Daily Archive: Sunday, February 18, 2007

In a Stabroek News editorial of Thursday, January 18, captioned ‘The president and the party,’ it was said that the conflict between Mr Burnham’s constitution and Dr Jagan’s party was “well on the way.”

It was deja vu for Courts Pacesetters Basketball Club at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Friday night after reaching its second consecutive nationwide first division basketball semi-final in the 2nd annual Next Level Entertain-ment (NLE) tournament.

AS a preview to the World Cup, the two KFC Cup semi-finals on Thursday and Friday made for worrying watching.

Defending national inter-club track and field relay champions, Royal Youth Movement (RYM) athletic club will seek a repeat of last year’s dominant performance at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary today.

Albion Sports Club paced by a brilliant 93 from Harrinarine Chattergoon easily defeated Diamond Sports Club by 46 runs to win the Republic Bank under-15 limited overs competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground Bourda yesterday.

The Black Hawk Martial Arts Management Network has a significant lead according to unconfirmed result after the first day in the Harpy Eagles Marshal Arts Academy’s anniversary two-day competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Private Craig of 241 Coy copped the best boxer title when the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) Inter-Unit Novices Boxing Champion-ship climaxed on Friday night at the GDF Base Camp Ayanganna.

The Guyana Amateur Swim-ming Association (GASA) yesterday launched its first ever beginners swimming instructors course at the Colgrain pool, Camp Street.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club will hold the first stage of the 2007 National Championship Series next Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Dear Editor, As Aubrey Williams’s daughter I feel compelled to respond to the editorial in the Sunday Stabroek of February 11th entitled, simply, `Defacement’.

Dear Editor, I must congratulate you for publishing Tastes Like Home.

Dear Editor, On a recent flight by North American Airlines (NAA) from Timehri to JFK New York, I encountered one of the most grueling security experiences which was not only duplicitous but harrowing as well.

Dear Editor, In 1985 when the late President Hugh Desmond Hoyte took control of Guyana, there was a massive turn around of everything that was inherited from the “Founder Leader”, President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.

Dear Editor, I am writing with reference to a letter writer in the Stabroek News who is claiming that the newspaper has a far reach because they have a website.

Dear Editor, There is a common thread – permeating the letters of University of the West Indies lecturer Dr.

Dear Editor, The Jagdeo Juggernaut is on a post election roll.

Dear Editor, I have read the President’s remarks on the denial of ads to the “Stabroek News.”

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned “What if a brochure highlighted our African heritage?”

What is diabetes? Diabetes means your blood glucose (often called blood sugar) is too high.

Mashramani, like other kindred national festivals such as Barbados’ Crop Over and the Jamaica Festival, was created to cement and celebrate nationhood through an exhibition of the carnivalesque, to bring the populace together in a spirit of cooperation and oneness as well as to showcase to itself and the world, a definition of the nation’s cultural character and traditions.

We have belaboured this worm issue for several weeks. We analysed all the aspects of intestinal worm burden, prevention and cure.

Gavin Bonston Kennard, CCH, CBE, former Minister of Agriculture and High Commissioner to Canada, died on February 12, aged 86.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc has been warned that unless it reduces its line losses the Inter-American Development Bank will discontinue its support.

I am always receiving new plants during the year, many of which can’t thrive in this climate.

A local chess player, passionate about, and dedicated to popularizing the ancient game in Guyana, has imported and donated ten analogue chess clocks towards the development of the sport.

This week’s column resumes the discussion of employment in the forestry sector against the fourth cause singled out by Guyana’s Poverty Reduc-tion Strategy Programme (PRSP) as responsible for persistent poverty: “deterioration in the quantum and quality of social services” (PRSP 2001, p.

Setting deadlines makes sense. It is good practice. It sharpens the mind, providing a target against which delivery can be measured.

IntroductionOn Wednesday George-town experienced something of a revolution as the marketing machinery of Digicel and GT&T kicked into high gear.

“To the left, to the left//everything you own is in the box to the left.

Three families are in chaos following an accident on Friday night, which took the lives of two persons and has left another is critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.

Log exporters and makers of value-added timber products yesterday took a step closer to unanimity, arriving at a “general consensus” on one of the recommendations put forward by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), this newspaper has learned.

With substantial work still to be completed on the multi-million dollar Casique hotel, it looks unlikely that it would be ready to accommodate the teams, officials, media and sponsors (TOMS) for the upcoming Cricket World Cup matches to be played in Guyana.

An inmate of the New Amsterdam Prison was yesterday morning discovered by prison officials hanging from the ceiling of his cell.

If the children’s Mashramani float parade is an indication of what to expect on February 23 then the country is in for a big celebration.