Daily Archive: Sunday, February 4, 2007

In our edition of December 31 we reported on the fact that ten bills passed by the National Assembly had not been assented to by President Jagdeo, and today on page 3, we have a follow-up to that story.

The inside information on the West Indies’ brief series in India that Bennett King provided for his fellow selectors in Barbados yesterday would hardly have varied much from other recent campaigns in the lead-up to the World Cup.

Claudius Butts, one of the four Guyanese who will make up the core of the West Indian attack in the International Rugby Board (IRB) World Sevens Series tournament in San Diego, USA from February 10, has said that the four Guyanese in the team will have to take on the brunt of the work in the competition but they are more than ready for the challenge.

A decision has been taken by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to allow the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) nationwide first division basketball tournament to commence ahead of the GABF inter-association tournament.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Guyflag senior inter – association tournament will continue today at the Wales Community Centre ground with West Demerara taking on Georgetown in a feature encounter.

Defending Mayor’s Cup Champions, Fruta Conquerors began their consecutive title hunt on Friday with an impressive 4-0 win over West Demerara’s Uitvlugt at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The red carpet was rolled out Friday night when the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) hosted its annual appreciation and award ceremony at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street.

Dear Editor, My business, operating under the name Reno and Sons Super store at Lot 1, Public Road, Suddie, Essequibo Coast is the largest within the neighbourhood there.

Dear Editor, Region 10 has 62 schools of which only 30 are in Linden.

Dear Editor, There is an aspect of development that many countries are beginning to take advantage of.

Dear Editor, A two day conference in New Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha has relevance for Guyana – solving conflict peacefully especially given the level of violence pervading the nation.

Dear Editor, I don’t know how many Guyanese citizens at home and abroad, realize the seriousness, significance or motive behind the ICC CWC ticket brochure, which has been referred to before, one which talked about Guyana’s distinctive Indian Heritage and proceeded to remark about the fusion of West Indian and Indian culture in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I said this before and I will say it again, even at the expense of this letter finding the waste basket as others of similar tone seem to have done.

Part 2 Prevention and treatment Guyana has one of the highest incidences of cervical cancer in the world.

(Poui, Number 7, December 2005, J.Bryce, H.Simmons-McDonald, M. McWatt (eds.); Dept.

Cecil Alweyn Griffith, AA, former President of the Guyana Press Association and Chief News Editor of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, died on January 29, aged 78.

These columns deal primarily with companion animals. Counsel on domestic livestock can be had by writing to us seeking the relevant advice.

Continued from last week Fischer’s IQ was in the range of 180 – genius level.

A Guyana tour guide handbook is currently being compiled which will provide all the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the services visitors to this country might require.

I went to the doctor and I was told I have high cholesterol.

The last time I went to a bar, it was the Times Caf

The announcement that an additional 40 items were to be zero-rated brought hope to consumers that their worries would be at an end.

Bar-B-Que The secret with a barbeque, of course, was to place the pits upwind, so that the smoked aroma helped oversight and excuses for the paltry side dishes, whether potato salad or plantain chips.

Where humanly possible even the smallest garden should have a tree in it, not only for using up the carbon dioxide in the air, but as a home for birds and a shady place to put your chair and sit down.

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A little over a week ago China launched a missile into space.

The Guyana Poverty Reduc-tion Strategy Paper (PRSP), crafted out of nation-wide participatory consultations and published in 2001, set out the parameters of poverty in Guyana, analysed the contributory factors and detailed a road map for poverty alleviation or eradication.

Introduction As an analyst it is always a pleasant surprise to receive unexpected financial information more so in Guyana where the provision of the bare minimum is the accepted norm.

Not many Guyanese, I am sure, realize it but we have a National Trust whose high and shining objective is to preserve the national heritage.

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The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) will conduct a review of the performance of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) in a matter of weeks and this will guide future release of funds for the continuation of the Unserved Areas Electrification Programme (UAEP).

An Annandale couple was on Friday evening robbed of almost $2 million in cash and jewellery by four masked men, minutes after returning from Linden where they had gone to sell fish.

A search in the Corentyne River yesterday for Cheryl Peters, who is missing and feared dead after the ‘backtrack’ speedboat in which she was travelling to Suriname on Friday capsized, was unsuccessful.

Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort is scheduled to open on February 20 and its foreign staff complement has begun to arrive in the country.

Government has allocated $10 billion to the health sector and will spend over $4 billion on the construction of new hospitals and polyclinics in a number of communities throughout the country.

Guyana has achieved over 95% in its cure rate for leprosy, utilizing multi-drug therapy against the disease since 1981, but about five persons relapse every year and must be aggressively monitored and treated.

Representatives of labour, the private sector and the opposition have expressed grave disappointment at the lack of consultation and mention of serious issues facing the country at the moment such as the casino legislation and Value Added Tax (VAT) in the 2007 national budget.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s failure to give assent to 10 bills that were passed during the last parliamentary session will force the government to reintroduce the legislation.

A name change by the institution managing the Linden Economic Advancement Fund (LEAF) is likely to bring a new dimension to talks on the resumption of funding.

So far 65 persons in Lacytown have been served notices for having dirty yards and no refuse receptacles in the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) anti-litter campaign.

The Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (GHARP) has introduced a scheme to award agencies and individuals that have identified and promoted new examples of best practices in fighting HIV and AIDS.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it is moving urgently to correct the situation causing a delay in the processing of import entries (C72).

Coordinator of the recently held 2007 Junior Calypso Competition Lance Canterbury said the lyrics submitted by the youths who participated in the competition were in keeping with the laws of the country.