Daily Archive: Sunday, January 31, 2010

– O’Neil and Ward in crowd pleasing display By Marlon Munroe Holland’s Entertainment Promotions ‘New Year’s Beatings’ showcased live beatings during a night of devastating finishes last on Friday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– protest will go ahead Bartica miners yesterday rebuffed government assurances that nothing would be done to impair the mining sector, declaring in a tumultuous meeting that the administration was not to be trusted.

A 35-year-old man of at Little Abary, East Coast Demerara who reportedly chopped his nephew to death around 7 pm on Friday is still in custody at the Mahaicony Police Station along with two other nephews.

A 62-year-old security guard attached to a poultry farm at Chesney, Corentyne was shot dead around 10:20 pm on Friday by a 17-year-old employee who was reportedly playing with a gun belonging to the owner of the farm.

A small dedicated unit is to be established to co-ordinate Caricom’s continued assistance to Haiti over the long term, following the catastrophic earthquake which struck that country on January 12.

Inquests into three reported unlawful killings by police last year are slated to begin.

A year after the Trinidad Central Bank engineered a bailout for the CL Financial Conglomerate, the circumstances of which precipitated the collapse of several of its subsidiaries including Clico (Guyana), several local policyholders, former employees and agents of the company are still feeling the squeeze.

Part 3 Introduction To begin today’s column I conclude with two of the provisions relating to supplementary appropriations in the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003, (FMAA).

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Kyle Corbin and Floyd Reifer hit battling half centuries for Combined Campuses & Colleges here yesterday but Guyana secured a first innings lead of 32 on an absorbing day two of the four-day WICB regional first class match at 3Ws Oval.

Solution or source of  global climate change In this week’s column I shall wrap up the discussion over the past few weeks of the key lessons that should be learnt from the recent Copenhagen climate summit.

Although he is bedridden, Richard Fresco’s dream of getting a better home for his mother is closer to becoming a reality.

Amidst a cluster of depressingly paltry totals in the regional first-class tournament, moaning from predictable quarters about the pink ball and the never-ending sniping between Dinanath Ramnarine and his latest counterpart on the WICB, events half a world away brought a little more welcome cheer to West Indies cricket these past few weeks.

…GDF scent victory against GNIC Transport Sports Cub (TSC) disposed of the University of Guyana (UG) in two days in the fifth round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) three-day first division tournament at the Eve Leary ground yesterday.

A Brazilian man is dead and three others hospitalised following an accident on Friday night at 58 Miles, Mabura Road.

In my home, a step down off the dining room, overlooking the beautiful garden my wife has created, I have my studiolo. 

The PNCR is calling on the Office of the President (OP) to account for the expenditure connected with President’s Bharrat Jagdeo’s overseas trips and to say what benefits have been derived from these engagements.

Declined nomination for presidency of GCA Dear Editor, In Stabroek Sport of January 29, 2010, under the caption ‘Harper elected president of GCA’ there was a gross inaccuracy in relation to the Georgetown Cricket Association elections held on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. 

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s inauguration was a pretty lonely affair, with most Latin American presidents shunning the ceremony because of the country’s 2009 coup.

The Mercy Wings Vocational and Day Care Centre is celebrating ten years of making a difference in the lives of disadvantaged youth, though it says sustaining its programme remains a major concern.

Former national junior chess champion Taffin Khan upset national champion Wendell Meusa to take sole possession of the lead after five rounds of the  Trophy Stall sponsored tournament.

In an old introduction to African poetry, Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 comments on some of its themes and characteristics. 

The three police officers who were held for questioning after $3.4 million went missing from the Eve Leary Finance Office earlier this month are still on the job but have been transferred to different areas, according to Commissioner of Police Henry Greene.

Over 60 of the country’s top horses have entered for today’s Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club one-day horse race meet at Alness Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

The maze was very popular in the UK five hundred years ago. 

A 21-year-old man was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed in his chest by his girlfriend.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies are expected to unveil their new head coach next week, with a British newspaper tipping former West Indies fast bowler Ottis Gibson to fill the post.

Tonsillitis Continued Symptoms Last week, I mentioned the type of tissue that makes up the tonsils.

Ma Jian’s most recent novel is Beijing Coma. By Ma Jian LONDON – When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer Liu Xiaobo, I had an eerie sense of déjà vu.

FOURSQUARE, Barbados, CMC – Montcin Hodge carried his bat for a half-century to allow Leeward Islands to maintain a slight advantage after two days of their fourth round clash with Trinidad & Tobago in the WICB regional first class championship at Foursquare Oval yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am a Johnnie come lately to the Phyllis Carter phenomenon.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States  said on yesterday it regretted China’s announced cuts in  bilateral contacts and its plans to punish US companies  involved in arms sales to Taiwan.

Who pays to promote the Caribbean as a destination that tourists should visit?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Liam Sebastien blasted his second first-class hundred to put Windward Islands on the brink of a first innings lead over Barbados in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Friday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said that the administration takes all the credit for what the mining industry is today.

Dear Editor,As an observer over the past two months of the deteriorating labour situation between Bauxite Company Guyana Inc (BCGI) and the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU), I write to express the view that Russian management has completely ignored Guyanese law and international labour standards by unilaterally de-authourising the union, and terminating some 57 union activists.

Former national junior chess champion Taffin Khan holds the lead in the Trophy Stall Chess Tournament after four rounds with the maximum four points, ahead of a field which includes the national champion Wendell Meusa.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Serena Williams defeated  Belgium’s Justine Henin 6-4 3-6 6-2 yesterday to win the  Australian Open for the fifth time after a match of unrelenting  tension between the two best players of their generation.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Leading bankers  seeking to quell a political backlash over their role in the  financial crisis agreed with regulators yesterday that new  banking rules should be globally consistent.

Following his trip to the Middle East, where he visited Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Iran, President Jagdeo told the media that there would be likely investments in the health, housing and mining sectors, and that this country would continue to pursue an independent foreign policy.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The surprising Atlanta Hawks completed their first season sweep of the Boston Celtics in 11 years, posting a 100-91 home victory in an Eastern Conference showdown on Friday.

Dear Editor,The time has come to cease all talk and speculation of a third term. 

LONDON (Reuters) – A mother appeared in court yesterday charged with murdering her two young children after  their bodies were found in the boot of her car in East Sussex.

A Guyanese returned to Guyana recently and was horrified when he saw the state of Georgetown, a city that used to be the pride of the West Indies.