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Psychiatric Ward murder…

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Hospital awaiting official report A senior official of the Georgetown Public Hospital has stated that the administration is awaiting an official report on last Saturday’s incident, and that...

Marriott Hotel…

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Still no word on investors as second deadline passes More than one month after President Bharrat Jagdeo told the public that the investors for the Marriott Hotel had requested a one-month stay before...

In wake of protest…

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Govt. moves to repair Bartica road imminent Minister of Public Works and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, has said that works on the Four Mile Bartica-Potaro Road are imminent. In an invited comment...

Tuschen man arrested following wife’s death

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Police on the West Coast of Demerara have detained a Tuschen Housing Scheme man after a post mortem examination revealed that his reputed wife died from haemorrhage of the brain due to blunt trauma...

Mayor Green, PNCR to collaborate for Burnham’s death anniversary

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The observation of the 23rd death anniversary of the first Executive President of the Republic of Guyana, His Excellency Mr Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, kicked off yesterday morning with a media...

National Printers slated for privatization

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Guyana National Printers Limited, the company responsible for printing exercise books and other books for the Education Ministry and the Official Gazette, among others, has been slated for...

Cellink Mr & Miss Senior Bodybuilding Championships launched

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Set for August 15 at Thirst Park The 2008 Mr. & Miss Cellink Senior Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships were launched yesterday at main sponsors Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company head...

Dr. Anthony, Kumar meet victorious Windball Cricket team

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The victorious Guyana Schoolgirls Windball Cricket team which recently defeated their Trinidad and Tobago counterparts 5-0 in a goodwill series paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Culture, Youth...

Yonex record opening victory at T&T tourney

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Yonex Badminton Club Junior Team came out winners against the Malick Badminton Club on Sunday in the first round of the Inter Club Round Robin Tournament currently being played in Trinidad. The...

GFS captures Fazia’s Collection Inter Services female dominoes title

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Led by the Most Valuable Player of the final, Charlyn Barnwell who tallied 32 games playing through, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) rattled up 90 games to win the Fazia’s Collection sponsored Female...

Speed/Ray’s Auto Sales win Everest Emancipation Softball cricket tourney

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Everest 4-team Emancipation 15-overs Softball Cricket competition played on August 1 at the Everest ground was won by Speed/Ray’s Auto Sales. In the final, Speed/Ray’s Auto Sales made 93 for 6 in...

LABA holds meeting to restore order

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Smith remains at the helm By Edison Jefford The Executive Council of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) sought to restore order to its administration yesterday evening at its Executive...

West Indies go down in 1st Blind international vs. England

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The inaugural series between England and West indies began in sunny conditions in the impressive grounds of King Edward’s School with the Caribbean side going under to England as a result of a...

A certain ‘development’ taking place in the Plaisance/Industry area

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DEAR EDITOR, In an era where very real fears exist regarding a repeat of the great flood of 2005, which saw Guyana’s coastlands inundated by water, it is amazing to see our waterways being...

We have nothing to fear from Venezuela

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DEAR EDITOR, Rafael Trotman’s anti-Chavez campaign — actively propagated by Stabroek News (04/07/08) — is not new. He and a handful of uneducated and reactionary reporters in Guyana peddle the...

Victim of Mahaicony child rapist succumbs

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A week after a child rapist chopped him in his head, Deopaul Manie succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday, dealing a double-blow to the small community of Cottage, Mahaicony, on the...

Come clean, Mr. Sukhlal

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DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the letter ‘Guyana Times is not published by Global Printing & Graphics’ (S/N 27/07/2008). Instead of dealing with the ever-increasing number of issues swirling around...

An open letter to the Minister of Local Government

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DEAR MINISTER, The media report of Tuesday 22 July, 2008, that citizens of Bee Hive and neighbouring villages on the East Coast have complained of the illegal dumping of garbage in their communities,...

Highlights of the PPP General Secretary’s Report expose deep fault line in party and Govt.

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DEAR EDITOR, Now that the PPP’s 29th Congress is over, permit me to comment on certain highlights reportedly contained in the party’s General Secretary’s Report. First, he highlighted the...

Bucking the tide

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In the Jamaica Observer’s editorial that took President Jagdeo to task over his stand on the EPA with the EU, it was claimed: “President Jagdeo, trained in the Soviet Union, believes in the...

Sucking up to so-called analysts

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President Jagdeo has again made reference to me in one of his public speeches, this time in his delivery on Saturday at the PPP’s congress. I have always kept my evaluation of Mr. Jagdeo...

This decision needs to be examined

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This newspaper has it from a very powerful person in the Government that, if there is anything that we find less than satisfactory, we are free to publicize and offer comment. Even without the above...

Berbice hotel attack… Venezuelan suspect claims he was hired to kidnap owner

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– victim was to have been taken to Suriname Severino Lopez, the surviving Venezuelan suspect in last Friday’s attack on the Malinmar Hotel, has claimed that he and his associate were hired to...

Murder at Psychiatric Ward … If I had money my daughter would be alive today – mother

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By Jenelle Carter Jacqueline Vieira, the mother of Natasha Vieira who was murdered in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Psychiatric Ward on Saturday morning, says her daughter would have been alive...

Jagdeo secures largest block of votes at 29th Congress

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President Bharrat Jagdeo received the overwhelming majority of the votes cast at the 29th Congress of the People’s Progressive Party, with former President Janet Jagan and Minister of Culture Youth...