Articles published on Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Toshao of Moruka, Joseph De Souza yesterday confirmed that there had been two more deaths in Moruka from a gastro-like affliction bringing the toll to at least six while a number of persons have fallen sick even as a health team from Georgetown investigates.
A 25-year-old taxi-driver died early yesterday after his car collided with a canter truck on the Versailles, West Bank Demerara public road.
-wants the company of Spanish speakers Centenarian Mabel Connell nee Costress, who celebrates her 104th birthday today, hopes to one day live to see 110 and is requesting that Spanish speakers visit her at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital where she is a resident patient so she can converse with them.
The main opposition PNCR is insisting that donor agencies exercise greater determination to ensure that there is transparency, equity, fairness and accountability in the public procurement process.
Nalini Mohammed nee Shivram, currently suffering from end stage renal disease, is now bedridden and is still pleading for help.
Fifteen-year-old Onika Holder, who died at approximately 8 pm on Monday night when the car in which she was travelling smashed into a utility pole along the Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara, was said to have sustained multiple fractures to the skull.
-boat hit log, survivors spent two hours in water An early morning accident which occurred at the Moruka River mouth yesterday resulted in the death of an 11-year-old boy.
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has launched an investigation into Sunday afternoon’s near miss involving a LIAT aircraft which was inbound to the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA), Timehri and a Learjet which had minutes earlier departed the airport for Jamaica.
Roy McCoy, who was injured in the motorcycle crash that killed two persons on the Essequibo Coast on Saturday is to be transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital today to undergo a head scan.
Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma in his 2007 report has raised concerns about 21 contracts that were awarded for the construction of Amerindian Village Offices without proper adherence to Tender Board procedures.
The Lancaster/Liverpool/ Manchester Library recently paid tribute to 10 children for their reading abilities as part of the National Library’s centenary celebrations.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – West Indies players are to boycott the test series against Bangladesh due to start tomorrow, the Caribbean team’s players’ union said in a statement yesterday.
The Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) will be meeting residents of Santa Rosa in the Moruka district on Saturday, July 11.
-Mark Bender By Tiadi Blair Guyana’s Under-19 cricket team is set to participate in the three-day and one-day regional series in Jamaica from July 9 to August 5.
Leaders and residents of Region 10 have pledged to host several mini-consultations on Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and a forum at Muritaro saw questions about the diversification of the economy of communities that opt in.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Teenage batsman Adrian Barath said he was speechless after being informed of his call-up to the West Indies squad to face Bangladesh in the first test.
Friday’s scheduled meeting of the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services to discuss the “proposed areas of concern for the Commissioner of Insurance” was postponed because members of the committee had not been provided with the requisite documents however the press was not notified of the change.
The University of Guyana and UNICEF have collaborated on the setting up of a documentation centre which gives students and interested persons the tools to track the progress of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it relates to women and children.
GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s bowlers engineered a dramatic Pakistan batting collapse to clinch a 50-run victory on the fourth day of the opening test yesterday.
Dear Editor, Given that the University of Guyana is the only university in the land of Guyana, it ought to view the creation of ideas and knowledge suitable to the domestic circumstance as its primary objective.
Minster of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday stated that Guyana was treated unfairly by being deprived of four of the 10 matches requested for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty20 World Cup tournament which takes place next year in the Caribbean.
Plans are underway for a grand reunion of Queen’s College alumni in the last week of October.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The Libyan government had invested $500 million of its cash reserves with accused swindler Allen Stanford’s firm as of late 2008, a court filing showed yesterday.
By Tiadi Blair Last year Victoria Arjoon, Mary Fung-A-Fat and Keisha Jeffrey all earned for themselves the titles of `Queens of Squash’ after winning individual titles at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) junior squash championships in Bermuda.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Usher sang emotional farewells yesterday to Michael Jackson, who was hailed as “the greatest entertainer that ever lived” and described by his tearful 11-year-old daughter Paris as “the best father you could ever imagine.”
