Daily Archive: Wednesday, November 26, 2008

An alumina refinery in Guyana moved one step closer to reality with the signing of a Heads of Agreement between Bosai Minerals Group and the Guyana Government yesterday.

– bottling, biscuits and rum plants to be opened Some 250 jobs will be available on the local market when new bottling and biscuit plants open here by April of next year.

– community needs to come together, says Prakash Gossai Another Better Hope resident was held yesterday for questioning into the brutal stabbing to death of construction foreman Latchman Persaud and a third suspect is being sought.

-hotel breaks with Starwood, Le Meridien brand A new management team takes over the operations of the Pegasus Hotel, which officially severed ties with the Starwood chain of hotels and resorts.

More than 18 students of Mahaicony Creek were found to have dropped out of school when the Schools’ Welfare Officers from the Department of Education in Region Five took their ‘Operation Care’ campaign to the area recently.

– suspect kerosene was mixed with gasolineThe alleged unsafe practice of a fuel dealer may have been the reason a kerosene lamp exploded on Saturday night causing a mother and her teenage daughter to sustain severe burns.

– TCL builds bus shed Bath Residents of West Berbice benefited from a cement mixing demonstration and free giveaways on Friday when TCL Guyana Inc (TGI) held its fourth ‘Cement Tent’ at Waterloo, Bath.

After pleading guilty to four charges resulting from the theft of an army pistol a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) private was sentenced to a total of five years imprisonment after the magistrate ordered that three of his sentences run concurrently.

A father and son were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after sustaining injuries in an accident at Aubrey Barker Road and Mandela Avenue early yesterday morning.

– 80 private/hire drivers The police have prosecuted 149 people for traffic offences during the past month.

Over 110 held over electricity theft One hundred and ten persons have been arrested for electricity theft following raids by the power company in several areas over the last two weeks.

– employee in custody Two men, including an employee, have been arrested in connection with Monday’s fatal shooting of businessman Ricardo Henriques, during a robbery.

A large number of persons and entities have become illegally involved in the international telephone call business and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is moving to prosecute them.

A 24-year-old Guyanese man was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning after three kilogrammes of cocaine was discovered under a fibre-glass panel in his suitcase.

There is no evidence that an AK-47 rifle was used in the murder of carpenter Vikesh Budhram of Foulis, East Coast Demerara, police said in a press statement last evening.

An aircraft equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology which appears to be able to map the terrain below the jungle canopy has joined the search and rescue operation for the US registered plane that went missing almost a month ago in the Cuyuni area.

Dear Editor, I read with utter shock the article in your edition of November 25, 2008, headlined ‘World Bank, IMF heads not going to key UN conference.’

Three men accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on another man over a $10,000 debt were each placed on $85,000 bail when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Dear Editor, Why has the Guyana Police Force allowed noise-makers to continue breaking the law in the Subryanville area?

Visa problems ground West Indies players;WICB hastens to explain delay       Nothing  is ever quite like it seems with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

By Rawle Toney The second leg of this year’s Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) which was to be held in  Kourou, French Guiana from November 28-30 has been postponed owing to unrest in that country.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Stabroek News for bringing DDL out on their marketing strategy and their sense of social responsibility as it concerns their sale of alcohol.

– GUYWID Violence against women has become a disease similar to cancer and HIV for which there seems to be no cure, the Guyanese Women Development (GUYWID) organisation has said while stressing that violence against women weakens, and, to an extent, destroys the social fabric which keeps humans together.

The Ministry of Sports and Banks DIH sponsored Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2008 league will resume on Friday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground (MSC) in Linden.

Dear Editor, The 28 years of PNC dictatorship, which has received enormous criticism, should not be an excuse for the PPP to continue the carnival of corruption and pantheon of problems Guyanese citizens face on a daily basis.

-with three rounds to go Errol Tiwari and David Khan lead the points standings in the senior category of the national Closed chess championships while Taffin Khan has the junior category already in the bag with three rounds to go.

Dear Editor, With reference to the arbitration tribunal in the sugar wages dispute, why did GAWU did not object to Dr Gobind Ganga being the chairman of the tribunal, when they knew full well that this gentleman is the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Guyana and the determination and management of the fiscal and monetary policies of this country fall under his portfolio?

The Region Six health authority and the administration of the New Amsterdam Hospital are currently implementing alternative measures to deal with the ongoing water problems at the hospital.

Baron Foods Limited has recently received a prestigious international quality assurance standard.

Dear Editor, Responsible citizens ought to note some unhappy attitudes which seem to be consuming our society.

Platinum Gullyside Warriors will clash with Unknown Warriors while Klassic Superstars will take on Mighty Rulers today at the Bartica Community Centre Ground in the semi-finals of the Bartica Football Association (BFA) Super Eight football tournament.

Dear Editor, Would it be possible for President Jagdeo to declare young, educated and compassionate Minister Priya Manickchand, Minister of the Year?

President Bharrat Jagdeo accredited Portugal and Nigeria’s envoys to Guyana at a ceremony hosted at the Office of the President on Wednesday last.

Canada’s national cricket team went home licking its wounds after going down to a New Line Cavaliers All Star cricket team on Saturday which pulled off a  four-run victory in their 20/20 fixture at the Canal Number Two Sports Club ground.

By Martin Feldstein – Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard, was formerly Chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors and President of the National Bureau for EconomicCAMBRIDGE – The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the euro are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh has disclosed that there are plans for the introduction of online student registration next year at the University of Guyana (UG).

The current conflict in the Congo with an invasion led by one General Nkunda, is just the most recent example of the continuing strife in that country, officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since it became independent in 1960, in the wave of independence of African states that started with the transformation of the Gold Coast into Ghana in 1957.

Dear Editor,Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential election has been greeted by a massive outpouring of goodwill around the globe.

Ladies group promises to be a scorcher   The ladies competition in this year’s Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival promises to be very exciting as defending champions Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will be going all out to retain their title against tough opposition when the tournament bullies off tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A thirty-nine-year-old farmer from Berbice River was remanded after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with burglary in Georgetown.

How to get from here to there? Schoolchildren contemplating their next step on Monday afternoon after rainfall during the day left the path in front of their school flooded.