Daily Archive: Sunday, January 24, 2010

Banks DIH Ltd has recorded an overall profit of $1.838 billion for the financial year which ended on September 30, 2009 — a figure which has been significantly boosted by a write-back of $474 million due to a favourable settlement of an excise tax issue between the company and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

In what it describes as a bid to place more power in the hands of the people, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has taken a decision to enter into strategic civic partnerships to contest upcoming local government polls.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti yesterday  mourned its earthquake dead and rescuers freed another survivor  from the rubble, while victims struggled to find food and cash  amid a slow-moving aid distribution operation.  

– says new GM Caricom Insurance, the former manager of the Linden Economic Advancement Fund (LEAF) plans to continue a loan programme in Linden under a new manager, and is seeking to recover millions in outstanding loans.

There is a lack of expedition  regarding presidential assent or non-assent of bills passed by the National Assembly and though the number pending has been estimated at around six, observers believe there are more.

UNIFEM’s Caribbean Office is mourning deaths of several fearless women leaders from governmental and civil society organisations in Haiti.

The $18M bridge that is under construction at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, will soon be completed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British actress Jean Simmons, who starred opposite Lawrence Olivier in Hamlet during a career spanning 60 years, has died in California, Los Angeles  Times reported yesterday.  

Since the start of the mandatory Claims and Objections (C&O) exercise for upcoming local government polls, almost 10,000 transactions have been recorded.

Sherwood Forest Incorporated was recently awarded a State Forest Exploratory Permit (SFEP) to carry out works in an area within Region Six and the company is currently studying the impacts its operations may have on the area.

This year, the Stabroek Market area will be enhanced by street lights and a traffic light and will also be cleared of encumbrances to heighten security, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

– commends Guyanese support to Haitians The PNCR has launched a ‘Shoes for Haiti project’, while also commending Guyanese for the support given to the Haitian people so far.

A mentally challenged Annandale, East Coast Demerara man has been missing for two weeks and his father is appealing for public assistance to locate him.

– pink suitcase probe ongoing There have been no local arrests in connection with the 50lb cocaine bust in New York last week Tuesday, but investigations are continuing Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

Two months after 16-year-old Vivian Singh Balrup of Reliance, East Canje was brutally murdered at the Number 63 Beach his family, who received conflicting reports about how it occurred, is still grieving his loss as though it occurred yesterday especially since no one has been charged.

It started with a scattered crowd on the National Park tarmac some time after 7 pm and wrapped up with the numbers it needed to record it as a success in terms of attendance; the local concert for Haiti on Friday night was simply good.

Setting up of two funds Occasioned by the walkout of the opposition from the National Assembly as it considered Supplementary Appro-priation (No.3 of 2009) Bill 2010, for $8,245,758,278, some of which had already been spent (Contingen-cies) and to be spent (Supplementary Appropriations), I began an examination of the whole business of the constitution and the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 (FMAA).

By Marlon Munroe Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) lifted the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Busta Twenty20 second division title after a belligerent half century from captain Neil Barry at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.

In a recent column I remembered my old friend HL ‘Bertie’ Taitt, one of a group of us who regularly met for rum, curry lunch and unending talk more than forty years ago.

-says world ranked Leon `Hurry Up’ Moore World ranked bantamweight boxer Guyana’s Leon `Hurry Up’ Moore feels that campaigning in Asia is the right career move for him and that being based in Thailand will give him a faster shot at a world title.

Towering fast bowler Jason Holder dismantled England’s top and lower order in two irresistible spells that swept the West Indies to victory by 18 runs over England in the ICC Under-19 World Cup quarter-final yesterday.

Thus far over the past two weeks I have highlighted in these columns what I believe are six very important lessons, which should be learnt from the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Part II By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) In continuation of our discussion on cancer, this week we will look at the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

FOURSQUARE, Barbados, CMC – Jamaica fortified their position against Guyana, after Wavell Hinds and Carlton Baugh Jr plundered hundreds in a record stand in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Normal service resumed at the  Australian Open yesterday.

The collapse of CLICO has left a number of senior citizens with the problem of maintaining their former standard of living.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Kevin Garnett returned from  injury to help the Boston Celtics rally for a nail-biting 98-95 overtime victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday.  

The January Trophy Stall chess tournament promises a turn-out of the country’s strongest chess players. 

The Mothers of Guyana for Mothers of Haiti walk-a-thon on Regent Street yesterday.

Derek Walcott achieved yet another significant chronological landmark with the celebration of his birthday yesterday, January 23, at the end of the first decade in the twenty-first century. 

Children of the Methodist Church of Guyana walk prior to a rally held yesterday at Trinity Methodist Church, High and Leopold streets, Werk-en- Rust, Georgetown.

-Keiron Pollard has not yet played a test match but he is the first West Indian superstar to have a megarich bank account solely by being a Twenty20 special talent He hasn’t played a single Test match.

Continued Tonsillitis Let us first understand what tonsils are. You may have had a nail pierce your sole, and the result of that is a swelling in the inguinal area (the ‘groin’ as we call it).

Dear Editor, Government representatives are employing a new tactic as part of their resolute efforts to defend the sometimes indefensible. 

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Big-hitting West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard once again proved his worth but his efforts could not deny Victoria Bushrangers a 48-run win over South Australia Redbacks and their capture of the Twenty20 Big Bash title yesterday.

Motivational speaker Dr Miles Munroe (left) greets Minister of Human Services and Social Security Priya Manickchand (right) at the end of the National Leadership Summit organized for Men’s Week and held at the National Cultural Centre on Friday.

Dear Editor, I was indeed disappointed with President Jagdeo’s critical sentiments about the United States expressed while he was in Iran no less, and which seemed a bit ironic.

(BBC) The England and Wales Cricket Board says there is no truth in reports that bowling coach Ottis Gibson is to resign and take over as West Indies coach.

By Michel Rocard PARIS – The United Nations’ General Assembly is the world’s only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing.

Dear Editor, I note your article in the Stabroek Business of January 22, 2010 captioned ‘Child labour, trafficking in persons persist here despite legislation –Office of US Trade Commissioner’ and wish to express government’s rejection of your claim that the report speaks to  increasing trends towards child labour. 

It is hard to comprehend the scale of the suffering that the people of Haiti have had to endure since January 12.

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Mosque and government  officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in  a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human  Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre.    Four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed  with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos  and surrounding communities this week before Vice President  Goodluck Jonathan deployed the military to contain the violence.  

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Ryan Hinds played the ultimate captain’s knock as Barbados put Trinidad and Tobago to the sword on the second day of their WICB regional first class match at Kensington Oval day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, was quizzed by Special Branch investigators for nearly an hour when he returned to the island on Friday night.

It was the Guyana Times which last Saturday informed the nation that the Government of Guyana had sought the removal of Dr Janette Bulkan from the World Bank’s Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, where she had responsibility for reviewing Suriname’s Readiness Planning Preparation (RPP).

You have to knock a plant out of its pot to see if it needs moving to a larger container. 

Dear Editor, GT&T is seriously concerned about the column appearing in last week’s Sunday Stabroek in which the President of the Consumers Advisory Bureau, Ms Eileen Cox analyses the company’s reduced fare structure for overseas destinations and concludes that consumers are being short-changed.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – International rescuers yesterday pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city.    He was the latest of more than 130 people who have been  pulled out still living from under wrecked buildings by rescue  teams from around the world since the Jan.