Articles published on Sunday, March 2, 2008
In our edition last Tuesday we carried a report saying that the photos of six men wanted by the police in connection with the Lusignan and Bartica killings had not been released by the police force to Stabroek News despite the fact that they had been carried in the February 23 edition of the Guyana Chronicle, as well as in the Kaieteur News the following day.
As they promised earlier this year, Banks DIH has continued to aid in the development of local sport with a recent contribution to the Masters football tournament which will begin in the next two weeks at the Thirst Park ground.
With improved weather football fans can expect a treat in this evening’s inaugural Banks Premium Beer Cup football final between Sunburst Camptown and Pele at the Tucville Playfield.
With just days to go before Guyana hosts the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Futsal Football tournament, the local football governing body has reduced the squad to 16 players from which the final 12 players will be named.
Rajin Tulkan of Unstoppable and Jagdesh Deosarran of Country Side from Lusignan stole the spotlight in the latest round of matches for the Trophy Stall 15 overs softball cricket competition last Sunday.
It took Keisha Jeffrey the full five games to overcome Ashley Khalil in one of the round robin matches of Category `B’ of the Guyana Squash Association’s Toucan Industries Mash junior squash tournament on Friday night.
Dear Editor, I have read about what is called “sledging” among cricketers, and this only takes place when cricket is played in Australia.
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by L.A Camacho headlined “Critchlow Labour College was part of a broader plan in which the American Labour Movement was involved to provide education for workers” (08.02.25) and wish to mention that Mr Max Swerdlow of the Canadian Labour College played a leading role in the establishment of the Critchlow Labour College.
Dear Editor, The Speaker of the House, Mr Ralph Ramkarran, should be congratulated for his appropriate and statesmanlike address which he delivered in Orlando, Florida on the occasion of Guyana’s 38th anniversary as a republic.
Dear Editor, There is a proliferation of distortions by Opposition Leader, Mr Robert Corbin about the state media, National Television Network, NCN and Guyana Chronicle.
Dear Editor, It is always interesting to see the debates in the National Assembly and the February 28 Budget debate was no different.
Dear Editor, The recent criminal events have forced me to take a critical look at the failure of our police force to attract new recruits and new skills to the organisation.The
Dear Editor, As you are aware the cost for a new machine readable passport is now four thousand as against one thousand dollars for the old one.
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Commissioner of Police (ag) Henry Greene captioned “The constable was not absent from court as Mr.
Dear Editor, The NCN Linden Television offered a Valentine’s Day sponsored programme.
Dear Editor, I endorse Mike Singh’s plea for Guyana (and other Caribbean states) to emulate Singapore’s model of development in his letter captioned “We used to be more developed than Singapore” (08.02.29).
(Reprinted from the Trinidad Sunday Express, February 24, 2008) BC Pires: To Trinidadians, the wholesale murder in Guyana seems other-worldly; how are Guyanese coping?
It has been hundreds of years since women were burned at the stake after being “convicted” of witchcraft.
In the supermarket the six-year old clutched her mother’s skirt and said “Mommy, the chips,” as she pointed to the boxes of potato chips on the shelves.
The Caribbean Beat January/February 2008 issue carries, among many other articles, two contrasting features on the Caribbean’s great cultural traditions, reggae and calypso.
The art of re-packaging aid The development dimension of the EPA crucially hinges on the provision of development assistance by the EU aimed at boosting CARIFORUM’s institutional, infrastructural, regulatory and productive capacities at the national and regional levels so as to promote a sustainable expansion in exports both to the EU and the Rest-of-the-World.
Lloyd Searwar Selected Editorials edited by Barton Scotland (Guyana: Guyana Publications Inc.,
Introduction Small incision surgery has revolutionized the field of gynaecological surgery and changed the way lower abdominal surgery has been practised over the past decade.
Just under a week ago, to virtually no one’s surprise, Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel as President of Cuba.
The local chess fraternity remains stunned beyond comprehension by the brutal murder of 23 of our citizens in Lusignan and Bartica.
My eyelid was itchy yesterday and now it’s swollen and feels like a boil is in the lid.
Let me stress that I appreciate the importance of metricating Guyana, if that is the right phrase.
Many years ago – almost longer ago than I care to remember (and indeed almost longer ago than I can probably remember) I developed an intimate acquaintance with the University Botanic Garden at Cambridge, and a long friendship with its then Director, John Gilmore, a Fellow of Clare College a taxonomist and a humanist of monumental repute.
Introduction The announcement by the Minister of Finance in his 2008 Budget speech that the government was embarking on consultations on making the country into an off-shore financial centre must have taken those with whom he did not consult with considerable surprise.
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Hi Everyone, I’ve been confused about fish broth and steamed fish.
Reports from Bartica suggest that there was a survivor from the stelling stage of the February 17 killings, which left 12 persons dead.
Representatives of the parliamentary opposition parties have expressed concern about the lack of transparency in the awarding of land to a consortium of unknown investors for the construction of a hotel in Kingston, reportedly to carry the Marriott Hotels brand.
CWC 2007 netted an overall profit of US$53.9 million, according to the audited report of the ICC Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007 Incorporated (CWC 2007), which was presented by auditors KPMG at the CWC 2007 Board’s final meeting yesterday.
Police said that about 1.25 pm yesterday a man was mortally wounded after a shoot-out with ranks of the police mobile patrol at Princes and Russell Streets.
Two men armed with handguns yesterday held the female cashier at the Western Union outlet at Lamaha Street, Georgetown, at gunpoint and took away $300,000 cash belonging to the company, along with $5,000 and a cell phone from the cashier before escaping, a press release from the police said yesterday.
Air traffic controllers from the Timehri and Ogle airports yesterday continued their sick-out forcing senior aviation personnel to fill in so as to ensure there was no shortfall in the system.
The requirements for exporting forestry products were highlighted at a workshop hosted on Thursday by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in collaboration with the Forestry Marketing Council of Guyana Incor-porated.
PNCR-1G Member of Parliament Volda Lawrence said that with government’s penchant for bringing supplementary requests for additional expenditure, she hoped the figures in this year’s $119.3 billion National Budget were a true representation of the estimates made for this financial year.
The repayment of a $30 million advance on rooms to the incomplete Casique Palace and Banqueting Halls for use during the Cricket World Cup 2007 matches is being dealt with between the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Finance and the investors.
Three open heart surgeries were completed within the past three days at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), which is seeking to make the procedures routine by the end of the year.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has said that total investment in the mining sector was estimated at US$100 million, with in excess of 12,000 small claims and 4,000 medium-scale permits issued.
Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said all legitimate farmers, whether they farmed on transported or state land, were eligible for and would receive compensation.
