Daily Archive: Saturday, October 20, 2007

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A 24-year-old man who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a teenaged girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A man who allegedly had three firearms and ganja in his possession at Mocha, East Bank Demerara was on Wednesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

A 35-year-old fisherman was refused bail when he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the Blairmont Court charged with break and enter and larceny.

The pathologist who performed the post-mortem on the body of Swiss House Cambio boss Farouk Razac on Thursday testified about his findings at the preliminary inquiry (PI).

A man accused of raping a woman was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

A minibus driver who allegedly hit down a schoolboy who was crossing Croal Street on Wednesday was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.

Guyanese Marvin Harmon was remanded into custody on Wednesday in Barbados after he was charged with the murder of his wife Roseanna Yearwood on Monday.

A dialogue in this newspaper’s ‘Letters to the Editor’ column recently, focused on the dynamic in male-female relations.

Harold Taylor, FIFA Development Officer with responsibilities for the Caribbean says government should do a lot more for football in Guyana with respect to facilities.

A typically explosive innings of 71 from skipper Chris Gayle enabled Jamaica to inflict a crushing nine-wicket defeat over the West Indies U-19s at the Enmore Community Centre ground, yesterday.

Barbados, led by a patient 71 from Jonathan Carter and a five-wicket haul from Man-of-the-match Fidel Edwards, defeated Leeward Islands by 14 runs in their KFC preliminary round match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, yesterday despite a fighting 65 from Runako Morton.

Suriname edged French Guiana 36-34 in a thrilling women’s basketball matchup as the Inter-Guiana games swung into action yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Ministry of Housing with 228 games won the all-female three-way aggregate Dominoes series which ended Thursday evening at Neal and Massy Sports Club at Ruimveldt.

This year’s GT&T sponsored National Indoor Hockey tournament has been rescheduled and is likely to take place early next year at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Philip Fernandes has disclosed.

Another keen contest is anticipated at today’s Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) sponsored Golf tournament at the Lusignan Course.

Dear Editor, My last submission to Stabroek News, captioned ‘PNC should develop a strategy to attract disaffected Indian Guyanese,’ (07.10.07) drew the attention of the Alliance For Change Member of Parliament Ms.

Dear Editor, In his column of October 18, 2007 Mr. F.

Dear Editor, Two recent letter-writers referred to the implementation of a dress code to the Post Office.

Dear Editor, I express profound condolences to the bereaved families, relatives, and friends and to the entire community of Linden, for the unfathomable loss of life as a result of that dreadful accident of October 10.

Dear Editor, I would have thought that the newspapers would be screaming with releases such as ” Sparta Global Enterprises to add ten news buses to their fleet”, ” Countrywide protest to be held calling for safer and cheaper means of public transport”.

Dear Editor, Of all the ideas put forward for trying to avoid a repeat of the terrible accident on the Linden highway, the one that appeals to me the most is that “the drivers of vehicles that break down on the highway definitely ought to get a message to patrol officers who would then respond and protect the area until assistance is received to remove the vehicle ……..”

Dear Editor, I write with reference to the recent insufficiency, or substandard quality of water provided to the students of President’s College and the ensuing developments, highlighted in your article dated Monday, October 15, 2007 captioned “Kitchen Manager at PC fired.”

Dear Editor, Mr. Eric Phillips sees what he calls a quiet holocaust in Guyana .

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Mr Creighton captioned “Several members of the university staff have spoken to the media on various issues” (07.10.16) in which he imputes ulterior motives to the Kaieteur News in the paper’s relationship with me because he had a conversation with the editor of KN about sending a letter and I came to know about that fact.

Dear Editor, Unlike in Guyana when only two polling organizations conducted polls for that country’s elections last year, there are five polling organizations conducting polls in Trinidad.

Taking home the gold and outdistancing the other runners to win the 100M sprint at the Olympics was once the dream of recently crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen Trisana Cox but now the former national athlete is concentrating on becoming a paediatrician.

We are not sure what it is, maybe it is the climb of the cost of living, but from all appearances Guyanese citizens seem to be in what is known as a ‘bad mood’ all the time.

Hi Everyone, You remember several weeks ago when I told you that I’m nuts for coconuts?

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Looking for the fur to fly and the claws to come out?

Three men, two of whom were armed, on Thursday morning staged a daring robbery on Nedd’s Uplift Bakery at the corner of Garnett and Middleton streets but it all went wrong.

The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday called on Canada to halt the exportation of criminals to Georgetown.

After visiting the ports for the Corentyne` backtrack’ (illegal migration) crossing to Suriname in vain for almost two weeks, passengers were finally able to get back to their destinations as the service resumed at around 2 pm yesterday.

With a visible scar on his chest, tears in his eyes and a mouthful of praise for the medical team that operated on him, Guyana’s first open-heart surgery patient Manmohan Singh left the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday as quietly as he went in.

‘We cannot effectively disconnect because everyone is feeding on each other.

Dr. James Rose was re-appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana when the re-constituted council met on Wednesday to discuss the renewal of his contract but the constituting of the council is being challenged.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says that the main focus at its Triennial Delegates Conference this year will be consideration of strong protest action since in its view the government has reneged on a number of agreements made.

Jamaica needs more of Guyana’s rice and Minister within the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Investment of Jamaica, Michael Stern is currently on a familiarisation visit to assess Guyana’s capability to supply rice to the Jamaica market.

A Guyanese woman was found strangled to death in her home in Trinidad on Wednesday night and the personal driver to a politician is the man police suspect killed her, a report in the Trinidad Guardian said yesterday.

Scotia Bank Managing Director Amanda St. Aubyn is advocating investment in women and the creation of equal business opportunities.

The ongoing feud involving Parika market roadside vendors and government over the location of stalls boiled down on Thursday when Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall met with vendors.

The People’s National Congress Reform has expressed concern over the poor services available at the Linden Hospital Complex, following the recent accident in the mining town which claimed the lives of ten persons.

In a daring daylight robbery at around 3.15 pm yesterday, three men attacked and robbed the driver of a tanker truck of $1.8M in front of the Ocean View Convention Centre at Liliendaal on the East Coast of Demerara.

Clearance of barrels, registering vehicles and generally any business with a government entity will require citizens to have a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) from January 1 as the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) seeks to further widen the tax net.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha says it has organised motorcades to traverse the entire coastal belt in honour of this year’s Deepavali celebrations.

Two persons were hospitalized after the minibus that they were in collided with a truck on the Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara public road yesterday.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad lauded the initiative by the proprietor of a small business he declared open on Thursday at Cornelia Ida.

The teenager who made an allegation of indecent assault against a senior government functionary has since signed a sworn affidavit saying that she is unreservedly withdrawing the allegation she made.