Daily Archive: Thursday, July 31, 2008

By Zoisa Fraser A post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Nolan Noble, the Camp Street prisoner who was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital on Saturday, showed that he died from blunt force trauma to the head, a relative said last evening.

This bridge in the Rupununi collapsed under the weight of this excavator which was heading to a mining operation in the South Rupununi recently.

Former Minister of Economic Deve-lopment and General Secretary of the PNCR, Dr Kenneth King passed away at his Second Avenue, Subryanville home yesterday morning following a prolonged illness.

Office of the President employee, Albert Henry, whose partially decomposed body was discovered in his Diamond, East Bank Demerara home on Tuesday afternoon, died of a heart attack.

Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma yesterday presented his report on the Public Accounts of Guyana for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran.

The Guyana Times newspaper is not benefiting from concessions granted to Queens Atlantic Investment Inc (QAII) subsidiaries and is paying for the services obtained at the QA11 Sanata complex in Ruimveldt, according to part-owner of the paper, Ravie Ramcharitar.

Two days after the bridge leading into New Providence collapsed killing a TPL truck driver it is unclear when the structure will be rebuilt and the survivor of the tragedy has recounted his dramatic rescue.

From next year timber companies will only be allowed to export logs from their concessions, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud revealed yesterday.

Runway lights and the Air Traffic Control Tower at the CJIA, Timehri were up and running late Tuesday night after shutting down for a few hours after lightning and thunderstorms hit a transformer and the stand-by generator developed radiator problems.

Dear Editor, The appeal made by H. Singh, ‘Let the government begin the tender process for big buses,’ published in SN on July 29, 2008 has inspired me to make the following observation: We have to be careful lest history repeat itself.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said the rice sector expects to export about 260,000 tonnes of rice this year.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article ‘Two-beer attracts objections from some road users’ published in the July 29 issue of Kaieteur News.

Dear Editor, I write to express grave concern at the fact that the drainage system parallel to the Success Public Road has not been cleared for a prolonged period.

An Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara goldsmith and his mother were shot several times by bandits, who attempted to rob them at their home on Tuesday night.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will soon decide if any charges will be laid against the Unity ice factory owner who created havoc in the Mahaica community last Tuesday when in a fit of rage, he discharged several rounds from his licensed firearm at his neighbour’s house.

Dear Editor, In response to some of the letter-writers in the Chronicle who have written about the Bell 206 helicopter, the facts are that a newly acquired aircraft which costs the Guyana people millions was sitting in the Tacama savannahs and the cause of its malfunction is still being investigated.

A farmer is nursing a wound to his hand after being shot at Kamuni Creek, Upper Demerara River during an argument over land and up to press time last evening police were still looking for the assailant.

Dear Editor, The government should speed up the acquisition of the big buses.

– Guyana’s Olympic Ambassador Geron Williams is excited about the Beijing By Ravendra Kishore Happy and excited was how Geron Williams expressed himself after being identified as one of two youngsters who  will be Guyana’s ambassadors at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Dear Editor, Someone by the name of Vassan Ramracha has decided to come to the rescue of Vishnu Bisram (SN, July 29 ‘Vishnu Bisram is a teacher’).

Accident victim Priya Ali, who was unconscious for more than two weeks, has recovered and was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday around noon.

Nathuram Darbhunauth, the sugar worker who was found dead in a canal at the Uitvlugt Estate on Saturday, died from drowning.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says integration is not for the faint of heart and more has to be done to deliver on the promise of integration.

-says report Chris Gayle has sent in his letter of resignation to the West Indies board president Donald Peters, according to reports in the Caribbean media.

Dear Editor, I noted a few days ago about thirteen of us were in line at a bank.

By Ravendra Kishore The Malteenos Sports Club boys under-15 squad, warming up yesterday ahead of their clash with Trinidad and Tobago Schoolboys under-14 team this Saturday was confident about winning the game.

A trip to a yard a short distance from his Kitty home on Tuesday night to persuade his reputed wife to come home, proved to be tragic for a 48-year-old man who was fatally stabbed.

Captain gets 18 months jail for assaulting wife Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle sentenced a barge captain to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting his wife; while he will be tried on charges that he assaulted his step-daughter and set his wife’s house afire after he pleaded not guilty to those offences.

Dear Editor, It has been in excess of two weeks that the community of Werk-en-Rust has been experiencing overflows of sewage and effluent from the sewerage system. 

Two men who allegedly demanded money by menace were each placed on $30,000 bail when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

National Cycle Coach Hassan Mohammed, M.S. is one of the proudest coaches in Guyana, having being a coach for over thirty-three years and churning out champion riders both male and female who have excelled at home and on the international circuit.

Dear Editor, The residents of West Dam Vryheid’s North, East Coast Demerara, once a squatting area, have lived here since 1964 with our families.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday granted $75,000 bail to a 29-year-old chain snatcher when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Dear Editor, Many will wish to celebrate Guyanese and West Indian batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s achievement for reaching the pinnacle of Test cricket by becoming the first Guyanese batsman to be ranked ICC number one in Test cricket.

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate Republic Bank on the construction of the new Camp Street location.

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Tucville. For over a year we have been getting water from our taps just once a week for half hour.

After seven years of analysis and fine-tuning, nine quarrelsome days was all it took for the main actors at the World Trade Organisation’s Doha talks to realise that they couldn’t, after all, make a deal.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday remanded to prison an 18-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 12.

Dear Editor, I pay all compliments to you for the excellent photograph of Shivnarine Chanderpaul in a celebrated moment in your sports section.

The impact of abolition and apprenticeship on female slaves and apprentices (Part 1) By Cecilia  McAlmont Introduction Nearly eighteen months ago, in March 2007, Guyana and the rest of the English speaking Caribbean commemorated the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trade in Captured Africans.