Daily Archive: Friday, August 22, 2008

Anthony: ‘This is our moment and we are ready’ By Iana SealesCarifesta’s return to Guyana has been talked about for 36 years and today an opening ceremony befitting the magnitude of the moment has been promised at the Providence Stadium with a diverse group of performers accompanied by parachuting and pyrotechnics.

Dear Editor, The decision to allow free access to all venues where events are being held is incredible. 

Anna Regina boy CSEC star Nazana Weekes and Robert Mansell, both of Queen’s College, have been named top Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and General Certificate of Education Examination (GCE) students respectively while Rahul Neehal Lall of Anna Regina Multilateral is unofficially the top Caribbean Secondary Certificate Examination (CSEC) student.

The PNCR leadership will not take part in any State-sponsored or ceremonial event for Carifesta X so as to ensure that no credibility or legitimacy is lent to the present activities of the PPP/C administration, the party said in a release issued yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to commend the authorities for clearing the trench parallel to the Success Public Road, following my recent letter in the Stabroek News.

Although the male and female individual titles have already been won by Shawn Simpson of Barbados and Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes, the team component of the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships was officially opened yesterday.

Persons who would have turned up yesterday at the various ticket distributing venues in the hope of obtaining tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies would have left those venues disappointed.

Dear Editor, When the Government of Guyana pulled government ads from the Stabroek News two years ago, they indicated that this decision was based on economic grounds.

Guyana will be receiving support from regional neighbours in the form of surveillance aircraft which will be flying over parts of the country during the ten-day Carifesta.

Dear Editor,Over the years there has been talk about setting up a law school in Guyana, and the government was said to be looking for a suitable place to house this school.

Strategic Plan to target tax reform A new four-year Strategic and Opera-tional Plan unveiled by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Wednesday lists the formal screening of membership applications to seek to determine possible links between businesses and drugs, money-laundering and counterfeit goods.

A responsible innings by captain Dexter Solomon (56, 2×4) guided Georgetown under-17 to a crushing 103 runs victory over their East Coast counterparts as action in the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/ Gizmos and Gadgets/GT&T sponsored Inter-Association under-17 limited overs competition commenced yesterday.

Controversy may be brewing between the Government of Guyana and the four private aircraft owners comprising Ogle Airport Inc following a decision by cabinet which threatens to further delay the creation of Guyana’s second international airport.

Thirteen cards containing a total of 300 grammes of cocaine were yesterday discovered at the Guyana Post Office Corporation during two routine checks by officials from CANU, Customs and the post office.

An all-round performance from Guyana/Stanford Twenty20 star Dion Ferrier, enabled Dutch Fort to come out on top over Lusignan Sports Club (LSC) in the final of the fifth Annual Asgar Ally Memorial Twenty20 competition held last Sunday at the Dutch Fort ground.

Dear Editor, The world community seems to favour Democratic Senator Barack Obama over Republican Senator John McCain for the US presidency. 

By Andre Griffith Last week we looked briefly at what is commonly referred to locally as the ICT sector. 

Local cyclists will again be showcasing their abilities when they pedal up the road Sunday in the Ocean View International 60-mile cycle road race organized by national cycling coach Hassan Mohammed from 07:30hrs.

Dear Editor,In relation to an appointment, I paid my second visit to the Eye Clinic of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Kei-Shar’s has donated free uniforms and other school kit to more than 100 students at the Sophia Primary School.

Lower Corentyne drew first blood from Upper Corentyne, thanks to Guyana under-15 left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie who had a first innings haul of four wickets.

Dear Editor, Like Vidyaratha Kissoon, I too am dismayed and shocked that Guyana has made it official that alcohol is part of our culture by having an official beer and an official rum as part of our cultural presentation to the world.

– A Stabroek Business Column dedicated to the ventilation of ideas pertaining to the current global food crisis and the response by Guyana and the Caribbean The current national focus on agro-industrial development as a response to the global and worsening food crisis must, of necessity in the upper Berbice River, take account of the Intermediate Savannahs.

The opposition PNCR yesterday flayed the government for US$10M ($2B) worth of drug and medical supplies purchases in 2005, 2006 which it charged were not in compliance with the procurement law.

East Coast project seeks to heal social wounds, boost business A collaborative effort involving the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Guyana Small Business Association (GSBA) has extended support to twenty-seven micro businesses in four communities along the lower East Coast corridor under what the UNDP says is its “Building Trust” fast track initiative to enhance community livelihoods.

Several persons were taken into custody following a daring mid-day robbery at a cambio and clothing store at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne yesterday where three men armed with handguns escaped with around $8.3M in local and foreign currency.

Dear Editor, ‘The price is right’ is one of the few American shows I watch.

GFC dusts aside Santos The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) on Wednesday gained its second victory of the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Chubby Under-14 round robin Competition when they defeated Santos Football Club at the Tucville Playfield on Day Two of the tournament.

The first of ten ‘interpretive heritage’ markers to give snippets of information on the historical background and general significance of the site was yesterday unveiled on the lawns of the High Court.

Bike constables: The City Constabulary yesterday launched its bike patrol squad.

Almost fifty titles, including fiction and non-fiction works by several of the regions leading writers, will debut at CARIFESTA.

Last week Thursday, Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago used the opportunity of an official visit by the new Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas, to invite the leaders of St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to join them for discussions on deeper integration among those four countries.

–court hears A 40-year-old immigration officer was placed on $250,000 bail when she appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of forgery and corrupt transaction by a government agent.

Dear Editor, I was born in Guyana to Carmen Bess and John Emanuel Nestor, and was raised here. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 265’s trading results showed consideration of $2,285,327 from 218,596 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 264 which showed consideration of $1,314,985 from 40,391 shares traded in 8 transactions. 

The Guyana Cricket Umpires Council (GCUC) now has six new faces added to its ranks following their successful participation at their preliminary examinations held earlier this year.

Up until now the Four Year Strategic and Operational Plan ‘rolled out’ by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) last Wednesday is exactly what it says it is – a Plan, an ambitious and forward-looking Plan but a Plan, nonetheless; a work in progress.

Welcome Caribbean, to Celegacy To the usual, to the different “Celegacy?”