Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr yesterday ruled that the joint services were hasty in their 11-hour siege of the Toucan Suites apartment building eight years ago to flush out the notorious Linden ‘Blackie’ London and awarded the owner damages and compensation for losses to the tune of $125 million.

Aboud turns himself in Trinidadian Joseph Aboud, accompanied by a prominent lawyer, yesterday turned himself over to the police for questioning into the recent Regent Street arms bust, but the other two men wanted in connection with the discovery remained at large up to press time.

Another prisoner has escaped, this time from Ward B2 of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

-Agri Minister assures exporters Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday assured rice exporters that their supplies would be bought, despite mixed signals from Jamaica on its ability to meet an agreed quota this year.

Police last evening announced major changes in its divisional command, including the appointment of a woman, who was the former deputy head of the Immigration Department.

An 82-year-old man was hospitalised last evening after being beaten by two men during a robbery at his Stone Avenue, Section K Campbellville home.

Robbery aborted after woman screamed Two men were arrested yesterday after police in Berbice discovered an unlicenced .32 semi automatic pistol and a matching round while conducting investigations into a report of assault with intent to commit robbery.

Two bandits, one of whom was armed with a hand gun, yesterday descended on a Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara home and robbed a housewife of a quantity of jewellery, bullets for a licensed weapon and cash.

The lifeless body of a destitute woman was yesterday morning discovered in an area opposite the Brickdam Cathedral with a wound to the back of her head.

A conversation with Sir Shridath Ramphal During a recent visit to Guyana former Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Shridath Ramphal granted The Guyana Review an extensive interview covering a wide range of issues embracing aspects of Caribbean diplomacy, the role of the United Nations and evolving issues in the development of the international system.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday said it does not support President Bharrat Jagdeo’s refusal to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU, saying his action at this stage when negotiations are complete only makes Guyana a laughing stock.

The British Guiana Volunteer Force was established sixty years ago in June 1948.

Duo jailed for 12 yearsTwo men who were indicted for murder were yesterday sentenced to 12 years each after a jury convicted them on the lesser count of manslaughter.

CLR James: An outstanding Caribbean intellectIntroduction CLR James, the Trinidadian scholar, writer, Marxist ideologue and internationalist who spent much of his life abroad in the United Kingdom is not well known to Guyanese and Caribbean people.

The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) of Guyana in an Eid-Ul-Fitr message said that at the end of the holy month it is an appropriate time to reflect on the noble lessons leant in Ramadhan.

The President of the Guyana Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-I-Islam has extended to all Muslim brothers and sisters Eid Mubarak, as they celebrate the end of the Holy month of Ramadhan with prayers, fasting and charitable works for the underprivileged of society.

Cultural transformation of the Caribbean in the 21st CenturyWelcoming Each Other: Cultural transformation of the Caribbean in the 21st Century was presented in the Andres Bello Auditorium of the Inter-American Development Bank on January 22, 1998, as part of the IDB Cultural Centre’s Lecture Programme.

The surfeit of book exhibitions and book launches that were  part of the CARIFESTA X programme would have been a nostalgic  treat for Guyanese book lovers  whose passion for reading has for so long been frustrated by the  difficulties associated with the acquisition of good reading material in Guyana.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP) has extended Eid Mubarak to the Muslim community in an Eid-Ul-Fitr message.

(West Indies and British Guiana) (Reprinted by permission of the estate of C.L.R.

Machinations towards Guyana’s Independence, May 1966 In our September issue the Guyana Review inadvertently published part of this article rather than the full text.

Yesterday marked the 29th day of Ramadan and the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) announced that Eid ul Fitr will be celebrated today or tomorrow depending on the sighting of the crescent.

Dear Editor, Once again, I have read in the news of an accident at Pearl, EBD where three young men were involved in a car crash.

Dear Editor, Thank you Mr Pemberton for your comments contained in your letter captioned, ‘Spread the winnings,’ SN September 30, 2008.

A man and a woman are clinging to life at the Georgetown Public Hospital after an attempted murder/suicide.

Ovena Braithwaite early Monday morning gave birth to a bouncing baby girl in her newly built Yarrowkabra home.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article in the Kaieteur News of Sunday, September 28, 2008 in the Freddie Kissoon column on ‘The EPA, micro-management and the EPA.’

The boxing team that will represent Guyana at the upcoming 2008 Junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India had a surprise visit from sports enthusiast and Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green.

There were obvious projections about how the Derek Moore spin on Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW2), dubbed ‘Journey’, at the Aracari Resort on Friday last was going to turn out — good or bad — it was somewhere in between.

Dear Editor, Mr Chumandat Persaud, please make me an exception in concluding that Ms Maureen Paul, the former head of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana has a vendetta against the tourism sector (‘Guyana’s Tourism Sector is now developing,’ GC 23.9.08).

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has set up another cellular site, this time at Sheet Anchor, which will benefit customers on the East Berbice, Corentyne Coast.

The Guyana Taekwondo Association (GTA) has selected two athletes to represent Guyana at the 16th Pan American Taekwondo Championships to be held in Caguas, Puerto Rico from October 1 – 6.

Dear Editor, Last night I read a statement written by Mr Leonard George Arokium.

The National Park Circuit is the venue again for yet another race meet.

The winners of the recently held Entertainment Source Futsal five-a-side football competition in Linden sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd.

Nursery and primary school students of Region Five were recently treated to a “reading tent” at Fort Wellington which helped to highlight literacy and the importance of shared reading.

Dear Editor, Mr Pradeep Samtani needs to tell us where in India these so-called Diwali beauty pageants are held to Mother Lakshmi, and if the learned teachers of the great religion of Hinduism would sanction such desecration.

Stalemates order of the day Stalemates were the order of the day when action in the East Coast Demerara/Mackeson Stout-sponsored Premier League competition continued at the Beterverwagting ground last Sunday.

This year’s Caribbean Youth Day observance was marked by the achievements of young Caribbean citizens.

In cricket, catches, they say, win matches. In football, it is brilliant saves from goalkeepers.

Millions of dollars went up in flames when a fire of unknown origin raced through a foam factory at Eccles Industrial Site on Monday night.

Dear Editor, With the latest move by President Bharrat Jagdeo to appoint Mr Irfan Ally as Minister of Housing and Works to replace Mr Harry Narine Nawbatt, who is going to take up an appointment as the Guyana Ambassador to Brazil, the writing is clearly on the wall for PPP stalwart Mr Moses Nagamootoo, that he is not needed in the Jagdeo administration.

A security guard appeared before Magistrate Taijnarine Persaud yesterday charged with the theft of two firearms, a quantity of ammunition and cash from a West Coast Berbice man last month.

-court hears Two teenagers who allegedly robbed two men of jewellery and a cellular phone together valued almost $200,000 were placed on $100,000 bail each when they appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Academic high-fliers and the teachers who have been guiding them were awarded on Friday at the Region Three Department of Education’s 12th Annual Awards Ceremony.

Dear Editor, I read with some concern a letter in the Stabroek News on September 29, titled ‘There are too many hooligans on the streets,’ written by Reverend Gideon Cecil.

Twelve teachers who represented three Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) sports districts in Berbice concluded the ‘Event Organizers Workshop’ on Thursday last conducted by German sports scientist Uwe Wenzel at the All Saints Primary School ground in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Some months ago, the Managing Director of the Jamaica Banana Producers Group, the largest exporter of bananas from Jamaica to the United Kingdom, declared that if the periodic severe weather that Jamaica has been having over the years continued, the company would have to seriously consider stopping the cultivation, in that country, of bananas for export.

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