Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A market cleaner was sentenced to two weeks imprisonment for stealing $4,000 worth in items and cash from a woman in the Bourda market.

A nineteen-year-old man was yesterday brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and a live round.

Indications in the press this week that the Heads of Government will consider the issue of the relationship between the Caricom Secretariat and the Caricom Regional Negotiating Machinery, serve to remind us that since the deliberations and decisions of the Heads at their last Conference in July last year, nothing further has been heard on implementation of measures agreed for Caricom’s reorganization, based on the Report of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Governance, Managing Mature Regionalism.

When he first addressed the United Nations General Assembly after the independence of Barba-dos, Prime Minister Errol Barrow indicated his recognition that the world’s powers tended to see small states as irritants.

President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass told a media conference yesterday that the planned Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Futsal qualifying football tournament was cancelled owing to Guyana’s lack of a security guarantee for the visiting teams.

West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul along with openers Sewnarine Chattergoon and Krishna Arjune have all been included in a 13-man squad that will represent Guyana against the Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC) in the fifth round of the 2008 Regional Carib Beer series match at the National Stadium, Providence, from Friday.

“I am confident about the training the boxers went through and I know that they are well prepared which leaves me upbeat about Guyana’s chances at the Olympic Box-Offs in Trinidad and Tobago next week.”

Ever wondered who was the best boxer Guyana has ever produced.

After concluding its inaugural basketball season which included the participation of more than 30 schools in Georgetown and Linden, the Guyana Secondary School Basketball Association (GSSBA) is set to begin its ‘March Madness’ playoff round.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in collaboration with the ‘Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation (RPSF) will run off a spin bowling clinic for junior cricketers on March 21, with Everest Cricket Club ground identified for the event.

Former Pele F.C and National Goalkeeper Cecil Jacques was elected president of Pele Football Club when the club held its Annual General Meeting recently at the Waterchris Hotel Boardroom on Waterloo Street.

Anthony Downes continued to breeze past his opponents when the Banks DIH `Plus Energy’ lawn tennis Open tournament organized by the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) continued on Sunday at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel courts.

Dear Editor, In a letter published in Stabroek News on March 3, 2006, Mr Vishnu Bisram , the writer, noted that Dr Jagan was an honest man, “but stories were told to me that corruption among a few of his ministers was one of the factors that triggered his massive heart attack.”

Dear Editor, I refer to L A Camacho’s letter captioned “Critchlow Labour College was part of a broader plan in which the American Labour Movement was involved to provide education for workers” (08.02.26) wherein he talks of the educational help received by the local Trade Union movement from certain American unions.

Dear Editor, Mr R Chickerie has the habit of using your columns to support anything Muslim, right or wrong.

Dear Editor, There is construction work ongoing at a gas station in Lethem where a building is being constructed directly above the fuel pumps.

Dear Editor As I sit in the Chambers of the National Assembly to debate the 2008 Budget I am amazed at the government trying to score political points by telling the people of Guyana that upon their visit to Bartica and Lusignan, the people were united and that this was based on them being happy and contented with the government even though they were in crisis.

Dear Editor, We wish to say thank you to doctor Ms Lilian Amat for her services to the residents from Moruca Region No 1, during her station at Suddie hospital, Region # 2.

Dear Editor, I’d like to thank Ms Samantha Griffith for informing us that “Article 8 B (Export tax) of the agreement signed between the Guyana Government and Barama on 14th August 1991” requires that company to pay the export commission on greenheart logs only (“The forestry commission’s critics are now criticizing it for enforcing standards”, SN February 23 2008).

Dear Editor, We are all aware that there are many pressing issues in society that the government has to focus on.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News did little to constrain itself in making known its anger for not receiving pictures of men wanted for questioning in the recent massacres.

Dear Editor, I extend my heartfelt thanks to the surgical unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital which comprises Drs Zang and Rambarran for a difficult but successful surgery.

Dear Editor, I note with excitement the letter written by no less a person than Vishnu Bisram praising the rapid strides made by Lee Kwan Yew in Singapore.

Coming under fire from various opposition speakers, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday said that Guyana has been seeing results in its crime fight with the apprehension and deaths of a number of criminals over recent months.

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Tribhowan Persaud, a Guyanese who currently resides in neighbouring Suriname.

Horticulturalist Boyo Ramsaroop, who occasionally employed the man police shot and killed on Russell Street last Saturday, said yesterday that he watched him grow from a toddler into an ambitious young man and never saw anything criminal in his behaviour.

The mother of the missing Alpha Hotel owner fears that her daughter may have been murdered and said she is disappointed with the lack of communication from the police here.

Relatives of a 78-year-old woman, who died in the hospital yesterday, are questioning the circumstances surrounding her death and are calling for an investigation to be done.

The Office of the President arranges the taking and subscribing to the oath of office by persons to be appointed to the judiciary on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

As the search continues for three missing fishermen, questions are being raised as to what happened to the vessel given that no debris of any sort has been found and relatives said that they are considering all possibilities.

(Trinidad Express) Early last week, Ryan “Whiteboy” Sattaur was advised by his uncle to “stay home” after getting into a fight with a man unknown to him.

A two-day meeting for parliamentarians and NGOs to review the impact and “responses to small arms diffusion and violence in the Caribbean” is set for Trinidad today and a women’s group is asking where the gangs are getting guns and ammo for killings like those at Lusignan and Bartica According to a press release the Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) said the meeting hopes to explore a Caricom instrument to support implementation of the UN Programme of Action on small arms.

The Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) will review the status of the Caricom Single Economy (CSE), the proposed Regional Development Agency (RDA) and the Caricom Development Fund (CDF) at a meeting which convenes tomorrow in The Bahamas.

The Canada-Guyana Forum (CGF) is calling for international assistance in the aftermath of the killings at Lusignan and Bartica even as it lobbies the Canadian government for support.

The Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Deve-lopment (COTED) is meeting today in The Bahamas to take a decision about the removal or reduction of the Common External Tariff (CET) on some goods.

The National Federation of and for Disabled People is hosting a symposium to raise awareness of the rights of persons with disabilities.

The Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion (GUYSUCO) is to make its surplus molasses available to cattle farmers for free through the National Dairy Development Programme.

The Ministry of Education’s National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) has received a satellite dish from Mexico which will be utilized for the Education through Satellite Delivered Television Programmes (EDUSAT).

As soon as the debate on the budget is completed and the estimates approved, two parliamentary special select committees will meet to review the Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) and to conclude the examination of the Disciplined Forces Commission (DFC) report.

Five hundred metres of land aback Buxton/ Friendship on the lower East Coast Demerara has been cleared as the Joint Services’ Operation Restore Order moves apace.

The Christian community is scheduled to host a mass Good Friday service entitled ‘Atonement 2008’ on March 21 at 5.30 pm at the Cenotaph area in front of Bank of Guyana, and it is hoped that this will kick start a spiritual revival countrywide.

Special booklets on the new Amerindian Act which are being produced by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs in languages that will be understood by the Amerin-dians are almost complete, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.