Daily Archive: Friday, July 4, 2008

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is urging the administration to finance the UK-based forensic team identified by relatives of the eight miners slain at Lindo Creek.

Suffered multiple wounds to back, chest By Shabna Ullah A mid-morning brawl at Levi’s Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam on Wednesday ended tragically when a 28-year-old man was fatally stabbed about his body with a spear.

Michael Sandy and former employee of Lyken’s Funeral Home, Hugh Walcott, who allegedly forged the signature of Gordon Lyken on two documents last November, were each placed on $300,000 bail when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday received a US$4.4 million public health laboratory which it expects will become a national and regional centre of excellence for lab standards and research.

Some Sparendaam cops transferred pending outcome By Heppilena Ferguson Even as the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) continues its investigations into the alleged negligence at the Sparendaam Police Station on the day high-profile prisoner Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles escaped, the station sergeant and at least three juniors have been transferred, pending the outcome.

A 25-year-old policeman escaped death late Wednesday night, when one of two attackers opened fire on him seconds after ordering him out of his car which was parked on the Square of Revolution.

Amid waves of piracy that have beset fishermen all along the coast, the National Assembly yesterday passed the Hijacking and Piracy Bill which caters for life imprisonment and stiff fines.

Family blames alcohol for tragedy A 49-year-old carpenter, who was allegedly hit in the head by his 20-year-old son, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday, hours after the son appeared in court on a charge of attempted murder.

By Shabna Ullah The student from the Lachmansingh Primary School in West Berbice who was among the top performers in the country at this year’s Grade Six Assessment says her achievement was due to dedication and hard work.

Laptop taken away “These men were sent and for a specific purpose,” Immigration Consultant Balwant Persaud said after a trio including two armed men robbed his Oronoque and Robb streets office yesterday morning.

Mark George, the policeman who was shot on Woolford Avenue last Thursday was transferred to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) yesterday morning and is resting comfortably, a release from the Georgetown Hospital said.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned ‘The problem is the standard by which we measure ourselves’ (SN  2.7.08).

Sixty more hinterland students have successfully completed their education at the secondary and technical institution level.

Parked containers, cordoned sections of pave add to commuter misery City Hall appears to be losing its protracted battle of attrition with vendors to bring a sense of order to some of the main streets in the capital as increasing numbers of itinerant traders occupy pavements and streets.

Dear Editor, At last the rebirth of our long demolished Theatre Guild!

Says he will not preside over weak Commission Newly elected Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that he has no intention of allowing differences of opinion between government and the private sector to derail the PSC’s agenda for the growth and development of the business sector specifically and Guyana in general.

Dear Editor, It is common knowledge that the people of Linden welcome the investment by Bosai Minerals Group in the bauxite industry and hope for their success in revitalizing this important economic life-line of the community.

The public face of Guyana Water Inc. The Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Inc Karan Singh strongly believes that the problems associated with the payment of water rates are, for want of a better word “cultural.”

Dear Editor, My son, Dr RS Storm, is one of the vets who was involved in the accident at Lethem (Devil’s Hill) reported in your newspaper on October 4, 2006.

Evadnie Fields-Benfield is the Information Co-ordinator at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards Introduction “In order to serve their intended purpose, the public must be able to trust certification marks”.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter by Mr Baliram Persaud captioned ‘Bill does not reflect full amount paid,’ which appeared in your edition of May 30, and which you sent to Guyana Water Inc for comment, I wish to make the following clarification.

Spa Wood Products, a wood-drying company located at Houston, East Bank Demerara, aback of Gafoor’s Group of Companies Limited, is a fledgling operation which Prime Minister Samuel Hinds visited on Wednesday and encouraged the owner to advertise his operations.

Engineers, managers desperately needed Rate collection figures released to Stabroek Business by the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) point to what Chief Executive Officer Karan Singh described as “an encouraging but still far from satisfactory” improvement in the response by consumers to appeals for the timely payment of water tariffs.

