Daily Archive: Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Princess Hotel yesterday created history when it opened its doors to a casino – the first of its kind in the country.

By Marlon Munroe The Queen’s Baton Relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games scheduled for Delhi, India in October arrives in Guyana with a six-man Protocol team that includes Vice-President of the Commonwealth Games Committee (CGC) on Thursday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul warmed-up for higher intensity tussles with a workmanlike half-century to help Guyana gain a first innings lead against Leeward Islands in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe Olympic swimmer Niall Roberts, Noelle Smith and Britany van Lange continued their dominance yesterday at the Mashramani Swim Meet at the Castellani Pool.

The finals of the DeSinco Trading Under-19 Football Competition will be decided today as the four teams clash in the semi-final round from 8:30am at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Camptown Grounds.

– Mark Lee supports HFF with generous donation Overseas-based Guyanese Mark Lee handed over a cheque worth $150,000 to the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Organization towards the venture that K&S and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has undertaken, to stage two benefit matches  in support of the Haiti Football Federation (HFF) after their losses suffered in  the earthquake.

Joven Benn scored a tough five set win over Caribbean U-15 girls champion Victoria Arjoon in the lone Category `B’ match of the Toucan Industries Mashramani Junior Tournament Friday night at the Georgetown Club courts.

– an hour before High Court hearing An hour before he was to be produced in the High Court in compliance with an order made on Friday, Barry Dataram was released from police custody after paying $100,000 station bail and is to report to the police headquarters tomorrow.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Spinners Amit Jaggernauth and Imran Khan set things up, and their openers fortified Trinidad & Tobago’s dominant position over Windward Islands in the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

Much like his batting, Chris Gayle’s reputation has gone through several phases these past few months.

A man believed to have mental problems yesterday repeatedly stabbed a taxi-driver at a city car park before he was restrained and handed over to police.

Recently, a long-time friend, Dr Riyad Insanally, reminded me of how heart-beatingly exciting the prospect of great cricket matches and the matches themselves used to be.

Frequently, there are reports of Guyana being the beneficiary of either impressive sums of monies or favourable developments from multiple sources. 

Armed bandits last evening invaded a Grove Squatting Area residence, shooting two brothers and gun-butting their elderly father during the course of a five-minute ordeal before escaping with an undisclosed amount of cash.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Beleaguered West Indies will look to the two Twenty20 Internationals for redemption after being thoroughly whipped by Australia in their preceding one-day series.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies could field two sides in the lucrative Twenty20 Champions League if England fail to resolve their scheduling issues with tournament organisers.

While the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) continues to push ahead with preparations for upcoming local government polls, the parliamentary political parties have still to reach agreement to complete legislative reforms.

Introduction Mark Twain said, “there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad,  CMC – Jamaica bowled themselves back into contention in limiting Barbados to a first innings lead of 67, but their batsmen failed to fire for the second time leaving the title-holders with a tall order to win the top-of-the-table sixth round, WICB first class championship match here yesterday.

Blue water sparkles in the sunlight as machinery sounds faintly in the distance.

In last week’s column I began by introducing the sixth and final of the basic contradictions, which as I have argued underlie global multilateral negotiations on climate change.

-Threshold Project Director Guyana has made a strong case to qualify for more funding to foster development, says Director of Threshold Programmes Malik Chaka, following the successful implementation of the US$6.7 million Guyana Threshold Country Plan/Implementation Project (GTCP/IP).

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Usain Bolt’s rise to athletics glory will literally soon be an open book.

By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) All of a sudden, I felt a tremendous wave of fear for no reason at all.

Foul play is suspected in a fire which caused extensive damage to the bottom flat of a Block 22 Wismar, Linden home Friday night.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan agreed a ceasefire with  Darfur’s most powerful rebel group yesterday as part of an  agreement to “heal” the war in the western region, Sudanese  President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Gary Allen has lambasted the conduct of some of Jamaica’s athletes at the island’s Sportsman and Sportswoman-of-the-Year awards ceremony last month.

An alarming situation has developed in Guyana where young teenage girls who are not involved in sports are seeking entertainment in sexual activities.

Three children under the age of 10 years were pulled from a burning house at Linden after a fire believed to have been of electrical origin broke out in their bedroom.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Luiz Inacio Lula da  Silva’s chief of staff yesterday vowed to continue Brazil’s  investor-friendly economic policies if she won the Oct.

ORLANDO, (Reuters) – The Dallas Mavericks rallied  from an 11-point deficit to strengthen their grip on the  Southwest Division lead with a 95-85 road win over the Orlando  Magic on Friday.

‘As much as you enjoy winning, remember that winning every time is not ideal.

On February 23, 2010 the Republic of Guyana will celebrate 40 years since the nation became a republic. 

-criticism ‘clueless,’ says Ali Public spending is not being directed to intended targets, according to AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, who has described this year’s budget as a “three-quarter budget” and not a true depiction of the government’s plans for 2010.

SANGOLQUI, Ecuador (Reuters) – Ecuador’s inclusion  on an international list of nations accused of lagging in the  fight against money laundering is a hypocritical punishment for  its relations with Iran, Ecuador’s president said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies captain Chris Gayle said Friday he was delighted after being named as one of the winners of ESPN Cricinfo awards for 2009.

By Iana Seales Lester Charles, the reigning calypso monarch, says he will pray for the country this year in a bid to retain the title, but judging from his competition this year he also needs to slip in a prayer for himself.

Remember the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed in Barbados in October 2008?

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Abdul Razzaq hammered five sixes  in a swashbuckling 18-ball innings of 46 not out yesterday to  lead Pakistan to a four-wicket win over England in the second  and final match in the Twenty20 series.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter  Balkenende’s coalition government collapsed yesterday when the  two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw  troops from Afghanistan this year as planned.

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary Agricultural Authority (MMA/ADA)is waging a “back-to-the-wall” battle to save cattle, sugar, rice and other agricultural crops in Region Five, an MMA release has said.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba angrily criticized US  officials yesterday for meeting with government opponents  following high-level talks on migration issues and said it showed  the United States’ real goal is to topple Cuba’s communist  government, not move toward better relations.

Well over a century ago the British Admiralty required all naval vessels to carry stocks of limes as part of the food intake for sailors to prevent them suffering from scurvy, a nasty horrible disease related to Vitamin C deficiency which could immobilise an entire ship’s company. 

The children’s costume parade yesterday was an explosion of colour and to mark the country’s 40th anniversary there were 40 floats taking part in the Ministry of Education sponsored road march.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The quiet assassination of a Hamas commander gets unexpectedly messy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alexander Haig, a former  US Army general who became White House chief of staff during  the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan  administration, died on Saturday at the age of 85.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was reported in our Wednesday edition as criticizing the current Surinamese administration in the National Assembly for its silence on a plan by a previous government to invade this country’s New River Triangle.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Somerset wicketkeeper-batsman  Craig Kieswetter has been added to England’s one-day squad for  this month’s tour to Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, As the budget debate unfolds and the opportunity for the small man evaporates, we must seriously contemplate what we want as a future for the Guyanese people.