President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore stated yesterday that the newly-formed athletic club, Running Braves was not debarred from competing locally but it was, however, ineligible to compete in inter-club meets.
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) yesterday named a squad of 14 players and six standbys for the upcoming inter-association competition scheduled for February 27-28 and March 2nd.
Coordinator of the just-concluded 2007 Bounty Farm Ltd Mash Handicap Tournament Robert Fernandes has hailed the event a success.
The two finalists in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament will be decided this evening at the GFC ground where an explosive double header is carded.
Jamal Duff and Chelsea Edghill secured the boys and girls’ under-11 titles respectively when the 2007 annual National Sport Commission (NSC) Mashramani table tennis tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.
Last week’s assault by a cutlass-wielding criminal who injured a student while angrily pursuing a teacher at the St Gabriel’s Primary School in Oronoque Street, Queenstown, has highlighted the threat to safety in this country’s schools.
Bandits armed with guns and cutlasses terrorized two families at Williamsburg Squatting Area, Corentyne on Monday at 9 pm and at 1:45 yesterday morning and made off with almost $3M in jewellery and cash.
Four youths who allegedly broke and entered a video game store and carted off close to $1M worth of items appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday.
Dear Editor,
I welcome the opportunity to continue the dialogue that Mr.
A woman who allegedly tried to post a box containing cocaine to Canada at the Guyana Post Office Corpora-tion in Georgetown was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.
Dear Commissioner General,
I must say I support VAT and the efforts yourself and the government are putting into it.
Dear Editor,
I wish to write in response to a Kaieteur News Article dated February 12, 2007 “Consultant resigns from Finance Unit
Dear Editor,
At Matthew 26:11 it is written “For ye have the poor always with you”.
Dear Editor,
In Saturday’s issue of Stabroek News it was reported that after four years of incompetence, mismanagement and an expenditure of over 2.5m pounds sterling, Management Consul-tants Severn Trent Water Incorporated (STWI) has finally got its act together to improve the water services of Guyana Water Inc (GWI).
Dear Editor,
Your indignant editorial on the maltreatment of Aubrey WIlliams’s murals at our airport (SN 11/02/07) will undoubtedly make the rounds of Guyanese emails world-wide (two have already come my way) and generate justified outrage in the process.
Dear Editor,
Can Governments in democratic societies use the `power of the purse’ to attack an independent newspaper, if they disagree with its editorial policy – and possibly threaten the paper’s survival?
While she was unable to participate in the tournament last year, top female table tennis racket wielder Michelle John is looking forward to participating in the Mashramani table tennis tournament that served off on Monday.
The world (Great Britain) grandmaster’s degree of 10th Dan Black Belt was given to Dr.
Robert Simels, the New York lawyer for drug accused businessman, Roger Khan is to file a motion to have the Guyanese released from administrative custody at a federal jail in the US, saying that Khan is locked away in a cell which only allows him three showers per week and no telephone privileges.
Miners are being offered a range of cash incentives to prospect for the highly valued platinum, emeralds and other minerals.