Articles published on Saturday, May 10, 2008
-wants independent team appointed President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), Patrick Yarde, said yesterday that the investigation into alleged corruption at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) lacks credibility and was progressing with a bias towards certain employees.
The PNCR has rejected charges by the government that it could not account for $100M intended to pay its scrutineers.
The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) said bandits again vandalised its property on the East Coast and stole parts that are scarce and costly to replace.
Three teenagers were yesterday charged with the armed robbery committed on a Soesdyke painter during the wee hours of Thursday and they made an appearance before Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.
Relatives still clueless about motive Twenty-four hours after Vincent Williams was gunned down in his South Ruimveldt business place, his relatives are clueless as to what might have caused his murder.
-most vulnerable families to benefit The Human Services Ministry says it receives about 300 applications daily to its Single Parents Registry.
-mother in agony The 30-year-old Foulis, East Coast Demerara man, who allegedly stabbed his younger brother in the neck with a broken rum bottle over $60 yesterday made an appearance at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, charged with murder.
Judge to rule on whether President can be sued Justice William Ramlal will rule later this month in the CN Sharma High Court case on the preliminary point of whether the President could be sued in the local courts.
Police are awaiting legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as to how to proceed in the Travis Parks shooting to death case.
The PNCR-led protests against the rising cost of living moved to New Garden Street in front of the Office of the President yesterday, where for more than an hour a number of persons chanted slogans and waved placards under the watchful eyes of police.
President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday insisted that the gunmen who killed 23 persons in two villages and shot recently at the East La Penitence Police Station will soon be caught as ballistic evidence proves that the same group carried out the attacks.
In the light of revelations in US courts in the drug case of businessman Roger Khan linking him to at least two high profile killings, government on Wednesday said that once evidence is shared with local law enforcement it would investigate.
The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) began selling packet flour on Thursday under a government initiative to cushion the effects of rising food prices.
“We weren’t expecting it but it happened, that’s life,” Lakeram Seepersaud’s daughter said of her father’s death on Monday, when Stabroek News visited her Campbellville home.
Second division limited overs competition launched By Calvin Roberts The Edward B.
(Antigua Sun) The local importer of flour from Guyana, Gloria Joseph, said that two technicians will be on the island next week to advise bakers in one-on-one demonstrations on the ways to use the new flour.
By Iana Seales Think play, relaxation, education and salon pampering all in one place.
A brilliant century from Berbician Jonathon Foo may have impressed the selectors present but came a tad too late to save his team in their second inning.
A second witness yesterday took the stand to testify in the advocating a terrorist act, one of two indictable cases against ex-soldier Oliver Hinckson before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, The report of a gang rape and murder of a waitress (SN, 7.5.08) is another act of violence against women in Guyana and is testimony to what one can only describe as a growing state of war against women in general.
The Varqa Foundation’s ‘On the Wings of Words’ programme will be hosting a ‘Men Only’ literacy training workshop on May 17.
Dear Editor, What is the point of an editorial in a local newspaper which does not give a prospective analysis from the point of view of Guyana and the potential development of Guyana?
Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded two men accused of robbing several persons, when they appeared at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court on Wednesday.
Dear Editor, I live in Antigua and I got a call from my niece informing me of the detention of my nephew, Dwayne Browne.
Dear Editor, Not satisfied with his autocratic and illegal rule by rigging elections when he was alive it now seems as if President Burnham has turned to possessing people in his deceased form, according to Opposition Leader Robert Corbin as quoted in SN (ref: “like Burnham spirit possess all of them.”
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Wednesday received 10 motorcycles to boost its operations.
Dear Editor, Judging from the facts and figures contained in your news article, ‘President unveils cost of living ease, (SN, 8.5.08), I reluctantly accept the President has done right by the Guyanese people at a time when food and energy prices around the world are on the rise.
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) says it has written to Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh calling for the income tax threshold to be increased to $65,000 as it is impossible for workers to meet their daily needs in the current economic climate.
Dear Editor, Red Thread and Red Thread network Guyanese Women Across Race are very hurt and angry about the statement made by FITUG that we are not workers therefore we were not eligible to take part in the May Day march.
Dear Editor, I was quite amused at Ms Allison Parker’s reply with regard to the availability and the blocks of GT&T SIM cards in her response to my letter captioned ‘I was unable to purchase GT&T’s SIM cards’ (21.4.08).
Dear Editor, I would like to join the many people who are appalled by the poor service that was provided at the Georgetown Public Hospital emergency room.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez granted $150,000 bail to a Mahaica woman accused of forging the signature of the late Magistrate Oscar Parvatan to show that he had sold a minibus.
Give mom a treat So, what are you getting your mom this Mother’s Day?
It’s ‘offally’ good By Cynthia Nelson Hi Everyone, In the Caribbean we’re like a lot of other people all over the world who believe that the only part of the pig, chicken, duck or cow you can’t eat is the oink, cluck, quack or moo.
Tomorrow night will mark 21 years since Winfield James and family created the popular ‘Tribute to Mothers’ annual show.
The Culture Ministry has acquired 32 pieces of steel pan at a cost of US$20,000 to resuscitate the local steel band in time for Independence and Carifesta celebrations.
The Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training (CCETT) in Jamaica on Tuesday donated a listening centre, a Diagnostic Test of Essential Reading and Writing Skills kit to the University of Guyana (UG) library to boost its literacy programme for children in the surrounding communities.
Dear Editor, It is very heartrending for us, the members of the Special Constabulary, not to get what we have worked for and is due to us.
Trinidad and Cayman Islands in exciting clash By Calvin Roberts Tournament hosts Guyana find themselves in a must-win situation when they oppose Jamaica in the final round of the Demlife/Tropical Rhythm-sponsored North America West Indies Rugby Association (NAWIRA) Women’s 15-a-side Rugby tournament which climaxes at the National Park, tomorrow.
Central High Annandale Secondary emerge victors GBTI says Central High and Annandale Secondary proved to be formidable opponents when they went up against St John’s College and Covent Garden Secondary respectively, in the Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech competition for fourth formers.
Revenge will be number one on the priority list of the Kashif & Shanghai (K&S) Kings when they meet the Courts Pacesetters this evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hardcourt in the finals of the Brusche Classics Basketball Tournament.
Guyana will be represented by a relatively large group of athletes at the 34th Hampton International Games, which is scheduled to take place May 17 and 18 at the Hasley Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dear Editor, In 1971 I remember a poster with the slogan, ‘Feed, Clothe and House’ that found its way to Yupukari.
Thirteen “big girls” have already been selected for this year’s Ms Renaissance Pageant slated for November 1 at the National Cultural Centre and they will be sashed later this month.
The Georgetown District Committee of the PPP says it remembers Joseph O’Lall as an outstanding individual who was dedicated and committed to the principles he believed in.
– Court hears A 43-year-old who allegedly had an unlicensed gun and two sets of matching ammunition in his home when police searched it, was remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, shortly after he denied the allegations.
The Berbice Zone of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Neal and Massy- sponsored 40 over cricket competition will commence today with five matches spread across the county.
The US-based humanitarian organisation Save the Children has just published its ninth annual ‘State of the World’s Mothers’ report to coincide with the commemoration of Mothers Day.
Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Thursday granted $85,000 bail to a Survival employee accused of embezzling over $1.9M from the depot.
