Articles published on Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Air traffic controllers defiant Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn yesterday issued an ultimatum to striking air traffic controllers to immediately return to their jobs or be considered voluntarily separated but at press time last night the workers were refusing to budge until outstanding wage and other issues are addressed.
(Barbados Nation) A love-struck husband who stabbed his wife 21 times and then threw hot oil in her face after she taunted him with her infidelities is on remand pending sentencing by the No.
New York-based Chaitram Karam was refused bail and remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud at the New Amsterdam Court yesterday to answer to a number of traffic charges, including causing death by dangerous driving.
A wanted man and his wife appeared in the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged over the cocaine in photo albums discovered on a Delta passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri two Sundays ago.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Guianas yesterday signed a Grant Agreement valued at $23.8M with the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), in support of government’s bid to quantify the carbon storage capacity in Guyana’s forests.
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall urged participants at a one-day training programme on Friday not to encourage corruption or wilful delay of works on projects in the various Regions and advised that any such activity should be reported to authorities.
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) yesterday called the importation of sugar “most unfortunate” saying that the outgoing Booker Tate management at GuySuCo owes the nation an objective explanation for the current poor state of the industry.
Saluted as a fearless jurist and a crusader for justice, former Attorney General Doodnauth Singh took his final bow in the National Assembly last Thursday.
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur says the Auditor-General-led report into the polar beer scam raised system defects that had already been cited in internal reports and declared that “many of the issues were not new to us”.
The Corentyne River has long been notorious for facilitating illegal cross border trade in almost every conceivable commodity and over the years very few smugglers have been apprehended but one major company- Banks DIH Limited has literally taken the bull by the horns and is moving to curb the illicit importation of Guinness.
The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development recently donated a boat and engine to the Region Ten administration to boost transportation services.
Dear Editor,Medical quackery has been around as long as medicine has existed.
A taxi driver has been hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the jaw after he was attacked and robbed as he was about to make a drop-off at the entrance to Festival City on Monday night.
Dear Editor, The letter signed by Ajai Persaud entitled ‘Upset by criticism of Guyana Forestry Commission’ (SN, February 1, 2009) fails to address the weak performance of the GFC and its weakly founded support for the Asian logger, Barama.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds recently joined other leaders and the Ambassadors of Buxton Community Development Association to honour top performers from the community at an achievement award ceremony.
Dear Editor, Guyana seems to be continuing its legacy of dependency.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is taking a proactive approach to deal with Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in order to root out incidents before they become a major issue.
Former West Indies coach Roger Harper feels that teamwork is the key to a successful series for the West Indies.
A Plaisance man who was accused of snatching a woman’s gold band and was later shot by police denied the charge of larceny from the person when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is unfortunate to see so many misdirected and unwarranted calls from organizations and individuals, for the President to publicly respond to the allegations of the former First Lady.
IT was a fitting twist to the cliché once familiar to the champion teams of his era.
-commander The female rank who was placed under close arrest following Monday’s escape of a teenaged murder accused from the Turkeyen Police Station has been released but a probe has been launched to ascertain how the lad got away since at least three ranks were on duty.
A 31-year-old man yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful possession of cannabis when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, On January 30, 2006, African Guyanese political activist Ronald Waddell was cut down in a hail of gunfire.
President of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Hector Edwards is calling on the two clubs involved in the clash of cycling events set for Sunday to come to a compromise in the interest of the sport.
The presiding judge at the Berbice Assizes yesterday adjourned a murder trial for one week after the State counsel who had just been reassigned to the Ancient County requested time to interview witnesses in the case.
Dear Editor, I have been following this mind-boggling story of the bogus nursing school.
A 40-year-old musician yesterday appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to answer the charge of break and enter and larceny.
Bishops’ High School (BHS) reached the final of the inaugural President College School Invitational secondary school knockout basketball tournament which got underway yesterday at the St.
Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali told Bushlot and Waterloo residents that water tariffs have not been increased and urged them to pay their due while outlining plans in train for Region Five.
Dear Editor, During the last quarter of 2008, Cummings Electrical Company Limited was involved in the upgrading of the Guyana Power and Light line distribution systems in South Ruimveldt, including Roxanne Burnham Gardens.
The convicted prisoner, who attempted suicide in the Camp Street jail last week, was yesterday discharged from hospital and according to Prison Director Dale Erskine measures will have to be put in place to ensure that he is counselled.
– Holder to defend senior and junior titles The cream of the country’s cyclists will be in action this Sunday from 8am when the National Sports Commission’s (NSC) 38th annual Mashramani cycle road race pedals off from the Demerara Harbour Bridge, proceeds to Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo, returning to finish at the starting line.
A 20-year-old Linden woman yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge of embezzlement of funds at Mazaruni when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
-young mother suffers setback A young mother of Bush Lot, West Berbice who has been operating a snackette on the government reserve at First Dam in front of the family home of well-known businesspersons had her stall dismantled two Sundays ago.
– Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.
The visit of President Raul Castro of Cuba to Russia last week, and his signing with President Medvedev of a series of agreements indicating a “strategic partnership” between the two countries, marks the formal resumption of active relations between them, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Russia’s turn to a form of capitalism and market relations under President Yeltsin.
Newly-elected secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie visited the nearly completed Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) hostel in Anna Regina last Saturday.
