Daily Archive: Monday, April 21, 2008

-reputed husband being sought By Gaulbert Sutherland Looking to begin life anew after separating from an abusive husband, a 22-year-old woman was instead found dead yesterday, her throat slit, after she had gone to her former home at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) to collect her clothes.

-Nandlall Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) appointed-prosecutor in the Buddy’s fuel smuggling case, Anil Nandlall says that he intends to appeal the decision in the matter and has already filed a notice of appeal in the High Court.

-bottles pelted at Bounty Killa Gunfire marred the highly publicized Ignition Concert at the National Park early yesterday morning that featured a line-up of Jamaican artistes, among them the controversial Bounty Killa.

A fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed a Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara home leaving a woman homeless and her parents and other siblings’ home with a gaping hole in the side.

Last week at its Water Street branch the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) presented three of its Early Savers with prizes.

-but GNIC declared league champions By Kizan Brumell The Guyana Industrial Corporation and the Malteenoes Sports Club were yesterday declared joint champions of the 2007 four-day Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus first-division competition after the grand finale which ended yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground, failed to produce an outright winner.

By Kiev Chesney The Venezuelan Embassy has decided to aid in the development of amateur boxing and has donated a quantity of boxing equipment to the governing body for the sport locally and also to a promising young boxer.

Dear Editor, On several occasions over the last couple of days I have made attempts to activate my brand new phones for my wife and I with GTT service.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it has been following closely the situation as it unfolds between the Palestinians and Israelis and it deplores the continued “vicious and murderous attacks on the Palestinian people by the Israeli military.”

Weeks after, with no sign of him or a ransom demand, the questions continue about the whereabouts of Jiffi Lubes owner, Farouk Kalamadeen.

By Calvin Roberts DeSinco Trading Limited became the latest business entity to join forces with the Georgetown Cricket Assoc-iation (GCA) when they handed over trophies and a cheque worth $350,000.00 for sponsorship of their Under-19 limited overs competition to the GCA on Friday.

Dear Editor,The new look of your paper is “cutting edge”.

Dear Editor, I offer my sincere congratulations to the British High Commission on the recent donation of radar guns to the Police Traffic Department.

By Calvin Roberts The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) through its Ramnaresh Sarwan Educational Trust Fund held its second annual presentation ceremony on Thursday where 14 students drawn from seven schools in the Lower Corentyne area received educational materials plus financial assistance at the Lower Corentyne Secondary school.

Rice farmers are returning to acreage that they couldn’t afford to cultivate in the past but at the same time they are proceeding cautiously when it comes to capitalisation, now that the price for paddy is booming.

Dear Editor, The unearthing of the corruption at the Customs department recently is nothing new to Guyanese, what was alarming though is the amount, the level and the size of the well oiled machinery involved.

– embassy Guyanese have one of the highest overstay rates in the US when compared to the other countries in the region, according to the local US embassy.

By Kiev Chesney A swashbuckling innings on 93 not out from Berbice skipper Eugene La Fleur led his team to the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Inter-County limited overs title after theydefeated arch rivals Demerara by 143 runs at the National Stadium at Providence yesterday.

Bhojnarine Persaud was adjudged the best lifter when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) held its Novices Championships recently at the Rosignol Primary School, West Coast Berbice.

Dear Editor,We refer to a letter captioned “City Hall Officials should be replaced” (GC 08.04.17) by M.

Cabinet has given the green light to contracts for works to be undertaken in the sea and river defence and housing sectors, Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon reported last Friday at his post-Cabinet media briefing.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to a featured article by Mr.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said that he believes that Guyana is not too poor a nation to achieve its goal of a 75 percent reduction in maternity deaths by 2015.

Two Guyanese coaches are currently attending the English Football Assoc-iation’s level three coaches course in Trinidad and Tobago.

The cost of living Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah Sugar workers in Berbice recently protested the high cost of living and this week we asked persons to comment on how the issue is affecting them and got the following responses: Nigel Abbensetts, farmer “It is very hard for people to survive with this high cost of living.

Dear Editor,Albeit from a layman’s point of view, I completely agree with the opinions expressed by Khushi Kumar in his letter captioned, “In the context did these words really constitute a threat to the President” (08.04.18).

-Nandlall Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) appointed-prosecutor in the Buddy’s fuel smuggling case, Anil Nandlall says that he intends to appeal the decision in the matter and has already filed a notice of appeal in the High Court.

 “A disservice to the Caribbean, indeed” By Alissa Trotz The title of this week’s column borrows from an editorial in the Jamaica Observer (April 18), which targeted those involved in what it described as “an orchestrated campaign against the recent Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).”

Alonzo Greaves, in a time of one hour, 26 minutes and 16 seconds, won the schoolboys and novices category of the Universal Auto General Supplies-sponsored cycling programme on Saturday around the inner circuit of the National Park.

At a poorly attended consultation on governance and security recently at the Umana Yana for the poverty reduction strategy paper, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Luncheon spoke positively of the progress that had been achieved in governance and transparency.

A 59-year-old taxi-driver charged with having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

Dear Editor, On the Guyanese-run blog, GUYANA FRIENDS, I came across a post on April 17 that showed an article written by Sharief Khan of the Guyana Chronicle, with the headline: “Corruption law to cover officers in revenue agencies.”

– $200,000 for  champion team The Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Invitational Twenty 20 first division club tournament will be officially launched today at the club’s pavilion, Thomas Lands from 10:30hrs.

-says PPP/C, PNCR satisfied with pace of registration The first list of registrants from the house-to-house exercise is on the verge of being prepared for internal use by registration officers prior to distribution to parliamentary parties and GECOM says the PPP/C and the PNCR are satisfied with the pace of the registering According to a GECOM press release, it met with the PPP/C on April 1 and the PNCR on April 15 on the registration exercise. 

-Nandlall Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) appointed-prosecutor in the Buddy’s fuel smuggling case, Anil Nandlall says that he intends to appeal the decision in the matter and has already filed a notice of appeal in the High Court.