Daily Archive: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Four armed, masked bandits staged a brazen attack on Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Persid Edmond at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony around 3:30 pm yesterday demanding that she hand over her digital camera/camcorder.

By Zoisa Fraser Years of abuse reached their peak yesterday when a 45-year-old Eccles woman was brutally chopped about her body allegedly by her husband who was later found hiding in a weed-infested trench several streets away.

Two vanloads of policemen last night swooped on a house in Queenstown and launched a search for guns and ammunition.

The memory of those who perished in the Jonestown tragedy thirty-one years ago is being honoured with the erection of a plaque at the site displaying the simple inscription: ‘In memory of the victims of the Jonestown Tragedy, November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana’.

-power restored to abattoir, key pump By Femi Harris After a ninety-minute meeting yesterday, City Hall and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) were unable to reach any agreement to settle the municipality’s outstanding debt of some $600M.

In an effort to enforce greater adherence to building codes in Guyana, a National Tech-nical Sub-Committee on Regional Building Standards was yesterday launched at the Cara Lodge Hotel.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is to meet with representatives of Canadian oil exploration company, CGX Energy later this month and has warned that they need to move to drilling.

Brooks upbeat about Guyana market Regional conglomerate, ANSA McAl aims to up its services and on Friday launched its Core Values programme and Group Awards Initiative here.

A Bagotstown woman, who allegedly stole a quantity of spare parts valued over $9M from Car Care Auto Sales, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $200,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police on Tuesday took a suspect into custody over the murder of Rajdai Persaud whose body was discovered in a Zeelugt trench a short distance from her home.

By Rawle Toney After days of carefully scrutinizing the results of the National Schools Track and Field, Cycling, Swimming and Teachers Championships, it was concluded that District 10, Upper Demerara/Kwakwani are still the overall champions of the event.

“I can’t forgive him,” the mother of three-year-old Rani Lall, who died one week after being hit by a Guyana Prison Service (GPS) vehicle, lamented on Tuesday.

Barnwell ensures Demerara clears deficit By Marlon Munroe Half centuries from Homchand Pooran, Royston Crandon and Rajin Ivan helped Berbice take a 56-run lead in the first innings but a pugnacious unbeaten 69 from Christopher Barnwell ensured that Demerara cleared the deficit to reach 109 without loss on the second day of the GCB four-day inter-county competition.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday installed the new executive body of its student society at a simple ceremony in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT) on the Turkeyen campus.

Guyana’s male and female rugby squad returned home on Tuesday evening after clinching the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association Sevens Championships which was hosted in Mexico City last week.

Julian Browne was ordered to pay a fine of $25,000 or spend three months in prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with wounding a woman.

-three new teams join the fray By Rawle Toney Basketball fans in the city can gear themselves for eight nights of pulsating action in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) 3rd Division and Open Knockout championships set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

A 22-year-old man accused of robbing teachers who were distributing National Identification Cards at the Enterprise Primary School was remanded to prison after a court appearance in the Cove & John Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Sudan staged a security  clampdown yesterday as Algerian fans celebrated victory in a  tense match against Egypt which clinched Africa’s last place in  the 2010 World Cup finals.

– attackers kicked in door A 43-year-old man was attacked and chopped by cutlass-wielding men over a land dispute in the early hours of Tuesday.

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday ordered that a 26-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court  for allegedly dealing a man several lashes with a piece of wood while he was asleep in a hammock.

LONDON, (Reuters) – World number one Roger Federer  will face his U.S.

Guyanese authorities yesterday morning returned a deportee to the US on the same airline he arrived on Tuesday morning after no records could be found proving he had resided here.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene  scored his second double century of the year as Sri Lanka  reached 591 for five at close of play in the first test yesterday for their best score in India.

Harves Olivia Alfred, the miner who was injured when a tree fell into the pit he was working in on Monday, remains hospitalized at a hospital in Boa Vista, Brazil.

By Tony Cozier Five months before it hosts the final of the third World Twenty20 championship, Kensington Oval has been slated by the International Cricket Council’s pitch consultant for the sudden and “significant” deterioration in its pitch block.

Dear Editor, I have been a little tardy in acclaiming the very articulate analysis by Jacquelyn Hamer, over the past weeks, of the state of customer service in Guyana (‘Customer Service and the psychology of acquiescence’ Stabroek Business, November 13). 

Courts Guyana made another of its customers a millionaire yesterday in its third draw of the Stash of Cash 3 promotion.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant showed no signs  of injury as the 11-times All Star guard lit up the scoreboard  for 40 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 106-93 victory over  the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday.

BEIJING, Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told  President Barack Obama his nation does not seek a trade surplus  with the United States and wants to balance flows, striking a  conciliatory note but avoiding public comment on currency  rifts.

Dear Editor, Oftentimes in our society, we experience the harsh reality of the suffering of ordinary citizens.

DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Bahrain’s Olympic 1,500  metres champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal  for doping at the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic  Committee said yesterday.

STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union trade  negotiators are within days of a deal to cut tariffs on bananas  imported from outside the African and Caribbean regions, notably  from Latin America, EU trade commissioner Catherine Ashton said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two teenage girls were found  guilty yesterday of causing the death of a vicar’s daughter  who leapt from an upstairs window to escape their abuse.

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs will be providing rice hulling machines to several hinterland communities as efforts move apace to boost agricultural production in those areas.

Dear Editor, I think that Georgetown should be renamed Vatican City. 

Dear Editor, Based on readers’ comments to my letter, captioned ‘Social activism is needed now more than political activism’ (SN, November 10), I get the impression that not many understand the type of social activism I am advocating.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Set back by Chris Gayle’s unexpected return to Kingston to attend to his ill mum, West Indies failed to inspire confidence in the batting in their Australia tour opener against Queensland on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has signed two contracts for the construction of market tarmacs at Patentia and Charity.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Venezuela has shown little  interest in curbing the number of illegal flights hauling  Colombian cocaine from its territory for the United States and  Europe, a U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Raul Castro has kept  the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing  to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing  others for “dangerousness,” Human Rights Watch said in a report  issued yesterday.

Twenty years ago, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a binding treaty of international law which would allow all children in all countries and of all ethnicities and cultures to live in a world in which their human rights would be respected and adhered to.

KABUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  pledged yesterday to end the Afghan war before he leaves  office, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Hamid  Karzai to make a new compact with his people on the eve of his  inauguration.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – BHP Billiton halted operations  at its Spence copper mine in Chile after striking workers  invaded the installations, a company official said on  Wednesday, the 37th day of the strike.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jenson Button will partner Lewis  Hamilton at McLaren next season in an all-British lineup of  world champions, the Formula One team said yesterday.

The GDF and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China recently signed a cooperation agreement that deals with the provision of logistics support, the Government Information Agency said.

History This Week –  No./2009 By Cecilia McAlmont IntroductionIn the previous article the horrors and trauma women endured under chattel slavery before 1833 were discussed – the psychological trauma of the denial of their personhood and humanity, their dual role of producers of staples to ensure the profitability of the plantation and that of reproducers i.e.

Dear Editor, At a time when the ruling party, the PPP/C, and the Government of Guyana are exposed for what they are, they have launched a vicious public relations campaign aimed at swaying public sentiment and distracting attention.