Guyana News

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has added three more players to Guyana’s table tennis lineup that will contest the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May.

A new president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will be elected tomorrow when that body holds its Annual General Meeting at the Lions Den, Bel Air Park, beginning at 10am.

The Providence Stadium will get its first test of competitive cricket on February 16 when 2006 Shapoorji Pallonji Twenty/20 Cricket champions Young Warriors tackle GCC in a friendly affair that has been organized to test the readiness of the Local Organising Committee’s ability to host the CWC Super Eight matches scheduled to commence on March 28.

Guyana and West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul returns to add depth and experience to the Guyana team in their crucial KFC fifth round match against Barbados at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, today.

Little is known in Guyana about microbicides or the research that has been ongoing with them.

A 27-year-old West Bank hire car driver who reportedly caused the death of a seven-year-old girl by driving in a dangerous manner was released on bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Dear Editor, Now that two passengers using the back track route to go to Suriname have lost their lives the authorities will do something to enforce safety in the crossing of the Corentyne river; also probably when two small children trying to get transportation to go home after school on Lombard street during the sitting of parliament are crushed to death, something will be done to stop the chaos that takes place on Lombard Street in the vicinity of Leopold and Schumaker Street on parliament day.

Dear Editor, The year 2007 is the year of the African Renaissance and fittingly, in March, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and American Slave Trade.

Dear Editor, Now state-owned Guysuco and GPL withdraw their ads from Guyana’s most independent newspaper, supposedly without the knowledge of their Chairman!

Dear Editor, I am aware that Mr. Vishnu Bisram already briefly addressed in a letter the President meeting Mr.

Dear Editor, I’m not so much responding to this Sunday’s Kaieteur News Ravi Dev column (Mash and Republic Day) as I am instead offering comment on aspects for issues relevant to Republic Day and the Mashramani Festival which he raised therein.

Dear Editor, I write with specific reference to the article headlined “Rusal to mull hydropower” (07.02.08) where it was stated in part by Mr.

Dear Editor, I have been following with close interest what has been developing in the press between the Government News Agency and Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, On a recent cruise, we took organised bus tours around a few Caribbean islands, including Barbados, Trinidad and Grenada.

Dear Editor, I refer to an Article in KN dated 25th.

Dear Editor, It angered me to read about the death of the motorcyclist on the Harbour Bridge, and the injury to his pregnant girlfriend.

Dear Editor, Mr. Roy Paul’s letter captioned “Early payment of electricity bills will prejudice pensioners” (SN 2/2/07) suggests that some of our customers are labouring under a great deal of misconception regarding their electricity bills and payment.

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