Daily Archive: Sunday, November 14, 2010

Articles published on Sunday, November 14, 2010

The newly constructed Mabaruma regional hostel

The Mabaruma Sub-Region

As commerce threatens to overwhelm areas available for development, residents of the major communities in the Mabaruma Sub-Region in Region One nevertheless remain optimistic about what the future holds for life there.

Researching the underground economy in Guyana

Introduction In my two previous Sunday columns, I had developed the argument to the effect that the steep increases in remittance flows to Guyana (as well as Jamaica) reflect both criminally-inspired transfers along with transfers made by hard-working Guyanese and Jamaican emigrants living in the diaspora. 

A welcome development

The announcement of the formation of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) is a welcome development (‘Company formed to promote transparency, fight corruption’ SN, November 11). 

Region ignoring Venezuela coup threats

What a sham! While the Venezuelan military announces it will not accept an opposition victory in the 2012 elections, thousands of people are dying in Mexico’s drug wars and Haiti is suffering from a deadly cholera epidemic, the Organization of American States – supposedly in charge of addressing the region’s biggest problems – is nowhere to be seen.

Tyrone Hamid seals the deal after completing a ‘windmill’ dunk to retain the title of Senior Slam dunk champion (Orlando Charles photo)

Georgetown regains Junior All-Star title

-Rose is new three point shooting champ; Hamid retains dunk title After losing to Linden for the past two years in the Junior All-Star game, Georgetown regained the Junior All-Star title when they defeated Linden 83-67 Friday night as the Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend commenced at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

This wistful looking dog is a youngster (he has been neutered), and is waiting patiently at the GSPCA for someone to offer him a good home.

Emergencies

Continued Poisons I suppose that if I were to carry out a statistical analysis of all the reasons why animals are most often presented at the clinic, and what the greatest cause of death is, the result would be poisoning.

Against the odds

-Second to last ICC ranked team the West Indies take on  number three ranked Sri Lanka from tomorrow very much underprepared and with a new look team and a new captain to boot As the skies opened up in Colombo over the past few days, flooding streets and the outfield at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground, the West Indies cricketers would have come to fully appreciate the age-old adage that it never rains but it  pours.

President’s Youth Award Republic of Guyana

One of the top awardees in the President’s Youth Award Republic of Guyana (PYARG) programme Olisa Sanderson (front, left) receiving her trophy from Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday afternoon when the PYARG celebrated its 12th anniversary.

Veerasammy Permaul

Rest Team hold on for a draw

Rain after the luncheon period, a relentless fight from the Rest Team players and a ‘graveyard’ Blairmont Community Centre ground pitch, contributed towards a drawn encounter between the Rest Team and Berbice in the first round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Four-day tournament yesterday.

A looking glass world

Dear Editor, Each day when I open the daily newspapers there is at least one article that makes me feel as if I have stepped through the looking glass and I am in a land where up is down and wrong is right.

VAT is a burden

Dear Editor, About three weeks or so ago, on October 25, Stabroek News quoted the President as saying “I don’t see any need, at this point in time, to revise it [VAT rate]… We don’t think VAT is a burden because of what it replaced.”

Mia: Count me out

(Barbados Nation) Mia Mottley, former leader of the Barbados Labour Party, says she will not be taking part in any tainted election process to select the party’s chairman.

Parent power

Last Wednesday, parents effectively shut down Golden Grove Primary on the East Coast as well as Bagotville Primary on the West Bank over lack of water in the schools, among other things.

Vettel on pole for Abu Dhabi title decider

-But Alonso favoured to take third Formula One title ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel  put himself in the best possible position to claim the Formula  One title by beating his three rivals to pole position in the  Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday.

Ex-PM defends actions of spy agency

(Trinidad Express) The most damning, explosive, “troublesome and vexing” of the revelations made by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the Parliament on Friday, was that the nation’s Head of State, its first citizen, President George Maxwell Richards’ phone was among those persons whose phones were being tapped and e-mails intercepted by the Strategic Intelligence Agency (SIA), the “secret intelligence agency,“ since 2005.