Articles published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010
By Marlon Munroe With a proposed 50 or 60-man team that should represent Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in July, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) is hoping that the Government of Guyana can assist with financing as it has done in the past.
-EO of Nand Persaud and Co. injured-Heavily armed gunmen fired wildly A security guard was killed and another man is nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after heavily armed bandits opened fire at a house at Wellington Park, Corentyne around 1:40 am yesterday.
With more than 10,000 acres already lost to paddy bug infestation, surveys of affected areas showed a poor level of sanitation in and around rice fields and staggered sowing dates, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.
(Jamaica Observer) A deeply apologetic Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night announced that Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne will sign the authority for extradition proceedings to commence against Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who is wanted by the United States to face gun- and drug-running charges.
A team from the Ministry of Health will soon be dispatched to the Lethem Hospital to investigate complaints by residents that the institution, dubbed as a state-of-the-art facility when it was opened last year, is nothing but a health centre as more complaints surface.
-prices rising Rain over the past week swelled rivers and washed away sections of roads, almost locking off access to the South Rupununi where residents are bracing for a harsh rainy season as the prices of goods rise.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has selected the two engineers who will review the bungled Supernaam stelling and met them yesterday.
– over Hururu students missed Bio exam Parents of the Hururu students, who missed their Human and Social Biology examination after an education official failed to show up with the papers, are demanding compensation from the government.
– GRA boss urges greater compliance Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur is calling on non-compliant taxpayers to submit their returns and in expressing appreciation to those who have honored their obligation he noted that “the payment of taxes has been tremendous”.
An attorney appeared in court yesterday as a complainant in a matter where three men are accused of breaking into his home.
A man was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared in Court One at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with unlawfully assaulting his reputed wife.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Selectors have persisted with struggling wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin in a 14-man squad announced for the Antigua leg of their limited overs series against South Africa starting tomorrow.
A South Ruimveldt man has been hospitalized after he was shot in the abdomen on Sunday night seconds after two bandits relieved him of the gold jewellery he was wearing.
A Kwakwani resident was remanded to prison on a charge of indecently assaulting an eighteen-year-old female by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her yesterday.
A strong four-man team will represent Guyana at this weekend’s Antigua/Barbuda Goodwill Rifle Shooting tournament ahead of the West Indies Fullbore Championships next week in Barbados.
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Twenty20 cricket came home with England’s impressive World Cup win on Sunday and the game which began as a crowd-pleasing thrash really came of age over the past three weeks in the Caribbean.
MUNICH, (Reuters) – Germany’s World Cup hopes suffered a severe blow yesterday when captain Michael Ballack was ruled out of the finals in South Africa with an ankle injury.
Dear Editor, Mrs Maribeth Singh of Nappi Village is the Head Teacher of Konashen Primary School of the Wai Wai Village of Massakinyeri in the upper Essequibo river; a location that takes as much as fourteen days to reach by paddling.
Fire officials are probing two suspicious fires at Uitvlugt and De Willem, West Coast Demerara on Sunday, which it is believed stemmed from family disputes.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday signed a new foreign exchange law intended to strengthen the bolivar currency, but critics say it will backfire and hurt the economy.
Dear Editor, For over 75 years the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) with its Transport and Harbours Division has been responsible for the ferries and facilities that accommodate them to meet river transportation needs along coastal Guyana.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Talismanic England batsman Kevin Pietersen said Sunday his resurgence in form, becoming a recent father and winning the World Twenty20 Championship had been an experience like no other.
(FIFA.com) Though Arne Friedrich made just four appearances for Germany during the qualification campaign for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, most German fans could not imagine a national squad without him.
Dear Editor, The Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion is responding to a letter written to the Editor in the Friday, May 14, 2010 edition of the Stabroek News captioned, ‘Old age pensioners are suffering because they are now denied free eye medication at the GPH’.
– Co-ordinator Co-ordinator of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association six-month pilot programme for schoolboys and junior boxers, Sebert Blake said that he was pleased with the overwhelming response from the gyms when the first installment of the programme was held on Sunday at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown.
Dear Editor, Parents are concerned when their children at school face a constant change of teachers owing to them being transferred.
Dear Editor, Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying international power, using no form of violence.
Feverish campaigning for Suriname’s legislative elections next Tuesday was dampened yesterday as the bodies of the eight passengers killed on a domestic flight at the weekend, were brought to the capital Paramirabo.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council, has praised the involvement of Caribbean fans in the just concluded World Twenty20 Championship and said their participation was a key ingredient behind the tournament’s success.
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai protesters defied warnings to disperse yesterday as troops tightened a security cordon, putting the army on a collision course with thousands of demonstrators who say they are willing to fight to the death.
By Floyd Christie The University of Guyana (UG) Inter-Faculty Basketball Competition commenced yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall but not before a lengthy delay due to the hosting of the Schools physical display at the venue.
Dear Editor, President Jagdeo visited the island of Wakenaam last week where he sought to justify the building of an airstrip by reference to the need for airlift during a medical emergency.
Dear Editor, In the early morning of February 6, 2010 animal-lover Gloria was sitting by her window having morning coffee looking out on the East Bank Road.
KABUL (Reuters) – A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board, including six foreigners, crashed in Afghanistan’s inaccessible, mountainous Hindu Kush region near Kabul yesterday, officials said.
ORLANDO, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics continued their vintage playoff form, squeezing Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in a steely 92-88 win in the first game of the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals on Sunday.
Dear Editor, I refer to your article in the Sunday Stabroek, May 16th `Guyana Times received 22% of state ads in April’ in which you referred to the Kaieteur News’ endorsement of the Government’s ban on state advertising to the Stabroek News in 2007.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran made an apparent concession over its nuclear programme, but big powers expressed scepticism and analysts said the move seemed intended to split the international community and avert planned new UN sanctions.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Left-handed stroke-maker Darren Bravo carved out his second century in a week as West Indies A made a strong start to their four-day “Test” against Bangladesh A here yesterday.
TULSA, Oklahoma, (Reuters) – When Marion Jones walked out of a Texas prison nearly two years ago looking for a fresh start, she knew Tulsa was a perfect fit.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The head of a US missionary group jailed on charges of kidnapping children in the chaos that followed Haiti’s devastating January 12 earthquake, has been freed from jail, a Haitian prosecutor said yesterday.
Dear Editor, The only thing that can save the trade union movement from dying is if the members of each union campaign for a term limit for the presidency of the respective unions especially the Guyana Public Service Union.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Australia captain Alex Blackwell has cited self-belief and confidence as the recipe for their success in the narrow three-run defeat of New Zealand at Kensington Oval Sunday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Volcanic ash from Iceland grounded 1,000 flights and delayed hundreds of thousands of passengers in parts of northern Europe yesterday, although forecasters said the situation would improve during the week.
Dear Editor, A letter by a faculty member of the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana was published in Thursday’s editions of the daily newspapers.
Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law, is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Last week’s forum – “In Harm’s Way: Girls in Settings of Endemic Armed Violence” – that was organized to observe the ‘Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence’ by the International Action Network against Small Arms was cause for both controversy and concern.
