Daily Archive: Thursday, January 3, 2008

New York – The world economy has had several good years.

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Far across blue waters Guyana is calling you Come into the bosom of this land And prove what you can do Come Guyana is calling There’s a welcome at her shores Come all you young people And show the world course These words by Pamela Ali, encapsulate the essence and the excitement in which thousands of artists and onlookers joined to celebrate and display the ‘potpourri of West Indian culture intermixed with a rich flavouring of South American traditions’, in Guyana in 1972.

Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton yesterday sentenced an ex-soldier to two years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery when it was re-read to him summarily.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded to prison a 22-year-old man who allegedly jumped through the window of a bus to freedom while he was being escorted to court.

The Guyana Defence Force high command last week suggested that there needed to be a “paradigm shift” in its approach to security and a “revolution” in its professional culture.

Revenge is sweet and Alpha United relished a 1-0 victory over Bakewell Topp XX in the 18th Kashif and Shanghai Football final on New Year’s night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.

Two wickets in quick succession at three critical periods of the opening day of the second Test here yesterday undermined stout West Indies resistance to the anticipated South African response to their shock defeat in the first in Port Elizabeth last week.

The national cricketers will begin their quest for regional supremacy in the Carib Beer cricket competition with a tough first round match against Trinidad and Tobago at the Queen’s Park Oval tomorrow.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore, says his association had little production during last year and points a finger at the National Sports Commission (NSC) for created a rift between the two bodies.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Emile Mervin captioned “Cheddi Jagan was not responsible for restoring democracy in 1992” (07.12.21).

Dear Editor, Can the police public relations department say whether coroner’s inquests have been or will be held into the extra-judicial killings of 203 males by the police over the last 11 years?

Dear Editor, I am not a member of the PNCR as your article on my presentation of the prints to the Ministry of Culture says.

Dear Editor, While the government and the merchants are the beneficiaries from the sale of scrap iron, other citizens face a state of horror daily.

Dear Editor, I entered a store (name given) in Regent Street manned by three Oriental persons.

Dear Editor, As we enter into a new year, it is not unusual for us to make a resolution either to dispense with some bad old habit or to embark on a new more productive course of action.

Dear Editor, I wish to commend the Commissioner-General for his professional approach in dealing with the surveillance camera issue at the post office.

Dear Editor, The statement attributed to Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, that Guyanese are more concerned with the amenities they expect to receive from their overseas relatives than with incidents of torture and human rights violations in our nation is a sad testament of how low our nation has sunk in terms of moral and ethical sensitivities at the pinnacle of power.

Dear Editor, The New Guyana Marketing Manager, Nizam Hassan recently announced to staff that they are not entitled to the nine percent increase given by the government.

Dear Editor, Guyanese politics between now and the next general election in 2011 is likely to be dominated by arguments over the surging cost of living and whether there should be cuts in the standard rate of income tax, VAT and corporation tax or whether the considerable resources garnered from these taxes should be devoted to easing the burden of the lamentably poor, increasing public service salaries, major public works, reducing unemployment particularly in the most marginalized communities.

Dear Editor, On January 1, the Guyana Chronicle published a bizarrely prepared statement purportedly from Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Mr.

Dear Editor, I refer to your one-sided editorial captioned “Benazir Bhutto” (07.12.30) on the death of Benazir Bhutto.

Dear Editor, I read with concern Salome Hooper’s letter captioned “Education authorities requiring teacher to apply for official release although not attending university in school hours ” (08.01.01) .

Dear Editor, Clinton Urling is confident that “Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee” (SN Dec 30 2007) in his letter in response to my argument that Hillary Clinton will be nominee.

Gunmen on New Year’s morning attacked members of the Bethel Wesleyan Church on the Bachelor’s Adventure Public Road, East Coast Demerara robbing the pastor and a woman of jewellery valued at $145,000 along with an undisclosed sum of church funds.

A cane harvester of Clifton Settlement, Port Mourant, Corentyne who was brutally chopped around 8 pm last Sunday while asleep in a relative’s hammock, died at the New Amsterdam hospital on Monday.

Six weeks after discharging his firearm and allegedly gun-butting a teenager during a brawl at an East Coast Deme-rara bar, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall has issued a statement saying among other things that he was first attacked and attempted to make a citizen’s arrest.

A 17-year-old boy became the first road fatality of the year after he was struck down by a vehicle while walking along the Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara (WBD) public road yesterday.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle fined a US-based man $10,000 after he admitted that he was trying to export 30 protected birds in his hand luggage as he prepared to board a flight at the airport.

The motorcyclist who had to be rushed to Georgetown from the Fort Wellington Hospital nearly two weeks ago succumbed on New Year’s morning in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Hours after they were issued with a judge’s order, police released Carolan Lynch around 8 pm on Monday after they re-arrested her following Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys discharging of the murder charge against her.

Chairman of the post office corporation (GPOC) Juan Edghill on Monday revealed that customs officials had thwarted several attempts to have a security camera in a part of the building aimed at stamping out drug trafficking by arguing that it would be an invasion of privacy.

Police have arrested a male suspect in the New Year’s Day murder of 24-year-old Floyd James of St Cuthbert’s Mission, Mahaica Creek.

Passengers travelling in a Route 45 minibus narrowly escaped death after the bus toppled twice before landing on its side at the junction of Carmichael and Quamina streets.

The decomposed body of a Cummings Street man, believed to have died on Old Year’s Day of causes unknown, was removed from his home yesterday.