ATN closes deal Improvements likely in two months
By Sharief Khan
AFTER several postponments, the US Virgin Islands-based ATN telephone company yesterday closed the deal to immediately take over the running of the local telecommunications network.
Urgent Need for Life jackets
PASSENGERS making the Parika-Supenaam river crossing in motor boats, have accused operators of endangering their lives because of overloading, lack of life jackets and reckless sailing.
New Skipper Full Of Confidence…
We’ll Retain Championship
JERRY ANGUS was born at Belladrum on the West Coast of Berbice on May 12, 1960 and although he may have harboured dreams of making it to the top, he could have never guessed that he would have done so in this manner.
– 24 years not out today!!
One of my New Year’s prognostications about probable Granger Cabinet changes came through swiftly, (though we were “assured” such would not have occurred.)
American journalist Steve Coll describes an illuminating exchange in 2001 between then President George Walker Bush and the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Mayor plans shopping mall for Bourda Green
CITY Mayor Compton Young says he plans to set up a two-storey shopping mall on Bourda Green, which will include a bank, cinema and two restaurants.
Conditions worsen at UG
UNIVERSITY of Guyana Vice-Chancellor Dr. George Walcott said yesterday the institution has been forced to use its own money to speed-up rehabilitation work on the campus, following delays in the Inter-American Development Bank rehabilitation programme.
Bicycles May Arrive From February
TWENTY thousand ladies and gents bicycles are expected here within the next five months, providing relief for Guyana’s existing transportation difficulties.
Aziz Choudry
Aziz Choudry is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Montreal, and visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation in the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Education.
It is incumbent on the DPP to engage the services of special prosecutors whose knowledge, skills and reputation can match those who represent the interest of the accused.
Travelling along the Corentyne highway, you could miss Wellington Park, which is considered the smallest village on the Corentyne or maybe even in the entire Berbice, with its 12 houses and population of less than 50 persons.
Noticeable pleasure
Some 17 years ago, ExxonMobil and Guyana signed an agreement for the former to explore for oil in the territorial waters of Guyana.
The Guyana Chronicle’s obscene calumny against Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh, over several months and getting worse, its contempt of court and the government’s intimidation of the judiciary have become deeply troubling.