Daily Archive: Monday, September 8, 2008

A fire late last evening destroyed a Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, factory belonging to the Roop Group company.

Part of the large crowd which assembled yesterday outside the Mark Benschop Foundation where school items (book-bags, pencils, school clothing, reading books, exercise books, etc) were donated to over 400 students.

Dear Editor, Some rather interesting parallels can be drawn between the election of Chicago’s first African-American mayor in 1983 and the current candidacy of Senator Barack Obama to become the first US president of African-American (or multi-racial) ancestry.

—pump driven by solar power It took around 30 years for the residents in Kuru Kuru to experience the thrill of running water through a tap, but after an investment of $8.3M in a Solar Water System by the Rotary Club of Georgetown, the community and others this is now a reality.

Dear Editor, So our President has out of thin air conceded that Guyana will be willing to sign a goods-only EPA (SN Sep 7, 2008). 

A few years ago a close relative of Miriam Edwards was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and like so many other Guyanese, she discriminated against the relative in many ways even going so far as to prevent her children from eating food prepared by her.

Dear Editor, On Friday, September 5, 2008, at 12.15 am I was approaching my home on the East Bank of Demerara and as I got into the yard I heard a funny sound coming from inside my house.

Guyana and West Indies right arm-leg spinner Amir Khan with 3-4 along with fast bowlers Seon Daniels and Andre Stoll each with 2-18, bowled Demerara to a comfortable 10-wicket victory over Essequibo in their first round encounter of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Clico sponsored Under-17 two day Inter-county championship at the Enterprise Community Centre ground yesterday.

Seven persons are before the court for various offences after they were picked up by the city constabulary cycle patrolmen who started operating several days ago, City Hall public relations officer (ag) Debra Lewis told Stabroek News last week.

Dear Editor, It is sad that in this day and age we still have latrines in the school system.

After the unedifying distractions of who stumped up the cash to spruce up the president’s office and the latest, inevitably costly row over sponsorship, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) shocked us all last week with a lengthy statement that, for a welcome change, dealt with cricket and nothing but cricket.

A $43 million Spanish government-funded rice project, which seeks to increase the food self-sufficiency of nine villages in Regions Eight and Nine through rice and beans production is set to be implemented shortly through the Ministry of Agriculture.

A quite enlivening final match was won by Beacon United who retained the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Chubby under-14 championships at the Tucville Playfield yesterday.

About Guyanese men and fashion Interviews by Sarah Bharrat and photographs by Melissa Charles This week we asked the man/woman in the street whether Guyanese men are fashion conscious and whether they should be.

—Office of the Insurance Commission “It would be before the end of the year…we are working on it,” says Assistant Commis-sioner Tracy Gibson at the Office of the Insurance Commission(OCI), with reference to the application for an insurance licence submitted by the Caricom General Insurance Company, formerly the Guyana Fire Life and General Insurance Company (GuyFlag).

The Guyana stakeholder consensus offers a way out of the EPA deadlock By Norman Girvan The Cariforum EPA was initialled last December under extreme pressure of time and the threat of imposition of punitive tariffs on Caribbean exports in EU markets.

—to provide training, help the under-privileged The First Assembly of God Church in Wortmanville yesterday opened a multi-million dollar building aimed at providing training, recreation and support programmes to empower mainly children, youths and the destitute to realise their potential so they can meaningfully contribute to society.

Former Barbados and West Indies right arm fast medium bowler Ezra Moseley is due in Guyana later this month to conduct a fast bowling clinic organized by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in conjunction with the Reds Perreira Sports Foundation (RPSF).

Dear Editor, Mr Robin Williams in a letter captioned ‘The relationship between the Obama and Clinton camps is a symbiotic one’ (SN September 1) unfairly and inaccurately characterized my analysis of the Democratic convention as being anti-Obama.

While the decision of the DPP’s Chambers not to recommend any charges against Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys over the shooting of a policeman has been considered on its merits, it cannot be divorced from the milieu in which it has been introduced.

Mike Mangal playing off an eight handicap recorded a gross 75 to end with a net 67 to win last Saturday’s Sunburst Orange Juice Medal Play Golf tournament sponsored by Continental Group of Companies and played at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Dear Editor, The deaths of Rondell Rawlins, aka ‘Fineman’ and Jermaine Charles aka ‘Skinny’ are yet more examples of young people in our society making the wrong choices.

Castellani House presents The Passenger (alternate title, Profession: Reporter) (1975), as this month’s ‘Classic Tuesdays’ feature tomorrow at 6pm.

by Shlomo Ben-Ami TOLEDO, Spain – Does the war in the Caucasus herald the coming of Cold War II?

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man who had a firearm and matching ammunition in his possession  to three years imprisonment.