.

Gunmen last night slaughtered around a dozen persons in a major assault on Bartica reminiscent of the Lusignan massacre and the dead included at least three policemen, reports this morning said.

The reservist, accused of stealing an AK 47 rifle from the GDF’s Camp Ayanganna Headquarters last year November, turned himself over to police on Friday night and has admitted to the deed.

A Ruby, East Bank Essequibo man who was severely beaten at his home last week Thursday died the following day at a private hospital and police on the West Demerara have arrested four persons including a female relative.

The business community has shunned the government’s crime stoppers programme, one of three major security projects which were introduced to the nation over the past three years but are yet to take off.

In typically grand fashion Adrian Dutchin reclaimed the Carib Soca Monarch crown, putting on an over-the-top show that eclipsed the competition early yesterday morning at the National Park.

Even though the water level has dropped several inches in the inundated Abary Creek, residents say the clogged-up waterway is preventing adequate drainage and is causing persons to lose crops and livestock.

The GRA has slapped businessman Joshua Safeek with eleven charges and one of his subsidiaries Kong Inc.

As the agriculture ministry continues to promote diversification from the traditional rice cultivation, it has focused on drainage and irrigation (D&I) works at Wakenaam Island in Region Three to facilitate the programme.

By Heppilena FergusonA city businessman says that the barricades erected outside the Camp Street prison are proving detrimental to his business and he fears he may be forced to close.

In the closest and most dramatic calypso battle in over a decade, Young Bill Rogers edged out a righteous Prophet to snatch the calypso monarchy and crush the hopes of a town waiting to crown a Linden calypso king for fourteen years.

Sandradai Persaud who prefers the maverick `Girley’ used before her surname yesterday said she truly felt like a queen when she went on stage to perform her winning song `Rum is meh husband tea’.

Almost a month has passed since the police issued a wanted bulletin for businessman Barry Datram, who the US wants extradited to face drug-related charges and there is still no information on his whereabouts.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh says the fractured trade union movement has to resolve its issues as a pre-condition for further subventions to the Guyana Trades Union Congress and the Critchlow Labour College.

Two men are in police custody after they allegedly attacked and robbed a bus driver and his son at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara on Saturday.