Daily Archive: Friday, January 18, 2008

Quite often, cost, funding, simply money – the lack of it – is the cause of sub-standard products and services.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle remanded to prison a 37-year-old pork-knocker charged with two counts of fraudulent conversion, when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 37-year-old man accused of carnally knowing a minor was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man, who claimed to have had a past with a woman whose gold chain he is accused of snatching while armed with an ice pick, was yesterday refused bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Next Monday Americans will celebrate Martin Luther King Day. It is a national holiday for a national hero, the only black man to be so honoured in the United States.

City Hall has initiated an internal probe into the operation of its Treasury Department following claims of irregularities and inefficiencies in its Finance Department.

Local scrap metal dealers have reacted angrily to the charge made in a recent statement issued by the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) asserting that the industry “seems to “thrive on buying stolen property,” asserting that the Corporation needs to look more closely at the role being played by some of its own employees in corrupting the scrap trade.

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The Government of Guyana has reacted quickly to news of an outbreak of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the Dominican Republic.

Increasing home foreclosures, job losses, rising fuel and food costs and ongoing outsourcing is testing the financial limits of the US economy.

Daune Fraser’s story is as fine an example of ambition and enterprise as any that you are likely to find among young women anywhere in Guyana.

A city businessman has told Stabroek Business that he is at his wit’s end to determine how to collect more than $3m which he says is owed to him by City Hall for services provided to the municipality a year ago.

Another controversy may be brewing in the local scrap metal industry, this time over what industry officials say is the recent imposition by government of a fee for the inspection of containers of scrap metal prior to shipping overseas.

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Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

With no points in the bag following two outright losses Guyana’s captain Ramnaresh Sarwan is looking to leave Jamaica with some points at the end of his team’s clash with the joint tournament leaders.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has a new general secretary. He is former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and current president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis.

Director of Sport Neil Kumar yesterday disclosed that a Chinese table tennis coach and an interpreter will be arriving in the country tomorrow for a one-year stint.

The curtains will come down on the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) 2007season with the inaugural Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout tournament sponsored by local beverage company Banks DIH Ltd.

Commodore Gary Best, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force was elected President of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) at the Association’s Annual General Meeting held Wednesday evening at the Bank of Guyana Roof Garden.

Dear Editor, Why is it that we are so often our worst enemy?

Dear Editor, I refer to your story published on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, concerning the transition of ‘Merundoi’ into an NGO[http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56537063].

Dear Editor, Something about Dr. Prem Misir’s letter captioned “These funds for scrutineers were not appropriated through Parliament” (08.10.15) helped to crystallise my thoughts on a matter.

Dear Editor, On Friday September 21, 2007 my son Delwin Dexter Mc Queen of Lot 58 Howes Street Charlestown, aged fourteen now deceased was dressed in white and green, the uniform of South Ruimveldt Secondary.

Dear Editor, I am most horrified by the barbaric treatment that the child was subjected to in your story.

Dear Editor, It’s a brand- new year but press conferences coming out of the President’s Office are still coming into our homes in the same old way.

Dear Editor, I refer to articles published in the Con-sumer’s Corner of the Sunday Stabroek of January 6 and 13, 2008 which articles purported to inform on the World Day of Prayer.

Dear Editor, Tears came to my eyes when I read the story “Berbice police trying to “settle” child beating case-lawyer” in your edition of January 16, 2008.

Dear Editor, Mr. Martin Roberts in his letter captioned ” I still say Ms.

Dear Editor, It appears from recent polling data that the Democratic Party may very well choose its first African-American for its candidate for the November Presidential contest.

Dear Editor, In his letter of January 15, captioned “There is a brotherhood in the media

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday flayed President Bharrat Jagdeo and the military for locking the media out of the opening session of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers’ conference, accusing the army and Jagdeo of trying to deflect attention from serious issues facing the army.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been taken to court by Fidelity Investment Inc over a probe by Customs officials which raised questions about the origin of a large amount of polar beer.

Two persons, who were detained at the Cove and John Police Station, for the murder of an overseas-based Guyanese, have confessed to the crime, police sources say.

Several hours after he was arrested over a larceny allegation, a 24-year-old man was yesterday afternoon found hanging in the Enmore Police Outpost lock-ups and was later pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The sum of about US$1 million in world cup ticket sales claimed by the Guyana Government from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is in dispute, the board says.

The Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) and the Bank of Baroda recently signed a three-year Collective Labour Agreement that outlines improvement in salaries and other conditions of employment which are said to be substantial.

The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Michael de la Bastide, has expressed the hope that more countries will accept the appellate jurisdiction of the CCJ as the final court.

The Scout Association said Tuesday marked 100 years since the first publication of the book, Scouting for Boys and the beginning of world scouting.

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, says Guyana has progressed in the fight against malaria and the battle against the mosquito-borne disease will be ramped up in the vulnerable regions 7 and 8.

Rice Producers Association (RPA) worker, Mohamed Khan, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a 2004 accident, has finally secured the funds to undergo surgery that might allow him to walk again, in India.

The success rate of the poverty reduction strategy papers over the last five years has been minimal with no significant reduction in moderate and extreme poverty levels countrywide.

Bartica businessmen say they have already begun to suffer substantial losses due to the severe power shortages the area has been experiencing over the last three days.

To date Barbados, Anguilla, Dominica, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua have already indicated interest in all areas of participation in the Tenth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) which will be held from August 22 to 31.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Guyana Prison Service was yesterday inked for the restart of agricultural activities at the prisons which would ensure self-sufficiency in food.

An unlicensed driver, who led a police corporal on a merry chase along several city streets, was yesterday fined $120,000 when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Female parliamentarians on Wednesday pooled their ideas on the ‘Stamp it out!’

Four more former PNCR central executive members have been summoned to respond to charges by the party’s disciplinary committee bringing the total of those summoned to nine with three still to be called.