Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

– procurement head also fired after kickback probeChief Executive of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Karan Singh and Head of Procurement Dhani Narine were yesterday given marching orders by the company’s board.

The Hotel Tower has been sold and is now owned by the recently formed company, Canal Hospitality Inc.

`I’m a old man so I’ll looking to finish things early’- Eastman By Rawle Toney On April 25 national Middleweight champion and world renowned Howard “Battersea Bomber” Eastman will match gloves with Lennox “Too Sharp” Allen at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the vacant super middleweight title of Guyana.

Eleven tributes paid to former president Janet Jagan summed her up as having left an indelible mark on the history of Guyana, but said a look beyond her political life revealed a simple woman who  mothered two young children even as she took on the struggles of the poor and the oppressed.

Fruta Conquerors and Alpha United both recorded their second wins of the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Banks Premium Beer Knockout Tournament at the Tucville Playfield Sunday to enter the semi-final round.

Guyana Goldfields Incorpo-rated has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to open a large-scale mine at Aurora, Cuyuni River, which if approved could see the construction of a hydropower facility across a section of the river.

Dear Editor, First of all I wish to express my gratitude for the interest shown by Stabroek News in my country, particularly in regard to the establishment of the First Per-manent Mexican Diplomatic Mission in Guyana, which is reflected in the editorial of March 22, 2009.

‘I didn’t mean to kill him, we were good friends’ Romel Simon was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment for killing another man during a birthday party.

Dear Editor, Ever since I came to live in Guyana in the 1950s, I knew of Janet Jagan as a person of central importance in the political and public life of Guyana.

Hemant Narine, on the comeback trail, turned back a strong challenge from his opponents to win the GNRA .22 LR Precision Pistol Shoot last Saturday at Eve Leary ranges.

Following a three-and-a-half-hour practice session at the Everest Cricket Club (ECC)  ground yesterday, the junior selection panel of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has short-listed a 34- man squad for two 40 overs-a-side trial matches.

Dear Editor, In SN of March 21, it was reported that a contract to provide consultancy services for the design of the Hope Conservancy Relief Channel (HCRC) was awarded to CEMCO/SRKN Engineering in association with the UK-based Mott MacDonald Company.

General Manager of Saj Rice Group (SRG) Carlos Carbo yesterday said a consignment of paddy recently shipped by his company to Colombia was free of any disease, fungus or quality issues when it left the local shores.

After less than half an hour, the trial into the US$2M Guyflag insurance scam had to be adjourned to allow police time to get the original copy of the claim form that the witness was testifying about.

A brutal and exciting innings of 111 not out off 55 balls from wicketkeeper Delbert Hicks led his team Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar to victory over Port Mourant in the finals of the Whim Police Station Management team 20/20 tournament. 

Dear Editor, Where else in the world would you find a government taking an area set aside for a children’s playground and turning it into house lots?

Dear Editor, I extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of former President Janet Jagan on her passing.

Several city streets will be closed to vehicular traffic today to facilitate the state funeral of former president Janet Jagan, while motorists travelling along the route to Babu John, Port Mourant, Corentyne, where she will be cremated, will experience some inconvenience.

The Guyana Hockey Board has shortlisted a 41-member men’s hockey team comprising youth and experienced players in preparation for the upcoming Caribbean Hockey Cup billed for June 22 – 29 in Kingston, Jamaica.

In paying tribute to the late former President Janet Jagan the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha described her as a woman of great “courage and resilience which was demonstrated throughout her life in all her endeavours.”

– New points system put in place, says Sports Director Director of Sports Neil Kumar says that all arrangements have been put in place for the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games and a new points system will replace the complicated one that was used previously.

Dear Editor, I hope President Bharrat Jagdeo literally meant that Guyana has become poorer with the loss of Mrs Jagan − because it really has.

Dear Editor, At this time when there is so much justified compassion and feeling in the air, it may be a good time to raise once more the issue of Mrs Hoyte’s pension, or for a clear official statement on it.

– priority to get back into FIDE In a solid show of support incumbent president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari was unanimously re-elected to another term when the federation held its AGM and elections Sunday.

A nine-year-old Port Kaituma girl was air dashed to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday after sustaining severe burns to the face.

Dear Editor, Janet Jagan was an outstanding patriot of Guyana who made an immeasurable contribution to the development of our country and to the welfare of all the people.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday tried to sway skeptical Democrats in the US House of Representa-tives to back an expensive budget plan for 2010 by arguing it was needed to reverse the economy’s sharp downward spiral.

