NEW YEAR’S ( 2008) ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY, BHARRAT JAGDEO, PRESIDENT OF GUYANA
Fellow Guyanese,
Happy New Year! I extend greetings of peace, prosperity, and happiness to all. May 2008 bring personal rewards to you and social progress to our country!
Jafarally Asrafali repaces Peters as president of the BCBC
… Carl Moore did not seek re-election as secretary
BUSINESSMAN Jafarally Asrafali was elected president of the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC), when the board held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday at its Cheddi Jagan Street office in New Amsterdam.
Carib Beer squad to wing out tomorrow for first match
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana 13-man cricket squad, along with coach Albert Smith and manager Carl Moore, will leave tomorrow morning for Trinidad where they will begin their 2008 Carib Beer regional four-day first-class cricket campaign on Friday.
Prosecution closes with cause of death still disputed
THE Prosecution at the preliminary inquiry (PI) in the Farouk Razac murder case closed yesterday, with the Defence still disputing the cause of death.
Arguments on that issue engaged Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys, with accused beauty queen, 33-year-old Carol Ann Lynch in the dock, charged for the unlawful killing of her Swiss House cambio boss husband.
BARBADOS —‘MOTHER’ OF ALL ELECTIONS?
Tomorrow’s nomination of candidates for Jan.15 poll
By Rickey Singh
TOMORROW, BARBADIANS will move one day closer to that journey that voters of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago took within the past four months for scheduled national elections:
It would be Nomination Day for a January 15 poll that is being profiled by politicians and commentators in local […]
BENAZIR BHUTTO - VICTIM OF U.S. GRAND FOREIGN POLICY DESIGN
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Leader of Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in Rawalpindi after an election rally on December 27, 2007. Pakistan’s Interior Ministry reported that she fractured her skull on the sunroof of the SUV in which she was a passenger. This report would seem to suggest that the Pakistan Government […]
Three carnal knowledge accused refused bail
THREE men, all charged separately with indictable carnal knowledge offences, were refused bail yesterday by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
One of the accused, Shawn Phipps, 36, of Lot 68 Cummings Street, Bourda, is alleged to have committed the crime, between July 31 and September 1 last, at Bent and John Streets, also in Georgetown.
Christmas Day Jamaican courier
Jailed for cocaine errand
JAMAICAN Zackre Ameago Montaque was yesterday jailed for three years on conviction for drug trafficking.
Before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle, the prisoner, 26, of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, pleaded guilty to having trafficked 250 grammes of cocaine on Christmas Day at Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.
Two attempted murder accused refused bail
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Delon Success, of Number 28, West Coast Berbice, was remanded to prison yesterday on an indictable attempted murder charge.
Reserve soldier granted bail on robbery charge
GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) reserve soldier, Delroy Johnson, 19, of Lot 50 Stanleytown, was granted $25,000 bail on a robbery charge yesterday.
