Daily Archive: Friday, March 21, 2008

Dear Editor, Opinion polls accurately predicted Spain’s electoral outcome as the Socialist government won re-election last week against tremendous odds.

Dear Editor, I am still at a loss as to how the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) can give estimated water consumption for metered consumers.

Dear Editor, In a Stabroek News editorial comment to my letter titled “Least developed countries like Guyana can benefit from the Organization of Islamic Conference” (08.03.15) regarding the OIC Summit in Dakar, Senegal it was stated, “We have been informed that Guyana’s Ambassador to India, Mr Ronald Gajraj, and Mr Fazeel Ferouz, President of the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), attended the Summit.”

Dear Editor, Mr H. Edwards’ letter (19/3/08) regarding his callous treatment at the Lethem Immigration Office is an urgent wake-up call to those authorities who are responsible for the agencies that have to deal with the public in Lethem, especially the police and immigration departments.

Dear Editor, Long before the advent of television in Guyana, radio has been a close companion of the average Guyanese citizen.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial captioned “The Ramkarran recommendation” (08.03.20).

Dear Editor, Stakeholders are being asked for and have given support to the security services in their quest to stem the rise in criminal activity.

Dear Editor, Tacuma Ogunseye in his letter captioned “Minister Rohee seems to be losing control” (08.03.14) set out to discredit me in the eyes of the readership of your newspaper.

The selection committee of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has named a 13-man Under-15 `B’ team which will oppose the touring English Schoolboys Under-15 team on Monday.

The Guyana Darts Association (GDA) is gearing up to participate in the fourth Americas Cup championships and the 17th Caribbean Darts championships which will be held simultaneously in Trinidad and Tobago at the end of July.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) will run off its second trial match tomorrow (Saturday) in preparation for the North American and West Indies Rugby Association (NAWIRA) 2011 Fifteens Rugby World Cup qualifying series billed for the Cayman Islands.

– Jayawardene eyeing first test series win in C/bean The venue was the Essequibo Room of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel and the occasion was the launch of the 2008 Digicel sponsored Home Series between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, and while the two captains Mahela Jayawardene and Chris Gayle were the main persons present it was Digicel’s head of sponsorship Kieran Foley, whose words had the most impact.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 245’s trading results showed consideration of $568,410 from 51,284 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 244 which showed consideration of $3,070,733 from 185,938 shares traded in 13 transactions.

Hundreds of Guyanese pilots, engineers working with regional, international airlines Private aviation companies want government to provide provisional approval to allow the Ogle Airport to be used for regional flights.

Despite a period of sustained global growth, the world economy is now confronting an uncertain and difficult period threatened by rising food prices and even acute shortages in some countries.

The “Made In China” phenomenon and its impact on both developed and developing countries is a long and complicated issue which requires more than 1000 words to adequately analyze.

Concerns have been expressed among residents and organizations in Linden and at the level of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over bauxite dust emission particularly on the western side of the Demerara River.

Bosai directed to submit plans for alleviating the problem by month end The Chinese Bauxite Company Bosai has been given up to the end of this month to provide the local Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with firm proposals for alleviating the worsening problem of dust emission from its bauxite operations at Linden.

Government and the group of private aviators comprising Ogle Airport Inc.

Article 145 of the Constitution of Guyana provid

Did He die in vain? – faith, belief, acceptance By A.A.

by Pascal Boniface (Pascal Boniface is Director of the Institute for International and Strategic relations, Paris (IRIS).

In order to facilitate the request of stallholders, the Mayor and City Council said, all of its markets will be open from 7 am to 2 pm from yesterday to March 24.

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green has extended Youman Nabi, Good Friday and Phagwah greetings to citizens.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has filed a statement of amounts due as Value-Added Tax (VAT) from Friendship Hotel and Restaurant Holdings Limited in the High Court, and has slapped 60 charges on nine other businesses.

Masjid mulls legal action against GRA Members of the Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara masjid are considering taking legal action against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for its continued granting of liquor licences to a business opposite it, despite a court order preventing this.

– Jagdeo says in Phagwah message Guyanese should make Phagwah a time to carry out a self-introspection and as the festival advocates the principle of good over evil, citizens should all unite and pool their energies for the fight against the many evil forces in our society, President Bharrat Jagdeo said in his Phagwah message.

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A 26-year-old South Sophia man who suffered severe burns to his body died yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A 22-year-old De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara man who was shot in his back on Sunday following an argument with his friend is recovering in the Georgetown Public Hospital after undergoing surgery to remove the bullet.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) in extending best wishes and greeting to all Guyanese during this holiday season called for peace to prevail.

Ranks of a Joint Services patrol operating in the Mazaruni area conducted a search on a shop around noon on Wednesday and discovered two firearms, one of which was wrapped in plastic and buried.

The continued closure of streets surrounding the Camp Street prison has sounded the death knell of the Guyana Variety Store and Nut Centre, proprietor of the business John Singh said.

Two men and a woman were taken to various city hospitals on Wednesday, after being injured in an accident, which occurred some time in the afternoon at Annai, North Rupununi.

Cheques totaling $1 million each were handed over on Tuesday by Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore Gary Best, to family members of two soldiers who were slain in the line of duty in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

Cabinet has agreed to Guyana’s accession to the United Nations(UN) Conven-tion against corruption and to the protocol of the UN Con-vention against trans-national organised crime, specifically that no migrants be smuggled by land, sea and air.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr Roger Luncheon said that the consideration to move the eligibility age for National Insurance Scheme (NIS) pensions from 60 to 65 is “simply a recommendation by the NIS reform committee.”

PPP/C councillor Kwame McCoy was “disrespectful” to the chairman and council and despite attempts to calm him down, he continued and this led to his suspension from the Regional Democratic Council meeting on Tuesday, Region Four Chairman Clement Corlette said.

The legal scrub of the Cariforum-European Commission (EC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is completed and has been authorised by Heads of Cariforum countries for official release.

Caribbean security chiefs yesterday got down to serious work on the second day of their three-day meeting here and the creation of a regional rapid response unit and request for international assistance to fight rising crime are among several initiatives under active consideration.

– daughter injured Gunmen executed a Charlestown man at Laing Avenue last night in what appeared to be a well-planned drive-by attack.

– say it could be refined Amid suggestions that the Bharrat Jagdeo administration could move to abolish the sub-judice rule, which limits the level of discussion on a matter before the courts, local lawyers are arguing that the law must remain, but be refined to cater for today’s realities.