Daily Archive: Saturday, August 9, 2008

‘Legislation requires profound consideration’ The PNCR-1G and the AFC are opposing an extension of the parliamentary session for five bills which they say require careful analysis and for which no special reasons have been advanced by the government.

A 38-year-old businessman has been admitted a patient of the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Hospital after three gunmen opened fire on him as he was attempting to park his car in his yard on Thursday night.

Regional Executive Officer (REO) in Region Four Shafdar Ali says that he has issued a cease-order on all works for the filling of the trench along the northern side of the Railway Embankment obliquely opposite the NDC building at Plaisance.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to the Editorial entitled “The plight of Arau” in the Daily Stabroek News of Monday, August 4, 2008.

An arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday for two men suspected of murdering US missionaries Richard and Charlene Hicks, who were found dead in their South Rupununi home on March 30 just over three years ago.

Dear  Editor, I have been asked, “Harold, why haven’t you been formally invited to contribute one of your plays, or to make your input in Carifesta X as a novelist or something?

A new aquaculture hatchery at Mon Repos expected to produce over 200,000 fingerlings and a tilapia hatchery were on Thursday rededicated and commissioned respectively in memory of late agriculture minister Satyadeow Sawh.

A technical team is conducting some preliminary investigations into the collapse of a section of the Rupununi River Bridge and it will be repaired by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Aub Bakr captioned “Banwari is legendary” (08.08.08) Please read the other article that I have posted in respect of this subject.

Normally associated with the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, steel pan music has been an important feature of previous Carifesta celebrations.

Dear Editor, Iin addition to what Abu Bakr wrote about Banwaree bearing his chafe, I spoke to the son of an indentured immigrant who is over eighty and he informed me that Banwaree was one of the first immigrants from India and lived in what is now Albouystown.

The Enterprise youth, Dennis Richards,  who reportedly suffered a sound beating on Wednesday night and died early Thursday morning  succumbed to a brain haemorrhage and a fractured skull, a post-mortem examination revealed yesterday.

Dear  Editor, Al Haj Mujtaba Nasir declared in his  letter captioned “Western clothes dehumanize women into sex objects” (08.08.05)  “I fail completely to see the connection between orphaned and maimed Muslim children in Iraq and Afghanistan and homosexuality.

The Guyana Consumers’ Association has congratulated Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy on his election to the presidency of the World Health Assembly and hailed his successes.

Dear Editor , In his speech to mark Cancer Awareness Month in October 2005, Minister of Health, Dr.

A fuel vessel that was filling up at a gas station in Bartica tilted, spilling some diesel into the Essequibo River late yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, The roads and streets in the highly residential, contiguous areas of Republic Park, Nandy Park and Continental Park have long been neglected by the Eccles- Ramsburg NDC.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) says there is no sugar shortage and no increase in the price of sugar, in the wake of reports of rationing and overpricing of the commodity.

Dear Editor, I also live in the street in Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, where the attempted robbery of a goldsmith took place on July 29.

‘Dancing beyond boundaries’ is the theme under which the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s 14th Naya Zamana will be staged next Saturday night at the National Culture Centre with a cast of sixty male and female dancers.

Dear Editor, My 16 year old daughter Shanta Shakti who I want to get back was discovered missing from my home on Thursday (31.7.08) and the same day a report was made by me at the Aurora Police station.

A foetus thought to be around five months was yesterday morning discovered in a drain at West La Penitence, an area popularly called the `Island’.

Dear Editor, An opinion survey conducted in mid-July by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) has found that most respondents miss watching Sharma’s TV station which was suspended for a broadcasting infringement, and TV viewers eagerly look forward to the resumption of  programming. 

Police have a few tips that may lead to the recapture of Camp Street prisoner Shawn Yhap, a senior police source said yesterday, though no clues have been found indicating the whereabouts of escaped murder accused Trevor Major.

The ‘mirror’ truth Ever look in the mirror and realize that something about your face has changed; there are no wrinkles or lines but it is just different and you are left staring at the image before you wonder how much more it will change.

– offers himself as part of the solution Head Coach of the Golden Jaguars football team Trinidadian Jamaal Shabazz has refused to be drawn into the dispute between the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the Guyana Football Federation’s president Colin Klass.

Dear Editor, The government has taken a first step towards cleaning up the administrative mess it created when it entered into a MOU and incentive agreements with Queens Atlantic Investments Inc.

Was wife of senior functionary The Auditor General’s report on the public accounts for 2006 has highlighted a series of problems in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) including a case where the army hired three vehicles from a maid who happened to be the “wife of a senior functionary in its core”.

The Guyana Association of Legal Practitioners says that a letter written by Registrar of Lands, Juliet Sattaur and published in the press and which related to procedures at the Land Registry is inaccurate and in light of this, is calling for a full investigation.

It was there that the 2010 World Cup qualifying dream was ended.

As a young boy dreaming of becoming a pilot, Dean Jackson walked to his father’s store after school, scarcely giving a thought that in the future, rather than soaring above the earth, he would be working with precious minerals that came from under the ground.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Tuesday sentenced an Eccles man to four years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to cultivating a prohibited plant and having in his possession narcotics for the purposes of trafficking.

Dear Editor, I have read Mr. Bisnath’s letter captioned “Why chastise someone who is rescuing abused animals?”

With one more week remaining for the Jamzone ‘summer’ break, dubbed the “biggest event of the summer,” preparations are moving at a frenzied pace to ensure that fans are treated to a day (and night) that will be in their memories until next year’s event.

Dear Editor, It is with sadness that I have heard in South Africa, of the untimely death of Mr Abel, Chief Inspector of the GSPCA [Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ].

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Wednesday met with forestry stakeholders to address security concerns in the wake of the Lindo Creek murders.

Three first half goals propelled the Golden Jaguars to their first win at the National Stadium at Providence when the scored a resounding 3-0  win over  Dominca under floodlights last night in the first Group `B’ match of the Digicel Caribbean Championships (DCC).

Magistrate Nigel Hawke on Thursday remanded to prison a man accused of stealing almost $300,000 worth of jewellery.

Christians will get the opportunity to ‘P.A.R.T.Y’ tonight when the dancehallgospel.com

Dear Editor, I  congratulate the Ministry of Agriculture for all the hard work and new initiatives that are being undertaken almost every day to foster the development of agriculture in this country.

CLICO (Guyana) Ltd yesterday donated $4M towards the fireworks display at Carifesta.

-Keith Semple to be in action Former West Indies batsman Keith Semple will be among the past and present national cricketers in action today at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground in a feature 35-overs-a-side match between DCC and Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC).

Magistrate Nigel Hawke on Thursday remanded to prison a man accused of accosting a man and robbing him of his motor car and gold chain.

How will we remember China’s first time as host of the Olympics?

Dear Editor, The government has taken a first step towards cleaning up the administrative mess it created when it entered into a MOU and incentive agreements with Queens Atlantic Investments Inc.

Sprucing up the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday for Carifesta under the watchful eyes of Minister Clement Rohee (right).