Daily Archive: Thursday, November 15, 2007

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Guardians of the past, they testify to the ordeals and exploits of those who worked in them.

We are living – according to some – on the brink of a nanotechnology revolution, where matter is engineered at a scale thousands of times smaller than the eye can see, and familiar materials behave in unexpected ways.

A boxing coach accused of raping a 20-year-old woman appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded to prison.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenager who admitted that he had 30 kilos of ganja for trafficking to three years imprisonment and fined him $30,000 when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

In the shadowland of unsolved murders, unexplained disappearances and uninvestigated police killings, the recent remarks of Police Commissioner Mr Henry Greene cast little light and held out scant hope for the bereft families of the victims.

At the end of the opening day of the National School’s Athletics, Cycling and Swimming Championships defending champions District 10 (Upper Demerara Upper Berbice) were out in front amassing 186 points in the track and field events, 38 points in the cycling events and 62 points in the teachers’ events for a total of 286 points on the day.

But for the difference of a few days, Ottis Gibson might well now be in Barbados, overseeing the preparation of the West Indies team for the forthcoming tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa as head coach.

You know what bother’s me? That sometime this week I have to go to my favourite caf

Spin Killers Elishaba Johnson and Joshua Sue-Ho held it together against Mae’s “C” team to clinch the Division `E’ title of the Dennis Patterson memorial table tennis league on Friday.

The next breed of champion cyclists should be determined sometime in the next few weeks.

If all goes according to plan the tender process for the construction of a modern swimming facility complete with warm up pools will begin sometime in the next few days.

Dear Editor, I have been caught up several mornings in the congestion that occurs at the junction west of David and Sheriff streets.

Dear Editor, Many persons like me are baffled to see that massive construction work is being carried out on a concrete building just by the roadside of the Suddie car park area in Region Two.

Dear Editor, I am a television host on TTS Ch5 Bartica.

Dear Editor, The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party has again referred to the episode related to the Abraham murders.

Dear Editor, I read in Stabroek News on 07.10.27 about the dismissal in the case of the Ministry of Labour vs Cab’s Hardware and General Store.

Dear Editor, The Office of the President is once again set to arbitrarily impose a wage hike on the Guyana Public Service Union, (GPSU).

Dear Editor, I find it quite strange, as the festive season is almost upon us, that the town council at Linden would seek to demolish the stalls of the struggling small businesses.

Dear Editor, It is noteworthy that on Sunday (Nov 11, 2007), President Jagdeo joined acting Prime Minister Clement Rohee, other government officials, members of the disciplined forces, the Scouts’ Association, the diplomatic corps and veteran soldiers in laying wreaths at the Remembrance Day monument site, the Cenotaph.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to comment on two issues, which were highlighted in the Tuesday, November 6 edition of the Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) will be holding consultations with the Afro Guyanese community on November 15 and 16 to address our perceived needs.

Dear Editor, Ameena Gafoor says among other things in her letter on Naipaul, that the main question we ought to be asking when we approach the oeuvre should be “Is it art?”

Dear Editor, Several organizations have dealt with the appalling problem of child abuse at length, most notably the World Health Organization in concert with the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter captioned “The situation that African Guyanese are confronted with requires a political response” (07.11.

Dear Editor, At last, we have an honest assessment of the PNCR.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) announced yesterday that it will pay the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) $96.4 million fine for a number of breaches related to under declaration and falsifying documentation of product origin committed in third party concessions.

Three years after electing Opposition Leader Robert Corbin as its president general, the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) denounced him yesterday stating that he had never even been a member.

A city businessman was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Oneidge Waldron-Allicock charged with four counts of buggery of male minors.

Two brothers were killed yesterday evening when their motorcycle and a sand truck collided on the public road at Versailles, West Bank Demerara, close to the VCT Channel 28 transmission station.

A large local logging company was yesterday fined approximately $21 million by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) over similar breaches for which Barama Company Limited was fined $96.4 million last month.

Laws across Caribbean nations need to be harmonised if the creation of a credit bureau for the sharing of information among indigenous banks as a means of tracking bad creditors and money launderers is to become a reality.

Contractors likely to be awarded Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) contracts were on Tuesday oriented about the company’s expectations and reminded of their obligations regarding adherence to work standards.

The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is threatening strike action if workers of the New Amsterdam Town Council do not receive their October salaries by today.

Police on Monday arrested 18 minibus ‘touts’ at the various bus parks in the city during the zero tolerance traffic operations in progress, police said in a press release yesterday.

The partly decomposed body of an elderly man was yesterday found in a trench next to the Mandela Avenue dump site, Princes Street, Georgetown.