Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The limited skills of residents of the South Rupununi was underscored as their representatives last week probed officials on the benefits from a proposed alluvial gold mining project to be undertaken by Romanex Guyana Exploration Limited in the Marudi Mountain.

-losses estimated at $32M An early morning fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed a furniture bond at Mon Repos East Coast Demerara.

– Tournament kicks off Sunday with 10 teams; 49 matches Two little known clubs have been named to compete in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) inaugural National Super League tournament which kicks off this weekend at the National Stadium at Providence.

A man was yesterday charged with the abduction of a four-year-old girl from Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

-says Harold Taylor Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Development Officer veteran football administrator Harold Taylor says the involvement of a Women tournament in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Super League is critical to the development of the sport locally.

-residents call for action to stop “Road Head” deaths A man who was returning home from a friend’s wake died Sunday night after he was hit by a car along the Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

-to serve 4,000 residents The Ministry of Housing and Water with the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday commissioned the rehabilitated Tucville Sewerage Receiving Station at Arapima Street, Tucville.

The Message delivers thrilling win-Kavinci dies of overdose The Message was delivered by express mail as jockey Paul Delph produced a stunning ride from gate to pole to win the El’Dorado Stakes but the Post Emancipation race meet was not without tragedy as one horse died of drug overdose.

The three policemen charged with stealing millions they retrieved from suspects held for the robbery and murder of gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass, were yesterday read a new larceny charge and further remanded when they appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez at Vreed-en-Hoop.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Parent power ruled the U.S.  Open hard courts yesterday as champion Roger Federer and Kim  Clijsters put their young upstart opponents firmly in their  places to storm into the second round at Flushing Meadows.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies players Sulieman Benn, Ryan Hinds, and Patrick Browne finished the latest round of Division 1 matches strongly on Sunday.

-as concerns continue over gastro-like illness Eight Cuba-trained Guyanese doctors will be sent to the northwest in the coming days with a team from the Ministry of Health (MoH) as reports continue of a gastro-like illness that has claimed several lives but which the authorities since June have been unable to clearly identify.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Deryck Murray has emphatically dismissed the idea of Trinidad & Tobago seceding from West Indies.

-victim says a case of mistaken identity Police yesterday were no closer to determining the motive behind Sunday’s attack by heavily armed gunmen on four men travelling in a car on Savage Street, North East La Penitence, while one of the victims claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says Brazil is not opposed to avoided deforestation as it was previously, following recent discussions, but he observed that it continues to advocate for a fund-based approach to forest carbon while Guyana supports a market-based initiative enshrined in the Reduced Emissions through Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies started a training camp here in sweltering heat yesterday at Kensington Oval ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy.

Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Collins, who was stabbed early Saturday morning by an ex-boyfriend, was yesterday still fighting for her life and relatives said the young man responsible for the act has still not been apprehended.

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has reclaimed the number-one position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen for the fourth time in his career after brilliant knocks in the second Test against New Zealand.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s president proposed yesterday giving the state more control over one of the world’s  biggest recent oil finds in a high-stakes move that could drive  the country’s development for decades to come.

Dear Editor, For some time now I have been visiting bookstores and stalls in the markets buying books and published material for my children and myself.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim West Indies coach David Williams has refused to label the Champions Trophy squad as second string.

GENEVA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Trade  Organization set conditions for how Brazil can retaliate against the  United States over its cotton subsidies yesterday, but the two sides  started a new fight over what the sanctions were worth.

–GECOM The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has reported that the company contracted to supply material for the production of national identification cards has been given its approval and in a statement yesterday the commission said it has approved the use of an “Optically Variable Ink” (OVI) for the production of the cards.

National Race Walk champion Rudolph Mitchell will be honoured at a special appreciation ceremony in recognition of his feat of winning 100 consecutive race walk events.

Dear Editor, There are so many problems and issues to tackle at this time of our country’s history, that it is very easy to lose sight of other important issues, which are also of great significance, but do not attract sensational headlines.

-family denies claim he was mentally ill A post-mortem examination conducted on Davendra ‘Nave’ Beharry, the Camp Street prisoner who was found dead in his cell, revealed that he was stabbed and beaten to death.

LOS CABOS, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Jimena grew  into a highly dangerous storm as it sped toward Mexico’s Baja  California peninsula on Monday, scaring tourists, prompting  residents to sandbag homes and disrupting a top-level finance  conference.

President’s College has recorded 100 passes at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Examina-tion Council (CSEC), an improvement from performances in 2007 and 2008.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday agreed to convene a meeting with members of the Guyana Arts and Crafts Producers Association to address issues that are challenging the industry.

LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard, (Reuters) – United Nations  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders yesterday  to take urgent action to combat climate change for the sake of  “the future of humanity.”

