Guyana News

Dear Editor, (We were previously mistaken in thinking that the Digicel ‘Experience’ concert is part of Mashramani celebrations) The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrim-ination calls on Digicel to ensure that the homophobia of the Jamaican group T.O.K

Dear Editor, I believe it is imperative that the public be aware of the frustrations encountered by importers of zero-rated items.

Dear Editor, Not so long ago the Government of Guyana, at the behest of donor agencies, passed the Fiscal and Financial Management Accountability Act, the aim of which was to foster and sustain accountability and transparency in the use of government funds.

After years of working under poor conditions and numerous letters to the authorities regarding the situation, students, their parents and staff of the L’Aventure Secondary School located on the West Bank Demerara yesterday locked the gates of the school to protest its deplorable state.

History was created on Saturday when members of the Continental Cycle Club unanimously elected a female president for the club.

Representatives of the regional media yesterday met President Bharrat Jagdeo in St Vincent and expressed concern over the potential of the withdrawal of government advertisements from Stabroek News to escalate and also expressed a willingness to work with his government to resolve the dispute.

The Ministry of Education/ National Sports Commission/Guyana Cricket Board, Georgetown Secondary Schools competition is scheduled to be played at four venues today from 10am.

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.

Former president Janet Jagan is entitled to her opinion as a private citizen, President Bharrat Jagdeo said in response to her views calling for a reversal of the government’s withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.

In a commentary on Sunday in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, senior journalist Irene Medina warned that “it is always a dangerous precedent when a government decides to use its power to stifle the free voice of the press, as is happening in Guyana today.”