Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Articles published on Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Raphael Piggott

Clothes vendor murder

Cocaine found in fuel tank of car – police seeking friend In a dramatic twist of events, police yesterday unearthed eight kilogrammes of cocaine in the fuel tank of the car clothes vendor Raphael Piggott was driving when he was gunned down in Cummings Lodge on Saturday.

Operation ‘Continuing Promise’

US naval mission to renovate community centre, children’s home Deteriorating and fading into the shrubbery that surrounds it after more than two decades of service to the community, the East Ruimveldt Com-munity Centre will benefit from a facelift through a construction support programme initiated by the US Navy Ship, the USS Kearsarge.

 Charles Pollard

Mutiny against Klass as..

– entire Golden Jaguars retire amidst calls for Guyana Football Federation president Colin Klass to resignBy Rawle Toney Guyana’s national football team known as the Golden Jaguars yesterday moved their battle from the field to the office of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) with the members of the team which participated in the Group H matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup tournament in Trinidad retiring from the sport until president of the GFF Colin Klass steps down.

Dowlin, Smith expect team to do well

Captain and coach of the Guyana limited overs team Travis Dowlin and Albert Smith expect the team to do well when the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s Cup competition commences here from Thurs-day.

GT&T’s Marketing Officer Phaedra Cramer-Phillips presents the winning team trophy to the GCC captain while the other members of the team look on.

GCC men’s team dethrones Old Fort

Georgetown Cricket Club men’s first division team dethroned last year’s winners Old Fort while GCC women won the ladies’ title and Western Dragons the second division title when the curtain came down on the GT&T sponsored National Indoor Hockey championships Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Still no sign of missing aircraft

It was another day of searching for the Dynamic Aviation-owned Beech King Air aircraft that went missing more than a week ago but once again members of the search party came up empty-handed and will be back in the Cuyuni area today.

Each culture has its own dress code

Dear Editor, Is there an anti-tourism organisation in our country? I ask this because I saw an article in the press from a female writer complaining about how the Brazilian women coming to Guyana dress in revealing clothes, which is not the norm in our society.

Omission

Dear Editor, In your editorial of November 6, captioned ‘The Obama win,’ you mentioned several persons who were involved in the civil rights movement.

Better than cure

Another month, another meeting. Caricom’s Council for National Security and Law Enforcement, established only two years ago, has already chalked up seven meetings, the most recent being last week in Georgetown.

Recruitment agency under-used – Nadir

There is a call by Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir for employers and jobseekers to make better and more frequent use of the services of the Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency (CRMA), as it heads for another good year of performances.