Daily Archive: Monday, March 24, 2008

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday visited Tiger Bay in Georgetown and Good Hope, East Coast Demerara where he distributed hundreds of kites to children.

In the heat of the bloody crimes that flared up here recently, police placed a $50M reward for information leading to the arrest of the country’s most wanted man, Rondell Rawlins, but more than six weeks later there has been no serious response to the offer.

The poverty reduction consultations on governance and security and on health at two separate venues in the city on Monday were poorly attended and saw very little participation by civil society.

Two months after a teenager was found hanging by his jersey in the Enmore Police Outpost lock-ups, his relatives still refuse to accept the police’s findings of suicide and remain adamant that foul play was involved.

Regional crime response unit for discussion by ministers Enhanced use of technology in the fight against crime and the introduction of a regional response unit topped the list of outcomes from last week’s three-day meeting of the region’s security chiefs which concluded on Friday at the Grand Coastal Inn on the East Coast.

(Trinidad Guardian) At their recent conference in the Bahamas, the director general of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Jacques Diouf alarmed heads of government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) with the warning that the world is on the brink of a serious food shortage.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs on Wednesday made its third visit to Moraikobai, Region Five to check on the progress for the tenth Caribbean Festival of Arts and found that everything is set for the building of a replica of an Amerindian village.

Quick action by staff at the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening averted what could have been a major fire after a patient of unsound mind set his mattress ablaze in the male observation ward of the institution.

NDC flayed, Benn lauded Amidst mud, residents of the East Coast Demerara (ECD) villages affected by the spring tides continued to clean up yesterday but in some areas were stymied by the lack of water and they bitterly criticized the NDC in the area for not clearing drains.

The final night of the Lethem rodeo was cancelled last evening over security concerns.

Dear Editor, Has Guyana become a broken society? We have gunmen who massacre policemen in police stations and people in their homes killing innocent men, women and children.

Dear Editor, On Al Jazeera news of 25th December we were informed that births in Israel during 2007 was the lowest over the last four years and that during the said year approximately 20000 persons emigrated from Israel, while approximately the same number immigrated to Israel.

Dear Editor, I have been reading your newspaper for a few years now.

Dear Editor, It is not very difficult for the Guyana Water Inc.

By Anthony Layne Sri Lanka, led by a resolute century by skipper Mahela Jayawardene, maintained their grip over the first test of the Digicel Home Series against the West Indies at the National Stadium, Providence.

By Donald Duff You may have heard of brothers Raul and Steven Frank, Guyanese boxers who fought for world titles.

April 9 will mark 15 years since the shocking, unsolved murder of Monica Reece and the dumping of her body on Main Street.

A New York-based Guyanese working as an adjudicator in an office of the US Citizen and Immigration Services has pleaded not guilty to promising to secure immigration papers for a Colombian woman in exchange for sexual favours, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday.

The govt’s crime response eight weeks after Lusignan Photos and interviews by Shabna Ullah This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they were happy with the government’s response to crime eight weeks after the Lusignan massacre.

Making On The Map By Annalee Davis Annalee Davis is a visual artist living and working in Barbados.