Articles published on Sunday, May 31, 2009
With major questions still to be answered about the Lindo Creek killings, visitors to the camp last week were shocked to find what appeared to be human bones at the site, almost certainly some of the remains of the eight miners who were brutally murdered there in June last year.
-Best The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will be constructing an improved weapons storage facility, Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best says, while emphasizing that the force is not letting up on its hunt for weapons which went missing from its arsenal three years ago.
Accusing the governing party of attempting to “subvert” the local government reform process, PNCR leader Robert Corbin on Friday said up to the time of his recent illness no attempt was made to begin consultations on legislative reforms for the holding of polls later this year.
Richardson’s five drowns Pele Five fiery goals from Thomas United’s Leon Richardson scorched the opposition when another round of matches in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Courts Pee Wee Under-11 Competition were contested at the Banks DIH Ground, Thirst Park yesterday.
The spate of fatal accidents in Berbice continued yesterday when a teenager and a man were killed by a car that was reported to have been speeding at the time.
The army has sent two of its helicopter pilots for training overseas to equip them with the necessary skills to use the night sun.
Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is scheduled to be launched on June 8 and last Friday President Bharrat Jagdeo met with government representatives, NGOs, and Norwegian Government representatives and their local counterparts to finalize the preparations.
Blaming a culture of incompetence and mismanagement for the loss for the six million euros for the sugar industry, the People National Congress Reform on Friday called for firm action to be taken against the individuals and organisations responsible for the budgetary loss.
-Manickchand Saying the reformed sexual offences law is a “done deal,” Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand on Friday called on groups campaigning for the swift implementation of the legislation to channel their efforts sensibly.
-Ambassador Ishmael Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela Odeen Ishmael says that during this year remittances to Latin American and Caribbean countries from the more developed countries will decline by US$4B from last year’s figure.
Albert Raymond Forbes Webber, a long forgotten politician, journalist, poet and novelist, was resurrected for a new generation of Guyanese at Castellani House, last Thursday evening.
Director of the Child Protection Agency, Ann Greene, said a fair amount of work had begun since legislation was enacted setting up her office earlier this year, including the initial launch of a local foster care programme, which she referred to as “extremely important in shaping the lives of those young ones in need of nurturing.”
Collins holds slim lead over Gafoor heading into final day Defending champion Fred Collins has moved into first place heading into the final day of the Guyana Association of Scrabble players (GASP) National Championships after finishing yesterday with 13 games and amassing a spread of 1777.
A post-mortem examination performed Friday on the three persons who perished in the boat mishap in the Abary Creek on Wednesday revealed that they died as a result of asphyxiation due to drowning.
NEW YORK, United States, CMC – Track and field’s world governing body, the IAAF, say they are willing to consider altering the athletics schedule at the London Olympics to enable sprint phenomenon Usain Bolt to chase three individual gold medals.
– Prashad Commerce Minister Manniram Prashad has responded to reports that minibus fares will increase from June 15 and says that such an announcement is “in bad taste” while questioning the authority of the individual who made the disclosure.
Led by an unbeaten century from Derick Ramoutar, Floodlights XI defeated the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) on home turf on Friday when the two sides collided in the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Ivanoff Vodka sponsored softball match.
PARIS (Reuters) – Serena Williams accused her Spanish opponent of cheating on a controversial point in a 4-6 6-3 6-4 third round defeat of Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez at the French Open yesterday.
Ian on Sunday Why should flesh and blood men and women, with feet of clay like anyone else, presume to think for us and act for us and push us around and mollycoddle us and punish and reward us as if they were inherently superior beings?
Guyana and the wider world By Dr Clive Thomas (E-mail address: cythomas@guyana.net.gy)
National wicketkeeper/batsman Derwin Christian scored a brilliant century for Demerara Cricket Club to place them in a comfortable position against Everest yesterday on day two of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Cellink Plus First-Division cricket competition.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – American Tyson Gay ran the third fastest 200 meters ever when he clocked 19.58 seconds at the New York grand prix athletics meeting on Saturday.
The View From Europe By David Jessop(Executive Director of the Caribbean Council for Europe) A little over a week ago, Sir Shridath Ramphal addressed some of those who will be the region’s future ambassadors.
WORMSLEY, England, CMC – Having failed to impress so far in his fledgling international career, all-rounder Kieron Pollard is eyeing the upcoming ICC World Twenty20 Championships as the opportunity to make his mark.
‘The Lethem road would only make economic sense if it was complemented by a deep water harbour’ Ambassador Arthur VC Meyer took up his position as Brazil’s top diplomat to Guyana in October 2005 and is now scheduled to leave the country in early July for another posting.
