Daily Archive: Friday, March 7, 2008

Why not? Guyana, through its President some five/six months ago, generously offered to host the landmark tenth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta.)

A 61-year-old man appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of his 62-year-old brother and was remanded to prison.

A 21-year-old woman was placed on $60,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of malicious assault, resisting arrest, destruction of property on a person and disorderly behaviour.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan Persid-Edmond on Wednes-day remanded to prison a man accused of murdering another at Sandhills, Berbice River, when he appeared to answer to the charges at the Reliance Court.

A 23-year-old man was remanded when he appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

On Saturday, 1st March, Colombian troops attacked guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) across the border with Ecuador and succeeded in killing the FARC number two, Ra

The consortium of local aircraft owners who hold a lease agreement with the Government of Guyana for the development of the Ogle Aerodrome has declined to comment on the possible reasons for the protracted delay in the release of funds provided by the European Development Fund (EDF) – and being administered by the Government of Guyana – for the second phase of the modernization of the facility.

The raft of recommendations contained in the recently completed report on the reform of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) can only be effectively implemented if they are energetically supported by the political administration including President Bharrat Jagdeo according to an informed NIS source.

Few phenomena account more for the slow economic growth and the frustrations of normal domestic life in Guyana than our electricity supply system.

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The privately-run aviation sector is so concerned about what it says is the lack of qualifications and competence of the serving Flight Inspector at the Guyana Civil Aviation Autho-rity (GCAA) that it offered some months ago to meet the salary costs of a qualified replacement.

I have met Captain Gerry Gouevia, the Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways.

Overview Last week I started a short series on critical issues as it relates to our farmers and recommended major improvements in order for them to be able to strategically position themselves to improve their products, marketability and financial results.

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The Stanford Twenty20 tournament is over and it is back to four-day action for Guyana who will set out on the redemption trail today in the fifth round of the 2008 Carib Beer Cricket series against the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) at the National Stadium, Pro-vidence.

Two players from last year’s junior national basketball team on Wednesday led their respective teams to the finals of the Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Associa-tion `March Madness’ play-offs.

Ian Bishop, Desmond Haynes, Andy Roberts and Courtney Walsh are back on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cricket committee.

The Guyana Squash Associa-tion has identified a squad of 19 players to train seven days a week for the Junior Caribbean Squash tournament which is scheduled for July 11-20 in Bermuda.

Stephen David-Longe scored an upset win over Rudy Grant on Wednesday evening in the semifinals of the men’s Over-45 singles category of the Banks DIH `Plus Energy’ Open tennis tournament at Le Meridien Pegasus lawn tennis courts.

The West Side Cup, Easter round robin knockout football competition organized by the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) will kick off this evening with a double header at the Den Amstel ground from 6pm.

Dear Editor, The government recently announced its intention to build a Hostel/Dormitory for Hinterland Scholarship students in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I write to commend you on your fine editorial captioned “It can’t wait” which appeared in SN on Saturday, March 01.

Dear Editor, Regarding your March 3rd editorial captioned “The US drug report and the crime crisis” the U.S.

Dear Editor, Hillary Clinton has finally won three primaries (which she was favored heavily to win but barely eked out) after a string of eleven consecutive defeats.

Dear Editor, Last Saturday, driving South on Sheriff St, I noticed three kids on a donkey cart, one beating the animal with a piece of wood.

Dear Editor, I am heartened to hear Mr Colwyn King, president of the Guyana Teachers’ Union say that the union will seek to boost its research capability to buttress its ability to negotiate for teachers if he is elected for a second term.

Dear Editor, Below is a quotation in the Caribbean 360 on-line edition 05/03/08 attributed to the Honourable Clement James Rohee, Minister of Home Affairs.

Dear Editor, After reading Mrs Jagan’s stinging reprimand in her letter captioned “Bisram must stop gossiping” (08.03.05), I re-read the letter I wrote about stories told to me about corruption in the Cheddi Jagan’s government (08.03.03).

Guyana has been chosen as the focus of the World Women’s Day of Prayer 2008.

Government spokesman Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday that he did not believe it was a secret that many of the criminal gangs have benefited from the presence of ex-servicemen.

A waste oil-fuelled fire in a canal aback of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) plant at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara last evening threatened fuel tanks and caused the generating sets to be shut down temporarily.

Two men last night robbed Pearl’s Bakery and Snackette on D’Urban Street of an undisclosed sum of cash at around 7.50 pm and put a bullet hole in the glass door as they departed on a motorcycle.

Businessman Chetram Ramkhellawan, who had endured many business blows within recent years but kept on going, died suddenly yesterday morning after collapsing at his Garnett Street home.

The Joint Services have not produced ground-breaking results in the investigations into the two recent massacres, Cabinet Secretary Dr.

The BO 105 helicopter loaned from Trinidad which has been assisting the Joint Services in aerial crime fighting activities following the Lusignan and Bartica slayings, may only have a few days more here.

Minister of Foreign Trade and International Coopera-tion, Dr Henry Jeffrey is against the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) since trade liberalisation was eating away at border taxes with VAT being a form of replacement.

The PNCR says that the Buxton community is slowly being brought to its knees as a result of the policies and activities of the PPP/C administration, and has suggested a raft of policy-driven exercises which the government must embark on to meet the needs of that community.

With Caribbean Airlines likely to be the only carrier to New York from Guyana for a short period this year, the airline says it has no plans to raise fares.

The Guyana Partnership for Human Rights (GPHR) has called on the government to seek all possible avenues of assistance in the event that the Joint Services are unable to make breakthroughs in the probes of the Bartica and Lusignan massacres.

Three men are in police custody following a search at a Sparendaam Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara home on Wednesday night during which several items including a pair of police boots and a pair of handcuffs were found.

AFC Leader Raphael Trotman says a collective constitutional response is needed to resolve Guyana’s current security problems and mechanisms such as UN involvement and the devolution of power must be considered.

With only a few days before the next scheduled national stakeholders meeting on security, concerns are being expressed that the contributions made by the committee have not been circulated as yet for consideration.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says the Number 56 village Water Treatment Plant has been completed.

Laparkan Shipping says it will offer shipping services to the Caribbean diaspora in Atlanta, Georgia from Monday.

PPP/C MP Gail Teixeira has challenged the parliamentary political parties to submit “a better path to progress” to the National Assembly since they have not “seconded any of the administration’s plans in the Budget”.