Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Congrats on Breast Feeding Rate! I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the tireless work of the Health Minister Dr Ramsammy in single handedly keeping the breast feeding rate so high.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

Stating that he could not “accept” the custodial penalty for simple larceny, a man accused of stealing produce worth over $170,000 was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Tempers flared last Friday while a time was being set for the continuation of the Farouk Razac murder PI this week and ended with special prosecutor Hukumchand threatening to give up the case in which beauty queen Carolan Lynch is accused of her husband’s murder, saying that his schedule was not taken into consideration when a High Court judge ordered that the case be heard whenever that court sits.

The Buddy’s fuel trial was once again stalled yesterday owing to the absence of the prosecution and the defence has still not laid over their written submissions to the court although they were warned to do so almost two weeks ago.

Defence attorneys for Ashanti Schultz who is accused of murdering a hospital porter during a shooting melee on Main Street argued for and received additional witnesses’ statements as the second witness testified.

Much of this country’s vast hinterland is veritable terra incognita to the administration.

A Man-of-the-Match innings of 70 from captain Ramnaresh Sarwan led Guyana to a three-wicket victory over the Windward Islands in their opening 2007/2008 KFC limited overs match at the Albion Community Centre ground yesterday.

Guyana’s three-member weightlifting team will depart today for Puerto Rico to participate in the Criollo Cup Weightlifting championships scheduled to open tomorrow.

Three days, three sporting disciplines, approximately 156 athletes and just about 45 officials and the twenty third edition of the Inter-Guiana is set to be launched on Friday.

Camptown Football Club produced a stunning upset over Premier League powerhouse Fruta Conquerors in a GFA Cellink Premier League match on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground.

Mc Gill Superstars will clash with Zeeburg Cricket Club in the final of the New Line Aqua Farm limited overs cricket tournament on Sunday at Canal Number Two Sports Club ground, West Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Success, as the saying goes, breeds, its own enemies.

Alika Morgan did not spare a soul as she dominated all of her events to once again qualify for the national secondary schools athletic championships.

A Herculean effort by experienced, Barbados left-handed batsman, Floyd Reifer, almost took the Combined Campuses and Colleges [CCC] to a major upset victory over defending champions, Trinidad & Tobago, as the 2007 KFC Cup 50-over tournament bowled off yesterday at the Providence Stadium.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article by Mr Troy Peters in Stabroek News on Sunday September 30th 2007 captioned “Grounds zero” and wish to bring to your attention, the condition of the Uitvlugt Community Development Centre Ground and the Leonora Park ground.

Dear Editor, A grave and serious crisis is looming for Essequibians.

Dear Editor, On Sunday night the CNN program 60 minutes did a piece on the development of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), specifically Dubai.

Dear Editor, The twin phenomena of Global Warming and Climate Change offer a unique opportunity for a developing country like Guyana to lead the way in terms of different, climate- friendly approaches to spatial and urban development.

Dear Editor, In Wednesday’s issue of SN (10/10/07), TCL Guyana Inc.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my condolences to the grieving relatives of the ten people who lost their lives in the latest McKenzie Highway smash-up.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my indignation at the incident involving a jogger and two free roaming, ferocious dogs (please note I say “dogs” because any dog regardless of breed can be ferocious and may bite); and to extend my sympathy and wish a speedy and full recovery to the injured jogger.

Dear Editor, Mr. Walter Wirtz has opened the door for me to make an observation with his letter captioned, “The pollution is generated in the developed countries”.

Dear Editor, Within recent times Mr Robert Corbin has been having a lot of negative press.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday clarified his statement made at the opening of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting on Monday when he spoke about deploying the country’s forest in the fight against climate change, noting that he didn’t mean that ownership of the forest would have been transferred.

A lawyer for Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who pleaded not guilty to three drug charges in New York and was remanded to prison last month, is in plea bargain negotiations with the prosecution, court documents have said.

Four men and a woman are in police custody while the search continues for a small aircraft registered to Air Services Limited which mysteriously disappeared from the Anna Regina airstrip early Sunday morning.

Financing for women and financial literacy for legislators and the citizenry formed the basis for the discussions when Commonwealth Central Bank Governors met Monday morning at the Central Bank.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday promised to render financial assistance to the relatives of the 10 victims of the Linden highway accident.

The developed countries’ agenda is no more on fighting poverty and alleviating hunger but rather on “economic aggrandizement at the expense of poor people” and developing countries can no longer depend on the “courtesies and handouts” of those partners, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is calling on all Guyanese and their organisations to speak out against what it described as the “spiteful dismissal” of the acting kitchen manager of President’s College, Claudia Shultz.

Potable water supply will soon be restored to Mahdia, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall told residents during a two-day visit to the area last weekend.

A pair of manatees was on Friday exported to Spain under an agreement that will provide funding for improvements to the aquarium to house the Arapaima exhibits at the Guyana Zoological Park.

Climate change is turning out to be the most difficult economic issue the world has had to deal with and to combat it effectively economic growth will have to be shared equitably among developed and developing nations of the world.

Even as growth prospects remain good for next year, high oil prices and the increasing current account deficit of the United States and its role in imbalances in the global financial system could be cause for concern, says Nigerian Finance Minister Dr.

Police are still on the hunt for a gunman who was one of two who opened fire on a businessman and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home early Monday morning.

A breakfast dialogue by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) for Heads of Delegation saw the discussion of inclusive banking and access to finance by the poor, said Finance Minister Dr.

Guyana was one of the countries that did not respond to a questionnaire issued in December 2006 by the Commonwealth Secretariat Gender Section.

Improvements in safety and traffic management on the roadways continue to receive considerable attention as focus is now being placed on developing a strategy to regulate the operations of public commercial transportation services.

Lindeners last evening came out in their numbers for a candlelight vigil at the crash site for the 10 persons who perished in last Wednesday’s road accident.

Three men who allegedly had various quantities of ganja for trafficking when they were searched at police roadblocks were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A speed boat operator who borrowed a knife from a vendor to peel fruits and failed to return it was stabbed to death with the same knife yesterday at Supenaam.