Daily Archive: Saturday, January 16, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is  open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies  and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds,  waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.

-survivors flee city, looting spreads PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  declared one of the largest relief efforts in U.S.

-see bleak future for industry Story and photographs by Alva Solomon A Black Sigatoka infection is threatening the local banana and plantain industries and farmers in the Tuschen area are already counting their losses as the disease has destroyed several acres of plantain trees.

–telethon nets over $8.7M Persons and companies have responded positively to calls to contribute to assist earthquake-devastated Haiti and $8.7 million was pledged in a telethon on NCN television on Thursday night, even as more donations continued to pour in yesterday.

By Ayanna Blair Ashanti Goodridge, the woman who started Tuesday’s Waterloo Street fire which destroyed two houses, yesterday pleaded guilty to arson, for which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

Water gushed into several Ogle, East Coast Demerara yards yesterday, raising concern among residents after a culvert opened by GuySuCo caused a trench to overflow.

By Mark McGowan Government paid the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

GuySuCo produced a total 233,733 tonnes of sugar last year, the Corporation revealed during the first conciliatory meeting with GAWU over the payment of the Annual Production Incentive (API) to sugar workers on Tuesday.

– suitcase did no go through ‘normal’ route A local investigation has been launched into how a suitcase with 24 kilos of cocaine intercepted in the US somehow slipped authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

By Zoisa Fraser The suspected robber who was shot in the thigh by the police at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara on Thursday died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown Hospital after undergoing surgery.

Linden police nabbed six men and two women as they attempted to demolish and steal the materials of a building belonging to BK International.

– union slams process Fifty-four of the more than 130 casual employees of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are back on the job as postal apprentices after successfully completing the training organised by the corporation as part of its attempt to regularise and reform its employment practices.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has been appointed to serve as acting President in the absence of the President and Prime Minister, both of whom are overseas on scheduled visits.

A brand name distinguishes one product, especially a competing product, from another, connects a consumer with a company, product or service and creates certain expectations and associations.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Lendl Simmons used the occasion of the inaugural day/night WICB regional four-day match to hit his eighth first-class hundred for Trinidad & Tobago to put them in control against Guyana.

Several families were last evening counting their losses following at fire on a dam-adjacent to the Joint Services Housing Scheme at Lamaha Park-burnt three houses to the ground while two had to be pushed into a nearby trench to save others.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The experience was one of the most satisfying I’ve had.

PNCR-1G MP’s Deborah Backer’s motion to have Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh questioned before the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges, after he moved to have her disciplined for statements she made about torture, has been deferred.

PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand,  CMC – A critical batting collapse after huge half centuries from openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Trevon Griffith plunged West Indies Under-19s to a 40-run loss to the Pakistanis in their opening ICC Under-19 World Cup match yesterday.

Hi Everyone, Smack in the middle of Christmas week, a time filled with ham, turkey, lamb and chicken, I hosted my first vegan dinner!

By Marlon Munroe The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA)/National Sports Commission Mini-Cadet, Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Tournament was launched yesterday under the auspices of the Business School.

Dear Editor, Recently, the notion of a closer working relationship between the political parties and civil society for national development has been revisited by some commentators.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said CEO Bharat Dindyal will continue at the helm of the company, as it executes a massive development programme.

-victim was drowned, autopsy finds Ramesh Muniram, the man who allegedly killed his wife before dumping her body into a canal at Nismes, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday charged with murder, hours after a post-mortem examination revealed that she died from asphyxiation due to drowning.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Haiti’s devastating earthquake has moved Hollywood and pop music stars to lead a rally for disaster relief donations and open their own wallets.

The Raymond Panday/ Cummings Electrical second division two-day final bowls into action today at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) between Transport Sport Club (TSC) and the Queenstown based team from 11:00 hours.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday evening, January 12, Haiti was yet again hit by disaster.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – It’s been over 30 years since Jackie Chan supplanted Bruce Lee as film’s reigning martial-arts superstar.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Jamaica grabbed the initiative with a strong bowling performance when they bundled the Leeward Islands out cheaply but lost it by the end of the opening day of their WICB Regional First Class game yesterday.

Dear Editor, Guyanese who applied for new passports at the Guyana Consulate in New York between September 2009 and December 2009, and turned up expecting to receive these, were told that passports would no longer be issued at that location.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued proceedings against a mother of six charged with attempting suicide.

The last thing Mark Noel expected to find when he returned home from the interior was another man in his bed.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo played only a limited role as his Victoria Bushrangers reached the preliminary final of the Twenty20 Big Bash with a nine-wicket win over Tasmania yesterday.

Dear Editor, It a waste of time for the Minister of Agriculture to speak about irrigation in the MMA/ADA project.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pop singer Ke$ha led Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth week on Thursday with her debut single “TiK ToK,” and also grabbed the No.

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Nikolai Charles and Ryan Hinds shared seven wickets between them to give Barbados a slight advantage over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

(EUR) – This year’s Grammy awards will turn up the heat in an often overlooked category – Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.

Dear Editor, Minister Michael Shree Chan was fondly called by his comrades and friends, ‘Shree.’

A team from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Law Enforcement Division discovered about 80 five-gallon jars of illegal fuel abandoned in a boat at LBI yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s shell-shocked  president, Rene Preval, thanked the world yesterday for its  rush to aid his poor Caribbean nation after the catastrophic  earthquake that he compared to a wartime bombardment.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The catastrophic  earthquake that struck Haiti could not have been predicted,  experts said yesterday, but seismologists have made progress in  identifying areas likely to be hit by major quakes in the next  few decades.

Dear Editor, The first two weeks in the first month of the new decade were a hit parade of golden oldies. 

Port au Prince (Reuters) – Clean water and antibiotics are among  the biggest needs for Haiti, where the capital was devastated  by a huge earthquake that killed up to 100,000 people, health  experts say.

(EUR) – Forbes magazine has named Jay-Z and Beyonce the top earning couple in entertainment — married or unmarried — for their combined $122 million banked between June 2008 and June 2009.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haitians ravaged by the  earthquake that devastated their capital this week begged for  food, water and medical assistance as the world rushed to bring  aid to survivors.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Graeme Smith survived a  controversial umpire decision to score a century and lead South  Africa to 215 for two before thunderstorms washed out most of  the second day of the fourth and final test yesterday.

A seven-year-old boy, of Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie Linden, is the latest victim of an accident in the mining town.

The scale of the human tragedy in Haiti is beyond imagining.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government agreed  on Friday to grant temporary control of the nation’s main  airport to the United States to speed earthquake relief work,  the State Department said.

Next Tuesday evening, Sidewalk Café will screen District 9, a 2009 science fiction-action film directed by Neill Blomkamp.

(BBC) Pakistan’s hopes of salvaging the final Test against Australia looked bleak as they ended day two on 94-4, trailing by 425 runs in the first innings.

The body of an elderly man was discovered early yesterday morning in the Sussex Street Canal, Georgetown and the man’s youngest daughter is hoping that no foul play was involved.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Using doors, towels and  foam mattresses for floors, bedsheets for walls and bags of  clothes for pillows, Haiti’s earthquake survivors are making  their sidewalk homes as bearable as they can while they wait  for help.

Dear Editor, I must give sympathy to the Haitian victims and their families.