Articles published on Thursday, April 15, 2010
-Parks Commission Chairman Although the National Parks Commission (NPC) has been receiving increased funding, Board Chairman John Caesar yesterday said that the Georgetown zoo requires a lot more for its development.
-accuses ruling party of delayingThe Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday urged the government to act on its promise to make “a last ditch effort to conclude the outstanding local government reforms,” and to reconvene the parliamentary select committee tasked with completing the work.
Police arrested two men minutes after they stuck up Digicel’s Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara outlet yesterday.
The taxi driver who was shot on Princes Street on Tuesday is still in a critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery and a man has been held to assisting police with the investigation.
A 13-year-old has alleged that a prominent businessman has been sexually molesting her and her sisters, with the consent of their mother.
The failure to pursue a medical solution to Sangeeta Persaud’s illness was irresponsible, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said yesterday, while urging a “prompt and vigourous” medical investigation of the fatal case.
An exhibition, which seeks to capture the richness and grandeur of the culture of Velha Goa through the photographs of Benoy K.
The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department recently hosted a workshop aimed at boosting knowledge and techniques in food inspection for regulatory and enforcement activities for food inspectors.
Published author and accountant Lal Balkaran last Wednesday presented several books on auditing to Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma after a workshop on internal and external auditing.
-as rainy season nears Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud on Monday inspected garbage collection and other enhancement works being undertaken by Community Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) workers along the East Coast, in anticipation of the May-June rains.
Berbice Commander Steve Merai told police recruits attending a skills-boosting workshop at the University of Guyana’s (UG) Tain Campus that learning and knowledge must never be seen as problematic but as opportunities for advancement.
A man was remanded yesterday for allegedly threatening his niece. A plea of not guilty was entered for William Nurse by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he was read the charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Three days into the school term, students attending the Develdt Primary School, in the Berbice River, were yet to begin classes because of the lack of teachers.
Rain and low scores resulted in an anti-climactic finish at the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Tower Hotel female Inter County 50-over tournament at the Enmore Community Centre ground yesterday.
Stephon Campbell, also known as ‘Burnham,’ was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of unlawful wounding.
-Boyce defends treatment of Carifta Games athletes By Tamica Garnett The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is planning a trip to a high performance training centre in Brazil for athletes in the second quarter of the year, and is currently engaged in negotiations to this end.
A man was yesterday remanded by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for unlawfully assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
– Three more businesses onboard With just over two weeks to go before the night of reckoning at the Second Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships, the latest entities throwing their financial weight behind the competition are Studio 2000 Gym, Shell Boss Mining at the Bartica Mall and Akbar Auto Sales.
The Auditor General has recommended that the Ministry of Finance take appropriate measures to transfer the operations of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) to the direct managerial control of the Customs and Trade Administration of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
The North Ruimveldt basketball team remained unbeaten, proving that it is truly a ‘super ward’ in the Mackeson Super Ward Basketball Championships Tuesday night when they outscored Kitty-Campbellville 64-54 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Boxers last Monday inked their contracts for the next installment of Friday Night Fights which has been rescheduled to May 2, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accepted the credentials of Kuwait’s first ambassador to Guyana at a brief ceremony, as the two countries follow-up on commitments to strengthen bi-lateral relations.
The employees of the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) will now have representation from the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) after the parties inked a recognition agreement on Tuesday to allow the union to become the bargaining agent for the company’s 40-member staff.
Dear Editor, I refer to the report in your issue of Tuesday, March 2, 2010, relating to the 2010 US State Department international Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR).
Dear Editor, I could not agree more with your ideas on what our strategy should be for cultural tourism on the coast (SS editorial April 11).
(Trinidad Express) Basdeo Panday, who has lost the chance to be a candidate for the Couva North constituency he represented for 34 years, still has political aspirations.
Dear Editor, The lowest bid is not the only criterion for awarding a contract, particularly when the company offering the lowest bid has absolutely no experience in building roads and bridges and on the scale required by the contract. It
(Cricinfo) On a slow pitch that lacked bounce, Royal Challengers Bangalore restricted Rajasthan Royals to 130 before they knocked it off without much fuss to win a crucial encounter in Jaipur and with this win, Bangalore now move to second position in the points table.
(Jamaica Gleaner) While the police have been kept busy implementing strategies to address the escalating crime rate, statistics have revealed that the country’s murder total has jumped to 461 since January.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African fans will be able to snap up half a million unsold World Cup tickets in cash after FIFA agreed yesterday to drop a ruling that they could only be bought online or through a ballot.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) is paying keen attention to recent statements being made by the Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir and Chief Labour Officer (CLO), Yoganand Persaud on the television and in the newspapers.
A helping hand: Proceeds from the recently held Link Show in Berbice were handed over to the Good Samaritan Home on Tuesday.
Dear Editor, This world is indeed a strange place, where everything appears to be topsy turvy, and is easily accepted without question as normal.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The United States has suspended aid to Colombia’s DAS intelligence agency, whose agents are accused of illegally wiretapping President Alvaro Uribe’s opponents, journalists and top court magistrates.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwest China has risen to 589, Xinhua news agency reported today, with hundreds of homes and some schools toppled in the remote mountainous Tibetan Plateau.
(Cricinfo) Pakistan allrounder Yasir Arafat has been ruled out of the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies later this month due to a calf injury, the captain Shahid Afridi has confirmed.
A conversation piece: Indian High Commissioner to Guyana Subit Mandal engages Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony on one of the works at the Velha Goa photographic exhibition that opened at the National Museum yesterday.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday that he will tell Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Islamic Republic would suffer the consequences if it seeks nuclear arms.
Three in one: These little angels were born to Boris and Latoya Mitchell early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The annual Bakewell-sponsored Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) of Guyana 15-overs Inter-Jamaat Softball Round Robin Cricket Competition commenced on Sunday at the MYO ground, Woolford Avenue, with three scheduled matches.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States voiced concern yesterday that Syria may have supplied Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas with Scud missiles that can hit deep inside Israel, potentially altering the military balance between the long-time foes.
Dear Editor, I write in response to an article in the Stabroek News on Monday, April 12, with the caption: ‘Ministry of Health to collect data on alcohol abuse,’ and I ask, “Where does the Minister of Health really live?” It
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Environmental groups launched a complaint against Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, saying the country has failed to enforce anti-pollution rules governing its vast oil sands.
Ambassador Geert Heikens, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, signing the book of condolences opened after the death of Polish President Lech Kaczyński.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Ireland captain William Porterfield is hoping Sabina Park can make his 100th appearance for his country a memorable one.
Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, teaches international affairs at The New School and is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York.
President Chavez has ramped up his anti-America rhetoric‘Venezuela’s no threat’ The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said he does not see a military threat from Venezuela.
Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate Steve Ninvalle and the executive of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association for a job well done in relation to the just concluded National Novice Boxing Champion-ship.
It would appear that child abuse has different definitions depending on where you live in the world.
A miner of Charity, Essequibo Coast met his demise on Tuesday, following an accident at a mining site in the Cuyuni backdam.