Health (A weekly column prepared by Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital Inc.)
Dickson’s hat-trick leaves Pele in shambles – Conquerors victorious on opening day A Stephon Dickson hat-trick for Uprising rocked their opponents Pele Football Club while the Fruta Conquerors were also victorious on the opening day of the George-town Football Association’s (GFA) Trix Under-17 Football Tournament at the George-town Football Club Ground (GFC), yesterday.
Rock rocks Allicock on opening night A thrilling bantamweight bout between national junior boxers Herlando Allicock and Clevon Rock was rolled out on the opening night of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association’s (GABA) Na-tional Intermediate Box Off at the National Gymnasium, Friday.
Consumer Concerns President Jagdeo publicly signed The Evidence and Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2008 on May 22 this year.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday the United States would not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and he warned Pyongyang against transferring nuclear material overseas.
Pet Corner (Continued) Bacterial problems of the outer ear I had promised last week that we would go delving into the ‘middle ear’ and see what sort of stomach-turning maladies we will find there.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Exciting Swansea City striker Jason Scotland was named the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation’s Footballer-of-the-Year at their awards ceremony earlier this week.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani forces have regained full control of Mingora, a week after re-entering the main town in the Swat valley to dislodge thousands of Taliban fighters, the military said yesterday.
Two years ago, the Jamaica Gleaner, one of the West Indies’ oldest and most respected newspapers, seriously advocated in an editorial following the West Indies’ indifferent performances in the first World Cup staged on their own patch that the subsequent tour of England be cancelled, that they withdraw from international assignments for three years and undertake only matches against ‘A’ teams while systems were put in place to raise standards to previous levels.
This is not Camp Ayanganna, but the Kingston seawall. (Photo by Jules Gibson)
It’s been two-and-a-half months since the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club opened their Go-Kart track at Thomas Lands and since then the response has been overwhelming, according to President of the Club Vishok Persaud.
Arts on Sunday “On Thursday the 6 of Februarie in the yeare 1595, we departed England, and the sunday following had sight of the North cape of Spayne, the winde for the most part continuing prosperous; wee passed in sight of the Burlings and the rocke, and so onwards for the Canaries and fell with Fuerte ventura the 17 of the same moneth… “The empire of Gviana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line; and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most.”
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany heaved a sigh of relief yesterday over a deal with Canadian auto parts group Magna, General Motors and the US government to save carmaker Opel from the imminent bankruptcy of its US parent.
Dear Editor, As we celebrate World Environment Day, I would like to praise and thank Andy Narine and his group – Guyana Amazon Tropical Birds – for raising awareness and appreciation for our wild birds.
West Indies eased to their second consecutive win in the World Twenty20 warm-ups, beating Ireland by five wickets in Wormsley.
Chess with Errol Tiwari Today’s feature game is taken from the 2009 Linares super-tournament that was held in March.
PARIS (Reuters) – A lone gunman robbed a chic Paris jewellery store in broad daylight yesterday, walking out of the Chopard shop on Place Vendome with up to 10 million euros ($14 million) of goods, police said.
DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant scored 35 points to guide the Los Angeles Lakers back to the NBA Finals with a 119-92 rout of the Denver Nuggets on Friday, as the visitors closed out their Western Conference series in style.
(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards is not explaining. He is not resigning.
Universal line-up: President Jagdeo met the Ms Guyana Universe contestants at State House yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Street dancers Diversity were the surprise winners of television contest “Britain’s Got Talent” yesterday, beating favourite Susan Boyle who became an Internet phenomenon and global celebrity after appearing on the show.
Dear Editor, If you look at the reasons for which our countrymen and women are being picked on, you will realize that it is all too familiar in the saga of anti-immigrant hysteria.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is risking his ruling party’s chances at next year’s presidential election by sticking with his hand-picked candidate despite her battle with cancer.
Dear Editor, Much service was not done to the beautiful, meaningful words of our national anthem when it was sung last Tuesday morning at a flag-raising ceremony in New Amsterdam.
PARIS (Reuters) – Andy Roddick produced a sizzling display to reach the fourth round of the French Open for the first time but Elena Dementieva’s hopes of winning a maiden grand slam title fizzled out on Saturday.
by Wayne Brown(Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica.
It was Dr Winston McGowan writing in ‘History this week’ in our Thursday edition, who finally brought a professional historian’s perspective to the debate in our letter columns on the distinction between slavery and indentureship.
– Golding moves to oust MPs over dual citizenship The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is moving to have Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster and other members of the People’s National Party (PNP) disqualified from sitting in the House of Representatives.
