Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Other suspect being grilled on timber cocaine shipment The deportee who it is believed mobilized the cocaine that was inserted into the dividers of cartons of pepper sauce turned himself into the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday and was intensely questioned.

-had run off to Suriname The doctor and his fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared on Saturday morning after leaving for the city, were yesterday equally mysteriously reunited with their families after a reported visit to neighbouring Suriname on Sunday.

Bee Hive stung by lack of help The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) began pumping water out from Dochfour on Monday afternoon and continued yesterday but other areas on the East Coast Demerara are still experiencing some amount of flooding.

A Barbadian who was stabbed during an armed robbery in late December succumbed to his wound on Sunday.

There is a shortage of kerosene oil in the country and some service stations in the city have been affected.

Following the announcement by President Bharrat  Jagdeo that  a canal would be dug to drain the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Atlantic Ocean, the Guyana Citizens’ Initiative (GCI) is calling for the government to urgently rehabilitate and reactivate the Cunha canal and sluice  on the East Bank of Demerara.

Water is currently being released through the Lama as well as the Maduni sluice and residents in the Mahaica Creek said while the level is rising slowly there flooding is “hitting” the Mahaicony and Abary Creeks even harder.

The National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC) has issued an urgent appeal for blood as currently it has a very low count of blood units in stock which puts lives at risk.

Another executive has stepped down from the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM), citing differences about its current direction.

-admits killing some in June A livestock farmer of Lovely Lass Village, West Berbice who is disgusted that dogs from the nearby Bush Lot village continue to kill his sheep, wants the mutts to be gotten rid of.

-prices double at city markets By Femi Harris The severe flooding of farming communities along the coast is affecting the supply of vegetables to the major city markets, where both vendors and consumers are paying more than double the price for what they say is sub-par produce.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh says the ministry intends to focus on continuous assessment at the primary level and he said results from a literacy drive had been very encouraging.

A batch of 18 medexes graduated on Monday and plans are in train to incorporate the programme in university education.

A 15-year-old cyclist was killed on Monday morning in a collision with a motor car.

Bartica students turned out in their numbers on Monday to their newly-built state-of-the-art $380M secondary school located at Three-Mile, Bartica-Potaro Road in Region Seven.

Stores have regular customers but Munian’s store also had a regular burglar – seven times in three months – and he was yesterday sentenced to three years jail after he was caught on tape in the act.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my profound gratitude to the Minister of Finance for the substantial increase of $300 on the Old Age Pension.

-GCB boss Singh tells national cricketers President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh yesterday urged the national cricket team to give of its best in the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four day competition and in the process, make the country proud.

“Is because I from Tiger Bay dat de police always accusing me whenever de store get a break-in,” a 26-year-old man told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Rohan Kanhai, Lance Gibbs and Clive Lloyd on their induction into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame as part of their centenary celebration.

President of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) and vice president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Alvin Johnson has put his ambition of becoming president of the GCB to rest for now.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson granted $85,000 bail to an immigration officer accused of forging a passport application form, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court last week Monday.

Dear Editor, I am flabbergasted by the comments of many Guy-anese, who responded to the article in the SN captioned, ‘Cocaine coming mainly via Venezuela.’

The Guyana Boxing Board of Control has sent condolences to the Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Sport Gary Hunt as a result of the untimely death of women’s World boxing champion Jizelle Salandy.

Dear Editor, True to form, Mr Robert Corbin, in his New Year’s address, threw in for sound effect a call for shared governance.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Friday granted bail in the sum of $30,000 to a 17-year-old boy charged with larceny.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton recently remanded to prison four men accused of robbing a woman of two silver chains at knife-point.

Wazim Hasnoo won the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) organized cycle road race, the first of its kind in Berbice for 2009, last Sunday.

On the face of it, 2009 arrives clouded with the grim realities of international disorder.

Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.

Haymwatie Sawh in front of one of her chicken pens in her flooded yard at Bee Hive.

Dear Editor, With every rainy season, more of our hardworking agricultural producers are dragged into poverty, thanks to a government which claims it cares.