Daily Archive: Saturday, March 15, 2008

– exercise on schedule The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday reported that it has already registered 39% of eligible persons and despite setbacks owing to inclement weather and the tragic occurrences at Bartica and Lusignan the commission remains convinced that the exercise would be completed as scheduled.

Region Three schools are gearing up for the National Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair slated for April 1 to 3 in Linden.

A farewell ceremony was held on Wednesday for two Cuban doctors who completed their attachments at the Enterprise Health Centre under a government of Guyana/Cuba health care initiative.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday met with members of the Inshan family who were terrorized by bandits on Monday night at their West Demerara home.

Police officers at a city police station who were ordered to fall in line following the slaughter of 11 persons at Lusignan have raised concerns over the deplorable state of the restroom facilities.

Frozen chicken is already on its way here as government addressed the local shortage by granting licences for the short-term importation of the commodity.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has disclosed that 4.4 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables were exported last year.

Pre-startup preparations and testing of sub-systems are now taking place throughout the new factory at the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project while key staff are working fulltime in order to become acquainted with their new responsibilities.

The PPP Central Committee says its next congress will be held August 2 and 3.

Cabinet gave the “go-ahead” for three contracts in two sectors when it met at the Office of the President on Tuesday.

The Digicel Haiti Foundation has fulfilled a promise to that country by building 20 primary schools in its first 12 months of operation.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is relaxing the requirement of a driver’s licence for head teachers qualifying for tax exemptions to buy motor vehicles and is giving applicants an eight-month grace period to obtain their licences.

A new Art and Craft Producers Association was launched last Thursday at a meeting held at the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, and the body is expected to lobby for government and other support, besides sourcing financial assistance for its members.

‘It didn’t call for this,’ witness recalls victim saying Jacklyn Levius, who died after she was stabbed at Richard Ishmael School in 2005, had said after she was injured: “I didn’t do that lil schoolgirl nothing and look what she do.

Venezuelan representatives who will comprise the visiting delegation for Carifesta X were on Thursday briefed on Guyana’s preparations at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Police question hotel owner’s husband again Police questioned the husband of hotel owner Roselaine Hall again yesterday in the light of Thursday afternoon’s discovery of the badly decomposed remains of a woman on the Linden Highway.

Marcyn King, the Rentokil employee and mother of three who was shot and killed while on her way home from work on Monday night, will be laid to rest today even as the police have found no tangible clues as to who her assailant might have been.

-but bakery points to heavy losses last year The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it is disturbed that Bakewell has upped the price of its bread and rolls by approximately 20 per cent effective Thursday, but the company says eventually other bakeries will have to follow suit given the rise in input costs.

-ambushed seconds after closing business The still of the night at Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Deme-rara (EBD) was shattered on Thursday when two armed, masked men attacked a woman seconds after she had locked her business place, battered her with concrete blocks and shot her in the arm before escaping with the bag of money she had.

What might have been a lover’s quarrel ended tragically yesterday for an 18-year-old when her 22-year-old boyfriend stabbed her countless times about the body in a vicious attack that left her drenched in blood.

-President President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday declared that wanted man Rondell `Fineman’ Rawlins and his gang members will be hunted down by a unit that was specially set up and he insisted that the same group of men were behind both the Lusignan and Bartica slaughters.

Guyanese poet and author, James G.D Paul popularly known as Pablo has published his first novel titled, My Poor Dad- a novel that confronts harsh socio-cultural forces that lead to alcohol addiction using his personal experience.

The Guyana Fashion Weekend turns two this year and Carifesta is the stage for this year’s birthday bash.

This year’s Miss Bartica Regatta contestants were sashed on Saturday last at the Kool Breeze Resort.

Always learning By Cynthia Nelson Hi Everyone, How did you learn to cook?

Too late It is time that being on time became fashionable again.

In a cash-strapped community eager to assist but incapable of doing so, an all-girls, school steel band is surviving using old, out-of-tune instruments that somehow still produce sound, and incredibly, it rocks!

Dear Editor, I wish to submit the following questions to Hon.

Dear Editor, The Jeddah-based Organis-ation of Islamic Conference (OIC) which is the world’s largest pan-Islamic body, with 57 members, which includes Guyana and Suriname, will hold a summit in Senegal from March 13-14.

Dear Editor, Our country needs wisdom that will prevent more grief, destroying a nation already in mourning.

Dear Editor, What was the eventual rank of former Guyana Defence Force Officer Mr Oliver Hinckson.

Dear Editor, After reading about the cry of an Israeli woman in the Israel/Palestine conflict I said to myself: “Is this so different to the cry of some Guyanese today?”

Dear Editor, A local newspaper headline pronounces that inflation is as a result of increasing world prices for commodities, which includes wheat.

On March 22 at the All Saints Scots Church ground, Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam, the police Berbice Division will be holding a four- team Tape Ball Twenty20 competition as a fund-raising raising effort for the Police Cricket Club in Berbice.

Anthony Downes came back from being down one set to win the next two and close out Jeremy Miller to claim the boys’ 18 and under title last night in the Banks DIH Plus Energy Open lawn tennis tournament.

Today, the National Park Circuit comes alive with the 6th Annual Diamond Mineral Water Cycle Programme organized by National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohammed.

The much anticipated West Indies vs. Sri Lanka tour that is to be hosted in the Caribbean from the March 22 to April 15, will see the two teams clashing in two Test matches, three One Day Internationals and one Twenty20 match.

Last Sunday the Burnham Basketball Court came alive with teams from the East Bank of Demerara as the 14th Annual Basketball Championship got underway.

Superwoman is alive and well, overworked, underpaid and mostly unappreciated and she should not expect her circumstances to change.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded an Alberttown man charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

-bail hearing set for March 25 Justice Jainarayan Singh Jnr yesterday granted the Attorney General (AG) seven days to file an affidavit in response to the motion filed by Oliver Hinckson’s lawyers.