Daily Archive: Thursday, February 21, 2008

It is useful to assess each West Indies Test series in terms of its significance for the future of West Indies cricket, both the immediate and the more distant future.

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It was very telling that on St Valentine’s Day, when love was supposedly in the air there was none in the National Assembly.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) will be convening for its Annual General Meeting (AGM) this Sunday at the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) from 11am.

Yesterday it was Michelle John’s turn. Beaten in the final of the girls’ 18-years-and-under singles event, John came roaring back to snatch the 21-years-and-under title from her nemesis in a nail-biting encounter that went the full five games, as the national table tennis championships sponsored by the National Sports Commission continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

As is always the case in regional limited overs cricket, the four power house teams namely Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana always make it to the final four whenever there is such a stage.

Dear Editor, To the bereaved family members, friends, fellow villagers, and Guyanese at large, the Guyanese Pioneer Fund-raising group of Scarborough, Ontario send their deepest and heartfelt condolences.

Dear Editor, In 1997, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bartica.

Dear Editor, Why should Guyanese be subjected to the spurious comments of government ministers about the recent spate of killings, on National Communication Network (NCN) Channel 11.

Dear Editor, Based on solid intelligence out there and the recent massacre in Lusignan and Bartica the government need to wake up and face the reality that they are dealing with a rebel group whose aim is to destabilize the government of the day.

Dear Editor, For some time now I was pondering President Jagdeo’s declared position that he would not engage Mr.

Dear Editor, I had written a letter to you sometime ago on three questions which was never printed.

Dear Editor, The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration can no longer deny the now patently clear interference in the daily operations of the state media, thereby subverting the roles and functions of the Boards of Directors as well as the journalistic and editorial functionaries of the Guyana Chronicle and National Communications Network.

Dear Editor, I cannot overcome the shock of suffering the loss of $120,000 from my home at Charity, Essequibo Coast during a police search shortly after 8.30 Monday night February 4, for arms and ammunition.

Dear Editor, All Guyanese were forced to stop and reflect on the recent murderous rampage at Bartica.

Dear Editor, As predicted by opinion polls, the party of the late Benazir Bhutto has won the parliamentary elections in Pakistan.

Dear Editor, While according to the Guyana Water Inc. they are grappling with getting their act together so as to bring a tolerable and stable water service to the Linden Community, a greater danger looms, typhoid!

Dear Editor, On Friday Feb 15 I visited a friend in New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, It is clear that Stabroek News has an agenda to muzzle or control the African interpretation of reality.

Dear Editor, Regarding the letter “Genetic science has a lot to offer”, (08.02.15) by M Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett, February 15, 2008: M Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett must have misread my letter for I did not “condemn outright the new techniques of genetic science”.

Dear Editor, I am extremely distraught over the fact that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr.

The Guyana Government and four political parties have signed an agreement which includes support for the administration in garnering help for the fight against crime from the international community.

Edward B. Beharry and Company Limited (EBB) is investing $1.7 billion this year in new plant and equipment for the production of its range of pastas and chowmein.

Government has accepted an offer from Trinidad and Tobago to provide it with specialized weapons and a helicopter to assist in its crime fighting efforts.

Two men were each placed on $4.4 million bail on charges of knowingly being concerned in dealing with goods with intent to defraud the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

As Bartica staggers under the trauma of the murder of a dozen persons, residents are beginning to accept that the attackers had gathered expert intelligence on them and used skilled river pilots – possibly from the township itself.

Under cloudy skies, grieving relatives, friends and residents gathered yesterday to bid goodbye to Tuschen resident and slain sailor, Errol Thomas, the first of the 12 victims of the February 17 Bartica slaughter to be laid to rest.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin did not sign the communiqu

Cariforum governments are expected to sign onto the Economic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) with the Euro-pean Union (EU) by the second week in April and the lead Caribbean negotiator has mounted a stirring defence of its attributes and necessity.

Delta Airlines is currently in Guyana assessing the market with a view of commencing operations here in July, Minister of Public Works & Communications, Robeson Benn said yesterday while noting that high fuel costs may also cause Travel Span to suspend service.

In the wake of two horrific massacres, the US$22M Citizen’s Security Programme (CSP) aimed at tackling crime on a variety of fronts was launched yesterday with a call from an IDB official for strong leadership in the Home Affairs Ministry to ensure there is no donor duplication in the sector.

The pontoon, MB Sandaka’s propeller was snagged by weeds around 8:15 am yesterday and slammed into a section of the Berbice River Bridge that is under construction, causing a piece of iron to bend.

Water in the East Coast community of Montrose and surrounding areas rose yesterday after heavy rainfall during the past several days, flooding homes and causing some loss in cash crops.

Five persons have been taken into custody in Berbice after the Joint Services intercepted a boat that was transporting 4,240 grammes of cannabis in the Canje Creek around 2:30 pm on Tuesday.

The WPO says the attacks at Lusignan and Bartica were intended to terrorize and create mayhem and it urged citizens not to cower to the criminals.

The University of Guyana is beefing up security and reinforcing the ban on the consumption of alcohol and the playing of loud music on the tarmac and its environs following the death of student, Dennis Edghill.

OAS Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin says that the attacks last Sunday night which left 12 persons dead in the mining town of Bartica are “barbarous acts which violate the dignity of life and common decency, and undermine confidence in the rule of law.”

A leaky roof at the Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court in Black Bush Polder provoked Magistrate Krishndat Persaud to say that he would not be holding court in that building again until the problem is fixed.

The Region Three administration “joins with all peace-loving citizens in condemning the brutal assassinations” in Bartica on Sunday.