Daily Archive: Monday, May 4, 2009

-Car ran into parked trailer A Linden trip ended tragically early yesterday morning when a car transporting six persons slammed into a parked motor lorry on the Linden Highway killing four of its occupants.

Ravi Singh, Steven Vieira also impress Excellent weather coupled with a day of quality and exciting racing marked the opening of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) 2009 season yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Berbice’s Cougars Football Club and Georgetown’s Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United have both booked a place in the semi-finals of the second annual Bakewell Buxton Stars-organized, Mackeson Stout/Digicel-sponsored Sweet 16 football tournament.

GTM Under-19 Led by Jonathan Foo’s belligerent innings, defending champions Berbice were able to humble their nemesis Demerara by six wickets in their final preliminary round match of this year’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/GTM sponsored Under-19 Inter-county limited overs tournament.

Narayan Ramdhani won three titles when the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA)/West Indian Sports Complex annual junior badminton doubles tournament got underway at the Queen’s College auditorium last Friday.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao admitted his  hand was still feeling a little bruised two hours after a  booming left hook knocked out Britain’s Ricky Hatton in the  second round of their eagerly awaited showdown on Saturday.

-Cars lost control, smashed into house One man is dead and another in serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after two cars, reportedly speeding, lost control along the Ruby Public Road, East Bank Essequibo early yesterday morning.

-Suspect detained Morasi, a quiet East Bank Essequibo farming community, remains flooded with unspoken fears even after police apprehended the man suspected to have murdered a 20-year-old woman.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – The Internat-ional Cricket  Council (ICC) has urged U.S.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, (Reuters) – Mine That Bird  trainer Chip Woolley does not like to give too much advice to  his jockeys but offered Calvin Borel a little gem on Saturday.

The body of a man was discovered close to an uncompleted house at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara last night.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Eighteen people were killed when  a Venezuelan military helicopter crashed on patrol near the  border with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.

New street lights have been installed along a section of the Linden/Soesdyke Highway in the vicinity of Amelia’s Ward through a collaborative effort between the Linden Municipality and telecommunications provider Digicel.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics finally  overcame a determined challenge from the Chicago Bulls with a  109-99 victory on Saturday, the NBA champions edging their  enthralling Eastern Conference first-round series by a 4-3  margin.

The Ministry of Housing’s ‘One Stop Shop’ outreach initiative has seen over 1000 house lot applications being processed in Region Four.

Dear Editor, Over the past several months GPL has been in a downward spiral due to the poor performance in managing its operations which has manifested itself in the purchase and use of contaminated fuel to run its diesel generating units at Anna Regina with consequential costly damage to the equipment, the oil spill from its storage facility in Georgetown with extensive damage to the environment and a health hazard to the folks who live in Kingston, untimely worn-out bearings on its diesel engines, burnt-out alternators and transformers, escalating electricity thefts from its grid and so forth and so on.

ROME, (Reuters) – World number one Rafael Nadal  overcame stubborn early resistance from defending champion Novak  Djokovic to claim a record fourth Rome Masters title with a 7-6  6-2 win yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The Punjab Kings XI and the  Bangalore Royal Challengers joined two other teams at the top of  the Indian Premier League standings after winning their  respective games yesterday.

-No decision yet on run for leadership PNCR executive Dr Aubrey Armstrong has not closed the door on his candidacy for the leadership of the party, which he said has to be restructured as it prepares to lead the country towards a shared vision.

Dear Editor, Minister of Labour, Mr Manzoor Nadir’s comments in Stabroek News of May 1, 2009 are nothing short of hypocrisy.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico announced yesterday  that its swine flu epidemic has passed the worst and experts  said the new H1N1 virus might be no more severe than normal  flu, although it could still impact on world health.

-despite task force recommendation Fidelity Investments avoided further charges on Wednesday when thirteen custom officers and two brokers were slapped with a string of charges for alleged corruption at customs involving the company, despite recommendations by a special task force for the company to face a new charge.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The Atlanta Hawks cruised past  the Miami Heat 91-78 to win Game Seven of their Eastern  Conference opening series yesterday and advance to the second  round against top-seeded Cleveland.

Dear Editor, I recently parked my car on Regent Street, across from City Hall, and was making my way through City Hall to Charlotte Street.

ROME, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s  wife wants a divorce, Italian media reported yesterday, just  days after she publicly criticised his party’s selection of  pretty young women to run in European elections.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s Olympic silver medallist Kerron Stewart won the women’s 100 metres in a world-leading 10.92 seconds at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting on Saturday night.

Dear Editor, Former Presidents are eligible for benefits and facilities in any country.

Guyana is to be featured on BBC World and in Tatler, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Jack Kemp, a star football  quarterback who became a congressman, US Cabinet secretary  and Republican vice presidential nominee, died on Saturday at  age 73.

Guadeloupe: Chronology of a Strike Thanks to Pablo Morales, editor of the  NACLA Report on the Americas (www.nacla.org),

Dear Editor, The ruling ANC won April 22’s election but lost support from 2004. 

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Kamran Akmal smashed an  unbeaten century to lift Pakistan to a seven-wicket win over  Australia in the final one-day match in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) With women accounting for more than 60 per cent of the student body, the University of the West Indies is turning to MACHO, a special initiative, to reverse the declining presence of young males at the Cave Hill campus.

-300 officers and ranks attend awareness forum The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recently hosted a seminar aimed at sensitising its ranks about domestic violence and at drafting a plan with its administration to deal with the issue.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities  stopped cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan travelling to  the southern city of Karachi yesterday because of fear his trip  could trigger violence in the commercial hub.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall has said that he is fairly satisfied with the operations of the Lusignan landfill site but there are some areas where the operator needs to be more aggressive.

OMAHA, Neb., (Reuters) – Warren Buffett is fond of  newspapers — he reads five a day — but the billionaire  investor warned shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc    that the reeling industry may never recover because it lacks  a sustainable business model.

What are some of the issues of concern you face in your area?

Dear Editor, During my postgraduate years at University College Cardiff, I taught a course on ‘Women in Socialist Societies’, and Frederick Engels’ ‘The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State’ (1884) provided a Marxist perspective.

STUTTGART, Germany, (Reuters) – Russian Svetlana  Kuznetsova snapped a two year title drought when she stunned  world number one Dinara Safina 6-4 6-3 to win the Stuttgart  Grand Prix yesterday.Kuznetsova,

(Trinidad Express) Gita Sakal, who called it a day on April 30 after 15 years as CL Financial’s general counsel and corporate secretary is claiming termination benefits in excess of US$5 million from the cash-starved conglomerate, now controlled in large part by the Government.

No one will deny that former presidents of this country should be well taken care of when they are no longer in office and particularly in their golden years.