Guyana News

Lakeram McKenzie’s overseas-based relatives are offering a reward for information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in his murder in December during a robbery, though the case has not progressed since the advertisement was published.

A 28-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student accused of raping a nine-year-old girl last year was released on bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Roger Khan’s US lawyer Robert Simels on Monday wrote to New York Judge, Dora Irizarry complaining about the drug accused businessman’s transfer from the Nassau County jail to the Special Housing Unit (SHU), a cell designated specifically for terrorists at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) located in Manhattan, New York.

Dear Editor, Having a passion for politics and things political is one thing.

Dear Editor, An article by Vishnu Bisram published on Thursday,February 1, 2007 headlined “Guyanese in Richmond Hill charge police with profiling abuse” contained complaints by Guy-anese living there.

Dear Editor, According to a report in the New York Post, Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo and former NYC Police Commis-sioner, Bernard Kerik, met over lunch in Manhattan to discuss Kerik’s new appointment as advisor to the Guyana government on fighting crime.

Dear Editor, I remember going to school and miss would ask “what does the Amerindian word Guyana mean?”,

Dear Editor, The recent and not so recent events in Linden that have occasioned attendance by students from our secondary, and even primary schools, while commendable, have left a very distasteful feeling in the minds of parents, and especially the mothers resident in this community.

Dear Editor, On a trip to Corentyne at the start of the year I observed a billboard that read: ‘GT&T: relax we’ve got you covered’.

Dear Editor, From time to time, in interviews here and there, I’ve taken time to make the point that whatever I am as an artist I owe largely to Guyana, and that, despite the truly daunting problems the country faces, the crucible that is Guyana has forged qualities in its sons and daughters that underpin their successes all over the world.

Despite flooring a number of chances and being without regular skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan for the entire day, Guyana held on to secure first innings points from Barbados after a spirited battle between the two teams on the second day of their Carib Beer Series encounter at Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bourda ground yesterday.

General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe, has outlined several factors which he said were taken into consideration when selecting the four-man team to attend the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21-27.

While one manufacturer on the Essequibo Coast has cut production to cope with slumping sales, other businesses are hoping that the rice harvest will fuel a shopping spree.

Not since “Iron” Mike Tyson initially made his massive, tremendously destructive mark in the late 1980s, when he kayoed boxers such as Trevor Berbick in quick order had I seen similar, unrelenting aggression and purpose from the winner, and plain fear, horror and disbelief from the loser, as I saw when Serena Williams absolutely destroyed the youth, myth and supposedly silky tennis of the Russian wonder-kid, Maria Sharapova.

The Austria-based International Press Institute (IPI) says that the withdrawal of advertisements from Stabroek News by two state-owned companies is “an indication that the government (of Guyana) has decided to increase its pressure” on the newspaper.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) yesterday pulled the remaining Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Value Added Tax (VAT) ads which had been booked earlier with Stabroek News.

Justice BS Roy, in the Commercial Court, yesterday granted an injunction restraining an importer from disposing of a container of Lux soap from China which is suspected to be counterfeit Justice Roy, sitting in Chambers, granted an injunction preventing importer and defendant Mohamed Niazi Khan, of Multi Beverage Company, located at Cornelia Ida or 46-47 Hadfield Street from opening and distributing the contents of the container at John Fernandes Wharf.

A Rosignol greens vendor is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital after bandits shot him five times around his neck and shoulder yesterday morning in Black Bush Polder (BBP).

Custom officers at Coventry Airport, England on Monday discovered 30,000 pounds sterling worth of cocaine hidden inside more than 140 prunes that had arrived from Guyana.

A seven-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother were yesterday forced to watch their mother being stabbed more than nine times about the body and up to press time the police were seeking the woman’s reputed husband in connection with the murder.