Daily Archive: Thursday, January 29, 2009

Thirty-nine officer cadets were appointed ensigns during a ceremonial parade yesterday, after conquering the rigorous training of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Standard Officers Course (SOC) 41 over the last nine months.

An inmate of the Georgetown Prison, who was found guilty of killing his son and sentenced to 20 years in prison was up to last night in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after an apparent suicide attempt.

– Nadir blames poor management Local credit unions have fallen on hard times and the Labour Ministry has ordered audits as part of new measures to resuscitate several of them.

Former president of India Ramaswamy Venkataraman died on Tuesday. He was 98 years old.

The Kidney Transplant Team will be conducting a clinic this Saturday at the Surgical Out Patient Department Clinic area at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

The police are looking for Marlon Ganesh in connection with the murder of Roopnarine Singh who is also known as ‘Kumar’.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will not be immediately enforcing penalties for those persons who file late tax returns.

– DNA testing not a present option While investigators still search for a breakthrough in the murder of Shenese Richardson-Austin, who was fatally stabbed during a home invasion last month, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has ruled out DNA testing as an option for the police at the moment.

Evidence of a crisis at the level of the leadership of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R, the main political opposition to the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has given rise to healthy speculation among political watchers about the future of the party and a fair measure of disquiet among party members.

– arrest warrants issued for two others One of the three men charged with the theft of a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc transformer appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court, and was subsequently remanded.

By Analyst Is the People’s National Congress dying? The party passed its 50th birthday quietly 15 months ago in October 2007 amid anxieties over its future.

Was Guyana a safer place in 2008? The answer depends on how the impact of the momentous events that occurred during the year is measured.

Republic Banks has made a number of senior appointments recently. In a press release the bank said Patricia Plummer was appointed Senior Manager, Corporate and Management Services effective January 1.

CARICOM Incoming Chairman’s New Year Address 2009 Honourable Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize As Prime Minister of Belize I have, on January 1, 2009, assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community for the next six months. 

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jungao lauded the friendly relations between Guyana and China at a celebration hosted to mark the Chinese Spring Festival or the New Year.

Mastermind arrested, pays out refunds – past scheme comes to light Nandranie Kissoon, the alleged mastermind of a massive fraud operated under cover of the Inter-American Nursing School, remained in police custody up to late yesterday afternoon and is expected to be levelled with a series of charges.

What’s next for our creative sector? By Josanne Leonard Reprinted from the Trinidad and Tobago Review It’s now three months since the controversial CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was signed in Bridgetown, Barbados.

The Analyst Food and Drug Department urges all food importers, owners of food storage, manufacturers and owners of repacking bonds to ensure that their premises are inspected and licensed for the year.

A 47-year-old father of three yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge of indecent assault when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court.

Guyanese have met the Million Mile Challenge which was issued to them by the Ministry of Health in December 2007.

Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand will today introduce two bills in the National Assembly to overhaul the laws governing the legal status of children and adoptions.

Charles Tannock is UK Conser-vative Foreign Affairs Spokes-man in the European Parliament and led the EU parliamentary delegation of election observers to the recent Bangladesh elections.

Dear Editor, We the farmers who have attached our signatures below are peeved about some concerns which are seriously affecting us.

A 63-year-old differently-abled woman is grateful that she has survived a vicious attack by two dogs on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to read so many positive comments about Barack Obama’s election and swearing in as America’s President in the Guyana papers. 

Cedric L Joseph, The British West Indies Regiment, 1914-1918. Georgetown: Free Press, 2008.

The police are hunting for a man who allegedly gave photo albums containing cocaine to a female Delta Airlines passenger and subsequently disappeared.

A 31-year-old man of 36 East Ruimveldt yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault causing actual bodily harm when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– at GRFU appreciation  ceremony for sponsors By Kizan Brumell CEO of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Ltd, (GT&T) Retired Major General Joe Singh has commended the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and committed his company’s support once more to the organization.

Local law men are in contact with their Canadian counterparts in connection with the over $200 million fraud that was uncovered at Republic Bank Guyana late last year.

– at GRFU appreciation  ceremony for sponsors By Kizan Brumell CEO of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Ltd, (GT&T) Retired Major General Joe Singh has commended the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and committed his company’s support once more to the organization.

