Daily Archive: Friday, May 9, 2008

By Zoisa Fraser A 63-year-old US-based Guyanese man was gunned down in his South Ruimveldt business place just before 8 last night by a lone gunman in what appears to be an execution-style killing.

-police barriers thrown down, approved route altered By Gaulbert Sutherland Banging empty pots, pans and milk cans, a PNCR protest march on the cost of living ploughed through city streets yesterday, overrunning police barriers to get to Parliament Buildings where an effigy of President Bharrat Jagdeo and mock coffins representing VAT were set afire.

Murder accused lunges at magistrate By Melissa Charles Chaos erupted in Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle’s court yesterday when a murder accused jumped out of the dock and lunged at the magistrate who rushed off the bench before he could grab her.

By Kiev Chesney Caribbean long distance champion runner Alika Morgan and champion cyclist Geron Williams have been named by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to participate in the ‘Youth Create Future’ Camp which will take place from August 6-17 in Beijing, China.

-was here for funeral A Canada-based Guyanese man is nursing gunshot wounds in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown after bandits attacked and robbed him on Monday night.

Police held three men after a Soesdyke family was robbed yesterday morning of cash and jewellery.

After two rounds in the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) National Race of Champions 16-year old Christopher Mc Lean led the 125cc Motor Cycle class by four points ahead of his competitors.

Dear Editor,  It is no secret that motor sport at South Dakota has its faithful fans.

The Guyana Defence Force’s second Bell 206 touched down at Camp Ayanganna at around 5 pm yesterday afternoon.

Region Ten pushes for greater food security The pursuit by farmers in Region Ten of greater self-sufficiency in agricultural produce in the wake of the floods in 2005 and 2006 has begun to pay important dividends as the country braces itself to face steadily rising food prices.

An unbeaten half century from former national under-19 captain and Guyana/ Stanford Twenty20 star Andre Percival, a five wicket haul from Abdel Fudadin and a splendid all round performance from West Indies opener Sewnarine Chattergoon were the highlights of the latest round of matches in the 5th Annual Guyana Beverages Limited sponsored Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSB) Busta Champions of Champions tournament played recently in Berbice.

Latin America and Caribbean countries struggle to head off rising poverty, indigence & malnutrition International food prices have been rising over the past few years, but price increases have been particularly steep in the past 12 months.

SN should have recognized Rusal Football Club for their effort Dear Editor, As part of the Linden Town Week celebrations the Mackenzie Sports Club organised a football competition. In

-following meeting between President, groups The public transport associations yesterday agreed not to increase fares after reaching an agreement with President Bharrat Jagdeo for a two-week reprieve when they will meet again to address maintenance costs.

Two successive years of flooding in Guyana’s coastal areas – in 2005 and 2006 – and the attendant consequences of scarcity of fresh fruit and vegetables and accompanying price rises compelled Region Ten to seriously contemplate its vulnerability to agricultural ‘imports’ and the weakness of its food security infrastructure.

Government yesterday deferred a motion that sought to have the National Assembly take note of the impact of global food prices on the cost of living in Guyana after the PNCR-1G boycotted the sitting.

Jeffrey Vancooten is upset The former Thomas United footballer is peeved over the state of football in the Ancient County.

By Heppilena Ferguson Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best, has vowed that any officer found guilty of inflicting physical violence on recruits will face dismissal.

Dear Editor, In the Isseneru Amerindian village, Middle Mazaruni, our lives are made uncomfortable by illegal gold and diamond miners who like leeches are illegally occupying our village lands and working out the mineral resources without the permission of the Isseneru Village Council.

By Calvin Roberts The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) in partnership with the National Sports Commission (NSC) has embarked on a community outreach sports development programme targeting youths of some communities.

Dear Editor, Lolita Hick’s letter in SN of May 2, 2008 (‘No income tax refund’) caught my attention and has caused me to revisit a personal matter which I had with disgust, abandoned approximately two years ago.

An outing in the backdam for a family at Cotton Tree Village, West Berbice on Arrival Day Monday ended tragically after a 36-year-old father of three was crushed by an MF 290 tractor around 5:20 pm.

By Calvin Roberts As they did some 36 years ago, the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) through its El Dorado brand rum, has once again stepped forward to partner the Kennard memorial Turf Club for its upcoming event on Sunday.

 (Rawle Lucas is a Guyanese-born Certified Public Accountant and Assistant Vice President of the Lending Services Division.

Dear Editor, I wish to express my grave concern about a “poll” which was published in Stabroek News on May 6, 2008.

–task force head Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma says the Task Force that President Bharrat Jagdeo set up on April 7, 2008 to investigate the Fidelity Investment Polar Beer duty scam doesn’t have on it any members of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

Government’s move to subsidize the increase in the price of locally produced flour announced by the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) earlier this week may not be sufficient to forestall some attempts to increase the price of flour-based products according to a well-placed business sector source.

Multi-talented athlete Kiev Chesney is all set to compete in next week-end’s Hampton games in Trinidad after receiving sponsorship from the Hand-In-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company.

Contrasting half centuries from Royan Fredericks and Seon Hetimyer saw Fredericks’s  side to 350 – 8 from 86.4 overs on the second day of the second U-19  three day trial match at the Police Sports Club ground.

The agriculture minister told a meeting of sugar workers and other industry personnel that he is addressing management issues and other concerns and reiterated a call for support so that the investment in modernising the sugar industry can produce the maximum benefits.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 252’s trading results showed consideration of $6,832,388 from 560,154 shares traded in 26 transactions as compared to session 251 which showed consideration of $1,634,900 from 60,118 shares traded in 15 transactions.

Father, son freed of manslaughter Justice Roxanne George upheld no-case submissions in the High Court yesterday in a manslaughter case where a father and son were on trial for killing a relative at Chinese Landing on the Barama River back in 2005, ruling that the case could not be sent to the jury.

GASCI Summary of Financials Session 252 May 7, 2008  Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

The youthful Everest Hikers second-division men’s team registered two victories to join compatriots Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) who also chalked up their second win in as many matches when the John Fernandes Insurance Services Ltd (JFIS) second division hockey league continued over the weekend.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport says the church community is an essential institution and it plans to allow it to play an integral role in Carifesta X.

A job – and dignity                   And Eric’s illiteracy On Sunday night I heard the Afro-European-American Democratic contender, senator Barack Obama explain that when his (eventual) father-in-law obtained a job in one of America’s depressed communities, probably during the depression, “the job did not only give him a pay cheque, it gave him dignity!”

-concerned over delay in granting leases More than thirty farmers in the Dallawalla area of Region Ten may have give up sections of their farms along a two-mile stretch of arable agricultural land adjacent to the Demerara River to make way for what an official of the Region Ten Farmers Association has told Stabroek Business is a move to construct port facilities along the river front. 

A  warm-up race hosted by the Continental Cycling Club in preparation for the annual ‘Three Stage Road Race’ scheduled for May 17 – 19 rolls of  tomorrow at 07:30 hrs.

-despite deportation Despite an application for deportation, which was not challenged by the prosecution, Guyanese Raffel Christopher Douglas has been sentenced to 30 months in prison with a further three years of supervision on release.

Recent letters to this newspaper, online comments and the word on the street all point to a general feeling of revulsion at the escalation of terror and horror visited upon our country over the past few months.

Staff of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit  (CANU) are currently undergoing polygraph testing by a staff member of a US firm and there would be changes at the unit based on the results of the tests, President Bharrat Jagdeo revealed on Wednesday at a press conference.