Daily Archive: Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Articles published on Wednesday, November 26, 2008

GPL arrests

Over 110 held over electricity theft One hundred and ten persons have been arrested for electricity theft following raids by the power company in several areas over the last two weeks.

New aircraft joins search for missing plane, men

An aircraft equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology which appears to be able to map the terrain below the jungle canopy has joined the search and rescue operation for the US registered plane that went missing almost a month ago in the Cuyuni area.

It’s all wrong here

Visa problems ground West Indies players;WICB hastens to explain delay       Nothing  is ever quite like it seems with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Violence against women now a disease

– GUYWID Violence against women has become a disease similar to cancer and HIV for which there seems to be no cure, the Guyanese Women Development (GUYWID) organisation has said while stressing that violence against women weakens, and, to an extent, destroys the social fabric which keeps humans together.

The sugar workers’ award is not ‘fair and reasonable’

Dear Editor, With reference to the arbitration tribunal in the sugar wages dispute, why did GAWU did not object to Dr Gobind Ganga being the chairman of the tribunal, when they knew full well that this gentleman is the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Guyana and the determination and management of the fiscal and monetary policies of this country fall under his portfolio?

Will the euro survive the current crisis?

By Martin Feldstein – Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard, was formerly Chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors and President of the National Bureau for EconomicCAMBRIDGE – The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the euro are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Disarray in the Congo

The current conflict in the Congo with an invasion led by one General Nkunda, is just the most recent example of the continuing strife in that country, officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since it became independent in 1960, in the wave of independence of African states that started with the transformation of the Gold Coast into Ghana in 1957.

DMW hockey…

Ladies group promises to be a scorcher   The ladies competition in this year’s Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival promises to be very exciting as defending champions Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will be going all out to retain their title against tough opposition when the tournament bullies off tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.