Daily Archive: Friday, January 11, 2008

Look, I won’t – even can’t – go on about the more technical, legal aspects and interpretations of the crime of rape.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world The United States, with its claims of exceptionalism, is usually thought of as free of historical analogies.

A 16-year-old girl, who allegedly doused another with acid, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday and was remanded into police custody.

A 42-year-old woman charged with cutting another in the face with a bottle during an altercation over the throwing of remarks was yesterday granted $75,000 bail.

A 52-year-old housewife, who allegedly stole over $750,000 in articles from a house she was asked to take care of, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

Following the “Year of Elections” in 2006 and the rise of the populist left in Latin America, 2007 was a fascinating year for political pundits and all those interested in the region’s stability and growth.

Four years ago, the election returns from Iowa ended the presidential hopes of Senator John Kerry.

Downtown businessmen are predicting a tough post-Christ-mas trading period which most say could extend for several months into 2008.

Stabroek Business has been reliably informed that the assets of the Ocean View Hotel have been acquired by city businessman Jacob Rambarran.

In June 2007 Stabroek Business was informed by Brazilian Ambassador to Guyana His Excellency Arthur Meyer that the bridge across the Takutu river would be completed in January 2008.

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Vinu Sawh’s bespectacled face and piercing eyes give him the appearance of a ‘bookish’ university undergraduate who spends most of his time detached from the people around him.

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Digicel and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) penned a three-year deal yesterday in what officials say would support the development of football in Guyana, but no figures were released.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will clash with St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Sunday at the Blairmont Community Development Centre ground in West Berbice as the local football squad kick starts its journey with the destination being the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Guyana will take on homesters Barbados at the Kensington Oval from today in the second round of the 2008 Carib Beer Series tournament and captain Ramnaresh Sarwan said yesterday he was looking for an improved performance from his team.

The wide, original gap between the teams, so efficiently and unexpectedly closed in the first Test before it began to open again in the second, developed into a familiarly yawning chasm on the opening day of the final, decisive Test at Kingsmead yesterday.

Inmates of the Camp Street jail on Wednesday received a quantity of boxing and barbering equipment from Paul Giddings of Giddings Pay Day Pawnshop.

Local basketball coaches will benefit from a 10-day coaching clinic to be conducted by Fitzgerald “Naka” Joseph, Head Coach and Technical Director of the Grenada Basketball Association under the auspices of the `Reds’ Perreira Sports Foundation and the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF).

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Leon Suseran for his letter captioned “Government should extend the subsidy for trips to Kaieteur into the New Year.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Roshan Khan captioned “TIN is a necessary measure” (08.01.09).

Dear Editor, I refer to the GINA press release on ‘attempts to improve the Mash Celebrations on the Road on Mash Day 2008’ .

Dear Editor, I am writing with reference to the letter titled “Songs can be written in English with the Indian beat”.

Dear Editor, I applied for TIN via the form to be submitted.

Dear Editor, As I was about to pen a letter in response to Mr David De Groot’s letter, “Government has considerably improved the electricity situation it inherited” (08.01.07), my area was hit by a blackout at 6:25 pm Having only a small UPS back-up and no private power plant, solar-power charged batteries or wind-powered generator, as the elites of our society possess – courtesy of the tax-payers, and straining my eyes in the dark to see the keyboard (I am not a touch typist), I had to shut down my computer at 6:32 pm to conserve the UPS battery and await the return of GPL power

Dear Editor, I read on a daily basis about political parties, letter writers and columnists calling for a reduction in the vat @ 16% or removal, a rise in the personal income tax threshold to G$50,000 per month, a reduction in the personal income tax rate of 33.33% and a reduction in corporation tax of 35/40%.

Dear Editor, In your news story, “Torture claims by soldiers – PPP would support independent probe,” (SN, January 9), one has to wonder whether there truly is a cavity between what the Jagdeo administration is actually doing and what the PPP knows the administration is doing?

Dear Editor, Many can identify with Martin Roberts’ letter captioned “What are the new TUC President’s plans to deal with the many problems confronting the workers?”

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News’ editorial of January 6, 2008 captioned “Illiteracy is the blight of Guyana” is spot on.

Dear Editor, Congratulations are in order for Hillary Clinton who lives to fight another day having edged out Senator Barack Obama in the New Hampshire (NH) Primary, the first in the nation that allows members of the parties to choose their nominee rather than having party officials choose the nominee for them as happens in countries like Guyana.

Former Head of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) Joseph O’Lall was sacked for violating the rules governing PetroCaribe funds but he is maintaining that he did nothing wrong in creating a US dollar interest-bearing ac-count as he was bringing in more money to the agency by being innovative.

As the pressure mounts over a fresh wave of torture allegations against the military, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last evening issued wanted bulletins for two of the accusers: Michael Dunn and Alvin Wilson instructing them to report to the military’s headquarters immediately.

The PNCR’s disciplinary committee has summoned several youth members of the party to answer disciplinary charges and it has also once again ordered PNCR member James McAllister to answer pending charges by January 12, 2008.

Suriname on Wednesday announced that it has detained a dozen Guyanese men for armed robberies at sea.

Police are still hunting the two men who shot and killed minibus driver Edward Joseph in an ambush early Wednesday morning at Middle Road, La Penitence and precautions are already being taken by the operators of this service.

Police say Operation Safeway has resulted in a 44% decrease in fatalities between October 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

A magazine focusing on the agriculture sector was launched yesterday with farmers being urged by President Bharrat Jagdeo to diversify and become computer literate.

Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel says all commercial enterprises that employ labour are required by law to register with the ministry as failure to do so constitutes a breach of the labour laws.

A Weed and Plant Protection Officer from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) unit is expected to support the agriculture ministry’s efforts to clear weeds from drainage canals by assessing and designing a control programme.

In the penultimate paragraph of the article titled “Tiny possum, giant rat found in Indonesia’s ‘Lost World’, published in Wednesday’s edition, it was stated that “the cutting and burning of tropical forests minimises the impact of climate change”.

The Region Three chairman says $14M has been allocated to rebuild the primary school at Santa Mission, the lone Amerindian community in the region.

After three years of promising Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to aid in the fight against crime, government announced yesterday that it is looking to have the cameras installed at various public places as well as during public events.

The PNCR has called on the Guyana Bar Association and the Acting Chancellor and Chief Justice to speak out on what it calls recent attempts by President Bharrat Jagdeo to humiliate the judiciary publicly.

Following the death of a 49-year-old man last year November, the police have suspended the driver’s licence of a man who was driving the vehicle involved in the fatal accident.

The Mayor and City Council is urging property owners to settle their outstanding tax accounts this month.