Daily Archive: Sunday, April 20, 2008

-process for new head office cited as one reason Two directors of the New Building Society (NBS) have resigned over issues pertaining to the construction of its head office and the holding of the upcoming annual general meeting in Berbice.

The challenges of the interim EPAs By Dr Clive Thomas This series of Sunday columns assessing the CARIFORUM-EU, EPA started on January 20 and after fourteen weeks it remains incomplete without an appreciation of some key issues surrounding the several interim EPAs, which were initialled in Africa and the Pacific at about the same time.

The Caribbean can learn from Iceland By David Jessop It is hard to imagine nations less like one another than the islands of the Caribbean and Iceland.

Miracle By Ian McDonald My sister, Gillian Howie, who lives with her husband Doug in a beautiful house on a cliff overlooking the ever-changing, blue-green, coral-shadowed sea on the north coast of Antigua, is a lover of West Indies cricket.

Always remember our feathered friends By John Warrington The trouble with an automatic watering system starts when you take your plants off it and start watering by conventional ways, say using fresh water in a watering can.

By Kizan Brumell After the considerable hype over the inaugural Hugh Ross Classic, the day of reckoning is finally here and come tomorrow, the winners of the two categories will be basking in undoubted glory.

By Calvin Roberts That’s the scenario when Demerara takes on Berbice in the final round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ GTM-sponsored Under-19 limited over competition at the National Stadium today.

Dear Editor, With reference to the article “Ituni on bumpy road backwards” in the Sunday Stabroek, dated April 13, 2008, we would be grateful if you could publish this letter in the Sunday Stabroek so that someone from the Ituni Library could contact the University of Guyana Library by calling 222-4931 or 222-6006, ext.

Making chess friendships stronger On Sunday, some unlikely chess players from grassroots Berbice began a cultural intercourse with the Guyana Chess Federation.

By Kizan Brumell Half-centuries from Imran `Taliban’  Hussain and Danny Narayan  ensured Malteenoes gain a first innings lead over Guyana National Industrial Corporation in the final of the  Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus first-division three-day final at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bourda ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, I applied to GT & T in February 2007 for an “uninterupted transfer” (this is where you continue to pay for the service while the transfer is being processed) of my landline service 220 -3268 from lot 29 Happy Acres to Lot 5 Happy Acres, ECD.

By Ralph Ramkarran, Speaker of the National Assembly In March 2008, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh objected to a motion moved in the National Assembly by Mr Winston Murray, the Shadow Finance Minister, which sought to impose a limit of $10 million on the aggregate of debt obligations that may be forgiven, postponed or reduced by the minister without the approval of the National Assembly in any fiscal year.

By Nigel Williams It is a familiar sight in many depressed urban communities and increasingly in rural areas as well: idle young men sitting at street corners all day.

Dear Editor, Over the past several months there was an increase of 15% in electricity tariff making the cost per KWH paid for electricity in Guyana one of the world’s most expensive.

Obama stumbles (Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

That man ChanderpaulIt was probably a good thing that Shivnarine Chanderpaul was rested for the rained out final One Day International between the West Indies and Sri Lanka in St Lucia.

Dear Editor, On Easter Sunday at about 8.25 hrs, while walking south along Cummings Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, my life changed forever.

The government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are currently in discussions on information-sharing about Guyanese deported from the US and the areas of intervention for their resettlement as part of a wider one-year US$2.8 million pilot programme.

By Tony Cozier Introduced with a budget exceeding that of several West Indian governments and pay packets for principal players unimaginable even in an age when millionaires in professional sports proliferate, cricket’s universal attention has been riveted these past few months on the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’  Part I By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MD  (Paediatric consultant) (Dr.

I remember Mark Harris with love Dear Sir, The death of Mark Harris in February 2008 left me with mixed feelings at the time.

Dear Editor, I would like to add some reflective notes on your editorial for Stabroek Business captioned “The Customs racket: No one is protected” (08.04.14) and Mr.

Crew safe The Tell Tale 2 vessel which sank off the coast of  Santo Domingo (SD) last week met the same fate as its near namesake, the Tell Tale 1, which went down in the Essequibo River in January last year.

Worms By Dr Steve Surujbally Sorry folks! From one gruesome topic to another.

Dear Editor, The four months suspension of NCN Channel Six by the President of Guyana, Mr.

-will provide irrigation to Essequibo rice lands Amidst criticism in the press, the rehabilitated Dawa pumping station in Region Two is poised to commence operations soon with the aim of bringing irrigation services to 32,500 acres of rice lands on the Essequibo Coast.

GPL guide for estimating consumption under question By Eileen Cox We are not convinced.

By Kizan Brumell Alpha United and Pele Football Club bulldozed their way to victories in matches of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFA) Guyana Telephone and Telegraphy (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League first division competition at the Tucville Playfield Friday night.

Last Wednesday morning a security guard on his way to work was killed by a pack of dogs which had escaped from their yard.

Recognition for a novelist and scholar David Dabydeen’s latest work has just been released. 

Dear Editor, The exchange on Afro-Guyanese “marginalisation” is of a particular interest at this time if only because it is one of the macabre shadows given new life in the wake of the multiple killings at Lusignan and Bartica.

-Director Canopy Capital With the countdown on the global environment under way, one venture capitalist is hoping that people will see value in the ecosystem services which the Iwokrama rainforest offers and which can be used to raise capital for its upkeep as a “giant utility.”

By Calvin Roberts Reigning national softball champions Scottsburg United of Corriverton will take on Floodlights XI of Georgetown in a 25 overs softball match at the Crabwood Creek cricket ground today for the Bier Singh Memorial Trophy from 13:00hrs (1:00pm).