Articles published on Saturday, March 24, 2007
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry is concerned over the continued failure of the economy to provide jobs for graduates of the country’s secondary schools and the University of Guyana.
Visitors to Guyana for the Super Eight leg of the Cricket World Cup will be afforded opportunities to see two of Guyana’s most important tourist attractions – the Kaieteur Falls and the Iwokrama Rainforest canopy walkway.
Francia Da Silva symbolizes a hoped-for new generation of hotel proprietors whose sense of good taste, high standards and awareness of small details lends her charge a distinct competitive edge and provides more than a measure of hope that the local accommodation sector can measure up to the exacting standards of international travellers.
Five categories of claimants received more than $4bn in payments from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) based on pension claims made during 2006, according to information released by the Scheme recently.
The Guyana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Laleshwar Singh has called on the British and European businesses at an Oxford business summit to invest in Guyana now, ahead of a major investment forum scheduled for May.
Small numbers of visitor arrivals coupled with high costs of operating interior resorts are among the principal challenges facing the local tourist industry.
Realtors say inquiries for short-term rentals are not significant for the local Cricket World Cup (CWC) matches while some hoteliers are happy about steady bookings.
Over the next few weeks, I will concentrate my columns on internal company policies with the hope that both employers and employees demand that our local firms adhere to standards that are in the best interest of both parties.
Although the predictions are that the arrival here in a few days time of cricket fans for the Guyana leg of the Cricket World Cup ought to witness a financial windfall, particularly for the country’s service sector, a few imponderables persist as far as the longer term economic impact on the country is concerned.
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The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) will enter into a power-purchase agreement with the Skeldon sugar factory for the supply of about 10 megawatts of power per month.
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A Russian delegation is in Guyana to begin a pre-feasibility study for a hydropower station in the Upper Mazaruni.
Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday refused bail to a man accused of obstructing CANU officers when they were conducting a search at a home.
The robbery of four families in Lesbeholden in Black Bush Polder was a grim reminder that, far from being won, the war being waged against violent crime is going badly and probably being lost.
It was a three-figure day for West Indies yesterday that had satisfaction written all over it.
History was created last evening (Guyana time) when a four-man Guyanese team contested the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay at the 12th FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
Georgetown fans were busy ‘buying brooms’ yesterday anticipating a clean sweep of Linden in both the male and female tournament of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF)/Wildfire Productions inter-association competition.
The Berbice zone of the National Inter-Secondary School Under-16 40-over Cricket Competition continued with interesting highlights.
The Georgetown Turf Club (GTC) in its effort to promote sport tourism will be staging an eight-race horse race meet on March 31 at its Mocha Arcadia facility to coincide with the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight matches which Guyana will be hosting.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The coroner here yesterday instructed that an inquest with a jury be held into the murder of late Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, officials confirmed.
Middle-distance athlete Alika Morgan is appealing to the public for sponsorship to enable her to attend the Junior Carifta Games billed for April 7-10 in Turks and Caicos.
A cricket team from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport defeated a team from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at the NOC ground in Essequibo last Sunday.
The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) will host the National Novices and Schoolboys Championships tomorrow at Club Blue Note, 200 Camp Street, Georgetown from 11:00hrs.
Dear Editor, We refer to the letter captioned “There are many grey areas regarding zero-rated items” (06.12.27), a copy of which you had sent us for our comments.
Dear Editor, The decision emanating from the recent 18th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the conference of Heads of Government of Caricom for the convening of a special meeting of the Caricom Council on Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Air and Maritime transportation to address a transportation policy and vision for a Regional Airline, is nothing new.
Dear Editor, I read a disturbing letter by one Trevor Atkinson, titled “Omai also made no profit” (07.03.17).
Dear Editor, I see from the letters of Mr Jerome Khan captioned “Mr Kwayana’s criticism of Pandit Gossai is spiteful” and Mr Charrandass Persaud captioned “Shri Prakash Gossai is highly qualified for the job he has been offered” (07.03.08) that my earlier letter shows up my maladies, including spite, racism and ambition.
Dear Editor, The Motor Vessel Malali and other Transport and Harbours vessels that are currently plying the Essequibo route, that is to say Parika to Adventure, work with the tide and in so doing can make one round trip during the time it used to make two.
Dear Editor, It is amazing how quickly language becomes corrupted. I read recently in the newspapers that Pandit Gossai was appointed a Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits.
Dear Editor, On the morning of March 20, 2007, around 7 am, I got a call from a lady telling me of a dog at the corner of Hadfield and Lombard St, lying on the pavement in a pool of blood.