– Plummer says Morgan’s club can demand answers from AAG General Secretary of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Ivor O’Brien said yesterday that the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) committed a major blunder in its choice of Guyana’s representative to the World Junior Championships in Poland.

Dear Editor, I am now a retired personality and I lived in the Rupununi, off and on, since 1965 for a period of some fourteen (14) years, being involved in education (St Ignatius Primary School Teacher) and other fields of endeavour, (Field Station Administrator in the early days of the Iwokrama Field Station).

Dear Editor, Whether the questioner is seen as hostile or political, officials must give restrained and as honest answers as possible. Mr Rohee

…while many starve and the environment suffers By Karen Abrams While food prices increase, and food shortages plague developing countries, producing countries lose a large supply of food annually to waste due to transportation, cold storage and distribution problems, while in developed nations like the UK, US, and Japan, consumers and organizations waste billions of dollars in food each year due to over buying, poor planning, busy schedules and a myriad of reasons explored below.

– says Alika Morgan By Kiev Chesney Just as Alika Morgan had begun to bask in the glory of her unprecedented accomplishment of four straight Caricom 10k titles, her return home was blemished by the disappointing news of not being selected to attend the 15th Annual IAAF 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcs, Poland from 8-13th  July.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded to prison two 25-year-old men from Servai Village after they admitted that they had stolen a boat and an outboard engine from the RDC.

Dear Editor, With respect to Navindo Tinsarran’s letter (‘The problem is the standard by which we measure ourselves,’ SN 2.7.08) in response to my letter (‘Women do respect themselves,’ SN 27.6.08), I believe I was very careful to note that it was exactly his view that “dressing is one contributory factor to rape” that I wished to further explore with the writer. In

Part I By Andre Griffith Introduction This series looks at applications of information and communications technologies to traditional businesses in Guyana, and at some of the implications for the formation of a new business sector based on the so called atomic e-business models such as information processing, online retailing and others. 

A 27-year-old man who allegedly pretended to be a doctor and a police officer to get credit from two taxi drivers was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Although he had not been able to achieve the qualifying standards in either of his events, national 5000m record holder Cleveland Forde will be participating in the 2008  Summer Olympics Games in Beijing, China, in August.

-On Festas and Carifesta By A.A. FentyReceived an invitation I did, sudden and relatively last-minute, to visit the Roraima city of Boa Vista in neighbouring Brazil.

Dear Editor, It was deeply touching to read in our dailies about the tragedy of 15-year-old Sheliza Khan, whose battered and nude body was found on the Hope Estate road.

From Calvin Roberts in Barbados Compliments of: Ansa McAl, P&P Insurance, Hanes (Guyana) Limited and Cellular Planet (Official dealers in Digicel phones) Guyana begins its defence of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)/TCL sponsored Regional Under-19 cricket tournament against  the Leeward Islands at the Kensington Oval ground today and coach Hubern Evans yesterday stated that he was looking for a winning start.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted $85,000 bail each to two men charged with stealing safety boots valued about $1.3M.

By Kenneth Rogoff (Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.)

Dear Editor, With just a few days remaining in the election campaign in Grenada, the incumbent New National Party led by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell appears headed for an unprecedented fourth consecutive victory at the polls – bucking the trend of what happened in the rest of the Caribbean (except Trinidad) in recent elections.

On June 19 the European Union, at the urging of Spain, which has significant economic interests in Cuba, voted unanimously to lift the diplomatic sanctions it had imposed on Cuba five years ago.

The Guyana Police Consumers Co-operative Society has embarked on a special sales promotion drive to mark the 169th anniversary of the Guyana Police Force.

The second of two practice matches by the national women’s squad will take place today and tomorrow at the National Stadium at Providence.

This hole approaching the Hunter and Mandela turn has to be patched.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle remanded to prison a 40-year-old man accused of stealing his mother’s pension.

Guyana and Colombia have agreed to pursue a number of projects in the areas of education, commerce, science and technology, health, agriculture and security during their 2008-2010 work programme, GINA reported.