Articles published on Thursday, October 16, 2008
-will ink deal by month end Guyana was not among thirteen Cariforum member states that signed the Eco-nomic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) with the European Commission (EC) in Barbados yesterday, but President Bharrat Jagdeo says he will sign on before the end of the month.
The West Berbice man who allegedly hacked his wife to death and severely chopped her mother on Tuesday afternoon turned himself in yesterday at the Fort Wellington Police Station in the company of his lawyer.
Workers from the Ministry of Public Works visited the partly constructed Cubana disaster monument at the junction of Camp and Lamaha streets yesterday in what appeared to be an attempt to remove the controversial structure.
Summoned on six charges The Guyana Police Force has refuted claims made by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys as reported by Capitol News in Tuesday’s edition of the newscast.
It was the cry of “Look Uncle Peppers coming” that apparently saved the life of Satwatanttie Ramperasud yesterday morning after 3 when two men, one armed with a cutlass and the other a gun, chopped her several times before attempting to rob her home.
Unarmed cops arrived one hour after to take ‘facts’ The victims of Tuesday evening’s Tuschen robbery yesterday criticised the police for what they said was a slow response even as they attempted to come to grips with the traumatic incident.
-Guyana assured of a bronze medal at the third junior Commonwealth Youth Games through Clevon Rock Rock solid!
– John falls to Nigerian in last 16 Guyana’s Trenace Lowe, the Caribbean number-two girls player, stayed in the hunt for a medal at the third junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India yesterday when she advanced to the last eight of the girls’ singles competition.
Guyana insisting on rights to Corentyne River The captain of the MV Chandra 1, seized on Tuesday by the Suriname navy on the Corentyne River, was released from jail yesterday and the seven- member crew and the vessel are due to leave Nickerie to return to Guyana this morning.
CGX Energy Inc., the Canadian-based oil and gas exploration company focused on exploration for oil in Guyana, announced on Tuesday that the 3D seismic programme which it had announced on June 5 and September 9 has commenced.
-team leads by 172 runs going into final day Clive Lloyd Super Cats’ Homchand Pooran (107) and left arm orthodox spinner Veerasammy Permaul (5-76) guided their team to a mammoth 172 runs first innings lead over the Rohan Kanhai Strikers at the end of the second day in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President’s Cup competition.
Warning about the potential for the proposed wiretapping laws to be abused, Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman yesterday said his party would not support it and called for its withdrawal.
By Rawle Toney Guyana’s national under-21 hockey team will depart these shores today for Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the 2008 Pan-American Hockey Championship which will be played in the island’s capital, Port-of-Spain from Friday 17 to Sunday, October 26.
A new Forest Products Development and Marketing Council (FPDMC) was launched on Tuesday at the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion conference room and five individuals from the government and five from private enterprises would make up the Board and there will be one neutral chairperson.
Banks DIH cricketers are expected to face their sternest test when they square off with Neal and Massy tomorrow as the feature 20-over a-side tapeball cricket match continues at Thirst Park ground under floodlights.
Dear Editor, Here is yet another case for the Guyana National Bureau of Standards.
As time draws near to the commencement of the Fruta Conquerors Football Club (FC) organized 2008 Guyana National Milling Company (Namilco) Football Festival where all games are going to be contested at the now trendy Tucville playfield, the FC is knotting all ends with their sponsors.
Dear Editor, For sometime now, your reporters have been describing deaf persons as “dumb boy” or “dumb girl” or “mute”.
The North West Computer Institute (NWCI) was on Saturday launched in Mabaruma, after a year of introducing information technology to the region and blossoming into an NGO.
The annual national senior and junior rifle shooting championships will take place early in 2009 and will serve as preparation for the local shooters who will be defending the Caribbean crown they won in Jamaica earlier this year.
The increase in the price of kerosene locally has been identified as a growing concern by two of the Opposition parties, and both have called for the government to address this issue urgently.
Dear Editor, I am responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on October 14, 2008 captioned “Rival tourism bodies sparks war of words.”
Dear Editor, It is with profound sadness, and despair that I pen this letter, of both condolence, and deep concern for what can only be described as yet another savage and cowardly act perpetrated against a harmless young professional.
Tony Ramnanan hit the first century, an entertaining 162, in the West Berbice Cricket Association (WBCA)/ Regency Suites/Buddy’s International Hotel sponsored under-23 cricket competition which got underway last weekend.
The Rising Sun Turf Club came alive last weekend when Sequin turned back the challenge of the other horses in “C” Class to walk away with $300,000 first prize in one of the most successful horse race meets in recent times Speaking to Stabroek Sport, president of the club, Inshan Habibulla, said that the races were run off in orderly fashion without any problems.
Dear Editor, I cannot recall having read or seen any campaign by the Traffic Police towards monitoring lane driving and I do apologize if this was indeed done.
Five of Guyana’s overseas-based rugby players in contention for selection for Guyana’s National Sevens Team to participate in the NAWIRA 2009 Regional RWC Sevens Qualifier in Bahamas from October 25-26 have returned home and begun training with the national squad.
Dear Editor,President Bharrat Jagdeo has described the deterioration of the 30-year-old Demerara Harbour Bridge as “unbelievable, almost criminal”.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Monday granted $100,000 bail to a father of ten accused of stealing a quantity of electrical appliances from a store.
Fifteen health care providers on Monday started training as orthopaedic technicians at the Georgetown hospital in keeping with efforts to boost health care services.
A twenty-year-old man, who is accused of beating a man with an axe after being assaulted, was granted bail while the man who allegedly assaulted him was ordered to pay a fine when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Dear Editor, While some of us may have winced at his methods we were more than pleased to see the alacrity at which the Minister of Public Works dispatched the squatters at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (`Illegal structures at Timehri torn down’ SN 13th Sept, 2008).
By Rawle Toney With the aim of emulating their 2006 performance in the Digicel Caribbean Championship (DCC) Guyana’s National football team, more popularly known as the Golden Jaguars has begun preparations for the commencement of the second round of the tournament with the goal of reaching the finals in Jamaica.
A woman charged with Trafficking in Persons over two years ago had the charge against her dismissed when the matter was called at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Ian Jackson rode off with the feature 30-lap event and 12 of the 30 prime prizes as the Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club successfully staged its sixth annual track cycling meet at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Sunday.
Dear Editor, Thank you for all your newspaper’s help and support in finding my mother Noelina Prospere-Medor and thanks to the reporter Ms Ferguson for taking an interest in the story.
New Amsterdam Multilateral gobbles up J. C Chandisingh Secondary Nigel Kewley gorged himself on five goals as New Amsterdam Multilateral School feasted on J.
Dear Editor, It was so sad to read of the brutal ending of the life of that attractive, intelligent young woman, Alicia Foster.
By Joseph S. Nye Joseph S. Nye Jr. is Distin-guished Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and author, most recently, of The Powers to Lead.
Mahaica and Buxton United record victories – Buxton United U-15 and BVTU battle to draw Mahaica and Buxton United defeated Bakewell Buxton and Ann’s Grove respectively at the Buxton Community Centre ground when the East Coast of Demerara Football Association’s (ECDFA) Mackeson League continued.
The eighteen-year-old-girl who allegedly attempted to murder another by throwing hot oil on her last Wednesday was remanded to prison yesterday when she appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Dear Editor, Many may wish to congratulate Paul Krugman on winning the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economics.
As has often been the case in recent times, the 2008 Nobel prizes for Peace, Economics and Literature seem designed to send a message to Washington.
