Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

-Jagdeo tells UN General Assembly President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told the UN that vulnerable economies like Guyana will suffer from the crisis gripping financial markets and he assailed the EU over its proposed trade pact which this country has opposed and lobbied for climate change help.

-latest Transparency International survey Guyana still ranks among the most corrupt countries, slipping three places on the Transparency International (TI) 2008 Corruption Percep-tion Index (CPI) released yesterday.

One charged with attempted murder An 18-year-old university student from Berbice narrowly escaped being raped and murdered by two attackers last week but has lost her thumb in the process.

Over 40 calls were made in August from the cellular phone that Dax Arokium had in his possession when he and seven others were slaughtered at the Lindo Creek mining camp, records seen by this newspaper reveal.

A suspect in Monday night’s stabbing to death of a West Ruimveldt businessman, yesterday turned himself in to police and is currently assisting with investigations.

A radiant glow of gratitude shines on the face of Ovena Braithwaite as she fixes a calendar on the wall of her new home.

-Santa Rosa school PTA head Chairman of the Santa Rosa Primary School Parent-Teachers’ Association (PTA), Mark Atkinson, yesterday said that his body would accept donations from the Alliance For Change (AFC) and any other organisation or individual towards the building of sanitary blocks at the school.

Equipment for value-added products, marketing help needed The need for assistance with marketing and accessing equipment to turn out finished products were among the issues aired when the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion (GFC) held a consultation on Monday with representatives of Amerindian communities involved in logging.

Air quality test completed, ministry awaiting results Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, said on Monday that his ministry was awaiting the results of an air quality test done at the University of Guyana and once it signals that the air is free of asbestos, staff members would return to the institution and classes would resume.

Sections of Linden have been faced with serious water problems over the past weeks with no official explanation from Guyana Water Inc (GWI).

Nineteen mining blocks in various parts of the country were yesterday awarded by the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission.  

– Final to be played under floodlights at Providence Stadium The highly-anticipated El Dorado limited-overs Inter-County round-robin competition got off the ground yesterday at a launch held in the boardroom of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Regent Street.

The prices of bread and biscuits will climb in another few days as the local market re-adjusts to flour prices that had been previously subsidised by the government.

Football fans on the East Coast and possibly Georgetown can brace themselves for some breath-taking football action tomorrow evening as East Coast Demerara power-houses Victoria Kings and Bakewell Buxton Stars collide from 18:00 hrs while Plaisance United will battle with Buxton United at 20:00hrs at the Plaisance Community Centre ground.

The junior selection panel of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has shortlisted 20 young players following three trial matches held at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground last week in preparation for the regional Under-17 tournament which is being sponsored and hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control some time later this year.

aMinister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud on Monday met with a Brazilian delegation at his ministry and it was subsequently disclosed that he will be addressing an international biofuels conference scheduled for November in Brazil.

Dear Editor, For one to know how the Commonwealth Youth Games came about, you must first understand the story of the Commonwealth Games.

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) is calling on the authorities to review the security arrangements currently in place for nurses across the country in the wake of the attack on two of them at Wismar hospital.

Dear Editor, I was mesmerized when I read an interview with Mr Colin Klass, President of the GFF and a sports reporter.

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr Ian McDonald’s column, ‘Ian On Sunday’ in Sunday Stabroek, September 21.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is refuting claims by police that union leader Lincoln Lewis has gone into hiding after unknown men terrorised him at his Cummings Lodge home.

The Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League continues this Friday, September 26 at the Tucville Playfield with another intriguing double-header which was postponed last weekend.

Dear Editor, Before Sudanese military officials were politely asked to leave Chad in 2005 (the Chadian government having accused their Sudanese counterparts of supporting rebels in the Chad’s restive east); their favourite hang-out spot was the Sudanese Club in Abeche, a town close to Chad’s eastern border with Darfur. 

The reconstituted National Mashramani Management Committee held its first meeting on Monday and has fixed the official launch of Mashramani 2009 for Friday, October 3.

A security guard on an unlawful wounding charge yesterday told a court that he was the real victim.

A Malaysian man was killed yesterday after he was crushed by a tree at an unknown interior location while he and other employees of the Jailing Forest Industries were working on a concession.

Dear Editor, I have noticed recently the Alliance For Change (AFC) as well as the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Region Four administration chairman has been clamouring for cheap publicity.

The best of New York’s young cricketers will match skills in honour of a son of Port Mourant in the annual Harry Sundar Memorial cricket match set for Saturday in Queens.

.Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court remanded to prison a mechanic who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a young girl.

Dear Editor, One of the explanations given for the delay in commissioning the Skeldon Plant is reported to be the failure of the mechanism that lifts the entire punt and its contents.

The planned Fast bowling Clinic organized by the Guyana Cricket Board in collaboration with the `Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation (RPSF) which was scheduled to commence yesterday and end tomorrow has been postponed.

Deputy Mayor Robert Williams said Monday that the fire at the Princes Street dump could have been contained since the end of June, but reluctant workers led to the escalation of the situation.

Woman refused to let go of her bag Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday sentenced a man to eighteen months in prison for attempting to steal a $10,000 shoulder bag from a woman.

A 22-year-old woman was stabbed in her abdomen during a squabble with another woman at Haslington, East Coast Demerara yesterday afternoon.

The Oasis Too Café will be the venue for Saturday’s staging of the Trophy Stall/Oasis Café annual Junior Chess Tournament.

Dear Editor, Today, we are entering a phase of profound social, political and economic uncertainty and there is increasing separateness among the various races.

Events in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue to resonate in the world at large, and certainly in United States diplomacy.

Alleges he was beaten with law book A 23-year-old man who allegedly had seven grammes of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.