Guyana News

The Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) on Friday presented club member Kevin Singh with a complete cricket kit in recognition of his selection to the Guyana under-15 team.

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) – Two hundred years after Britain’s abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary yesterday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors and the lasting scars of slavery.

A cargo vessel that was busted early last week off the coast of Panama with over 43,000 pounds of cocaine making it the biggest maritime cocaine bust in history was in Guyana a few weeks ago, a report in the Associated Press has said.

More than three years after 11-year-old Nordex Wilkin-son went missing family members are still waiting for closure, since even though they are almost sure she is dead they want confirmation of this so they can move on with their lives.

Guyana joined the rest of the region yesterday in observing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, marking the occasion with a one-minute’s silence for those who died in the Middle Passage and in the resistance to slavery.

Armed bandits targeted gas stations over the weekend, robbing one on the West Bank of Demerara of a large sum of cash on Saturday and another on Sheriff Street in Georgetown early yesterday morning of cash and gasoline.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), Major General Retired, Joseph Singh is anticipating a win-win situation when the parent company ATN and the government set the ball rolling in discussions to iron out the differences which have plagued their relationship.

Dear Editor, The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) is lending Guyana US$52 million for Competitiveness and Justice Sector Modernisation programmes.

Dear Editor, For some time I have observed letters in the press criticizing the leadership of the PNC and in some cases the leader himself.

Dear Editor, In this week of the Abolition of the Slave Trade let us remember some of our great leaders who have given so much for us.

Dear Editor, First I must say, hats off to the Guyana government in attempting to host one of the largest sporting events in the world, also in trying to spruce up Guyana for this event.

Dear Editor, In a letter which appeared in Stabroek News on March 20, 07, Mrs Matthias, an Assistant Commissioner at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) implied that computers use toner cartridges and ink cartridges and therefore the VAT legislation specifically categorizes these computer items as zero-rated.

Dear Editor, I travelled with Malali from Adventure to Parika on February 23.

Dear Editor, The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity will be launched on Monday, March 26, 2007 by a group of 29 international human rights experts.

All journalists foreign and local checking in to the Accreditation Centre at the Providence Stadium for the International Cricket Council’s Cricket World Cup 2007 tournament received a media advisory concerning the challenges of operating at the new stadium.

Harrinarine Chattergoon’s XI defeated Carlos La Rose’s XI in the second trial match for the national U-15 cricketers who are preparing for the regional U-15 tournament.

There is much more to be done and many adversities to overcome, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) stated in a message to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Pirates last Thursday fired gunshots while robbing a five-man crew of fishermen of outboard engines and other articles at the mouth of the Pomeroon River in the Atlantic Ocean.

Neither the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has a programme in place for recycling plastic waste dumped in the city and other parts of the country and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far.

After suffering millions of dollars in losses when her fishing vessel was hijacked several nights ago, a businesswoman is calling on the Minister of Home Affairs and the police to deal with the problem of piracy.