The PNCR remembers Pat Cameron as one of the most recognised voices and loved broadcasters in the Caribbean.
Dear Editor, It was with much sadness that I learnt of the death of Comrade Ranji Chandisingh.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama appealed to the Russian people yesterday to join the United States in overcoming past differences and building a prosperous democratic future free of corruption and the threat of nuclear war.
Dear Editor, Here’s my response to Alan Fenty’s weekly column ‘Frankly speaking’ on Friday, July 3.
After 16 days of being on and off a life support machine, 46-year-old Lilowtie Persaud who was knocked down in an accident late last month yesterday succumbed to her injuries in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
CARDIFF, (Reuters) – England host Australia in the first Ashes test which started yesterday without any of the obvious benefits of home advantage in a new venue with a relaid outfield.
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy yesterday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Dear Editor, It seems that everything and anything connected with the drug trade in Guyana is a comedy of errors, a web of deceit and a cloak of subterfuge.
By Tiadi Blair Moen Gafoor was able beat stalwarts like Fred Collins and Julian Skeete to take home the winner’s trophy at this year’s Caricom Day Scrabble Tournament.
“My worship you could see clearly I innocent…” Leon Austin, who allegedly broke and entered a man’s home, stealing over $170,000 in cash and other items, told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.
With the world paying tribute to the King of Pop, a Michael Jackson look-alike contest was held yesterday at City Hall and the winner was the nattily-dressed St Paul Rodney also known as `Visa’.
“Your honour I was drunk de night. I just go and brace up on de car to vomit and I can’t remember nothing,” a 24-year-old man accused of attempting to steal a car told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.
Dear Editor, I have just seen Mr Ogunseye’s letter ‘Damned if they do speak, and damned if they don’t’ (SN, July 3).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya yesterday accepted a U.S.-backed
By Tiadi Blair National cricket commentator Edwin Seeraj has organized the annual Cricket Day Camp which is staged to encourage males and females between the ages of eight and 15 to take up the sport as an extra-curricular activity.
A 23-year-old man, who allegedly caused the death of a West Ruimveldt woman by riding his motorcycle in a danger manner, was remanded to prison yesterday.
Dear Editor, In his address to the 30th Caricom Heads of Government Conference in Georgetown, Guyana, President Bharrat Jagdeo appealed for the human rights of Guyanese to be respected by Barbadian Immigration authorities.
Three-way collision: Three vehicles collided spectacularly at the junction of Camp and Quamina streets just after noon yesterday but there were no reported injuries.
(Antigua Sun) Attorney-General Justin Simon announced on Monday in Parliament that the acquisition of the lands owned by Sir Allen Stanford through various companies is being challenged in the courts.
Scotland’s Calum MacLeod has been reported because of a suspected illegal bowling action.
Dear Editor, I thought that the letter under the caption ‘An employment conundrum’ by Mr EB John in your edition of June 26, 2009 would have generated some discussion amongst trade unionists, human resources experts and specialists, and most importantly employers, especially those from within the private sector.
After a virtual diplomatic interregnum, born of increasing suspicion and a hardening of perceptions of evolving Russian domestic and international relations by the George Bush administration, the change of administration in the United States has brought a resumption of talks with President Obama’s visit to Moscow.
The overseas-based Guyanese trio of Lee Prowell, Adam Harris and Jeremy Bascom swept the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) East Regional Men’s 100m when they competed for the El Dorado, Brooklyn team.
(Barbados Nation) President of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP), Kathleen Drayton, is dead.
(Antigua Sun) Former employees of Stanford are reporting that their former employer has been co-operating in terms of providing severance payments.
Development Watch by Tarron Khemraj Several commentators have recently expressed the view that remittances are important for Guyana’s economic development.
-Ambassador Meyer Brazilian Ambassador Arthur VC Meyer paid a courtesy call on President Bharrat Jagdeo last week as his tour of duty in Guyana has come to an end.
