Daily Archive: Sunday, March 30, 2008

Articles published on Sunday, March 30, 2008

Guyana and the Wider World

EPA fall out: Governance in Caricom  By Dr Clive Thomas For the past two weeks, this column has been assessing the consultation process pursued by the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) during negotiations leading up to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

Only one Tundra legally licensed, GRA says

– duplicate plates not issued by LRO The Licence Revenue Office (LRO) has categorically stated that identical registration numbers were not issued by that office for the vehicles in the photograph in last Wednesday’s issue of Kaieteur News captioned “Tundras with similar licence numbers impounded”.

Business Page

On the Line – Annual Reports  Demerara Tobacco Company Limited and the Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry 2007  By Christopher Ram Introduction Over the course of the next two days corporate Guyana will come alive with annual general meetings scheduled to be held by two of the country’s public companies.

Pet Corner

Skin Tumours By Dr Steve Surujbally Angiomas This is a simple tumour formed by a mass of small blood vessels (or in spaces where blood or lymph circulates).

Chess with Errol Tiwari

 Chess helps empower children to succeed The secret to success, happiness, achieving your desires, all of the things that we as humans do and aspire to be, comes down to one concept: the ability to accurately assess your position.

Obituary

David King, AA, 21 June 1944 – 25 March 2008 David Robert Lynch King, AA, managing director of King Advertising Limited, died on 25 March, aged 63.

Dowlin (121 not out) Chanderpaul (78 not out) maul Windwards

Stand-in captain Travis Dowlin and experienced hand Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who hit medium pacer Daren Sammy for two sixes, took the Windward Islands bowling by the scruff of its neck yesterday to propel Guyana to 312-3 at the close of the first day’s play of their final round Carib Beer Cup match at the National Stadium at Providence.

Consumer Concerns

Pre-paid metering By Eileen Cox Continued from last week For the benefit of all customers of Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL), we publish the concluding paragraphs of the letter in which Acting Chief Executive Officer of the company Bharat Dindyal explained Pre-paid metering.

Our organisation can provide information on community policing

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned “Minister Rohee should organise a national workshop on community policing to address the problems that exist” (08.03.28) and wish to advise the writer to join a community policing group if she needs information on community policing rather than to use the newspapers to find out what is taking place with community policing.

Health

Low backache: will I be pain free without surgery Dr Raghu Sudarshan Thota – MD (Anaesthesiology) We will start from where we left last week.

Al Creighton’s Arts on Sunday

The Women’s Day  By Alim Hosein (This week, Alim Hosein reviews the work of the Guyana Women Artists Association exhibited at a special show mounted in honour of International Women’s Day (March 8) 2008 at the Centre of Brazilian Studies in Georgetown.

Gov’t pushing for monitoring of school systems in all regions

Efforts to enhance and effectively monitor the school systems at the regional level and ensure they are adhered to by all stakeholders were the focus of a meeting held by the Ministries of Local Government and Regional Development and Education last Thursday with Regional Education Officers (REDOs) and Regional Executive Officers (REO) from all the regions.

Flight problems add to cricket’s woes

By Tony Cozier AS if it didn’t have enough problems of its own, West Indies cricket has encountered yet another, one that did not even feature in the Patterson Committee’s report to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on the future of the game.

Bring on ‘Stone’ Purlette

-national heavyweight champion `Big’ Mitchell Rogers laments the paucity of local heavyweight boxers around and calls out Andre `Stone’ Purlett By Troy Peters With the recent installation of a new executive for the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) local boxers are hoping that more will be done to keep them active as the sport faces an uphill task to survive locally.

Young Achievers reaches West Side Cup finals

Young Achievers reached the finals of the West Demerara Football Association’s West Side Cup tournament after edging Stewartville 4-3 on penalty kicks after the two teams had battled to a 1-1 draw following regulation and extra time on Friday evening at the Den Amstel ground.

Ian on Sunday

 A Culture Valuable in the World  By Ian McDonald In 1991 and 1992 when I was working with the West Indian Commission a feature of many of the presentations made by scores of experts and academics and businessmen and educators was how often they cited other countries as influences we needed to recall or examples we should strive to emulate.