Daily Archive: Monday, February 9, 2009

–  victorious on Saturday and SundayDefending champion Christopher Holder Jnr.

-Husband being guarded at hospital A Festival City cosmetologist died yesterday morning after being stabbed on Saturday and her husband who is the suspect was hospitalized later in the day after taking a poisonous substance.

Guyanese Sabrina Budhram was last month sentenced to a year and a day in prison by New York Judge Edward Korman for laundering money in the US for drug traffickers in Guyana.

Two men with alleged links to a notorious Buxton gang were last month committed to stand trial in the High Court for the hacking to death of a businessman at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara in 2004.

New laws that ban the use of mobile phones while driving and playing music on vehicles used for public transport have come quietly into force, leaving motorists divided as authorities prepare for enforcement.

A miner, who intervened in a scuffle between two men arguing over a pair of jeans, was instead stabbed to death at Black Water Creek, Cuyuni on Friday.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says it anticipates a substantial increase in the income tax threshold when the 2009 national budget is unveiled today, and a reduction in the Valued Added Tax (VAT).

Dear Editor,In the SN letter dated Feb. 6, 2009 Messrs. Alli and Ragwen implied that construction of the proposed Hope/ Dochfour Relief channel could worsen the flood problems of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) rather than substantially reduce if not eliminate it.

Whalen: Results of credit programme excellent A proposal for a post-LEAP programme in Linden is currently before Cabinet but the government is also seeking an extension from the European Commission (EC) to go beyond the June 30 deadline to allow for a “defects period” and to implement the smaller post-LEAP programme.

Scores of persons gathered at Persaud’s Funeral Home in Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam last week to pay final respects to proprietor Ivor Krishna Persaud, his wife and grandchildren who perished in an early-morning blaze at their home three Saturdays ago.

Dear Editor, A month has passed since I last wrote concerning the non-payment of my NIS benefit (‘Can’t get money from NIS’ SN 31.12.09).

While transportation rates across the country have decreased in keeping with current gasoline prices, the fares have remained largely the same in the mining town of Linden, even though the Linden Transportation Association took a decision to decrease rates.

Dear Editor, One year ago the death of our friend and mentor Deryck Milton Alexander Bernard shook us to the core, as our image of him was not of a sick and ailing person, but of a strong man, upright and resolute.

Dear Editor, It appears as though we, a democratic society, have resorted to an archaic, draconian and uncivil manner of settling disputes.

The agriculture ministry, through the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) hosted the first workshop aimed at implementing a strategy to start cassava enterprise and industry development.

Dear Editor,I would like to respond to the missive written by Mr Tej Singh in the Guyana Chronicle of February 2, 2009, captioned ‘Production shortfall in the sugar industry is climate related.’

It could have been dubbed ‘David versus Goliath 2’, if one took the height and size advantage into consideration.

– West Indians in Jamaica and elsewehere  are rejoicing in a rare result By Tony Cozier in KINGSTON The day after the latest Sabina sensation, euphoria hung as thick in the Kingston air as did depression five years ago when the collapse and the crushing defeat were the other way around.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat did not seek an increase of its 2008 budget and  overall work at the secretariat would mean “more effort for the same pay for the time being,” Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said last week.

Dear Editor,I am advising the Alliance for Change (AFC) to jump-start the campaign for the upcoming general election.

(This is the second installment in the series of Guyanese boxers who have fought for Commonwealth titles) Reginald Forde Ford was born on June 11, 1953.

Members of the public who have to access the services in the Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre Building  at  the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation  should now use the East Street entrance to the compound and not the New Market Street entrance which was  regularly used.

Dear Editor, A mixed bag of blogs on the subject of President Obama’s birth chart. 

Dear Editor, My favourite show has started to air on Tuesday and Wednesday nights on Vieira Communications Television (VCT- 28) [In Berbice Channel 12].

Lucille Mathurin-Mair: A Tribute Alissa Trotz is Director of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto, and edits the weekly In the Diaspora Stabroek News column.

The Ministry of Health aims to visit 50,000 households by October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to teach women to do breast self-examinations.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) Dr. Frank Anthony is pleased with the turn out of schools participating in the National Sports Commission Mashramani basketball competition.

On January 26, the entire country mourned with Lusignan the savage murders of 11 children, men and women.

The Guyana Chess Federation will make the first move towards resuming competitive chess locally when it stages a seven round Swiss system tournament at the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Thomas Lands venue on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Am I mistaken or is Shivnarine Chanderpaul using an extravagant batting stance in the current Test against England?

Judge tells convict army discipline should have reformed him Justice Brassington Reynolds recently sentenced a man to nine years jail after he was convicted of killing a teacher during a robbery in 2003.

Hit: A collision between a Toyota Tacoma and a Route 47 (East/West) mini-bus saw a few persons taken to the hospital yesterday but none with serious injuries. 

GuyberNet a local youth development centre recently launched a writing competition, the first activity in a series under its CONTACT Project.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week on ‘What the People Say’ we asked residents at Parika what issues are affecting them and got the following responses: Indra Dayal, vendor `I am from Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam and the road there really needs fixing.