Posted by wiig on April 6, 2008
Stabroek News – April 6, 2008
By Melissa Charles
A 32-year-old man was taken into custody on Friday night after a 22-year-old woman was found dead in her bedroom shortly after eight on the same night.
Tamasha Riddle of 126 First Field, Kaneville, a mother of two, was discovered dead on her bed by a close neighbour, Judy McCalma.
Relatives of the young woman said that from all indications she had been suffocated. She was found with a pillow on her face but there were no telltale signs of a struggle nor were there marks of violence on her body. A post-mortem examination is expected to be performed tomorrow.
Tamasha Riddle, the only child of Lynette Riddle, was last seen by her mother on Thursday morning when she accompanied her to the Berbice bus park. Lynette Riddle was on her way to Berbice to visit relatives. The woman took Tamasha’s sons six-year-old Troydon and four-year-old Trevon with her. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by wiig on April 6, 2008
Stabroek News – April 6, 2008
Arts On Sunday By Al Creighton’s
A theatrical production was performed on the weekend of March 14 to 16, 2008, which was exceptionally important for several reasons. It goes down in history as the inaugural production in the Restoration Period of the Theatre Guild Playhouse in Kingston, Georgetown, a historic theatre in its own right, which has been happily rescued from ruin and set on its way again. Informally, it was reopened, its unfinished facilities tested by this new production and found to be truly on the way to fitness and recovery.
The event was announced as the 31st production of GEMS Theatre Productions, founded in 2002 and led by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento to be the leading, most prolific and most accomplished company in Guyana. Ever inventive, GEMS, not for the first time, pulled together a team of varying interests and talents, who worked on an imaginative project for a worthy cause.
From beginning to end, this included Dr Janice Imhoff, a collective of women who fought off and survived life-threatening illness, Madhoo Nascimento, Dr Paloma Mohamed, Russell Lancaster, Norman Dos Ramos, the Periwinkle Club, the Guyana Rugby Football Union and the multi-million dollar Theatre Guild Renovation Project. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by wiig on April 6, 2008
Stabroek News – April 6, 2008
By Iana Seales
Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has rejected a global report released on Friday that failed to name Guyana among the Caribbean countries on target to make the 2010 goal of offering a comprehensive Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmis-sion (PMTCT) of HIV programme.
Guyana has been slighted for reasons unknown Ramsammy said yesterday, adding that the local PMTCT programme is among the best in the world with coverage of over 80 percent. Additionally, he said, the country boasts an above 90 percent acceptance rate of PMTCT services among women.
“The only women not on our programme are the women who refused to be. Our programme has been a resounding success and we have actually been praised at the international level which is why this new report raises certain questions by failing to acknowledge this,” the minister added. Read the rest of this entry »
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