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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Guyana has made best interventions on food prices
- IICA CARICOM Representative
By Tajeram Mohabir
‘COURTESY CALL’: Members of the Nigerian National Defence College, who are here in Guyana on a brief visit, yesterday paid a ‘courtesy call’ on the Commander-in-Chief of Guyana’s Armed Forces, President Bharrat Jagdeo, at the Presidential Secretariat in Georgetown. The visiting military delegation, headed by Brigadier General Ab Marwa, is slated to visit the majestic Kaieteur Falls and other scenic tourist destinations here before leaving at the end of the week. (Photo by Cullen Bess-Nelson) |
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INTER-AMERICAN Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Representative assigned to CARICOM, Dr. Vincent Little, said Monday that, Guyana’s interventions to address the rise in food prices has been the best in the region.....read more
Guyana’s first kidney transplant set for July
GUYANA will have its first kidney transplant done locally on July 12, 2008, marking yet another important milestone for the health sector.
Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has revealed that the surgery will be done at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) by a team of surgeons from New York, who will be....read more
Police Service Commission Chairman sworn-in before President
DENNIS Balkissoon Morgan Mudlier was yesterday sworn-in before President Bharrat Jagdeo as Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) in the presence of members of the Guyana Police Force, the Commission, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, his family and friends and members of the media, at the Office of the President, Georgetown.....read more
One dead, four injured in separate road accidents
SAMUEL Bobb, 67, died while receiving treatment at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Monday night, following a traffic accident.
Bobb, of Middle Street, Pouderoyen, was towing his seven-year-old grandson on a bicycle along Schoonord Public Road, also at West Bank Demerara, when they were hit by a motor vehicle.....read more
CARIFESTA Secretariat launches Child Art Competition
‘Representations of their private speech and thoughts’
By Raschid Osman
The Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA) Secretariat yesterday launched its Child Art Competition at the Patentia Secondary School on the West Bank, Demerara, before a gathering of children from schools at Patentia and Wales, with Culture and Sport Minister Frank Anthony urging each one of them to submit entries to the competition which closes May 31.....read more
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Minister Rohee demands evidence from Corbin on shooting statement
- that Police were ordered to shoot at protesting crowd
MINISTER of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, has lashed out at People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader Robert Corbin’s statement, that the reason for transferring Police officers to interior locations recently was because they refused to take orders to shoot into the protest held on May 8....read more
Police slam Corbin’s statement as misleading
THE Guyana Police Force wishes to respond to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 under the caption “Police ranks transferred for refusing to ‘shoot’ – Corbin....read more
We must work towards preserving our Garden City
Some of us in Guyana have the propensity of allowing situations to virtually reach unmanageable proportions before making moves to have them corrected. Such a situation surfaced earlier this week when officialdom clearly signalled their intention, to bring some semblance of order in the transportation sector by introducing new parking arrangements for mini-buses and hire cars in Georgetown....read more
Woman jailed for ‘bush rum’ possession
RAMDAI Singh called ‘Rosie’, who was nabbed by Police with a large quantity of ‘bush rum’ (an illegal alcoholic brew) at her Anna Regina New Housing Scheme home, has been....read more
Barbados ‘Daily Nation’ flays CARICOM on Zimbabwe
By Rickey Singh
THE Caribbean Community has come in for strong criticisms from the Barbados ‘Daily Nation' for what the newspaper has dismissed as a "very weak statement" on the political crisis in Zimbabwe under the leadership of President Robert Mugabe....read more
Aussies arrive in Jamaica…
Ponting in no doubt about outcome of three-Test series
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Captain Ricky Ponting will not have legends Glen McGrath, Shane Warne nor Adam Gilchrist at his disposal, but he is in no doubt that Australia will beat West Indies in the upcoming three-Test series....read more
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A woman’s real-life nightmare
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian woman woke up to a real-life nightmare, discovering that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her ...read more
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