Daily Archive: Thursday, December 27, 2007

Forget MIT. Hello, Tsing Hua University. For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda’s top software company, dreams of Beijing, not Cambridge, animate her ambitions.

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Stealing seines and engines from fishing vessels is one thing. Slaughtering innocent fishermen is a totally different matter.

Almost every preconception, all based on solid statistical or circumstantial evidence, was negated on the opening day of the first Test at St.George’s

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) is seeking government’s support to help decentralize the sport and implement its Junior Development Programme.

It is not often that one finds a young, talented athlete spending almost an entire day with those who are being nursed back to health and strength.

Coach of the Progressive Youth Club and one of the country’s top athletic coaches, Corporal Lynden Wilson, has come out swinging against unqualified coaches who he feels are doing more harm than good for local athletes.

Alpha United stamped their authority on Pouderoyen while Pele scored a come-from-behind win following a penalty shoot out with Bakewell Buxton Stars as play in the 18th Kashif and Shanghai football Festival continued Tuesday evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

Dear Editor, The General Secretary of the PPP, Mr Donald Ramotar, in a press conference in response to questions about the conduct of the Rt Hon Kellawan Lall, said that “discharging a weapon in public was indiscreet on Lall’s part.”

Dear Editor, Stinking garbage, broken bottles, Styrofoam boxes, paper, plastic and more greeted visitors to the town of New Amsterdam bright and early Christmas morning, as Main Street was transformed from the activities the night before.

Dear Editor, I would like to compliment President Bharrat Jagdeo and his legislators for the recent legislation passed in parliament allowing the free movement of Caricom nationals to our shores without being hassled.

Dear Editor, A letter under the name ‘Samuel A. Hinds/A Civic and a Citizen’ captioned, ‘Last Friday night in the parliament gave hope for a better future’ (SN, 23.12.07) raises a number of issues.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar’s statement that “We [the PPP] are not a party that would just kill people for the first mistake that they make,” (SN, 25.12.07) in response to Minister Kellawan Lall’s gun-touting behaviour.

Dear Editor, On December 25, 2007 (SN), I read letters entitled, ‘The message of Christmas should be carried into the new year’ by an unnamed writer, and ‘Make Christmas for the chidren’ by Leon Jameson Suseran.

Dear Editor, ‘I am a dog, help me don’t hurt me.’

Dear Editor, I was fortunate to be in Thailand for the country’s general elections held last Sunday.

A 39-year-old stevedore was found dead Christmas morning on the Annandale Railway Embankment near to his motor bike which was jutting out of a pile of sand.

A mother of seven including a seven-month-old baby has been reduced to an emotional wreck after she was gang raped and beaten by three men during the wee hours of Christmas Day, minutes after she left a home where she had gone for a drink.

A drug ring that used couriers, including a Guyanese, to smuggle cocaine into Canada in Bibles and other religious books during the busy Christmas season has been smashed by customs officers at Pearson airport, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.

Guyana’s number one fugitive Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins remains elusive and his name continues to be linked with various crimes.

Amid a seemingly never-ending din of reggae, dancehall and soca music, thousands of persons converged upon Main Street to be a part of the Main Big Lime yesterday.

Government’s investments in drainage and irrigation have resulted in improvements in many areas including Region Ten, where approximately $73M was spent this year to carry out D&I works, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA).

A 34-year-old man is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the Agricola, East Bank Demerara public road yesterday.

Cara Hotels recently handed over $82,500 to the Animal Clinic and Shelter of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA).

The America Street money-changer, who was shot in the abdomen and robbed by bandits last week Wednesday is still a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital and is expected to undergo surgery to remove the bullet when his blood pressure is reduced.

The World Bank’s Depart-ment of Institutional Integrity (INT), which investigates allegations of fraud and corruption in bank-financed projects as well as possible staff misconduct, concluded 301 cases this year.

The woman who was brutally chopped about the body by her husband, who then killed himself, is on the road to recovery and has been moved to the open ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Ministry of Agriculture says many investments have been made to support farmers in areas such as Black Bush Polder (BBP), Region Six, where drainage and irrigation (D&I) has been significantly improved.