30 Years of Stabroek News

First Published March 11. 1989

THE Mighty Sparrow demonstrated his tremendous talent, skill and professionalism in calypso when he gave a soundly entertaining performance at the National Cultural Centre last Tuesday night.

First Published March 10, 1990

THE Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) says that US President George Bush’s Republic day message is “the most dramatic comment yet by the USA on the electoral process in Guyana.”

First Published March 9, 1988

GTSL driver George Halley is to be given a monetary award for saving the lives of a busload of schoolchildren crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge when it collapsed last week.

First Published MArch 8, 1989

Good Management Means Good Business MICHAEL SOLOMON is one of three businessmen who pooled their resources and experience to form Home Services Enterprise two months ago.

First Published March 7, 1988

THE United States government has stopped short of openly censuring the electoral track record of Presi-dent Desmond Hoyte’s ruling PNC but Washington says its goal here is free and fair flections.

First Published March 5 1988

$5m Repair Bill A section of the Harbour Bridge submerged in the Demerara River (above left).

Date first published March 6, 1987

Country Placed On Alert GOVERNMENT and the Health Ministry virtually placed the country on Red Alert last week as the growing thallium sulphate poisoning assumed new and alarming dimensions.

Date first published March 4, 1989

Sarney Is Here Road, debt rescheduling may be on the Agenda PRESIDENT of Brazil Jose Sarney arrived here yesterday on an official visit expected to deepen ties between the two countries.

Date first published March 3, 1990

Miners Must Minimise Environmental Damage – King The Geology and Mines Commission and the environment agency are moving to arrest wanton environmental destruction in gold and diamond mining areas.

Date first published March 2, 1988

Clothing Manufacturers Face Closure By SHARIEF KHAN SMALL garment manufacturers say they face imminent closure because Sanata Textiles Limited is no longer selling them its cotton fabrics.

Guymine Derecognises Bauxite Unions

By SHARIEF KHAN THE backlash of the FITUG one-day protest last Friday is turning out to be furious and is intensifying the rift between government and the dissident seven-member trade union alliance.

Date First Published February 28, 1990

‘Altering’ More Profitable Now Than Tailoring – Hermon The Small Businessman HERMON Bholaisingh (43), is a tailor who comes from a family of tailors.

First Published February 27 1987

$5.5m Owed To The Caribbean’s Most Modern Workshop COLDINGEN Workshop on the East Coast is a multi-million dollar maintenance facility built by the East Germans in 1980 and thrown into operation two years later.

Date First Published February 26, 1991

Guysuco’s diversification programme reduced Remaining areas may be divested THE Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) formal diversified crops programme has been whittled down to concentrate on three main areas in the wake of the management takeover by Booker Tate and these may be subject to divestment shortly.