Articles published on Monday, October 26, 2009
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Donald Ramotar said on Saturday that recent comments by Central Executive Member, Reepu Daman Persaud endorsing President Bharrat Jagdeo for a third term do not reflect the party’s position on the issue.
A woman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital early yesterday after reportedly being beaten by a male relative.
Diamonds from Zimbabwe are being smuggled here, according to a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada (PAC); an Ottawa, Canada-based group fighting for the eradication of “blood diamonds” around the world.
The police are under pressure to solve at least a dozen murders, a bizarre shooting and the unexplained death of a high-profile murder accused, all over the last 12 months or so, though the motive in many of these cases remains uncertain and suspects were held and later released.
By Shabna Ullah Moraikobe, a small community located about 96 miles up the Mahaicony River, is home to over 1,200 Amerindians who earn their living mainly through logging and to a lesser extent, fruit and provision farming.
The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says its commitment to impartiality and accuracy of information has informed its work over 30 years.
In an attempt to address the “under representation of boys” in secondary schools UNICEF will partner with the government in a massive research project to find the root causes of this phenomenon.
– Jamaica’s Deputy PM The role of the media is of immense worth in promoting the regional agenda, particularly the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister Dr Kenneth Baugh told a Newspaper Editors Workshop on the CSME which was held in Kingston, Jamaica, last week.
Old records crumbled as Mervyn ‘Spongy’ Moses and Randolph Morgan powered their way to new ones at the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) senior championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.
Pomeroon gas boreholes ‘disappointing’ Oil exploration companies are not likely to drill here this year though the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) continues to pursue its petroleum exploration activities.
The body of a 58-year-old man was on Saturday evening discovered on the Good Hope Public Road and while the exact cause of death is not known, his relatives believe that he may have died from natural causes.
By Kizan Brumell Guyana’s Cleveland Forde and Brazil’s Sueli Vieira stormed to victory in the male and female Open international categories of the first stage of the seventh annual South American 10K Road Race Classic which was run on the roads of Georgetown yesterday.
A Canadian mining company is about to begin test mining at its site at Million Mountain, Lower Puruni Region shortly.
By Marlon Munroe Guyana were dealt a five-run defeat by of Jamaica in a low-scoring contest in the final of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Twenty20 Festival held at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence on Saturday night.
The occupants of a white Toyota car were yesterday morning attacked by several persons at the corner of Broad and Lombard streets, in full view of nearby residents and the travelling public who looked on helplessly.
… Hicks and Ferrier find favour with selectors By Marlon Munroe When the WICB President’s Cup limited overs tournament begins on Wednesday Guyana will be without some of its usual players who were dropped by the national selectors over the week-end.
As police continue their investigation into the stabbing death of Albouystown resident Marvin Boston, the mother of his two alleged assailants has been taken into custody.
Robin Persaud won the feature 25-lap race dethroning last year’s winner Marlon “Fishy” Williams at the 12th Annual Troy Humphrey Memorial 10-race Cycle programme held Saturday around the inner circuit of the National Park.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Two suicide bombs tore through Baghdad yesterday, killing 132 people, wounding more than 500 and leaving mangled bodies and cars on the streets in one of Iraq’s deadliest days this year.
A 22-year-old man was being treated at the Georgetown Hospital last night after acid was thrown on him allegedly by a relative.
Hikers, GCC ‘A’ teams serve up another delicious dish Their first round battle saw the Hikers ‘A’ men’s team edging GCC ‘A’ by one goal scored two minutes from full time.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli police stormed Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound yesterday, hurling stun grenades at Palestinians who threw rocks at them, in another outbreak of violence at the holy city’s most sensitive site.
National road safety observances begin on November 1 and will be staged under the theme ‘Be Vigilant, Be Wise, Practice Road Safety to Stay Alive’.
The second day of the Pegasus Open lawn tennis tournament which is being played at the hotel’s courts saw a number of exciting matches as well as a number of walkovers.
A 27-year-old man, who was shot in the shoulder on Friday night while attacking a policeman with a knife, is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) under guard.
