Daily Archive: Sunday, May 16, 2010

In the Diaspora By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Do you find, as I do, that as time passes you accommodate a vast sludge of useless information which remains stored in the brain for no purpose whatsoever?

By current standards, the Synergy dispute has lasted a long time, as talk and almost daily revelations continue without pause. 

Introduction Very little would be known about Synergy Holdings Inc but for a remarkable display of journalistic persistence that deserves an award for champion investigative reporting, not derisive and unpresidential talk about the fabulous five unnamed “bitter old people.”

So far I have addressed several basic features of carbon-trading markets.

– Old rivals Australia and England meet today in World Cup T20 grand finale Once they hit the back straight, the feature event, for the ICC Twenty20 Trophy, was purely a two horse race.

– residents call for proper facilities, experienced doctors Eight months after it was commissioned with much pomp and ceremony the so-called state-of-the-art hospital at Lethem is being referred to by residents of the community and its surrounding areas as a white elephant.

By Floyd Christie Warren McKay emerged the overall leader at the end of the second stage of the National Sports Commission (NSC) Annual Three-Stage Cycle road race yesterday.

The Ministry of Local Government supervised the construction of the Pomeroon/Supenaam ferry stelling and later issued a certificate of completion to BK International even though the completed project had obvious defects, Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn said yesterday.

By Dr Madhu P Singh, MD (Gynaecology & Obstetrics) The word fibroid in a gynaecologist’s office evokes images of cancer, bleeding and at the very least surgery in the minds of the patients.

Better quality beef and more milk through nuclear research In April 2009, after six years of work by more than three hundred researchers from twenty-five countries, Scientists were finally able to reveal the genome cow – the first mapping of the genetic composition of a mammalian livestock animal. 

Semifinal spots to be decided tonight The first of the final three nights of competition in the annual Mayor’s Cup Knockout Football Tournament starts tonight where four teams clash for the two remaining semifinal spots and another chance of claiming top honours and the grand prize.

Just under two years since its launch, the Guyana Times secured its highest tranche of state advertising yet – 22% for the month of April, 2010 It was on par with the Stabroek News and five per cent above the previous government favourite – Kaieteur News (KN).

A plan for the stringing of a fibre optic cable network across Guyana’s coastland was the centre of discussions when President Bharrat Jagdeo met representatives from Hauwei Technologies, China’s largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier, at  his office last week.

The Kei-Shar’s FIDE qualifying chess tournament concludes today with Wendell Meusa in the lead with 4½ points from the five games which have been completed so far.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed yesterday to stop protesters from toppling his government as fighting in Bangkok spiralled into chaotic urban warfare, with both sides calling for reinforcements.

By Carwyn Holland Top local athletes, basketball star Akeem Kanhai, bodybuilder Sylvon Gardener and sprinter Alicia Fortune are the new faces of the popular Italian Sportswear Company FILA In Guyana.

By Marlon MunroeThe world title rematch fight between Shondell Alfred and Corinne Van Ryck De Groot has hit another snag after Stabroek Sport learnt that it was postponed for the third time to June 5.

Dear Editor, In early January this year, Stabroek News reported on a Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation 2009 Index of Economic Freedom.

Members of the Haile Selassie I Theocracy Reign Ivine Order of Nyahbinghi said after a successful meeting with President Bharrat Jagdeo they now plan to apply for legal documentation to build their secretariat and tabernacle.

CANNES, France (Reuters) – Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is to star in a biopic of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie, whose lawyers have already contacted the film makers threatening to block it.

We present a comment on the new novel Eating Air by Pauline Melville. 

Samples taken in January from the charred remains suspected to be those of taxi driver Bomeshwar Sukhdeo have still not been sent abroad for DNA testing to confirm his identity and relatives believe that this will eventually affect court proceedings.

Continued We had mentioned last week what are the most probable causes of diarrhoea.

Milerock, Liquid Gold clash in feature match Action in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Super League continues today with three matches in Linden and Berbice.

Dear Editor, It is with frustration and disgust that I am writing this letter, highlighting the poor service at the Republic Bank at Rosignol, West Berbice.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A major figure in Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s conservative party was missing and feared dead yeterday after his abandoned car was found with signs of violence, the attorney general’s office said.

Dear Editor, I write to protest the massive distortion by Stabroek News regarding the reception for President Jagdeo held on the grounds on the Convention Centre at Liliendaal on Friday afternoon.

Melvyn Sankies, a former President of the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE), has expressed concern at the award of huge road contracts for the Amaila Hydro project to Fip Motilall and called for evidence of his ability to undertake the job.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara expects the World Twenty20 Championship final to be a cracker but says England could tear up the form books by beating the imperious Australians.

Caribbean governments will have to balance economic need against the risk When the oil rig the Deepwater Horizon sank in flames on April 20 few could have imagined that three weeks later the well would continue to spew crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and threaten the coastal economies of the southern United States and their reputations as holiday destinations.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s government said yesterday it will clean up corruption among politicians and restore public trust, but faces flagging support and public anger at measures to resolve a debt crisis that has hit the euro.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea overcame a resilient  Portsmouth side (who made a mockery of their pre-match billing  as lambs to the slaughter)  to win a dramatic FA Cup final 1-0  and clinch their first League and Cup Double yesterday.

BERLIN/ZAGREB (Reuters) – Europe’s central bankers said yesterday their governments had at best bought time with a $1 trillion rescue, and called for radical action to curb budget deficits and harsh punishments for those who strayed.

Art Williams has been my aviator hero since my public school days at Smith Church Congre-gational during World War II, when I first learnt of the Rupu-nuni cattle trail and attempts to burst open our glorious interior.

General Secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Glynis Beaton is sounding a warning about the normalising of violence through music, saying dancehall has been preaching the way of the gun to impressionable young minds.

Cops link AK-47 rifle, ammo to planned disruption of May 24 polls (Trinidad Express) Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert said on Friday that police have arrested five people believed to be part of a plot unearthed by security forces to disrupt the 2010 general election.

Dear Editor, The female Jaguars’ score of  8-0 has been the highlight of some memorable performances by sportswomen of the Caribbean within the past few weeks.

Once more my apologies for what you are about to receive. 

Public adulation, extravagant receptions, congratulatory advertisements, laudatory billboards – what head of state could ask for more?

(Cricinfo) Danish Kaneria and Mervyn Westfield have been questioned by Essex police in connection with an ongoing investigation into spot-fixing, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have raided four money-changing businesses and arrested one man in the start of a clampdown on what President Hugo Chavez calls capitalist speculators distorting the currency market.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the calls for the resignation of the prime minister heighten, official word from the government is that Bruce Golding is engaged in a series of consultations before deciding his future.

AFC leader Raphael Trotman has denied recent accusations that he scuttled an attempt to form an opposition coalition prior to the last general elections, while saying that national interest would guide the party’s approach to possible electoral alliances.

Dear Editor, Now that the brother-in-law of the editor-in-chief of your newspaper has been allegedly arrested in New York for massive mortgage fraud, we the Guyanese people expect that the Stabroek News which boasts about fair, open and balanced reporting will provide broad and continuous coverage of the alleged fraudulent activities.