Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 9, 2007

We live in a world crisscrossed by borders, drawn and redrawn throughout history, chosen by fancy or caprice, and all too often defended by bloodshed.

A New Building Society (NBS) account holder who says she lost $7.2M after requesting a wire transfer last year is suing the society for the transaction to be completed.

A man who was allegedly discovered with a gun hidden under his cap while in a minibus which was stopped by the police at a roadblock was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

An Essequibo bus conductor who allegedly raped a girl along with others almost two years ago was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday remanded a man to prison after he appeared on a charge of stealing US$2,000 at gunpoint from another man who was charged last Friday with shooting at him.

Two years after Feroze Alli was fatally shot during the Main Big Lime, Kevin Anthony is before the High Court for the murder.

A Leguan rice vendor who allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl after she refused to have sex with him was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A man who allegedly raped a girl in July last year and May this year was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Pity Marion Jones. Now that she can no longer deny using steroids at the 2000 Olympics, the sprinter formerly known as the most successful female athlete in history has admitted cheating and announced her retirement from track and field-probably as part of a plea bargain in the ever-widening BALCO scandal.

Today, Stabroek Sport looks at the 14-man Guyana team which will attempt to win limited overs title number 10 when they compete in the KFC Cup regional cricket competition which bowls off next Tuesday at several venues here.

Bowlers stole the spotlight in the latest round of matches in the Georgetown Cricket Association P&P/ Cummings Electrical Raymond Panday Memorial two-day Second Division competition with three ten-wicket hauls being recorded against seven fifties.

It was a splendid finale. A large, well-behaved crowd was in attendance; the participating teams were well turned out, particularly the New Opportunity Corps [NOC] and the ladies of the Blazers’ Sports Club of Kabakaburi.

Dear Editor, Your Sunday, October 7 Editorial confirms that Stabroek News has surreptitiously and wickedly joined the band wagon of rumour mongers.

Dear Editor, Thank you for affording me the opportunity to make a response to the letter written by B S Persaud, captioned “Six year wait for word on Pomeroon land” (07.10.03).

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Hon. Minister P. Manickchand I would like to acknowledge the receipt of your correspondence dated 28-07-2007 enclosing a letter from K.

Dear Editor, Recently there has been much coverage on forestry and mining.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Al Creighton’s letter captioned “Like universities generally UG has never had a formal statutory evaluation system for its top officers” (07.10.04) which to our dismay is filled with inaccuracies.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter from Naiceles Williams captioned “Women are regularly subjected to vulgar remarks and obscene suggestions” (07.10.07).

Dear Editor, I Jason Benjamin Presidential Candidate, Standard Bearers Party (SBP), for the UGSS elections 2007/2008 wish to congratulate the new security firm, Securicor, on its embarkation on the prestigious institution’s soil (UG).

Dear Editor, There was, what appeared to be, the smallest of small errors in yesterday’s Sunday Chronicle.

Dear Editor, For me, the letter columns of two popular newspapers have become a double-glance-few-minutes activity.

Dear Editor, I agree with the views expressed by Swami Aksharananda in his letter “Gandhi’s dedication to non-violence is a vital message today” (October 6, 2007), in which he linked violence with religion.

Dear Editor, I was extremely happy to note that the Committee related to the Guyana Prize for Literature offered an award to Mr.

There is no guarantee that the six proposals by the Carib-bean to the EU to assure market access for sugar would be accepted, President Bharrat Jagdeo says and he added that regional leaders are keen to test the legality of the scrapped Sugar Protocol in court.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday disclosed that recent alleged breaches of forestry procedures involve collusion between Barama Company Limited, some concessionaires and staffers at the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).

President Bharrat Jagdeo was yesterday given a chance to clear the air on whether he was interested in a third term in office but he said he was not going to get sucked into all of these “rumours”.

A 34-year-old excavator operator was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bartica Hospital following an accident in the Upper Mazaruni area.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh yesterday dismissed reports that some President’s College students who staged a protest over the water situation at the school were suspended or expelled, insisting that no action has been taken against the students.

Police Service Commission members were yesterday sworn in at the Office of the President two months after the National Assembly approved the nominees to sit on it but there is no chairman.

One of the names that has surfaced in the recent multi-million dollar fraud at the New Building Society (NBS), Kumar Ragobar was dismissed from the society on an unrelated matter but there is the view that he may have answers to question on the $69M theft from the account of a NBS customer.

Kirkpatrick’s Catering has been given a last chance to apply to offer catering services to parliament with the reopening of the tender process.

The European Union has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of the Netherlands to implement a sustainable management of the Guiana Shield Eco-region and Guyana’s Iwokrama forest is included.

Police yesterday said that a post-mortem conducted on Allison Paul, the mother of two whose body was discovered face-down in a trench near the East La Penitence Police Station on Friday, revealed that she died from asphyxia due to drowning.

Media liaison officer in the Office of the President (OP) Kwame McKoy yesterday acknowledged that he was behind controversial billboards on the maritime tribunal award and said he had done it after being approached by some businessmen.

Four patrons of a liquor restaurant at Line Path, Skeldon were attacked by four men, two of whom were armed with firearms and two with knives.

The Caribbean Water Initiative (CARWIN) yesterday made a donation of a US$8,000 water quality testing kit to government to boost effective water management and St.

Four cows were last evening killed and six persons injured after a Route 42 minibus spun out of control around a turn at Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara.

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with Caricom last week held a teacher training workshop aimed at introducing Spanish to the primary school curriculum.

A mother, her son and a friend were on Sunday attacked and robbed by two bandits at her Annandale South, East Coast Demerara home.

Some 173 youths from across the country recently began a ten-month residential stint at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre under the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training programme.

The Guyana Police Force wishes to inform members of the public that persons are not required to pay for mini-bus passes when they need to travel out of the dedicated zone of the mini-bus.