Daily Archive: Friday, February 20, 2009

-President tells army conference Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, President Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday called on army officers to go not only after criminals with high powered weapons but to also focus on drug dealers, money launderers and people who steal from the Treasury.

WASHINGTON/ST.JOHN’S, (Reuters) – U.S. law  enforcement officials found Texas billionaire Allen Stanford in  the Fredericksburg, Virginia, area yesterday, and served him  with a complaint accusing him of an $8 billion fraud.

– parents could not control him in the US, court told The US-based Guyanese juvenile, who was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, allegedly with some seven kilogrammes (kg) of cocaine yesterday pleaded not guilty to trafficking in narcotics when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police do not believe that 44-year-old Julius Chung, who died in his former lover’s home on Wednesday after he attacked her with a knife, killed himself according to Commissioner Henry Greene.

The suspect in the murder of Deborah Allen of Port Kaituma, North West District and the wounding of her sixteen-year-old daughter, has turned himself in, according to the police.

A speeding minibus coupled with a pedestrian’s careless use of the road resulted in an accident that saw several persons being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital with injuries last evening.

A second day of protest action by members of the Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited (LUSCSL) and electricity consumers at Wismar was called off about noon yesterday following an announcement by management of the society that the Guyana Revenue Authority had responded in the affirmative, rescinding the VAT-on-electricity levy proposal.

Come next month the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will be launching its education programme targeting soldiers to ensure that ranks do not become “indigent” after leaving the army due to lack of preparation while in the service, according to Commodore Gary Best.

Branding phase over! We’ll be seeking more for sponsorship $$ Entertainment and other promoters seeking DIGICEL  funding  have been put on notice that the company will now be  demanding more than just undertakings regarding the promotion of its brand in exchange for sponsorship.

City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday said that investigations are still ongoing to determine the source of the mysterious Wednesday morning fuel leak.

IT took the composure of tailenders not reputed for such level-headedness to secure it but the draw that the West Indies eeked out in the fading light here yesterday brought a dreadful week to a positive end.

– Business School Director Director of The Business School, James Bovell has told Stabroek Business that too often local clients are favoring overseas consultants with lucrative contracts in circumstances where skills are available locally to undertake those contracts.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Stabroek News of Wednesday, February, 18, 2009 under the caption ‘Miner stabbed to death at Kurupung.’

CBC Basketball Championships Following the announcement by president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federa-tion (GABF) retired Col.

PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray yesterday denounced a report on the state-run NCN 6 O’ Clock News that suggested he was “out” of the main opposition party.

Arguably the most disconcerting dimensions to what are widely believed to be the serious economic challenges that lie ahead for Guyana are the imponderables that are linked to the current global economic crisis. 

Mexico is to establish an embassy here, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago are sweating on the fitness of key opener Adrian Barath while bottom-of-the-table Guyana will look to build on their draw in the last round, when the two teams clash in their WICB Regional four-day match starting today.

Dear Editor, Like all Guyanese, we like to share tit-bits about our memories or encounters with our national heroes.

By Lindel Harlequin A key philosophy of micro-finance is that small vulnerable businesses can grow to become big strong business when brought into a partnership with knowledge-based lending institutions.

– Riehl New regulations to strengthen accountability in the judicial system are under review as the ongoing justice administration modernisation continues, but there is concern about the lack of “visible improvement” in the sector.

In what is seen as one of local basketball’s biggest tournaments since its inception in 2006 the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) nationwide basketball tournament will be, officially launched today.

Dear Editor, As discussion of the annual budget 2009 is in train, it seemed useful to review aspects of the 2008 effort.

The eight annual Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol-sponsored Under-15 Inter-county Cricket Tournament was launched at a simple ceremony held at the sponsor’s Regent and Wellington Streets outlet yesterday.

In the wake of savage murders of three women last week, Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand on Tuesday acknowledged that the domestic violence law could be better implemented and slammed the US for putting Guyana on its trafficking-in-persons radar.

Dear Editor, I am happy to pen this letter of commendation and  high praise for the Guyana Police Force’s Immigration Department for the exemplary manner in which the officers have been conducting themselves in dealing with the general public.

The long awaited SMS interconnection between DIGICEL and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) seems set for a further delay as the two service providers are yet to reach an agreement that would enable their respective subscribers to share a text messaging facility.

Despites projections of a decline, with a good second crop the rice sector could still surpass last year’s production level, according to PPP/C MP Dharamkumar Seeraj.

Sixteenth anniversary finds Bill Express  in `significant growth’ -Country Manager Grace Kennedy Country Manager, Colleen Patterson has told Stabroek Business that the enactment of legislation to govern the operations of the local money transfer sector should be hastened in the interest of protecting an important service from the vulnerabilities to which it is currently exposed.

Dear Editor, In his speech to Parliament, I notice that Mr Corbin called for this government to give a stimulus package to this nation as part of the budgetary allocations.

A DJ and television and radio host yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge of embezzlement by clerk or servant when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.

Defending champions Georgetown under astute leadership from Shaquille Williams, along with a solid all round performance from Chanderpaul Hemraj, demoralized their host West Demerara to come away with a 96-run victory in their first round clash of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Nalico/Nafico-sponsored Under-15 Inter-association match yesterday.

Dear Editor, Lord save us from the West Indies Cricket Board. 

-Help and Shelter tells ministry Help and Shelter says it is dismayed to learn of recent incidents of “physical and psychological abuse” suffered by students at the Enmore Primary School and urges the ministry to implement a clear policy on alternative disciplinary measures.

A Jamaican national who swallowed a quantity of cocaine pellets, pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics and was jailed for three years and slapped with a $10,000 fine when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

By Rawle Toney Long-standing president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass has said that the present economic downturn is having an effect on the country’s football administration.

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Ever since its creation in 1996, courtesy of a magnanimous donation by the Emir of Qatar, the Arab satellite network Al Jazeera has refused to conform to expectations.

World of Flowers proprietrix Jean Pollard and her son Michael talk about the beauty and the business of flowers The name Jean Pollard is synonymous with the business of flowers in Guyana.

Rebellion, Republicanism, and yes, Mashramani Black History? African Heritage? I was in my mid-twenties, a school teacher and reasonably conscious of our local politics when Forbes Burnham opted for a Republican Guyana in 1970.

Dear Editor, Councillor Kwame Warren McKoy seems to have once again restarted his obnoxious disinformation engine against the Regional Democratic Council Region 4.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development handed over two all-terrain vehicles to the Region Eight (Potaro/ Siparuni) administration to boost monitoring of the region’s work programmes.

“Me nah guilty”, murder accused Rambarran Singh said in disbelief yesterday after a jury in the High Court unanimously convicted him of the murder of his brother at La Jalousie backdam in 2005.

– Second round to resume this evening with double header By Rawle Toney Second round action in the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) senior club championship is set to resume this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.