Daily Archive: Sunday, December 9, 2007

The world was somewhat surprised – and perhaps even the Venezuelan opposition was too – when President Hugo Ch

“Cycling is one of the sports that can be used to help unite the country in the fight against the killer disease HIV/AIDS.”

Demerara led by a sterling bowling performance from the tried and trusted left-arm orthodox bowler Neil `The Beast’ Mc Garrell, easily won both of their opening matches to advance to the final of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Carib Beer/Pepsi senior Inter County Twenty/20 competition at the Providence National Stadium yesterday.

There were three intriguing statements from three of the most influential men in West Indies cricket during the week.

Bishop’s High School (BHS) successfully came from behind to knock off a very competent St.

Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) premier league champions, Alpha United, will be looking to capture their second title in a month when they battle with the Guyana Defence Force in theNamilco knockout Football Festival final this evening at the Tucville Playfield.

East Coast inflicted a crushing defeat on the University of Guyana when they clashed at the Enmore Community Centre ground last Friday.

Dear Editor, I write concerning the article “two M-70 gang members secure bail” published in the Wednesday December 5, 2007 edition of the Kaieteur News and the effects it had on the public, so much so the Minister of Home Affairs had to voice his disappointment at the granting of bail to the two accused by the learned Magistrate (Kaieteur News, Thursday, December 6, 2007 pages 1 and 18).

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr Victor Pires captioned “Malathion is used in the USA and is not harmful to man in general” (07.12.06).

Dear Editor, The wish and urgency to better one’s position in life cut across all social lines.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Van Beek’s column in Business Page in Sunday Stabroek (07.11.18) “Is the Guyana dollar overvalued?”

Dear Editor, After reading the news article ‘Teenager gang-raped at Barama’ in the Thursday, December 6th edition of your newspaper, I was outraged in several respects.

Instantaneous, computer-driven communication is becoming a curse, not a boon. It was supposed to free us; it is enslaving us.

In this week’s column I evaluate the 2007-2008 results in the Global Competitiveness Index provided by the World Economic Forum (WEF), paying particular attention to those for Guyana and other Caricom countries.

‘Past performance is no guarantee of future results’ reads the ‘health warning’ on many financial products sold in the United Kingdom.

Re (3): The feeding schedule It is better to underfeed orphaned puppies.

I recently got my eyes examined and the optometrist says I have astigmatism.

In the island of Bali, Indonesia, at this time, the fate of this world and consumers in this world is being decided.

Continued from last week Eugene O’Neill re-entered university in 1912 and studied Drama, this time at Harvard and with success.

Lots of chess is being played around the world and now we have serious online tournaments.

What is ultrasound? Ultrasound is like an ordinary sound except it has a frequency (or pitch) higher than human beings can hear.

Well over a century ago the British Admiralty required all naval vessels to carry stocks of limes as part of the food intake for sailors to prevent them suffering from scurvy, a nasty disease related to Vitamin C deficiency which could immobilise an entire ship’s company.

Introduction Mergers and acquisition activity is often said to be the life blood of the stock market.

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The plastic wrapping of passengers’ baggage and extra security are some of the measures international airlines servicing Guyana have been looking at in order to thwart drug smugglers.

Burglars cleared out the showcases and drawers of the Digicel outlet at La Penitence market early yesterday morning in what was reportedly a nearly hour-long attack.

Two days after he was arrested for a robbery and then rearrested after escaping from custody, the relatives of a Bartica youth are alleging he was beaten by the police and are calling on the Acting Commissioner of Police to investigate.

Suriname authorities believe that some Guyanese living in the Dutch-speaking country are intermediaries for drugs and arms traffickers in the two countries, a source at a news agency in Paramaribo said.

Transport Minister Robeson Benn says as it stands there are no plans to review the countdown feature on the traffic lights in the city and its environs, since it is more a matter of the discipline which motorists must exercise.

Records at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) show that VAT registered businesses are earning far more profit than they did under the Consumption Tax regime, GRA Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur said in a recent press release from his office.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon announced last Thursday that Cabinet had given its no-objection to the printing of traffic tickets at a cost of over $17M under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The Dharm Shala is again making its annual appeal for assistance in money or kind during the festive season to enable it to continue its humanitarian work.