Daily Archive: Thursday, March 1, 2007

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Q: Who is Eligible for Employment Based Immigration? There are five categories of employment based immigration: * First Preference (EB-1 priority workers): aliens with extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers.

The month-long trial of Ryan Robinson who was before the High Court on a charge of murdering a mentally ill woman, Carol Ann Augustus, at Mahaica in 2005 ended yesterday when the jury found him guilty of the capital offence.

A young man who allegedly had large amounts of cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines in his home was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Justice James Bovell-James yesterday upheld no-case submissions in the High Court trial of Alan Wills who had been accused of killing a Bagotstown man over a wristwatch.

Is there anything more that fishermen can do to call the government’s attention to their plight?

Several international emergency and disaster preparedness experts were involved in a vital simulation exercise in preparation for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 yesterday at the Civil Defence Headquarters on Thomas Lands.

Up to late yesterday afternoon the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) was working overtime trying to meet today’s deadline for payment of registration fees for Guyana’s participation at the regional basketball championships in August.

Former national badminton player Grandison Robinson scored an upset win on his return to the badminton courts after a 14-year absence.

The National Inter-Secondary Schools FUTSAL (Football) 2007 tournament will kick off with six matches today at the National Gymnasium from 4pm.

Dear Editor, Guyanese are extending a very hearty welcome to the many high level dignitaries including presidents, vice presidents, ministers and their officials and staff of nineteen countries who will be attending the Rio Summit in Guyana from February 28 to March 3.

Dear Editor, On the Essequibo Coast, a great part of Region 2, the fortunes of many families are directly and indirectly tied to the success of the rice industry.

Dear Editor, If one wants to see the poorest display of respect and customer services they should visit the New Amsterdam Traffic/Licensing Office, housed at Coburg Street, New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, I live in Parika and have seen Parika market grow and stretch to become nearly a mile long on both sides of the road from Parika Stelling through Hydronie and heading to Bushy Park.

Dear Editor, It took me an entire two weeks, to make up my mind as to what to make of that guest editorial of Saturday, February 3, under the title.

Dear Editor, UWI Lecturer Kean Gibson’s pitiable “clarification” of the meaning of ‘dharma’ (KN letter, “Clarifying the meaning of ‘dharma’ 16-02-07) would surely garner a fail grade in a senior high school type examination.

Dear Editor, Many rice farmers in Region 2 run the risk of losing their crops.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Colin Bascom’s letter captioned “Our relations with India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” (07.01.17) wherein he evidences a morose nervousness and grudge about Indian aid to Guyana.

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you would publish this letter to make it clear to all and sundry that I am not the author of the letter captioned “Caste is almost absent from the consciousness of Indians in Guyana” signed R.

Dear Editor, Guyana observed its 37th. anniversary as a republic last week.

Nine Heads of State, including two from Caricom, are expected to attend the two-day Rio Summit, which officially opens tomorrow even-ing at the National Cultural Centre.

The Guyana Government and the European Commission (EC) delegation yesterday signed a financing agreement for 5.6 million euros ($1.45B) to support the national sugar action plan.

Four heavily armed and masked bandits yesterday broke into a Canje home and robbed a family of an undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery.

By Dianne Gonsalves An Essequibo man was shot dead on Tuesday night, reportedly by a Mazaruni Prison escapee who has managed to run rings around police and prison officers since December last year.

The East Ruimveldt man who was allegedly shot dead by a policeman outside a nightspot took four gunshots including one to his head, a post-mortem report yesterday revealed.

A Tuschen cane-cutter was on Monday struck down by a sand truck and later died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

The United States Embassy is inviting the public to a presentation ‘Celebrating 20 Years of Smithsonian Work in Guyana’ at the Hotel Tower.

The United States Embassy says the visa inquiries telephone services at its Consular Section will be operating for limited hours until further notice.

A National Oversight Committee for Chronic Non Communicable Diseases (CNCD) was recently launched to combat diseases that account for more than 80% of the mortality rate in developing countries.

Region Ten Regional Executive Officer Henry Rodney says rehabilitative works at the Mackenzie High School are expected to be completed within ten days to allow classes to reconvene.

In the aftermath of a fire, which has left a woman and her daughter homeless, a resident whose home was threatened believes the damage could have been far less if there had been ready access to water.

Sharda Veeren-Chand has been appointed as marketing director for the DDL group.

A quick response by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday averted what could have been a major fire at the upper end of Robb Street, a few doors away from Nigel’s Supermarket.

Some 80% of the 2,100 businesses registered for VAT filed their returns on time and 32.8% of those filing returns have claimed refunds; the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) plans to examine these.

Armed bandits operating with a speedboat robbed the Esso service station main terminal at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday afternoon.

A man accused of shipping 13 kilos of cocaine stashed in corilla on a Caribbean Air-lines flight bound for Canada, which was discovered in Trinidad, was yesterday refused bail at the George-town Magistrate’s Court.