Guyana Review Editor Arnon Adams talks to 2006 Guyana Prize for Literature Honorable Mention awardee Edison Jefford When I asked Edison Jefford where he felt his ambition as a poet would take him there was an arresting bluntness about his response.

Dear Editor, The President’s present imbroglio with the former First Lady, a matter that should have been handled discreetly and judiciously has now become open fodder for the chattering classes − something that the rest of society can readily comprehend and sink their fangs into, rather than more complex and indigestible issues like the EPA and the global financial crisis.

Dear Editor, Even as new traffic laws are being implemented, some motorists are still driving in a reckless manner on the streets of villages.

In Barbados with the compliments of: Caribbean Airlines, Igloo Ice cream, GT&T, P&P Insurance, Oasis Water and Noble House Seafoods.

A resident of Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara is now dead following a motor vehicular accident yesterday morning.

Reprinted from the Trindad Review – December 1st 2008 By Cary Fraser In 1963, the African American writer, James Baldwin, published My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation in which he wrote: “Please try to be clear, dear James, through the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the words acceptance and integration.

Dear Editor, As I understand it, there is a law that mandates the periodical submission of statements of assets by MPs and senior government officials, to the Integrity Commission.

La deuda es impagable Remarks at the Great Hall of the University of Havana on receipt of the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Honoris Causa December 3, 2008 Norman Girvan I cannot begin to express the deep sense of honour that I feel on your bestowing upon me the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Honoris Causa of the University of Havana.

BY Tony Cozier (DURING his recent assignment covering the West Indies tour of New Zealand, Tony Cozier caught up with Simpson Guillen and Bruce Pairaudeau and found that the two former West Indies Test players still had fond and vivid memories of their playing days in the Caribbean) Simpson Guillen sat in the drawing room of his home in Christchurch and, in his deep baritone voice and with appropriate accent and inflection, belted out every word and verse of the 1940s calypso, “Chinese Cricket Match,” as if it was yesterday.

Dear Editor, Following the passing of the Forest Bill in Parliament recently, I was particularly pleased at the comments made by the opposition members, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan and Mr Lance Carberry pertaining to the presentations by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud and his efforts to facilitate the passing of the bill.

Reasons for planters in the British Caribbean opposing amelioration proposals of the British Government after 1822By Clyde W Thierens The abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 had raised expectations that British Caribbean slave owners would have been moved by necessity to improve the lot of their slaves.

Dear Editor, I have noted the meagre increase in the old-age pension, and as a pensioner I would personally welcome a reduction in or complete removal of the oppressive VAT, that is creating much hardship in the lives of the elderly.

Fraud and the Visa Process Installment Seventy-Five As you begin to prepare for your visa interview, whether planning to migrate on an immigrant visa or planning to take a short-term trip on a non-immigrant visa, it is important to be aware of the consequences of committing fraud. 

The following is the final part of a four-part series on CLR James by Peter Fraser By Peter Fraser James’ politics falls into two phases.

Former national under-19 cricketer Alfred Mentore was last evening elected president of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) at its annual general meeting at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) pavilion.

Dear Editor, It is very nice to see Ryan Hinds once more among the runs and wickets in our regional competition.

Last spring, while their government concerned itself with the Olympics, a small group of Chinese dissidents drafted an imprudently truthful document about the political realities behind the official narrative of modernisation and liberalisation.

Still stalled on the road to recovery The suggestion that the West Indies’ straight sets loss to Pakistan in last November’s three-match Limited Overs encounter in Abu Dhabi, was due in large measure to a euphoria hangover, at least among those members of the team who had just a few days earlier been the beneficiaries of cricket’s biggest ever payday – the Stanford Twenty-Twenty for twenty million US dollars encounter against England, is a reflection of the extreme cynicism that attends the outlook of analysts of the regional game.

Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, led Germany’s Green Party for nearly 20 years.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Diamond/Grove Branch on Monday presented prizes to winners of its ‘New Account’ promotion.

Dear Editor, January 30, 2009 marks the third year since the brutal assassination of comrade and brother, Ronald Waddell.

The British Guiana Centenary Year Book, 1831-1931, edited by E. Sievewright Stoby, was published in 1931 to celebrate the centenary of the unification of the colony of British Guiana in 1831.