Daily Archive: Monday, December 24, 2007

What are the must-have things for Christmas this year? We asked several persons in the street this question and these were their responses.

For many Queen’s College alumni, the recent passing of Clem Yhap, known affectionately as “Balance”, in Halifax, Canada at the admirable age of 91, invoked moments of deep personal reflection and sadness.

The world has taken an important step toward controlling climate change by agreeing to the Bali Action Plan at the global negotiations in Indonesia earlier this month.

The declaration by the new Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore Gary Best that there should be some closure in the investigation of the alleged torture of two Buxtonians by members of the Joint Services comes across as hollow.

Team manager Clive Lloyd acknowledged yesterday that the West Indies would have to “play out of our skins” to create one of the modern game’s major surprises in the first Test against South Africa, starting at St.

Dear Editor, Some fifty acres of young rice have been under water for the past months due to heavy rainfall and a new koker which is under construction at Golden Fleece on the Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, It is good for the public to note the failure of the management of the MMA to pay its pensioners once again.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned “At Chateau Margot, man kills self after chopping wife” (07.12.19).

Dear Editor, Excess use of alcohol is a massive problem in our society.

Dear Editor, The letter by Mr Richard Persaud captioned “I do not discriminate against people on the basis of their homosexuality though I consider it unnatural”.

Dear Editor, Recently Dr Jagan was posthumously awarded an honour for restoring democracy, this is a mockery.

Dear Editor, Some years back after doing some research. I found that all the rivers in Guyana are sub – tributaries of the ” Mighty Amazon ” hence when the Amazon is in its flooding season, which is now, since it is summer time in the Andes which is where the Amazon begins , it takes a month from the head before the waters reach the mouth of the Amazon where it deposits approximately three million tons of silt which is now on the shores of Guyana as a result of the ” Guyana current ” which flows from the east .

Dear Editor, It has almost been a year since I wrote my last letter about the African Renaissance.

While piracy has been a persistent problem along the coast in recent years, the discovery of bound bodies of fishermen and the disappearance of others has introduced a deadly twist and left the police with major mystery on their plate.

Christmas cheer was brought to the children of Sophia and surrounding communities when the Mothers Committee on Social Issues (MCSI) in collaboration with the Mark Benschop Foundation handed out toys to them at the Pattensen Multi-purpose Community Centre yesterday.

A Brazilian national is in police custody assisting with investigations as the lawmen probe the death of the man’s brother-in-law in what appears to be a case of suicide.

Guyana’s interest in protecting the brand name ‘Demerara’ may be possible with respect to sugar, rum and molasses under the provisions of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) initialled between the European Union (EU) and Cariforum countries two Sundays ago.

Director of Industrial Training, Dr Dale Bisnauth has charged the second batch of gradates from a national youth programme to build on the foundation they have received.

In the midst of a crisis that has seen fishermen being attacked on an almost daily basis by pirates, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Commodore Gary Best on Friday announced that the military was in the process of acquiring additional boats and high frequency radios to bolster its anti-piracy fight.

The Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) has expressed satisfaction with the 5.8% growth rate in the first half of this year and has urged the government to use the surplus VAT revenue collected to reform the rest of the tax system and give consideration to the lowering of income and corporate taxes in particular.

Much to the relief of Berbicians, the MV Torani which was in dry dock for a few months returned to ply the Rosignol to New Amsterdam route last Monday.

Defence Board Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon is not in a position to pronounce on the ownership of the bulldozer which was found abandoned on an illegal airstrip recently, 80 miles upriver from Orealla.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has introduced another new deal this season.

On Christmas Day when many families are together with their loved ones, some persons will be heading to the Timehri airport not to meet Santa but to see whether their luggage has finally arrived in the country.

Gunmen posing as customers hijacked the motor car of Lalchan Roopnarine on Saturday night and later abandoned it in the Subryanville area, police said in a statement yesterday.