Daily Archive: Thursday, August 7, 2008

A 19-year-old guard attached to the MMC Security Force died last night after allegedly shooting himself at the company’s Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara headquarters just as he was about to go out on patrol.

One hundred children from the villages of Friendship and Buxton are benefitting from a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) sponsored three-week summer camp that would see them being taught life skills and computer techniques with drama and sports also thrown in.

A youth and a mentally ill man took their lives yesterday morning by hanging.

An explosion on board the Guyana Defence Force patrol boat Barracuda at the weekend  has left one of its ranks treating first and second degree burns to his face  and upper body in the Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will soon decide if charges will be laid against any prison officer for the death of Camp Street prisoner Edwin Niles who was allegedly beaten after he was found with ammunition in his pants pocket last month.

Just over a month after giving the assurance that Guyana’s most wanted, Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins was trapped in the jungle and would be caught, Acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene yesterday declined to pronounce on the fugitive’s possible whereabouts.

Thirty-nine Cuban scholarship graduates including 20 engineers returned to the country yesterday.

-GHRA tells UN expert on minority affairs The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says that many societal issues would be better handled if the institutions of the state are more vigorous and it has raised this concern with United Nations Expert on Minority Issues, Gay McDougall.

Following a complaint by a parent, the Ministry of Education yesterday said that the blood type of a student doesn’t have to be disclosed before admission to a school.

Bandits early yesterday morning stole the car of Jaipaul Sharma after he left a birthday party on Robb Street.

Defending Caribbean men’s darts singles champion Norman Madhoo failed to defend his title at the 17th Caribbean Darts Championships held recently in Trinidad and Tobago.

-says Shabazz No one  what knows yet what will be the composition of the Golden Jaguars football team which will compete in Group `B’ matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament starting tomorrow at the National Stadium at Providence.

List of top 100 Caribbean books to be compiled So far, fifteen writers from abroad including Nobel Prize Winner Derek Walcott have confirmed their attendance for various aspects of Carifesta, according to Petamber Persaud, Head of the Sub-committee in charge of Literary Arts.

Greene: ‘This will reduce the time spent on the telephone, sending messages and information.

Dear Editor, I write this letter not only as a concerned resident of Williamsburg, but also out of concern for the health of senior citizens like my 70-year-old mother.

A tired but determined looking Suriname national football team arrived in Guyana yesterday afternoon to do battle in the Digicel Caribbean Championships which is now scheduled to commence tomorrow night at the Guyana National Stadium, Provi-dence.

Man-of-the-match performances from Guyana Stanford Twenty20 player Christopher Barnwell and Papamen’s Kitchen Comets’ David Livingston stole the spotlight in the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) centennial celebration tri-team 20/20 competition played at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground Tuesday night.

Dear Editor, I was at a function on Tuesday evening and during the course of ‘cocktail chatter’ took the opportunity to inform a group of influential Americans, including the editor of a major cultural publication, about Carifesta X and the fact that my country of birth is the proud host of this significant event for the second time.

Following the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry into operations at City Hall economist Keith Burrowes and five of six members of the panel were sworn in by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall on Tuesday.

Farmers in regions two and three have reported a moderate incidence of blast disease in their fields, a press release from the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) said yesterday.

The Guyana Amateur Swim-ming Association (GASA) is in its final stage of preparation for the 2008 Goodwill Swimming Championship which is to be held at the Castellani Pool from August 15-17.

Dear Editor, It was extremely shocking to see the letter written by the executive of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) chastising Ms Syeada Manbodh.

Dear Editor, Your Sunday Business columnist Mr Christopher Ram has provided an invaluable public service through his analysis of the divestment of the Sanata complex and the accompanying investment concessions offered to the investor.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development on Tuesday donated a brush cutter to Shulinab Village, Region Nine.

The Annual Wheat Up cycling road race sponsored by the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) will take place on Sunday starting at 08:00 hours.

Dear Editor, In the week following my letter to your newspaper (‘Passengers frequently refuse to obey the instructions of flight attendants’ 18.7.08) with my comments on the Delta Airline incident on July 4, 2008, a more serious happening occurred over Austria in similar circumstances.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will be represented by a four-member team at this week-end’s Puerto Rico International tournament.

The organization that started the National Youth Parliament yesterday launched a programme aimed at preventing youth crimes.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on Friday opened a one-month exhibition at the Museum of African Heritage to honour renowned local artist Phillip Moore for his contribution to African culture in Guyana.

By Ravendra Kishore First vice-president of the Georgetown Football Associa-tion (GFA) Wayne Forde has joined the chorus of persons calling for the resignation of Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president Colin Klass.

When the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) staged their National Intermediate Weightlifting Championship last Sunday, Sean Cozier, Marvis Williams and Fazim Abdool stole the show at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is not prepared to embrace the political declaration of the PPP on party relations until it sees a change in the attitude of the party in which there is less talk and more action on dealing with security issues.

Dear Editor, When Harold Bascom asked the question, “Who was Banwari?”

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says party officials met with the Commissioner of Police (ag) Henry Greene on Tuesday to discuss the “maddening” traffic situation during sittings of Parliament.

President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Troy Mendonca said yesterday he vividly recalled eating rice flour as a member of the national team during Colin Klass’s tenure as head of the governing body for football in Guyana.

Summer Travel Installment Sixty Two Q: How can I prepare accordingly for summer travel to the United States?

Dear Editor, The more I read Mr Mujtaba Nasir’s misogynistic diatribe entitled, ‘Western clothes dehumanize women into sex objects’ (SN 4.8.08) in which he purports to speak for Muslim women, the more dismayed I am at the fact that such a letter was even published.  

Berbice River farmers are moving away from traditional farming and delving into harvesting the heart-of-palm fruit and crabwood seed oil production as an alternative source of income as continual rainfall and flooding prevent them from cultivating their lands.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to our Shivnarine Chanderpaul on his rise to the top of the world ratings.

Two men, who were allegedly involved in the stealing of a quantity of fuel from Rusal Bauxite Company, were each granted bail in the sum of $75,000 when they appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

– Football fanatics of the Upper Level Barber Shop join the plea for GFF president Colin Klass to resign; suggest Mendonca, Cadogan and Archer as possible replacements By Kiev Chesney Barber shops have always been known as one of the most informed and reliable sources of information in society as well as a place where one can be advised on their social relationships and debate politics and sports.

Dear Editor, Some things in life are difficult to fathom. The way our law and order functions is definitely one of them, and finding a reason why some people in a position of authority do what they do is another.

The significance of the decision to recognise ‘security’ as the fourth pillar of the Caribbean Community, taken by Caricom Heads of Government at their inter-sessional meeting in St Vincent and The Grenadines in February last year,  seems still not to have been fully recognised in this insecure country.

The impact of abolition and apprenticeship on female slaves and apprentices (Part 2) Introduction In the previous article, the paradoxical consequences for women of the abolition act of 1807 were examined.