By Miranda La Rose
The Booker Tate management team is to stay on board at the Guyana Sugar Corporation for six months following the commissioning of the new Skeldon sugar factory, after which an international tender for management is to be put out.
Dear Editor,
Stabroek News cartoonist Paul Harris is indeed an unstoppable artist par excellence; this brother has never failed to capture the situation ‘dead on.’
By Sara Bharrat
After months of deliberations in several courts, sedition accused Oliver Hinckson was granted bail yesterday by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the sum of $1 million on the charge of advocating the commission of a terrorist act.
Could affect second crop
Mahaicony Rice Mills (MRM) owes farmers just about US$10M (G$2B) and this could have dire implications for the second rice crop which is currently being sown, according to industry officials.
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded six men, who allegedly robbed a businessman of over $4.8 million in cash and other items, when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
–plans protest over gov’t subvention
The withdrawal of the government subvention has left the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) a mere shadow of its former self, but its administrators say they will continue to fight for the release of the funds.
Do not pay higher fares – ministry
The Ministry of Finance is advising minibus commuters not to pay additional fares pending its meeting with the Guyana Minibus Association on the issue shortly.
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur says Joshua Safeek of Fidelity Investments has been making bold and presumptuous statements about cleaning up corruption at customs without providing any supporting evidence.
Several computers and printers along with money were stolen from the New Silver City School in Linden by thieves who entered the school’s building yesterday through the back of the computer lab.
President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday met with a team from the Latin America International Finance Corporation (IFC) to discuss projects in Guyana which it had expressed an interest in financing.
Hundreds of Guyanese attended the Pre-Carifesta Concert held on Sunday at the Fairfield Halls and Theatre in Croydon, UK and many declared their intentions to attend this year’s festival.
Workers alleged to be attached to the Ministry of Housing beat an Industry woman and her husband yesterday when they protested over the pulling down of their structure on a disputed plot of land at Crown Dam Industry.
The Central Islamic Organ-isation of Guyana (CIOG) has launched a funding programme for projects undertaken by women in rural areas with support from a Canadian NGO.
The Mark Benschop Founda-tion which has adopted the motto “Making the way for tomorrow’s children,” yesterday held a small ceremony to mark its social work initiative focusing on single mothers.
The mother of 22-year-old Alexis Porter, who went missing after travelling to a creek with a male friend, was yesterday still looking for her, even as she heard rumours that her daughter’s bloated body had floated up at the creek.
– Defending champions Guyana roared back to score an outright win over the Windward Islands after dropping first innings points and despite a rain affected final day
From Calvin Roberts in Barbados
Compliments of: Ansa McAl, Cummings Electrical, P&P Insurance, Lifetime Realty, Cellular Plus and Hanes (Guyana) Limited
True champions show their mettle when the chips are down and Guyana’s under-19 cricketers did just that yesterday at the Combermere School ground in Barbados.
By Iana Seales
The comedy of Kirk Jardine can sometimes be strangely frightening, building from a tame flurry of one-liners and strengthening to pointed wisecracks often aimed at anyone within three inches of him, which is why his audience usually stays a reasonable distance away in designated safe zones.
A fine spell of spin bowling by Delvin Maynard (6-20) sent East Bank Demerara crashing to 80 all out and a 62-run defeat to Berbice in the final of the Republic Bank Right Start U-15 limited overs competition yesterday at the National Stadium at Pro-vidence.
Lusignan teenager Munesh Mangal is expected to undergo the country’s first kidney transplant surgery today at the Georgetown Public Hospital after years of living on dialysis.
More than lettuce
By Cynthia Nelson
Hi Everyone, It is summer time and in North America and Europe it means lots of outdoor grilling and eating of lots of salads.
-LTI and Kwakwani to meet in the final for second straight year
By Kiev Chesney
Defending champions Kwakwani will try to make it two in a row when they take on Orin Rose and the revenge-seeking Linden Technical Institute (LTI) in today’s final of 2008 Pepsi National Schools’ Basketball Festival.
Guyana players advance to second round
Zaheeda Samdally has been named skipper of a 13-member women’s cricket team to represent the country in the upcoming senior regional women’s cricket tournament to be held in Jamaica from August 3-16.
Fiona McPherson, whose body was found underneath her bed last Monday, died as a result of asphyxiation due to compression of the neck compounded by blunt trauma to the head, according to a police release.
Dear Editor,
It was unfortunate to see that two rebuttals to my recent comments – the latter rebuttal being more of a personal attack – were published by an entity that was not privileged to receive any of my comments previously published by the Guyana Chronicle and Stabroek News.
The UK government is hosting Caricom ministers at the sixth UK/Caribbean Minis-terial Forum in London from July 14-16 to discuss climate change, security and justice and other issues.
Zaheeda Samdally has been named skipper of a 13-member women’s cricket team to represent the country in the upcoming senior regional women’s cricket tournament to be held in Jamaica from August 3-16.
By Kiev Chesney
Though young stars Niall Roberts, Noelle Smith, Linden Wickham, and Ronaldo Rodrigues dominated their respective events the more experienced campaigners who graced the Dolphin Interclub swim meet which ended on Sunday at the Colgrain pool stole the honours on the day.
Dear Editor,
Mr Sheik Mustapha’s declaration that our “womenfolk are the epitome of immorality” (KN July 2) reminds me of an exchange between British Professor Richard Dawkins and a religious fundamentalist in Gaza.
To celebrate its first anniversary, Wildfire Production will host a “summer” jam at the National Stadium and a Chutney show in Berbice later this month.
The Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy says an article in the Stabroek News of July 10 on page 10 headlined `Health Minister defends NGPC purchases’ with the sub head `-but moving to also buy from overseas bodies’ gave the impression that all drugs and medical supplies are at present being procured from local companies.
By Kiev Chesney
Dr. Frank Anthony, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday morning officially declared open the fifth annual swim camp at Colgrain Pool.
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje and Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai are the two books that will be discussed when the Georgetown Book Club meets this month.
Since the beginning of this year, the United Kingdom has been gripped with what has now become a serious problem: a string of teen stabbings, which seems to indicate a rise in the recruitment of young people in gangs and a marked callousness in their dealings with rivals.
By Sara Bharrat
After months of deliberations in several courts, sedition accused Oliver Hinckson was granted bail yesterday by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the sum of $1 million on the charge of advocating the commission of a terrorist act.