Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 27, 2007

When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Games in July 2001, the announcement ignited wild celebrations across the country.

A 42-year-old Venezuelan who entered the country illegally and was discovered when police raided the home where he was staying, was fined $25,000 and ordered deported when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

This newspaper carried a report last week about a mother in St Lucia, who was jailed for one year for failing to do anything when she was told that her daughter was being sexually abused by her grandfather.

Kriskal Persaud first came to attention on the local chess scene as a diminutive 12-year-old junior player from Berbice.

Dwayne Bravo’s upgrade to the vice-captaincy for the forthcoming West Indies tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa places a new responsibility on a dynamic, richly talented all-round cricketer whose game has begun to drift into the worrying underachievement that has overcome so many others in the team.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis has made a call to the local corporate community to offer support to Guyana’s rugby efforts since the local men’s side is likely to represent the region at the World Cup Sevens championships in 2009.

Hosts Fruta Conquerors will go into action tomorrow as play in the fourth annual Fruta Conquerors Knockout Football Festival sponsored by the National Milling Company (Namilco) continues at the Tucville playfield under lights.

The much talked-about Olympic-size swimming pool to be constructed by the Guyana government seems one step closer to realization with the recent announcement that tenders for its construction would soon be out.

By Troy Peters The national men’s Under-21 squad will participate in this year’s Diamond Mineral Water (DMW) Hockey Festival and they will collide with Malvern of Trinidad and Tobago in the opening match of the tournament on Thursday afternoon at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Ann’s Grove, led by a double from Orlando Otto, defeated Uprising 3-0 in a Group `A’ match of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Supligen U-20 football match at the Camptown ground on Saturday.

Alonzo Greaves continued his winning ways when he won the eighth annual Diamond Mineral Water-sponsored 50-mile cycle road race on Sunday on the West Bank of Demerara.

The scheduled three-day cricket trial match arranged by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) which was set to commence today has been postponed.

The Mildred Mansfield Youth Club (MMYC) on Durban Street will stage its annual general meeting tomorrow at the club’s headquarters.

Defending champions Alpha United retained their Premier League title with a 1-0 win over Western Tigers on Sunday in the feature clash of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus competition at the Georgetown Football Club ground.

Dear Editor, Your editorial ‘Double standards?’ (Sunday Nov. 25, 2007) was well written for all to understand, but most importantly I hope that the king and his men, especially the ‘John Wayne’ minister understood.

Dear Editor , I work at a well established grocery chain here in Midwest America, Fort Wayne, IN.

Dear Editor, This time of year usually causes a lot more shoppers to come out in the busy commercial section of Georgetown and of course, the need for vehicular parking increases.

Dear Editor, My NIS number is A 1822311. I worked continuously with only one agency from the inception of the NIS, until I retired in 1991.

Dear Editor, Recently two separate and unrelated incidents in the news again highlighted the shortcomings of our government in the way these matters were handled.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article published on November 24 of your newspaper, on the remarks made by the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) that the proposed changes to the constitution of Venezuela “are major dangers to freedom of expression and private property”.

Dear Editor, I have read with utter dismay your editorial for Sunday, November 25, 2007, entitled `Double Standards’.

Dear Editor, It’s amazing that a criminal matter like discharging a loaded forearm can be settled out of court.

Dear Editor, The wanton piracy on innocent fishermen in the Corentyne area begs a lot of unanswered questions.

Dear Editor, Mr Skinner, in his letter captioned “African intellectuals must be imaginative and consider new strategies other than aggression” (07.11.22) places the burden for the reduction of ethnic politics on Africans.

One week after he allegedly pistol-whipped a 19-year-old man and then fired his gun several times during a drunken brawl over a woman at an East Coast Demerara bar, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall declined to comment on the issue yesterday.

Over 20 minibus drivers who ply the Georgetown to Timehri route halted their buses yesterday morning calling for an increase in fares and for schoolchildren to pay adult fares, since the police are clamping down severely on overloading.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin has agreed to meet President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday to resume consultations on the appointment of the Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice.

Eleven days after an invasion into the Cuyuni River area by the Venezuelan military, that country is still to respond to Guyana’s concerns.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a man at the Westbury foreshore on the Essequibo Coast.

The investigation into the blowing up of four toilets at the JC Chandisingh Secondary School was completed and after intense interrogation at the Rose Hall Police Outpost during last week, ten students have been transferred to lower level schools.

Based on a recent condition survey conducted by the Linden Mining Enterprise Limited Secretariat, a restriction of 28.8 tonnes gross vehicle weight is being imposed immediately for crossing of the Demerara River on the bridge from Linden to Wismar in Region Ten.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) is funding an assessment of the training needs of port security officers at wharves in Guyana to ensure they are compliant with the regulations outlined in the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code.

Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony yesterday handed out $500,000 cheques to two of the winners in the Carifesta X logo, theme and song competition.

The revenue licence must be displayed in a conspicuous position on motor vehicles on the road at all times, and the certificate of fitness must also be displayed on all vehicles, except private cars and motorcycles.

A baby boy said to be several months old and who appeared to be malnourished was yesterday afternoon abandoned by his mother in the Emergency Room area of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Bartica residents have been without power since yesterday afternoon following heavy rains, which flooded the Guyana Power and Light power station at First Avenue.

Over 1,000 cases of speeding have been made out for the first month of the Police Traffic Department’s zero tolerance campaign, dubbed Operation Safeway.

A post mortem preformed on the body of Chandrawattie Lalla has shown that the woman died from haemorrhage of the brain due to blunt trauma to the head.

Relatives of a West Coast Demerara pensioner who was killed in a vehicular accident more than six weeks ago said they have been denied justice, given that no one has been charged.

Zermat Internacional, which opened its doors in Guyana just a few months ago, has announced that it will donate $4 million to charity and has invited stakeholders to an open day at its Middle Street, North Cummingsburg, location tomorrow.