Daily Archive: Friday, September 5, 2008

A Bagotville man who allegedly assaulted a police constable was remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Wednesday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– as escapee buried Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles was laid to rest in Agricola before a large, sentimental home crowd yesterday, which also would have been his 23rd birthday.

Two days after he fell off a vessel on its way to a fishing spot in the Atlantic Ocean, the partly decomposed body of 42-year-old Kenneth Melville was found just off the Kitty Foreshore around 6 am yesterday.

The awesome complexity of Caribbean life and culture, which ranges from language and religion to artistic manifestation in the literary, performing and visual arts, is more than “the binary syndrome of Europe suggests,” University of the West Indies Professor Rex Nettleford has said.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has asked Guyana to provide information on measures taken to ensure that the informed consent of the indigenous communities is being sought for all mining projects on indigenous lands.

The PNCR yesterday reiterated its concern over the rising cost of living.

The demise of Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles is a great victory for the peace-loving people of Buxton whose village was held hostage by the criminals, the PPP said.

Cabinet gave its no-objection to several contracts worth millions of dollars in the electricity, social, health, education and agriculture sectors when it met on Tuesday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is to lead the government’s delegation to the national consultation on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), when the sessions are held at the International Convention Centre today and tomorrow.

Dear Editor, We, the mothers, grandmothers and aunts of Stevedore Housing Scheme demand that Guyana Water Inc take urgent steps to provide us with clean water.

Even with the Joint Services’ recent success in the slaying of wanted men Rondell `Fineman’ Rawlins and Jermaine `Skinny’ Charles, the much talked about video footage showing the notorious Buxton gang in operation, would not be released since government believes that many of the elements are still out there.

Dear Editor, I feel compelled to write this letter, because I found the news item, which attracted my attention, nothing short of incredible, if not surreal.

Mc Lean labels practice ‘corporate vulgarity’ Two senior officials of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have launched a scathing attack on what they say is the worsening practice by businesses in the urban commercial sector of dumping garbage on city streets, parapets and in drains and have said that a point has now been reached where the practice should attract the strongest possible legal sanctions.

Dear Editor, Allow me to extend my congratulations to the Disciplined Forces for finally bringing to an end the unimaginably cruel instincts of Guyana’s most dangerous duo.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday charged Government of Guyana/Cuban Scholarship Awardees for the academic year 2008-2009 to study hard and to maintain a social conscience.

A man who allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend was placed on  $15,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Human Services and Amerindian Affairs ministries and other organisations met on Wednesday as an oversight committee to discuss ways of ensuring that measures are implemented to combat domestic violence.

By Rawle Lucas Fight against poverty There is plenty of excitement about the potential of micro and small businesses to help people get out of poverty. 

Dear Editor, I would like the public to know that when you have reached the age of sixty and over the government will not allow you to donate blood or pay an NIS contribution.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recently graduated 160 students who pursued work-study attachments within 12 of its units and divisions.

Action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) organized first and second division competitions will continue over the weekend.

Dear Editor, According to your Thursday news article, captioned ‘First witness cross-examined in Hinckson terrorist act PI,’ one Trevor Reid of the CID’s Serious Crimes Investigation Unit was the first witness to be cross-examined, but as per your lead and second paragraphs, there was nothing reported on what he revealed.

By Rowland Fletcher – Agronomist The Savannah Dream:When American businessman Stan Greene of Global Agri notoriety arrived in Guyana sometime in 1969, with a grandiose plan in his briefcase to convert the Kibilibiri Savannahs into a major grain (corn and soyabean) producing farmstead which would have been renamed Jordanville, the government of the day viewed its implementation as the realization of their agricultural diversification dream, and seized the opportunity.

Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are expected to conclude an agreement shortly under which Omai will pursue mineral exploration at Eagle Mountain in the Potaro area.

A taxi driver who assaulted a police constable and behaved disorderly was granted $10,000 self-bail and placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years, when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Travis Dowlin’s XI defeated Krishna Arjune’s XI by 36 runs to win the second trial match organized by the senior selection panel of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB).

Dear Editor, Much has been carried in your newspaper about the situation in Georgia in the Caucasus.

‘Somebody make some noise!!’ Basics about criminal networks Past sixty I am, but very young at heart.

– countries to launch support programme The Ministry of Health has received 10,000 doses of Yellow Fever vaccine from the Brazilian government.

Corporate sensivity: Sterling Products General Manager Ramsay Ally (seated centre) and members of staff of the company pose with children of company employees who were awarded monetary bursaries based on their respective performances at the 2008 national Grade Six examinations.

Says book pirating sends negative signals to investors The United Kingdom-based publishing company Hansib secured more than G$2m in book sales during the period of Carifesta 2008, according to Arif Ali, the company’s owner.

Some weeks ago, we were treated to a fairly lively but short-lived dispute – what the British might call an argy-bargy – in our letters column over the question of the late President Cheddi Jagan’s legacy.

By Ian Martin KATMANDU – Nepal’s Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as “Prachanda,” has now been sworn in as the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, having won an overwhelming vote in the Constituent Assembly elected in April.

Participants at a symposium on ‘Enhancing the Handicraft Sector in Guyana’ at the Amerindian Village on Tuesday.

Two neighbours who assaulted each other had their case dismissed on Wednesday because they refused to offer evidence against each other when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Guyana Motor Racing team led by speed aces, Andrew King, Kevin Jeffrey and Canadian-based Shawn King suffered mixed fortunes in the recently held second leg of the 2008 Caribbean Championships.

Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek (SN) editorial of August 31, 2008, captioned ‘Rawlins’ gang’ has reopened the debate on whether the so-called Fineman gang was engaged in political struggle or crime.

Mr Arif Ali, a Guyanese who migrated to the United Kingdom more than half a century ago and who, during that time, has become the most successful publisher of Caribbean origin in Europe, has openly made the Government of Guyana an interesting proposal.