Daily Archive: Friday, November 30, 2007

Compared with the tension that exists in Muslim communities across Europe, America’s Muslims are a more contented lot.

On Sunday, Venezuelans will vote in a national referendum on constitutional reform.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Colonel (retd) Carl Morgan has told Stabroek Business that the business organisation expects that VAT could impact significantly on sales volumes during the festive season.

Guyana continues to experience the single most vigorous marketing rivalry in the country’s commercial history as the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and its rival cellular service provider, DIGICEL, continue their unrelenting rivalry for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the local cellular market.

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The Guyana National Bureau of Standards and the Food and Drugs Analyst Department are two of the country’s more important monitoring agencies and in recent years the critical importance of their respective roles have become increasingly apparent.

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Business drivers are tied to public policies in many ways. We constantly talk about reviving our nation’s economy, why we have so little foreign investment and why there is still so much poverty in our nation while smaller nations around us seem to thrive.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is seeking to tighten its monitoring operations in an effort to ensure that seasonal imports, including toys and other goods associated with Christmas, are compliant with labeling requirements and safety standards, according to the Head of the Bureau’s Public Relations Department, Evadnie Benfield.

If the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) succeeds in making a case against the miners charged with illegally mining and destroying roads between Mahdia and North Fork earlier this year, the penalty for the offence could include the confiscation of mining equipment already impounded by the Commission, according to Acting Commissioner William Woolford.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has increased its after tax profits for the year ended September 30, 2007 by 11.22% from $1028.9M in 2006 to $1144.4M.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Showing tremendous endurance, grit and determination, Alonzo `Zo’ Greaves yesterday turned in a performance of the highest quality to take the lead in the five-stage `Tour de Guyana’ cycle road race after winning the second stage in a driving finish from John Charles.

Pre-tournament favourites Old Fort and Everest Hikers battled to a draw, defending women’s champions Raiders opened on a winning note and Malvern men were severe on new-comers Shakatan on the opening day of the Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

Unconvincing statistics have been disregarded in favour of experience and longevity preferred to potential in the changes to West Indies team from the five ODIs in Zimbabwe to the subsequent tough series of three Tests in South Africa.

Eulanie Ousley of the Berbice Campus of the University of Guyana, was voted the best graduating student at the ninth annual Sports Administrators Course organized by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) which was held from November 23-25 for the first time in Berbice.

Ezone Internet Shopping and Delivery Service has consented to sponsor the Fatima Hockey Club of Trinidad and Tobago who are currently participating in the Guyana Hockey Board Diamond Mineral Water-sponsored tournament underway at the Cliff Anderson Sports hall.

Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has challenged the Rotary Club of Georgetown to make their annual Day of Sports for the Physically Challenged a national event, and committed government’s support to the organization in that regard.

“Twenty four runs in one ball. Jujubi (too easy),” screams a look-alike of Tamil actor Rajinikanth from a poster outside the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula.

Dear Editor, Accountability is the foundation of responsible government. The Guyana Parliament on behalf of Guyanese people must have the capacity to hold ministers accountable for their behaviour and conduct as representatives of the people.

Dear Editor, I was very surprised to see the headline, “Shooting incident involving minister settled out of court” (07.11.26).

Dear Editor, Travelling around George-town and along the coast, I had noticed a number of recently erected street signs that had been damaged or for some reason knocked down and weeks had passed and no one seemed to notice.

Dear Editor, It has come to my realization that the use of airmail envelopes has become almost extinct.

Dear Editor, I congratulate the management of Dave’s Television Station (DTV-8) in Berbice for once again providing live coverage of New Amsterdam town day 2007, which was held over the last weekend.

Dear Editor, The members and executive of the Pattensen Community development Council have been trying to have a meeting with His Excellency the President for some time without any success.

Dear Editor, We at City Hall welcome an advertisement by the Guyana Consumers Assoc-iation on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in your newspaper issue of Sunday November 25, 2007.

Dear Editor, While the Minister of Home Affairs waxes about the rule of law, and many proceed to morally preen themselves while vilifying the supposed ill-conduct of villagers in Buxton and residents of Ruimveldt in the GPL issue, we are witnesses to the most awful and disgusting abuses of the law by those occupying the very pinnacles of power in the society.

Dear Editor, Twenty years ago, when the Guyana dollar was devalued to 115 to 1, during the presidency of Desmond Hoyte, after the government came under IMF control the sudden currency devaluation had a damaging effect on the wages of workers and pensioners.

Dear Editor, I leave home at Mc Doom at 05.30 hrs to go to work (I am living alone) and return around 18:00 to 190:0hrs.

Dear Editor, I have always imagined the birth of a nation to be a chaotic event.

Dear Editor, Several letters have been written in the past by both organizations and individuals, including myself, on VAT’s detrimental effects on the lives of the average Guyanese family.

Government revenue from Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax (ET) stands at $17.1 billion for the first six months of this year, which is 68.95% of the projected $24.8 billion collection for 2007.

Powerful tremors from a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique were felt across Guyana yesterday afternoon, and had scores of people rushing out of shaking buildings in panic.

Guyanese should expect “a series of blackouts for the Christmas season,” owing to deteriorating finances at the power company, escalating prices in fuel and the power company’s failure to bring this to the attention of the government, the President said yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday resisted calls by the opposition to sack gun-toting Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall, who was involved in a rum shop brawl with a teenager two Sundays ago.

Officers from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday made their second cocaine bust in five days, nabbing an Italian woman who was attempting to leave the country with some ten pounds of the drug concealed among the clothing in her suitcase.

The man who was detained by police for questioning on Tuesday last following a robbery attempt on a Herstelling businessman has been released on station bail.

The death of a premature baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday has left a young mother devastated.

A team from Caracas, Venezuela is expected here next week, with the report on the invasion at Cuyuni, which occurred earlier this month, as well as one on last year’s killing at Eteringbang.

Roger Bunbury also known as ‘Don Dick’ who the police released on Wednesday after holding him for nine days, is calling on the force to quit harassing him and stop referring to him as one of Guyana’s most wanted men.

Opposition leader Robert Corbin expressed optimism yesterday that he and President Bharrat Jagdeo could find the middle ground on the nominees for the position of Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Judiciary.

The reputed wife of the snackette owner who was executed on Tuesday in front of his residence and business place at Number 78 Village, Corriverton has been taken into custody at the Springlands Police Station.

Four credit cards, including two that can only be used locally, were last evening launched by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) at a cocktail reception at the bank’s Recreational Centre in Bel Air Park.