Articles published on Monday, June 9, 2008
A top security official yesterday said that the criminal infrastructure of the country’s most wanted man, Rondell `Fineman’ Rawlins was crumbling and he expressed optimism that the fugitive and his troops currently ensconced deep in the jungle would be captured.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee last evening said he could not comment on whether US drug accused Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan purchased sophisticated telephonic surveillance equipment with permission from the Government as he was not in the security sector at that time.
-Banks DIH hopes to do more shredding By Johann Earle The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says its laws should ensure that importers and manufacturers of beverages packaged in plastic bottles have some responsibility for collection, treatment and disposal of empty bottles after consumption of their contents.
Dear Editor, It is with deep sorrow that I have learnt of the passing of Professor Frederick Case.
Several major projects which are coming on-stream here are laying the basis for a significant take-off of the Guyana economy, and the Guyanese Diaspora is well placed to play an important role in aiding and enhancing this development, Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran, SC, told a Guyanese-American forum on Friday in New York.
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit staff, who failed their lie detector tests, received their termination letters yesterday advising them that their service with the unit was ending with immediate effect.
By Heppilena Ferguson The government’s decision to go ahead with plans to sack nine Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers after they failed their recent lie-detector tests has not gone down well with the parliamentary opposition parties, even as the individuals await their official termination letters.
Dear Editor, At last Thursday’s launch of the new Guyana Times broadsheet, your newspaper reported that President Bharrat Jagdeo essentially described Guyanese businessman, Mr Yesu Persaud as ‘ignorant’ of the tax laws for simply suggesting that consideration should be given to extending tax concessions given to QAII (owners of the new paper) to other local businesses, and then proceeded to explain what aspects of the government’s agreement with QAII qualified for tax concessions.
Mineral and petroleum mining in Guyana is to significantly benefit from certified laboratory services with the arrival of Activation Laboratories Limited (Actlabs) within the next two months.
Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon in typical fashion conveniently avoids the apposite questions at hand, as evident in his KN column (3.6.08), ‘Soon is forever.’
Dear Editor, It is with great shock that I read in your newspaper of Tuesday, June 4, 2008 that Mr Robert Corbin’s life had been threatened.
A woman who ended an abusive relationship with her husband two weeks ago got a severe beating from him after she returned to his home on the Corentyne to uplift items belonging to her 11-month-old baby.
-carts off Banks DIH Rugby Sevens titles By Kizan Brumell Seven players, seven-and-a-half minutes per half, seven games, two winners, was how the tournament format ran as the Pepsi Hornets dominated the male and female categories of the Banks DIH Rugby Sevens championships yesterday at the National Park, Rugby Playfield.
Dear Editor, I came across an article, ‘China in Africa’ in the June issue of the Fast Company Magazine at fastcompany.com.
A motorcyclist and his pillion rider died on Saturday after a vehicle swerved into their path, striking them, and then ended up in the trench on the Hampton Court Public Road, Essequibo Coast.
By Calvin Roberts Manager of the Guyana TCL Under- 19 team Alvin Johnson yesterday told Stabroek Sport that he was satisfied with the level of fitness displayed by the players so far.
The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday said that no financial assistance was given to Jamaica for a rice seed nursery and no official from the agency will be visiting the island in connection with this.
Dear Editor, Can someone please help me find my niece, somewhere in Guyana.
GT&T Public Relations Officer, Allison Parker, in background, demonstrating to students at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre how DSL works.
Part1 (Stephen Lande, former Assistant United States Trade Representative (ret.), is President of Manchester Trade and has 40 years trade negotiating experience dating to the 1960’s Tokyo Round of the GATT.
By Calvin Roberts “The Berbice Football Association (BFA) needs to be more proactive in working with clubs affiliated to the association towards not only the development of the game, but the attraction of sponsorship for the game in the county.”
In the light of plans to install power transmission lines, government has restated its intent to reclaim the Lamaha Railway embankment land reserve which has been occupied by squatters for decades.
Dear Editor, Is it as Shakespeare put “Nature take what course thou wilt” as young teachers, male and female, make uncontrolled sexual advances toward juvenile students?
The fuel crisis will likely spawn a whole new range of innovative transport.
Photos and interviews by Sara Bharrat and Melissa Charles We asked the man/woman in the street what they thought the country’s national costume should be Kay Pompey, Private Sector Employee: ‘I know for sure if we were to have a national costume it would definitely have to have red in it because that’s my favourite colour.
The Guyana Rugby Football Union has called to practice 31 U19 players in preparation for Guyana’s participation in the North America and West Indies Rugby Association Qualifying Tournament for the iRB Junior World Rugby Trophy which will take place in Barbados from July 5 -12.
When Mr Toby Mendel of the Article 19 group told members of Parliament at a seminar last month that it was an embarrassment for a country that presented itself as a democracy not to have a Freedom of Information (FOI) law he wasn’t saying anything that the MPs were unaware of.
Probation officers and social workers will soon be attending sign language classes in an effort to assist them to better communicate with and help persons with disabilities, according to Minister of Human Services & Social Security, Priya Manickchand.
Two prisoners who allegedly buggered a man were once again remanded to prison when they appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Dear Editor, Traffic officers have a job to curb speeding along our roads.
