Articles published on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
McAllister suspended, asked to resign as MP – Alexander’s fate not yet decided The PNCR’s disciplinary committee has suspended James McAllister and asked him to resign his position as a Member of Parliament (MP) for his involvement in Vincent Alexander’s aborted challenge for the party’s leadership at last year’s biennial congress.
-Jagdeo gives stern warningResponding to serious concerns ignited by the recent increases in bread after hikes in the price for flour, the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) has strongly denied claims that it has been price gouging, saying it has made every attempt to cushion the effects of world market upheavals.
–can play crucial role in weed control Manatees, found mainly in the Abary Creek, are vulnerable to extinction with their main threat being human predators and environmentalists are calling for them to be protected.
A bumper issue of the monthly Guyana Review will be included in tomorrow’s issue.
The three women who were held at a Regent Street house last week after a cache of high-powered guns, ammunition and other items were found in a plastic barrel, were released on station bail on Sunday but are to report to the police regularly.
An accident involving a truck and a car at Kingelly, West Coast Berbice around 6 pm on Sunday, has left a 45-year-old father of one dead and three other persons seriously injured.
– to start ‘from scratch’ The operations of the Guyanese Network of People Living with and affected by HIV (G+) have been handed over to a interim management team as the organisation can no longer source financing because of mismanagement.
Almost two months after it was first highlighted by this newspaper the issue of the filling of a trench at Plaisance has not been settled.
Dear Editor, It is 01:10 hours on September 7, 2008 and I cannot sleep.
The commissioning of the Parika Agro-Packing Facility and a local office of the Food and Agricultural Organisa-tion (FAO) are two of the activities set to headline this year’s Agriculture Month celebrations.
Dear Editor, Tony Cozier’s piece in SN 28.9.08 has caused me to sit here reflecting on the current slug fest between Digicel and Stanford in the latest match to be organised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
– through EU-funded project Guyana and the wider Caribbean are positioned to deepen relations with the French islands in the region following the launch of an ambitious European Union (EU) funded programme that proposes benefits in a reinforced interregional environment.
Dear Editor, TV networks are known for rewarding their viewers with quality programming during the most watched prime-time hours (8-11pm).
Dear Editor, I wish to commend the National Diwali Committee on the resurrection of the Ms Diwali Pageant.
A Guyanese has been remanded to a New York prison after he attempted to smuggle over 2,000 grammes of cocaine into the United States.
– break and enter accused tells court A 38-year-old man who allegedly broke and entered the dwelling house of another man told the court yesterday that the persons who made a citizen’s arrest had beaten him up.
The Guyana Defence Force’s HIV project, which is in its 13th month of operation, is focusing on enhancing strategies and intensifying efforts with regard to prevention programmes.
Dear Editor, I am a young Hindu and I was shocked and upset to read that a group of people calling themselves the Guyana National Diwali Committee are holding a Miss Diwali Pageant. I
Thirty-one students who were successful at national and regional examinations this year were proud recipients of bursaries and certificates of accomplishment from the Bosai Mineral Group Guyana Inc.
A handyman who was allegedly found with a quantity of cannabis in his possession was placed on $25,000 bail yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Lottery Company might need to consider the following, for I believe that with a positive outcome, they will see many more smiling faces from patrons of the lottery and eventually will see a major boost in sales.
Handclapping, smiles and laughter yesterday in the National Park as these little ones enjoyed a schoolchildren’s rally held in observation of Education Month.
Brian Walrond who said he was homeless but “at peace” at his “home” in the alley between Camp Street and Wellington Street was ‘evicted’ yesterday after a year of living in quiet bothered only by the infrequent visits of snakes, rats and a few domestic animals.
A Guyanese has been remanded to a New York prison after he attempted to smuggle over 2,000 grammes of cocaine into the United States.
Members of Guyana’s Junior Commonwealth Games team yesterday paid to visit to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds at his Wight’s Lane, Kingston office yesterday.
Dear Editor, After reading Ms Tricia Teekah’s letter in the SN of September 27, 2008, captioned ‘Our leaders are failing to protect us from criminals,’ I gathered a few of her issues raised in the letter have merit while others are mere perceptions.
“Your worship I try fuh help she out so I slip out de thing fuh get lil money,” a man who stole almost $70,000 in bras and panties said when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
– ECDFSA League Bakewell Buxton Stars and Buxton United both recorded victories when action in the East Coast Demerara Football Sub Association (ECDFSA)/Mackeson Stoute-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Plaisance Community Centre ground Thursday night.
Dear Editor, I had alluded previously to the dangerous and culturally toxic rhetoric that now pervades the social and political athmosphere in Guyana, and had hopefully addressed some of its recent EPA-driven manifestations in ‘A Deadly Storm of Rhetoric in Guyana About CARICOM and the EPA’ (http://www.
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The Caribbean Community may have refused to send soldiers to support the current security operation in Haiti but it cannot refuse to be concerned about the plight of the ordinary people of that country.
Cut and load: Canecutters loading a punt at Providence, East Bank Demerara yesterday.
West Indian manatees are large, gray aquatic mammals with bodies that taper to a flat, paddle-shaped tail.
