Daily Archive: Saturday, January 12, 2008

A Guyanese painter was on Wednesday sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in New York after he was found guilty of killing and dismembering his common-law wife, a New York Post article said.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez sentenced a man who broke and entered a home and stole items worth over $60,000 to two years imprisonment when the man appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 21-year-old man who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with stealing a motor car said in his defence that he had bought the car from a man in what appeared to be a legitimate sale and had even made a down payment.

Two men accused of embezzling $1M worth in boating equipment from the mining company they work for during a three-year period, yesterday appeared in court and were remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

In the 1976 thriller film The Marathon Man, Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman stars as university student and distance runner Thomas ‘Babe’ Levy, who is captured and tortured over his brother’s activities as a spy, of which he knows nothing.

The so-called Westminster model of democracy has been an unmitigated disaster wherever it has been practiced in ethnically, or racially or religiously mixed societies.

Colin Klass has a plan for Guyana’s Golden Jaguars, as the national footballers are known, in order for them to reach the finals of the 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa.

Barbados were in total control at the end of day one of their second round 2008 Carib Beer Regional four-day match against Guyana at the Kensington Oval yesterday thanks mainly to Ryan Hinds’s 4-14 that helped rout Guyana for 185 to which they were 58-2 in reply at the close.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) World Cup Committee yesterday called for the support of Guyanese everywhere as they attempt to have the national team realize the dream of reaching the 2010 World Cup final.

After their small, but significant, steps forward in the first two matches, the West Indies continued to take giant strides back towards their recent inglorious past on the second day of the third Test at Kingsmead yesterday.

Coaches attending the 10-day coaching clinic organized by the Guyana Amateur Basket-ball Federation (GABF) in conjunction with the “Reds” Perreira Sports Foundation have been urged to take full advantage of the programme in an effort to impart knowledge to their charges at the opening ceremony at Olympic House yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development wishes to clarify an erroneous report in an article in the daily Stabroek News Vol.

Dear Editor, Rocket science is reported to be reserved for the most brilliant of people, mainly because of its invisible variables, if not for its unfathomable intricacies.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Jean Ramroop captioned “Attempts to confuse the public should be condemned” (GC 08.01.10), .

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has performed admirably in many perilous situations in the past and is worthy of high praise.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that all the newspapers in reporting on the weapons find at Zeskendren, Mahaicony reported that a Beretta pistol was among the weapons found.

Dear Editor, I would like the GRA head Mr. K Sattaur to come clean with TIN, will it result in more taxes being levied on an individual’s savings, or his assets – movable or otherwise?

Dear Editor, The eastern access road to the Demerara Harbour Bridge has two holes, which can result in accidents and possibly deaths.

Dear Editor, On my very first visit to New Amsterdam this past holiday season I decided to grab a bite at Demico Restaurant.

Hi Everyone, Whether I am eating pepper raw, boiled or in pepper sauce, I like it so hot that I am barely able to breathe through my nose.

Ever felt like beating up on someone, or just holding them at your mercy?

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The Woodside Choir’s reproduction of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is set for an encore production later this month following countless reviews praising its rock solid cast and its excellence.

He announced his retirement from the music industry almost a year ago and since then has taken up fashion designing, but Lucky B is staging a comeback for Mashramani this year.

It is impossible to dispute Beenie Man’s self-proclaimed ‘King of the Dancehall’ title when the Jamaican stood alone for nearly two hours appeasing and pleasing the largely jaded Guyanese crowd that turned up at the National Park two Saturdays ago, expecting a packed show which turned out to be a one-man performance.

Salon stylists across the Caribbean will soon pull out the hot combs, flat irons, pieces and hair products and their God-given talents when Shabeau Magazine presents Style Off ’08, the hair show and battle that is being touted as the biggest ever in the region.

Undermined, a 35-minute film documentary set in Aishalton in the Rupununi, was screened on Thursday at the Library and Archives Canada Theatre in Ottawa.

The premiere of Right Choices, Bunny Alves’ locally produced film, last year was disappointing, but the producer plans to launch it again with the hope that it would receive better support.

Shabeau Magazine is ready to splash a new face on its cover and has begun planning for its 2008 competition; looking for franchise holders in countries across the region.

Fire last night swept through a section of the Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC) complex on Lombard Street destroying a section of a bond housing barrels and other items.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) yesterday expressed grave concern over the government’s handling of torture allegations against the security forces and the alleged misconduct of Minister Kellawan Lall and said there is enough information upon which charges can be laid.

In a dramatic turn of events the Guyana Defence Force yesterday reported that two of the three weapons confiscated by the police during an operation on Wednesday in Mahaicony belonged to the army and they were issued to a PNC ministry in the 1970s.

As condemnation over torture charges against the military grows, one of the two soldiers who the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) issued wanted bulletins for on Thursday turned himself in yesterday while the other rank is expected to be visited today by members of the army.

An $86.6M mobile hydraulic pump was commissioned at Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) yesterday by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday came under intense scrutiny over its inability to match the job market needs, its administration and the quality of its graduates and in its defence one of its officials called for greater belief in the institution.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday allocated $14M to the social services ministry to provide for 38 children in its care and he invited proposals to erect a facility to house delinquent youth while they are being processed in court.

The Ministry of Health will soon launch a pilot substance abuse treatment programme at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and plans to extend to it other public hospitals in due course.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday said that three new transformers were vandalized on Monday and through “diligent intelligence” 10 others were found at a Middle Road, La Penitence scrap dealer yesterday and this resulted in several arrests.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) is pursuing more local and overseas training for its ranks in an effort to boost its capacity this year.

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital says its maternity wing will be in full operation from Wednesday.

A post-mortem (PM) examination on the body of 45-year-old Cecelia Dean, who was found dead in her Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home on Tuesday evening, proved inconclusive.

The Diagnostic and Treatment Centre at the Suddie Hospital is expected to be operational next month, Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, said during a recent visit to the facility.

An alarming number of congenital heart disease cases, some in the severe stages of the condition were discovered over the last few days when the Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) and its overseas partner, Three Rivers Foundation held a cardiac clinic.

The Kids First Fund has to raise a further US$24,596 to pay off its bills with US$31,000 so far being raised in its ‘Heart 2 Heart, Save a life’ appeal.

Three days have passed since Lawrence Drakes was gunned down by two men in front of Bonny’s Supermarket on Church Street and despite investigations the police have failed to arrest a suspect in the murder.