Daily Archive: Friday, November 21, 2008

Articles published on Friday, November 21, 2008

TAKING THE SALUTE! From left, PNC/R parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon, Regional Chairman of Region 10, Mortimer Mingo, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, and Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) president, Colwyn King, taking the salute of the athletes at the opening of the 48th annual National Schools, Track and Field, Athletics, Cycling and Swimming Championships at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground on Tuesday night. (Kizan Brumell photo)

King calls for an end to segregation in sports

– Jagdeo, Anthony fail to show; PM Hinds booed at opening ceremony By Rawle Toney President of the Guyana Teachers Union Colwyn King has called for an end to segregation in sports stating that all sports disciplines are not being treated equally.

Naomi Christie

Berbice girl tops CAPE over two-year period

– to receive associate degree from CXC Naomi Christie who attended the New Amsterdam Multi-lateral School (NAMS) has been confirmed as the top student of the country for the Caribbean Advanced Pro-ficiency Examinations (CAPE) for 2006 to 2008 and is elated at her achievements.

Jobs at regional tourist resorts are threatened by the looming economic crisis

The global economic crisis

Caribbean paying for ignoring its own food security, economic diversification plans – Lewis Local private sector, labour, voiceless in national response to crisis The looming regional economic crisis linked to the collapse of some of the key financial edifices in the United States can be traced directly to flawed political decision-making by Caribbean leaders who departed from agreed economic policy directions rooted in self-reliance that were mooted in the region “more than thirty years ago,” according to General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) Lincoln Lewis.

Time’s up for completion of the Fidelity/Customs fraud report!

It is now more than six months since President Bharrat Jagdeo gave the nation a personal undertaking that the alleged Fidelity/Customs fraud would be subjected to a thorough and transparent investigation and that insofar as allegations could be justified the parties involved – on both sides – would be made to answer under the law. 

USS Kearsarge Engineering Corpt

Guyana  awards: Members of the USS Kearsarge Engineering Corps who worked on the West Demerara Regional Hospital, proudly display the individual awards they received from the hospital community as a way of saying thanks.

Frankly Speaking A. Fenty

The enforcement ‘hustle’ – one reason for defiance, disorder… Simply put, I am submitting that the inability to enforce laws, by-laws, regulations and rules – enacted by a well-meaning parliament, court of law, church, company or club – is a major reason for the breakdown of good social order.

USS Kearsarge

Laughter, the best medicine? Commander of the United States Amphibious Assault Ship, the USS Kearsarge Fernandez Ponds (left, foreground) seems to have provided that for Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira (right) and Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (second, right) at a luncheon President Bharrat Jagdeo hosted for members of the medical and humanitarian mission ‘Operation Continuing Promise 2008’ at State House yesterday.

Esaun Crandon

GCB/Gafoors 20/20 Berbice zone

Crandon bowls RHTWSB to nail biting victory over Port Mourant -semifinals set for today National fast bowler Esaun Crandon guide Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) to a nail biting two-run victory over Port Mourant at the Area ‘H’ ground on Wednesday in a final quarter-final match of the Berbice zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Gafoors nationwide 20/20 first division competition.

Chairman of the PSC Captain Gerry Gouveia

More job creation can reduce dependence on charity, help end child labour – PSC Chairman

The acceleration of government programmes and private sector initiatives that create jobs for Guyanese who are equipped and prepared to do them can ease the pressure on charitable organizations and serve to direct more assistance to those individuals and families who are unable, for one reason or another to work for a living, according to Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Captain Gerry Gouveia.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 278’s trading results showed consideration of $2,605,758 from 50,124 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 277 which showed consideration of $5,717,168 from 43,445 shares traded in 12 transactions. 

The forgotten virtues of free trade

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History, Birkbeck College, Un-iversity of London, and author of Free Trade Nation by Frank Trentmann LONDON – “Laissez-faire,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently declared, “is finished.” 

No room for complacency

In Wednesday’s Project Syndicate column, ‘Connecting the solutions,’ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his “greatest concern… that today’s financial crisis [might] evolve[s] into tomorrow’s human crisis.”

Smiles all around

Smiles all around:  The US medical and humanitarian mission ‘Operation Continuing Promise 2008’ yesterday handed over completed construction works at the West Demerara Regional Hospital to Medical Superintendent Dr Yudistir Singh.