Daily Archive: Saturday, December 27, 2008

US DEA tipped off by Canada A second major drug shipment is being traced back to Guyana after US federal agents on Wednesday seized 100 kilos of cocaine found inside pepper sauce cartons aboard a ship in St.

Mahaica, Mahaicony urged to be on alert for any discharge The level of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) has been rising to a threatening level and it may necessitate a release of water, the Conservancy Board has said.

Christmas celebrations ended prematurely for one family yesterday after an early morning accident left a young man dead.

A former national footballer died after he was run over by a minibus on D’Urban Street, early on Christmas morning.

Residents of Liverpool, Corentyne and surrounding areas are battling flooding which has been pumped up by incessant rain over the last few days.

Will enable critical fibre optic ‘cover’ – Singh The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Suriname’s TELESUR are to spend more than US$60M to provide an additional fibre-optic cable for telecommunications traffic to serve both countries.

Farmers at Hyde Park, Mahaicony Creek have lost hundreds of acres of rice worth millions to rising floodwaters during the last three weeks.

Dear Editor, I write today to address a serious situation which is blatantly challenging a rational mind in search of a plausible explanation.

Dear Editor, Your publication of Friday, December 12, 2008 carried a letter captioned ‘Poorly performing government institutions make life difficult for citizens.’

Residents increasingly frustrated Rising water levels in the Dochfour housing scheme, East Coast spells continued agony for residents who have been surrounded by stagnant water for more than two weeks now.

Celeste David the accountant is a stark contrast from the vampy singer with the enviable vocal range, but if the jingle competition had failed to provide the successful breakthrough she had been looking for, a career balancing the books would have been likely.

A Number Five Village, West Coast Berbice pensioner was killed on Christmas Eve after a motor car struck him from behind as he was riding his bicycle along the roadway.

Dear Editor, Two major news items arrived in the public sphere in the past few days.

It was while walking along a track at Yarowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Christmas Eve night that a 25-year-old man had his shoes stolen.

Dear Editor, I recently read a letter by Mr. Christopher Ram, `Mr Corbin has an opportunity to put country and party before personal considerations’ (SN Dec 14/08) in which he suggested that the PNC leader, Robert Corbin, is putting his personal ambition ahead of what is good for his party.

Christmas must haves To narrate them all would be tiresome because I happen to be one of the really fanatical types, who will readily throw a tantrum when things are not as I expect them to be on this particular day.

-Gayle force blows away Kiwis in super over after making a half century the first time around By Tony Cozier In AUCKLANDIT took Chris Gayle’s breathtaking power-hitting in the peculiar circumstances of two separate innings in a one-innings match to save the West Indies from the embarrassment of defeat and several of his players the shame of mindless cricket in the first of two 20/20 Internationals against New Zealand at packed, hot, sunny Eden Park yesterday.

Dear Editor, A few days ago I read in the print media that members of the Guyana Defence Force will be getting a year end holiday bonus for 2008.

A man who was discovered attempting to break into a shop at Samantha Point is nursing wounds at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after he was reportedly beaten by residents.

Another year in the kitchenHi Everyone, What a delicious and adventurous year this has been!

Dear Editor, Sometime last year the prices for food, fuel and other basic items increased sharply.

Scenes from yesterday’s Main Big Lime.

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.“

Karim Sadjadpour is an Associate at the Carnegie Endow-ment for Inter-national Peace.

-had threatened suicide The charred remains believed to be that of a 28-year-old farmer were discovered in his Parika Backdam home on Christmas Day after residents reported seeing the house on fire.

A 33-year-old man, who allegedly broke and entered the home of another man stealing clothing and a ladder together worth almost $400,000, was remanded to prison until the New Year.

Alpha hammered, Tigers tamedPele hammered Alpha United 3-1 while the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) tamed BK International Western Tigers by a similar margin when the 19th annual Kashif and Shanghai football extravaganza continued on Christmas Day at the Providence National Stadium.