Daily Archive: Saturday, May 8, 2010

-husband charged with drunk driving A second autopsy yesterday found evidence that Bridgette Gangadin was strangled, hours after her husband was charged with drunk driving and released on $10,000 bail.

-BK to build new tourist site BK International yesterday claimed responsibility for the destruction at Barakara Falls, saying it is forced to expand quarry operations in the area to meet the demands of the country’s building needs, which it argued currently exceed supply.

Government will meet with national stakeholders to address the scourge of child molestation in wake of recent developments, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

The PNCR is currently more concerned with forging partnerships with various groups and developing a programme that will ensure defeat of the PPP/C at next year’s elections than with selecting a presidential candidate, party leader Robert Corbin said yesterday.

Minutes after Debbie Barnabas went to investigate a strange noise coming from her front window early yesterday morning, her door was kicked down and two men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun, barged in.

As the administration moves ahead with the Amaila Falls Hydropower plant, the PNCR is calling on the government to submit all proposals connected with the project to the National Assembly to ensure proper accountability and transparency.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is anticipating the appointment of Genevieve Whyte-Nedd to the position of Chief Education Officer by the Public Service Commission (PSC) when the body meets in July this year.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Awful fielding, terrible bowling, and disastrous batting epitomised a 57-run defeat for West Indies at the hands of Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.

Lionel Seline, 60, was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a five year old.

Some of the best basketball players out of Georgetown and Linden will go head to head when Albouystown-Charlestown clash with Central Mackenzie in the finals of the Mackeson National Super Ward Basketball Championship, which begin tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– Toolsie Persaud assists The Enmore Athletics Club has formed an alliance with the Birth Athletic Club of Trinidad & Tobago for local sprint ace Kenneth Semple to spend a two-month training stint there.

Two men were remanded to prison yesterday over separate allegations that they had carnal knowledge of underage girls.

The Board of Trustees of the Theatre Guild Playhouse presented corporate membership certificates to the representatives of five companies that have committed their support to its programmes yesterday.

Neera Krammer, the Kamarang child who was injured by three small wire arrows, was released from the hospital yesterday and is at the Amerindian Hostel waiting to be transported home.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) named a 24-man training squad yesterday for the upcoming regional under-19 tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines in late July.

With both finals going down to the wire, the Hikers men and National ladies managed to secure success when Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) opened its 2010 season with a warm-up one-day tournament at Thirst Park on Sunday last.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), SOL Guyana and the Eerepami Foundation have donated cash and other items to the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS) for monitoring and other exercises vital to the success of the 2010 marine turtle nesting season.

Overall winner of the 2010 Hugh Ross Classic (HRC) Championship title Royston Booker received his well deserved prize of one RX Yamaha 100 motorcycle on Wednesday.

World leaders have failed to deliver on commitments to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss and have instead overseen an alarming decline, according to a new paper published in leading journal Science.

ORLANDO, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic followed up their series opening annihilation of the Atlanta Hawks with a 112-98 victory on Thursday to open a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semi-finals.

A Mabura Hill restaurateur says the sewerage system a senior staff member of a logging company built behind her place of business is a health hazard as it is causing filth to fester.

Dear Editor, I have noted the practice of the Stabroek News to continue to quote anonymous “NIS senior officials” in its attempt to report on the Scheme and its management.

Dear Editor, These days Mr Corbin, Leader of the PNC, is being criticized for abandoning the ‘mo fyaah/slo fyaah’ campaign initiated by his predecessor, Mr Desmond Hoyte. 

The Alliance For Change’s youth arm, Youth For Change (YFC), is hosting its inaugural 2010 Youth Convention today at the Ocean View Convention Centre, at Liliendaal.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China coach Shang Ruihua is questioning the eligibility of South Korean player Park Eun-Sun for the upcoming women’s Asian Cup and has urged authorities to conduct a gender test, local media reported.

A workshop aimed at familiarising teachers in Region 3 with the new format for primary-level reading assessments was held recently.

