Daily Archive: Sunday, December 28, 2008

Three persons, including two children, died yesterday afternoon following a collision between a van and a minibus which took place in the vicinity of the Mahaica market. 

-farmers blame release of water from conservancy After three weeks of intense rainfall, residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony Creeks who had tried desperately to keep their land dry lost the battle to the floodwaters on Thursday and are suffering losses to their crops.

File sent to DPP, changes made at airport The Guyana Police Force have completed their investigation into the incident where a passenger was allowed to depart the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri with 12 rounds of ammunition in a magazine which was only detected by security officials at the Piarco airport in Trinidad.

– Ramsammy warns Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy has warned that the floodwaters swamping some communities across the country hold the threat of leptospirosis among other flood-related diseases, and is calling on affected residents to take heed and avoid the risk.

Police here are yet to arrest the suspect they have identified in the Cdn$40 million drug bust that was made in Ontario, Canada earlier this month even as a similar discovery was made two weeks later in the US Virgin Islands (USVI).

Tired after 16 days of being surrounded by smelly floodwaters and waiting for relief, Dochfour, East Coast Deme-rara residents have begun putting their best efforts into helping themselves.

‘We cannot fiddle our figures’, GT&T CEO says Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Major General (rtd) Joe Singh has debunked as “a fallacy” the notion that the local telecommunications service provider is simply “raking in” huge profits and passing these on to its parent company, Atlantic Tele Network.

Residents in the vicinity of Duncan Street and the Eastern Highway have had to put up with the sight and stench of the decaying remains of a horse which has been there for some four days and have decried the lack of action by the relevant authorities in responding to reports of the dead animal.

Obama: From poetry to prose Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

How will future economic growth be affected? V, U, or L-shaped growth curve Following last week’s column, I shall discuss this week the impact of the financial crisis and credit crunch on the prospects for economic growth performance in the United States, the broader global economy, and Caricom.

Sunday Stabroek asked a few of Guyana’s politicians to share their wishes for the New Year; here are their responses.

Government is purchasing new electrical meters for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr.

Our world in 2009 Introduction Certainly the most authoritative publication which predicts the grand occasions and developments of the following year is the widely circulated Economist, published in the UK.

Dark night of the soul When our young son was struck by agonising abdominal pains in the middle of the night recently and we had to rush him to Emergency at York Central Hospital in Toronto, in the four or five hours before he was attended to I felt the sort of helpless despair which must be the experience of countless thousands in this pitiless world when their loved ones are at deadly risk or dying or dead by accident or some other stroke of unrelenting fate.

Cabinet has cleared four contracts in excess of $545 million to secure medical equipment and supplies for the local health sector.

Why re-celebrate Martin Carter? Last week we highlighted contributions to the celebration of the life and work of Martin Carter and to the rememberance of the poet. 

Police ranks on Tuesday arrested nine persons after some 200 grammes of compressed marijuana were discovered in a minibus that was stopped at a check point on the Linden/Soesdyke highway.

A tumultuous year It proved to be a tumultuous year for the game of chess.

Part of the problem: Plastic bottles and other garbage which has risen to the top of the floodwater on this street in Enterprise, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says that by statute, former presidents of Guyana are only entitled to a presidential pension and a housing allowance.

-GDF coach Marlon Washington is upbeat about his team’s chances against Pele in their Kashif and Shanghai match tonight Coach of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team Marlon Washington is upbeat on his team’s chances of reaching its first Kashif and Shanghai football final.

By Nigel Westmaas “To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world; our stories are singular but our destinies are shared – the new dawn of American leadership is at hand.”

No clean up: Piles of garbage, including old refrigerators dumped along the side of the main road at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Chairman of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Yesu Persaud donated more than $800,000 to the Dharm Shala and Cheshire Home on Christmas Eve.

By Rawle Toney Bakewell Topp XX of Linden made light work of last minute replacement team Santos of Georgetown 2-0 while Sunburst Camptown edged Fruta Conquerors 1-0 on Boxing Night at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in the Kashif and Shanghai football competition.

Guyana Goldfields Incorporated recently treated the children and young adults of Itabali community at its now traditional annual party and intends to erect a monument in memory of those who died during the Bartica massacre.

The year 2008 was not a successful one for Guyana on the field of play as no silverware was added to the cabinet but off the field, the GCB experienced success, according to president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh.

This resident of Belfield, East Coast Demerara and her dog sit high up on a bench outside their home, which is surrounded by floodwater.

Heart attack – Getting to the ‘heart’ of the trouble By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) A heart attack may be defined as a sudden failure of the heart to function normally.

Police stumped Five months have passed since unknown gunmen shot at a pickup on the Ogle Airstrip Road injuring two persons and though police had expressed interest in four men and arrested several, no one has been held accountable.

This 78-year-old resident of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara braving the floodwater yesterday to hang her clothing out to dry.

The headline in the Weekend Herald here precisely summed up the bizarre result of the 20/20 International at Eden Park in Auckland on Boxing Day.

To become a writer So you want to become a writer, a novelist, and you don’t know how to begin.

Watery Christmas: Sodden rugs hanging on the fence of this one-flat home at Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara during yesterday’s weak sunshine tell the tale. 

Many members of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) currently acting in key posts are qualified to fill these positions.

CLYDE BUTTS may have left New Zealand too early. One of the chief selector’s objectives on his assignment during the early part of the West Indies tour was, in his words, “to observe how the players adapt to various situations in the middle.”

The value of adopting a pet in the new year I would urge you, dear readers, on this last Sunday before the advent of the New Year, to consider adopting a dog or cat in 2009.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says that the price of GuySuCo sugar sold to Trinidad and Tobago has been fairly consistent over the last three years.

On Sunday members of the Truimph Community Development Council (CDC) held a party for senior citizens in the area during which food and hampers were given out.

Guest Editorial The birth of a child Christmas babies always arouse an extra special feeling of wonder at the miracle of birth, given the meaning of Christmas and the celebration by Christians of the birth of Jesus Christ.

The Christmas festival has always contained a strong secular element, which has its early origins in the Roman midwinter festival of Saturnalia.

Dear  Editor, Before I comment on or seek to correct the more egregious errors in the PNCR’s statement published as a letter in the SN of December 19, 2008 (‘Parties in opposition tend to encounter difficulties which can lead to the exit of important members, but they do recover’), it is worth noting that its level of vitriol and malice hardly contributes to enhancing public discourse or the creation of an informed polity.

Heavy overnight and early morning rainfall left the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) at Bush Lot, Corentyne in an unfit condition for racing forcing the cancellation of the annual Boxing Day meet on Friday.