Articles published on Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dear Editor, It appears as if Cabinet is openly challenging Speaker Ralph Ramkarran’s ruling on the Peoples National Congress Reform debt ceiling motion.
Dear Editor, A relative drew my attention to the following Caribbean Net News report, “Investor buys Guyana forest’s rain and carbon,” dated Friday, March 28, 2008 at http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/index.php?news_id=6860.
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the Stabroek News article of March 30, 2008, which reported Prime Minister Samuel Hinds as saying that the Government of Guyana has not acted on a resolution to investigate the death of Dr.
Dear Editor, I am now convinced the newly constructed Ogle community centre has become a white elephant.
Dear Editor, The report recently compiled to highlight alleged marginalisation of Afro-Guyanese is a sign of a new freedom in Guyana to examine thorny issues that continue to plague the country.
Dear Editor, Guyana joins Trinidad and Tobago where Members of Parliament are confronting (some say disrespecting) the Speaker of the House.
Dear Editor, I refer to my letter captioned “In our own homeland, there are jewels like the Kanuku mountains to be discovered” (08.03.30).
Dear Editor, To Minister Rohee’s accusation of Tacuma Ogunseye being anti-PPP rule, extremist and preaching Black cultural nationalism, I say “so what!”
Dear Editor, The current crisis in terms of ongoing fuel smuggling, convenient dismissals of star and key witnesses from their jobs, the appointment of a prosecutor with known ties to the political elite and lawyers who frequently appear for persons charged with drug offences is one for the history books.
Fire suspected to be electrical in origin completely des-troyed a two-flat, two-bedroom house at Bushy Park, Mahaicony around 3.25 pm yesterday and luckily a ten-year-old girl remembered just in time to rescue her “baby sister”.
Job-hunting is expected to get easier for unemployed persons with the creation of a new Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency by the Ministry of Labour.
– communication system to go on stream in two weeksThe Ministry of Agriculture yesterday launched its Anti-Piracy Revolving Fund, designed to provide financial assistance to fishermen and boat owners who have suffered at the hands of high seas bandits.
Several people were injured in a collision between a minibus and a truck on the Mahaicony Public Road, East Coast Demerara last evening.
A 22-year-old man is a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being injured while at a creek on Sunday.
Five years and 4,000 US deaths into the Iraq war, it is no longer clear what a reasonable exit strategy might be.
– accused further remanded Oliver Hinckson remained imprisoned after his fourth appearance in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when the case was adjourned to await a High Court ruling.
A man is in police custody following a search of a camp at Itabu, Berbice River that unearthed an unlicensed gun on Sunday.
-WICB and WICUA officials meet today to resolve umpires’ boycott of Carib Beer Cup matches By Tony Cozier West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chief executive Donald Peters and chief cricket operations officer Tony Howard are to meet with West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA) president Hartley Reid at the Accra Hotel here today in an effort to settle the issues that led to the WICUA’s boycott of Carib Beer Cup matches last month.
A police team has been dispatched to the Five Star Backdam in the North West District, following a report that the body of a man was found lying on the trail with his throat slashed, a press release from the Police Public Relations department said yesterday.
A 19-year-old miner who allegedly robbed his colleague of two and a half ounces of gold while threatening the man’s life with a knife was yesterday taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
A 20-year-old man who allegedly broke and entered a woman’s house carting off booty worth $855,000 was yesterday brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
A man said to be a dredge-owner was hacked to death reportedly by a Brazilian national, who has since been on the run, following an argument over a woman at Puruni, Mazuruni River early yesterday.
After capturing Guyana’s first ever medal at the Carifta Swimming Championships when she secured gold in the 200m breaststroke last Thursday, Jessica Stephenson increased her country’s medal count to two when she gained a bronze medal in the girls’ 11-12 100m breaststroke.
Two bridges estimated at $3.5 million were on Friday commissioned at Caria Caria in the Essequibo River.
Two months after the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) sealed a Fidelity Investment bond holding Polar beers it said were illegally imported Justice Jainarayan Singh restored access to the company in a High Court ruling on Friday last.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s unexplained absence on the second day of Guyana’s final round Carib Beer Series match against Windward Islands on Sunday, created quite a fuss.
By Sara Bharrat“I need to see my mother.” These were the first words 20-year-old Jason Yarris elected to speak on rousing from his coma after 63 days following a two-vehicle smash-up.
Twenty-three-year-old Windward Islands middle-order batsman Liam Sebastien defied the Guyana pace/spin attack at the Providence National Stadium yesterday to post his maiden first class century and ensure the Windward Islands snatch first innings points in the battle of the minnows as their final round Carib Beer Cup match enters its final day today.
– NadirMinister of Labour Manzoor Nadir said that in both the public and private sectors adherence to good occupational safety and health practices are often the exception rather than the rule.
Junior Niles escaped from challengers Robin Persaud and Raymond Newton to claim victory in the senior category of the Dr.
A 38-year-old-man was remanded on a charge of abduction when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday.
Carib Masters and GT All Stars scored wins to move into the top position following Saturday’s matches in the Coca Cola Masters Football tournament played at Thirst Park ground.
A 19-year-old teenager who allegedly broke and entered the house of a police officer was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation Dr Henry Jeffrey has expressed surprise that a Friday meeting of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Foreign Re-lations on the EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was not held on the grounds that he was late.
Pipes not being laid correctly engineer saysThe pipe-laying in Kingston, in preparation for a US$52 million hotel investment, is not being done to engineering specifications and poses a potential danger to the integrity of Battery Road and the pipeline itself, one prominent engineer has said.
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