Daily Archive: Sunday, January 17, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – World leaders pledged  aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its  wrecked capital earthquake survivors were still waiting today for the basics: food, water and medicine.

One-year old Nicholas Ramnauth was a child who brought lots of joy to his family, but his life ended tragically yesterday after he fell into a septic tank in the yard of his Lot 504 Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home.

It gets dark early in the South Rupununi and for many people the darkness signals bedtime.

Bandits shot and wounded a pastor last night after he saw them robbing three men across the street from his home.

By Cathy Richards A Linden family is seeking compensation for a nerve injury a five-year-old boy sustained while he was being treated by a nurse at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) for an unrelated ailment.

A mining deal involving Presidential Advisor on Empowerment, Odinga Lumumba and the GGMC continues to raise ethical questions including whether there was a conflict of interest from the outset, and the propriety of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s intervention.

– in functioning as insurance commissioner Six months after taking over the functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) is finding the dearth of expertise in the insurance field a challenge to its operations, its Governor Lawrence Williams says.

Guyana and the Caribbean rated bantamweight champion Leon ‘Hurry up’ Moore won his 26th professional fight last evening in Singapore when he defeated Marangin Marbun for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA) super bantamweight title.

Part 1Introduction So often we hear time-worn sayings like ‘Chickens coming home to roost,’ ‘History repeating itself’ and ‘Forgetting the lessons of history,’ and we think they are just platitudes of no consequence.

– alliance with either PPP or PNC would mean ‘death’ With upcoming local government elections likely to be a key test of the AFC’s strength, party Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says it has widened its constituency to become an equal player in national politics.

Last week I started to identify, in no particular order of importance, those vital lessons that should be learnt from the recent United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change held in Copenhagen, Denmark, which are needed for a careful evaluation of the LCDS and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway.

By Marlon Munroe Transport Sports Club (TSC) yesterday secured a 111-run first innings lead over Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in the final of the Raymond Panday/Cummings Electrical two-day second division tournament.

There is an entry in my father’s diary which moved me deeply when I read it after he died.

– 2009 was a dream year for rifle shooter Mahendra Persaud as he snatched the national championships from Ransford Goodluck and was the Caribbean’s best shooter at Bisley If rifle shooter Mahendra Persaud had his way he would have wished that the year 2009 did not have to come to an end.

A father is agonising over the fate of his three-year-old daughter, who was molested allegedly by a relative, as he believes she may be further harmed since she was returned to the same environment.

At the beginning of the year, GT&T indicated that they would be offering a reduced fare structure for some overseas destinations for a minimum of three months.

Newly opened business entity Fitness Express (47 Sheriff Street, Campbellville) yesterday presented a cheque to promoter Carwyn Holland as part sponsorship for the January 29 `New Year’s Beatings’ card set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Fifteen representatives at the policy-making level began meeting on Friday to discuss a Disaster Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (DANA) system for Guyana.

– Cabinet gives green light for financing The National Sports Commission (NSC) has received the green light from Cabinet for financing Guyana’s participation in the 2010 Inter-Guiana Games.

Derek Walcott, the Carib-bean’s foremost poet and playwright, who was born in Castries, St Lucia on January 23, 1930, turns 80 this weekend. 

A Gardener’s Diary An old friend of mine grew the most glorious, flawless chrysanthemums for over twenty years at Kew Gardens.

Another man’s body was fished out of the Sussex Street Canal in the vicinity of the La Penitence Market yesterday morning, but was unidentified up to press time.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Denesh Ramdin stroked his sixth first-class hundred before Trinidad & Tobago’s bowlers fortified their side’s position against Guyana in the WICB Regional First-Class championship yesterday.

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Workmanlike half-centuries from Kevin Stoute and Jason Haynes helped Barbados across the threshold to first innings points over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB Regional First-Class championship yesterday.

On January 10 two of France’s Caribbean Département d’Outre-mer (the DOM), Martinique and Guyane, rejected the possibility of greater autonomy.

In the continuing efforts to raise funds for the victims of earthquake ravaged Haiti, the School of the Nations and the Varqua Foundation yesterday raised $300,000 through a car wash initiative.

Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F.

Shoppers in the Stabroek Market area scampered for cover yesterday just before noon when police fired shots behind a fleeing man who was earlier caught with a toy gun.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Half-centuries from Wavell Hinds, Donovan Pagon, Tamar Lambert and Carlton Baugh Jr batted Jamaica into a virtually impregnable position on the second day of their second round WICB Regional First Class game against Leewards  yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – England were on the verge  of a heavy defeat in the fourth and final test against South  Africa yesterday as the row over the umpire referral system  rumbled on.

Laryngitis  Continued Last week, we explained what laryngitis is and what the possible causes might be.

An injured child is pictured at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010.

A US Navy helicopter takes off after throwing bottles of water near the beach in Port-au-Prince, January 16, 2010.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  on Saturday declared one of the largest relief efforts in US  history to help Haiti’s earthquake victims as survivors begged  for aid still only trickling through to them and looters fought  in the streets.

(BBC) Australia took a gamble on day three of the final Test in Hobart as they bowled Pakistan out cheaply but chose not to enforce the follow-on in Hobart yesterday.

Evacuees from Haiti are welcomed by relatives after stepping out of a military plane upon arrival at Torrejon airbase, outside Madrid January 16, 2010.

By Godfrey Chin “There’s no place like home for the holidays,” is a truism for the Guyanese diaspora in their castles, caches or cubbyholes from Queensland, Australia to Queens, NY; Toronto to Atlanta; Vancouver to London; and even those in ‘purgatory’ in Barbados.

The World Team Championship 2010 was contested during the period January 3-14 in Bursa, Turkey, and comprised teams from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, USA, India, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey and Greece.

Guyana should learn from the recent tragic events in Haiti and review its own disaster preparedness strategy, the PNCR says.

Dear Editor, I regret the lateness of this letter.  Others were more ready than I.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton assured Haiti’s quake-ravaged people yesterday the United States would work with their government to  ensure the country emerges “stronger and better” after this  week’s disaster.

During the Easter weekend, the Bank of Guyana will be hosting the 8th Intra-regional Central Bank Games in Georgetown, and chess is one of the disciplines to be featured.

(ICC) Host New Zealand made short work of Canada to secure a commanding nine-wicket win, while England overwhelmed Hong Kong by the same margin in matches at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2010 in New Zealand yesterday.

It was President Nicolas Sarkozy of France who exhorted the international community this time around to work finally to lift what he called Haiti’s “curse.”

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan parliament rejected  over half of President Hamid Karzai’s second slate of cabinet  nominees yesterday, including two out of three women, dealing  him a second major political blow in as many weeks.

Looters run past a body lying in front of a court on fire in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. 

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Chris Gayle sparked all too briefly as Western Australia Warriors crashed to a 37-run loss to Queensland Bulls, to miss out on a place in the preliminary final of the Twenty20 Big Bash yesterday.

Part I By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) What is cancer?

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha recently celebrated 36 years of its existence with a series of satsangs at mandirs across the country.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Agriculture Musa Disease Management Unit (MDMU) would like to clarify some misconceptions contained in an article captioned ‘Plantain farmers count big losses after disease outbreak’ which was published in the Saturday, January 16, 2010 edition of Stabroek News.