Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Police yesterday cornered and shot dead a gunman on Brickdam, minutes after he had robbed a city businessman with the aid of an accomplice.

The Guyana Police Force announced yesterday that a reward of $2 million is being offered for information that may lead to the recapture of Jermaine Charles called ‘Skinny’.

Passengers travelling to Canada now have a third option with a charter service making its inaugural flight here yesterday afternoon and those on board reported that the flight was a good one.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says the escape of high-profile prisoner Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles is “unforgivable and inexcusable” and those culpable will “face the music.”

– Rohee urges end to speculation `The Ministry of Home Affairs is further concerned about another area of speculation that has recently opened up in the media.

-Jagdeo tells Caricom summit Guyana will not sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) until it has completed a full national consultation or alternatively “pragmatically earlier if the EC [European Commission] continues with its bully-boy tactics of seeking to impose tariffs on our exports,” President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday approved a motion to send Town Clerk Beulah Williams and City Treasurer Roderick Edinboro on immediate leave so that investigations could be carried out in the treasurer’s department.

PNCR General Secretary Oscar Clarke travelled yesterday to Antigua and Barbuda to present the joint parliamentary opposition’s petition calling on the Caricom Heads of Government to recommend to President Bharrat Jagdeo and his administration that they meaningfully address a number of issues.

Chief Justice Ian Chang on Monday ordered the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to withdraw its closure notice directed to Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) and quash its decision to close that company’s harvesting operations.

Several of the 166 children awarded places at Guyana’s premier high school Queen’s College (QC) based on their scores at this year’s national Grade Six Assessment (GSA), may not take up places there.

-Rohee warns Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday sounded a stern warning to entertainment promoters not to bring in any “smutty or dutty” songsters to Guyana before or during Carifesta which is to be held in August.

Dear Editor, I am writing again about the telephone companies in Guyana.

Bandits carted off equipment valued around $102,000 from the Viola Nursery School at Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam (NA) over the weekend.

…after return from Suriname Principal Magistrate Krishndat Persaud fined fifteen fishermen $20,000 each or an alternative of 12 weeks imprisonment when they appeared before him at the Mibicuri Court, Black Bush Polder yesterday charged with departing Guyana illegally.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank the real Sherwin Campbell (‘Judges should be required to deliver their decisions in a reasonable time’ SN 25.6.08) for his kind comments on my recent letter which dealt with problems at the High Court of Guyana.

Opened to the beating of African drums, the Mark Benschop Centre was launched yesterday at the Court Yard mall on Robb Street.

Dear Editor, In a recent letter, ‘The press should investigate the killing of the miners,’ published in SN on June 27, I asked the government agencies concerned to explain why the 39 micro projects  financed by the EU were vetoed by the Guyana government.

Dear Editor, I have been in Grenada for several days (not for cricket) conducting a survey, but almost everywhere my accent betrays my nationality, and the name of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and cricket quickly replaces a discussion on politics or elections.

Extension works are set to begin shortly at nursery and primary schools in Moraikobai in order to accommodate the growing population of school-age children in the Region Five community.

Dear Editor, Banning Pit Bulls would be like banning cars because people get killed in car accidents!

– little known Oslyn Collins selected instead of four-time Caricom 10k winner By Kiev Chesney Even before the  dust had settled on the apparent  `blunder’ on the part of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) of not taking up the two free tickets offered to its athletes  to participate at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India, later this year, the AAG’s poor administration has once again been revealed.

Dear Editor, I have been following the cartoon controversy very closely in your newspaper and I am compelled to use my pen to highlight one important journalistic perspective, that seems to be missing in all the letters and comments about the cartoon and the IAC.

Dear Editor, The murder of those 8 hapless miners at Lindo Creek reminds me of the murder of the electrician, Charles de Menezes, who was mistaken for a suicide bomber after 7/7 in England.

Neal and Massy is helping the Support Group for Deaf Persons (SGDP) in its public awareness campaign for Deaf Awareness Week slated to be held in September.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has selected a team of 21 players to represent Guyana in the upcoming North American West Indian Rugby Association’s (NAWIRA) 2009 Under-20 Junior World Trophy Qualifier in Barbados from July 5-13.

‘Mc Rae could kiss the canvas’ – says veteran trainer Lennox Daniels By Calvin Roberts When Michael De Mattos takes on Trinidad-based Joel McRae over six rounds in his second professional bout Saturday in the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) card titled ‘Judgement Day’ at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), his coach Lennox Daniels is predicting nothing but a victory.

The Carifesta Secretariat says a comprehensive health system is being put in place to cater to medical needs that may arise during Carifesta and to identify any epidemic that may break out.

This car ended up in a trench at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara on Monday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by Desmond Trotman captioned ‘The destruction of the young among us calls out for national consensus’ published in the Stabroek News of  June 26.

Retired members of Guyana Public Service Union after a luncheon held in their honour on Sunday.

By Kizan Brumell Managing Director of the West Indian Sports Complex (WISC) Mohammed Feroze Khan yesterday handed over boxing equipment valued at $300,000 to the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA).

The first ever female drug rehabilitation centre in Guyana is set to open by the middle of next month and there are eight potential clients on the waiting list, according to Clarence Younge,  head of the Phoenix Recovery Project which would be manning the new centre.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned ‘Women do respect themselves’ (SN June 27).

In one of what must be a record number of Heads of Government meetings in a half a year, our heads of government meet again this week in their regularly scheduled formal annual meeting, and it seems that they certainly have a lot of talking to each other to do, and some talking to do to us, the citizens of Caricom.