Daily Archive: Monday, April 6, 2009

By Troy PetersRain wreaked havoc on the opening day of the National Rifle Shooting championships at the Timehri Rifle ranges yesterday.

CMC – Champions Jamaica emphatically claimed first innings honours and pressed for victory against winless Guyana on Sunday’s third day of their 13th round WICB Regional Four-day match at Jarrett Park.

-Christina Sukhram An emotional Christina Sukhram, the national ladies golf champion, told Stabroek Sports yesterday that her late father Basil Sukhram was somebody who wanted the best for her, whilst being more than a father to her.

-52 called to trials Following the persistent rainfall over the last week, the East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) Under-19 Compet-ition has been cancelled.

National champion Kriskal Persaud is among three persons who are on the maximum three points as the first round of the Keishar’s Easter Open Chess Tournament got underway yesterday.

By Eion JardineOver the years boxing has become one of the most popular spectator sports in the World.

-region awaiting funds for improved structure, says chairman The Rupununi River Bridge near Katoonarib, which collapsed under the weight of an excavator last year, is yet to be fixed, more than 10 months later.

Foo’s century helped conqueror Gibraltar National Under-19 player Jonathan Foo hit an aggressive 106 to help Albion defeat Gibraltar/Courtland as play continued in the Spready’s Bakery Berbice Under-19 cricket tournament.

-driver tried to run over deer in the road Two miners were killed when a truck leaving a mining camp in Puruni toppled over while moving downhill on Saturday.

Some seventy-nine karatekas were successful when  grading examinations were conducted recently by  8th Dan Japanese-American Master Shojiro Koyama while only three students failed to improve on their original ratings.

Dear Editor, I have read with disgust a story captioned ‘NICIL presses Robert Badal for dividends’ in the Kaieteur News edition of April 2, 2009.

Guy Rigottier-Gois, the French national who died in the Konawaruk backdam last Friday, may have thought he struck gold when he took he took the unusual decision to enter an excavated pit during heavy rainfall to take further samples.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Nothing seems to faze teenager  Victoria Azarenka, who lifted her first top tier title with  victory over world number one Serena Williams in the Sony  Ericsson Open final on Saturday.

Surujbally: occurrence a miniscule number There are 280 cases of ‘genuine’ duplicate registration transactions and 84 ‘suspected’ duplicate registration transactions, according to the  report on the Fingerprint Cross Matching (FCM) exercise which was undertaken to check whether duplicate registration transactions took place during the 2008 House-to-House Registration exercise, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has stated.

-Dauntless feels brunt of tides Residents of Leguan who spoke to Stabroek News last week believe that monies allocated by the government for the construction of an airfield should be spent on other important needs such as the sea defence, roads and the creation of jobs since unemployment is widespread on the island.

Dear Editor, Women have always been sickeningly brutalized in Guyana from time immemorial.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Andy Murray won his third ATP  title of the year beating Novak Djokovic 6-2 7-5 in the South  Florida heat yesterday to win the Sony Ericsson Open.

Infrastructure construction at the Guyana Goldfields Inc., Aurora Gold Project is expected to start next year and key feasibility studies are currently ongoing.

In the latest in a string of legal battles with the Dental Council of Guyana, Embattled Colombian dentist Ruben Dario Mercado Navas is in court again challenging the refusal to register him as a dentist for the year 2009.

PRAGUE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama set out  his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms yesterday,  declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states  with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges were eyeing their third victory of the season, after their spin bowling triumvirate again held sway over Barbados yesterday, following career-best half-centuries from Chadwick Walton and Kevin McLean in the WICB regional four-day competition for the Headley/Weekes Trophy.

Dear Editor, I would like to know the rules for a person to be appointed as a councillor to a NDC.

– mayor Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green recently met residents of Lodge Housing Scheme and Century Palm Gardens, D’Urban Backlands at Enterprise Primary School and discussed an environment enhancement project for their respective communities.

PORT OF SPAIN, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago’s midweek drubbing by the United States has prompted a crisis meeting of the local football federation, with head coach Francisco Maturana’s job expected to come under the microscope.

