Daily Archive: Sunday, February 28, 2010

CONCEPCION, Chile, (Reuters) – A massive earthquake  and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town,  pushing the total death toll higher yesterday as the government  tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting.

In my column last Sunday I indicated that the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) recent assessment of the state of the world’s forests had observed that, on balance, progress is being made around the world in giving priority to the sustainable management of forests.

The government’s failure to honour a promise to seek foreign aid to solve the murder of Satyadeow Sawh has prompted one of the late Minister’s relatives to ask the Canadian government for help in accessing Roger Khan who it is believed has vital information.

The blame always lies with someone else.  The recent Police Conference for Inspectors and Sergeants offered evidence of this worn-out routine. 

Cy Grant,  November 8, 1919 –  February 13, 2010Cy Grant had an extraordinary life experience with Britain that began in a village in Demerara, British Guiana, in November 1919 at the end of the First World War and ended in London on Saturday, February 13. 

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile yesterday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

Introduction It was interesting to see almost the entire Cabinet turn out on February 17 at a ceremony at the Georgetown Club to mark the end of the Guyana Threshold Country Plan/Implementation Project (GTCP/IP).

By Marlon Munroe A few sparks flew to usher in the inaugural Pro/Am ‘Friday Night Fights’ boxing card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) on Friday night.

Rice officials and a private sector team will be visiting Venezuela to revise the US$18.8M contract which should have seen 50,000 tonnes of paddy and rice shipped to the neighbouring state.

The latest attempts by the administration to upgrade Bartica, Charity, Parika and Supenaam into towns are likely to be delayed by the holding of Local Government Elections, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall says.

In the overall scheme of things, six limited-overs matches between two of international cricket’s weakest teams counts for little.

God is by no means infallible. She seems to have made pretty obvious errors in some of her attempts at creation.

-Transport Minister Construction work on the airstrip in the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam is slated for completion by the end of April this year and the administration expects to construct and commission an airstrip on the sister island of Leguan before the end of the year.

…GDF downs UG in two days, Police hold up Nandy ParkTwo contrasting centuries from Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) opening batsmen Wasim Haslim and Ricardo Jadunauth yesterday conspired to put Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) under pressure and wrest first innings points on the second day of the GCB three-day first division tournament at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

Had the term ‘Renaissance Man’ not become such a cliché, it would be the best way to describe Rex Nettleford. 

– police awaiting results to continue probe David ‘Biscuit’ Leander’s toxicology samples have been sitting in a Trinidadian lab for several months now and until the police here receive those results, their investigation into the baffling death is at a standstill.

It took Ruth Bart nearly four hours to get a minibus to the city from her Friendship, East Bank Demerara home on a regular day when buses were passing every few minutes.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Beleaguered West Indies will try to rise above their vexing recent tour Down Under when they face minnows Zimbabwe in a one-off Twenty20 International here today.

I came across the January Nos 1 & 2, 2001 issue of Nyam News, a publication of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute.

The most frequently asked questions about pests and diseases are ‘What is it?’;

GRENVILLE, Grenada, CMC – Andre Russell followed up another decisive bowling performance from Odean Brown to put Jamaica within reach of victory against Trinidad & Tobago, and their third straight hold on the WICB regional first-class championship yesterday.

The Brazilian man who is wanted in his homeland for killing a policeman remains in police custody here and will soon be charged with a larceny offence.

Continued from last week Cysts Salivary gland cysts are characterized by an accumulation of thick, sticky saliva because of a blocked-up duct (canal through which the saliva travels to the mouth).

A Russian national died yesterday morning shortly after a tree branch fell on his head while he was a member of a party cutting a road in the Port Kaituma, North West District area.

St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago – Newly appointed West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson has warned that – despite their lowly ranking – Zimbabwe are not to be taken for granted and that if they are the result could be disastrous.

By Dr Anirban Banerjee, MS, MRCS (Consultant Surgeon) What is hernia?

An accident yesterday afternoon involving a minibus and another vehicle saw 17 persons being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment.

(BBC)  The Indian Premier League could still be hit by mass withdrawals as security concerns have not been addressed, says world cricketers’ chief Tim May.

A stabbing incident yesterday afternoon in South Ruimveldt saw a man being taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital in serious condition.

Steintz (the first world champion) recognised and demonstrated that chess has an objective basis.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Former test captain Waqar Younis has accepted an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to take over as national team coach yesterday, a day after the PCB had offered him the position.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina,  (Reuters) – Hall of Famer  Michael Jordan has agreed to buy a controlling interest in the  NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, majority owner Bob Johnson said yesterday.

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times”:  so wrote Niccolo Machiavelli in his discourses in 1513.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of February 27 headlined ‘More questions than answers arising from Cancún’ comments in part on the unanimous support given by the meeting of Latin American and Caribbean countries to Argentina regarding sovereignty over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The Dallas Mavericks rallied  in the fourth quarter to force overtime before extending their  winning streak to a season-high six games with an 111-103 road  victory over the Atlanta Hawks Friday night.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The race for Colombia’s  presidency began yesterday, with former defence minister Juan  Manuel Santos the favourite after the South American nation’s  popular incumbent was blocked from running for a third term.

A summit of Latin American and Carib-bean leaders in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, decided to create a new regional bloc excluding the United States and Canada, in what most international media described as an act of defiance against Washington.

Dear Editor, We have just celebrated 40 years of being a republic.

West Indies cricket great Sir Vivian Richards says the greed of some modern players threatens the game’s future.

PM: Born-again Christians must rise up against persecution (Trinidad Express) Declaring it was “tantamount to religious persecution of the prime minister,” PM Patrick Manning yesterday lashed out against those who were critical of his relationship with the Lighthouse of the Lord Jesus Christ Church and its leader, Juliana Pena.

Latin American and Caribbean leaders must surely get the award for being the most dedicated summiteers on the planet.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo  Chávez and Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe chose a regional  ‘unity’ summit for the worst verbal flare-up of their  long-running feud that has rattled the Andean region.