Articles published on Monday, March 3, 2008
In a highly sensationalized article, Sun, Sea and Murder, the Economist magazine focused on the alarmingly high (and growing) incidence of violent and drug-related crime in the Caribbean, referenced the deadly rampages in Guyana and observed that Jamaica enjoys the dubious distinction of having the highest murder rate in the world.
What do you think of the current security arrangements in Bartica and the surrounding area?
Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Friday handed down a three-year sentence to a man after he admitted to stealing goods from a Bourda Market stall.
A labourer who admitted to a charge of trafficking in narcotics was sentenced to four years imprisonment when he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Persid-Edmond at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Friday’s rebuke by the US of Guyana’s drug efforts will be hard for this government to lightly dismiss especially in the backdrop of the current UK-funded security sector reform programme which identifies the narcotics trade as a risk factor.
Senior national road race champion Alonzo Greaves outsprinted his more illustrious rivals including defending champion Warren Mc Kay (who had to settle for the runner up spot) to win the 11th Annual Dr.
NM Security Solutions (NMSS) “A” with 83 games emerged winners of the Edward “Andy” Andrews Memorial Dominoes competition for teams in the Neal and Massy Group in Saturday’s final played at Neal and Massy Staff Club at Ruimveldt.
Ravens’ guard Kevin Lawrence led all scorers with a 19-point performance as Ravens beat Eagles 63-60 on Saturday where the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) Bryden’s second division league continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Tutorial High School and Charlestown Secondary will clash today at the Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) ground in Woolford Avenue in the final of the Georgetown zone of the Inter-Secondary Schools Under-19 female limited overs cricket competition.
Madmax with 53 games was declared winners of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani dominoes competition for persons with disability in Region Two when the final was played recently at the community-based Rehabilitation Programme Unit in Queenstown, Essequibo Coast.
Dear Editor, It should be a top priority of Government to ensure that everything is done to protect key projects and those implementing them.
Dear Editor, The Joint Services in their efforts to capture the criminal gangs who have been carrying out merciless murders continue to be criticized by certain sections of our society and unfortunately this includes the main opposition party the PNC/R.
Dear Editor, My brother Claremonte Chester from Dartmouth, Essequibo was turned back from Trinidad for some reason or the other and was in the hands of the CID at Eve Leary and the police put him in the Brickdam lockups for three days.
Dear Editor, In the midst of all the gloom and troubled waters we can take flight for a moment to one of our long standing, artistes, Dennis Parkinson, singer par excellence popularly called Dennis or Parko.
Dear Editor, Every individual is entitled to a fair trial as he/she is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Dear Editor, The carnage of Lusignan and Bartica are crescendos of a consistent epidemic of decline which has enveloped this country.
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned “Science in itself is morally and ethically neutral” (08.02.25) by M.
Dear Editor, Elected left wing (socialist and or communist) governments in traditional democracies were known to provide good governance during the cold war era.
“Many people want me to say what happened at Lusignan and Bartica will not happen again, I say as president I cannot make that promise.
A motorcycle pillion rider was killed on the Columbia, Mahaica public road yesterday afternoon after the bike collided with a truck which was heading in the opposite direction.
A Berbice man was on Saturday evening chopped and battered to death by two men while in a camp with a female with whom he had a relationship.
Police yesterday took into custody about eight youths from Agricola, East Bank Demerara, after firing at least three shots in the air while telling them not to move, residents said.
The Ogle airport has been facing long periods of being completely unmanned after Air Traffic Controllers from there as well as the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri started a sickout on Friday after a payout was halted.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has paid over to the Ministry of Finance the sum of US$598,000 (approximately $119.6M) on the $165.7M the government had taken from the Consolidated Fund to advance Buddy’s International Hotel for the purchase of its rooms for Cricket World Cup 2007.
Guyana has to show more political will in protecting mangroves for their habitat and environmental richness, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said.
Parliamentary parties the AFC and GAP-ROAR are looking forward to the formalisation and institutionalisation of the national stakeholders’ forum as a means of establishing an inclusive democracy and more broad-based decision making.
After more than two years, the Buddy’s fuel trial is set for a key decision later this month when Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry is due to make a ruling on submissions made by the prosecution and the defence.
Over the next five years, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) should target moving 30 per cent of its assets/ investments into a foreign investment that includes both regional and extra-regional sources.
Twelve persons lost their lives on the country’s roadways for the first two months of the year as compared to 30 persons in the same period last year, the Guyana Police Force said.
Chairman of the National Building Code Committee Melvyn Sankies says that the Government has not been pushing for the further development of building codes with vigour even though some of the standards have to be further refined or revised.
The Immigration and Passport Office will today resume processing applications for new passports after encountering a hitch on Friday.
