Daily Archive: Thursday, August 14, 2008

Fire believed set by mentally ill patientThe Observation Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and other facilities were yesterday morning consumed by a fire allegedly set by a mentally ill patient. 

Grinding operations at the La Bonne Intention, Enmore, Rose Hall and Wales estates have been brought to a standstill after about 90% of the factory and field workers went on strike yesterday over wage-related grievances.

Barbados is lending Guyana 30 portable runway lights to facilitate night landings at the Cheddi Jagan Internationl Airport, Timehri by tomorrow while the engineers who installed the current lighting system are expected back to resolve the current problems.

Guyana’s first ever female drug rehabilitation centre was officially commissioned yesterday at a cost of over $20M at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

-US constitutional expert The biggest challenge to entrenching the rule of law is criminal justice, Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional expert told a US embassy-organised conference on security on Tuesday Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies of the Cato Institute and Editor in Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review made a presentation on “The Rule of Law” at the Civil–Military Relations Seminar which has been boycotted by the Guyana Government.

Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader Raphael Trotman says the life of the country’s first Executive President, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, had to be viewed in the context of the era he operated in.

-President tells returning scholars Scholars from various scholarship programmes received their certificates at a graduation ceremony yesterday and were urged to work towards the development of the country.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday handed over $10M  to the Carifesta Secretariat to be used for its edutainment symposium.  

Guyana Prize for Literature 2002 winner Ruel Johnson is set to launch his second publication Fictions at the upcoming mega arts festival – Carifesta.

Dear Editor, Sunday morning (Aug. 10), I was greeted by a most unsettling sight whilst travelling  along Homestretch Avenue at about 08.40 hrs.

-Niall face first test in 50m freestyle heats Guyana’s youngest participant in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games Niall Roberts, will be the first of four Guyanese athletes to compete at the games when he takes the pool for the heats of Men’s 50 metres freestyle at 6:43am today. 

GPL says the Sophia F5 Feeder tripped as a result of a damaged high voltage cable which caused the entire Demerara Interconnected System to shut down on Tuesday night at 7.58.

This is the final installment of the interview by Stabroek Sports’ Donald Duff of former president of the Georgetown Football Assoc-iation and president of Alpha United Odinga Lumumba on football related issues.

 Dear Editor,  I  notice that several persons  are demanding that the government invest millions of dollars in helicopters.

An intense shower last evening doused a fire which residents around the Lodge area said had been burning at the city landfill for the past two days.

Dear Editor,  I refer to the ‘Father and Son’ commercial produced by the USAID/GHARP which is often broadcast locally.

At a gala dinner ceremony Tuesday evening the Guyana women’s cricket team got their send off from the czars of cricket in Guyana, including President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh, Director of  Sport  Neil Kumar and others.

Police on the West Demerara are seeking a gunman who robbed the On-The-Go Service station at Nismes on Tuesday night while a 17-year-girl will shortly be charged for robbery under arms in a separate incident.

The Guyana Hockey Board has called up 28 players to resume training in preparation for the Junior Pan-American Hockey Championships to be held in October in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, Your editorial “Don’t criminalise children” (08.08.12)  is certainly a bold and necessary step if our people are to regain their confidence and respect in this region.

Dear Editor, Is this a taste of Carifesta? What a shambles – one can only hope things improve and fast!

Cornelia Ida battled their way to the top at the Leonora Jamaat ground this past Sunday to become the champions of the West Indian Sports Inter-Jamaat Softball Tournament which was organized by the Leonora Muslim Youth Organization (LMYO) in association with the Guyana Softball League (GSL).

Cricket action in Georgetown is set to resume on Saturday with the commencement of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Beharry Champion Products Cup sponsored 40 overs second division limited overs competition, along with the Neal and Massy (NM) first division limited overs competition.

Dear Editor,  At the recently concluded PPP Congress, of the 40-member policy-making body elected, only 5 were African-Guyanese.

– Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

Milerock and Silver Shattas Football Clubs have advanced to the next round of the Linden Invitational Football Tournament after recording victories over Netrockers and Winners Connections respectively at the McKenzie Sports Club ground Monday night.

Dear Editor,  I write in relation to the two most recent letters by Mr.

Rudolph Mitchell, Guyana’s racewalking champion chalked up his 78th consecutive local victory when he won the Clarence D.

CARIFESTA through the years, a brief glimpse of Burnham’s cultural legacyBy Lloyd F Kandasammy On 24 February 1970 a convention of Caribbean Writers and Artists at the Critchlow Labour College was hosted in Guyana under the chairmanship of the renowned national poet, the honourable Martin Carter, then Minister of Information and Culture.

Sex scandals are as old as Washington, what tends to make them interesting is the lengths to which the guilty parties go to create an effective cover-up.

Europe Caribbean Lines (ECL) has added the MV Beautriumph to its fleet of cargo vessels serving Guyana from Holland and the UK.

Dear Editor,  Mr. Learie Barclay proceeded to distort the facts in his letter captioned “This helicopter cannot carry a credible force and will be effectively limited to reconnaissance” (08.08.11) and included deliberate comments to embarrass the Government’s decision as the GDF Air Corps operates the low cost and proven law enforcement operated Bell 206 helicopters.