Articles published on Sunday, January 18, 2009
Family made over 60 trips to US with large sums Peter Morgan, who is facing narcotics charges in the US, says the only reason he and his relatives travelled with large sums of foreign currency was because he benefited from favourable exchange rates using Guyana dollars to purchase forex which was then used to pay overseas suppliers of his company, Morgan Auto Sales.
-Youth Minister reveals One of the two major companies producing alcohol here will soon be introducing a “very active programme” to promote “sensible drinking,” according to Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony.
– cites personal embarrassment over party’s stance on EPA In a shocking move, Winston Murray yesterday announced his resignation as PNCR Chairman, saying that the party’s public departure from a position he took on the Economic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) has made it “impossible” to continue to hold the office with credibility.
Another taxi driver was attacked and robbed of his car and a number of other items on Friday night.
Ten-year-old girls should be going to school and enjoying their childhood.
A man who created a ruckus at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after it was alleged that he attempted to rob a patient using a fake gun was detained by police at the institution for being in possession of an unlawful weapon.
Change is coming in Cuba In the last week Cuba has hosted receptions around the world to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its socialist revolution.
What will happen to the region’s economy? In the space of a few months the bursting of the private housing market bubble in the United States has produced a world-wide credit crunch, financial crisis and economic recession, all of staggering proportions.
Attorney General Doodnauth Singh will vacate office at the end of the month.
Two cousins are counting their lucky stars after they barely escaped being crushed under a minibus.
We are lost without the right peopleOne man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.
Staggering increase in external debt Bad news The country’s stock of external public and publicly guaranteed debt rose by 20.3 per cent to US$804 million from the end of September 2007 to the end of September 2008.
In celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America, the Don Gomes establishment will hold a march of recognition on January 20.
‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive’It all seemed to be happening last week, in DC and beyond, and little of it was good.
Vector control workers attached to the Mayor and City Council’s Public Health Department have started an exercise in several Albouystown and Charlestown yards affected by flooding due to recent heavy rainfall.
President of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control (WICB) Dr.
The rebellion that erupted forty years ago on Thursday, January 2, in the Rupununi District has been the single most serious threat to the national security and territorial integrity of the state.
An excavator from MACORP that was been used by City Hall to effect drainage during the current heavy rainfall season has been vandalized, Mayor Hamilton Green said on Friday.
-Christian fighting to keep hopes of first innings points alive against CCC By Calvin Roberts@ 3W’s Oval, Barbados Compliments of: Carib-bean Airlines, GT&T, Igloo Ice-cream, Oasis Water, Noble House Sea-foods and Papi’s Supermar-ket A defiant, unbeaten innings of 47 from wicketkeeper Darwin Christian, coupled with solid starts from Narsingh Deonarine (49), Leon Johnson (41) and skipper Travis Dowlin (31) has left Guyana with a fighting chance of getting first innings points against the Combined campuses and Colleges (CCC) team at the end of the second day yesterday.
The Minister of Health has appointed five new members to the Dental Council of Guyana.
GPL was the most inconsiderate utility in 2008A New Year has begun and consumers are looking for improvements in their way of life.
Dear Editor, What an extrapolation Mr Rudi Grant makes in his letter to SN (16 Jan 09) that I was demeaning Eddy Grant’s music by a remark I made on a recent NCN interview with Wanita Huburn.
The Auditor General’s report into bribery allegations at the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) that is to be tabled in Parliament is yet to reach the National Assembly, and there is no word as to when this would be likely.
Harold Pinter: The renewer of English drama in the 20th centuryAt the end of the year 2008 Britain mourned at the death of one of the most dominant and influential English playwrights of the contemporary era.
The Auditor General’s report into bribery allegations at the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) that is to be tabled in Parliament is yet to reach the National Assembly, and there is no word as to when this would be likely.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a letter to the editor published in the Stabroek News of January 15, 2009, under the caption ‘The operations of the Public Relations Office of the Guyana Police Force should be reviewed.’
Cozier on Sunday It took less than an hour at McClean Park in Napier last Tuesday to, yet again, verify the schizophrenic character of the West Indies team.
In spite of the challenging economic year internationally, Banks DIH, for the first time in the company’s history, recorded in excess of $1billion in profit after taxes for the financial year of 2008, Banks DIH Chairman Clifford Reis announced yesterday as the company held its 53rd Annual General Meeting.
The news that incumbent president of the Athletic Association of Guyana would not be seeking re-election when that body stages its annual general meeting today came as a complete surprise.
Dear Editor, I recently read on the internet that, “Pitbulls are not made part of the human family but are like production machines.”
Sowing seed in seed traysIn the ‘olden days’ (I refer to the 1940s and ’50s) normal sized seeds were always sown in a standard seed tray made of wooden slats tacked together in such a way that moisture could drain from the base after the seedlings had been watered.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza last night.
Breast milk… best milk Part 2By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD (Paediatrics)We will be continuing from last week’s breast-feeding advice.
Dear Editor, Check Mates Chess Club was formed in October, 2008, by a group of young children from the environs of Albouystown.
Head of the Privatisation Unit Winston Brassington has denied that the Watooka House in Linden is being sold.
President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K. Juman Yassin is expected to meet with Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr.
Brothers, and former Queen’s College chess players, Dr Moti and Mahendra Ramgopal, sponsored the Junior segment of the 2008 National Chess Championships.
