Articles published on Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A 56-year-old man who was found guilty of stealing tools from a car was fined $25,000 with an alternative of 12 months imprisonment when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Another man yesterday appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of Kumar Singh, called ‘Mango Man’, of Cove and John and he was remanded to prison.
A 20-year-old labourer accused of raping a 60-year-old woman was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Three men were remanded by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of robbery under arms.
The administration’s agreement to establish a special select committee on the Disciplined Forces Commission Report in the National Assembly must have been an embarrassing admission of its sloth and weakness.
This view was expressed some time ago by former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, who, at the same forum, made the point that a primary factor in the worsening crime situation in the region is that “we have lost our way because our core cultural values have been lost, exchanged instead for values originating extra-regionally.
To me is it no accident that the region now has a tourism based economy.
But the more important issue arising is, whether there was an appropriate apparatus available in the Caricom governance institutional structure, with the mandate to pursue the elaboration of a political/policy strategy for the consideration of governments; for the CRNM was seen as strictly accepting mandates, rather than assisting in the innovation of strategy.
It was the Hon Hubert Jack, then Minister without Portfolio, who, in an address titled “The Thrust into the Hinterland” in June 1970, said and I quote: “With our coastlands already crowded, with the need to develop the enormous resources of the Interior so as to maintain and improve the standard of living of our people, faced with the urgent need to establish communities in the Interior, if only to thwart the designs of those who cast envious eyes on our land, the people and Government of Guyana are now embarked on the challenging task of making the Hinterland truly their own”.
293-303. With one exception, all the genera and species comprising our visitors had already given me a contribution for my collection: what I still missed was the glorious flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) which in spite of every trick resorted to, never came within shot.
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In 1961, the scholar Lewis Mumford wondered whether the modern city would disappear, or ‘the whole planet turn into a vast urban hive?
Compliments of GT&T, Caribbean Airlines, Bissan’s Trading Limited and Trophy Stall It was second time lucky for Trinidad and Tobago when they defeated Jamaica by nine wickets in the final of the 2008 Stanford Twenty20 cricket competition at the Stanford Cricket Ground, Coolidge, Antigua, Sunday night.
A team representing the Sweet Point Snackette on Orange Walk will this afternoon throw down the gauntlet to a team comprising former national players in a one-off match for the Ken Gibbs trophy.
Dear Editor, I want back my Bartica with seven avenues and nine streets and roads that lead to Caribiese, Byderabo and the “Line”.
Dear Editor, I have read some comments about the subvention for Critchlow Labour College (CLC), which has been withheld by operatives of the Government of Guyana (GOG), apparently in an effort to punish the TUC for its failure to have trade union unity in the face of machinations from other actors in the industrial relations arena.
Dear Editor, When I turned on my computer, accessed the independent dailies and read that the mindless violence that had plagued our nation over the past five years had wended its way to Bartica, my hopes for my country just withered and died.
Dear Editor, My heart goes out to all those Guyanese who have died so tragically in the horrors of Lusignan and Bartica.
Dear Editor, The last advertisement from Universal Bookstore that it is closing down is a tragic indicator of the decline in reading in the Guyanese public.
Dear Editor, GT&T has changed its calling rates in Turkeyen claiming it’s not in Georgetown when for the past few years I have been using the service under the ‘Georgetown’ rate.
Dear Editor, The Canadian Government has budgeted to admit 215,475 new immigrants in the Skilled Workers category for the year 2008.
Dear Editor, After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, only Montenegro remained united with Serbia.
Dear Editor, Transnational data on private security governance through the introduction of fair regulatory frameworks clearly shows that the lack of reliable facts and figures has been and remains typical of the private security industry.
Dear Editor, Should a serving member of the Guyana Police Force die, from which day should the force’s flag at stations be flown at half-mast?
Dear Editor, I have a great suggestion for the Canadian, American, and British governments to help with the political problems in Guyana.
If Cabinet approves the National Insurance Scheme’s (NIS) Reform Committee’s report, then the pensionable age will increase from 60 to 65 years old.
Wanted men Delroy Jack and Manu Durant yesterday turned themselves in to police.
Joint Services ranks were yesterday deployed to Enachu, some 170 miles up the Essequibo River and some ten miles from the mining community of Kurupung after reports that a gang of gunmen went into a camp there.
The long-awaited clearing of the silted-up mouth of the Abary Creek finally commenced yesterday and residents, though pleased, felt that a long-boom excavator would have been more effective.
The Aircraft Owners Associa-tion of Guyana (AOAG) says that with the hiring of an under-qualified person as a flight operations inspector (FOI), the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has not only put its credibility and reputation on the international scene at stake, but the safety of the planes and passengers at risk.
Photographs of six more men said to be wanted by the police in connection with the Lusignan and Bartica massacres have not been released by the police force to Stabroek News.
Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said government has allocated $2.2 billion in this year’s budget to execute major infrastructural works in sea defence, shore zone management and mangrove regeneration.
The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) said it recently rendered assistance to five families who suffered losses due to fire.
Buxtonians who say they are being ill-treated and criminalised by the Joint Services formed a delegation and visited Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday to air their grievances and plead for immediate relief.
The Guyana Police Force is refuting a report carried on Capitol News on Thursday last in which statements were made discrediting the results of the ballistics tests done by the force on spent shells and warheads.
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is not disposed to speaking with the media at this time on Dominica’s accession to ALBA (the Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas) and Caricom has been silent on Dominica’s membership.
Three men are in police custody following an operation by the police who burned two acres of marijuana plants at Swan on the Linden Highway on Friday.
A 23-year-old man was shot and robbed on Sunday night by two bandits who took away his motorcycle and escaped.
An accident at Broad and Russell streets, Charlestown saw approximately ten persons being taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment around 3.45 pm yesterday.
Geographically, Freetown Sierra Leone is far away from the US campaign trail.
A businessman was yesterday attacked and robbed of over $1 million by an armed gunman just as he hopped out of his car at Carmichael Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) plans to increase the number of VAT registrants by some eight per cent during the year, utilizing the Total Revenue Integrated Processing System (TRIPS), a modern computerized system, which it implemented from January 1 last year.
Foreign Affairs Minister Rudy Insanally says government is working with several international institutions to revise the current maritime legislation which once completed will replace the Maritime Boundaries Act of 1977.
The Guyana Peace Builders Network (PBN) in condemning the slayings at Bartica is appealing to policymakers to consider an effective gun control policy and advance measures to stymie the access to arms.
Consideration is being given to rehabilitating about 187 miles of road near the Pakaraima Mountain Range in Region Eight to make trade and passage easier between the interlinking communities.
Channel 14/65 joins with all Guyanese in condemning the killings at Lusignan and Bartica supports the institutions and agencies responsible for bringing the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to justice.
