Daily Archive: Saturday, December 8, 2007

“Dis country like a powderkeg waiting to explode. We have a serious ethnic/race problem in dis country, yeh.

NEW YORK – Before I became the UN’s Secretary-General, I was an Asian diplomat.

A man who allegedly had ganja in his possession when police searched him appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded.

At an interaction with the media on Monday last, President Bharrat Jagdeo hedged when asked whether the reports that he was planning a Cabinet reshuffle were true.

Defending champions Berbice will be hard-pressed to retain their Guyana Cricket Board Inter-County Twenty20 title when the competition commences today at the National Stadium at Providence ground.

DearEditor, Presumably the Barama Company Limited will now be sending home the same proportion of its expatriate work force as the proportion of its Guyanese staff who are being made redundant?

Dear Editor, At a recent press conference, the President of Guyana was purported to have stated that if the Government of Guyana (GoG) does not get what it considers a ‘fair price’ for the used BMW cars it has in stock, it will keep them.

Dear Editor, Please find below, a copy of a letter which I sent to the Editor of the Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday last for publication.

Dear Editor, Awareness of autism, a brain development disorder which is often confused with mental disorder, is gaining prominence globally.

Dear Editor, Many writers, including myself, have written in the past about Value Added Tax (VAT) and attributed rising prices of food commodities to VAT.

Dear Editor, Your newspaper has recently published at least two letters by Mark Benschop in which he designated the President of Guyana as King Jagdeo, a title that his position does not accommodate.

Dear Editor, Watching the TV recently I couldn’t agree more with President Jagdeo when he said that persons needed to be confirmed in their positions to give them not only security of tenure but to give them confidence and to shield them from the Executive.

Dear Editor, What again is the law doing to protect women in Guyana?

Dear Editor, I was alarmed to read the Kaieteur News report captioned “Two M-70 gang members secure bail”.

Dear Editor, GPL’s timely intervention to get people to conserve electricity in these blackout and energy hungry times should be a reminder to Guyanese that we import electricity in the form of fuel, generating equipment, cabling, skilled workers and other items necessary for the generation of electricity.

Dear Editor, Since the departure of Dr S Devadattu the rice scientist from India on August 13, 2001 the standard of the Burma Rice Research Station has dropped tremendously.

Dear Editor, It seems that there is a witch-hunt out for Minister Lall in the letter columns.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to make a brief response to two letters captioned: “Indian loyalty should not be construed as due to loyalty to the PPP but to fear of being ostracised or attacked” by an unnamed writer, and “By its works shall the Alliance be judged” by Barrington Braithwaite.

Dear Editor, I congratulate those hundreds of brave cane-cutters in Berbice for their protest action against VAT.

Dear Editor, I smile wryly when I see the numerous explanations by the government and the many letters written by the pseudo-ghost writers adamantly declaring that VAT is not responsible for the spiraling cost of living.

Dear Editor, Lord Acton said power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The much talked about Guyana Model Search was officially launched on Thursday night at the King’s Plaza Hotel setting off a fashion fiesta that promises to take the country by storm.

Hi Everyone, There are some things in life that just get better with age – wine, steak, cured meats, black cake

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They may not be experts at cricket, but in the culinary arts Essequibians are second to none.

The young men in today’s society need to come back to “purpose and take up the responsibility for the future generation,” according to Apostle Adrian Wade who feels so strongly about the issue that he has put pen to paper and written a book expressing these sentiments.

With just a little push and some input from the business community, Delanda Cumberbatch, a self proclaimed reggae singer believes that he can make a name for himself in the local music industry.

Next weekend the Canadian High Commission will open its doors to show two Canadian films to the first 100 persons to arrive in celebration of that country’s successful film and television industry.

The Guyana government will not wait much longer for a response from Venezuela in relation to the invasion of this country’s Cuyuni waters on November 15 by the Venezuelan military.

The three Barama workers who allegedly took turns raping and sodomising a 17-year-old dryer female operator several days ago at the company’s Land of Canaan plywood plant, were brought to the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer joint charges.

A stevedore employed at the John Fernandes Limited Water Street wharf died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown hospital following a freak accident on Thursday.

A source from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has confirmed that the AK-47 rifle, which was found during a police raid on Thursday, does not belong to the army.

Police are looking for a man who raped a three-year-old girl after drinking with her parents at Baramita, North West District yesterday.

Thirteen health workers from several hinterland communities who were recently trained in information technology (IT) were urged to incorporate the new knowledge in their work.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) will host a symposium on Monday in celebration of International Human Rights Day and to commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Guyana.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Thursday tabled the Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2007 that will allow Caricom nationals a permit to enter and remain in Guyana for a period of six-months.

In the absence of a range of required facilities and public support systems, autistic children in Guyana have largely been forgotten, but some parents and educators are working to change this.

Some Like it Hot, the acclaimed American comedy, is the choice of the National Art Gallery, Castellani House for next week’s Classic Tuesdays’ film.

fter nearly three months of dry season, residents of Mahaicony Creek are fearful that there would be a repeat of the flooding they have now become used to, in the upcoming rainy season.

The Ministry of Education is reminding all heads of schools that the hosting of seasonal fetes must adhere to its policies as regards the sale and or consumption of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes on the schools’ premises and must be orderly.

Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit believes that there must be a declaration by Caricom governments giving more forceful support to agriculture in order to help reverse the rising cost of living.

Caricom heads of government agreed at the 12th Special Meeting of Caricom yesterday that the Common External Tariff (CET) on a basket of goods would be reviewed and that member states should continue to implement national measures with a view to containing prices.

Three men are now patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being involved in separate accidents in less than 30 minutes on Thursday night.

Police yesterday intercepted over three kilos of cocaine and over 200 grammes of ganja at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) which were concealed in two outgoing post office mail bags and arrested a man and five women as investigations continue.