Daily Archive: Monday, August 25, 2008

Brazilian Air Show http://www.youtube.com/v/d-huaHF1Wog

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott yesterday implored the region’s governments to resist prostituting themselves to foreign investors, warning that giving into tourism-fuelled gentrification would spell disaster.

Former president of the Guyana Pharmacists Association (GPA) Cecil Jacques was among three Guyanese pharmacists rewarded for their outstanding performance at the 28th annual Conference of the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP) held in Trinidad.

A review that the government is commissioning of the sugar industry will recommend corrective actions to be taken by GuySuCo to meet production forecasts and scrutinize areas such as the suitability and standard of current operations.

The Guyana Cancer Institute says 52 persons have died since it opened its doors in June 2006 and this is mainly because they sought out its services too late.

The Barbadian delegation treated the small but appreciative crowd that gathered in the Queen’s College auditorium on Saturday night to an impressive production of Kamau Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice.

A police constable is nursing a gunshot wound to his shoulder after he was accidentally shot while “joking and chatting” with a colleague on Saturday night in the barrack room at Timehri, a release from the police said yesterday.

A mother and daughter were on Saturday night robbed of $40,000 and other articles and documents by four gun-toting men in Corriverton.

The Joint Services yesterday advised owners of fishing boats and other vessels to “complete their activities on the waterways no later than 6pm… daily due to current activities being conducted on the waterways.”

Police who ventured into the Tamakay backlands in search of missing man, Mark Pierre have not come up with anything substantial to tell of his disappearance, the man’s brother Marvin told Stabroek News yesterday.

Festival City, built specifically to house the delegates of the first ever Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in 1972, came alive on Saturday night with cultural presentations from delegates from a number of countries.

Tickets are no longer required for CARIFESTA X venues excepting for the national stadium, the festival secretariat announced yesterday.

The country presentations, one of the livelier Carifesta activities, kicked off at the Sophia exhibition site on Saturday with stimulating performances from the Bahamas and Suriname.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has tasked the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh to explain to the media how to interpret the Auditor General’s report on government accounts, saying that there is a great deal of illiteracy in the treatment of financial matters.

Dear Editor, It must have been a blessing in disguise that Berbicians could not access tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies of Carifesta this past week, since the show, at least from my perspective, wasn’t anything much to have missed.

Raymond, the spray man, edutainment and more The youth aspect of the Carifesta X celebrations got underway on Saturday with a symposium on edutainment held at the International Convention Centre at Liliendaal.

The Suriname contingent yesterday presented several pieces of Maroon art to Guyana’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport at the Umana Yana.

If you build it, they will come. Two of the region’s biggest names in music, Rupee and Mr.

Dear Editor, It is now only a few weeks before the commencement of Amerindian Heritage month celebrations, and for the many Amerindian villages in the Rupununi this is a time when there are usually a number of cultural and sports competitions in anticipation of selection for the annual Regional Heritage and Sports Competition.

The rain could not hold back the large contingent of riders who took to the road this morning to take part in the Ocean View International Hotel 60-mile cycle race.

The Carifesta opening Photos and interviews by Melissa Charles This week we asked persons at the Carifesta opening their opinion of the ceremony.

It was a one-two finish Saturday for Guyanese athletes Lionel D’Andrade and Kelvin Johnson in the fourth series of the Kiss Company 5k races in Trinidad with  D’Andrade edging compatriot Johnson by the narrowest of margin for first place.

Dear Editor, As one of my friends said, it is “mind boggling” when one thinks about the scope, extent and outreach of the work that Mark Benschop and his foundation have accomplished in Guyana since his release from prison.

Carifesta: For whom? Nicholas Laughlin is the editor of The Caribbean Review of Books.

Guyana’s squash teams captured the overall team title when the curtain came down on the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Senior Squash championships Saturday night at the Georgetown Club courts.

The very painstaking work entailed by the house-to-house registration exercise has revealed the number of persons who were unable to register because they didn’t have the all-important birth certificate in their possession. 

Dear Editor, It is always good to be able to relax as often as we could and not to take ourselves too seriously all the time. I

Dear Editor, I take exception to the last sentence of Dr Melissa Ifill’s first paragraph in ‘History Today’ No.35/2008, SN, Aug 21, which refers to “…the reality that ethnicity was the dominant criteria used by the voting public.”