Daily Archive: Sunday, April 12, 2009

-caused by a flambeau lamp Two children died in a Hadfield Street fire last evening, which was reportedly caused by a flambeau lamp.

CL Financial Group: Meltdown and bailoutAs promised last week, this week I begin a review of the CL Financial Group meltdown.

A man was last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital in serious condition after being shot on Main Street, a short distance from the Courts head office.

Says the ‘task force doesn’t exist’ Saying the government is committed to having overdue local government polls held this year, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has said that accompanying legislative reforms would be reviewed at the parliamentary level.

Avoid ‘quack’ dentistsNow that Dr Makepeace Richmond is no longer with us I am learning the true cost of dentistry.

Led by a resilient and unbeaten half century from middle order batsman Royston Crandon, Guyana which is yet to win a game in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day competition, reached 208-6 at the end of the first day against Barbados at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

A family of four is now homeless after fire, said to be electrical in origin completely destroyed their three-bedroom house at Bath Settlement, West Berbice around 2 pm on Thursday.

Today we publish a guest business column by Robert V McRae, CPACome Tuesday afternoon the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) will be holding its 21st Annual General Meeting at the Pegasus Hotel, a stone’s throw from where it is constructing a new multi-storey head office.

The junior national table tennis team left these shores for St.

Winners Connection and host Net Rockers, as was expected, will face off in the finals of the Net Rockers Football Club Linden Town Week Under-19 football tournament today from 1600hrs at the Bayroc Community Centre ground..

It is all a dreamMy father died nearly fourteen years ago at the age of 89.

The push to implement paper committals in the legal system, effectively abolishing Preliminary Inquiry (PI) hearings, has been stymied by the apparent lack of procedural guidelines in the legislation.

Fullbore captain Mahendra Persaud has taken a crucial one-point lead as the competitors in the X Class go into an intriguing final day of the National Rifle Shooting championships today at the Timehri ranges.

SUVA (Reuters) – Fiji’s president reappointed  former coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama to head the  politically unstable South Pacific nation’s government yesterday, less than two days after a court ruled his 2006 coup  illegal.

The Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) of D’Urban Backlands yesterday held a kite-flying exercise for the children of its organisation which was aimed at strengthening the interaction between mentors and mentees.

Mrs Jagan: An evergreen interest in the artsArt requires talent  –  real talent and not mere literacy in any medium. 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Six world powers  agreed to a draft UN Security Council statement yesterday  that condemns North Korea’s rocket launch and calls for  enforcement of UN sanctions imposed against Pyongyang.

The earGeneral considerations Quite unlike the eye, which we have already established is not the dog’s most important organ, the ear is of great value. 

– husband seeks to have house arrest time reduced Sabrina Budhram, who along with her husband pleaded guilty to money laundering in a New York court, has begun serving her year-and-a-day sentence even as her husband, Arnold Budhram, is seeking to have his six-month house arrest sentence reduced by two months.

Courts held their hat competition at the Main Street branch yesterday, and this little Miss came all dressed up for the occasion.

PATTAYA, Thailand (Reuters) – A summit of Asian  leaders in Thailand was cancelled  yesterday after  anti-government protesters swarmed into the meeting’s venue,  renewing doubts about the durability of the government.

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – Trinidad & Tobago suffered a batting collapse of their own, after Ravi Rampaul shrugged off the disappointment of being overlooked for West Indies’ tour of England later this month to undermine the Combined Campuses & Colleges’ batting yesterday in the WICB regional four-day competition for the Headley/Weekes Trophy.

Eighteen months after an Air Services Limited aircraft mysteriously vanished from an Anna Regina airstrip, authorities are still stumped as to where it might be and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud they have not yet been able to establish that foul play was in fact involved in the disappearance.

Don’t cram your patio We are in the middle of the great Christian festival of Eastertide, and tomorrow is the marvellously exciting time devoted to the flying of kites along the East Coast, in the National Park and throughout the interior of Guyana, all of which, I suppose, might be symbolic of the Resurrection.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) takes this opportunity to respond to the editorial titled ‘National ID Cards,’ which was published in the Guyana Times of Wednesday, April 1, 2009.

The University of Guyana Berbice Campus has donated a quantity of computers to what it has identified as the neediest secondary schools in Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne).

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Pirates seized a US-owned  and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew yesterday in the  latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional  maritime group said.

MammographyBy Dr Badhri Veerappan Sivaji, MD (Consultant Radiologist) What is mammography?

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Results of round four matches in the West Indies Under-15 Championships on yesterday.

Courts held its Easter hat competition yesterday, and the entrant with probably the largest bonnet also happened to be the oldest.

ST THOMAS, US Virgin Islands, CMC – Discarded West Indies batsman Runako Morton stroked a half-century to climb to within 14 of breaking the 1000-run barrier but honours were evenly shared on the opening day of the final round WICB Regional four-day match between the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands yesterday.

-Agriculture minister The consignment of local paddy said to be infected with a Tilletia type fungus is being fumigated in Colombia, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said last week.

Last week local politics took on a tincture of absurdity. It was all due to the efforts of Mr Clinton Collymore, the Co-Chair of the local government reform task force.

Dear Editor, Prime News had a story about two dogs that were tied up in an inhumane way not too far from the GSPCA.

The Spirit of Adventure cruise ship docked at the GNIC wharf yesterday.

PATTAYA, Thailand/BEIJING(Reuters) – China’s  economy is in a better shape than expected with March  industrial output growth exceeding forecasts, but it still  faces big challenges, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday.

Bolt’s 400 meter record tumbles Following a positive start by the ten-man Guyanese team on Friday, the locals did not do so well on the second day of this year’s junior CARIFTA games at the George Odlum Stadium in St Lucia.

All should be involved in making chess a national pastime The momentum for the recognition of chess in Guyana has been rising steadily over the past months much to the appreciation of members of the federation.