Articles published on Wednesday, November 5, 2008
By Ayanna Blair A special constable told Stabroek News yesterday she pretended to be dead after being repeatedly stabbed by her husband who the police said later turned the knife on himself.
Minibus fares are expected to be reduced from Friday, Minister of Commerce Manniram Prashad has announced.
The boyfriend of the late Indranie Mahdoo, whose partly decomposed body was found last Wednesday in a canal at Cherry Field, LBI, was on Monday released on station bail.
Burchell Thompson, the driver of the lorry that was involved in the accident that claimed the lives of journalist Akila Jacobs and mini-bus driver Terrence Tappin was slapped with several fines and a five-month prison term after pleading guilty on all four charges.
Three of four men who are suspected to have carried out an armed robbery at the Texaco Service Station at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Monday night were arrested yesterday.
Police have arrested a man who splurged at the Baganara Island Resort last weekend after posing as the son of the recently appointed US Ambassador to Guyana, John Jones.
School of the Nations yesterday announced its purchase of the Woodbine Hotel, which will be renovated to house a school campus by early next year.
Following three days of aerial searches without luck in locating the US-registered plane that went missing over the Cuyuni area, Minister of Public Works & Communication Robeson Benn last evening announced that the search for the craft will from today be done mainly on the ground.
The PNCR in expressing sadness at the death of Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief David de Caires noted that in particular he will be remembered for his “fierce commitment to press freedom and his robust stance when the PPP/C Administration withdrew advertising from his newspaper.”
The already strained relations between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Stanford 20/20 organisation neared breaking point last night after a verbal broadside by the WICB on both Wes Hall, a Stanford 20/20 director and a one-time WICB president, and the Stanford group itself.
Federal agents in the US busted young Guyanese businessman and promoter, Ghalee Khan and another man identified as Danvor Griffith on Sunday after a cocaine drop was allegedly made at a New York location.
Wounded attacker held A policeman was shot in his foot yesterday at his Wortmanville home during a scuffle with two fake GPL meter readers one of whom also took a bullet in the melee and was later arrested.
The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club Monday evening honoured a long list of competitors who performed well at the final leg of the 2008 Caribbean Championships and also the local championships.
Dear Editor, I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief, Mr David de Caires.
An explosive ton from national opener Royston Crandon guided Mahendra Nagamootoo’s XI to a 33-run victory over Esaun Crandon’s XI when the first of three limited overs trial matches was played at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.
Dear Editor, How come that the failure of a temporary structure is blamed on persons using the said structure for its given purpose?
– A passion for periodicals David de Caires spent more than half of his life immersed in his passion for raising literary and intellectual standards in Guyana through reading.
With the ink barely dry on the historic maritime jurisdiction ruling by the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Guyana and Suriname are at it again, this time, following the October 14, 2008 seixure by Suriname navel vessels of the Lady Chanrda, a privately –owned Guyanese boat on the Corentyne River.
Dear Editor, David de Caires was a rare soul who worked to leave his world better than he found it.
– WICB President’s trophy commences November 13 For the first time ever, nine teams and over 144 players will be gathered in one country in the Caribbean for a first-class cricket tournament, when Guyana play host to the rest of the West Indies from November 13 to 23.
-traffic badly hit A weakened portion of a decking plate on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) gave way under the weight of a truck yesterday afternoon, ripping off the rear wheels of the vehicle, which collided with a car and left two persons injured.
Digicel donated five computers to the Guyana Prison Service in support of a Rotary Club of Demerara literacy and numeracy programme for prisoners.
This past Sunday the Harpy Eagles Karate Club, coached by Guyana’s most decorated sensei, Troy Bobb, kicked up a storm at the Little Diamond Martial Arts Academy’s Third National Open Karate Championships at the Diamond Community Centre Building East Bank Demerara.’
This essay – The Militia and its Parade Ground – has been extracted from James Rodway’s The Story of Georgetown.
Dear Editor, I do thank Captain REW Adams, MNI, for his response captioned, ‘Life jackets used in Guyana are not buoyancy aids,’ (GC November 4, 2008) to my letter titled ‘Buoyancy aids’ (SN October 27).
Dear Editor, I would like to extend my heartfelt condolences to family of Mr David de Caires and the staff of Stabroek News.
Dear Editor,On behalf of the entire family, friends and members of the basketball fraternity we would like to thank all the media houses, both print and electronic, especially Kaieteur News, for following our son Kevin Worrell’s demise during a basketball game on Burnham Court.
Mr President of the General Assembly, Mr Secretary General, Distinguished Represen-tatives Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Ministry of Agriculture has donated plant materials to the East La Penitence Primary School as part of its collaboration with the education ministry to reintroduce agriculture into the school system.
Dear Editor, My friend is a pensioner, a bottom-of-the-ladder NIS pensioner, and has been so for a few years.
