Daily Archive: Friday, January 25, 2008

15 years

A 40-year-old man was yesterday placed on bail when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of indecent assault.

Two men were on Wednesday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle after they were accused of breaking and entering Guyana Stores Limited and carting off nearly $2M in electronic items and sneakers.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old East Ruimveldt resident to three years imprisonment after he admitted breaking into a recording studio nearly two years ago and stealing over $1M in cameras and other articles.

An Albouystown man, who beat and stabbed an elderly shopkeeper while attempting to rob him and then tried to blame it on being drunk, was yesterday jailed for five years.

A statement by President Bharrat Jagdeo to the effect that the Caribbean are the losers in the recently concluded negotiation of the Economic Partner-ship Agreement (EPA) with Europe has been welcomed by a group of prominent Caribbean personalities, including academics, NGO activists and union leaders.

A locally registered business management company has secured a contract with a major Atlanta-based gaming company to provide IT-related online-gaming support services for a popular computer game due to be launched in the United States shortly.

Guyana’s expanding hotel industry can benefit from a range of multi-level training opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector which are available under the 2007/2008 Scholarship Programme for the regional hospitality sector being provided by the Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF) .

The popular marketing adage that image is everything has assumed an increasingly poignant significance in what has become a ferociously competitive global business environment.

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United Kingdom-based Guyanese company Dalgety Teas is making plans for a US$500,000 factory in Guyana, following its success in entering African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern markets.

The proprietor of a major city beer, beverage and alcohol outlet is backing the recent call by Banks DIH Ltd Chairman Clifford Reis for stricter measures by the country’s enforcement bodies to curb the influx of illegal beer and alcoholic beverages into Guyana.

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) is citing the completion of its new multi-million dollar GSM cellular service facility at Mahdia as “another concrete example of the company’s commitment to providing easy and reliable communication services between coastal and interior Guyana.”

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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.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars friendly international schedule went slightly off track with the cancellation of two planned matches, but the return clash against St.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission will be launching a 21-years and under open table tennis tournament at 4pm today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Guyana Karate College is currently enrolling students of all ages and skill levels at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul has emerged as a very popular candidate for the Sportsman-of-the-Year award when members of the selection panel sit down to select the 2007 National Sports Commission awardees today.

Dear Editor, The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club would like to place on record its total disgust and surprise at the non-selection of Royston Crandon on the National 20/20 squad to play in the 2008 Edition of the Stanford Tournament.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) would be conducting an encampment exercise for 25 potential Under-19 players from the counties of Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo at the GCB hostel, Alberttown from January 26th to 27th.

Dear Editor, Your Stabroek Business Editorial of January 11, 2008 would have been both timely and informative for persons not familiar with issues relating to the Takutu Bridge.

Dear Editor, I have recently had occasion to make visits to the passport office and the NIS.

Dear Editor, To alleviate the Lindeners being excluded from contracts an up to date inventory of all skilled and unskilled manpower should be attached to every contract advertised ,and a condition be included for a specific amount of such personnel to be employed` subject to their availability and agreement to work within mutual agreement.

Dear Editor, People should not be confused with the music/melody of a song and the language in which the lyrics are sung.

Dear Editor, Please poll the Guyanese populace to see what percentage believe Hammie Green’s recent statement on the guns issued to the government that he was a part of.

Dear Editor, I completely agree with the sentiments of Eric Phillips expressed in his letter, “The Church needs to regain it’s moral compass” (08.01.23).

Dear Editor, We have moved from the politics of rigged elections to the politics of narcotics and the gun.

Dear Editor, Maybe three or four years ago, President Bharrat Jagdeo invited Guyanese to join him in a national conversation on national issues.

Dear Editor, When the PPP/C Government was democratically elected to office in 1992 after 28 years of PNC domination, why didn’t they then initiate an investigation into the weapons issued by the GDF to the Ministry of Mobilization and National Development between 1976 and 1979 when the facts and circumstances were fresh in everyone’s mind and the ink was still wet on the GDF records?

Customs officers yesterday unearthed $14M in counterfeit Guyana currency hidden among some items in a barrel which had been sitting at the John Fernandes Wharf for almost two years now.

Following a series of stories in this newspaper about the high rice price, the government yesterday announced that two outlets will be opened on Monday to sell the staple below the current price which has stung consumers.

Five pirates attacked the crews of 10 fishing boats on Tuesday off the Corentyne coast and robbed them of engines, fish and fish glue worth “millions of dollars” in the latest strike against the besieged industry.

In the aftermath of an explosive gun battle between gunmen in Buxton and soldiers on Wednesday night, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Commodore Gary Best yesterday declared that the fight is not yet over with the criminals in that East Coast community.

The police are still to locate businessman, Barry Datram, whom the US wants extradited to face drug-related charges but his attorney, Vic Puran said yesterday that his client had not breached the court’s order mandating him to report to police.

A North West District man was early yesterday morning fatally stabbed during a fight with another man, police say.

The Region Three Administration on Friday commissioned a solar system at the Caria Caria Health Centre, Essequibo River.

Guyanese pilot and long serving Guyana Airways Corporation stalwart Guy Spence passed away in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday after a period of illness.

The PNCR is calling on the government to establish an “impartial and independent” commission to examine and investigate the allegations of torture against the Joint Services.

Namilco will be protesting today against the “dumping of flour” by a Trinidad company, to coincide with the COTED Ministerial Conference.

The University of Warwick is bestowing an Honorary Doctorate on Yesu Persaud in recognition of his “most significant contribution to the development of business in Guyana.”

The students of Winfer Gardens Primary will now benefit from a school library which was officially opened by Minister in the Ministry of Education, Dr Desrey Fox on Wednesday.

An upset US-based Guyanese has lambasted Travel Span after his flight to Guyana from New York was delayed for nearly 24 hours with no explanation or compensation from the airline.

A Guyanese woman who suffered a nightmarish accident on her way to her naturalisation ceremony, which left her in a coma for three days, finally became a US citizen last Wednesday, thanks to a judge who makes hospital calls, a New York Daily Post report said yesterday.