Articles published on Monday, February 2, 2009
Doctors yesterday successfully performed a second kidney transplant here and up to press time the 47-year-old recipient and his daughter who donated the kidney were recovering in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).
The state of their roads, some recently rehabilitated, is a source of dissatisfaction for Barticans, who lament that the thoroughfares begin to deteriorate shortly after work is done to upgrade them.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday terminated the employment of several of the persons cited in the polar beer scam report.
Help and Shelter yesterday expressed concern over allegations made by former First Lady Varshnie Singh against President Bharrat Jagdeo and called on the President to respond to them.
-getaway car knocks down cyclist Gunmen on Saturday night robbed the Kamboat Restaurant, located on Sheriff Street of over $377,000 in cash and jewellery from employees and patrons before escaping.
Questions are being asked as to how a Guyanese who was facing a rape charge in Guyana was able to sneak past authorities and travel all the way to Belfast, Northern Ireland where he committed similar offences and was last Friday sentenced to 18 years.
Fifty-three pounds of marijuana was found in the trunk of a vehicle, after it was stopped and searched by police at a Berbice roadblock on Saturday night and two persons are in custody assisting with investigations.
The decomposing body of a 17-year-old boy was early yesterday morning fished out of a trench at Jamoon Drive, Meadowbrook.
-to focus on developing housing, commercial areas The Ireng/Sawariwau NDC of Lethem says it has completed its $3M planned development projects for 2008 and intends to focus on upgrading secondary roads and other infrastructure.
A Caribbean Airlines flight due last night was cancelled yesterday after the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) was forced to close the control tower as a result of the ongoing strike by air traffic controllers.
The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) says to date Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL) is still to pay off farmers for paddy supplied from the first crop of 2008 and its total debt to them is in excess of $600M.
Minister of Education Shaik Baksh last week commissioned two new state-of-the-art schools in Berbice.
Defence Co-operation pact to be signed The Brazilian government on Friday presented a 16.9 KVA FG Wilson Generator valued at $2.4M to the Guyana Defence Force Jungle Amphibious Training School (JATS).
Dear Editor, Public sector organizations, businesses and individuals have collectively invested what I suspect must be billions of dollars with CLICO (Guyana) in their various schemes.
Cove and John and Nootenzuil are the latest East Coast Demerara communities to receive assistance from the agriculture ministry following a visit from a team of workers from within the sector.
The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is calling for a commission of inquiry to ascertain the validity of former first lady Varshnie Singh’s allegations of ‘hi-tech’ domestic violence against her by President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Dear Editor, Your article titled ‘Credit unions in decline – Nadir blames poor management’ (Thursday, January 29, 2009), contains an imprecise statement, which I fear if not corrected, holds the possibility of unfairly, albeit inadvertently, raising the expectations of the union’s membership.
Dear Editor The conviction of Ryan Subryan, a Guyanese illegal immigrant hiding in Belfast, Northern Ireland is as much a tragedy of the pain a terrible beast can inflict upon society as it is the tragedy a society can impose on its citizenry when there is a broken system of justice and policing.
The UK Department for International Development (DfID) is donating about 1,700 supermale tilapia sets to the National Aquaculture Association of Guyana (NAAG).
An individual associated with the Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP), has been prohibited from entering the organisation’s facilities after claims of illegal activities and detrimental behaviour were made.
Dear Editor, As an ardent supporter of the PNC for over thirty years I am very perturbed to see the ‘sinking of the ship.’
Dear Editor, A striking highlight of President Barack Obama’s inaugural parade was the participation of dozens of Native American Indians.
Dear Editor, Several of my friends and relatives who import various merchandise have complained about long delays in the processing of documents at the GRA.
Dear Editor, As an employee of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), I must express my disgust at the public attacks of Ms Janette Bulkan on the GFC.
– Burnett, Pompey upstaged by Hargrove at Madison Square garden in special 600-yard event by Gary Tim New York (SMS) — For Guyanese in metro New York, it was billed as a showcase of their two foremost athletes and the first head-to-head clash for compatriots with nearly 34 years track experience.
By Eion Jardine (The first in a series of articles which looks at Guyana’s involvement in boxing at the Commonwealth level and the champions spawned as a result) The Commonwealth of Nations or the British Commonwealth comprises an association of some 53 independent sovereign states.
Dear Editor, The recent call by the government for all MPs to submit a list of income and assets, is a step in the right direction.
(This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) Dr Neville Trotz, Science Adviser to the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, served as a member of the IPCC in the capacity of a Review Editor of Chapter 16 of the Fourth Assessment Report on Small Island Developing States.
Dear Editor, The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) a worldwide federation of national standards bodies has been developing standards through its technical committees which comprise technical experts from its member bodies.
Noel Adonis was yesterday re-elected president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) when that organization held its annual general meeting (AGM) in the annex of the Guyana Motor Racing &Sports Club (GMR&SC) building.
This week we asked the man/woman in the street what they had to say about the police campaign to remove offensive slogans and names from mini-buses.
As the Sunday Stabroek editorial of January 25th noted, President Jagdeo’s ultimatum on January 19th that MPs deliver up returns to the Integrity Commission in two weeks was quite puzzling and as time ticks by it seems it was a fit of pique prompted by the PNCR’s jibe that a forensic scrutiny of finances should apply not only to customs officers.
