Daily Archive: Sunday, March 4, 2007

In April this year pupils aged eleven plus will be sitting the Grade Six Assessment for the first time.

Upper Demerara edged their Georgetown counterparts 4-3 in a penalty shoot-out to win the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Demerara Distillers Ltd Inter-Association under-17 Football tournament at the GFC ground yesterday.

CLIVE LLOYD declared last week that a triumph before their own people in the first World Cup held in the Caribbean would be “the type of boost that is needed” by West Indies cricket at present.

They are already the number one team in Georgetown but that’s simply not enough; tonight, Courts Pacesetters will look to become the number one team in Guyana when they face current champions, Kings.

Four teams recorded victories when play in the Chico Sweets/Smalta Cup National Inter-Secondary Schools Futsal Tournament continued on Friday at the National Gymnasium.

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) continued their Toucan Industries junior squash tournament on Friday evening with interesting matches being played.

The Berbice softball inter-county trial matches will commence today and conclude tomorrow at the Young Warriors cricket club ground in Cumberland, East Canje.

The Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) commenced their Igloo Ice-cream boys and girls under-11 tournaments at the Queen’s College court on Friday.

Dear Editor, I am very heartened by Dr Chatterpaul Ramcharran’s announcement that the GNBS would be encouraging small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) compliance with the standard for good management practice – which I consider particularly important at this juncture.

Dear Editor, We refer to an article appearing in the Stabroek News dated Wednesday, February 28, 2007.

Dear Editor, Upon reading your news article, “AFC MP in team for Nebraska as dispute settled,” (March 3), I must say I am relieved and happy that the AFC has waged a successful public fight to be represented on the parliamentary delegation to Nebraska this month.

You probably remember the routine from your last physical exam: A nurse wraps a cuff around your upper arm, pumps the cuff full of air, and then lets the air out slowly while listening through a stethoscope.

In this new world it is smart to be a Smart Alec.

Undoubtedly, the Oasis Cafe has laid the foundation for revitalizing chess in Guyana by providing a venue for two tournaments in January and February.

We have on several previous occasions alluded to the common features of various different traditional festivals and, in particular, those that are primarily religious.

Wilson Harris, The Ghost of Memory (London : Faber and Faber, 2006.

My eyes water when I’m in the sun and sometimes burn.

In the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins, Winifred Banks, the mother of the children whom the nanny Mary Poppins is engaged to care for, is a valiant and fervent feminist.

Last week we documented that the heartworms live mostly in the right side heart chambers.

I don’t ever remember reading about any of the great names in the history that I was taught as a boy suffering agonizing toothache.

I have seen the claim made that the recent Caricom summit was the most successful ever.

In a little over ten days time, ministers from the Caribbean will meet in Bonn with their counterparts from across Europe and the ACP.

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Today’s column continues the discussion of the relation of interior/forestry roads to development within the context of the third cause singled out by the PRSP as contributory to endemic poverty: the absence of non-complementing growth-oriented infrastructure (PRSP 2001, p.

Introduction Last Sunday (February 25) Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (BTI) published the summary of its financial statements as required by the Financial Institutions Act; the annual report was also recently mailed out to shareholders.

A move to make possible the operation of a casino was one of the terms agreed to by the government for the establishment of the Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort.

Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro yesterday suggested bilateral discussions on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A US Grand Jury in New York has slapped Guyanese drug accused Raphael Christopher Douglas with six charges relating to trafficking in narcotics in that country.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Patrick Manning believes that the energy requirements of the region can be supplied by Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela together.

A policeman patrolling Regent Street caused quite a commotion yesterday when he accidentally shot himself in the hip.

Ernest Brassington, one of the architects behind the Guyana National Service, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday an hour after a minibus struck him down.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is pleased that the recommendations of two studies commissioned during Guyana’s chairmanship of the Rio Group have been accepted by the group and there are plans to deal with their implementation.

Two former government ministers have been appointed to the board of directors of the Caricom General Insurance Com-pany Inc, the former Guyana Fire, Life and General Insurance Com-pany (GuyFlag) Inc.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) calls on citizens to celebrate the colours, splendour, and liveliness of Spring that the Phagwah festival brings.

The leader of the Justice For All Party, CN Sharma has extended joyous Holi greetings to the entire Guyanese nation.

President of the Dominican Republic Dr Leonel Fernandez Reyna said that the Rio Group has to be revitalised and new programmes of cooperation have to be identified, objectives he intends to pursue as incoming chairman.

Another gold miner is dead and one other injured after the truck they were travelling in, from a mining site called ‘Frenchman’ lost control and crashed into a curb.

Guyanese are being called upon to use the festival of Phagwah to build permanent bonds of friendship and unity to bestow greater stature on Guyana.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha said Holi is a time to share in the spirit of sewa, to replace hate with love and to take steps to reconcile differences in order to construct a unified society.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) extends good wishes to the Hindu community and all citizens on the occasion of the festival of Phagwah.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) calls on citizens to celebrate Holi as it is a festival which celebrates life and hope as a focus for national unity.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) urges a re-dedication of all Guyanese to uprooting evils of crime and corruption and other evils that still persist to Guyanese, in particular the Hindu community on the occasion of Phagwah.