Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

“I think we need more PVC paste,” suggested President Jagdeo a little miffed he was doing the plumbing for the hotel only hours before the Rio summit was to open.

The two men accused of breaking into the CCS store on Camp Street and stealing over $1.8M were on Monday granted $150,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan when they made a second court appearance.

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Magistrate Fazil Azeez sentenced a repeat offender to prison, after he admitted to breaking and entering and larceny of his sisters’ home, when he yesterday appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee recently told this newspaper that he had identified a connection between the escape of inmates from the Mazaruni Prison and a similar escape from the Lusignan Prison in 1999.

It is not every day that a schoolboy gets to play a first-class cricket match in front of his class-mates.

“The saddest moment in my career as a cyclist was back in 1980 when I was riding very strongly and did not get to participate in the Moscow Olympics.”

For the fourth time in four separate ODI series in the past three months, the West Indies enter the last match in the Pepsi Cup against India here today with the outcome hanging on the result.

President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Asso-ciation (GABA), Chris Bowman said that the recently-concluded GABA super league tournament was handicapped by the growing level of indiscipline in the sport, lack of sponsorship and poor officiating.

Manager and coach of middle distance athlete Alika Morgan, Leslie Blacks yesterday expressed his disappointment at the decision taken by the National Sports Commission (NSC) in giving the Junior Sportswoman of the Year award to table tennis player Trenace Lowe ahead of Morgan.

Dear Editor, Tell me how in heaven’s name Cleveland Forde was named Sportsman of the Year (2006) over Gairy St Clair.

When the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) held their Annual General Meeting on Saturday, John Edwards was re-elected as president.

The National Inter-Secondary School Mashramani Indoor Futsal (Football) tournament is set to kick-off on February 20 at the National Gymnasium from 5:00 pm.

When Fruta Conquerors Football Club (FCFC) held its Annual General Me-eting yesterday, Colin Howard was elected president while Andrea Ash and Sampson Gilbert became vice president and secretary respectively.

Dear Editor, Tuesday January 30, 2007 marked the 1st anniversary of the death of my brother, talk show host and political activist Ronald Waddell, who was brutally executed by merciless murderers and cowards of the underworld who seem to have immunity for the murders they commit.

Dear Editor, The newly built Pine Street Nursery School located in Industrial Area Linden is closely surrounded by bush which needs to be properly cleared, making the school less hidden and more in clear view.

Dear Editor, In the January 17, 2006 Kaieteur News article titled “Police presence likely on the streets until World Cup” the Guyana Police Force is reported as saying that since the heightened patrol began on November 15, there was a significant decline in murder, armed robberies statistics etc.

Dear Editor, It seems that every time that Mr David de Caires, Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News seeks to reinforce his claim that the reduction of advertisements in his newspaper was due to a political decision, the claim becomes weaker and weaker.

Dear Editor, A new opinion poll out over the weekend shows NY Senator Hillary Clinton leading all opponents for the Democratic nomination as well as beating her Repub-lican opponents to win the presidency.

Dear Editor, WP George in his letter captioned “The USA must vote for builders not wreckers” (07.01.29) wrote: “I see Chavez as the new Simon Bolivar.

Dear Editor, Regional Chairman of Re-gion Six Zulfikar Mustapha recently paid his first visit since being appointed Regional Chairman to our small village of Moleson Creek on the Corentyne.

Dear Editor, A country which depends for its food supply on external sources is in a vulnerable position.

Dear Editor, A poor man was astonished to learn a few days ago that his ram sheep was stolen from the Suddie Police station compound which could well be regarded as the best place for safe keeping.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News sell like hot cakes at Santa Rosa Village, Moruka sub-region.

A farmer from the village of Kuru Kuru was shot and killed early yesterday during an encounter with three bandits who escaped with a significant quantity of cash and jewellery after tying up the man’s family with duct tape.

Two prison officers appeared in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday accused of negligence in the escape of nine convicted prisoners from the Mazaruni Prison earlier this month.

A man of unsound mind was fatally shot yesterday afternoon by one of two armed policemen whom he reportedly attacked with a bread knife on Robb Street.

Essequibo police suspect that a prisoner who staged a successful escape from the Mazaruni prison may have left his Bethany Mission, Supenaam Creek community and may be nearby in Mashabo.

Hopes of the police ever finding the killers of activist and talk show host Ronald Waddell have begun to fade one year after they pumped 13 bullets into his body outside his Subryanville home.

More than two months after his wife was shot and killed during a robbery outside their home, a city jeweller is upset that to date the police have not yet taken a statement from him.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) on Monday said that it is currently not investigating a complaint lodged with it by Vreed-en-Hoop headmaster Alvin Johnson as the matter had been referred to the Attorney-General’s Chambers by the Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC).

Contractors in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) were cautioned recently by Regional Executive Officer (REO) Desmond Kissoon that the Regional Tender and Procurement Board will this year debar or blacklist contractors who fail to deliver satisfactory and complete work within agreed deadlines.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says a Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS was on Tuesday launched to educate employees about the infection and the support programmes available to help them to cope with it in the workplace.

Three identification cards have been found in Robb Street and were handed over to the management and staff of NP Electronics Inter-national, Lot 45 Robb Street, Lacytown.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday conferred the Instruments of State Commission and other awards on 23 Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues says she is pleased about the progress of the manicole plantation project in Region One.

Guyana moved from ‘Partly Free’ to ‘Free’ in the 2007 Freedom in the World index, a part of the Washington D.C.-based

Approximately 16,000 public assistance recipients have begun benefiting from government grants and the Human Services Ministry is advising others to visit their respective post offices to uplift their vouchers for the first half of the year.

Though many businesses are still coming to terms with collecting Value Added Tax (VAT), they must now prepare to remit the collected taxes to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and an accounting session to help with this was held yesterday.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith, who died on Monday night following a period of hospitalisation, is being remembered as a professional who was intolerant of mediocrity yet was always pleasant.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said veteran journalist Cecil Griffith who passed away on Monday was an eminent son of the soil who has left his “imprint in the spheres of journalism”.

A fire of mysterious origin razed a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home yesterday leaving its three occupants, who were not at home at the time homeless and with millions in losses.

An accident at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo has left a woman in hospital nursing head injuries.

Another victim from the two-car East Bank Demerara smash-up that occurred on Sunday, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness.

Four Amerindian communities will shortly receive titles to their lands and a fifth will be granted an extension as soon as the Lands and Surveys Commission has completed mapping the identified areas, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

Two men in a red motor car yesterday robbed a recently opened East Coast of Demerara gas station of a quantity of cash.

Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are expected to be able to reduce their financial vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricane through access to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) with financing of catastrophe insurance coverage from the facility to be established in March.

Work is ongoing on the design and layout of the 12-acre Belvedere Industrial Estate in Central Corentyne and this is expected to accelerate development of local businesses.

Stakeholders yesterday started to fine-tune a number of initiatives to respond to the challenges and concerns facing the nation’s youth while at the same time creating ways to ensure their participation in the country’s development.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds last weekend at Linden commissioned a brand new Wood-Mizer Super LT 40 Hydraulic Mill, acquired by the Region Ten Agriculture and Forest Products Association (RAFPA).