Daily Archive: Sunday, January 13, 2008

Reporting last week on the performance of the education sector in 2007 Minister of Education Shaik Baksh acknowledged that the literacy level is declining across the country.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will square off with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Vincy Heat in a friendly international today at Blairmont ground starting at 15:00h as both countries step up preparations for their 2010 World Cup campaign.

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Trophy Stall, Camille’s Enterprise, Demerara Power Company, RHTY&SC, Travel Span and Lifetime Real Estate Barbados maintained their dominance over Guyana at the end of the second day of their second round clash in their 2008 Regional Carib Beer cricket match at the Kensington Oval ground yesterday.

ANOTHER heavy loss, another dream, so real only a week earlier, shattered.

Brenton Parchment’s Test debut was twice spoiled yesterday. The West Indies opening batsman, whose contributions were 11 and 20, set out with the team’s defeat by an innings and 100 runs in the third Test and with a fine of 50 per cent of his match fee for intentionally running into South Africa’s fast bowler Dale Steyn during his second innings on the second afternoon.

Ehsan Mani, one-time president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), has been retained by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as part of its team to consider bids for audio-visual rights to West Indies cricket outside of Britain for the period 2008 – 2010.

The Guyana Horse Racing Authority will hold its Annual General Meeting today beginning at 10am at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

Dear Editor, Three years ago the government established a new procurement and tendering process nationally.

Dear Editor, The torture by the army of its fellow officers is cruelty in its worst form, a departure from civil decency and should not be tolerated.

Dear Editor, One of the areas that was getting a rationed supply of water has not been getting any for the past couple of days.

The editorial in yesterday’s edition captioned “The necessity for power sharing in Guyana” was a guest editorial.

Dear Editor, Like so many others, I am a regular viewer of the TV Programme “Law and Order”.

Dear Editor, A close contest is expected in Barbados general elections slated for January 15 between the ruling Barbados Labour Party and opposition Democratic Labour Party.

Dear Editor, Kudos to the Chinese Embassy for striving to protect its citizens and resolving their problems at the Embassy.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Cashier at certifying office offered no change for payments made” by Richard de Nobrega.

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The Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the European Union and Cariforum came into force on January 1, 2008.1 have not, I confess, read all thousand pages of its main text, appendices, annexures and schedules.

Recap In order to wrap up the present discussion on money laundering, let me recap on what I have covered so far.

“Small nations, big ambition”: These are the words used by the Chairman of a major European company to describe the recently initialled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.

Gardening is a bit like weather forecasting (based more on probability than certainty).

It is 1914. Nicholas II, Czar of all the Russias, is hosting a great chess tournament arranged by the St Petersburg Chess Society.

At the end of 2007, Castel-lani House quite fittingly mounted an exhibition of gifts: artwork received by the gallery from individual and corporate donors.

Last week I mentioned that a German group of ladies were highlighting Guyana for the World Day of Prayer.

Appendicitis is a common and urgent surgical illness with different manifestations.

My baby has a white spot in her eye and the specialist says it’s a cataract.

I was flattered recently when Ian McDonald in his Sunday Stabroek column of December 16 challenged, “Anyone can mention a subject to Godfrey – sweeties, seawall or sugar estates or dominoes or the old D’Urban racetrack or anything you like – and hardly pausing Godfrey could produce a Nostalgia which will make you laugh and wonder, and say ‘yes that is how it was.'”

Now that we have entered into the fresh and new year, let’s continue discussing the newborn (puppies, that is).

Introduction The statement made by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in a letter published in the Sunday Stabroek of December 30, 2007 “reiterating” the position of the PSC that it wanted the government to continue the present and unjustifiable 16% VAT rate and to apply it to reforming (reducing?)

Anyone with the right connections and cash can buy or rent a gun in Guyana, to be used in way they choose.

The cancellation of the traffic lights’ education programme has produced different explanations from two senior government officials and one of the aggrieved bidders has said that his confidence in the public tender process has been dented by the manner in which it was handled.

Negotiations between Marriott and a “third party owner” for a possible Marriott flagged hotel in Georgetown are currently “stalled” after more than two years of talks, a senior Marriott source has told this newspaper.

One year on, Barama Com-pany Limited (BCL) is yet to receive its re-certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after being suspended in January 2007 following an audit for failing to maintain the standards in forest management which it had previously reached.

The National Communications Network (NCN) has agreed to meet the Clerical & Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) to discuss the sacking of Andrea Bryan, which occurred early last month after she had attended a UNICEF sponsored seminar in Trinidad.

Containing 163 articles, 222 poems and 100 stories, the 2007-2008 edition of the Guyana Annual was launched at Castellani House on Friday.

The Medical Outpatient Department of the Georgetown hospital from tomorrow will be relocated to the Old Nurses’ building on the southern side of the hospital compound to facilitate the construction of a new in-patient facility.