Guyana News

Dear Editor, Officials have been criticizing letter writers for inventing the nature of Pandit Gossai’s supposed appointment in the Office of the President.

Dear Editor, When I read Andaiye’s perceptive letter captioned “In defence of the vendors outside the Stabroek market, especially the grass roots women; in defence of justice” (07.03.02) I was reminded of the observation made by Sophie Bessis in her book ” Western Supremacy: the triumph of an idea?”

Eighty-six-year-old Hilda Edwards and her twin brother Ricta were happy to be able to celebrate their birthday together last Sunday.

Dear Editor, Responding to the Stabroek News article on Sunday 11th February, 2007 headlined “Student Gangs at Wisburg involved in violence”, I wish to firmly indicate that Ms.

A New York-based group has embarked on a project aimed at providing healthcare information to diabetics and cancer sufferers through a resource centre.

Dear Editor, In a letter captioned “Irrigation a major problem for farmers on the Essequibo Coast” (07.03.01) rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast have reported that due to a shortage of irrigation water they face the risk of losing their crops.

Guyana and Chile are eyeing areas of commonality where the two countries would focus on ways of dealing with special problems facing each other and to secure funding for programmes in this regard, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has said.

The stage is set for the Camptown Football Club grassroots, four-team tournament which kicks off Saturday at the Camptown ground.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered the exhumation of the body of a man who died at the New Amsterdam (NA) hospital six hours after he was allegedly beaten.

“You are not selling balata balls you’re selling memories,” is what Dr.

The neat living room in suburban Ealing, west London, seems an unlikely place for the birth of the UK’s first radical black publishing house.

National players Esaun Crandon and Veerasammy Permaul were the stand out performers when the Berbice zone of the 2007 Neal and Massy national first-division, limited overs cricket competition got cracking with four first round matches.

The US Government has challenged the motion by Guyanese drug accused Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan to be removed from a ‘special housing’ facility, on the grounds that his confinement is based on non-punitive, administrative and security concerns that are best evaluated by the prison administrators.

Berbicians got their share of the Mashramani celebrations yesterday with band and revellers displaying floats and costumes along Main Street, New Amsterdam and ending at the Esplanade Park.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said March brings bittersweet memories as it remembers late president Dr Cheddi Jagan, and Kowsilla who was mowed down by a tractor while protesting at the Leonora Sugar Estate 43 years ago.

Up to late yesterday afternoon there was still no sign of Rudy Fernandes, who went missing over the weekend when the fishing boat he was on along with four others capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about three miles from land.

Guyana may again soon get a national flag carrier, as President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday met representatives of an aircraft construction company to discuss the establishment or such an airline next year, a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

The Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, under the directorship of Professor David Dabydeen, will be hosting the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Lecture today, to mark the tenth anniversary of Dr.

Caricom has signed a cooperation agreement on International Humanitarian Law with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) that will facilitate the promotion and development of humanitarian laws and principles within the Community.

This is what the man/woman in the street had to say when we asked them which team they thought would win Cricket World Cup 2007.