Guyana News

Dear Editor, The recent piece about the Guyana Civil Service of the 1950s certainly brought back memories.

Dear Editor, When I read your Monday, February 12 editorial, ‘Private ads versus state ads,’ I thought it was helpful in getting fence sitters in the ongoing ads brouhaha to get a clearer picture of the Jagdeo administration’s stunning lapse in judgment and come to the defence of Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, It is doubtful that any reasonable thinking person would call into question the value of community policing in the universal contest against rising crime levels.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) will be hosting its eighth sports presentation and award ceremony on Saturday at the Akbar Hussain Lecture Hall, Anna Catherina Islamic Complex from 6:30 pm.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club launched the Ramnaresh Sarwan Education and Sports Trust Fund for the less fortunate primary and secondary school students in the Lower Corentyne area.

Businessman and civil society activist Clairmont Lye, a recipient of a national award for his role in the fight for democracy, has returned it “in protest against the excesses of the government over the past years, but more specifically because of the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.”

National football players, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson and Collie Hercules ensured that their respective associations could move on through emphatic wins when the Guyflag inter-association football tournament continued on Sunday.

Pandemonium broke out at the St Gabriel’s Primary School yesterday morning when a cutlass-wielding man went looking for a teacher who had earlier put him out of the school compound because of his attire.

Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that in 2007, the year of the ICC Cricket World Cup one-day competition, to be held in the Caribbean, it is the regional one-day series, the KFC Cup competition, that will be used, right down to the wire, to prepare the region’s players for the “big dance” which starts on March 05 and ends on April 28.

A soldier died at the army’s Camp Jaguar New River location last week Tuesday following what the military said was an accident but the young man’s family is not accepting this explanation and wants more information from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

The National Sport Commis-sion’s (NSC) annual Mash-ramani table tennis tournament scheduled to get underway this Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall has been postponed to commence Monday at the same venue.

Bosai Minerals of Chongqing in China is buying Omai Bauxite Mining Inc.

Carl Rambarose turned in an outstanding all-round performance as Tutorial High School trounced Christ Church Secondary in one of four quarter-final matches of the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sport Commission competition played yesterday.

Dear Editor, As a musician for a number of years I want to share my views on the recently held Chutney semi-finals on February 3, 2007, at Canje.

A congratulatory and celebratory spirit pervaded the Annual Guyana Police Force Officers’ Conference last week.

Police are investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a Zeelandia Estate, Wakenaam, Essequibo River pensioner.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says customers in Kingston will experience a disruption in service as the well which supplies the area is undergoing emergency repairs.

The allocation for the housing sector in this year’s budget supersedes last year’s by some $500M and special emphasis would continue to be placed on low-income earners, Housing and Water Minister Harry Narine Nawbatt said on Monday.

The Ministry of Agriculture is mourning the passing of one of its former ministers Gavin B Kennard.

The Women’s Studies Unit, located in the Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana, was the recipient of a generous donation from the Democracy and Governance Programme of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).