Daily Archive: Friday, June 12, 2009

-major role seen for minister Nine years after a two-party review began, the PPP/C administration yesterday completed the tabling of local government reform legislation including the key fiscal transfers bill which is intended to make municipal and neighbourhood councils more financially secure.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Their batting, led by opener Stafanie Taylor, set them up before their bowling helped West Indies Women launch the inaugural ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship in exciting fashion with a four-run victory over South Africa Women yesterday.

-Two others in custody Police yesterday issued an arrest warrant for a former bodyguard of drug trafficker Roger Khan in connection with the grisly slaying of two men in the North West District in March.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization  declared an influenza pandemic yesterday and advised  governments to prepare for a long-term battle against an  unstoppable new flu virus.    The United Nations agency raised its pandemic flu alert to  phase 6 on a six-point scale, indicating the first influenza  pandemic since 1968 is under way.    “With today’s announcement, WHO moves from an emergency to  a longer-term response.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies are set to enter the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights with their big-hitting captain Chris Gayle and full of confidence when they face India at Lord’s this evening.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United have accepted a world record bid of 80 million pounds ($131.7 million) from Real Madrid for Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, the English champions said yesterday.

Chairman of the Demerara Distillers Group of Companies, Yesu Persaud has been awarded with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West Indies.

ONTARIO, Canada, CMC – Jamaican world record holder Usain Bolt easily won the men’s 100 metres at the Festival of Excellence track and field meeting last night.

Ministry given five working days to respond Teachers at President’s College have ended their sit-in after meeting with their union, the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and deciding to give the Ministry of Education five working days to respond to their concerns.

Industry open to alternative methods that make business sense Executive Secretary of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association, Edward Shields has told Stabroek Business that the mining sector is not necessarily wedded to the use of mercury in the gold reclamation process.

The AFC on Wednesday announced that preparatory work has started for its 2nd Biennial Conference, to be held in July.

By Tiadi Blair The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association, yesterday said it was unaware of the selection of six lawn tennis players for the inaugural Caribbean Games billed for Trinidad and Tobago next month.

‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition ‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition New champ Abigail: I’m definitely not overconfident By Tiadi Blair New scrabble champion Abigail McDonald says she is geared up for this Sunday’s ‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition as she currently has two liens on the trophy.

Dear Editor, Worldwide, there is a groundswell of calls to take mitigative action to stem climate change. 

-says she suffered constant abuseA woman who admitted that she stabbed her partner in his chest was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.|

– but Guyana wants increased resource flow, removal of disbursement bottlenecks The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) must move quickly to increase the net flow of resources to its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) if it is to play its expected role in helping those countries to confront the food security and other challenges confronting them at this time, according to Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh.

Christopher McLean, 17, of Bel Air and Richard Philadelphia, 20, of Newtown, Kitty, were shot and injured on Norton Street on Wednesday night.  Investigations, according to police, revealed that McLean and Philadelphia were standing outside of a motor vehicle while another friend, 19-year-old Bradley Sampson of Norton Street, Lodge, remained inside.

There has hardly been a period over the past thirty-odd years when this country has not been plagued by problems associated with the inability of the local power company to provide a reliable supply of electricity.

Dear Editor, In response to an article, dated June 9, 2009 in the Stabroek News, under the caption ‘Government urged to make details of Aroaima sale to RUSAL public,’ I wish to state that the Chief Labour, Occupational Safety and Health Officer intervened to settle the industrial dispute between management and employees of RUSAL, on an invitation of workers’ representatives.

Wind Jammers International Hotel has come on board to support former national point guard Lugard Mohan and Aubrey Young on their venture to the Colorado Springs, USA where they will be taking part in a FIBA referees certification course from June 19-22.

Neil Reece rode away with the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice, George Watts’s 40 mile Memorial road race on Sunday last.

Dear Editor, The images of a decaying and visibly neglected President’s College are not only worrying in the sense that educators and students are living and working in such an environment, but also because an obligation exits on the part of the relevant authorities to treat the college properly.

The six suspects who have been held in connection with the mysterious abduction and murder of Corentyne businessman, Fazal Hoosein, 44, of Number 69 Village were released on $150,000 station bail each on Wednesday.

-attempt had been made to set her alight Being stabbed repeatedly and beaten by a man with whom she recently ended a relationship has left Sharmin McKay in severe pain at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the letter in SN captioned ‘Allegations of impropriety at St Margaret’s fair misconceived’ dated June 11, 2009. 

Controversy over mercury use in mining activity  and its impact on the environment has impacted significantly on the image of the mining sector in Guyana.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Aaron Redmond scored 63 from 30 balls to earn the Man-of-the-Match award, and set New Zealand up for a commanding 83-run victory over Ireland as the Super Eight stage of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship opened yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Aaron Redmond scored 63 from 30 balls to earn the Man-of-the-Match award, and set New Zealand up for a commanding 83-run victory over Ireland as the Super Eight stage of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship opened yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) – In the wake of non-tariff barriers recently imposed on the export of Jamaican patties to Trinidad, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has commented that problems were also being encountered between Caribbean states in the movement of people.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Jacques Kallis stroked his first T20 fifty and guided efficient South Africa to an easy seven-wicket victory over England in their ICC World Twenty20 Super 8 match yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Linden Citizens Committee (LCC) had requested the IMC Chairman of the Linden Town Council to make public a detailed financial report of the 2009 Linden Town Week event to the residents of Linden and its environs, after he had failed to do so at a telephone call-in programme on May 6, 2009.

