Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Dear valued citizens of the Guyanese Diaspora. On behalf of the Ministry of Dubiously Tabulated Tourist Arrivals, we wish to welcome you home and to say, a very Merry Guyanese Xmas!

A man accused of driving the getaway car used in the $60M robbery of an Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara businessman was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s court yesterday and the matter was transferred to the Chief Magistrate for re-assignment.

Three weeks after he appeared in court charged with armed robbery Gregory St John on Monday denied the allegation after it was read to him summarily.

Addressing newly-commissioned military officers last week, President Bharrat Jagdeo contended correctly that, if the security challenges currently facing Guyana were not adequately addressed, they can compound the difficulties related to the economic challenges which need to be addressed.

Once again, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its El Dorado brand rum, will be running off its ‘Day at the Races’ on December 26 in collaboration with the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) at the club’s venue Bush Lot, Corentyne, Berbice.

Action in the 18th annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament which happens to be the marquee event on the local football calendar commences tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground with a double header as the hunt for the $750,000.00 first prize begins.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday expressed shock over the news of the death of former national footballer Neil Hernandez who died tragically on Monday.

Dear Editor, I have noted with disgust the unending campaign by Stabroek News to vilify me in public.

Dear Editor, The rich Guyanese Christmas traditions are ‘time honoured, and must be preserved – as we enter the Holiday Season.

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to public notice the phenomenon of flooding on the lower East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I have, so far, read three responses to my letter captioned “The PPP’s fight for freedom of expression” (07.12-08).

Dear Editor, Sometimes unconsciously we save the best for last. In reading your Saturday 24th November edition, I took one glance at the editorial entitled “Thanksgiving”.

Dear Editor, In your very expository editorial captioned ‘A dialogue on corruption’ (07.12.17), you posited that “the government may not agree to enlist the World Bank to do a study on corruption…” I agree with you that should any authentic statistics on this industry become publicly available, it would lead to some healthy dialogue, and hopefully productive results.

Dear Editor, What has Shyam Nokta the chairman of the National Climate Change Committee done so far to show he is genuinely concerned with climate change.

Dear Editor, A report out of Saudi Arabia says that King Fahd has pardoned the victim of a rape.

Dear Editor, The government of Guyana led by President Jagdeo has done it again.

Dear Editor, Many persons including me in Region #2 which stretches from the Pomeroon to Supenaam are flabbergasted by the letter from Attorney-at-law, Haimraj B Rajkumar, captioned “The question of bail was fully argued with precedents cited before the Magistrate before bail was granted.”

Dear Editor, It was the serious hope still held by many that the recent report of a change in the rainfall pattern over Georgetown [SN 07.11.22] will stimulate more positive reactions by individuals and responsible authorities.

Years of verbal and physical abuse ended on Tuesday night for a 40-year-old mother of two, when her husband committed suicide but not before brutally chopping her about the body.

Milled rice exported from Guyana and Suriname to the European Union (EU) will increase to 187,000 tonnes in 2008 and 250,000 tonnes in 2009 under the new Cariforum-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

Consumers are being cautioned about the dangers of using energy drinks, especially in combination with alcohol, since this could cause cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular failure.

President Bharrat Jagdeo awarded a posthumous Order of Liberation to Dr.

Speculation continued in Bartica yesterday about how national footballer Neil Hernandez might have met his end, but the last person to have seen him alive said that he carried a rope and spoke of ending his life by hanging.

Residents of D’Edward Village whose houses run alongside the access road to the Berbice River Bridge have a newly built street behind their homes for access but the street has already started to deteriorate.

A commercial store offering goods and services for $500 and less is the new addition to private enterprise in Linden.

It appears that Linden has become the new dumping ground for hijacked vehicles as yet another one was discovered there on Monday.

The two major airlines serving the Caribbean region have lauded efforts being made by the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School (AWHWAES).

Two newspaper vendors are expected to appear in court today charged with pedestrian obstruction of traffic; they were removed from two city bridges, where they sold newspapers, by traffic officers.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr has ruled that 3,853 carats of the 4,685 carats of diamonds, which the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) seized from a Belgian firm be returned to that exporter.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs yesterday committed Seon `Picture Boy’ Collier who is accused of shooting two Victoria brothers to death to stand trial in the High Court.

Unknown persons went to great lengths early yesterday morning to sever a 400-pair telephone cable at Riverview, Ruimveldt causing a disruption in service to residents and businesses in Alexander Village and sections of Industrial Site.

Amelia’s Ward resident, Quincy Mc Lean or Quincy Thomas called ‘Kel’ was killed almost instantly on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway following an accident on Monday night.

Two bandits, one of whom was armed with a gun on Monday night robbed an overseas-based Guyanese couple of over $1.5M in cash and jewellery at their Unity Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara home before escaping.

Three days after heavily-armed bandits shot and killed two men during a robbery at a liquor bar on Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara police are yet to arrest the killers.

Nine members of Tantram, the Grammy-winning artist Shaggy’s band, were prevented from leaving Guyana after they failed to produce receipts confirming they had paid artistes’ tax.

A body believed to be that of one of the three Guyanese men who set sail for Venezuela on December 6 was yesterday discovered by Surinamese authorities in a clump of bush along the roadside, sources say.