Daily Archive: Saturday, January 19, 2008

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Two Campbellville residents who are accused of almost beating a man to death informed the court yesterday that there has been a $100,000 settlement in the matter but they were however released on $150,000 bail each so that advice could be sought from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the way forward.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday released two men on $30,000 bail each when they appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a joint charge of robbery with aggravation.

A 26-year-old North West District farmer who allegedly intervened in a fight and fatally stabbed a ‘peacemaker’ in the process appeared yesterday before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle and was remanded to prison.

Two men yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on separate robbery-under-arms charges and were remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton.

Mind-boggling atrocities, many committed against children, are being attested to as the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor proceeds in The Hague.

Three of the five Guyanese players in the West Indies Rugby team to participate in the upcoming Sevens World Series Rugby tournament scheduled to be hosted in San Diego, California, next month, received their rebate tickets yesterday from Reservation Supervisor of Caribbean Airlines (Guyana) Limited, Ms Taiwo Worrell.

The Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Associa-tion (GSSBA) season resumes today with most of the teams having just two to three games to complete their regular season play before “March Madness”.

Alpha United head coach Wayne Dover has been lauded by Georgetown Football Association (GFA) President Troy Mendonca for his team’s success during the 2007 football season at the GT&T Cell Link Plus Premier League presentation last Wednesday.

The F&H shipping establishment will host a big dominoes tournament today at the Milrox Sports Bar which is situated at Breda and Hadfield Streets (behind the Brickdam Police Station).

Dear Editor, The West Indies Cricket team’s performance in South Africa is indeed refreshing and exciting.

Dear Editor, It is with much concern that I am compelled to write on some grossly inaccurate information coming from Mr Donald Duff in his Sports Comment in the Saturday 12th January, ’08 edition of Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, Mr Cullen Bess-Nelson, the photographer who took the front page picture (Sunday Chronicle, January 13, 2008) of the horse straining to pull the overweight cart could have: i.

Dear Editor, I fully support the view of Vishnu Bisram that Eusi Kwayana should be awarded Guyana highest honour.

Dear Editor, It would seem to be the case that the new traffic laws are being happily exploited by certain members of the police service in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I am assuming that there is a special national body that is responsible for gathering and studying data and deciding on who are eligible for national honours.

Dear Editor, Your guest editorial “The Necessity for Power Sharing in Guyana” of 12 January 2008 was a powerful one.

Dear Editor, Guyanese-Americans can be found in almost all of the states in the US but the largest chunk are found in the New York metro and Florida-Georgia.

Dear Editor, Your Wednesday (Jan. 16) lead news story, headlined “PNC-era weapons trigger probe” has to be the worst politically-hatched tactical offensive by the PPP regime against the PNC, and it deserves to be exposed for the fraud it is.

Dear Editor, I always have to pose myself the question whether to reply or not.

Dear Editor, Trinidad & Tobago has been touted as a very developed country, self-sufficient in all things, with the highest GDP in the Caribbean, and with an unemployment figure of almost nil, to the extent that the Government is seeking workers (labourers) from the Phillippines to cope with the building boom.

Dear Editor, It was extremely refreshing to hear the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer in opening the 5th Triennial Delegates Conference, paying a well earned tribute to the Guyana Labour Union.

Dear Editor, In relation to the pending negotiations between the Government of Guyana (GOG) and GT&T over the terms of GT&T’s future operations in Guyana it should be noted that cellular service can be used to help increase telephone penetration in Guyana, especially in those interior areas where population is sparse and where running wired telephone lines is very expensive on a per capita basis.

Dear Editor, In the latter part of 2007, Dr. Ramsammy boldly announced that Guyanese were consuming alcohol in epidemic proportions and vowed to take steps to curb the crisis.

They are new. They are bold. They are ready. And if they are right, Mashramani and some of its related activities will never be the same again.

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Confident, bold, and with promises of surprises, a fireman, two party boys, a singer recently returned from the fashion world, and a wall breaker are some of the persons hoping to be crowned king (or queen) of Soca this year.

The doors of a new recording studio have been opened to young singers, especially those who been denied an opportunity to exhibit their talents elsewhere.

After some two months of waiting to see who made the shortlist for a chance to be Guyana’s next top model, the Guyana Model Search (GMS) finally debuted on television on Wednesday night but the models were only briefly featured.

Five heavily-armed gunmen last evening invaded the home of a Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara businessman robbing him of over $1.5M in cash while threatening to kill him and his family.

A disc jockey and a taxi driver accused of clubbing an overseas-based Guyanese to death were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A Golden Grove man was electrocuted yesterday when he came into contact with a live wire atop a lamppost a short distance from his home.

“Compare Bread” will soon open its doors to the Linden community but it has already gotten positive responses from residents who have sampled the product.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) last evening said that the Guyana Press Association (GPA) did not have locus standi to “determine the nature of the coverage as determined by the executive”.

The PNCR says the Value Added Tax (VAT) has contributed immensely to the high cost of living, citing what is said was a higher correlation between the two, rather than the worldwide increase in food prices.

A 20-year-old prisoner, who says she was given permission by a corporal to go and see her sick child was remanded to prison on Thursday when she appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of escaping from lawful custody.

When persons visit the Enmore polyclinic in relation to any ailment they will be given a general health check.

Digicel announced on Tuesday that it had achieved significant growth in 2007, ending the year with more than six million customers, a total investment exceeding US$1.9 billion across the region and new business operations in Guyana, Suriname and El Salvador.

The Guyana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is launching its feeding programme for the homeless in downtown Georgetown tomorrow in the area between Fogarty’s and Guyana Stores west of the museum.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is hoping to eliminate late starters in the Mashramani float parade, with penalties being instituted against the laggards.

The media lockout from the Guyana Defence Force conference on Thursday is a clear indication of the growing dictatorship in the current administration, the PNCR has said.

Wireless Connections says 13 customers have won $10,000 each in its Christmas promotions.

Freedom is deteriorating worldwide, the independent human rights organisation Freedom House said in its annual report released this week.

The six winners of the Republic Bank ‘Have a Happening Christmas’ loan campaign were presented with their cash winnings yesterday at the Camp Street branch.

A $15M dormitory will soon be built at Orealla to house students from that community as well as from neighbouring Siparuta.

Conservation International (CI) was recently the beneficiary of US$20 million in new funds from the World Bank through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to protect some of the world’s unique and threatened areas, including island ecosystems and temperate forests, a release said.

The human services ministry on Thursday launched a social welfare group in Sophia that is mandated to raise the living standards of all women.

Singer Guyana Inc yesterday launched its first promotion of the year and also presented the winner of the motorcycle from last year’s promotion with the keys.

Motorcycle bandits struck in the city on Thursday night, robbing a Regent Street internet caf

The spate of fires that struck the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) facilities has raised “serious concerns” and the company has engaged the authorities to do a comprehensive investigation, the shipping company said yesterday.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has made a number of recommendations to the government which would ease the burden of taxation on the average citizen including a cut in the personal income tax rate and the zero-rating of flour and other food items.

The PNCR says it has noted President Bharrat Jagdeo’s decision to set up a board of inquiry into the torture allegations being made against the army, but believes that the same should be done for the previous reported cases.