Daily Archive: Sunday, December 30, 2007

While the world was shocked by the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, it could hardly have come as a surprise to anyone.

A long catalogue of humiliation and dismal memories for the West Indies in South Africa were finally and emphatically expunged at St.

It finally happened. In two previous trips to South Africa and nine previous test matches against the Proteas, the West Indies had failed to win a single test.

Pele Football Club and Alpha United reached the semi-finals of the 18th annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament with convincing wins over Amelia’s Ward United and Western Tigers respectively Friday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial in Stabroek Business, captioned ‘The silence of the lambs?’

Dear Editor, Having lived in Guyana a number of years ago and now living back in South Africa, I make a point of searching the web site of the Stabroek at least 4 times a week to keep up with the news.

Dear Editor, Mr Vishnu Bisram in his letter titled ‘Clinton and McCain could win the nominations for their respective parties’ (SN, 29.12.07) believes that Barack Obama stands little chance against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary and no chance against any of the Republican candidates in the presidential election if he were elected as the Demo-cratic nominee.

Dear Editor, We the students respectfully write to thank you most sincerely for the weekly publications of CXC English A and B in your widely read newspaper.

There has been little public debate about the standards for assessing the method chosen for house-to-house registration and almost no discussion about the full costs of this exercise.

Tomorrow this tired old year will give birth to a brand new one.

Overfeeding – continued We had begun dealing with this last week.

The publication of a list of the most serious concerns faced by consumers during the current year may, with a little luck, induce some improvements for the coming year.

I started to see blurry and the optometrist told me I am beginning to get something called keratoconus.

What is pterygium? A pterygium is a wedge-shaped fibro vascular growth of the conjunctiva (the surface tissue of the white of the eye) that extends onto the cornea.

It was on Sunday, March 18, that two chess players took a daring step and announced a chess tournament; the first for well over a decade.

Introduction This will be my last column as a regular writer for these pages.

It is reported that as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Bali Conference.

PARIS – Once, as I picked up the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen at his hotel, the receptionist asked me if I was his driver.

Last week I exposed several of the myths and fallacies surrounding money laundering operations in Guyana.

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The European Union (EU) grant aid, which will be pumped into the second phase of the extension of the airstrip at the Ogle Airport Incorporated, will have to be restructured allowing government a hand in the arrangement, Transport Minister Robeson Benn has said.

Many people are looking forward to the start of 2008, but for Sonia Hinds her only wish is that she would be able to survive what she is certain would be another difficult year.

The government has accepted the Venezuelan government’s response on the incursions into Guyana’s territory by a military contingent on November 15, 2007, “in a show of good faith” even though not all the questions were answered.

Since 2004, more than 534 soldiers have deserted the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), with close to 150 absconding this year alone for various reasons.

Six male inmates of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) in Essequibo escaped from the facility on Friday after they were left unsupervised on an agriculture plot and so far police have managed to recapture two.

There is a call for the setting up of a Code of Conduct for local Members of Parliament, if there is none, in the wake of Minister of Local Government Kellawan Lall’s rum shop brawl and shooting incident.

The United Nations General Assembly by consensus, has adopted a resolution on its role in promoting a new global human order (NGHO).

An Essequibo farmer is in police custody after a search on the vehicle he was driving unearthed an air rifle.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company has seen an upward trend in cellular phone use, particularly from pre-paid consumers using its top-up service, but lower cellular rates and competition has had an impact on the revenue.

Region Six has experienced no excessive flooding with 100 per cent completion of its drainage and irrigation (D&I) programmes budgeted for the year, Regional Chairman Zulfikar Mustapha has said.

Proposals from 11 companies interested in investing in developing a local bio-fuel/ agro-energy sector are likely to be evaluated early in 2008 with assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the UN’s Econo-mic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Police last evening discovered the decomposed body of a man in his Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara home.

As investigations continue into the illegal airstrip in the Corentyne area, which was discovered by the army two weeks ago, police on Friday arrested a suspect and he is currently being questioned.

Two elaborate paintings of scenes around Georgetown done by an artist during the British colonial era have been added to the list of historical artifacts displayed at the National Trust.

It has been brought to our attention that we have incorrectly referred to Dr Wendy Rudder as simply Wendy Rudder in our ‘How to choose Christmas clothes for real people’ feature published on December 23.

A group of six gunmen yesterday morning opened fire on the ranks of a mobile patrol just over the Railway Embankment at Friendship, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Two motorcyclists are patients of the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital after being involved in separate accidents last week Wednesday.

On Christmas Eve, police arrested a 25-year-old British student whom they suspected had swallowed cocaine, and as of Friday he had expelled 40 pellets containing the drug.

A woman who is believed to be mentally unstable was arrested on Friday following the death of her brother-in-law from suspected stab wounds.

Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) said it was not at fault in the death of Trevor Charles or the injuries passengers sustained when a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Company transformer fell from one of its trucks onto a Route 43 minibus last Friday.

CGX Energy Inc may commence offshore drilling earlier than previously announced if all goes well with the finalisation of a joint venture/partnership arrangement.

Residents of the flood-hit Joe Hook and Grass Hook areas in the Mahaica Creek have been promised assistance by government to remove their houses when they are ready to occupy their lots at Hope.