Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

With just days left before Guyana hosts Carifesta X, the security forces have given all assurances that they are ready to ensure a safe environment for the ten-day mega event which will see thousands converging on the capital.

-referred to GPHC in serious condition Two men who sustained gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances on Sunday night at Aranka Landing up the Cuyuni River were yesterday transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

The squatters on the Lamaha Railway embankment who are being asked to relocate to facilitate Guyana Power and Light services have been assured of government financial assistance to move including free house lots.

An employee of the Mahaicony Rice Mills died yesterday after a boiler exploded and then crushed him.

The Joint Services yesterday descended on the East Coast Demerara village of Buxton and may have set up camps as part of increased security.

Police Commissioner, Henry Greene said yesterday that a suspect was arrested in connection with the loaded gun that was found on a Camp prisoner on Friday but has denied throwing the weapon over the prison wall.

Benn says matter cleared up Days after installing a back-up portable runway lights system, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was yesterday forced to delay some outgoing and incoming flights after sparking on some electrical wires caused disruptions to the radio frequency system.

Available research points to a number of gatherings of creative spirits in the region long before the genesis of CARIFESTA in 1972. 

The Culture Ministry and the Guyana Cultural Association say tribute will be paid to the late folklorist and cultural pioneer Wordsworth McAndrew at Carifesta X.

Houses of culture: Wooden cultural iconic edifices of Georgetown Francis Quamina Farrier reflects on three of Georgetown’s wooden buildings and their impact on the shaping of contemporary Guyanese culture.

Dear Editor, I hope all of Guyana is taking note of the Beijing Games and what is necessary for success.

-Kirton, Granger Academic, Dr Mark Kirton and former senior army official, David Granger have opined that Venezuela must renounce its spurious, longstanding claim to the Essequibo before any oil pipeline to Suriname is allowed over this country’s land.

At the start who would ever have thought that such a summit might be climbed?

Up to yesterday morning some 73 persons had made alternative arrangements to get their stranded children home from Cuba via the Jim Bacchus Travel Service though it was accused of botching the original bookings for 212 students.

Dear Editor, I read your very interesting editorial of Sunday, August 17, titled ‘Strategic mistake’ and was struck by the statement, “there was simply no logic to it.”

Written by Cara Dunn-Gibson (The poet lives in the Royal County of Berkshire, England) What I see in Guyana Is a coconut tree swinging in the wind It’s trunk, brown and mild like a newborn foal.

Dear Editor, I find interesting the discussions relating to democracy within the PPP.

Barrington Braithwaite’s The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree will be Guyana’s signal dramatic performance for Carifesta X, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has said.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is advising the public to ensure that refuse is disposed of in a lawful manner.

Dear Editor, The residents of Kingston, Georgetown, have been suffering from prolonged extremely low water pressure.

Andrea Rohlehr-McAdam was born and raised in Georgetown, Guyana. She lived there  until the age of sixteen after which she and her family relocated to Linden. 

Acceptance speech by Geoge Lamming on the occasion of the conferral of the Order Of The Caribbean Community At the opening of the 29th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community,1-4 July, 2008, Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda (edited copy) I acknowledge that this is a moment of self -congratulation and I hope you will not think me subversive if I  draw to your attention certain anxieties which I believe will also engage the attention of Professor Nettleford.

A 28-year-old actress who allegedly presented a forged CSEC certificate to the Ministry of Health was placed on $200,000 bail when she appear-ed before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Infrastructure work on the $140M National Ophthalmology Centre in Berbice is complete and installation of some equipment has started in order for operations to begin next month.

Dear Editor, There seems to be a disconnect between Guyanese behaviour and government attempts to build and maintain a measure of progress. 

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is spearheading the revision of the draft Caricom Standard-Code of Practice for the manufacturing of wooden craft items.

Dear Editor, I believe what we sow we ultimately reap. The USA embassy has been betrayed once too often by Guyanese who have been issued visas and I believe it has reached a point where it will not attribute any benefit of doubt to Guyanese applicants for B1/B2 visas.

Guyana’s Women cricket team narrowly lost to their Trinidad and Tobago counterparts on Sunday in a match of the West Indies Women’s tournament in St.

– Erva Giddings bags 5-25 CASTRIES, St Lucia,  CMC – St Lucia and West Indies captain Nadine George hit a stroke-filled unbeaten century to guide her team to a 24-run victory and hand defending champions Trinidad and Tobago their first loss of the West Indies Women’s Cham-pionship on Monday.

A 40-year-old man who allegedly stole a quantity of computer components valued just over $700,000 from various government departments was jailed for three years on one of the charges after pleading guilty yesterday.

Some festivals of the Caribbean All nations celebrate sacred or secular festivals of one sort or another.

I  did not  know Folklorist Wordsworth Mc Andrew personally.  I knew his narratives and later his poetry, especially his immortal’Old Higue’.

A taxi driver who allegedly kidnapped a woman  was remanded to prison on Wednesday when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The government and the United Nations Development Programme yesterday signed an agreement for the disbursement of a US$6.96M grant to a good governance project which would benefit youth and women substantially.

Dear Editor, The colourful advertisements for the El Dorado Chutney Masala rum giveaways are an insult to those women and men who have suffered as a result of the rum-drinking culture in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s accession to the top of the pile in the International Cricket Council’s best test batsman ratings takes its place beside CARIFESTA as a fitting tribute to the capacity of the Caribbean to achieve.

Dear Editor, Your Sunday editorial, ‘Strategic mistake,’ (August 17) that focused on the gamble by President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia in launching a military attack on the breakaway province of South Ossetia, and which triggered the massive military response from Russia, was on target because “since April the Russians have been baiting the Georgians with a series of incidents.”

Persons who turned up at the Carifesta Secretariat yesterday hoping to collect tickets for the upcoming arts festival were turned away empty-handed and told to return tomorrow instead.

Historian Tommy Payne reflects on the origins of the Caribbean Festival of Arts and the reverberation of the inaugural event across space and time The song released for CARIFESTA X embraces the sentiments of pride, responsibility and determination.

A 24-year-old man who allegedly stole over $1.6 million worth of electronics from his former place of employment was remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Dear Editor, Further to our letter in SN of August 12 (‘I don’t suggest revealing dress is the only reason for rape’), replying to Ms Chaudhury’s letter in SN of August 7 (‘Letter heaps scorn on the victims of rape’), we regret that our response was incomplete.

A minibus driver was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail for causing a chain of crashes when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

‘Restrictive’ corporate tax citedThe Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday launched its strategic plan calculated to strengthen the capacity of the body to service its members.

– need for more coaches, Development Officer says By Ravendra Kishore Territorial Development Offi-cer of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Colin Stuart says that there are many talented youngsters around who are rough diamonds in need of polishing.

Our revels now are ended.  These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And like the baseless fabric of this vision .

Dear Editor, In a letter to SN dated August 15, 2008 captioned ‘Mr Ramkarran has performed valuable service to the PPP and the country since 1992,’ the writer outlined the good work of this presidential candidate.

Carifesta… and so on By Ewalt Ainsworth Carifesta is about pan.

Hindus to put on cultural evening The Hindu community will present an evening of music, bhajans, kirtan and classical dances at the Providence stadium on August 27 as part of Carifesta X.

Civil society must not allow the serious debate on crime to be diluted by anecdote or to degenerate into sterile political badinage.

A DVD vendor who allegedly stole a gold bangle was placed on $100,000 bail when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.