Daily Archive: Sunday, January 3, 2010

Christmas has come and gone most likely along with the one-month bonuses President Bharrat Jagdeo awarded to members of the joint services recently.

A man was last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was injured when a girl reportedly threw squibs at him.

The Supreme Court Registry bounced back into operation shortly after it was channa-bomed last month, but there are a few setbacks in the system which include damage to recent files and records cataloguing a body of work completed in various courts this year.

The police are investigating the death of two men who they believed succumbed to injuries sustained in two separate accidents, one of which is a suspected hit- and-run.

Two men are now in police custody after a quick response by a mobile police patrol to the robbery of an East Ruimveldt resident on Friday night.

Two employees of a timber concession are now in custody after falsely reporting the theft of a lorry belong to the company, police say.

A cyclist is nursing head injuries in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital after he was involved in an accident on New Year’s Eve on the La Bonne Intention Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

Police in Essequibo are investigating the death of young man at Wakenaam who reportedly died after falling over a verandah during a drinking session.

-none printed in the region The fulfilment of a pledge made by President Bharrat Jagdeo during the Carifesta X celebrations to fund the establishment of a regional publishing house in Guyana has so far seen the republishing of 12 books of the Guyana Classics Series, although none has been printed within the region.

-crime chief Although allegations of torture have stalled police investigations into the murder of Ramenauth Bisram, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says there is still hope.

As we saw last week the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway provides for two sets of conditional payments by Norway. 

Introduction Accustomed only to the arcane drudgery of a calculator and a columnar pad, I turned to the Angel Gabriel and the Deity Ganesh for divine guidance in looking at the world in 2010.

In the spirit of the season Sunday Stabroek asked a few persons not just whether they had made any New Year resolutions for this year, but the silliest one they ever made and whether they had ever kept a resolution in the past.

The National Insurance and Social Security (Amendment) Bill 2009 has been approved by the National Assembly and has to be signed by the President before it becomes law.

In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize recently, President Barack Obama gave a magnificent speech justifying just wars.

– Camptown stump Pele 4-2 for third According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2010 is the ‘Year of the Tiger’, which begins on February 14.

“Competition wise, this year is one of our best ever in 20 years,” said Kashif Muhammad, co-organiser  of the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament which wrapped up last Friday at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

ContinuedLast year on December 13, 2009, we discussed the various possible causes of pharyngitis (the consequence of infectious diseases, inflammation of nearby tissues, extension of a rhinitis, air pollutants, unskilled administration of oral medicine, the eating of hot food, genetic defects, etc).

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela reported yesterday  60 tonnes of drugs were confiscated in 2009, an 11 per cent  bigger haul than the previous year, and said anti-narcotics  efforts had improved since it ended cooperation with the United  States.

Cozier on Sunday For ages strong and dynamic, universally envied and admired, pride of the people of the small, scattered otherwise insignificant third world territories it represented, West Indies cricket had suddenly gone into sharp decline in the last decade of the 20th century.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Chess has struggled into the new year with more hopes of attracting a population to the game.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Astonishing achievements in athletics once again shot the Caribbean to international prominence but a bitter, divisive cricket dispute between the region’s major stakeholders marred last year and propelled the sport to the brink of collapse.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Rescue crews yesterday  intensified the search for victims at a plush Brazilian beach  resort ravaged by mudslides and flooding that have killed at  least 64 people in three states.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Effervescent West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo snatched three wickets and then played a cameo to lift Victoria Bushrangers to a handsome six-wicket victory over New South Wales Blues with two balls to spare in the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

Dear Editor, In looking to 2010, Business Page predicted that the 2010 Budget speech would make the economy’s decline of the first half year of 2009 into a full year growth.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – England’s Paul Collingwood  played a full part in practice yesterday, leaving South Africa with the tough selection decisions for the third test starting today.

HONOLULU (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday zeroed in on al Qaeda as the driving force behind an  attempt to bomb a US-bound airliner on Christmas and promised  again to hold accountable those involved in the failed attack.

Dear Editor, Happy New Year to the staff of Stabroek News.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Somali man armed with an axe  and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a  Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused  global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police.

Dear Editor,Annan Boodram’s’ letter of December 31 in Stabroek News critiques and calls for an end to the “us” versus “them” mentality. 

A Gardener’s Diary Gardeners in present day Britain are experiencing a fairly new phenomenon: a preoccupation with size which has got to competition level.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Jamaica’s coach Junior Bennett believes his charges possess the quality to defend their WICB regional four-day title and complete a hat-trick of wins.

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan parliament dealt  President Hamid Karzai a painful blow yesterday when it  rejected more than two-thirds of his cabinet nominees, including  several close allies and former guerrilla commander Ismail Khan.

Dear Editor, The government is setting out a proposal that miners be given six months’ notice prior to commencing mining.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Nate Robinson made an emphatic  return to the New York Knicks lineup after a month in the  wilderness on Friday, the guard scoring 41 points to lead his  team to a 112-108 overtime win over the Atlanta Hawks.

Tony Blair is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007.

(Jamaica Observer) The bloodshed that marked 2009 as one of Jamaica’s most violent years continued unabated on Friday with the police reporting that gunmen shot dead four persons as the country ushered in the New Year.

Perhaps there is something to be said after all for the fact that the calendar has these convenient divisions every twelve months, so at least for a fleeting period we can pretend we are sloughing off the old year like an unwanted skin and entering on a brand new era.

Dear Editor, Annan Boodram, in a letter published in your December 31 edition, makes several points that bring a useful contribution to the discussions about our national history of the recent past.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad & Tobago captain Daren Ganga says his New Year wish is to reestablish himself in the West Indies team.

LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Britain have  agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part  of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen and Somalia  after an attack on a US-bound plane, Britain said today.