Daily Archive: Monday, January 7, 2008

Trinidad and Tobago’s November 5th election pivoted on the impact of third parties in a first past the post system and in a political culture marked by ethnic-based voting.

Do you know that you have to have a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN)?

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Thursday granted $50,000 bail each to four miners charged with break and enter after they were allegedly caught in a secured building at the Omai Gold Mines site in the Essequibo River.

On December 10 last year, a year-long celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was launched by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

Guyana will host a team of British Rifle shooters in April this year just days before the local team travels to Jamaica for the Caribbean Fullbore Championships.

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Whoever pulls the cricket strings from above has set severe challenges for the West Indies on their always tough tour of South Africa.

As Georgetown’s top club Alpha United was destroying the hopes of Lindens’ Top XX and their supporters by stubbornly holding on to their one goal lead in the final of the 18th Annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, Stabroek Sport sought the comments of football fans on the tournament.

Guyana’s Road to the 2010 Football World Cup finals was launched on Saturday at the Umana Yana in Kingston with a call for unity and support for the (Golden Jaguars) national team in its quest to secure a place in the 32-team finals in South Africa.

The Caribbean’s most prominent football administrator, Austin `Jack’ Warner, and the most successful midfielder to ever emerge from this region, John Barnes, arrived in Guyana on Friday evening for the launch of the Digicel Kick Start football clinics here in Guyana to an 18-ball salute.

Dear Editor, On New Year’s day 2008 I watched a horse cart overloaded with concrete blocks.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Michael Parris’s letter captioned “Many of Dr Jagan’s problems were caused by his own actions and attitudes” (07.12.19) In that letter Parris wrote: “When Dr Jagan appointed a history teacher from Queen’s College, as his Permanent Secretary, above a host of persons far senior to him, questions were asked of him by journalists”.

Dear Editor, I wish to alert the relevant authorities to the uncontrollable lawless situation on King Street.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Ms. Gillian Burton, the first female president of the Guyana Trades Union Congress.

Dear Editor, Government must provide adequate protection for foreign workers on development projects.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the letter of Ms.

Dear Editor, I found the article headlined `Guyanese more concerned with food, shelter than torture – Rohee’ on Tuesday, January 1st 2008, as shocking as it is disturbing and disrespectful.

Dear Editor, I refer to Vishnu Bisram’s letter captioned “Benazir Bhutto had been corrupt but was a patriot and a leader” (08.01.04).

The body of a 56-year-old woman was yesterday pulled from a septic tank outside of a blood-stained Campbellville home and police have detained three persons including a relative as investigations continue.

Even as the GDF continues to deny that it is aware of senior officers torturing soldiers during interrogation over a missing AK-47 rifle, Alvin Wilson who was in charge of the arms store yesterday said he was kicked about his rib cage and a false tooth smashed by members of the army’s investigating unit.

The $107M Vreed-en-Hoop/La Jalousie Road was commissioned yesterday and Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said that residents should show appreciation for the investment in their community.

An 18-year-old girl is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a knife wound to her neck which she sustained at the hands of a relative.

A bilateral arrangement between the Guyana and Cuban governments will allow staff at the Guyana National Museum to undergo training in taxidermy to maintain the national collection.

The Order of Liberation of Guyana, a one-time award given to the late President Dr Cheddi Jagan and made possible through a signed proclamation of President Bharrat Jagdeo is causing consternation among some citizens who feel they should know why and how it was conceived and granted.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs said it made significant progress in 2007 through building the capacity of Amerindian leaders and further developing their communities and it also cited the issuance of birth certificates.

Relatives of the two victims of the Friendship, East Bank incident in which a transformer rolled off a truck and hit a minibus are still searching for answers.

A 31-year-old cashier accused of fraudulently converting a gold chain worth over $100,000, given to her for safekeeping after a patron could not pay the bar bill, was granted bail by Magistrate Fazil Azeez when she appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

A Chinese survey team is here to conduct a feasibility study of the local ship-building capacity after a request was made for the Chinese government to build the two roll-on/roll-off ferries, approved under a bilateral agreement, here.

s the Caribbean tackles the growing incidence of chronic diseases, Guyana has kick-started its initiative with the Million Mile Challenge for Health that intends to log one million miles through walking, jogging, running, swimming and cycling by the end of 2008.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says it is important for Guyana to either enter into a bilateral agreement or be a part of a market-based carbon trading regime so that it could raise the resources necessary for the fight against climate change.

A 44-year-old cane cutter died at around 10 on Saturday night, three days after he was severely chopped allegedly by a relative who is now in police custody.

The Guyana Marketing Cor-poration (GMC) is renewing its call for farmers of non-traditional crops to establish associations in order to strengthen their negotiating power with exporters.

Amid impenetrable bush taller than a human, unseen birds chirp, insects buzz and occasionally some reptiles can be seen.