News

The Continental Cycle Club will hold its Annual General Meeting tomorrow at its headquarters, 105 Duncan Street, Bel Air Park, beginning at 4pm.

The Guyana Cricket Board in collaboration with UNICEF will be conducting today a peer education programme on HIV/AIDS Awareness for a selected group of club and school coaches from across the country.

A seven-year-old girl of Canefield, Canje perished in a blaze that destroyed her home on Wednesday night and her mother who made a desperate bid to save her suffered severe burns to her left hand.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has selected 27 boxers to prepare for possible selection on the Guyana team to the Pan American Boxing trials and Caribbean Championships in April.

Commissioner of Police (ag), Henry Greene yesterday told a gathering including President Bharrat Jagdeo that the police force was prepared to do the work of serving and protecting citizens, but they must be given the resources to do it effectively.

Dear Editor, My aunt lives in Waterloo Street and she has shown me the road works being done.

Dear Editor, People have long felt a need for a bridge across the Berbice river owing to the long interminable delays, the time it takes to wait on either side, and at times the frequent breakdowns and unreliability.

Dear Editor, Please be informed that you have to go as early as 5 am to join a line at the Enmore Poly Clinic since there is only one doctor instead of two working and they treat only 50 patients.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News’ editorializing of the Government’s blatant discriminatory decision to starve that paper from tax payer generated revenue in order to censor exposure of wrong doing and other excesses, takes a page right out of the playbook of a black-owned and operated New York newspaper.

Dear Editor, Francis Carryl’s response in his letter captioned “Rickey Singh was not exiled from Guyana” (07.02.07) to my letter on the subject of GINA’s personal attack on Rickey Singh and the Guyana Govt’s attack on press freedom boils down to the meaning of my use of the word `exile’ as in “Rickey Singh was exiled from his homeland”.

Dear Editor, A recent judicial ruling by a US Federal court could help some deported Guyanese to regain their status to live in the U.S.

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent speed boat accident on the Corentyne River, which occurred on Friday February 2, 2007 and resulted in one person being dead and another missing.

Dear Editor, Pardon this long letter – in response to Mr.

Dear Editor, In extending congratulations to the patriotic Guyanese living the “Diaspora syndrome”, referred to in the letter by Dave Martins captioned “I’m lucky I was born Guyanese” (07.02.07) I would like to add my similar sentiments.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mohamed Fazloor Yasin in the Stabroek News captioned “The Environmental Protec-tion Agency seems ineffective” and also in the Kaieteur News of Friday, February 02, 2007 and wish to present the following response on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Dear Editor, It seems that Mr Hamilton Green has a bee in his bonnet.

In yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the headline `First Lady hands over eye surgery microscope for Suddie Hospital’ it was incorrectly reported that 123 children would be going abroad for treatment.

Agricola resident Richard ‘Chucky’ Daniels, wanted in connection with the assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow `Sash’ Sawh, is believed to have been arrested in Suriname last week along with another Guyanese, Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene has said.

Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc, a new company with funding from China, plans to invest approximately US$100M dollars over the next three years for value added processing as well as timber harvesting and hopes to have an annual production capacity of 300,00 to 500,000 cubic metres, the company said at a press conference held yesterday.

Launching a local line of coconut and pineapple products, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday said there is a hope that importing Caribbean territories would be more considerate with regard to the standards imposed on goods entering Guyana.