Daily Archive: Monday, October 6, 2008

Bursary awards were presented to 28 children of serving and deceased members of the Guyana Defence Force last Friday for being successful at the Secondary Schools Entrance Examination.

A ninth man who had accompanied one of the slain Lindo Creek miners towards the camp in June could be key to solving the grisly jigsaw puzzle.

Vendor jumps onto car to avoid being hit Several persons were injured when a minibus and a motor car collided at the corner of Camp and Norton streets shortly after 8 last night.

Day 2 – Man, I feel like a woman 1. There is a God and he must be a Trini After a lacklustre opening night, Sonia Noel must have been praying for a miracle.

Dear Editor, The current fiasco surrounding the Diwali pageant is baffling.

‘…lightning start to flash. It strike de steel on the building and de thing spark up’It was one freaky Friday in Diamond Housing Scheme, residents said.

Dear Editor, Very interesting and insightful, the comment from one contributor to the item about Mr Murray’s experience at the hands of intruders.

Dear Editor, I was accused on live television in Berbice twice of being intolerant of Muslim religious programmes on TV during Ramadan since the publication of my letter in the Stabroek News recently.

After being convicted and sentenced twice for killing his 6-month-old son, a Guyanese man in Toronto, Canada has won a new hearing in a five-year battle to block his deportation here.

– Basketball player collapses and dies during game on Burnham Court By Rawle Toney It was heralded as the return to competitive basketball at the outdoor Burnham Court by the newly-elected executives of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Associa-tion (GABA) but after the sudden death of 21-year-old Courts Pacesetters player Kevin Worrell yesterday the future of the GABA’s outdoor  basketball season was very much in doubt.

-ethnic relations body wants to foster greater respect The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) will be hosting a special Religious Broadcasters’ Workshop to help foster greater respect and understanding of religious diversity in a multi-cultural society.

Dear Editor, Political interference and gross mismanagement is now reaching a critical stage in GuySuCo.

The Fruta Conquerors football club maintained its unbeaten streak to claim the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) organised DeSinco Trading Under-18 round robin/knockout competition on Saturday when they defeated Alpha United in the final at the Tucville Playfield.

The high artfulness of Hawley Harris In tribute to Guyanese cartoonist Hawley Harris, who recently passed away, this week we carry an excerpt from a longer essay by Dr.

President Bharrat Jagdeo in a message to the summit of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states in Ghana, on  Thursday said that Guyana is unhappy about the proposed EU trade deal’s “anti-developmental character and its propensity to be inimical to Caribbean integration.”

Dear Editor, I attended the opening ceremony of the recent Seventh Biennial Delegates Congress of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB)  held in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Tyrone Hamilton returned to his winning ways yesterday at the outer circuit of the National Park when he carted off the Open 12-lap event of the Alliance for Change-sponsored second annual cycle race meet in memory of Marlis Archer and Max Perreira.

Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.

Improving conditions for teachers Photos and interviews by Melissa Charles Sudesh Rampersaud, Painter: ‘Teachers are very important and to my knowledge they are not being treated fairly.

Local gov’t reform still on slow road After nearly three months the task force on local government reform is yet to resume its work, putting the completion of key reforms on hold and ruling out long overdue polls this year.

-court hears A twenty-two-year-old man who allegedly broke and entered the home of a woman, stole a quantity of gold jewellery and took pornographic pictures of himself with her camera was remanded to prison on Friday.

Banks DIH cricketers pulled off a thrilling one-wicket win over Bank of Guyana (BOG) in their 20-overs-a-side tapeball cricket match played at Thirst Park ground on Friday night.

A team including Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green and social activist Mark Benschop yesterday visited the village of Buxton and distributed clothing, toys and other items.

As hard as the PPP/C government and its security apparatus have tried to pretend that drug trafficking and money laundering are being attacked frontally this fiction is being exposed week by week in the courts of New York.

Dear Editor, A small article in the Guyana Chronicle caught my attention today. The

Dear Editor, I refer to yet another letter (SN, October 3) from Mr Harry Hergash, an unashamed supporter of the PPP who is a member of the Guyana-Canada Forum in Toronto.