By Iana Seales Gialiani has been sort of low key these past few years, even if that was not his intention, but he is on the rap circuit again in search of a record deal and what he believes is some due recognition after “plugging away at it for so long”.

Dear Editor, A society cannot be considered civilised if it refuses to acknowledge its diversity and the rights of its people to embrace different forms of cultural arts and beliefs. 

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Togo will have their African Nations Cup ban lifted after FIFA boss Sepp Blatter brokered an agreement with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Zurich yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties opened talks yesterday over a possible alliance to form a government following an inconclusive general election result.

Cabinet earlier this week offered its no objection to six contracts, including three valued at $130.9M for drainage and irrigation works.

Culture Box All professionals retire. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, maids, secretaries, clerks, managers, housekeepers, you name the job title; there is a point when they stop practising their profession.

ROBERT, La (Reuters) – BP Plc engineers using undersea robots maneuvered a massive metal chamber to fit over a gushing ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday in their best chance yet to contain a leak that threatens an environmental catastrophe on US shores.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Final day twists in the race for the Premier League title are extremely rare but Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson knows from his experience that strange things can sometimes happen under pressure.

Dear Editor, I want to make one correction in response to Mr Desmond Trotman’s extended version of what caused the collapse of the Guyana Third Force, ‘The collapse of the Guyana Third Force was a consequence of intrigue; representatives were not prepared to place the interests of the people of this country first,’ (SN, May 6).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aides to US President Barack Obama made clear yesterday he would keep pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week to do more to root out corruption but was not likely to push Karzai to sideline his controversial half-brother.

(Jamaica Observer) – Criminals continued their orgy of slaughter on Thursday by slashing the throats of three men and a woman in a Spanish Town community that reacted with shock and horror at the savagery of the early morning murders.

Dear Editor, Something interesting is happening in the new global system.

The third European Film Festival, showcasing the rich cultural heritage of ten countries, will be held from May 11 to May 15, at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Michael Schumacher shook off his comeback rust yesterday after setting the third fastest time in Spanish Grand Prix practice behind Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.

Hi Everyone, A friend asked me the other day what meal I’d make for my mom in celebration of Mother’s Day.

Over 90,000 National Identification Cards are still to be uplifted from registration offices countrywide and the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) is urging  “truant registrants” to do so before the old cards are decommissioned.

Dear Editor, As I walked across the Square of the Revolution recently my thoughts were of the PNC.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Set-up by powerful batting from openers David Warner and Shane Watson, Australia romped to a comfortable 45-run victory over India in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pakistani merchants and job seekers in the United States, still reeling from economic hardship since the September 11 attacks of 2001, are posing as Indians to avoid discrimination in the wake of the Times Square bomb attempt.

Haiti bill heading for President’s signature A bill to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating earthquake was headed yesterday to President Barack Obama for his signature.

By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States owes Latin American immigrants a debt of gratitude.

-Foreign Minister Deepening relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is among Australia’s foreign policy priorities.

In its 2010 Regional Economic Outlook published earlier this week, the IMF notes that “[t]he collapse of the Trinidad and Tobago-based CL Financial Group sent shock waves throughout the Caribbean that are continuing to reverberate.”

Dear Editor, Any objective observer of the political scene in Guyana is forced to conclude at this juncture that the parliamentary opposition political parties along with the party in government are preparing to participate in another set of general and regional elections in this country in 2011, without the requisite constitutional reforms to bring about the implementation of a shared governance/executive power sharing formula to move Guyana beyond its present state.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The number of children used in the labour force worldwide has dropped although it is rising in Africa, the International Labour Organisation said.

(Jamaica Observer) – The 29 annual International Reggae & World Music Awards (IRAWMA) which took place last Sunday, May 2 at the York College Performing Arts Centre in Queens, New York was another spectacular affair that attracted a near-capacity crowd and a galaxy of international reggae stars.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – An irrepressible West Indies side strode gallantly into the semi-finals of the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship when they pulled off a dramatic last-over win over England yesterday to send the title-holders crashing from the tournament.