Daily Archive: Monday, November 10, 2008

Men in two vehicles were involved in the murder of clothes vendor Raphael Piggott on Saturday in Cummings Lodge, another execution-style case.

It was another fruitless day for those searching for the missing Dynamic Aviation-owned Beech King Air aircraft and its three occupants even after a weak Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal was detected on Saturday.

Long lines of vehicles waited for hours to cross the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday, the commuters fuming at the long delay, which was due to maintenance work being done on the deteriorating structure.

Joy Martin was having breakfast in her David Rose Street, Bagotville, West Bank Deme-rara home when she heard children shouting that smoke was coming from the upper flat of the two-storey building early yesterday morning.

A carpenter who was stabbed with a putty knife on Thursday night around 10.30 at a construction site at Parafield, West Coast Demerara said that his attacker “sat and drink rum” while he was lying on the ground bleeding and then fled the scene early the following morning.

Dear Editor, With reference to the police operation to recover the GuySuCo payroll, this is indeed a time for congratulations to be conferred on our security forces, who have proven that it is possible to conduct an operation based on intelligence, coordination and bravery, resulting in the arrest of perpetrators of crime as well as to defend themselves when under attack.

A pedestrian, a motorcyclist and a pedal cyclist were taken for treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital after they were involved in separate accidents yesterday.

…as huge aviary remains a dream five years on A project funded by the Odense Municipality of Denmark to build a giant aviary for the harpy eagles at the Georgetown Zoo is still to materialize although more than five years have elapsed since the funds were provided for its construction.

Dear Editor, Recently posted in a blog is a picture of the deteriora-tion of the old New Amster-dam hospital.

Junior Niles gets birthday victory -Williams takes final stage as Holder regains junior title Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams out sprinted Gavin Nero to take the final stage but  Junior Niles won the senior and Christopher Holder the junior title when the curtain came down on the Ministry of Health (MOH)/ Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS)/Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) organized ‘Riding for Life 2’ event yesterday.

Dear Editor, According to Kaieteur News of November 2, 2008 (‘Illegal construction recommences in residential area’), despite the pleas of the residents in Subryanville over the construction of a three-storey commercial building in that residential area, and despite a ‘cease’ order by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to halt construction of the building, the developer has once again recommenced construction at the site.

In remembering the men and women who died in World Wars One and Two, Guyanese also recall others who have made sacrifices to the cause of freedom throughout the years, President Bharrat Jagdeo said at the Remembrance Day wreath laying ceremony at the cenotaph yesterday.

The final of the Namilco Football tournament scheduled for the National Stadium at Providence failed to come off yesterday following a decision by the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) not to show up.

Many Guyanese are walking, ticking time bombs because of the chronic non-communicable disease called hypertension for which serious complaints do not show up until years later.

Dear Editor, I have always avoided funerals as they brought back the painful memories of the death of my brother, grandmother, mother and godfather who I loved so dearly.

Dear Editor, “While the younger generation jumped up and down and cheered and shouted, the members of the older generation were overcome by deeper emotions…”  I could not help wondering if the media people were already taking the dust covers off the American mid-’70s TV mini-series about the uprooting of people from Africa to be sold and used as slaves in America − Roots by Alex Haley. 

Patrick Prashad, the most consistent golf player this season, won Saturday’s Dask Enterprise-sponsored Medal Play Golf tournament and looks set to be among the pre-tournament favourites for this weekend’s Guyana Open two-day championships.

Guyana and Jamaica on Friday clinched a one-year Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU) under which Kingston will purchase 60,000 tonnes of rice for 2009.

Says Eion Jardine The recent defeat by Gwendolyn O’Neil to Carlette Ewell which resulted in O’Neil losing her WIBA and WIBC light heavyweight titles should be placed  squarely at the feet of O’Neil’s manager Eon Peters.

Dear Editor, There is so much to rejoice about David de Caires’s life and work and so much about which to remember him.

The first batch of 17 youths from the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training Programme (YEST) who completed the eight-month course  in information technology and garment construction graduated last Thursday at a ceremony held at the centre in New Amsterdam.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars were eliminated yesterday from the Digicel Caribbean Cup football competition after a spirited fight which ended in a 1-1 draw with Trinidad’s Soca Warriors in their final Group H match.

Dear Editor, The presidential vote in the United States on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 was more than an expression of the constitutionally required quadrennial civil electoral exercise.

The Ministry of Health is preparing to send more Guyanese tomorrow to Cuba for eye surgery, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Dear Editor, I am certain that minibus fares will not be reduced to previous levels now that the price of fuel has dropped.

Changing venues for the K&S football finalWith interviews and photos by Cathy WilsonThis week we asked Lindeners about the loss of economic and other benefits in the light of the Kashif and Shanghai organisation’s decision to change the host venue of the Football Championships from the Mackenzie Sports Club ground to the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

Kuru Kuru Training centre with 85 games won the first leg of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport inter-department dominoes competition which was held recently.

Responding to the public outcry surrounding firecrackers during the observance of Diwali President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on the judiciary to view the issue more seriously and to hand down the maximum penalty in cases where people are found guilty.

Several students residing in the female dormitory of the Santa Rosa Secondary School, Moruka, North West District, have been hospitalized with a mysterious illness.

If America can elect a Black President, why can’t Caricom nations agree to pool their sovereignty?

The police must be commended for the retrieval of the $17M GuySuCo payroll which was snatched on Thursday and the capture of some of the suspected perpetrators.

A twenty-six-year-old man who allegedly robbed a woman at gunpoint of a gold chain and another who robbed a man at knifepoint of a quantity of items were both remanded to prison on Friday  when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the George-town Magistrate’s Court.

The annual Mayor’s Cup seven-a-side football competition for Inter-Ward/Street/Village teams is scheduled to commence shortly in honour of Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green who celebrated his 74th birthday yesterday.

Dear Editor, Free media, independent of government influence, are at the heart of a vibrant, open, well-functioning democracy.