A 16-year-old boy died late Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he was rushed after the tray of his father’s truck fell on him at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara.

Three Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago are moving ahead with the setting up of local Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) implementation units aimed at assisting Cariforum countries to capitalize on funding avenues which are expected to be made available by the European Union but Guyana’s is not far advanced.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CIA Director Leon Panetta  said yesterday the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) – Senior Counsel Desmond Allum leads a battery of 25 attorneys who have requested a Special General Meeting of the Law Association to “consider, discuss, move and pass” a no-confidence motion in John Jeremie as Attorney General and as titular head of the Bar of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, One could not help feeling saddened about the events at President’s College.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Winslow Martin Zephyr has died.

J O H A N N E S B U R G, (Reuters) – Africa waited decades to host its first soccer World Cup and when it comes, it’s during an unprecedented global economic crisis.

– says businessmen must be able to engage the media without fear or prejudice The critical importance of the private sector to restoring the fortunes of the Guyana economy requires that there be greater, more involved interaction between the business community and the media, according to President of the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) Ramesh Dookhoo.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Chopping down forests in  the Brazilian Amazon produces a boom-and-bust economy that  draws poor people to newly-cleared land but ultimately leaves  them no better off, researchers reported yesterday.    Environmental activists have long contended that this was  the case but a new study in the journal Science quantified the  phenomenon by tracking different stages of deforestation that  have been occurring for decades. 

The Victory Royals and Wismar Pistons are the latest teams to record victories when second round action in the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) first-division tournament continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 307’s trading results showed consideration of $323,641 from 30,180 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 306 which showed consideration of $249,400 from 18,450 shares traded in 7 transactions. 

(Trinidad Express) – Preliminary tests conducted on two of three women in Tobago who were screened for the Influenza A/H1N1 Virus, otherwise known as swine flu, have returned positive.

Dear Editor, In reaction to the move by the Barbadian government to crack down on undocumented workers who include many Guyanese, President Bharrat Jagdeo in a press briefing last month indicated that he could be of no help to the Guyanese.

Former employees of the Premium Security Services on Wednesday protested outside CLICO (Guyana’s) Camp Street headquarters over non-payments of benefits owed to them, following termination of their service earlier this year.

Dear Editor, I find Mr Vishnu Bisram’s tone condescending and insulting in his letter (KN, June 9) under the caption ‘Muslims should embrace Obama’s message.’

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Bermuda’s decision to grant  asylum to four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay sparked a  political and diplomatic furor yesterday on the wealthy  Atlantic island.    Premier Ewart Brown defended the decision to take the men,  part of a group of 17 ethnic Uighurs held at the U.S.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela is set to nationalize the companies that run some of the Caribbean nation’s main ports, the latest move by the socialist President Hugo Chavez to put key areas of the economy in state hands.

Private sector entities seeking to take advantage of trading opportunities available to Guyanese businesses under Free Trade Area (FTA) Agreements with countries in the hemisphere will benefit from a series of workshops which manufacturers association President Ramesh Dookhoo says are designed to provide participants with “critical information” regarding approaches to doing business with those countries.

ROME, (Reuters) – Turning tennis courts into swimming pools is the least of Rome’s worries ahead of the World Aquatics Championships next month.

The teachers of East La Penitence Primary School have downed tools after a parent verbally abused two teachers as well as the headmistress and although the parent has apologized, the teachers want his children transferred from the school.

CARACAS (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government of US-critic President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday ordered Coca-Cola Co to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from the South American nation, citing unspecified dangers to health.

What’s left of the old Plaza Cinema. The back of the building fell in on Wednesday.

By Cathy Richards Parents of Wismar Hill Primary School students are incensed over an overflowing septic tank in the school compound, which they worry poses a health hazard to their children.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC)  ground  will come alive this evening under floodlights as Floodlight XI and Yellow Mines Hydraulics XI battle head to head in a 25 overs softball match-up from 6:30pm.   Yellow Mines’ captain Mansoor Khan who is also managing director of the company is confident that his boys can create an upset against the experienced Floodlight team while the Floodlight team declared that it is prepared to stand firm against any attack.

Enforcement and prosecution   The Hustle, the “Runnings” It was just six months ago that I wrote about an issue I described as the “Enforce-ment hustle”.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – North Korea is unlikely to  respond militarily to planned U.N.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek News Business as a public service.)

As expected, the Organization of American States General Assembly in Honduras last week was dominated by wrangling over repealing the 1962 suspension of Cuba from the OAS.

Dear Editor, I have been away from Guyana for a very long time.