Daily Archive: Monday, December 17, 2007

Diana Abraham is currently a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

Are you satisfied with the government’s and police’s response thus far to the rum shop incident involving Minister of Local Government, Kellawan Lall?

After being forced to adjourn the trial into the Customs House $10M robbery on several occasions within the last few months, owing to the absence of the prosecution’s main witness, Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Wednesday set March 26 next year as the final date.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs on Tuesday committed Lennox Syfox, who is accused of stabbing his reputed wife to death at her Golden Grove home back in 2005, to stand trial in the High Court after she found that there was enough evidence in the matter.

A 30-year-old sluice operator accused of robbing a Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) service station two Wednesdays ago was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

At a recent press freedom seminar in Jamaica, that country’s Finance Minister, Mr Audley Shaw sketched a startling picture of how serious the corruption problem in the country was.

NOW a weakling frequently roughed up by the contemporary powerhouses of world cricket, the West Indies last night engaged in a little of the bullying that once made them the most feared team in the game.

The Ravens’ Basketball Club Saturday night proved itself to undoubtedly be George-town’s best when they swept aside the Nets in two straight games to become the last team standing in the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association/Next Level Entertainment/Banks DIH Super-Eight Knockout competition.

Narayan Ramdhani, Darius Ali and Rose Mendes each secured a pair of impressive wins when they competed against players from Barbados in the singles event of the Guyana Classic International Junior Bad-minton Tournament on Saturday at the Queen’s College auditorium.

Dear Editor,Mr. Sean Brignandan’s reasoning on Imperial and metric measures used on a weighing scale is extremely flawed and abysmally uninformed.

Dear Editor, The poor of Guyana are still at sea when it comes to a living wage, human rights and security.

Dear Editor, One group of Guyanese from New York and another from London have just returned from India where they observed Diwali celebrations and visited religious shrines.

Dear Editor, Christmas season is here with us again and will be celebrated by millions of Christians and countless others of diverse religions, cultural and ideological beliefs throughout the world.

Dear Editor, I was very fortunate to secure a copy of the “Explore Guyana 2008 Magazine” though it is not fully available to the general public until January 2008.

Dear Editor, Andaiye Moore in her letter captioned “Our Afro-centric thinkers should demand affirmative action for all disadvantaged Guyanese” (07.12.10) referred to Modibo as an African Philosopher and divisive.

Two Corentyne businessmen, one of whom had been accused in the past of having connections with the drug trade, have been linked to the bulldozer which was found abandoned on an illegal airstrip discovered last week, 80 miles upriver from Orealla.

The two crewmen of a tugboat that sank off the Golden Fleece, Essequibo foreshore on Friday are still missing and their families are not giving up hope that they may still be alive.

A man admitted to stealing car parts over a period while his alleged accomplices denied committing the offences when the quartet appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

More than three months after the team tasked with the removal of asbestos from the University of Guyana submitted a report, which included how much it would cost, it is still awaiting word from the Ministry of Education, its head Melvyn Sankies said on Thursday.

The Guyana government will continue to waive the 15% Common External Tariff (CET) on extra-regional cement even though Cabinet Secretary Dr.

Local aircraft owners are still contending with the unavailability of functioning navigation aids in the interior to assist the Air Traffic Control tower and pilots, a situation they find unacceptable.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on Wednesday launched its 2008 almanac at a ceremony hosted for the winners and runners-up in an essay competition held to highlight “unnoticed or unknown aspects of our nation’s beauty.”

Guyana will express further interest in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) launched on Tuesday by the World Bank in Bali, Indonesia, to combat tropical deforestation and climate change, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) elected executives for the year 2007-2008 at its third annual general meeting hosted recently.

Police say that they will be forced to bury and mark the grave of a foreigner killed two Saturdays ago in a shoot-out following the abduction of a woman and her daughter at Ruimzeight Gardens on the West Coast of Demerara.

A 15-year-old was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday morning nursing stab wounds he reportedly sustained at the hands of a relative.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said “the crescent for Zul Hijjah was not sighted” on Monday and for the sake of maintaining unity, the “sacred month” began on Tuesday.

The agriculture ministry says it is seeking the cooperation of all regional and neighbourhood democratic councils in removing all illegal structures that impede drainage in residential areas.