Guyana News

Dear Editor, I welcome the opportunity to continue the dialogue that Mr.

A woman who allegedly tried to post a box containing cocaine to Canada at the Guyana Post Office Corpora-tion in Georgetown was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Commissioner General, I must say I support VAT and the efforts yourself and the government are putting into it.

Dear Editor, I wish to write in response to a Kaieteur News Article dated February 12, 2007 “Consultant resigns from Finance Unit

Dear Editor, At Matthew 26:11 it is written “For ye have the poor always with you”.

Dear Editor, In Saturday’s issue of Stabroek News it was reported that after four years of incompetence, mismanagement and an expenditure of over 2.5m pounds sterling, Management Consul-tants Severn Trent Water Incorporated (STWI) has finally got its act together to improve the water services of Guyana Water Inc (GWI).

Dear Editor, Your indignant editorial on the maltreatment of Aubrey WIlliams’s murals at our airport (SN 11/02/07) will undoubtedly make the rounds of Guyanese emails world-wide (two have already come my way) and generate justified outrage in the process.

Dear Editor, Can Governments in democratic societies use the `power of the purse’ to attack an independent newspaper, if they disagree with its editorial policy – and possibly threaten the paper’s survival?

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in partnership with the Judicial Education Institute of the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is hosting a conference for the Caricom legal community to discuss issues that will fall under the Bench and Bar’s purview with the implementation of the CSME.

PNCR back-bencher Ernest Elliot while focusing on matters affecting regional development in Region Four contended last week that over the years funds allocated to the administration had been inadequate and remains that way this year.

Robert Simels, the New York lawyer for drug accused businessman, Roger Khan is to file a motion to have the Guyanese released from administrative custody at a federal jail in the US, saying that Khan is locked away in a cell which only allows him three showers per week and no telephone privileges.

Miners are being offered a range of cash incentives to prospect for the highly valued platinum, emeralds and other minerals.

The National Assembly last evening passed the Appropriation Bill 2007 approving the National Budget after a number of days of debate on the Minister of Finance’s speech and the estimates in the Committee of Supply.

Former Principal Magistrate Oscar Parvatan died yesterday at his brother’s Kingston, Georgetown residence after a prolonged illness.

A prisoner who has been on remand for five months for allegedly committing fourteen offences yesterday escaped from the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court lockups after forcing his way out by attacking a police officer.

Venezuela is willing to provide this country with more than 50% of its oil needs under the Energy Cooperation Agreement Petrocaribe but Guyana is not willing to put all of its eggs in one basket.

Dear Editor, I wish to write in response to a Kaieteur News Article dated February 12, 2007 “Consultant resigns from Finance Unit

Passengers who used the Rosignol to New Amsterdam (NA) ferry service at around 5:30 am yesterday complained that they were delayed for some time after the MV Torani drifted away from the stelling.

The relatives of Yonette Mc Donald, who was involved in an accident on Friday night that took the lives of her reputed husband and another man, fear that she too may succumb as she is still unconscious and hooked up to a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Vendors outside the Stabroek Market who have been given marching orders yesterday took their case to court and the controversy also graced the chambers of Parliament and City Hall where there was confusion over how the decision was made.