Dear Editor, I have been following the various comments in the press on the appointment of Shri Prakash Gossai as an Assistant to the President.
Dear Editor, Given our endowment of extensive and rich agricultural lands, it is a matter of commonsense to make the expansion of the agricultural sector one of the main planks of our development strategy, to ensure that the people have an adequate, regular and varied supply of food.
Brutal Jammers has conquered Guyana and is now on its way to dominating in the region as well after recently returning from a successful tour to Jamaica courtesy of its Jamaica-based star patron Natural Black.
It has been uttered so many times within the last few months that every Guyanese including your three-year-old knows Cricket World Cup is finally here and that the spanking new stadium at Providence is where the action unfolds.
Hi Everyone, As a child, I had a love-hate relationship with karaila.
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Known for her flair in pageantry, and having earned kudos for the annual Miss Guyana Talented Teen, Dillon is collaborating with Mc Neal Enterprises, owned by Odinga Lumumba who has the Miss Guyana/Universe franchise, in the hosting of the Miss Guyana Universe pageant.
Simpli Royal has landed the franchise for the Miss Bartica Regatta pageant, billed for Bartica on April 7 and the head of that company promises something to remember.
For the second time this year Brutal Traxx is bringing entertainment strictly for gospel lovers with a show dubbed ‘Step out in Faith’ the biggest contemporary gospel show.
Next week Saturday night at the Red House ten beauties will vie for a chance to represent Guyana at the Miss India Worldwide Pageant in the US, when they take to the stage in the Miss Queen of Beauty pageant.
The Sidewalk Film Club ends March with Quincea
The US Embassy will screen the documentary film Ladies First at the National Library on Monday, in honour of Women’s History Month.
Over the past several weeks, we have looked at what we can do to help build an environment where we no longer need to use corporal punishment.
Marine turtles face many threats during their lifespan. From the time that they hatch from their sandy nests, to the age of maturity and beyond, there are many dangers that must be avoided.
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) said yesterday that several players on the ground were putting the “finishing touches” to the Guyana National Stadium at Providence and all were being managed “by a team”.
Five bandits, two of whom were armed with “one long and one short gun”, attacked and robbed a family at Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam of $4,000 and a quantity of gold jewellery worth $130,000 around 1:50 am yesterday.
The Richard Ishmael student who was accused of fatally stabbing a woman at her school just over a year ago was yesterday committed to stand trial for manslaughter.
Four men have been held and two others are being sought in connection with a $90 million diamond heist that was staged at the start of the month.
Just days before her 24th birthday, the body of a young woman was recovered from the Essequibo River where she had gone to swim and drowned on Thursday.
An East Bank Demerara man was on Thursday arrested after a police cordon and search operation unearthed two guns with matching ammunition.
Joan Wiles-Alleyne appears to be an unassuming woman but beneath that fa?e
Bandits on Wednesday robbed a woman of cash and jewellery when they stuck-up the Cool Square Beer Garden.
Forty-eight women from across the country have launched a campaign to write to political leaders about the issues affecting them as a way of dealing with the “unfulfilled promises” made to them .They
A massive clean-up exercise has begun in South Georgetown and residents hope to host a cultural fete on its completion.
At the end of last year there were some 1,600 persons on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in Guyana with 800 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) being served by the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) OVC programme.
Relatives of Marcel Neptune who died after he was chopped on the neck last October in the Festival City area are dissatisfied with the lack of progress in the investigation into his murder.
Five-year-old Girwattie Nelson of Yakusari Nursery School, who fell 20 ft from a section of the school corridor where some of the rails were missing, ended up with both of her legs in cast on Thursday after x-rays showed that they were fractured.
The de-politicisation of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) remains a key feature of the final observer report for last year’s polls.
The Botanic Gardens has unveiled plans for the creation of the “Schomburgk Pavillion and Pond,” in honour of German anthropologist Robert Schomburgk.
An official tour guide containing a wealth of information will be available to the large number of visitors who are expected to flock these shores starting next week for Cricket World Cup.
Grand Coastal Hotel is placing paramount importance on the security of its guests during the Cricket World Cup.
An armed robbery at a Chinese restaurant at Industry on Thursday has been linked to a gang believed to be behind a series of robberies around the city.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) advises consumers to request weighing of solid goods by mass and not volume.
A ten-year-old boy was killed after he was struck by a minibus on the Limlair Public Road, at Corentyne.
Regional cellular phone giant Digicel hosted a cocktail event on Wednesday night to introduce its local sponsor assets for the year.
The government has discussed with the German State Agency (KFW) the establishment of a protected areas system during a KFW mission here, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.
