Articles published on Sunday, October 19, 2008
Curbing Corruption – the Corruption Perception Index – part 2 Introduction In introducing this subject last week Business Page sought to explain how Transparency International, the international non-governmental organization, compiles its annual Corruption Perception Index.
A fundamental philosophical divide has emerged in the context of the EPA After months of argument and eleventh hour confusion, the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Europe and Cariforum was signed in Barbados on October 15.
Home is a lovely place In Canada it is just getting cool and the trees are filling with greenish gold and a darkening red as the beautiful season of fall begins to decorate the landscape.
More on the Guyana consultation on the EPA While it would be fair to say that the Guyana government held a fairly successful National Consultation on the CARIFORUM-EC, EPA, its aftermath has been much more uncertain.
Two persons, including a television journalist were killed last evening when a minibus transporting a media team collided with a truck along the Amelia’s Ward Highway, at Linden.
Former Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Shridath Ramphal has congratulated President Bharrat Jagdeo on the stance he took in relation to the controversial Economic Partnership Agree-ment (EPA) with the Euro-pean Union (EU).
Nandlall: `It is a desperate measure and in the eyes of the government crime in Guyana has reached desperate proportions’ The government’s controversial wiretapping bill had a bumpy passage in the National Assembly on Friday, where great doubt, scepticism and fear dominated the scrutiny of its sweeping provisions.
Anand and Kramnik face off in world championship Here is the first game of the World Champion-ship match between defending champion Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik that was played on Wednesday.
Taxi driver was badly beaten A carjacker who yesterday tried to evade the police lost control of the vehicle while speeding around a turn on Sheriff Street and crashed into a fence.
Dear Editor, Ms. Gail Teixeira’s letter published in your issue of September 21 responding to Mr.
It was through chess that I formed my character. More than anything else, chess teaches you to be objective.
Errol Tiwari, Roy Sharma at loggerheads over outcome of match Controversy erupted during the fourth round of the national Chess Open qualifiers at the Tower Hotel on Main Street yesterday which resulted in one of the players Roy Sharma refusing to continue in the tournament.According
Dear Editor, I read with interest, reports in several daily newspapers that the Georgetown Mayor and City Council has recommenced its property evaluation exercise of the Georgetown municipality.
Three players lead going into final day’s play Three players are on five points out of a possible six at the end of the penultimate day’s play of the national Open chess qualifiers at the Hotel Tower.
Leptospirosis – infectious jaundice Over the years I have spoken and written so much about this disease that at one time my friends used to call me Dr Lepto.
…in aftermath of rape attack The GPSU sent the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) a letter on Thursday setting a seventy-two hour ultimatum that further industrial action will be taken over dissatisfaction with management’s response since a registered nurse was raped while on duty on September 11.
The London International Court of Arbitration (LICA) has made its ruling.
Dear Editor, Reading the comments in the case of the woman who lost a large sum of money just withdrawn from the bank brought to mind my experience in Guyana in the mid-1990s.
Many Guyanese in New York have been hit hard by the US economic meltdown, losing homes, jobs and pensions due to bad mortgages and risky investments that did not pay off.
Guyana’s national Under 21 hockey team participating at the this year’s Junior Pan-American tournament in Trinidad and Tobago was handed a 15-0 thrashing by power houses Canada in their opening match on Friday.
Dear Editor, We cannot produce rice without TSP fertiliser. The RPA said that it is bringing cheap urea but they can’t say anything about TSP.
Cholesterol – The good, the bad and the ugly facts Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD – Physician Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is advising consumers to fill-up as many receptacles as possible to minimize any inconvenience from GWI’s operations being severely affected by prolonged power outages.
The Guyanese wife of Brazilian miner Adinario De Miranda Brito, who reportedly shot himself after killing his reputed wife three weeks ago, says that she is convinced that he did not commit suicide because of the conflicting reports she has received.
-AAG Since the launching of the annual South American 10K almost two weeks ago the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has been moving ahead with plans for a successful staging of the event.
Poui accepts Simmons-McDonald’s burnt offerings The editors of Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual, “are happy to see that so many of our regular contributors continue to send us work” while at the same time they feel “it is good to find a number of new voices”.
Dear Editor, I write this with a heavy heart. I am very angry.
Guyana’s bantamweight boxer Clevon Rock Guyana’s hopes of a gold medal went down at the third junior Commonwealth Games in Pune, India were dashed when Clevon Rock lost his bantamweight encounter with Englishman John Quigley.
Earlier last month Minister of Education Shaik Baksh announced that his ministry would prohibit the holding of ‘extra lessons’ on public school premises once the payment of money was involved.
Let us improve the conditions of the lock-ups It was reported in the Sunday Stabroek of October 5 that a murder suspect was to receive $75 a day for ‘inhumane’ jail conditions.
A 12-year-old girl of Rosignol, West Berbice was found hanging in her bedroom around 2 pm on Thursday and relatives are still trying to figure out what may have caused the tragedy.
Dear Editor, Many people complain about the lack of or the timeliness of the Police response.
