Daily Archive: Friday, February 13, 2009

Articles published on Friday, February 13, 2009

Prolonged telecoms liberalization talks…

DIGICEL: We’re hurting Even as the status of the negotiations between government and GT&T aimed at ending the telecommunications service provider’s international dialling monopoly remains a closely guarded secret, there are signs that DIGICEL is growing increasingly concerned over the implications of the continued denial of an international licence to it for the financial performance of the company.

The Minister’s behaviour is unacceptable

Dear Editor, Because the Mayor and City Council has often been at the receiving end of the hubris of Minister of Works and Transport, Mr Robeson Benn and added to the concerns expressed by some of my colleagues that I am always attacking the government, I opted to make no public statement on the air traffic controllers’ tribulation.

MHS Inter-House basketball tourney

Grant and Blackette House to contest today’s finals After recording outstanding wins against their opponents Grant and Blackette Houses will contest today’s final of the Mackenzie High school (MHS) Inter-House basketball tournament at the school’s basketball court.

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Scorpions and Pacesetters score tough victories

Beepat’s Scorpions and Courts Pacesetters basketball clubs recorded hard-fought victories over Macabees and Demerara Panthers respectively when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) competition continued at the Burnham Court Wednesday night.

John Lewis Styles aims tosew up mainstream market

-boutiques having to do more research on customer trends Reduced consumer spending and changes in the demand structure in the local boutique and fashion clothing sector are beginning to catch up with providers here and this will eventually result in significant changes in the industry, according to the proprietor of one of the city’s leading fashion stores.

SN should not have deleted paragraph in letter

Dear Editor, It seems established that a letter from Mr Colin Bobb-Semple published in the Stabroek News of February 5, 2009 (‘The Guyana constitution makes more adequate provision for indigenous communities than the US constitution does for Native Americans’) had a passage missing and that the missing passage appeared in the same letter by him as published in the Guyana Chronicle of February 5, 2009.