Daily Archive: Sunday, July 13, 2008

By Iana Seales Guyana’s first kidney transplant surgery was successfully completed in seven hours yesterday and patient Munesh Mangal was reportedly doing well, but will remain in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital for the next few days as doctors monitor his condition.

– worker numbers to drop to 4,000 by 2016 Guysuco is expected to be producing close to 100,000 tonnes of refined sugar by 2011 and some 120,000 tonnes by 2012 once the state-of-the-art facilities at the upgraded Skeldon estate get going, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said.

– family had gone to funeral A trip by a family to Linden yesterday afternoon to attend the funeral of a loved one turned deadly when the car they were in lost control on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway and toppled several times, killing the driver and seriously injuring the other occupants.

The decomposed body of a North Ruimveldt man was yesterday morning discovered in his home after neighbours were alerted by a foul odour emanating from the house.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh met last Friday with the Bankers Association of Guyana and updated members on several issues including the anti-money laundering bill that is under consideration in the Parliamentary Sub-Committee.

By Gaulbert Sutherland An eight-year-old girl shepherded her three younger siblings, including a one-year-old, to safety as a fire consumed their Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara home yesterday.

The body of a man was on Friday night discovered on the roadway at Waller’s Delight, West Coast Demerara, suspected to be a victim of a hit and run accident.

A close-up look at the QA II dealBy Christopher Ram Introduction When the Ministry of Finance belatedly broke its silence last month on the concessions given by the government to Queens Atlantic Investment Inc (QA II) it asked Guyanese to ignore such considerations as transparency and the rule of law and sought to shift the debate to the “ultimate question that needs to be asked… whether these investments are a positive development for Guyana.”

– no decision yet on extension The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has not registered the targeted number of persons it had estimated it would reach in the house-to-house registration exercise, which began on January 7 this year.

– MP says reflects poor planning Caricom has rented space in a five-storey building at Turkeyen to accommodate some of its staff, but MP David Patterson feels this reflects poor planning since the new secretariat was only constructed four years ago.

A convicted prisoner, who reportedly suffered a sound beating after he was found with a quantity of ammunition following a day of labour at army base Camp Ayanganna last week, on Friday succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he had been a patient for the last nine days.

Caribbean ministers, officials meet to prepare for the WTO mini-ministerial meeting By David Jessop In a matter of days Caribbean ministers and officials will meet in London to prepare for a World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial meeting that will take place in Geneva from July 21 onwards.

Despite facing numerous challenges at the GuySuCo Training Centre/Port Mourant (GTC/PM), students, with the help of the East Berbice Estate and competent lecturers rose above the hurdles to successfully graduate on Wednesday last.

Risky business: Second thoughts on biofuels and rising food pricesBy Dr.

The most recent Kids First Fund beneficiary, Sudarshanie Laljie, has recently returned from her successful kidney transplant operation at the Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre in New Delhi, India.

Heads of government By Ian McDonald We should all be pleased.

Tulips won’t grow here after the first year By John Warrrington How time goes by.

The search by relatives of a Little Baiboo, Mahaica Creek farmer ended yesterday when his body was discovered floating in the river around 4.30 pm yesterday.

Enmore and Foulis residents on Thursday benefited from planting materials from the Ministry of Agriculture when the ‘Grow more’ caravan rolled into the communities.

Land of many waters By Alim Hosein It is impossible to travel far in any direction in Guyana without encountering water.

Guyana is among other countries that will benefit from US$250,000 to assist small farmers mitigate the effects of soaring food prices through a series of projects initiated by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) at a total value of US$21 million.

Dear Editor, I find it amazing how the European Union (EU) is being portrayed as the nemesis in the present debate about the EPA and the doing away of the Sugar Protocol.

A collision between a car, PCC 1019 and a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) near the Irving and Lamaha sts junction last evening saw the SUV crashing into a trench, some metres away.

A Weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospitap Inc. What I need to know about diarrhoea (stomach flu) By Dr Santosh Mhetre, MBBS, MD (Paediatrics) What is diarrhoea?

Infectious diseases By Dr. Steve Surujbally Continued   Factors influencing infectious diseases        1.

Dear Editor, I would like to add a few opinions on the letter of Dr Randy Persaud, ‘No disillusionment with the PPP’ (SN July 11).

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is in Venezuela at the fifth PetroCaribe Summit of Heads of State, which opens in Maracaibo today.

– Luncheon Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon says public consultations on the Caricom/Cariforum/European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which was initialed in December last year is likely to start by month-end.

: A policeman about to investigate a major fender bender at Light and Fourth sts, Alberttown yesterday.

By Kiev Chesney Most Valuable Player (MVP) of this year’s Pepsi National Schools’ Basketball Festival Shelroy Thomas scored a whopping 43 points for Kwakwani but his heroics were in vain as Linden Technical Institute (LTI) withstood their valiant comeback efforts to win the final 78-74.

An unusual chess tournament With Errol Tiwari It was an unusual chess tournament that was held in November 2007 in the Basque city of Bilbao, Spain.

Dear Editor, Mr Mohammed Sattaur, CEO of the National Communications Network Inc, in an interview last Monday in East Berbice said that NCN had made drastic leaps over the past year — and rightly so.

Obama breaks free (Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and colum-nist who now resides in Jamaica.

Dear Editor, I fully endorse Pastor Daniel Singh’s assertion (‘Letter writers should exercise restraint’ SN July 12) that “the letter column should be a forum for healthy, intelligent, and objective dialogue to bring about more awareness…”  I say not only the letter column but the comments section that follows. 

Help for orphans and vulnerable kids: The International Pharmaceutical Agency on Wednesday donated diapers to the USAID Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention (GHARP) Project for its orphans and vulnerable children programme.

Banks DIH Ltd. in its continuing effort to promote horse racing in Berbice has provided sponsorship to the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club for its one-day horse race meeting on Sunday at the Race Course at Number 6 Village, West Coast Berbice.

As part of its mission to help vulnerable children, the Aditya Kids Trust Fund Foundation (AKTFF) of Bath Settlement, West Berbice recently treated occupants of the Shaheed’s Girls Orphanage to lunch and gifts.

Berbicians can look forward for the fourth annual Berbice Expo and Trade Fair, organised by the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) on July 25 to 28 at Albion Community Centre Ground.

Dear Editor, There was a picture in the Sunday Stabroek (‘Memory lane’ 6.7.08) with the caption ‘Avenue of Palms Brickdam(?),

We have not yet heard any kind of analysis from the Ministry of Education in relation to this year’s Grade Six Assessment; so far, all that we’ve learnt concerns the top performers and the top schools.

The Progressive Youth Organization (PYO) 56-mile cycle road race in honour of the 1973 Ballot Box Martyrs is scheduled to ride off this morning in Berbice.

– transport not refused as surety “Oliver Hinckson’s property transport was never refused as surety and Chief Justice Ian Chang never refused bail on the advocating the commission of a terrorist act charge,” a representative of the Hinckson family told Stabroek News yesterday.

Fine-tuning: Colgrain Whyte hard at work at his Charlotte Street pan yard yesterday as feverish preparations continue for Carifesta.

We should conform to the conventions By Eileen Cox Caricom Day was celebrated on Monday, July 7.