Daily Archive: Sunday, February 25, 2007

Among the items of good news to emerge last week was the statement from Guyana National Energy Authority CEO Joseph O’Lall that Guyana would be buying only half its oil energy needs from Venezuela.

The battle for supremacy in the Annual Mayor’s Cup Football tournament will rage this evening at the GFC ground when defending champions Fruta Conquerors take on city counterparts Pele for the grand $500,000 first prize money along with the Mayor’s trophy.

Jeremiah Harris ripped through the heart of the Lusignan batting order, enabling Malteenoes to cruise to a seven wicket victory in the final of the Busta national second division 40-over competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground yesterday.

If you believe that Group Three action in tomorrow’s opening of the National Motor Racing Championship Series is only about `Sir’ Mark Vieira and Andrew King, you’ll be well advised to think again.

Couple of coincidental developments these past few weeks have highlighted the yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots of West Indies cricket.

Guyana’s junior track stars will storm the Enmore Community Centre ground today from 10 am when East Coast hosts the third installment of the Developmental Track and Field meeting.

Dear Editor, We are upset and angry at the officials from Republic Bank for the shockingly callous treatment of our relatives following the disappearance of G$8 million from the Kitty ATM last weekend.

Dear Editor, I offer my sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of former magistrate, Mr.

Dear Editor, I regard your editorial of January 25, 07 captioned, “The Turkeyen Tragedy” as filled with subjectivities and misleading statements.

I suppose it is getting older that brings this on ,but I have come to the conclusion in a long life that the high dramas of public events – the summits of great men who think they control events, the ribbon-cutting celebrations of immense enterprises, the coronations of Presidents and the inauguration of Parliaments, the inflated pageants of festivals and carnivals and celebrity occasions – fade into inconsequence compared with the quiet satisfactions of private life.

Two weeks ago I noted that Washington was in the process of recasting its hemispheric policy in the context of a new energy security regime.

Turn on the TV and there is golf legend Jack Nicklaus extolling the virtues of his hip replacement.

A letter from the Office of the Prime Minister to the Guyana Consumers Asso-ciation is normally an indication that important changes are being made under the Electricity Sector Reform Act 1999.

Over the past few weeks we have been discussing intestinal worms in some detail.

My son welds and got arc eye recently. Is this dangerous?

In this encounter, the 19-year–old chess wizard Teimour Radjabov clashes with former world champion Veselin Topalov.

There is a plant in my garden which has been in full flower for weeks and weeks and which shows no sign of ending its remarkable display.

The Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Canada and the Caribbean Region has released the shortlist of books from which the 2007 regional prizes will be selected.

George Clarence Fung-On, former Minister of the Public Service and Chairman of the Public Service Commission, died on February 16, aged 85.

As a founder member of the Theatre Guild (TG) in 1959 and a signatory to its Memorandum and Articles of Association of 1961, I welcome the messages that indicate that a rebirth of Theatre Guild is planned.

The house stands forlorn, gutted: no gate, no roof, no glass patio door, no fancy brickwork, no guttering.

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A five-star hotel under the franchised Marriott Hotels brand could soon be established in Kingston, George-town, in direct competition with the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort and the well-established Le Meridien Pegasus.

A 30-year-old fisherman was on Mashramani Day beaten to death by four men, who afterwards reported to the police that he had assaulted them.

A multi-million dollar fraud has been discovered at Clico Life Insurance Company; the police have been called in and a number of employees detained.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has terminated the contract of a Peruvian who was hired in July last year as technical adviser to former Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira.

The governance report recently accepted by Caricom heads at their St Vincent meeting sees shared sovereignty in “agreed areas,” the funding of institutions on the basis of GNP and a single act in all member countries which would allow a long-envisaged Caricom Commission to expedite decision-making.

The bipartisan task force for local government reform has hit another roadblock.

Angry inmates of the ‘capital’ dormitory of the Camp Street prison ripped out a cell wall and staged a nearly three-hour protest on Thursday night after officers switched off the television they were watching.

Jamaican dancehall group T.O.K has come in for more condemnation for its performance at the recent Digicel Experience concert.