Articles published on Tuesday, May 27, 2008
-after robbery fracas By Nigel Williams A policeman yesterday morning shot dead a Riverview, Ruimveldt fisherman, accus-ed of stealing a generator and other items from a liquor bar, but residents said the man committed no such act and chided the police for unnecessarily using deadly force.
-even as CARIFESTA looms and hundreds of artistes to perform here By Gaulbert Sutherland Almost nine years after President Bharrat Jagdeo said that an updated copyright law was key to the country’s development and voiced his intention to have this in place by the following year, Guyana still has no modern legislation and
The Region Two Dawa pump station – rehabilitated at a cost of $409M – was yesterday commissioned by Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud.
Two bicycle bandits yesterday robbed a man of $2000 cash, a silver band and his cellular phone after stabbing him below his right eye with a screw driver.
Dear Editor, Criminal justice practice in the UK presents the practitioner with unfettered access to information, one of which is the sight of people’s criminal records.
Corentyne fishermen left to drift for nearly a day A Corentyne fisherman and his crew were on Saturday attacked and robbed by four armed men who made off with their fishing boat and left them to drift on the sea for nearly a day.
The ferry service between New Amsterdam and Kwakwani is to resume before year- end.
Dear Editor, After reading the very mean, foul attack on Mr David de Caires, Editor-in-Chief of the Stabroek News, by Rickford Burke in last Saturday’s edition (May 24) of this newspaper (‘Stabroek News has sold its soul’), I wondered whether this is the same individual who manages an organization in New York that carries the strange, convoluted name of ‘Caribbean Guyana Insitute for Democracy’?
Dear Editor, The government has spent millions of dollars to build hospitals, health centres and diagnostic centres.
This CR-V, PKK 2481 ended up in the trench on the eastern side of Sheriff Street after it collided with a taxi HB 3815 at the junction of Duncan and Sheriff streets yesterday.
Dharmic Sabha stepping up its anti-abuse campaign By Oluatoyin Alleyne Twenty-eight-year-old Ramesh Nandkishore and his 30-year-old brother, Taijpaul found their daily recreation in hours of drinking rum and playing cards at their mother’s Foulis, East Coast Demerara home.
From Garth Wattley in Kingston Two wickets in successive balls for Stuart MacGill
Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Vishnu Bisram’s letter of May 18 captioned, ‘NACTA was the successor to the Turkeyen Research and Polling Institute.’
-spinal problem corrected for $3.5M By Zoisa Fraser After nearly four years of being unable to walk, Essequibo resident, 66-year-old Mohammed Khan now has a bright ray of hope following a successful surgery in India last month.
The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) is seeking 30 youth from Agricola, Albouystown and Buxton for a 12-month intensive programme aimed at improving their chances to succeed.
Dear Editor, Criminality exploded with ruthless savagery a few months ago leaving a nation already politically and racially divided, shocked and traumatized.
By Tony Cozier in Kingston Disappointed but not despondent over their defeat at Sabina Park yesterday, the West Indies have immediately substantiated the advance they have made over the past six months.
Dear Editor, I am not sure whether you would normally read the Guyana Chronicle newspaper, but if you do, I am positive that you would usually vomit or burn the papers after you have read its mountain of lies and propaganda.
From Garth Wattley in Kingston Chris Gayle is back in the West Indies squad and so too is Xavier Marshall.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport recently received a donation of 16 musical and wind instruments from Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc.
Vast as they are, the numbers of dead and missing do not reflect the true horror of the recent earthquake in China.
By Kizan Brumell Delroy James avenged his gym-mate’s loss to Gladwin Dorway when he defeated the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym’s (PRBG) competitor on Sunday’s third and final night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association’s (GABA) National Intermediate Championship, Cadet and Under-15 tournament which was sponsored by Neal and Massy Group of Companies.
Dear Editor, I write this letter in response to Vidyaratha Kissoon’s ‘Freud did not think homosexuality a mental disorder’ which was published in the Stabroek News May 23, 2008, and in support of the stance Roger Williams has taken so far on the issue.
-Guyana to field 2,000 participants Preparations for Guyana to host Carifesta X are underway with auditions to select a 2000-strong delegation to perform for the August festival.
By Achim Steiner , Ahmed Djoghlaf and Sigmar Gabriel BONN – Farmers across Africa are currently engaged in an unequal struggle against a pestilent fruit fly whose natural home is in Asia.
