Daily Archive: Monday, October 6, 2008

Articles published on Monday, October 6, 2008

Bursary awardees with senior army officers. Colonel Mark Phillips is seated third from left.

GDF presents 28 bursaries

Bursary awards were presented to 28 children of serving and deceased members of the Guyana Defence Force last Friday for being successful at the Secondary Schools Entrance Examination.

Basketball players and spectators mill around outside the hospital as the news of Worrell’s untimely death spread. (Lawrence Fanfair photo)

Tragic opening

– Basketball player collapses and dies during game on Burnham Court By Rawle Toney It was heralded as the return to competitive basketball at the outdoor Burnham Court by the newly-elected executives of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Associa-tion (GABA) but after the sudden death of 21-year-old Courts Pacesetters player Kevin Worrell yesterday the future of the GABA’s outdoor  basketball season was very much in doubt.

Juan Edghill

Religious broadcasters workshop to be held

-ethnic relations body wants to foster greater respect The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) will be hosting a special Religious Broadcasters’ Workshop to help foster greater respect and understanding of religious diversity in a multi-cultural society.

Hawley Harris

In The Diaspora

The high artfulness of Hawley Harris In tribute to Guyanese cartoonist Hawley Harris, who recently passed away, this week we carry an excerpt from a longer essay by Dr.

Vincent Alexander

Years after

Local gov’t reform still on slow road After nearly three months the task force on local government reform is yet to resume its work, putting the completion of key reforms on hold and ruling out long overdue polls this year.

What the US courts are exposing

As hard as the PPP/C government and its security apparatus have tried to pretend that drug trafficking and money laundering are being attacked frontally this fiction is being exposed week by week in the courts of New York.