Guyana News

The Ministry of Agriculture is mourning the passing of one of its former ministers Gavin B Kennard.

Point guard Steffon ‘Penny’ Henry and centre Horace Hodges came into Courts Pacesetters’ starting lineup Sunday night to help the Georgetown number one seeded team get past East Coast at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

They are the defending KFC Cup One-day champions. They also won the inaugural Stanford Twenty20 cricket competition beating none other than Trinidad and Tobago in the finals last year.

Black History Month-which used to mean little more than patronising publicity about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King-has taken on new life in America this year.

Robbery under arms accused Shawn Barrow will face another trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Demerara after a jury last week failed to reach a verdict.

Nearly two years after his ex-wife’s burnt body was found in a cemetery behind their Mocha home Lloyd McCleoud is on trial in the High Court for murder.

Royston Alfred who was on trial in the High Court for killing his partner three years ago on D’Urban Street was convicted of murder last week and sentenced to death by Justice Claudette La Bennett.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes last week set a man free after a jury found him not guilty of manslaughter at a High Court trial.

Police yesterday morning discovered the partly decomposed and buried body of a woman in a burnt-out coal pit at the back of the Wisroc Housing Scheme in Linden.

It would be regrettable if Marlon Samuels is excluded from the West Indies squad for next month’s Cricket World Cup on account of the allegation that he leaked team information to an Indian bookmaker during the recently concluded ODI series in India.

A Non Pareil family was last evening assaulted and left traumatized by three armed men who invaded a shop they operated at their home and then escaped with an undisclosed amount in cash, jewellery, cellular phones and household articles.

A new study here has found that HIV prevalence among people who use illicit drugs is “alarmingly high”, highlighting a strong correlation between HIV and substance abuse.

Dear President Jagdeo, I find it ironic and disturbing that an international media campaign has started to damage your good name.

Dear Editor, During last week I received quite a few telephone calls from Americans seeking ‘my take’ on the Stabroek News ads withdrawal issue.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean diaspora can play an important role in assisting the countries of their birth.

Dear Editor, It’s as if I am ‘touched’ with the gift of prophecy.

Dear Editor, I had deliberately refrained from writing on the ongoing controversy over the Bharrat Jagdeo government’s decision to withhold ads from Stabroek News because I felt that this decision was such a profound attack on the freedom of the press and democracy in Guyana that it was bound to create new contradictions in the body politic of the nation.

Dear Editor, I hope the withdrawal of government ads would not adversely impact on the existence of SN although it is difficult for one not to recognize the serious effects the withdrawal of ads would have on the paper.

Dear Editor, Working for a business entity where my direct responsibility is for advertising and promoting the products sold by this entity, I discovered in the year 2002, that media houses and advertising agencies could not provide any factual details on how many persons read/watch their newspaper or TV station.

Dear Editor, Thanks for reprinting the article by Tony Best of the Barbados Nation in our embattled newspaper.