Guyana Observer News

De other night Guyana tek centre stage. Fuh all de time dem giving de Order of Excellence to foreigners dem never had such a show. Was a show and a half at de Cultural Centre. People dance, dem sing and dem put on a show, but Lula sweat. Dem boys see he wiping he face and dem believe that he was crying fuh joy over de award. Is when dem see he wipe he head that dem know he was really sweating. Then he suit look li’l slack. Is lose de man lose weight like if he been in a sauna. De Cultural Centre was extra hot. De air conditioner wasn’t wukking and de fans dem couldn’t help. Dem boys seh that somebody gun get fired but one man seh that dem shouldn’t blame de people at de Cultural Centre. Somebody thief de air conditioner before de show. Is nuff crookishness. De same nonsense put a policeman in trouble right now. A man end up in court and de magistrate jail he fuh three weeks. De same magistrate only write de three in figures pun de warrant. Dem boys want to know why de magistrate also didn’t write it in words. De policeman escort de prisoner but while he going to de jail he change de three to eight and he scratch out de weeks and write months. If he did lef de weeks he might have get through and de man woulda serve eight weeks. Nobody in jail woulda spot de change. Dem people at de jail spot de change and de magistrate remember that he only give de prisoner three weeks. Now somebody writing out de length of time de policeman might got to spend in de same jail.

Talk half. Lef half.

Leader of the Independent Party, Mark Benschop and Former "First Lady" Varshnie Singh-Jagdeo. Mr. Benschop and Ms. Singh met today at the rally for Women Against Violence, held at the GCC ground in Georgetown.

"I have been begging our President for financial assistance so I can live, for the past ten years and have not received it. I have had to depend on my parents who are pensioners and my family to support me. It is shameful at this stage of my life to regress to having my parents support me..."

"This is the first country that I have heard of where the First Lady is proactive, doing good for the nation but gets penalised because her husband is President and finds her work to help the same people he swore to defend and represent as “showing up the ...inadequacies of his government” and therefore made me his enemy. He decided that to punish me he would withhold all resources, financial and otherwise and line my path with a multitude of cruel, selfish obstacles..."

 "A week after being married he locked me out of our bedroom. From then on it was one problem after another, nothing I could do was ever right. Any attempts to find out what the wrong, why he stopped talking to me, why he was so mean, were me...t with long silences which lasted days on end and I got no answers..."

 "For almost 2 years (2003-2004) I was denied access to the Presidential apartment at State House. If I was not home by 6pm the apartment door would be locked with the latch from the inside so my key could not open it..."

Murray’s funeral for Monday at St George’s CathedralFormer Deputy Prime Minister and PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray will be buried on his home island of Leguan on Tuesday following a funeral service in the city on Monday. Russell Lancaster, the Chairman of the Protocol Committee planning the funeral, said Murray’s body will lie in state at either Public Buildings or the National Cultural Centre from 10 am on Monday, before being transported to the St George’s Cathedral for a funeral service. The service is scheduled to start at 2 pm. Murray’s body will then be transported to Leguan where an inter-faith service will be held before he is buried.  The inter-faith service is scheduled to start at 10 am on Tuesday.

The Benschop Foundation, which plans to open a multi-million dollar branch in Linden, on Wednesday, handed over a quantity of books to the Christianburg Wismar Secondary School.  Social activist, Mark Benschop conservatively valued the 500 books at GUY$500,000. They were handed over to the Head teacher, Cleveland Thomas.  “The whole thing is to have others chip in,” Benschop told demerarawaves.com.  The Foundation plans to supply and install a bank of Internet-ready computers at the school to assist in the teaching and learning of Information Technology.  Benschop was also in Linden overseeing completion works to an area where the Linden branch of his foundation would be located. The GUY$600,000 facility would offer classes in Information Technology, CXC subjects and remedial education. At least 400 students would be attending classes on a rotational basis each week, he said.  The facility is expected to open its doors in the ‘Consumers Compound,’ Republic Avenue next week.  The Benschop Foundation's major location is on East Street, Georgetown, which Benschop has said, is funded mainly by well-wishers locally and overseas.