Dear Editor, I was still at school when I first saw Janet Jagan, after being sent by an uncle to Jagan’s dental clinic to make an appointment.

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United  Nations failed to agree a response to North Korea’s rocket  launch despite pressure from Washington and its allies for  action, showing the reclusive state had succeeded in dividing  the international community.

Dear Editor, How can our children excel at English exams when they’re exposure to the language is of the poorest in the electronic media, especially on television?

SEPANG, Malaysia, (Reuters) – Britain’s Jenson  Button splashed to victory in a chaotic, rain-shortened  Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday for his second triumph in two  races for the new Brawn GP team.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Dubai police accused a deputy  prime minister of Chechnya of masterminding the assassination of  former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in an  underground car park.

Dear Editor, It is with much disappointment that I read about mini-bus operators holding the general public at ransom.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s power-sharing  administration will relax media laws and strive in the next 100  days to end the country’s international isolation, a government  minister said yesterday.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africa  crushed Australia by seven wickets to level the five-match  one-day international series at 1-1 yesterday.

The Chief Fisheries Officer said Guyana recognises and is taking steps to transform the fisheries sector in order to make it sustainable and to ensure that fisher folk maintain their livelihoods.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Dwyane Wade scored 33  points and the Miami Heat rolled to a 118-104 victory over the  Washington Wizards on Saturday.

Dear Editor, My attention was caught by a property for sale advertisement in the SN issue of April 1.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela was hit by a 4.3  magnitude earthquake, authorities said yesterday, though there  were no reports of damage or harm to the OPEC nation’s oil  industry.

-case of five boys highlights weaknesses Stamp It Out, which aims at strengthening protection against and reforming the laws on sexual offences has lost critical momentum, several stakeholders have observed, even as blatant abuses persist against women and children in the society.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Aluminum producing giant UC RUSAL, which is based in Russia, may widen output cuts to up to 20 per cent – 11 per cent more than it originally announced – as it takes steps to reduce costs and save the beleaguered company from bankruptcy.

Dear Editor,I applaud Stabroek News for its balanced and objective publication of the tributes and critiques of the late former President Janet Jagan. 

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The United States and Cuba  should normalize diplomatic relations then sort out their  differences, the head of a delegation of U.S.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah This week on ‘What the people say’ we asked persons on the Corentyne and other areas in Berbice to comment on the major concerns they have in their areas and got the following responses: Dhanraj Samaroo, businessman, (Port Mourant): ‘A major concern for me is that 75% of the boys and men from about age nine to 36 years old are involved in drugs in the community and nobody is doing anything about it.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Teenager Federico Macheda marked  his debut for Manchester United by scoring an astonishing  stoppage-time winner to give them a 3-2 win over Aston Villa yesterday and keep them on course for the Premier League title.

-challenges him to present a single case Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali on Friday declared that government has not discriminated against any community on the East Coast Demerara with respect to the provision of water supply and house lot distribution.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Sex offenders in Britain will be  forced to take lie detector tests as a condition of probation on  release from prison, the Justice Ministry said yesterday.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Gautam Gambhir virtually  ensured India would win their first test series in New Zealand  since 1968 when he guided his side to an imposing 531-run lead  at the close of play on the third day of the third test yesterday.

In photo, a team from the National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (NAPS) stands in front an unfinished house at Sophia.

The hemisphere at the crossroads: Fourth Summit of the Peoples to meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in April 2009 David Abdulah, an economist, has served as chief education and research officer at the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union, Trinidad and Tobago, since 1978.

In recent years, the judiciary has come under frequent scrutiny over the High Court case backlog that continues to beset it.

(Trinidad Express) A fifty-one-year-old “tripped” on Saturday morning. He butchered his estranged wife, then his two sons.

A twenty-nine-year-old man, who was allegedly found with a quantity of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking, was remanded to prison on Thursday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

In recent years, the judiciary has come under frequent scrutiny over the High Court case backlog that continues to beset it.

Dear Editor, Every day, we read stories in your newspaper about the many complaints local commuters lodge against minibus drivers: their reckless driving, their aggression, their rudeness.