Daily Archive: Thursday, April 3, 2008

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday remanded to prison a Mahaicony couple who admitted to stealing $139,000 worth of electronic and household items from the woman’s son-in-law.

The fire at Land of Canaan that killed two children and their grandmother on Tuesday appears more and more like the act of an arsonist, relatives say.

Police and relatives of city businessman and motor racer, Farouk Kalamadeen, were up to press time last night awaiting contact with him after he disappeared yesterday morning during his morning jog on the Mandela Avenue Back Road.

One of the two Bell 206 helicopters, specifically acquired by the government to augment the security forces’ air capacity to fight crime arrived here yesterday afternoon, an official of the Guyana Defence Force confirmed.

-in bid to meet expanded Skeldon estate needs By Shabna UllahAt a meeting with private cane farmers on the Corentyne yesterday, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud said that $450M has been invested by the government to aid them and the National Cane Farmers’ Committee (NCFC) has been resuscitated.

Man drives off with businesswoman’s car Three men last evening drove off with a businesswoman’s car and a bag containing an undisclosed sum of money, as she was walking up the stairs of her Sheriff Street home.

A 78-year-old pensioner was shot in his left ankle during a robbery under arms that occurred at around 2.10 am yesterday at No.

-laments security situation The Operations Manager of a Canadian mining company was yesterday robbed of money by a gun-toting bandit who escaped after the incident which occurred at a store on Saffon Street.

Three men all armed with firearms attacked and robbed a businessman of Rampoor Housing Scheme, Corentyne and his wife at about 3.30 am on Tuesday, Police said.

Police at about 11.30 am on Tuesday found a quantity of suspected fake counterfeit US currency after ranks stopped and searched a car at a roadblock at Palmyra, Corentyne.

By Gaulbert SutherlandA 45-year-old security guard was on Tuesday night battered to death allegedly by his 70-year-old reputed wife during a drunken row at their Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara home.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) says it is concerned about reports about language being used in public that may incite racial hostility and urges the public to desist.

Austrian Ambassador Rene Amry told Caricom officials and the culture ministry that his country is interested in contributing to the Schomburgk Collection project and in illuminating one of the country’s landmarks for Carifesta X.

Lusignan nursery school gets own buildingStudents at the Lusignan Nursery School including little Roberto Thomas who survived the January 26 massacre now have a building to call their own, 33 years after the school first opened.

Three temporary magistrates were sworn-in yesterday and commended for their commitment to serve Guyana.

Police at Leonora have detained four persons who drifted ashore on a boat in the area yesterday.

A US$2M investment in the quarrying sector saw a quantity of equipment being unveiled by Toolsie Persaud Quarries Incorporated yesterday at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The British High Commission yesterday presented a cheque for just over $2M to Iwokrama to support the development of a butterfly production industry at Fair View village in the Iwokrama forest.

Teachers urged to become computer literateTeachers were on Tuesday night urged to become computer literate and to pursue tertiary studies in order to deliver the best quality of education possible to students.

Namilco Marketing Manager Damon Pestano plugged the company’s new baby cereal as “Nutritious yet delicious” when the product was introduced to the public yesterday.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News in response to a letter from Kwame McKoy and published in its March 30, 2008 edition claimed that I have “limited my accessibility to Stabroek News reporters.”

The fire at Land of Canaan that killed two children and their grandmother on Tuesday appears more and more like the act of an arsonist, relatives say.

Dear Editor, Letter writer Roger Williams would have readers believe that scholarly research studies support the hitting of children in schools.

-but still disgruntled East Coast drivers who called a strike on Tuesday in protest at new minibus routes being enforced by the Guyana Police Force have agreed to resume work but many are still grumbling over the changes.

Defence to call eight witnessesAmid further delays before the start of the trial of drug-accused businessman Roger Khan in a New York court, his lawyers indicated on Monday that they will field eight witnesses some of whom may travel from Guyana to the US to testify in the case.

Dear Editor, The recent altercation between the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Finance Minister is very interesting in our young democracy.

Dear Editor,There was a young horse tied up behind the tennis court at National Park on Tuesday morning.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says the disruption in water supply that residents of Bath Settlement suffered recently was due to power fluctuations.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday remanded to prison an East Bank man who stole his neighbour’s fowl after he opted to serve the four-month prison term in lieu of a $10,000 fine.

– Chris Gayle‘s West Indians must fight to avoid a series sweep by Sri Lanka and a historical series win From Garth Wattley in Port of SpainIn 2003, Steve Waugh’s Australians were denied a Caribbean whitewash by the West Indies’s successful world record pursuit of 418 in Antigua.

By Shabna UllahA mediation centre will soon be established at the High Court building in New Amsterdam, which will allow Berbicians to resolve their disputes without the expensive and long-winded court process, as well as improve relationships.

By Tony Cozier IT IS only his second match at home as West Indies cap-tain but the Test starting at the Queen’s Park Oval presents a timely examination of Chris Gayle’s leadership.

Dear Editor, I am disappointed at the level of representation given to GPL workers by NAACIE.,

An April Fool’s Day prank cost a 66-year-old man a fine of $25,000 with an alternative of 18 months imprisonment after he falsely reported that gunmen had been robbed him of $2.4 million.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday remanded to prison a Mahaicony couple who admitted to stealing $139,000 worth of electronic and household items from the woman’s son-in-law.

Teenage golfing star Avinash Persaud kept the Golden Arrowhead flying high at the recently concluded RBTT 2008 Invitational held at the Golfclub Paramaribo on March 29 and 30.

Dear Editor, It is with great concern that the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FUTUG) an organisation which represents the majority of unionized workers in Guyana, has noted a recent decision by the opposition parties to walk out of Parliament on March 27 2008 under the pretext that their amendment to the motion on a stakeholder’s decision was not accepted by the ruling party.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says that simple decency demands that Prime Minister Sam Hinds withdraws his “unfounded pronouncements” from the floor of the House, when he suggested that Walter Rodney’s family didn’t want to go ahead with the Inquiry into the death.

The 2008 budget for the Region Four administration this year has topped the $2B mark and more focus is to be placed on the maintenance of education and health infrastructure within the region.

West Indies – Sri Lanka Test Cricket: A Historical Perspective (Part II) By Winston McGowanThis second instalment of this article will give a brief account of the first three of the ten Test matches between the West Indies and Sri Lanka before the commencement of the visitors’ current tour of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, The Guyanese ‘farmer’ and the Guyana ‘rural areas’ occupy a moral, productive and rather intellectually dishonest space in our city folks mental programmes.

A former court reporter accused of stealing a camera from a woman was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Two under-19 matches were contested yesterday with Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) thrashing Ghandi Youth Organization (GYO) at the GNIC Ground, Woolford Avenue and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) over-powering Cummings Lodge Secondary at the GCC Ground, Bourda.

The would-be debate that degenerated into a débâcle in the National Assembly last week was preventable but not entirely unpredictable.

Carl Moore clears the air on `Chanderpaul Fiasco’ Dear Sir, It is with great consternation that I read in at least two of the local dailies, statements allegedly made by the president of the Guyana Cricket Board, Mr.

The female army Lance Corporal who a Kaieteur News story had indicated was missing was off duty for the weekend and reported to work on Monday, March 31 as scheduled, the Guyana Defence Force said yesterday.

A woman who allegedly had over 200 grammes of cocaine in her possession when police searched her home was remanded to prison when she appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

– Mira Kamdar, the author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy, is currently a fellow at the Asia Society.

Dear Editor, Three police officers are on trial in Queens for fatally shooting a Black man, Sean Bell, in a hail of 50 bullets fired by five officers in November 2006.