Guyana News

The Richard Ishmael student who is accused of stabbing a 34-year-old woman to death in the school compound in December 2005 will soon known her fate.

The woman who allegedly stole the newborn baby of a 13-year-old girl last December was yesterday released on $100,000 bail by Magistrate Oneidge Waldron-Allicock.

A 26-year-old miner was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A minibus driver was fined and his licence suspended when he appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday after his speeding vehicle plunged into a rice field at Harlem, West Coast Demerara on January 12 after the right rear wheel came off.

Introduction It was the year of the Bandung Conference in Africa.

Dear Editor, Not too long ago I attended my child’s school PTA meeting and listened carefully as two hostile parents declared that teachers at the school should not listen to the Ministry but they should “bust in my child’s tail”, in the words of one.

Dear Editor, Over the past two years, the Rupununi Region, especially Lethem (the commercial and admimistrative hub), has slowly been undergoing a social and economic transformation, aimed at developing Lethem into one of Guyana’s major border towns.

It has only been two weeks since the formation of a new track and field club here and already the potential of the club has influenced overseas-based coach Clifford Wong in playing an active part in the club’s development.

The founder and technical director of the Kokoro Ki Karada (KKK) mind-spirit-body International Organiz-ation of Martial Arts and Massotherapy, Dr.

Players on the ‘Golden Jaguars’ team treated young footballers in Linden with motivational talks last Sunday at a forum organised by the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) at the McKenzie Sports Club ground.

The Guyana Amateur Basket-ball Federation (GABF) will begin a systematic attempt to correct some of the problems facing the sport as early as next weekend when the federation hosts its inter-association basketball championships.

Guyanese-born Eon D’Ornellas who now resides in Canada said he had great moments in cycling, but his best was winning the Canadian national championship back-to-back.

Dear Editor, It is rather interesting that we have not heard from either the government or the Ethnic Relations Commission on an important issue contained in the CWC 2007 Brochure.

Dear Editor, In response to the comments/explanation offered by the clerks of the markets and reported in SN 28/01/07, regarding the “removal time” for vendors at the Stabroek Market, I would like to say that the explanation given is both contradictory and inconsistent.

Dear Editor, The organizations listed below have developed this statement on VAT over the past three weeks.

Dear Editor, Then Prime Minister of Guyana, Mr LFS Burnham, appointed Pt.

Dear Editor, There are so many topics that should have compelled me to write over the past months, that have either saddened the soul, vexed the spirit or gladdened the heart.

Instead of falling asleep during long-winded debates parliamentarians can now surf the internet as wireless internet connectivity (WiFi) has been installed in the Parliamentary Chamber and in the MPs’ Lounge.

Bandits, posing as customers, robbed an East Bank Demerara laboratory of some $700,000 yesterday morning.

Gunmen robbed a Bryden and Fernandes Company delivery van yesterday of over $1 million, during which time they ordered the workers to hand over the money or face death.