HUA HIN, Thailand, (Reuters) – Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest air polluter, offered a $4 billion yen-denominated loan yesterday to Indonesia, the world’s third-largest air polluter, to help tackle global warming, Japanese officials said.
Dear Editor, Who is drinking something other than cane-juice? Not withstanding the already oversized and cost over-run, new factory in Berbice, I find it preposterous that the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will unscrupulously press hard for a significant wage increase from a dying sugar industry, where losses last year were over $4.0 billion and this year losses will be just as bad.
Dear Editor, Permit me to wade into this public exchange between Mr.
A 66-year-old rice miller and his wife were having dinner in their Letter Kenny, Corentyne home when they were attacked by gunmen and robbed of more $500,000 in cash and other items.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Champions League runners-up Trinidad and Tobago will arrive home tonight after their sturdy performance in India and are forced to make a quick transition to the WICB President’s Cup in Guyana.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday at least 10 members of an amateur Colombian soccer team had been found dead after being kidnapped on its side of the border.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning says he has no desire to become the nation’s executive president as proposed in the working document for the latest draft constitution prepared by a round table of scholars operating out of his Office.
In the Diaspora (This is one of a series of weekly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to send Cuba a message about the need for reform when he met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, according to a U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old schoolboy was left to die on a street near the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella Friday night after being chased, beaten and stabbed in the chest.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies opener Stafanie Taylor has achieved a career-best ranking with a solid move to the fringe of the Top-10.
Dear Editor, As I peruse the contents of the historical exchanges between one of Guyana’s most enduring patriots Kaieteur News Columnist Frederick Kissoon, and the army of PPP apologists and sycophants in whose side his truths have become annoying and discomfiting thorns, the chorus from the lyrics of Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’ keep filtering through my head.
Three men, two armed with guns, pounced on three Cumberland residents who were playing music at their “bottom house” shortly before 11 pm on Friday and robbed them of several articles.
The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) says it is currently seeking to organise and represent Republic Bank (RBL) Guyana employees.
(Jamaica Observer) Caribbean Cement Company has said that, effective today, it will begin offering discounts on its Carib Cement Plus product by $40 per 45.5 kilogram bag.
TEHRAN – U.N. nuclear experts inspected yesterday a uranium enrichment site whose existence was announced by Iran last month, the semi-official Mers news agency said.
Dear Editor, I thank Dr. Randy Persaud for his comments (SN 10.24.09) on my letter titled, `Too many are irrevocably partisan that those who think along national lines are damned as outsiders’ (SN 10.23.09).
VADODARA, India, (Reuters) – World champions Australia kept their cool in the last over to beat India by four runs in a thrilling one-dayer yesterday.
Before I get off on the wrong foot here, let me start by saying that there are many causes for anxiety in Guyana – we all know the list very well – and each of us will find ourselves trying to cope with this or that aggravation from day to day, but the difficulty is that we can get so consumed with the negative that we often become blind to what I call “rays of hope” that shine out from the gloom.
The GECOM Secretariat hosted a two-day strategic meeting last week with registration officers aimed at bringing them up-to-date with the preparations for conducting local government elections.
(Trinidad Express) An archaeological team has found more evidence on a site at St John’s Road, South Oropouche, that people lived there 7,000 years ago.
Interviews and photos by Tiffny Rhodius In keeping with observances for the Month of the Elderly, Stabroek News asked senior citizens to share with us what it is they have done to maintain their health.
After years of unremitting pressure, the government seems to be attempting to do something about the elephant in the room – the rampage of Roger Khan and his cohorts in these parts.
Dear Editor, The following was taken from The Hindu daily of Thursday Oct 22, ‘09.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Palm Beach billionaire Jeffry Picower, described as the biggest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff’s fraud, died yesterday after he was found lying at the bottom of the pool at his home, police said.
PAARL, South Africa, CMC – Teenager Shemaine Campbelle snared a three-wicket haul that set up an authoritative West Indies victory over South Africa in the opening match of their three-match Twenty20 Women’s International series yesterday.