Banks DIH Sports Club, Banks DIH and the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) on Monday honoured one of Guyana’s most decorated bodybuilders, Sylvan Gardner.Gardner
Guyana Review reports on a recent environmental conference in Manhattan which focuses on the creation of jobs that can help in the global fight against the potentially cataclysmic consequences of climate change As the global agenda becomes increasingly preoccupied with the issue of climate change and its likely implications for the quality of life on the planet, people the world over are seeking to fashion a multi-disciplinary response to the challenges posed by the threat of cataclysmic environmental change.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) mourns the passing of Calypso Monarch Vivian “VJ” Jordan even as it remembers him as a vibrant activist and candidate in the 2006 General and Regional Elections.
Following their successful showing at the North America West Indies Rugby Association (NAWIRA) Rugby World Cup 2009 Sevens qualifying tournament which was held in the Bahamas on October 25 and 26, the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) was presented with a $500,000 donation from the Edward B.
Dear Editor, I did not know David de Caires. I have never met the late Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News.
The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha distributed almost $2M in prizes at this year’s Deepavali motorcade.
Defending champion Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan and Phillip Squires won the ladies and men’s open singles title respectively, when the curtains came down on the Le Meridien Hotel sponsored 2008 Open Tennis championships Monday night at the Le Meridien tennis court.
Dear Editor, “As a superior power is naturally disposed to press ever harder on its subordinates, it is in our interest to work with the impulses of our masters and not to make any obstacle, so that very soon indeed we experience even harder commands − or is the opposite our interest,to wrestle with them, as far as we can, and to hold out to the point where we are completely [exhausted] … and by reminding them of these things, we can put a check on their impulse and to a degree curb the harshness of their authority, especially as up to now, at least…” Philopoimen, in Polybius,24.13 (Greek historian Polybius,168-146,B.C.).
As Dave Martins’s popular, patriotic ballad “Not A Blade of Grass” pervaded the airwaves to find acceptance as Guyana’s second national anthem, the sonorous slogan “Every Citizen a Soldier” signalled the establishment of the Guyana People’s Militia in December 1976.
The National Drainage & Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday signed $258M worth of contracts to facilitate improved drainage in various parts of the country.
The 27-year-old man accused of chopping his mother-in-law when she rebuked him for beating her daughter appeared at the Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court yesterday in relation to felonious wounding.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is profoundly sad at the passing of Guyana Publications Inc Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News David de Caires.
Defending men’s champions Old Fort stayed on course for championship honours when they scored a 2-1 win over Georgetown Cricket Club ‘A’ in the clash of the first division top teams as play in the GT&T sponsored National Indoor Championship hockey tournament continued Monday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
An eighteen-year-old boy who allegedly broke and entered the houses of three individuals and stole a quantity of items worth over $500, 000 was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Karate Federation joins with the rest of the sporting organizations to express our condolences to the family of the late David de Caires and to the staff of Stabroek News.
By Peter Fraser James started as a creative writer; here I shall concentrate on the literary stage of his career which ended in 1936 with his play Toussaint L’Ouverture, his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, concentrating on its qualities as a work of history, and then the three works that might be described as cultural studies: American Civilization, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, and Beyond A Boundary.
-court told A second man has been implicated in the alleged attempted murder of businessman Mohammed Baksh who was robbed and shot several times while in his yard.
Cabinet has offered its no objections to several contracts for infrastructural works including one for over $592M to effect immediate repairs to the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Dear Editor, I am deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Mr David de Caires, the founder of Stabroek News.
Two semi-final spots to be decided tonight Tonight action will continue at the Tucville Playfield in the Fruta Conquerors organized Namilco Football Festival Knockout Competition with the final two quarter-final matches to be contested in what is promised to be a thrilling double header.
(an extract from Schomburgk’s expedition to the interior. The work was translated from German by Walter E.
Last week’s press conferences and debates in the National Assembly on the motion calling on the government “to establish an impartial and independent commission of inquiry to examine and investigate the allegations of torture made against the Joint Services of Guyana,” among other things, degenerated into a display of dissimulation.
Chairman of Vision Guyana Peter Ramsaroop has announced that within two months the richest circle tennis (rounders) tournament in Guyana’s history will get underway.
Guyana Review examines the issues surrounding the decision by the Kashif and Shanghai Organization to depart from an 18-year old practice by shifting the Finals of its annual football tournament from the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground to the National Stadium at Providence The decision by the Kashif and Shanghai Organization to relocate the Finals of its 19th Annual Football Tournament from its customary venue, the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, to the National Stadium at Providence is the latest in a series of troublesome issues to descend on a sport already besieged by its own fair share of controversy.
Forty-two patients who left Guyana recently for Cuba under the Cuba/Venezuela ‘Mission Miracle’ programme are back home after having undergone surgery successfully.
Dear Editor, It was with shock that we received the news of the passing of Mr David de Caires.
A giant has fallen It is with deep sorrow this column notes the passing of a giant among us, David de Caires.
