Guyana News

President’s College will oppose Ace Warriors at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground today in one of five scheduled matches of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s under-19, limited overs, cricket competition this weekend.

Georgetown clubs, Everest Cricket Club and Malteenoes Sports Club, will face off in one semi-final match of the 2006 Guyflag three-day, first-division cricket competition from today at the Everest Cricket Club ground, Camp Road.

A much – anticipated battle looms at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall tonight when old friends from Courts Pacesetters and Bounty Colts meet in the feature quarter-final game of the Next Level Entertainment nation-wide first division basketball tournament.

As a means of dramatizing this issue in a manner where empathy might be forthcoming or summoned up with the position of Mr Hamilton Green, the Mayor of Georgetown, and others left with a bad taste in their mouths over the descriptive ethnic insertion in the CWC brochure, let us rewind the clock back twenty five years or thereabouts.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Eusi Kwayana captioned “Kerik’s appointment was made without regard to due process” (07.02.13).

Dear Editor, We once asked “who is in charge of this country?”.

Dear Editor, As we approach the cricket world cup, mash, and other festivities here in Guyana, the citizens are told what a wonderful future we all have under a government dedicated to a stimulated economy, great new investments and a long litany of promises , starting with Dr.

Dear Editor, I am very impressed with the level of intelligent discussions that has been taking place in your newspaper.

Dear Editor, I wish to laud the government of Guyana on a well executed initiative in negotiating an effective strategy for the sustainability of the bauxite operations at Linden.

Dear Editor, With the unfortunate reappearance of the “bookie” in India whose tentacles have tainted one of our own, do we need to ask questions here at home before the greatest show on earth touches down at providence?

Dear Editor, Stabroek News has been providing valuable and timely news service to the Guyanese Diaspora around the world.

Dear Editor, Mr. Clairmont Lye, who recently returned his Cacique Crown of Honour to the Office of the President in light of the spate of undemocratic, definitely authoritarian, moves by the Jagdeo administration, but especially its decision to withdraw state ads from the Stabroek News, should now use his decision a as catalyst to help re-launch the Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD).

An Alliance For Change (AFC) Region Four councillor has expressed concern about how the party is being managed contending that there is no transparency or democratic system in place to allow members an opportunity to contribute to the debate and its development.

An aircraft propeller yesterday morning decapitated a miner at Kurupung, located in Region Seven (Cuyuni/ Mazaruni), after he ran onto the airstrip in an effort to board the plane which was about to take off.

Current staff deficiencies in the higher levels of the judiciary will have to be addressed urgently, Attorney General Doodnauth Singh told the National Assembly on Wednesday.

Three armed bandits yesterday morning robbed a poultry farmer and his wife at Yarrowkabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway of some $55,000 cash and a quantity of other articles.

Magistrate Chandra Sohan was unable to have a witness sworn at the Fort Wellington (FW) Magistrate’s Court yesterday, since the witness box is broken.

A 38-year-old father of nine is nursing stab wounds to his left shoulder and abdomen at the Fort Wellington Hospital after being involved in an altercation with a relative a few nights ago.

The first ever national Home Based Care (HBC) conference started yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo recently called on traffic ranks to pay attention to what he termed “little transgressions” as he spoke about having to intervene in the operation of a car park since it was at a critical junction.