Delmur Gold, La Bayomosa and Miss Republic each carted off one of the three feature races when the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf and Sports Club held its first horse racing event of the year at their Alness  Village, Corentyne track last Sunday.

– two held Police yesterday said that a runaway teenager, who was found in a Victoria, East Coast Demerara house with an alleged homosexual and a woman, “was not sexually molested but had engaged in anal sex”.

The semifinals of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Gafoors sponsored nationwide 20/20 first division cricket competition will be contested tomorrow, with both matches commencing simultaneously at 13:00hrs.

MBABANE (Reuters) – Southern African leaders suspended Madagascar from the SADC regional grouping yesterday and called on its new army-backed president to step down.

Dear Editor, I personally find it to be in bad taste not to respect the grieving process for the passing of people, be they lay persons, politicians, government officials or even royalty.

The driver who was involved in an accident that allegedly caused the death of a Lamaha Street resident last Tuesday at Oleander Gardens, East Coast Demerara, was granted bail yesterday in the sum of $400,000.

Dear Editor, It is with great grief and sadness that I pen this letter.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A US judge yesterday barred a Pennsylvania prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls caught with sexually suggestive pictures of themselves on their cell phones.

By Rawle Toney Alpha ‘The Hammers’ United has been practising at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, ahead of their away game in the 2009 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Cup in Haiti against Tempete FC.

Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn said the death of former president Janet Jagan is not only a national loss but a personal loss for the many persons who have worked with her since the days of the anti-colonial struggle.

By the next six months, persons applying for house lots should be able to have their applications processed in a “fully automated” system, Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali has said.

Browne, Sarwan and Watkins score centuriesPolice Sports Club’s(PSC) Rawle Browne, Transport Sports Club’s  (TSC) Marcus Watkins and Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) Ravi Sarwan struck centuries when second round action of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Cellink Plus first division competition concluded Sunday at several venues in Georgetown.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday that Sudan faces an immediate crisis over the Sudanese government’s decision to expel some aid groups in Darfur.

Dear Editor, As was expected, after a week of internal strategizing, the government’s ghost writers, the Chronicle, NCN and several entrepreneurs launched their attack on Ms Gay McDougall in an attempt to discredit her and hence her report on minorities.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Narsingh Deonarine grabbed the opportunity to stroke another half-century and push his season aggregate to within sight of 1000 runs, as Guyana’s 12th round WICB Regional match finished in a tame draw against Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday the Obama administration had dropped “war on terror” from its lexicon, rhetoric former President George W.

(Trinidad Express) – Alicia Kizzy McKenzie, of Central Street, Vistabella, a witness to the March 13 Marabella murder of Jason Fullerton, of Ramsamooj Street, Marabella has been found dead.

Guyanese Women in Development (Guywid) said late former president Mrs Janet Jagan “laid the foundation and provided the vision for the women’s rights movement in Guyana” as it mourns her passing.

Dear Editor, Over the weekend, I learnt with a heavy heart of the passing of Mrs Janet Jagan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama signed sweeping land and water conservation rules into law yesterday, setting aside millions of acres as protected areas and delighting environmentalists.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana, the Guyana United Sadr Islamic Anjuman and the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex remember late former president Janet Jagan as a patriot and a champion of women’s rights.

Christine Lagarde is France’s Minister of Finance. By Christine Lagarde PARIS – The World Monetary and Economic Conference took place in London 76 years ago, in June 1933, with 66 countries meeting to put an end to the unfolding monetary disorder and trade wars while trying to draw the lessons of the Great Depression.

In a sobering moment during the recent officers’ conference, Commissioner of Police Mr Henry Greene admitted that the force had a severe personnel shortage of about 785 persons, or 20 per cent of the establishment strength.

Dear Editor, Shaun Michael Samaroo in his letter dated March 28, 2009, captioned ‘SN editorial accomplishes nothing productive’ himself seems not to have anything constructive to say.

PARIS (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday the restoration of credit and the fight against the “drug” of protectionism were the most urgent problems facing G20 leaders meeting in London this week.

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Runako Morton’s appetite for runs led him yesterday to an unprecedented second double century in as many games, the first time in the history of sponsored regional cricket — since 1966 — that a batsman has scored double centuries in consecutive matches.