Daily Archive: Thursday, February 28, 2008

Introduction As in almost every area of human endeavour, women also have a minuscule presence in positions of real power and decision making in religious leadership.

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Berlin – NATO needs a new strategy. We, five former Defense Chiefs of Staff, recently published a booklet containing proposals for such a new strategy, as well as a comprehensive agenda for change.

Mark Durant, a man who police had previously issued a wanted bulletin for in relation to the missing teen Tenisha Morgan, was brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a simple larceny charge which was subsequently dismissed on the grounds of mistaken identity.

Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop refused a prison officer his pre-trial freedom when he appeared before him at the New Amsterdam Court on Monday, charged with possession of narcotics and having the substance in the prison compound.

Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop imposed a $300,000 fine on a Rosignol minibus driver charged with causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared before him at the Blairmont Court on Monday.

Even though we live on the periphery of a rain forest, few Guyanese appreciate the economic potential of our hinterland.

Seventeen-year-old Andrew Murray Jr. has not descended from the clouds ever since he received news of his selection by John Barnes and the Digicel Kick-start Clinic to train for a week at Sunderland’s Academy of Lights in England.

Demerara, led by a polished unbeaten half-century from captain Kwame Crosse and a five-wicket haul including a helmet trick from right-arm, leg-spinner Amir Khan, trounced Essequibo by 120 runs in the first round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Castrol-sponsored Under-15 Inter County limited overs cricket competition at the National Stadium at Providence,yesterday.

The boxers accused of withdrawing from the squad preparing for next month’s Olympic Box-off in Trinidad, Clive Atwell and Hendrick Pelswijk, have said that their refusal to attend training sessions had to do with a decision that they must pay their own way to Trinidad.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers for the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) will now be held on March 1 at Olympic House, Peter Rose and Church Streets, Queenstown and not today as was reported in yesterday’s newspaper.

The rainy weather in Guyana has not only affected the preparation of athletes but it has also caused some major competitions to be postponed.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has not yet elected a new chief coach and it has not yet found a suitably qualified replacement for former chief coach Elton Smith.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial of Friday, February 22, 2008 which was aptly entitled “Atonement”.

Dear Editor As mothers and women who have responsibility for our families, we feel threatened by the indiscriminate killing we have witnessed in the last month.

Dear Editor, The Registrar of Lands should visit the New Amsterdam Land Registry once a week to pass titles.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter of N Bisnauth captioned “Let’s find homes for the animals we have, not import pure breed pets” (08.02.20) I totally agree that pure breeds, or in fact any dog whatsoever, should not be brought or even allowed into Guyana, mainly because the country is already overflowing with unwanted animals.

Dear Editor, Mr. Clement Rohee’s rambling letter to the press exposes his preoccupation with the functions of the Leader of the Opposition, rather than carrying out his constitutional responsibility of ensuring the security of Guyanese citizens, at a time when the fragile internal security situation demands his undivided attention.

Dear Editor, It is now a month since the Lusignan massacre.

Dear Editor, Bartica was known as a peaceful and loving community.

Dear Editor, The community of Bartica continues to consensually express their dissatisfaction with the current state of unreliable electrical power supply which has damaged electrical household appliances, affecting business activity negatively and now, in the aftermath of Sunday February 17, 2008 massacre here where twelve innocent industrious persons tragically perished, it only adds more to the current psychological after effects on residents, particularly where security is concerned.

Dear Editor, While I was a student of the university of Guyana, a regular occurrence would be for our classes to be interrupted by screeching tyres, loud music and cursing by drunken individuals, particularly on Friday evenings when you could look forward like clockwork to your classes in the GWLT being disturbed by these persons, many of whom are not students and are on a raucous campus lime (not organized university events) disturbing those of us who are there for the serious business of study.

Dear Editor: Friday, February 15, 2008 was designated Open/Career Day of the University of Guyana (UG).

The government, parliamentary parties and representatives of civil society have agreed to support the national security sector plan and its various components and to tabulate all recommendations for examination at another meeting.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has proposed the setting up of a commission of inquiry to examine the underlying causes of the criminal and possibly centrally directed violence that has gripped the country.

Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire sentenced a Lusignan man to ten years imprisonment on Tuesday for killing his wife then reporting that bandits had broken into their home and murdered her.

The case against the third man charged with the 2002 murder of a taxi driver, was discharged at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

At the New Amsterdam (NA) Court on Monday Magistrate Krishendat Persaud sentenced prison escapee Jermaine Brown to five years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of escaping from lawful custody.

Despite the inclement weather, the approach road to the Berbice River Bridge is moving apace and officials are confident that the asphalt surface would be completed by the September deadline.

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) now has a baggage scanner that is capable of thoroughly inspecting miscellaneous articles entering and leaving the Camp Street prison.

A West Bank Berbice vendor who stabbed another woman was granted $60,000 bail when she appeared at the New Amsterdam (NA) Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

On February 14, 2008 the Marian Academy hosted the first blood drive at a primary or secondary school in the history of blood collection in Guyana.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) reiterated yesterday that it is not in possession of funds, nor does it receive any, for the payment of scrutineers, and so it has not acted in ‘bad faith’ since it holds no responsibility for any ‘short payment’.

In another few days the minimum wage rate for several categories of workers will go up by an average of 22 percent, Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir announced yesterday.

Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran made a stirring speech in Orlando, Florida last Saturday when he called for a high degree of national unity in order to bring criminals to justice and pointed out that poverty is the main root cause of crime.

Guyana can expect continued technical and expert assistance from Cuba in areas such as transport and marine cooperation based on the agreed minutes at the 24th Session of the Guyana/Cuba Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation.

As the whereabouts of missing teenager Tenisha Morgan of Buxton, East Coast Demerara remain a mystery, the man who police believed would have assisted them with information, was questioned over a number of days and then released.

Singer and entertainer Dave Martins captured the hearts of hundreds of Guyanese at a function in Orlando, Florida held in observance of Guyana’s 38th Republic anniversary.

With still no firm word yesterday on the fate of a three-man fishing crew that has not been heard from since venturing out to sea on January 23, a search boat was yesterday deployed by the company with which the men worked.

The Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA) yesterday weighed-in on the paddy price row, denying allegations in an advertisement in the February 17 edition of the Kaieteur News.

Some primary school students housed at the Wales Community High School (WCHS) will be relocated to La Retraite Primary School and plans are in train to conduct rehabilitative works at the West Bank Demerara (WBD) school.

Gunmen executed a daring daylight robbery on a South Ruimveldt pensioner and escaped with over $300,000 cash.

mobile pump has been redeployed to Helena, Mahaica to support drainage and irrigation intervention activities in areas affected by heavy rainfall.

Edwin Gilkes, the Banks DIH security guard, who was among the 12 persons shot dead by gunmen on February 17 at Bartica, was laid to rest in that community yesterday.

Twelve Linden Foundation Secondary School students were admitted to the Linden Hospital Complex yesterday suffering from vomiting and weakness.