Dear Editor, I firmly support the suggestion that businesses should not sponsor a second-string West Indies cricket team to the upcoming ICC One-day tournament in South Africa. 

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the Texas  financier accused of a $7 billion fraud, is still hospitalized  and will undergo tests to determine if there is blockage of  veins or arteries in his heart, his lawyer’s office, said yesterday.

Playing his final under-19 game, Berbice allrounder Terrence Madramootoo produced an outstanding batting performance to lead his team, Rose Hall Town Pepsi (RHTP) to a nail-biting two wicket victory over Scottsburg United to lift their second Spready’s Bakery under-19 title.

KABUL/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States and  its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn  around the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S.

The Uprising Football Club tore apart the Pele Football Club 10-0 on the opening day of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Chubby Under-13 football competition at the Tucville Playfield on Sunday.

A minibus driver was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with the vehicular death of a man following an accident at the junction of Lamaha and Camp Road last Thursday.

Dear Editor, In the news article, ‘President says he is horrified by the murder of Ramdass,’ (SN, August 30), the President, at a Private Sector dinner, spoke on LCDS and answered questions on several topics, including government’s monopoly on radio, migration, the Sexual Offences Bill, the media’s alleged tainting of the country’s image abroad, and his continued disinterest in a third term.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – R&B singer Chris Brown, who  pleaded guilty to beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna, said he cannot  remember hitting her and still loves her.

-have other matters pending in court Two labourers who were cornered at Weldaad after a police roadblock were remanded to prison yesterday when they appeared at the Whim Court before Magistrate Chandra Sohan to answer charges of four counts of robbery under arms committed on a family at Kingston, Corriverton.

Dear Editor, Professional soldiers should never allow themselves to be guided by politicians who have never even experienced the drill sessions of a cub scout.

Essequibo’s Die Hard Brothers XI became the new Trophy Stall 15-overs-a-side countrywide softball champions when they defeated Rangers Sports Club of West Demerara in the final at the Georgetown Cricket Club Ground, Bourda on Saturday.

The Unit of Allied Arts in collaboration with the Guyana Volleyball Feder-ation (GVF) and the National Sports Commission (NSC) has organised a teachers’ volleyball clinic for CSEC Physical Education teachers.

Dear Editor, Rice crops are affected by a water shortage in Region 2 because of the El Nino phenomenon.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British writer brought diamonds  from Russia into the UK disguised in a box of chocolate creams  to help fund communist propaganda after World War One, secret  files show.

A mother of six who accuses the police of planting cocaine and cannabis in her home and later charging her for narcotics offences was yesterday placed on bail in the sum of $50,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Talks aimed at resuming direct  postal service between the United States and Cuba, which has  been suspended for decades, are set to be held in mid-September  in another sign of thawing U.S.-Cuba

National senior and junior long distance athletes Lionel D’Andrade and Chavez Sital both recorded personal best times competing in the Balmin Village Council 5K run in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on Sunday.

Tuesday’s Economi Corner By Peter R Ramsaroop, MBAIntroduction: The blackouts we are made to face daily have affected all of us. 

Dear Editor, Today is the 21st day since the murder of Jagnarine and Gibson and since the 10-year-old boy went missing.

Two suspects were arrested by the police over the weekend for the murder of 70-year-old taxi driver, Nazir Khan, whose body was found in his car at Stewartville last Friday.

By Dr Bertie Ramcharan Institutions of social dialogue can play an important role in nation-building – especially in plural societies.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Jerome Kerviel, the French former  trader blamed by Societe Generale for close to 5 billion euros  ($7.2 billion) in losses, was ordered to stand trial yesterday,  his lawyer Olivier Metzner told Reuters.

Dear Editor, There is an ongoing debate in the dailies on the merits and demerits of the Low Carbon Development Strategy being promoted by President Jagdeo’s administration. 

Describing the recent robbery and murder by members of the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard  in the Essequibo River as “reprehensible,” President Bharrat Jagdeo added that it was worse because it was reportedly committed by “members of the security forces − people who are supposed to protect and serve our country with integrity.”

(Trinidad Express) Express Editor-at-Large Keith Smith has been honoured this year with the Humming Bird Medal Silver.

Soca invasion: Trinidadian soca sensation Machel Montana (white tee shirt) and members of his HD Band giving an energizing performance at the Guyana National Stadium last Friday, during the Jamzone Soca concert.

Guyana is continuing the drive to have the reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries, including Plus (avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management) incorporated into a new Copenhagen agreement in December.

ZAGREB, Croatia,  CMC – World champion Ryan Brathwaite captured his first race since his stunning Berlin triumph while Veronica Campbell-Brown rekindled her winning ways at the 59th IAAF Zagreb Grand Prix yesterday.