Guyana News

Caricom heads have accepted a report by Professor Vaughan Lewis on governance of the community and wide-ranging consultations are to be held followed by the presentation of an interim report at the meeting of heads in Barbados in July.

PNCR-1G parliamentarian Amna Ally yesterday told the budget debate that many schools were built during the previous and present administrations but the key difference was how human resources were used.

The Guyana Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) says, in a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo, that interpretations of sections of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as distinct from the whole is leading to negative interpretations in some African and Caribbean states.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan granted $25,000 bail to a couple accused of fraudulently converting more than $750,000 to their own use when they yesterday appeared before him to answer to the charges.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a Linden resident who was allegedly found with five kilogrammes of ganja in his possession at an East Bank Demerara (EBD) police roadblock.

Fenton Haynes, brother of the Mocha woman whose burnt body was found behind her home some two years ago, testified in the High Court yesterday to greeting an uneasy Lloyd McCleoud at the home on the day his sister went missing.

You go to the party with whoever brought you and of course we would never have expected Jagdeo to have publicly criticized his mentor Mrs Jagan despite the fact that in the early days of his presidency when he was vulnerable and had not accrued his ring of mediocrity she may not have totally relinquished the reins of power.

Dear Editor, It is doubtful that any reasonable thinking person would call into question the value of community policing in the universal contest against rising crime levels.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) will be hosting its eighth sports presentation and award ceremony on Saturday at the Akbar Hussain Lecture Hall, Anna Catherina Islamic Complex from 6:30 pm.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club launched the Ramnaresh Sarwan Education and Sports Trust Fund for the less fortunate primary and secondary school students in the Lower Corentyne area.

Businessman and civil society activist Clairmont Lye, a recipient of a national award for his role in the fight for democracy, has returned it “in protest against the excesses of the government over the past years, but more specifically because of the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.”

National football players, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson and Collie Hercules ensured that their respective associations could move on through emphatic wins when the Guyflag inter-association football tournament continued on Sunday.

Pandemonium broke out at the St Gabriel’s Primary School yesterday morning when a cutlass-wielding man went looking for a teacher who had earlier put him out of the school compound because of his attire.

Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that in 2007, the year of the ICC Cricket World Cup one-day competition, to be held in the Caribbean, it is the regional one-day series, the KFC Cup competition, that will be used, right down to the wire, to prepare the region’s players for the “big dance” which starts on March 05 and ends on April 28.

A soldier died at the army’s Camp Jaguar New River location last week Tuesday following what the military said was an accident but the young man’s family is not accepting this explanation and wants more information from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

The National Sport Commis-sion’s (NSC) annual Mash-ramani table tennis tournament scheduled to get underway this Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall has been postponed to commence Monday at the same venue.

Bosai Minerals of Chongqing in China is buying Omai Bauxite Mining Inc.

Carl Rambarose turned in an outstanding all-round performance as Tutorial High School trounced Christ Church Secondary in one of four quarter-final matches of the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sport Commission competition played yesterday.

Dear Editor, As a musician for a number of years I want to share my views on the recently held Chutney semi-finals on February 3, 2007, at Canje.

A congratulatory and celebratory spirit pervaded the Annual Guyana Police Force Officers’ Conference last week.